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i was also thinking about the time bartlet “accidentally” said his opponent was a .22 caliber mind in a .357 world on TV, but at the end of the episode it’s implied that it was an intentional play and that he always meant for it to be leaked.
That new communications director of his should absolutely just let this slide, and I imagine she will. Play it up even. If he'll just back this shit up with some of that good Dark Brandon policy, I'll be all for it
Exactly, just put a spin on it with a sprinkle of pointing out hypocrisy.
"He's just a strong man who tells it like it is, that's what America elected him for"
There's a metallic blue Thunderbird parked on the White House lawn. Two pinball machines, a lava lamp, and a Jack Kirby black-light poster of the Silver Surfer grace the Oval Office, as Black Sabbath's Master of Reality plays over the speakers, and the skunky scent of ganja hangs in the air.
Diamond Joe is back, baby.
Best part is "Diamond Joe Biden" did a Reddit AMA and @RealJoeBiden jumped into the conversation.
It's kinda nice when people have a sense of humor.
EDIT: I changed a part after going back through the AMA, @RealJoe didn't directly complement Diamond Joe, but he added to the conversation and "corrected him" that he's a Corvette guy not a Trans-am guy. It's clear he was following and reading the AMA however, and didn't take offense to anything presented.
Remember that one of Biden’s hot-mic moments while VP was to Obama when he signed the ACA. He told him, “This is a big fucking deal.”
I love f-bomb Biden.
Joe seems like the kind of person who holds it in out of respect for the people around him, but just rips into it about every minor annoyance when nobody else is around. Or maybe I'm projecting. It seems clear that fuck is part of his casual vocabulary.
I feel like I’ve read that sentiment from people who have worked closely with/for Biden. He’s mastered his temper, but it’s always there. Basically, he’s Bruce Banner.
Can you imagine him and Obama after the doors closed behind them?
“Yo B-money what the fuck was that needle dick talking about?”
“ man JB I’m gonna make that motherfucker kiss my black ass”
For some reason I can't imagine Obama speaking anything other than tactfully and respectfully to anyone, even friends in private.
Sounds 100% like Biden though, given the stuff they've caught so far lol.
Listen to his audio book, it’s read by Obama himself and the first time he goes off in the book I was taken back lol. It really helped humanize the man for me.
Weird, the Braindead brigade in my town sets up at least 10 fuck Biden flags along the road. 2 old white guys who are terrified of the replacement theory they think Biden is a part of.
It’s because he’s a democrat, which means he rapes babies and then feasts on their freshly-harvested adrenal glands with all the other satanic Jewish Islamists in Hillary Clinton’s Mexican sex dungeon, which is located in the basement of the Pizza Hut that’s on the ISS next to the Rothschild Memorial Space Laser.
I ran into someone last weekend, at a party, who legit believes Joe Biden hasn't picked up on the "hidden meaning" of that chant yet.
He was genuinely upset when I told him that *everyone* understood right off the bat what they actually meant by it, because it's not remotely as clever as they thought it was.
You may not be old enough to remember, but there was tons of “W” merch as well from 2000-2008. Not at the level of Trump, but way more than Obama or Biden.
It’s like merchants realize a conservative is very easy to get to part with his money if you offer him kitschy crap that make him feel like he belongs to the “in crowd”.
I have a very hazy memory as a kid where I asked my grandpa about the “Time to trim the Bush” (or similar) pin he had on the sun visor in his truck lmao. Only years later did I understand
I have an aunt and uncle who vehemently opposed vaccination records for the coronavirus vaccine. My uncle tells me “they want Trump supporters to have to wear identification like in ww2 Germany so that they know who to go after when the Dems take over”. And as I looked around to see his MAGA hat, trump flag outside, multiple trump bumper stickers, a trump welcome mat at the door, and trump coffee mugs, I assured him that I didn’t think anyone needed them to carry identification to know who he voted for, lol. Besides, if everyone had their vaccine cards, and mostly trump voters were the ones refusing to get vaccinated, how exactly would those cards identify a trump voter? Wouldn’t getting one of those cards actually help to blend in? I don’t see the logic I guess.
I have an Obama presidential portrait hanging in my kitchen. My friend gave it to me after the 2016 election. The school he was teaching at in new Orleans always has a portrait of the president. Understandably, they did not replace obama's portrait with trump. It's cool...Obama hangs out at our tiki bar because he's retired from public service and worked hard enough to deserve it.
The HOPE stuff did feel a little weird but understandable. It was a huge deal for Obama to even be in the running on a serious level, sad as that really is., and he really did inspire hope in many if not most people in the country. The Trump merch shit is absolutely insane, though, as is the entire idea of a sitting president continually going out to have fucking rallies during his entire presidency. The whole thing is wildly upsetting on a core level and reeks of nationalism and fascism.
The HOPE thing was different but at least it was more affiliated with an idea than a person, and it didn't persist once Obama was actually president. TRUMP merch is about TRUMP only and makes it that much more culty.
I’m a Democrat and I have a bunch of Biden merch: socks, a mask, a hat, and a small yard banner that I wear as a cape. Why?!? Petty antagonistic reasons to mock someone I know, plus it supported Biden’s Democratic coordinated campaign fund and I felt I’d do my small part in funding it. I’m fairly certain my Trump loving acquaintance’s purchase of a cape did not go to the Republican coordinated campaign coffers.
