Move Over Ultra-MAGA, Time for Dark Brandon

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Straight from the fevered minds of White House staffers, this meme was originally released on Twitter by disgruntled proggies after PINO Joe’s administration’s demonstrated inability to achieve their far, far left goals. Dear God. The Dems too called him Brandon, but added death ray eyes.

Dark Brandon

Suddenly, mainstream Democrats are embracing “Dark Brandon” as their own, rebranding PINO Joe from dottering geriatric to a kind of political cult terminator. Pays your money and takes your reality.

What is the ‘Dark Brandon’ meme that has taken the White House by storm?

BY SARAKSHI RAI

The phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” started off as a dig at President Biden that spread quickly online and became a political slogan adopted by the president’s critics on the right, including former President Trump.

The phrase became popular among Trump’s base after a TV commentator mistakenly interpreted the crowd’s background chanting of “f— Joe Biden” as “Let’s Go Brandon,” in support of NASCAR driver Brandon Brown.

But recently, the use of the phrase has shown signs of shifting.

The White House has attempted to reclaim the “Let’s Go Brandon” catchphrase in the wake of recent wins by the Biden administration via a new “Dark Brandon” meme that has flooded the internet.

Uncomplimentary “Dark Brandon” memes first started to make the rounds online shortly after Biden was elected president, according to Politico.

But on Sunday, new imagery started to gain popularity on Twitter — one that was complimentary. Some shared images of Biden as “Dark Brandon” — ominous, darkly lit, Terminator-esque images of the commander in chief with bright red eyes.

“Dark Brandon is crushing it,” tweeted deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates, who shared a photo of Biden with laser red eyes that said: “Your malarkey has been going on for long enough, kiddo.”

The Hill

Yeah, no.

If you spend any significant time online — and particularly in the nebulous, insufferable realm of Politics Twitter — you’ve probably met him: 79-years-old, a full head of silver hair, an immaculately tailored suit, and, frequently, a pair of sizzling red laser-eyes. He’s “Dark Brandon,” President Joe Biden’s alpha-male bizarro, and the latest star of the White House’s ham-fisted effort to convince people that the septuagenarian commander-in-chief is actually a Super Cool Badass Dude™.

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In reality, the meteoric rise of the Dark Brandon meme — a liberal effort to reclaim the already-lame “Let’s Go Brandon” shibboleth popular among MAGA conservatives — is a cautionary tale. With a distinct air of “How do you do, fellow kids?,” the White House officials and allies sharing the meme are effectively distracting from the actual substance of a newly passed bill that will genuinely help people. Dark Brandon’s roots in Chinese propaganda and distinctly alt-right aesthetics only further draw attention away from the very thing the meme was deployed to celebrate.

That’s obviously not what the Dark Brandon tweeters are going for. In the Biden-stan circles where Dark Brandon currently frequents, he’s a master tactician who cottons no bullshit while crushing Republican obstruction with ruthless efficacy. He’s a way for die-hard Democrats to claim they’d been right about Biden all along, while simultaneously serving as a fantasy stand-in for the embattled president we actually have.

Rolling Stone

Even Mother Jones is unimpressed.

Not since Hillary Clinton dabbing on ‘em has a meme been so brutally murdered in public the way “Dark Brandon” was on Monday when several administration officials, and high-profile Democrats, started tweeting photos of president Joe Biden with laser eyes.

Mother Jones

Let the record show, Liberal Suspects, the sources of my articles. When you’ve lost Mother Jones…

I thought whispering into the mic was creepy.

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