Dark Brandon is an internet character created by Biden’s White House
Certainly not…
Media still doesn’t understand memes
The consumers? But how could one of them create an advertising? They don’t even have an FCC license. I don’t get it.
Not thrilled about Biden. But, kinda like Dark Brandon. Need those laser eyes to burn down the GOP.
When he said in the primary that he should be president since he’s the only one with the experience working with republican politicians and could get them to vote with the Dem party to help Americans…
I didn’t believe him, but I didn’t think memes would be his strategy.
So far he’s proven that you can’t work with them, and that his experience doesn’t make a difference to that fact.
I figured Obama proved this definitively.
But you see, Obama is black, and we already knew Republicans wouldn’t work with a black man. But Biden is white, so he proves they’re not just racist, they’re obstructionist assholes as well.
Ehh… true
Yeah the statements like that made me really hate that he was winning the primary. Standing next to obama should have taught him… if you do everything they ask, strip 80% of the good things out of the bill, throw in a few favors to the republicans corporate donors. You will still get 0 republican votes, and if you somehow are able to pass it you will still be called a dictator unwilling to work with them.
In short the lesson is, dont’ try to work with them.
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Memes are the only thing that works for them
Oh, I missed where it was working…
Last I hear Biden’s senate experience couldn’t even get the Dem senators to vote with the Dem party.
When’s the last time this worked? I’d love to read up on it.
You’re talking about the “democratic” traitors who are actually turncoats controlled by the republican fascists and their dirty money.
Wow, crazy Biden didn’t know that when he was saying winning the Georgia runoffs was enough to pass the party platform…
He’s the senate whisper, so there must not have been any signs just a regular joe citizen could have seen this coming.
Still pissed that Manchin played you so hard with the IRA? Rofl cope more, Biden is three steps ahead of you and he’s pretty slow so what does that say about you??
He played me…
By me (and most voters) knowing he wouldn’t support the party platform?
Not Biden and party leadership, who spent over a month saying 50 D senators (including Manchin) could pass the party platform?
That just doesn’t make any logical sense bud.
But what do you expect from someone unironically telling people to “cope”?
The dark Brandon mug is pretty cool. Unlike Trump’s shit it was USA made.
I just realized it’s been a few months since I’ve seen that dumbass let’s go Brandon chant. Dark Brandon was a good way to eradicate it.
Live in a red county, it’s everywhere. Go to the small town high schools. Trump and confederate, and lifted trucks absolutely everywhere.
And good lord, the mullets.
It was a mildly funny meme but jfc they just can’t let it go. They latch onto anything and sew it into their American flags
Covfefe.
Politics being a team sport is fucking cancer.
I just saw it on a hat and a shirt recently. Out in public. Do these people think that others are going to engage with them? Or is it just virtue-signaling to other deplorables? Do they have to explain to younger children that their shirt is a cute way of saying the word FUCK?
Or is it just virtue-signaling
Yep
I was in Phoenix camping this spring. When I was on a short local hike to a waterfall I came across a family wearing MAGA hats. The fresh out of the trailer park attire to match.
One of the young boys had a Brandon hat on while the other had a “let’s go Brandon” shirt. I would have guessed they were 5 and 7. I wasn’t even interested in saying hi as we passed on the trail and they weren’t interested either.
I find it hard to find clothes without any branding for myself. I swear identity by politics has replaced sports team apparel for many now. The sport team flags that use to hang as curtains in those trailer parks have been replaced by Trump flags now. Those flag makers must be making a killing…
The sad thing is that donnie won’t do a thing for such people. Not one single thing.
I’ve tried to see the fun in it but it’s just so shallow I wouldn’t be able to keep it up for more than… two days? The Dark Brandon thing seems like a great idea to make fun of how childish they are without costing more than 1 energy
It’s shit like this that makes me so damn thankful I graduated high school in 2011 and not anytime 2016 and onward. I’d be so fucking sick of all the new Trumpers.
Ahh… so the “Let’s go Brandon” and “F*ck Trudeau” people ARE INDEED the same people.
Who the hell is Brandon? I don’t even remember his name. Such a dumb slogan.
I think it was a Nascar race or something, and the crowd was chanting “fuck Joe Biden”, and the commentators tried to cover it by saying they were chanting “let’s go Brandon” because the driver in the lead was Brandon (something)
Just chanting that in unison… you know… like normal functional people do… 🙄
Just changing that in unison… you know… like normal functional people do…
That’s exactly right. They think mindlessly repeating something that gross is a normal thing. The state of the GOP today.
Mindlessly repeating a gross thing IS normal human behavior, as any high schooler could tell you
It’s kind of instructive that the cons seem to not have advanced past the high school phase.