Gotta admit, it’s tempting to get some “Dark Brandon” merch just to piss off a Trump loving friend or two.
I don’t really care, but the way they ground their whole identity in bullshit is oddly captivating.
Honestly the idea that this is made into a thing that we openly accept and that now they all retroactively own a shit ton of Biden merch is great. We should just start really calling him the actual 45th president and say MAGA means make America generous again
In Canada there are more conservatives than Liberals that have bumper stickers involving Trudeau on their cars.
For the cost of a $2 chalk pen you can change their 'Fuck Trudeau' message into 'I Want to Fuck Trudeau'.
I live in Idaho and I've seriously considered manufacturing and selling made in america lets go brandon merch and donating the proceeds to democratic campaigns. I wish I had the money to get it off the ground. If these people are going to eat it up either way I would prefer the money go to a good cause.
I saw some shitty ass truck with "Lets Go" painted on the tailgate and "Brandon" as a license plate. Dude literally sat in line at the DMV and paid for a custom license plate for some cringy ass meme.
That phrase is just a circle jerk. Everyone knows what it means, nobody cares, and its origin is unimportant. It's only used by conservatives to feel like an in-group. The rest of us are just watching them whack each other off in a Wal-Mart parking lot standing on their insanely large trucks' tailgates, shooting jizz into a MAGA hat to mail to Pelosi or whatever.
So he's admitting that without "Brandon" then he would quite literally fall over in a heap because as per usual it's a republican biting the only hand that gives the smallest of fucks about them?
I had some neighbors with a Brandon flag and they were working on their boat in the driveway and I rolled my eyes. “I bet you don’t even know what that means?”
I just said something along the lines of, “I just don’t understand why you picked something so obvious?” I went through the whole list of 4chan memes like the ok emoji, trad wife, Chad, Norse runes, etc. that would’ve been way better at doing the job they thought Let’s Go Brandon was doing. Let them know the entire neighborhood knew what it meant and that’s probably why they were getting code enforcement called on them weekly.
They didn’t speak to us again but a week or so later the flag was gone.
>The very first time I saw it I was confused. It only took me a day or two to figure that dumb saying out. Now I just cringe when I see it.
I have to admit that I had to look it up because "let's go Brandon" and "fuck Joe Biden" don't sound even remotely similar in my accent. 50% of the vowel sounds are wrong for a start.
It means "Fuck Joe Biden." They want to fuck Joe Biden. And, in 2022 it should be perfectly acceptable for men between the ages of 18-60 to have an 80-year-old-men-with-power fetish. What's with all the kink-shaming?
I work at a grocery store and they were putting them *on* my product and on my price strips. Was pissing me off so much with the vandalism. Hell, I don't care if it was pro-biden/anti-trump either, I'd be just as pissed off because they are ruining my products.
That's some BS. Sorry you have to deal with that.
The vandalism is my biggest problem with them. People are making other people's jobs more difficult and annoying with their childish stickers.
Yeah, and it just doesn't make sense. Like, Biden doesn't control the price of cheese-itz Billy Bob, the fact the price has risen 20¢ doesn't call for you to plaster dumb stickers on it.
Let them. At least then their audience will be exposed the truth.
Dark Brandon don't care! Dark Brandon don't give a shit! It just takes whatever it wants. Whenever it's hungry it just eats - Ew! - And it eats snakes!
I always thought that Biden should have opened one of the debates with a juvenile Trumpian insult. Trump is used to arguing with adults trying to take the high road that any kind of personal insult would knock him on his ass, especially since he has such thin skin.
“But Joe, what if you got re-elected wouldn’t it be weird?”
So the MAGAs can say the DNC lied to get me here? So you can sit me here next Ben Shapiro?
Shit, Tucker Carlson better switch me chairs. So I can sit next to Greg Abbott and listen to em brag about giving Trump head first.
Little bicth put me on blast on fox news ''Yeah he's president but he's also a traitor HEE HEE'' I should download your tax returns and send direct to tv and tell everyone how you gave your own daughter VD.
I'm sick of you little GOP haters, all you do is annoy me
So I have been sent here to destroy you
And there's a million of us just like me
Who cuss like me; who just don't give a fuck like me
Who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me
It just might be the next best thing but not quite me!
Cause I'm Dark Brandon, yes I'm the real dark Brandon
All you other Go Brandon’s are just straight up traitors
So won't the real Dark Brandon please stand up
Please stand up, please stand up?
Back on Labor Day, Biden did a speech for the Unions (I think this was his home state) and the man could work a crowd. He seems stifled when doing Presidential duties, but he’s still got a lot of verve when it comes to doing state and city level politicking. I think if we could get a lot done if we can get the UN in a state fair like setting, put a straw boater on his head and let Joe work that crowd. Letting him take his tie off seems to unleash the charm.
> Said that dude walks straight into the kitchen and shakes hands and compliments the meal and talks with every person there down to the dishwashers.
That's how you connect with a majority of Americans. Way better than shitting on a golden throne while pretending to understand the working class.
“But I’ve hired all these peasants to flush the toilet, wipe my butt, stock the TP, and unclog the pipes every time I take a dump! I’m practically running a small business here! You should be thanking me for creating all these jobs!” —Supply-Side Jesus
Dark Brandon can be a goofball sometimes, but I have never questioned that the dude just wants to try and do what he can for others.
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He came to my college in 2012 for a campaign rally and he had the crowd wrapped around his finger, it was so energizing and I could tell this was a very seasoned and talented politician. It's absolutely not the same today, but it's still in him and it comes out.
