Here the Dark Brandon reaction after
the White House tries to rebrand the president
cringe taken to a new level, definitely.
Never thought I would agree with Faulkner, but I definitely agree,
this is pretty cringey.
And it started off ironically, and unfortunately Biden supporters
went into the territory of genuine posting of these Dark Brandon memes.
Now, the Dark Brandon meme, again, was originally an internet meme
intended to make fun of Joe Biden, but now it's being used to celebrate him.
Dark Brandon originates from Dark Maga.
The super cringey meme from a few months back when Biden referred to Maga as
Dark Maga and they actually sounded a little cool, and
they decided to run with it and
they put out all these memes of Donald Trump in their minds looking super cool.
And so here's another one.
>> If you've seen the laser eyes on internet, that's what it is.
>> That's the Dark meme.
Okay, they used to do it just for Trump.
Now they're doing it for Biden.
>> It's cringey no matter what, please stop doing it.
The only time it's not cringey is when it's being used, ironically.
>> No, that's what I was gonna say, to be fair, when they started Dark Brandon,
it was actually really funny because it was like Biden was gonna put an end to all
the malarkey.
And it's already funny and
the idea that Joe Biden is some sort of like political killer is hilarious.
That's why it started funny.
Now there's like massive Biden fans like the house sparks of the world were like-
>> My God, house sparks.
>> My God, Biden is so tough.
But there's actually a real underlying point here.
People are now unironically loving Dark Brandon.
Dark Brandon is an ass kicker and doesn't care about anything and will break
the rules to go punish republicans right, and to fight back and to get things done.
The reason why it's popular is because Joe Biden doesn't do any of that stuff.
And democratic voters are yearning for someone on their side who would actually
fight back like they're supposed to when they're the head of the party.
>> Yeah, so let's go to graphic five here, in its original usage,
Dark Brandon was highly ironic with the memes mostly joking about
Biden's perceived senility and inability to act in a forceful dramatic ways.
Act in the forceful, dramatic ways depicted in Dark Brandon memes.
Yet somehow, over the past few weeks it's become a rallying cry for
liberals to praise their beloved leader.
Right, so here's an example, in two weeks, Dark Brandon beat Covid.
Did he beat Covid?
Did he beat Covid or did we just stop talking about Covid?
And we started to pretend like it doesn't exist.
>> He beat Covid in the last two weeks before, but then Dark Brandon came in and
laser eyed the malarkey out of Covid just in the last two weeks.
>> God. >> Okay, what else did he-
>> He beat climate change, that's it.
>> [CROSSTALK] I didn't know that the last two weeks have been great weeks.
>> He beat gas prices.
>> He beat gas prices to a pulp.
Take this.
>> Gas prices have gone down a little bit from the insane astronomical high that
we've been experiencing.
>> You know why? He lives right above it.
>> It's still super high.
>> Okay. >> It's still high, but more,
he beat Al Qaeda.
He leveled all the way up and now he's on the last
level of Mar-a-Lago beating the final boss.
>> Okay, so that one's like slightly kidding around, right?
I've seen super serious ones from buying fans there or they're like,
he did this and he created this many jobs and, but my favorite is the Al Qaeda one.
There like he bravely said, yes, bomb the leader of Al Qaeda.
Is that really brave?
Isn't that like the most obvious thing in the world?
Could you imagine? He was like, we finally have the guy who
actually, by the way, was the real mastermind behind Al Qaeda.
Osama bin Laden's number two guy.
Ayman al-Zawahiri was the current leader of Al Qaeda.
That's a real 9/11 leader.
Is that a hard decision for a president?
That's like the easiest decision in the world, but
Dark Brandon laser eyes him with his courage.
>> Was it brave when he said that he would make Saudi Arabia in particular,
Mohammed bin Salman a pariah and
then proceeded to beg Saudi Arabia to drill for more fossil fuel.
>> No, you didn't get it Dark Brandon laser eyes himself in the mirror.
That's how tough Dark Brandon is.
>> Okay.
>> He it himself in that one.
>> Can we just like address how wrong it is to turn
these politicians who disappoint us over and
over again into heroes.
>> They kept the private equity loophole.
So Dark Brandon laser eyes the bankers to give them even more money.
>> Like we need to have higher expectations.
That's all I'm saying.
Like we need to have some standards here.
That's the thing that's like really getting to me when it comes to voters
on both sides.
Like the insanely low standards.
We're not winning with these low standards.
Must have higher standards.
Okay, would you let your daughter date this Dark Brandon character?
>> Is that what we're worried about?
Your daughter is gonna go with no malarkey Dark Brandon [LAUGH].
I'm just trying to communicate this in a more personal way, right?
Because I think people are like actually a little detached from what's going
on in the country because they see it as like a sporting event.
Politics is just a sporting event, right?
This isn't a sporting event.
These are people who make decisions that literally impact our day to day lives.
So have better standards.
Higher aim, higher.
>> And by the way, look in the last month or so, has it been good news for
Joe Biden.
Yeah, sure there has.
Right, like the 528,000 jobs.
That's a big number.
Great, wonderful.
Happy to see it, right, so just be real on the upsides and the downsides.
But that building everybody's going to historic, historic bill,
the lowering inflation and debt and every other thing, and
we're the champions of the world bill, right?
It's 5% change, five, it's the same 5%.
We always get, if that's what Dark Brandon is, he's gonna have to get a lot darker.
>> I mean would a kick ass politician not know how to pronounce
the name of his HHS secretary who he appointed himself?
He keeps calling him Javier Bokeria.
>> You know why?
You know why? Because that's what Dark Brandon would do.
Dark Brandon doesn't say your name, right?
He says you're wrong on purpose.
>> That's right.
>> Bokeria.
>> Take that Bokeria.
Okay, and Dark Brandon doesn't just attack the other guys, he attacks his own
guys because he's Dark Brandon, [SOUND] >> Joey baby.
>> I know where Dark Brandon, I know his origin story,
he ones met a guy named corn pop and he turned him into Dark Brandon,
he wrapped his metal chain around his arm and he said corn pop,
you better get out of here?
>> And he went [SOUND] >> How crazy is it?
That that ended up being a real story, like I just can't get over that.
>> Yeah, that was actually the most surprising thing that's ever
happened in politics when the corn pop story turned out to be true