At a NASCAR race, a bastion of redneckery, a person on camera said Fuck Joe Biden, and the reporter said something along the lines of Let’s Go Brandon, I suppose mishearing the person in a loud venue and/or confusing it for a driver.
It stuck and Let’s go Brandon became a tongue in cheek way of voicing their displeasure with our current president.
On the other side…
Any time Biden has done anything progressive or to stymie the GoP it is his “Dark Brandon” persona that the internet created.
Basically dems flipped the meme, or at least tried to and it became a memetic way to celebrate perceived victories over the GoP, as I understand it.
He’s done a really good job of owning these attacks. I saw him drink from a dark brandon mug during a press conference recently lmao!
Makes me think Obama should’ve doubled down on the tan suit and bought a whole wardrobe of them. And be seen at all times with a giant bottle of grey poupon.
Come down to Florida, it’s still alive and well over here
I don’t think I will
In fact, I’ll stay at least 6 states away
My high ass just realized there are only six states between Florida and California.
That’s a lot of math…
That’s a lot of meth
sigh I’m also in Texas
Honestly, I can’t blame you lol
Oh, if only I could unsee all the trucks and cars with those stickers. Must have seen a half-dozen this week on the road (I drive for a living)
Ive been using “lets go me” as my discord name in one server for a long while now because…its my name. Lets go me
Let’s goooo
So Fox News is taking a break from, what, penis enlargement and NRA ads?
I no longer know which pillow to get
PSA: MyPillow pillows are fucking terrible. You have been warned.
It is an interesting idea. I like the idea of (finally) going on the offensive, but this doesn’t really attack any GOP ideas or candidates.
I do love the idea of embracing the “let’s go brandon” slogan. I just saw some idiots with that bumper sticker the other day. I would love to see Dems take over that slogan and make it seem like all the “let’s go brandon” merchandise is actually on the side of Biden. Unfortunately I think only a small group of people (those who follow memes) really understand what the heck dark brandon even is. But at least the Dems are trying something different and trying to get ahead of certain things, rather than the usual Democrat response which is nothing.
It’s an attempt at doing exactly what Republicans do. They steal a word or phrase and change it to mean something horrible. Democrats really need.to.start playing stupid games too, unfortunately, because the country is losing hard right now.
110% agree.
We don’t need to have everyone stoop to their level, but goddamn it there should be more attacks like Republicans pull. Fight fire with fire.
I unironically shout “Let’s go, Brandon! Let’s fucking go!” whenever I encounter it in the wild. Take it back!
I saw a guy at an Incubus concert in liberal AF Massachusetts wearing a “Lets go Brandon” shirt last year, and I’m still not sure if he was talking about Biden or Brandon Boyd.
How is backing abortion rights not a counter point to the GOP trying to ban them?
I miss the dark Brandon subreddit. It was cheeky.
There’s [email protected]
Edit - how do I link it
I think you need a ‘!’ before it.
As an outsider, US politics seems like a total clown show to me. Everyone involved.
Oh it is. It’s pathetic.
-an americanIt is, class and sophistication are dead. We throwin’ handfuls of shit at each other now.
Comolete clown show, but everyone is out of makeup
As an insider…. Same…
You can thank cable media culture for curating that over the past 20+ years. It’s basically morphed into an entertainment event with theatrics akin to the WWE.
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As an insider I can assure you it is.
The circus comes to town every year.
I’m certainly ashamed of my country.
you are not wrong
Why doesn’t he just bring Roe back now.
He is the president right now, this is presumably as powerful as he’s going to get.
If it is within the president’s power to reinstate Roe v. Wade then just do it now.
If it isn’t then stop fucking about.
TL;DR: just do it now
That’s not how governments work, dumbass. Congress makes the laws. Do you kids never learn anything in schools anymore?
Biden is the de facto head of the Democratic party but he himself has no explicit power to create new laws. All he can do is rally Congress, and there aren’t enough Democratic senators to overrule the Republican filibuster.
Biden is not the Supreme Dictator. His power, every President’s power, is limited to the Executive sphere. By design.
So it’s not within his power, so he’s fucking about then.
He said “we”, dumbass
Wtf is wrong with you
Directly from the article:
“Get real, Jack. I’m bringing Roe back,” the ad reads.
This is like being back on reddit.
I’m sorry, are you stupid enough to believe that Joe Biden, alone, individually, can do anything?
Piss off, troll
Directly from me, two fucking comments ago:
it’s not within his power
Dark Brandon is making me watch ads on purpose, dear god.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The “Dark Brandon” ads will be displayed on FoxNews.com beginning midnight Tuesday running through Thursday morning “highlighting President Biden’s commitment to fighting a national abortion ban and codify Roe,” the campaign said.
Fox News is set to air Wednesday night’s first 2024 GOP debate and make it available to stream for free on its website.
