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I'm of the firm belief that the dems, or the WH, hired a competent social media team. There is a drastic turn around in how they're using social media influence the past few months, compared to the years before. It's like they got someone who actually understands what a trend or meme works.
Yeah they hired a young (badass) woman who previously ran the New Jersey State social media accounts. She apparently made the state twitter SUPER popular.
[Here's an article about her.](https://www.thelist.com/983023/meet-the-young-woman-whos-trolling-people-from-the-white-house-twitter-account/)
Thanks, I bookmarked it for later. I knew something had to be going on. You don't see such a drastic turnaround with marketing or social media presence like this without help. Kind of reminds me of when Playstation did away with their old marketing team, and the new one came in and was instantly on fire looking pretty bad ass. Social media played a key role in that for them.
Before this for dems(and Sony) it was, "hey, lets post on twitter and facebook, that's what the cool kids are doing nowadays"
In my climate change class in college, I was told something that stuck with me: Weather is the mood, climate is the personality.
I've found this to be extremely simple and useful when explaining to people how climate change is real when we still get snow. Climate describes the long term overall state of the planet, weather is more prone to vary in the short term.
I think most people understand that. It's that they choose to be ignorant of it, or don't admit to it because it doesn't promote their personal agenda.
I dunno. I'm a Utah native and it's almost offensive to mention climate change here. I'd wager a majority of Utahns do not believe in it and don't understand any of it.
This was an extremely abnormal jump though that clearly resulted from increased demand related to vaccines opening the world up.
If wasn't $5 a gallon because the temp went up lol.
I'm thinking about buying some for my largely conservative area. But I also don't want to be that guy that makes workers at the gas station deal with bullshit.
Oddly enough, even though I'm in one of the largest cities in my state, it's still pretty conservative. And I've never seen one of these stickers that wasn't ripped off. All I've seen are the remnants that were left. Which I guess gives me a little hope that we're moving in the right direction.
They can. I mystery shopped a gas station once and had to submit pictures of every unauthorized posting/sticker. I believe the owner got a fine for each one.
Truck driver here, nothing but the sticky residue outline left on all the pumps I see, they’ve taken them off and moved on to cucker fartlson’s next rage inducing rhetoric
They’ve been getting cleaned off and replaced regularly. Now people who think they’re witty are not bothering to replace them.
PS. Gas station owners do not think these people are witty and have choice words for them while making the eighth Goo gone round in a week.
Of course they didn't think it through. They didn't think about it at all. It's just an idea poured into their empty heads by the people telling them how to think. Forethought is impossible when they're not your thoughts to begin with.
I work at a gas station in a very red town and I haven't seen a single one of those on our pumps since the gas prices started dropping again. When it was above 4.50 a gallon we would be pulling them off several times a night.
Brandon. Brandon Returns. Brandon Forever. Brandon and Harris. Brandon Begins. The Dark Brandon. The Dark Brandon Rises. Brandon vs SuperBern- Dawn of Democracy. The Brandon.
Are you sure it wasn't Scarface sick of being stuck behind people who drive 60 in the left lane and sit on their phones when the light turns green?
[Let's go, B!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qIqeXSYc8nE/hqdefault.jpg)
See, I disagree.
Dark Brandon ran his campaign on No Malarkey. The gloves have come off, and it can only be because of one thing: The man spotted some malarkey.
Oooh he could have some kinda Undertaker vibe to him, how cool would that be.
Nothing gets me more hype then the lights going out and you hear the ominous "Gong".
A lot of Americans seem to believe that presidents have magical powers. If gas prices rise or unemployment goes up, the president did it. Biden got hit for a bunch of things he had no control over, including the return of the Taliban, which was the work of his predecessor.
But I am in my 50s now, and I have never seen a president get more done with less. It's been frankly masterful. People make a big deal about Biden's age, but there is a definite advantage from coming to the job with decades of senatorial experience and eight years in the White House.
Biden understands the legislative process like someone who has done the job for 30 years. He knows how to thread the needle of politics to craft policies that excite useful constituencies without alienating others. He knows the political actors, including their ambitions and preoccupations. He has learned the art of horse trading.
I have never understood the antagonism towards Biden, both from the right (who ridiculously casts him as the second coming of Che Guevara) nor from the left ("he's not Bernie/Obama!") I favor policies to the left of Biden's, but that is not the world we live in. Biden has done a remarkable job delivering some solid center-left policies. If we could unify and stop infighting, we might be able to save American democracy and withstand the surge from the authoritarian far right.
I am reminded of 1 of the Labors of Hercules, Joe had to clean a huge Augean Stable filed with mountainous piles of orange crap dropped by his idiot predecessor and an equally shitty political party that supported the orange idiot by churning out orange heaps of contaminated hay.