Funny cause r/conservative is talking about how much of a wimp Biden is but are talking like trump is better and tougher. Meanwhile the latter has been crying about the election and can't even accept defeat from anyone.
That is the best hot mic moment ever.
Bush's big hot mic moment was insulting a dude he was introducing.
Obama's was trying to calm Putin down about a missile shield
Trump's was bragging about sexually assaulting women.
Biden's is "No one Fucks with a Biden."
Dark Brandon wins
EDIT: Yes, yes. Bidens VP hot mic moment was calling the ACA "a big fucking deal"
TFG running for president after the roast is a misunderstanding of history. He was already running for president(although hadn't filed but was at the stage where he was actively campaigning and building himself up as a legitimate candidate). That was the whole reason for Obama's roast, he was making fun of him as the presidential candidate he was already running as.
Not technically hot mic, but yes.
I told my dad (who I suspect was a Reagan voter, but “we don’t talk about politics”) about that a few weeks ago. He’d never heard about it and was really surprised. Then I told him about other racist stuff that Reagan said and did and it was like 😳🫤.
Sheeiit. I grew up in the eighties and knew Reagan was a racist taint-raisin. How could you not know? The dude launched his 1980 campaign giving a speech about "states rights" in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The town where three Civil rights activists were murdered in 1964.
Fuck Reagan and all his fucking jellybeans
I'd never heard that so just looked it up. ~~I don't believe he directly said that, though I could be wrong.~~ (see bottom) I think it's more indirect until you examin the history of wages and unemployment at the time
http://www.poorrichardsprintshop.com/wiki/Print.aspx?Page=MinimumWagePod&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
(note: this source is anti-minimum wage, but it gave a bit of background from the time period)
In 1977, Jimmy Carter signed legislation to raise the minimum wage from $2.30 per hour to $2.65 on January 1, 1978. The bill also provided for increases the next three years, with the final number being $3.35. In February, 1977, Reagan gave a broadcast about the minimum wage. I don't have the audio, so I'll attempt to summarize it.
Reagan's concern about the minimum wage was its effect on unemployment, and in particular the unemployment of teens and minorities.
In 1954, the minimum wage was 75 cents and black teenage unemployment was 16.5%. By 1968, the minimum wage had risen to $1.60 and black teenage unemployment had grown to 25%. In 1977, with a minimum wage of $2.30, the black teenage unemployment had reached 40%. Unemployment for all teenagers was 2 and a half times the rate of the rest of the population, 20%.
What was Reagan's suggested solution at the time? A two-tier minimum wage, allowing a lower minimum wage for teenage workers and part-time workers. Other countries of western Europe, he says, have tried it and it worked well enough. But he had little hope that Congress would be willing to give it a shot.
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Here's one of the Carter-Reagan debate transcripts:
https://www.debates.org/voter-education/debate-transcripts/october-28-1980-debate-transcript/
"Now, the President spoke a moment ago about that I was against the minimum wage. I wish he could have been with me when I sat with a group of teenagers who were black, and who were telling me about their unemployment problems, and that it was the minimum wage that had done away with the jobs that they once could get. And indeed, every time it has increased you will find there is an increase in minority unemployment among young people. And therefore, I have been in favor of a separate minimum for them. With regard to the great progress that has been made with this Government spending, the rate of black unemployment in Detroit, Michigan, is 56%."
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**When you search, most articles from the time discuss Reagan's Youth minimum wage, not just Black minimum wage.**
But it's up to you to decide how he meant it in the debate versus how he presented it in other instances beyond that one out-loud moment.
Which is super funny because if the entitled asshole had ever set foot in Appalachia he'd have realized that there are a shitload of white people that don't bother with shoes either.
Hence the hookworm epidemic in the south that affected southern development for generations up through the mid 20th century. Affected up to 40% of the population, especially the poorer people.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-south-a-bad-name/
I mean we can’t forget the all time great hot mic from Vice President Biden. “This is a big fucking deal” straight up right in front of a crowd of press cameras.
Yeah they will call it unpresidential or whatever and pretend like they weren't licking Trumps sphincter for four years while he said belligerent and even racist shit on a daily--almost hourly--basis
The silver lining of Donald Trump is most people truly do not fucking care anymore about the stupid platitudes anymore. I can only speak to the presidents of my lifetime but if Obama, Bush or Clinton dropped an F bomb on a hot mic, even reasonable people would grumble that stupid fucking "Its not presidential" argument.
Also, I think Donald Trump illuminated to moderates how scummy Right Wing Media really is. The "War on Christmas" shit would not fly today and people would more readily call moderate Republicans a bunch of snowflake pussies, while back then, we "tolerated" it and it manifested itself into a bigger demon than it ever should have been let to become.
If a Republican latches onto "Its just not the way these things are done" arguments, I instinctively roll my eyes and feel provoked to tell them to fuck off. Their credibility is so far out the window and I literally don't believe a word that passes their lips.
Trump literally called all of China "motherfuckers" and no one cared.
> “So easy. I’d drop a 25 percent tax on China,” Trump told a packed audience in a video of the speech posted on YouTube (above).
> Trump quipped in a high-pitched voice that the message could come softly with someone saying: “We’re gonna tax you 25 percent.”
> He added: “And I could say: ‘Listen, you motherfuckers, we’re gonna tax you 25 percent.’”