The president’s campaign has also commissioned a mobile billboard circling the debate site in Milwaukee alternating between four ads, all using the Dark Brandon imaging and taglines.
Merchandise featuring the laser-eyed Biden has been popular among his supporters, with the campaign saying it accounts for more than half of online purchase revenue.
“Only Dark Brandon knows where he’ll appear,” Biden deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty told People magazine, which first reported the Fox News ad buy.
“It also speaks to the sort of strided, swaggy Dark Brandon personality of, ‘Yeah, we’re going to go on Fox News and talk about protecting and restoring Roe.
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Funny…. But I don’t see this as a good use of advertising.
You’re not swaying anyone visiting the site, and may instead be invigorating R voters.
I think the majority of Republicans (women at least) agree with protecting the right to abortion last I saw it polled. There are many Republicans who could be swayed on this issue who use Fox (for some stupid reason). However, I see it mote about creating this article than actually swaying fox voters. It’s about the meme being spread through other sources because it’s funny that it’s on Fox. It’s cheap advertising all over the internet because of irony.
20 more motes and I can craft an Atlan.
I think this is particularly a good use of advertisement since conservatives would be more likely to spread the advertisements message via bitching about Biden being openly Satanic or w/e
How exactly would he do that? With the current Supreme Court I can’t see how anything short of a constitutional amendment being upheld. And he’s not going to get 2/3 of Congress to pass an amendment.
Now listen here Bub.
Perhaps there’s thought the voters watching the debate (rather than the tuck n turd show) are the ones who could be swayed by these ads? I dunno I didn’t watch any of it. I’m trying to be less political this time around.
They only support abortion rights when it’s time to fundraise
Lol Democrats had many chances two codify abortion rights into law over the past checks watch 40 years
Crap, you’re right.
Better not vote for them and just accept having no abortion rights until a viable third party shows up.
OK call me when Democrats give us abortion rights.
Hello, I live in a Democrat-run state.
What’s your phone number
I’m talking about federal level
Oh fuck where did those goalposts go
What’s the fucking difference. Democrats deliver when they have the power to and here’s the proof.
Better not vote for them and just accept having no abortion rights until a viable third party shows up.
Well…if you’re not voting for a 3rd party…you’re accepting not having abortion rights.
You’re right too, it’s better to vote for them and… still accept having no abortion rights
It’s a dumb take because you didn’t suggest any alternative and it sounds like you’re just bitching for the sake of it.
They’re right though. There is no alternative because of the two party system. Obviously republicans aren’t an alternative, so what else is there? It’s a very frustrating situation that makes you lose any sort of faith of the future of the political system.
They’re not right because they’re not discussing in good faith.
All they needed to do during that time would be to have all three branches of government, with 60+ Senators, and every Democrat would need to be on board with the legislation and felt it was necessary to pass while RvW was being used to uphold the right without legislation.
There was no appealing to Republicans during that time on abortion because they were all lock step in opposing any Dem actions, especially things like this, and the system is already set up to make it very difficult for a small majority to pass anything. After a couple decades of RvW being established, why put in the effort to fail when there were other things that were not already set by precedent which would only go away if conservatives stacked the court with people who make up rulings out of nonsense?
While the Dems come across as wet noodles because they are allowed to not agree, this is something that was impossible for them to pull off at a national level due to Republican obstruction and abortion being one of the main Republican topics that did not allow their members to compromise in any way.
What’s the point of a political party that doesn’t vote in lockstep on major issues? Why should I support them if they can’t be counted on to deliver?
Because we as voters are not in lockstep on ideas, because we’re not mindless drones repeating propaganda. The left thinks for itself, which means we disagree sometimes.
You didn’t actually answer the question
Yeah I did. It’s impossible for democratic politicians to be in lockstep because they serve their constituents and their constituents aren’t in lockstep. It’s a good thing.
Yeah it’s great that a party can’t be trusted to vote as bloc even though they tell us too “vote blue no matter who”
I mean maybe you’re too brainwashed by fascists to understand this, but I don’t believe what I’m told to believe and neither do the rest of my party. We think for ourselves.
So like… yeah, sure, that’s true. At the same time overturning a judicial precedent this well established is an absolute first, and public support for Roe v Wade started relatively low and has been steadily growing since then.
So when you’ve got all kinds of immediate, pressing issues, why waste a narrow political margin on alienating a big swathe of voters by publicly confirming a right that everyone already has?
I can’t fault any individual administration for not focusing on this… I can fault the voters, though.
Yeah but… Their fundraising materials and campaign mailers always talked about “protecting Roe”.
Yeah, but if that was done they could use it to threaten people into voting for milquetoast moderates…
And it’s a pretty safe bet a lot of them didn’t actually want to pass it for personal reasons anyways.
We need to normalize a competitive primary, otherwise people can go decades between choosing the incumbent or a republican for state/Senate seats.