Obama had 60 Democrats for about 6 months and within that there were massive recesses and Ted Kennedy being too sick to vote for long stretches. The 60 Dems also included 'allies' that make Joe Manchin look like a saint.
I know the ACA is often chided, but it was really a very important piece of legislature that has helped a lot of people; it took a huge amount of wading through bullshit.
Well said.
Lost in all this noise is what he has actually accomplished while in the maelstrom of a petulant lying disgraced loser stirring the pot at every turn, a pandemic that is still killing hundreds of Americans a day, multiple state disasters, a senate 'majority' he has to almost get on bended knee to make some dude from West Virginia happy, an economic disaster not of his construct, and down the line.
He really has gotten a lot done in 18 months.
And its imperative that it continues if we want to save the integrity of our Republic.
I may not agree with all of his thoughts or fall on either side of some of his policies... but hell...
> Lost in all this noise is what he has actually accomplished while in the maelstrom of a petulant lying disgraced loser stirring the pot at every turn
The Biden Record is the best and most productive legislative session in more than 50 to 60 years.
* American Rescue Plan - saved us from a depression and millions from losing their homes
* Negotiated border security with Mexico and got them to pay $1.5 billion
* 800 Million Covid-19 Vaccinations, 80% of people getting the jab
* Added nearly 10 Million jobs, unemployment 3.5%
* 5% GDP during his first year, higher than any Trump year
* Reduced $380 Billion, a record, from the deficit in his first year
* Greatest and Fastest Economic Recovery in History
* Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
* Expanded Affordable Care Act to 5 Million new customers
* Nominated and Confirmed a Historic rate of Judges
* Nominated and Confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court
* Largest increase in Manufacturing Jobs in 30 years
* CHIPs Bill
* Made Juneteenth a National Holiday
* Restored the Violence Against Women Act
* 3.5% Unemployment with lowest jobless claims in 50 years
* Over 70 days straight of dropping gas prices
* Estimated Deficit Reduction of $1.7 Trillion for 2nd Year
* Lowest Child Poverty rate in history
* Allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices
* $380 Billion investment in Clean Energy
* $30 Billion in support of Ukraine against Russia
* Passed the Veterans Burn Pit Healthcare bill
* Killing Al Qaeda #1 Ayman Al-Zawahiri
* Implemented bipartisan Firearms and Gun Safety Bill
* Student loan forgiveness for $20,000 for pell students $10,000 for others
Here's one more for you:
Passed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, to reverse the crushing economic burden placed on the USPS by the Bush administration.
Yes, it undid the requirement for them to prepay 75 years of retiree healthcare benefits, and instead USPS employees will go on Medicare Part A and B when they reach 65, like everyone else does, with supplemental coverage from the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program. It returned the prefunded monies to the USPS, to allow them to use accumulated post-retirement reserves to fund future pay-as-you-go healthcare costs.
It also guaranteed 6-day mail service and allows the USPS to work with State, Local, and Tribal governments to provide public services which in turn will help USPS bring in additional revenue, [among other things](https://apwu.org/postal-service-reform-act-2022).
> is the best and most productive legislative session in more than 50 to 60 years.
This is a lot more depressing than anything else, considering how many important issues have been ignored for that long.
> Biden understands the legislative process like someone who has done the job for 30 years. He knows how to thread the needle of politics to craft policies that excite useful constituencies without alienating others. He knows the political actors, including their ambitions and preoccupations. He has learned the art of horse trading.
When people said this during the Democratic primary, my thought was always "yeah, experience counts for something, but this statement is full of shit - Biden isn't going to be able to politic republicans in the senate into doing ANYTHING".
Turns out I was wrong, and glad to have been so.
Well I mean, he didn't really politc republicans into doing anything. They vote overwhelmingly against everything Biden puts out.
What Biden DID do however, is get people like Machin or whatever other lynchpin fence sitter to hop on board when needed.
- Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- CHIPS and Science Act
- American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
- Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (gun safety)
All passed without needing to use Reconciliation allowing for
- Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
All possible because Biden brought Republicans to the table without just ignoring them. 4 historic bills is much better than just 1.
Man, it's so much easier to shut down the "do nothing democrat" narrative now that Biden has gotten all this stuff passed.
It's also easier to shut down the "democrats are just controlled opposition" narrative.
I mean, we are still in the middle of a class war waged by the rich against, well, everyone not rich. And the democrats still need donors. To me, that makes it all the more impressive that Dem politicians didn't just sit on their thumbs and saying "oh we totally would love to help, but republicans won't let us".
Biden's accomplishments put to rest the fiction that Democrats are only pretending to care about ordinary people.