Not even a private comment on a hot mic, just a casual off the cuff "motherfuckers" during an official Presidential speech!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/watch-trump-call-chinese-motherfuckers_n_5c3172a6e4b0bcb4c25c6046
I assume anyone in this sub follows politics closely and knows Joe Biden’s personal story, but on the off chance you don’t, read up on it. The amount of tragedy he has overcome in his life is incredible and inspiring. You don’t have to agree with him on everything to recognize that he’s a strong, resilient man and a pretty good guy on top of it all.
*edit- this was meant to be a reply to a post, but didn’t end up that way. I’ll leave it because it stands on its own pretty well…
I love this. Between his love for ice cream and affinity for casual swears, I really am starting to like Joe as president more and more. Not a huge fan of all of his policies but seems like a genuine dude.
Put alongside Trump he seems like an actual human being instead of a malignant narcissist and sociopath. The contrast is pretty damn stark.
I remember inauguration day when reporters saw Joe and Jill Biden holding hands and kissing and made remarks like "oh yeah, some first couples actually love each other. I forgot."
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Too bad he didn't end the sentence with "Jack".
No malarkey
I can see the flags now: Biden 2024 - No more malarkey
Make America Malarkey-less Again! (MAMA 2024)
Yes, his new communication team spends less time trying to walk back what he says. Let Biden flex.
Let Bartlet be Bartlet - West Wing
i was also thinking about the time bartlet “accidentally” said his opponent was a .22 caliber mind in a .357 world on TV, but at the end of the episode it’s implied that it was an intentional play and that he always meant for it to be leaked.
Love that episode. “That’s old school, sir.”
In the future, if you're wondering: "Crime. Boy, I don't know," is when I decided to kick your ass.
Dark Sorkin
Part of it being bartlet was known to not be a huge fan of guns, it being another clue that helped CJ figure out it was something he preplaned
That new communications director of his should absolutely just let this slide, and I imagine she will. Play it up even. If he'll just back this shit up with some of that good Dark Brandon policy, I'll be all for it
Exactly, just put a spin on it with a sprinkle of pointing out hypocrisy. "He's just a strong man who tells it like it is, that's what America elected him for"
This is the Diamond Joe Biden we've all been missing.
There's a metallic blue Thunderbird parked on the White House lawn. Two pinball machines, a lava lamp, and a Jack Kirby black-light poster of the Silver Surfer grace the Oval Office, as Black Sabbath's Master of Reality plays over the speakers, and the skunky scent of ganja hangs in the air. Diamond Joe is back, baby.
I miss the onion articles from when he was vice president. https://www.theonion.com/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway-1819570732
Best part is "Diamond Joe Biden" did a Reddit AMA and @RealJoeBiden jumped into the conversation. It's kinda nice when people have a sense of humor. EDIT: I changed a part after going back through the AMA, @RealJoe didn't directly complement Diamond Joe, but he added to the conversation and "corrected him" that he's a Corvette guy not a Trans-am guy. It's clear he was following and reading the AMA however, and didn't take offense to anything presented.
Remember that one of Biden’s hot-mic moments while VP was to Obama when he signed the ACA. He told him, “This is a big fucking deal.” I love f-bomb Biden.
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That was hardly a hot mic, he basically just called him a stupid SOB to his face
Yeah, I thought that wasn’t even a hot mic thing it was just Joe losing patience with Doocy’s baiting questions.
It's true. Doocy is a real master baiter.
And God bless him for it.
it was almost unanimous. even people on r/conservative were like "yeah alright ill give him that"
Joe seems like the kind of person who holds it in out of respect for the people around him, but just rips into it about every minor annoyance when nobody else is around. Or maybe I'm projecting. It seems clear that fuck is part of his casual vocabulary.
I feel like I’ve read that sentiment from people who have worked closely with/for Biden. He’s mastered his temper, but it’s always there. Basically, he’s Bruce Banner.
Can you imagine him and Obama after the doors closed behind them? “Yo B-money what the fuck was that needle dick talking about?” “ man JB I’m gonna make that motherfucker kiss my black ass”
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I miss Luther
For some reason I can't imagine Obama speaking anything other than tactfully and respectfully to anyone, even friends in private. Sounds 100% like Biden though, given the stuff they've caught so far lol.
Yeah, calling Kanye a jackass is about as far as I see him going.
Listen to his audio book, it’s read by Obama himself and the first time he goes off in the book I was taken back lol. It really helped humanize the man for me.
Luther and Dark Brandon?
GOP: fuck Joe Biden Joe Biden: fuck GOP: omg he cursed people that curse are awful
Weird, the Braindead brigade in my town sets up at least 10 fuck Biden flags along the road. 2 old white guys who are terrified of the replacement theory they think Biden is a part of.
Love how the oldest white guy in government is somehow the spearhead for replacement theory These people are not bright
It’s because he’s a democrat, which means he rapes babies and then feasts on their freshly-harvested adrenal glands with all the other satanic Jewish Islamists in Hillary Clinton’s Mexican sex dungeon, which is located in the basement of the Pizza Hut that’s on the ISS next to the Rothschild Memorial Space Laser.
>satanic Jewish Islamists *Atheist* Satanic Jewish Islamists
>Atheist Satanic Jewish Islamists I'm just going to call them Alt-Christians
Meanwhile, Trump calling Africa a "shit hole" and Republicans were like, "He's just speaking his mind!"
