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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.
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
Covfefe.
Politics being a team sport is fucking cancer.
I work with people who still make Clinton/Lewinsky jokes.
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?
Yep
TIL, Russia just being a messy contrarian.
That's obviously not what the image is suggesting and you are blatantly looking for a reason to be upset.
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 The sport team flags that use to hang as curtains in those trailer parks have been replaced by Trump flags now.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...
The sad thing is that donnie won't do a thing for such people. Not one single thing.
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
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.
Ahh... so the "Let's go Brandon" and "F*ck Trudeau" people ARE INDEED the same people.
Who the hell is Brandon? I don't even remember his name. Such a dumb slogan.
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)
Just chanting 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.
Mindlessly repeating a gross thing IS normal human behavior, as any high schooler could tell you
It's kind of instructive that the cons seem to not have advanced past the high school phase.
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.