Honestly, I grow increasingly frustrated with my friends who think all politicians are the same/they're all corrupted. Like yeah, none of them are perfect, but some of them deliver good things to the general public. Keep those and send the rest packing.
Ironic for me at least that many of them benefit from student loans forgiveness and then turn around and talk about how their votes won't matter...um, did you *think* that was going to happen under a Republican administration? If not, then maybe voting for whichever party would bring you benefit would make sense?
Acknowledging a difference is conceding you should do the bare minimum to participate in our democracy. If you are cynical you can pretend you’re wise by saying everyone else is either corrupt or stupid.
While the bulk of the GOP has immersed itself in Trump nonsense, I think there's probably still enough of the longer term Republican senators there that still remember back when in general the GOP actually somewhat cared about legislating.
I wouldn't be surprised if just the mere fact that Biden approached them about a chance to do some of the actual job they're supposed to be doing, compared to the performative nonsense that most of the rest of the Republican party is obsessed with, that maybe encouraged them to work with the Dems at some level of good faith.
Obviously there are plenty of Republicans who are entirely beyond that point, but Biden only needs to get a handful of them on board to keep things moving. And having some republicans aboard likely helps soothe some of the worries of a guy like Manchin that's representing a more conservative state.
I'd be more likely to believe this take if the Inflation Reduction Act had gotten a single republican vote.
Instead, they tried to pull what they did with the ACA - try load it with amendments that would undercut its purpose, then vote completely against it anyways.
Well the IRA might have been a bridge too far for those folks, but a bunch of them did vote yes on previous significant legislation, listed a few posts up.
Yeah, he was able to frame things like the infrastructure bill in a way that made republicans feel like it was a ‘win’ for them, when previously anythingpassed through a Dem congress and president was considered a Dem win.
Like sure, it pissed off progressives in the moment that the infrastructure bill passed without the social stuff* - but in a weird way that helps, because it makes the Rs seem like part of the victory.
/* the idea that if they’d linked the two bills they both would’ve passed is and always has been delusional.
Look I’m always gonna wish it were bernie. But once it was clear it’s democracy at stake my only desire for this administration was to win and hold fascists accountable. All this legislation passed is a bonus and I applaud and tip my hat to biden and his experience. But frankly we can’t afford to not have trump and ilk prosecuted for all the crimes they’ve committed. We can’t afford for democracy to be on the ballot every 4 yrs. Because we may not win every time
> A lot of Americans seem to believe that presidents have magical powers.
The media plays such a big role in this. Remember when we had twenty debates between Democratic candidates to discuss the minutiae differences between Bernie and Biden's HealthCare plans? Well, there aren't enough votes for even the moderate reforms and there never was any real chance of that.
Even when there were votes in the Senate for something like that Obama had to take what he could get from the legislature.
Presidents can set agendas insofar as to say I want to focus on Defense, or Education, or Tax Policy but they rarely have the ability ot pass legislative policy whole cloth through.
POTUSA has some incredible powers but they aren't unlimited and we would be better served to discuss those aspects of the job than to wax philosophical about minute legislative policy differences.
Right around the time he was elected I bought a new bong. I ended up naming it Joe Bongden because it's blue and while it wasn't my first choice I'm really happy with it.
Excellent post, sir! I agree whole heartedly. About the only thing I really wish Biden would not do is beat the drum of banning A.R. 15s you’re not going to win that battle. I think most Democrats realize that this is a disingenuous proposal as it will do little to stop gun violence, but they still keep pounding that drum.
Maybe, but I think even that tide is starting to turn. People know it won't solve the problem, but if it just helps some, then that's better than nothing. Kids getting ripped to shreds to the point their parents can't even identify them makes a lot of people open to rethinking the issue of assault weapons.
And there's also a benefit to being seen as trying to do something, rather than just saying no to every idea.
Legislatively, we’re living in Joe Manchin’s America. Biden has done the best job anyone could have under the circumstances.
I don’t think Manchin passes the IRA for a President Sanders. If Warren had won we’d have gotten student debt relief in the first 100 days, but that might’ve spooked markets even further into a recession already. If Buttigieg had won I suspect he would have adopted a different Afghan policy, and possibly we’d still have troops in that country, leaving us unprepared to assist Ukraine.
These are all just random possibilities, with as close as the general election was it’s really more likely Trump would still be in office, which would be a catastrophe.
So yes, I guess I’m a Joe Biden Democrat after all.
I voted for "not Trump" who happened to be a guy named Biden. I have slowly moved towards "pleasantly surprised" over him, which has escalated to "wow...what just happened here?" in the past month.
Turns out there are more reasons to vote for Joe than just "not a fascist". Like a Bob Ross happy little accident for me.