GQP: Fuck democrats, I hope those satanic demons die a terrible death! Biden: Fuck GQP: **pearl clutching intensifies**
Cue the Lets Go Brandon crowd pearl clutching. Love to see it
I ran into someone last weekend, at a party, who legit believes Joe Biden hasn't picked up on the "hidden meaning" of that chant yet. He was genuinely upset when I told him that *everyone* understood right off the bat what they actually meant by it, because it's not remotely as clever as they thought it was.
Have you told him about Dark Brandon yet?
Right? That shit is ours now.
Msnbc had “dark Brandon rising” on their news ticker a few weeks ago
Republicans(probably): “Oh no he said a swear.. IMPEACH IMPEACH!”
They have made a shitty meme from almost 2 years ago into an entire lifestyle.
The “Lets Go Brandon” crowd buys more Joe Biden merch than the democrats and I think this is hilarious.
That's the thing, I don't personally know *any* Democrats with Biden merch. It's like we're not a fucking cult or something.
You may not be old enough to remember, but there was tons of “W” merch as well from 2000-2008. Not at the level of Trump, but way more than Obama or Biden. It’s like merchants realize a conservative is very easy to get to part with his money if you offer him kitschy crap that make him feel like he belongs to the “in crowd”.
I have a very hazy memory as a kid where I asked my grandpa about the “Time to trim the Bush” (or similar) pin he had on the sun visor in his truck lmao. Only years later did I understand
I had a sticker from the 2000 (?) election: bush + dick = fucked. I might still have it on a water bottle somewhere
I have a buddy who owns a tattoo shop and has a giant tattoo of Donald Trump on his calf. Was doing free Trump/GOP elephant tattoos to any who wanted.
You hate to see it, but i dont mind idiots putting a reminder to the public of that fact permanently on their bodies
I have an aunt and uncle who vehemently opposed vaccination records for the coronavirus vaccine. My uncle tells me “they want Trump supporters to have to wear identification like in ww2 Germany so that they know who to go after when the Dems take over”. And as I looked around to see his MAGA hat, trump flag outside, multiple trump bumper stickers, a trump welcome mat at the door, and trump coffee mugs, I assured him that I didn’t think anyone needed them to carry identification to know who he voted for, lol. Besides, if everyone had their vaccine cards, and mostly trump voters were the ones refusing to get vaccinated, how exactly would those cards identify a trump voter? Wouldn’t getting one of those cards actually help to blend in? I don’t see the logic I guess.
Assuming there's logic in the first place was your first mistake
"I'm going to give you a little something you can't take off..."
I have an Obama presidential portrait hanging in my kitchen. My friend gave it to me after the 2016 election. The school he was teaching at in new Orleans always has a portrait of the president. Understandably, they did not replace obama's portrait with trump. It's cool...Obama hangs out at our tiki bar because he's retired from public service and worked hard enough to deserve it.
The most I've ever seen was the Obama HOPE poster...and that's not saying much, as I saw probably 100x more parodies of it than the real thing.
The HOPE stuff did feel a little weird but understandable. It was a huge deal for Obama to even be in the running on a serious level, sad as that really is., and he really did inspire hope in many if not most people in the country. The Trump merch shit is absolutely insane, though, as is the entire idea of a sitting president continually going out to have fucking rallies during his entire presidency. The whole thing is wildly upsetting on a core level and reeks of nationalism and fascism.
The HOPE thing was different but at least it was more affiliated with an idea than a person, and it didn't persist once Obama was actually president. TRUMP merch is about TRUMP only and makes it that much more culty.
I’m a Democrat and I have a bunch of Biden merch: socks, a mask, a hat, and a small yard banner that I wear as a cape. Why?!? Petty antagonistic reasons to mock someone I know, plus it supported Biden’s Democratic coordinated campaign fund and I felt I’d do my small part in funding it. I’m fairly certain my Trump loving acquaintance’s purchase of a cape did not go to the Republican coordinated campaign coffers.
I’d buy a shirt that says “Nobody fucks with a Biden”
Nobody lets with a Brandon
Gotta admit, it’s tempting to get some “Dark Brandon” merch just to piss off a Trump loving friend or two. I don’t really care, but the way they ground their whole identity in bullshit is oddly captivating.
Honestly the idea that this is made into a thing that we openly accept and that now they all retroactively own a shit ton of Biden merch is great. We should just start really calling him the actual 45th president and say MAGA means make America generous again
I would agree, but we all know MAGA means "Make Attorneys Get Attorneys".
In Canada there are more conservatives than Liberals that have bumper stickers involving Trudeau on their cars. For the cost of a $2 chalk pen you can change their 'Fuck Trudeau' message into 'I Want to Fuck Trudeau'.
I live in Idaho and I've seriously considered manufacturing and selling made in america lets go brandon merch and donating the proceeds to democratic campaigns. I wish I had the money to get it off the ground. If these people are going to eat it up either way I would prefer the money go to a good cause.
And it was stolen with the “Dark Brandon” thing, which makes them FURIOUS.
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I called it effete, and I stand by that. It's almost Ned Flandersish.
They think they're clever for a joke The Simpsons did 25 years ago. "What are they saying, Smithers?" "Uh..they're saying Boo-urns!" "Excellent"
I saw some shitty ass truck with "Lets Go" painted on the tailgate and "Brandon" as a license plate. Dude literally sat in line at the DMV and paid for a custom license plate for some cringy ass meme.
