President Joe Biden embraced the “Darkish Brandon” meme in a video launched on the identical day that former President Donald Trump was arraigned on expenses associated to January 6.
“A cup of Joe by no means tasted higher,” the president’s Twitter (X) account said on Thursday in a tweet with a video of Biden consuming a cup of espresso from a mug bearing the “Darkish Brandon” meme wedged between 2024. “I like my espresso darkish,” Biden says within the video. He additionally supplied a hyperlink to buy the mug.
A cup of Joe by no means tasted higher.
Seize yours: https://t.co/4fbxCBQNPZ pic.twitter.com/s2qboyE7C1
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 3, 2023
“Darkish Brandon, darkish roast. Tea drinkers welcome. Buy is a donation to Biden Victory Fund,” the product description reads on the Biden/Harris web site, the place the mug is being offered for $22.
The “Darkish Brandon” meme originated throughout the 2022 mid-term election within the wake of the president’s infamously divisive speech during which he characterised MAGA Republicans as a darkish menace to American democracy.
“MAGA Republicans don’t respect the structure,” he stated. “They don’t imagine within the rule of legislation, they don’t imagine within the rule of legislation, they don’t acknowledge the desire of the individuals.”
“MAGA forces are decided to take this nation backwards,” he added. “Backwards to an America the place there isn’t any proper to decide on. No proper to privateness. No proper to contraception. No proper to marry who you like. They promote authoritarian leaders and so they fire up political violence.”
In response to on-line MAGA outrage, supporters of Biden coined the phrase “Darkish Brandon” — a reference to the “Let’s Go, Brandon” phenomenon — and shortly started sharing memes that featured the president smiling together with his eyes glowing crimson as if he have been the Terminator. Writing for the Impartial, Alex Woodward stated that the memes reworked the president from a grandfatherly determine into one thing extra aggressive.
“The picture of Darkish Brandon not solely reclaims the ‘Brandon’ label however subverts the explicitly fascist ‘Darkish MAGA’ aesthetic, giving liberals who in any other case have been on the receiving finish of a years-long meme conflict the ammunition to take part,” Woodward wrote.
“With Darkish Brandon, the 78-year-old Biden undergoes an ironic transformation as a bearded, eyepatch-wearing Steel Gear Strong determine or laser-eyed anime character,” he added.
On Tuesday, particular prosecutor Jack Smith introduced {that a} grand jury indicted former President Trump for a 3rd time on expenses associated to January 6.
As Breitbart’s Joel Pollak famous, the indictment “was introduced the day after President Joe Biden had been implicated in a long-running affect peddling scheme by his son Hunter’s former enterprise accomplice, Devon Archer, in testimony earlier than the Home Oversight Committee.”
“Trump was indicted on 4 counts: one on conspiracy to defraud the U.S.; one on conspiracy to impede an official continuing; considered one of obstruction and try to impede an official continuing; and considered one of conspiracy towards rights,” Pollak defined.
“The indictment doesn’t point out how prosecutors have been in a position to set up what Trump himself believed, apart from the truth that he had been knowledgeable by others that his suspicions of fraud have been false; nor does it distinguish the case from the ‘Russia collusion’ hoax unfold by Trump’s opponents, together with throughout the Division of Justice, after he gained the 2016 presidential election,” Pollak added.
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