politics

Media still doesn't understand memes

Hey there could’ve been a handful of meme trolls in the Situation Room workshopping this behind the scenes. We’ll never know 🤣

When he said in the primary that he should be president since he's the only one with the experience working with republican politicians and could get them to vote with the Dem party to help Americans...

I didn't believe him, but I didn't think memes would be his strategy.

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.

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.

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

I no longer know which pillow to get

It's an attempt at doing exactly what Republicans do. They steal a word or phrase and change it to mean something horrible. Democrats really need.to.start playing stupid games too, unfortunately, because the country is losing hard right now.

Eh—everyone already knows where Biden stands on abortion. Avoiding the issue suggests that he’s embarrassed or ashamed of his position—it concedes the moral high ground to the Republicans.

Lots of voters prefer a confident candidate to one who agrees with them on everything.

The ad is designed to keep the abortion issue talked about. Have you noticed how Republicans have gone radio-silent on abortion? They don't want it brought up. This is a smart move.

The ad isn't aimed to convert anyone, it's meant to feed into the social media narrative. Entrenched Republicans aren't changing their vote, but it could spark interest in younger voters who don't go to Fox News but read about the campaign.

It's definitely a good idea. The left has been failing to mock the right for far too long. The only thing that will really stop that movement is if it's cringey and an embarrassment to be a part of it. It also shows their attacks and strategies as weaks., since dark Brandon started as a rightwing meme.

There are plenty of radical centrists who will watch this shit because they feel obligated to hear out fascists just in case one of them actually manages to form a cogent thought.

These are the goldfish voters. If they do not have their knowledge and beliefs reaffirmed every 27 seconds, they revert to a blank political slate. The GOP has figured it out - these people are the reason why "bumper sticker politics" is so effective. The goldfish phenomenon perfectly explains every paradox and confounding effect in the history of political odds-making - that there is a shockingly large contingent of voters out there whose entire political identity is effectively defined by the most recent political message they attentively received.

There's !darkbrandon@lemmy.world

Edit - how do I link it

The real clowns are the voters, same in Canada.

Most of the people who could stand to benefit from progressive leaders never show up to vote, or if they can be assed to vote, do absolutely zero research and vote entirely based on emotion or an irrelevant issue.

Government absolutely works, there is a reason its heavily lobbied and every wealthy person votes in 100% of any election possible to further their own agenda.

At least we still have some bread and circus