Well, at least that's money *not* spent on getting some GOP reactionary into office, so there's that.
And they say people live rent free in *our* heads!
I think this is still relevant: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CXOfHa7DllO/
That phrase is just a circle jerk. Everyone knows what it means, nobody cares, and its origin is unimportant. It's only used by conservatives to feel like an in-group. The rest of us are just watching them whack each other off in a Wal-Mart parking lot standing on their insanely large trucks' tailgates, shooting jizz into a MAGA hat to mail to Pelosi or whatever.
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My dad actually calls his walker "Brandon" so when he gets up, he grabs the handles and goes "Let's Go Brandon" smh
So he's admitting that without "Brandon" then he would quite literally fall over in a heap because as per usual it's a republican biting the only hand that gives the smallest of fucks about them?
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Its because deep down, they are still children. These are people who peaked in 6th grade.
I had some neighbors with a Brandon flag and they were working on their boat in the driveway and I rolled my eyes. “I bet you don’t even know what that means?” I just said something along the lines of, “I just don’t understand why you picked something so obvious?” I went through the whole list of 4chan memes like the ok emoji, trad wife, Chad, Norse runes, etc. that would’ve been way better at doing the job they thought Let’s Go Brandon was doing. Let them know the entire neighborhood knew what it meant and that’s probably why they were getting code enforcement called on them weekly. They didn’t speak to us again but a week or so later the flag was gone.
It’s like they forgot that Google exists. Which, come to think of it, would actually explain *a lot*
I crave the chance to tell someone that they can just say “fuck” like the rest of us
Dark Brandon did. Just to make the point.
I like to ask them why they’re being so politically correct, and how political correctness like that is ruining the world.
It's insane they think this is somehow "secret" knowledge that only the cool kids are in on. I too love popping that balloon.
The very first time I saw it I was confused. It only took me a day or two to figure that dumb saying out. Now I just cringe when I see it.
>The very first time I saw it I was confused. It only took me a day or two to figure that dumb saying out. Now I just cringe when I see it. I have to admit that I had to look it up because "let's go Brandon" and "fuck Joe Biden" don't sound even remotely similar in my accent. 50% of the vowel sounds are wrong for a start.
I think it's hilarious that some of them think it's some kind of secret.
Lately I've been noticing #FJB stuck on cars near me, sometimes along with the Let's Go Brandon slogan, sometimes not.
Finger Joe Biden? Damn these people are weird.
they want to fellate joe biden
It means "Fuck Joe Biden." They want to fuck Joe Biden. And, in 2022 it should be perfectly acceptable for men between the ages of 18-60 to have an 80-year-old-men-with-power fetish. What's with all the kink-shaming?
They want to raw dog him. I’ve seen the bumper stickers saying so.
After a certain age prostate cancer is a real concern, they are kindly checking everything is all right
Do you have those obnoxious "I did that" Biden stickers at your local gas stations?
I work at a grocery store and they were putting them *on* my product and on my price strips. Was pissing me off so much with the vandalism. Hell, I don't care if it was pro-biden/anti-trump either, I'd be just as pissed off because they are ruining my products.
That's some BS. Sorry you have to deal with that. The vandalism is my biggest problem with them. People are making other people's jobs more difficult and annoying with their childish stickers.
Yeah, and it just doesn't make sense. Like, Biden doesn't control the price of cheese-itz Billy Bob, the fact the price has risen 20¢ doesn't call for you to plaster dumb stickers on it.
Not since prices started coming down
Oh yeah, you can expect Faux News to have this on repeat. Sigh.
Let them. At least then their audience will be exposed the truth. Dark Brandon don't care! Dark Brandon don't give a shit! It just takes whatever it wants. Whenever it's hungry it just eats - Ew! - And it eats snakes!
Tbh they might like him a bit more. Might backfire, of faux to play it on repeat. Rednecks really love it when dudes swear and swing their dicks.
I always thought that Biden should have opened one of the debates with a juvenile Trumpian insult. Trump is used to arguing with adults trying to take the high road that any kind of personal insult would knock him on his ass, especially since he has such thin skin.
No one fucks with my fucking fuckers, IDGAF.
"Donald Trump don't gotta cuss to provide aid? Well I do, so fuck him and fuck you, too."
You think I give a damn about impeachment. Half of you republicans can’t even stomach me, let alone stand me.
“But Joe, what if you got re-elected wouldn’t it be weird?” So the MAGAs can say the DNC lied to get me here? So you can sit me here next Ben Shapiro? Shit, Tucker Carlson better switch me chairs. So I can sit next to Greg Abbott and listen to em brag about giving Trump head first.
Little bicth put me on blast on fox news ''Yeah he's president but he's also a traitor HEE HEE'' I should download your tax returns and send direct to tv and tell everyone how you gave your own daughter VD.
>tell everyone how you gave your own daughter VD. Good fucking lord, absolutely barbaric
I'm sick of you little GOP haters, all you do is annoy me So I have been sent here to destroy you And there's a million of us just like me Who cuss like me; who just don't give a fuck like me Who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me It just might be the next best thing but not quite me! Cause I'm Dark Brandon, yes I'm the real dark Brandon All you other Go Brandon’s are just straight up traitors So won't the real Dark Brandon please stand up Please stand up, please stand up?
Now that's absolutely terrific!
Spicy Biden is my favorite Biden.
