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[–] regalia@literature.cafe 145 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I just realized it's been a few months since I've seen that dumbass let's go Brandon chant. Dark Brandon was a good way to eradicate it.

[–] Copythis@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Live in a red county, it's everywhere. Go to the small town high schools. Trump and confederate, and lifted trucks absolutely everywhere.

And good lord, the mullets.

[–] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It was a mildly funny meme but jfc they just can't let it go. They latch onto anything and sew it into their American flags

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Covfefe.

Politics being a team sport is fucking cancer.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I just saw it on a hat and a shirt recently. Out in public. Do these people think that others are going to engage with them? Or is it just virtue-signaling to other deplorables? Do they have to explain to younger children that their shirt is a cute way of saying the word FUCK?

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or is it just virtue-signaling

Yep

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL, Russia just being a messy contrarian.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

That's obviously not what the image is suggesting and you are blatantly looking for a reason to be upset.

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was in Phoenix camping this spring. When I was on a short local hike to a waterfall I came across a family wearing MAGA hats. The fresh out of the trailer park attire to match.

One of the young boys had a Brandon hat on while the other had a "let's go Brandon" shirt. I would have guessed they were 5 and 7. I wasn't even interested in saying hi as we passed on the trail and they weren't interested either.

I find it hard to find clothes without any branding for myself. I swear identity by politics has replaced sports team apparel for many now. The sport team flags that use to hang as curtains in those trailer parks have been replaced by Trump flags now. Those flag makers must be making a killing...

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The sad thing is that donnie won't do a thing for such people. Not one single thing.

I work with people who still make Clinton/Lewinsky jokes.

I've tried to see the fun in it but it's just so shallow I wouldn't be able to keep it up for more than... two days? The Dark Brandon thing seems like a great idea to make fun of how childish they are without costing more than 1 energy

[–] neardeaf@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

It’s shit like this that makes me so damn thankful I graduated high school in 2011 and not anytime 2016 and onward. I’d be so fucking sick of all the new Trumpers.

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Ahh... so the "Let's go Brandon" and "F*ck Trudeau" people ARE INDEED the same people.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who the hell is Brandon? I don't even remember his name. Such a dumb slogan.

[–] Hoomod@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it was a Nascar race or something, and the crowd was chanting "fuck Joe Biden", and the commentators tried to cover it by saying they were chanting "let's go Brandon" because the driver in the lead was Brandon (something)

[–] ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just chanting that in unison... you know... like normal functional people do... 🙄

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just changing that in unison… you know… like normal functional people do…

That's exactly right. They think mindlessly repeating something that gross is a normal thing. The state of the GOP today.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mindlessly repeating a gross thing IS normal human behavior, as any high schooler could tell you

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's kind of instructive that the cons seem to not have advanced past the high school phase.

[–] Case@unilem.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At a NASCAR race, a bastion of redneckery, a person on camera said Fuck Joe Biden, and the reporter said something along the lines of Let's Go Brandon, I suppose mishearing the person in a loud venue and/or confusing it for a driver.

It stuck and Let's go Brandon became a tongue in cheek way of voicing their displeasure with our current president.

On the other side...

Any time Biden has done anything progressive or to stymie the GoP it is his "Dark Brandon" persona that the internet created.

Basically dems flipped the meme, or at least tried to and it became a memetic way to celebrate perceived victories over the GoP, as I understand it.

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

He's done a really good job of owning these attacks. I saw him drink from a dark brandon mug during a press conference recently lmao!

Makes me think Obama should've doubled down on the tan suit and bought a whole wardrobe of them. And be seen at all times with a giant bottle of grey poupon.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Come down to Florida, it's still alive and well over here

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In fact, I'll stay at least 6 states away

[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My high ass just realized there are only six states between Florida and California.

[–] ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's a lot of meth

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

sigh I'm also in Texas

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I can't blame you lol

[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Oh, if only I could unsee all the trucks and cars with those stickers. Must have seen a half-dozen this week on the road (I drive for a living)

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ive been using "lets go me" as my discord name in one server for a long while now because.....its my name. Lets go me

[–] regalia@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago