“Let’s go Brandon” was kinda funny at first
“Let’s go Brandon” was kinda funny at first
For a week, it was worth a giggle. A flustered trackside nascar reporter attempting to avoid cursing on the news? That’s hilarious. Like every joke and/or horse, it was rapidly beaten past death. The body still receives unironic thwacks to this day.
Then it was revived as satire and resumed being funny for a fresh week or two. This was over a year ago. The horse is not just dead, it is not even a paste or powder, it has been completely aerosolized in a closed crimson room where people fan it back and forth in remembrance of beating its corpse.
Biden’s the best chance for continued democracy in the US, but I've been breathing in Brandon particulate since 2021 and I’m afraid it will give me lung cancer.
It's not really about the humor. It's always about the cruelty or, in this case, cruelty's sibling: mockery. To their twisted mindset, cruelty towards their perceived enemies is always funny and/or righteous.
Once I realized most Republicans only care about making the 'libtards' suffer, everything they do finally started to make sense.
They consistently vote against their own interests. They elect obvious cartoonish scumbags. They get outraged about nonexistent wars on Christmas. They think Democrats are cunning and powerful overlords controlling everything, but...Democrats are also (simultaneously, somehow) incompetent fools and suckers.
The cognitive dissonance is drowned out by their blind hatred. That's why they post social media replies like "seethe" because that's what they do, 24x7. They're seething crazy-angry all of the time. They can't go five minutes without thinking about politics or putting their right wing spin on every anodyne topic of conversation. They ban wholesome children's books. They actively strip away basic human rights while claiming to be victims of the same. They steal elections and break the rules of congress and the courts while calling the other side cheaters.
They are quite willing to see the planet's environment burn to the point of mass extinctions...as long as the 'libtards' suffer more.
Once you understand their "cruelty first" philosophy, and see them through this lens, their behavior becomes sadly predictable.
That's right wing humor in a nutshell, find a joke that's kinda funny or witty and drive it into the ground for the foreseeable future. I thought it was pretty funny too at first, but it's years past its expiration date
At least it gave them a second joke after years of beating the “attack helicopter” thing to death again and again.
It was funny live, in the moment. The next day it was a dead meme.
The problem it was never a joke, it was always barely conscious retards saying "Let's go Brandon" thinking it was some kind of clever inside joke and that no one knew what they were actually saying
I never thought it was funny and idiot Republicans using the phrase are basically working against themselves by confusing anyone who doesn't know what it actually means.
Anyone not in on the joke would wonder who is Brandon and do they want him to succeed or leave? Some people would correctly interpret Brandon as Biden and let's go as "Keep up the good work."
Without it, we wouldn't have Dark Brandon, which is hilarious
"For a week, it was worth a giggle."
humor is subjective. it was telling, to me, the people who got that giggle, and the ones that kept running with it even after it lost it's... giggle worthiness.
As if, when someone tells you a joke, and then says, GET IT? GET IT? no? oh shit, now they have to explain the joke's mechanics because obviously you haven't gotten it, otherwise you'd be herniating with laughter.... except, it was never funny in the first place.
Ironically, they'll never get it: dems say fuck joe biden all the time, and don't feel the need for childish self censorship when we say it, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT 5 YEAR OLDS. Or members of a deranged cult. I get pissed at people all the time but don't waste my days coming up with clever homonyms to insult them.
But I get that it plays to Trump's base, they act like children in a cult.
If you want to get a fresh giggle, check out the comments on the original video on YouTube or your alternative front end of choice. Delusions aplenty, but my favorite is something to the effect of “this is when history was made,” posted some months ago. It’s a reporter unintentionally continuing to host cursing for a minute; a cheeky little snafu to be sure, but calling it historic really encapsulates the podunk conservative multitude’s attitude.
Great thing about it is come back to it in ten years and they'll tell you to shut up. Ala Jake the plumber.
Til he was an actual guy
It's deader than all those people in tiananmen square
But the real question is why would you want continued democracy as it currently exists? Choice between bad or mediocre. No parliamentary representation proportional to the people. No votes of no-confidence. Infinite corporate money in lobbying and SPACs.
Why are you trying to save that?
Let it fail. Replace with better. Use your time and energy post revolution to shape a real country or countries going forward.
Anybody who is aware of what happens during the collapse of democracy would be desperate to save it.
Or smart enough to leave it before hand. It's not about collapsing democracy. That's red herring. It's about collapsing governments of any kind. A falling democracy, theocracy, or cult leader commune all have the same hallmarks.
I once caught a foreign influence campaign this big. If the options are ok or hellfuck, I choose ok. You’re better off locating the addresses of lobbyists if you’re already considering things post-collapse.
The senile man controlled like a puppet by a shadowy cabal is the best chance for democracy. The party with the word democracy in their name is hellbent on appointing them instead of allowing their constituents to choose someone better. They want to force a man who represents a significant chunk of the electorate to be removed from ballots. This is the future of democracy.
You don't know what "let's go Brandon" is. It's not funny because some reporter wanted to avoid cursing on TV. It's funny because some reporter was trying to hide the utter disdain america has for Joe biden and thought she could think fast and hide it and thought that the audience was too stupid to get it. It's facetious and has layers. It's alluding to the idea you can't candidly speak truth in the US. Its laughing at the media's attempt to whitewash our politics. And lastly, it means "fuck Joe biden" which at this point almost everyone in the US agrees.
The right doesn't like him, the left doesn't like him, the neolibs don't like him, nobody likes him, but people will vote for him because the elites that rule over us take our options away. "Best chance for democracy" lol Joe biden is proof that democracy is dead in america, he is emblematic of that fact.
You write great fan fiction.
I mean sure, but there’s nothing you can do about it in the short term besides philosophizing a binary decision. Who’re you voting for?
I get the argument, and it would be disconnected from reality to disagree. "Yeah, the democrats are taking our options away, but what choice do we have?" In the US, it always comes down to 2 people and you pick one even if you don't like them.
I'm not going to vote. I vote on principle, I believe that voting is giving legitimacy to a democratic system. And this system does not have legitimacy anymore, and probably hasn't in quite some time. Democracy is dead in america and it's just a veneer, a show, and I don't want to grant legitimacy in my mind and heart to a Potemkin democracy. I will not put one ounce of effort legitimizing the lie that I have any representation in this country.
Trump supporters think it's an MLM and you can recruit your way out of the shit tiers, when in fact it's a cult and you're just being farmed for money. How much you in for bud, tens of thousands of Trump Cash and Unlimited Debit Cards?