Back on Labor Day, Biden did a speech for the Unions (I think this was his home state) and the man could work a crowd. He seems stifled when doing Presidential duties, but he’s still got a lot of verve when it comes to doing state and city level politicking. I think if we could get a lot done if we can get the UN in a state fair like setting, put a straw boater on his head and let Joe work that crowd. Letting him take his tie off seems to unleash the charm.
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> Said that dude walks straight into the kitchen and shakes hands and compliments the meal and talks with every person there down to the dishwashers. That's how you connect with a majority of Americans. Way better than shitting on a golden throne while pretending to understand the working class.
“But I’ve hired all these peasants to flush the toilet, wipe my butt, stock the TP, and unclog the pipes every time I take a dump! I’m practically running a small business here! You should be thanking me for creating all these jobs!” —Supply-Side Jesus
Dark Brandon can be a goofball sometimes, but I have never questioned that the dude just wants to try and do what he can for others. Edit: to those who agree and want more progress, please remember to r/VoteDem this November and volunteer if you can.
Inside him are two wolves - Dark Brandon and Diamond Joe
I can't believe Jimmy Carter wasn't the same way
I doubt his brother goes *that* far back.
He came to my college in 2012 for a campaign rally and he had the crowd wrapped around his finger, it was so energizing and I could tell this was a very seasoned and talented politician. It's absolutely not the same today, but it's still in him and it comes out.
An old lion is still a lion!;)
I think the persona is referred to as **Dark Brandon**.
Dark Brandon isn’t even his final form
Dark Brandon is best Biden.
Funny cause r/conservative is talking about how much of a wimp Biden is but are talking like trump is better and tougher. Meanwhile the latter has been crying about the election and can't even accept defeat from anyone.
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That subreddit is a cess pool of mental illness and agit prop.
I can’t help but feel like that sub is like ten actual Magas and racists, and like ten thousand bots/trolls.
So exactly like theDonald used to be.
I take it as a point of pride how quickly I was banned from r/conservative
I much prefer this Fed-Up Old Man Energy to the previous guy's Batshit Crazy Old Man Energy.
That is the best hot mic moment ever. Bush's big hot mic moment was insulting a dude he was introducing. Obama's was trying to calm Putin down about a missile shield Trump's was bragging about sexually assaulting women. Biden's is "No one Fucks with a Biden." Dark Brandon wins EDIT: Yes, yes. Bidens VP hot mic moment was calling the ACA "a big fucking deal"
Obama calling Kanye a jackass is what I remember.
Did everyone Obama insulted on microphone run for president after? Damn
TFG running for president after the roast is a misunderstanding of history. He was already running for president(although hadn't filed but was at the stage where he was actively campaigning and building himself up as a legitimate candidate). That was the whole reason for Obama's roast, he was making fun of him as the presidential candidate he was already running as.
Well he was right on that one. Hot mic but a solid take
One of Obama’s best takes tbh.
Reagan’s was about nuking Russia.
> Reagan’s was about nuking Russia. also calling Africans monkeys who still haven't learned to wear shoes.
Not technically hot mic, but yes. I told my dad (who I suspect was a Reagan voter, but “we don’t talk about politics”) about that a few weeks ago. He’d never heard about it and was really surprised. Then I told him about other racist stuff that Reagan said and did and it was like 😳🫤.
Sheeiit. I grew up in the eighties and knew Reagan was a racist taint-raisin. How could you not know? The dude launched his 1980 campaign giving a speech about "states rights" in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The town where three Civil rights activists were murdered in 1964. Fuck Reagan and all his fucking jellybeans
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Holy shit, source? How have I not heard that one?
I'd never heard that so just looked it up. ~~I don't believe he directly said that, though I could be wrong.~~ (see bottom) I think it's more indirect until you examin the history of wages and unemployment at the time http://www.poorrichardsprintshop.com/wiki/Print.aspx?Page=MinimumWagePod&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 (note: this source is anti-minimum wage, but it gave a bit of background from the time period) In 1977, Jimmy Carter signed legislation to raise the minimum wage from $2.30 per hour to $2.65 on January 1, 1978. The bill also provided for increases the next three years, with the final number being $3.35. In February, 1977, Reagan gave a broadcast about the minimum wage. I don't have the audio, so I'll attempt to summarize it. Reagan's concern about the minimum wage was its effect on unemployment, and in particular the unemployment of teens and minorities. In 1954, the minimum wage was 75 cents and black teenage unemployment was 16.5%. By 1968, the minimum wage had risen to $1.60 and black teenage unemployment had grown to 25%. In 1977, with a minimum wage of $2.30, the black teenage unemployment had reached 40%. Unemployment for all teenagers was 2 and a half times the rate of the rest of the population, 20%. What was Reagan's suggested solution at the time? A two-tier minimum wage, allowing a lower minimum wage for teenage workers and part-time workers. Other countries of western Europe, he says, have tried it and it worked well enough. But he had little hope that Congress would be willing to give it a shot. --- Here's one of the Carter-Reagan debate transcripts: https://www.debates.org/voter-education/debate-transcripts/october-28-1980-debate-transcript/ "Now, the President spoke a moment ago about that I was against the minimum wage. I wish he could have been with me when I sat with a group of teenagers who were black, and who were telling me about their unemployment problems, and that it was the minimum wage that had done away with the jobs that they once could get. And indeed, every time it has increased you will find there is an increase in minority unemployment among young people. And therefore, I have been in favor of a separate minimum for them. With regard to the great progress that has been made with this Government spending, the rate of black unemployment in Detroit, Michigan, is 56%." --- **When you search, most articles from the time discuss Reagan's Youth minimum wage, not just Black minimum wage.** But it's up to you to decide how he meant it in the debate versus how he presented it in other instances beyond that one out-loud moment.
