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I have absolutely no idea what is going on in this meme.
The meme doesn't make sense to me either, but I can tell you that the person in the second panel is Michael Parenti, a highly regarded communist historian known for analyzing history through class struggle. The quote in the 3rd panel is a famous one from his lecture about the US War against Yugoslavia:
Parenti's speech is also known as "The Yellow Lecture" because the surviving footage of it has a distinctive coloration.
The other reference is this meme is to a scene in Seinfeld where Kramer's apartment is being aggressively illuminated by a big red neon sign across the street; in this case, changed to yellow.
The middle frame is of Michael Parenti from this https://youtu.be/xP8CzlFhc14?feature=shared And referencing a quote of his “These countries are not UNDER developed; they're OVER exploited!”
It's Michael Parenti's birthday today!
In the same boat man