The Imperial Palace decided to get out in front of the “Let’s Go Brandon” meme and it plowed right over them. The Propaganda Ministry is going to have a hard time explaining what the heck they were smoking when they came up with this idea. Meanwhile, conservatives are laughing their anatomy off.
Meet Dark Brandon, Joe’s Alter Ego
All those “Let’s Go Brandon” memes swirling around on social media really cheese off Democrats. Since Joe Biden’s real life actions involve falling off of things and babbling incoherently, the PR department decided to give his image a makeover.
They figured that by using a set of colored pencils, Joe’s shortcomings could be turned into some sort of magic superpowers. That way, Google could admit the word B-word actually exists again.
Washington Post did a double-take when they saw the bold new images. “It’s not [alleged] President Biden as many have come to know him,” they write.
“He’s not the aviator-wearing average Joe with familiar family folkisms, the grandpa who plays with his dogs, the ice cream aficionado.” Dark Brandon has an edgy attitude.
In one of the officially approved Dark Brandon graphics, he’s perched in a lifeguard chair with lightning bolts coming out of his hands, as he declares, “Let there be jobs!”
Washington Post says the throne he’s sitting on in another one “evokes Game of Thrones” but the public wonders if that’s supposed to represent the arms he sold Taiwan.
Several of the approved images show Joe’s eyes glowing like lasers or with laser beams coming out of them. One has him “bearded and wearing an eye patch.” Often “there is rubble in his wake.” That, conservatives say, really is accurate.
Progressives have been slaving over the project for weeks, attempting to “co-opt one of the most searing catchphrases that Republicans have pinned on Biden.” Let’s Go Brandon can now tie in to “their own version of Biden fan fiction.”
Dark Brandon is a force to be reckoned with! pic.twitter.com/TWnrvAlzir
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The superpower to pass legislation
The Post actually writes with a straight face that “the new liberal-driven Dark Brandon meme is meant to depict Biden as having superpowers, able to smite an al-Qaeda leader and pass legislation through Congress with ease.”
If the news didn’t come from an outlet of their reputation, everyone would be convinced it had been cooked up by the Babylon Bee after they read something in the Onion.
“Rather than an ineffective president inspiring Republican vitriol and earning historically low approval ratings, he is a superhero familiar with the dark arts and able to change the course of history.”
Democrats are wishing they could make all the Dark Brandon fiction come true.
White House press secretary, Master Andrew Bates, posted one Dark Brandon image of Biden with pupil-less red eyes and text that reads, “Your malarkey has been going on for long enough, kiddo.”
Rob Flaherty, White House director of digital strategy, “also tweeted an image of Biden smiling with red eyes, his hair haloed against a dark background. He did it on his official White House account, he wrote, to ensure that it goes into the historical archives.“