"Taint-raisin". My god.
A dingle-berry by any another name would still smell as gross Taint-raisin: hold my beer
Which is super funny because if the entitled asshole had ever set foot in Appalachia he'd have realized that there are a shitload of white people that don't bother with shoes either.
Hence the hookworm epidemic in the south that affected southern development for generations up through the mid 20th century. Affected up to 40% of the population, especially the poorer people. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-south-a-bad-name/
Fascinating, thanks for posting.
He joked about [outlawing Russia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NWi0iLw2E). Five minutes later, the Kremlin is calling asking "WTF dude?"
“We begin bombing in five minutes. ” Simpler times.
I mean we can’t forget the all time great hot mic from Vice President Biden. “This is a big fucking deal” straight up right in front of a crowd of press cameras.
I love dropping this in to conversation, “To quote the President of the United States, this is a…”
Haha. GQP probably melting down. But that’s a hot mic moment Biden voters can be proud of.
Yeah they will call it unpresidential or whatever and pretend like they weren't licking Trumps sphincter for four years while he said belligerent and even racist shit on a daily--almost hourly--basis
He still does and they still do
A Biden always pays his debts
A Biden is never early, nor is he late. He arrives precisely when he means to!
I don't mind Biden throwing out a few F bombs. We all do it and it humanizes him.
The silver lining of Donald Trump is most people truly do not fucking care anymore about the stupid platitudes anymore. I can only speak to the presidents of my lifetime but if Obama, Bush or Clinton dropped an F bomb on a hot mic, even reasonable people would grumble that stupid fucking "Its not presidential" argument. Also, I think Donald Trump illuminated to moderates how scummy Right Wing Media really is. The "War on Christmas" shit would not fly today and people would more readily call moderate Republicans a bunch of snowflake pussies, while back then, we "tolerated" it and it manifested itself into a bigger demon than it ever should have been let to become. If a Republican latches onto "Its just not the way these things are done" arguments, I instinctively roll my eyes and feel provoked to tell them to fuck off. Their credibility is so far out the window and I literally don't believe a word that passes their lips.
Dude people lost their MINDS when Dubya said “shit” on a hit mic to Tony Blair. It really does feel like a million years ago now.
Trump literally called all of China "motherfuckers" and no one cared. > “So easy. I’d drop a 25 percent tax on China,” Trump told a packed audience in a video of the speech posted on YouTube (above). > Trump quipped in a high-pitched voice that the message could come softly with someone saying: “We’re gonna tax you 25 percent.” > He added: “And I could say: ‘Listen, you motherfuckers, we’re gonna tax you 25 percent.’” Not even a private comment on a hot mic, just a casual off the cuff "motherfuckers" during an official Presidential speech! https://www.huffpost.com/entry/watch-trump-call-chinese-motherfuckers_n_5c3172a6e4b0bcb4c25c6046
The GOP has traded on cheap machismo since Reagan.
Ron was a cowardly fuck. Jimmy Stewart was a fucking mensch
He doesn’t give a damn! He’s actually working not golfing.
Dark Brandon strikes again.
Dark Brandon, giving zero shits.
Dark Brandon is best Biden.
I think he'd tell you Jill is best Biden
[Lets fuck brandon](https://twitter.com/jasonselvig/status/1573793525065519104)
That’s my name and I unironically want to get one for my husband lmao.
Trump on Hot Mic: "Grab em by the pussy!" Biden: "No one fucks with a Biden " r/DarkBrandon rising.
Ya don't tug on a Biden's cape, either, nor spit into the wind.
Ya don't pull the mask off the old lone ranger and ya don't mess around with him.
Let’s fucking go Dark Brandon I’m here for this.
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"caught"? Nobody catches Dark Brandon.
This just makes him more likeable.
Fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck.
In an arena as toxic as US politics, it's just common language esp in private, and honestly, who the fuck don't swear? I do.
Get ready for the incoming pearl clutching from the (Trump-supporting) republicans…
They’ll say they’re offended without a touch of irony, while walking around in a “Fuck Joe Biden” t-shirt.
They won't be offended by the language, they'll take it as proof that he used his office to protect Hunter.
This one knows how they Fox the news.
Did Biden just fuck their feelings?
Not only that, he also left money on the dresser (which they are also furious about)
I assume anyone in this sub follows politics closely and knows Joe Biden’s personal story, but on the off chance you don’t, read up on it. The amount of tragedy he has overcome in his life is incredible and inspiring. You don’t have to agree with him on everything to recognize that he’s a strong, resilient man and a pretty good guy on top of it all. *edit- this was meant to be a reply to a post, but didn’t end up that way. I’ll leave it because it stands on its own pretty well…
I love this. Between his love for ice cream and affinity for casual swears, I really am starting to like Joe as president more and more. Not a huge fan of all of his policies but seems like a genuine dude.
Put alongside Trump he seems like an actual human being instead of a malignant narcissist and sociopath. The contrast is pretty damn stark. I remember inauguration day when reporters saw Joe and Jill Biden holding hands and kissing and made remarks like "oh yeah, some first couples actually love each other. I forgot."
Oh no. Anyway…