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[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 239 points 1 year ago

“A thing about campaigns is sometimes you just do things for the lolz,” Rob Flaherty, a deputy Biden campaign manager, wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, of the decision to join Truth Social.

This guy knows what's up.

[-] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 126 points 1 year ago

Rob is right around my age and the millennial influence is obvious. The progressive millennials have always ran circles around their foolish republican counterparts. The memery and clowning on silly republican bullshit is effortless. When it comes to social media the right loses every time.

No clearer evidence of that then let’s go Brandon. A true honest to god meme that the right got handed naturally. They lost their shit and beat it to death. I literally saw some loser in head to toe let’s go Brandon clothes.

Of course it got co-opted into Dark Brandon and they ended up only improving bidens image.

I hate that we even have to talk about political meme strategies but here we are. And there’s no one better than the dead inside chronically suicidal for the lulz millennials to lead the change.

Let them clown on the right. They deserve it.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

The Brandon chant is proof that the right can't meme. The left literally out-memed their boomer humor at their own game. Lol

[-] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago

I agree, but the right really isn’t good at processing humor or art. In their minds Let’s Go Brandon is still the epitome of satire. It’s playing chess with a pigeon.

[-] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

These are the same people that think attack helicopter is hilarious.

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Political memes are nothing new. "I like Ike" is as much a meme as dark Brandon.

TIL!

The advertisement's memorable jingle turned "Ike for President" into a popular catchphrase; its final line was described by Paul Christiansen as a "party-transcending appeal to voters".[1] Adlai Stevenson II, Eisenhower's opponent, felt that the ad trivialized serious political issues and referred to it as the worst thing he ever heard. Eisenhower's organization planned to broadcast the advertisement five to six times every night during the final two weeks of the campaign in a few targeted areas. Eisenhower won the election in a landslide, though his campaign's advertising expert thought the ad made little difference. Time magazine later ranked "Ike for President" eighth in its list of the top ten campaign advertisements

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_for_President_(advertisement)

[-] Papergeist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It goes even further back then that with "Tippecanoe and Tyler too". If I'm not mistaken, that was the first campaign slogan. "Tippecanoe" being William Henry Harrison.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, he really did say that.

[-] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

They're about to start bringing Dark Brandon back!

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Dark Brandon is the profile picture they used.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[-] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

He has to do the weed thing, then he gets to be Dank Brandon.

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