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Dark Brandon's Savage Comeback SHAKES UP Voters
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September 5, 2022
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7:12Now PlayingPresident Biden is seemingly having a surprise comeback with national popularity for taking action on campaign promises, such as student loan debt forgiveness, and Democrats retaking the Dark Brandon meme as their own. John Iadarola, Ben Gleib and Rep. Ro Khanna break it down on The Damage Report.
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Dark Brandon BeginsHow WH aides appropriated the meme of their boss as an underworld kin
"In November 2020, a week after JOE BIDEN was declared the winner of the presidential election, a Chinese illustrator named YANG QUAN posted several cartoons on his Weibo microblog account depicting the president-elect as evil and seemingly all-powerful.
"The sleeping king ascends the throne, the devil is resurrected," reads the Chinese caption on one illustration of Biden atop an Iron Throne-esque chair made up of automatic weapons as a hellish blaze surrounds him. Yang has posted many other images in the 20 months since — often with pro-China, nationalistic messages.
Those images were largely forgotten…. until this past week, when they went viral in the United States as Democrats co-opted them as part of a meme dubbed “Dark Brandon.”"
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