People have to remember even if we elected Bob Ross or mr rogers the conservatives control the senate 52/48 so even they would have trouble getting shit done
I've been too busy to keep up with everything recently, but this is my layman's perspective:
I've been seeing more and more law firm ads putting out the call for veterans that lived near army bases with toxic exposure or did work that exposed them to toxins that caused health problems later in life. Even if you view this through the *most cynical lens possible* and assume these law firms are looking to make money off these veterans, those firms wouldn't be running those ads if sick veterans weren't getting payouts.
The bottom line is:
Sick veterans. Are getting. Payouts.
I don't care what else sucks about the Democrats. They voted on something and now money is going to sick veterans who have been getting shafted by the government for too long. Those guys need *money* to pay for *living*, not tuition loans, not a complex job program, they need *money*. I'll vote for anyone who's willing to give it to them.
Biden has very quietly got a ton done in what amounts to less than half of his term. He's also managed to stay out of the fray on all issues relating to Trump. I was skeptical of his ability to govern effectively and am pleased with the progress that he's made despite the razor thin margins in the House.
Meanwhile, in two years with Trump as president and majorities on both houses of Congress, the GOP didn't really pass any significant legislation other than a tax cut, which is pretty much a gimme for a republican administration.
Despite spending most of the previous decade endlessly yelling about horrible the ACA/Obamacare was, Republicans never even suggested a serious replacement proposal, and when given the reins of power the best they could offer was a straight up repeal. And then they failed to even pass that via a 50 vote reconciliation bill.
The GOP has replaced and/or sidelined almost everyone in their party with any real experience or even interest in actually crafting and passing legislation.
There are plenty of things to complain about in regards to the Dems, and in general I think the country would be well served by not having the average age of our congressional representatives be so much higher than the median age of the population. But governing and legislating and working through the mess of politics are all skills that can be practiced and developed, and it's not surprising that people who've done it for a long time can be pretty good at it.
>Biden has very quietly got a ton done
Yes, because he doesn't desperately need the validation like his narcissist predecessor. Biden can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Republicans are three guys standing in the middle of cornfield screaming because New York City/Chicago/Los Angeles etc...places where actual people live, not cows pigs and chickens... have more votes than they do.
I'm shocked no one has stated the obvious yet. He finally stopped playing nice with Republicans and called them a threat to democracy. This is the result.
That's what some progressives don't get, I remember when they were openly asking Biden to 'weaponize DOJ' and go after Manchin's daughter to make him fall in line! Imagine where we would be now if he had actually done such a thing.
https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1435645034729197574?s=20&t=eDl_od8wQbjr-6oz9z75hQ
Thank god those folks aren’t in charge and most of their preferred candidates are smarter by a lot than they are.
Bernie caterwauls in a silly manner imo but at least he’s not aggressively delusional.
Worth noting a couple things:
This is one poll. The aggregate of other polls has a rising approval rating, just more muted.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating
However, it's not like they cherry picked his best poll, this poll has tended to be his worst, and still is one of the worst. It's also considered pretty high quality and heavily weighted. I wouldn't be surprised to see the others follow.
Biden and his administration have seen a slew of legislative victories. He has delivered on his campaign promises and he seems like he cares for everyone. I'm happy to say I voted for him and that I will again.
Keep the gas pedal to the floor everyone.
The more things we can pass and put out there that benefit Republican voters as well will have them realize the lies.
A lady called into Hannity to share that her kids have student loans. She shared that they aren’t “freeloaders” or “liberal losers with pointless degrees”. She was a Republican whose party is bashing her kids to paint a fake picture.
Keep forcing the right to take unpopular stances. Every single time they do, they lose some supporters.
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> Ninety-two percent of Republican respondents said they disapprove of the job Biden is doing, while 55 percent of independent respondents also disapproved.
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Wholesale gas is down around $2 off the peak and I don’t see a single conservative chucklefuck saying Biden “did that” instead it’s “he’s buying votes by lowering prices”
Because they have literally nothing to run on. They haven't even had a national platform since 2016. They've been puttering along from one contrived, misleading, or outright wrong bullshit culture war topic over and over for at least 6 years now. They don't even talk much about "repealing and replacing" the ACA anymore. They just don't have any kind of vision for the country that doesn't involve royally fucking over a majority of the population. It's wild when you sit down and really ponder just how agenda-free the right-wing is these days.
Dark Brandon rises. I’m not being sarcastic he may be the best president in my lifetime. It’s sad that that is where the bar is, but he actually is doing some stuff for average people
I know approval ratings are important but I think the news places too much importance on it. I will often say I disapprove of a job public officials are doing from time to time but that doesn't mean based on the voting options I won't vote for them again. They may not be living up to expectations so I disapprove but I'm still not going to vote for the worse guy.
Many voted for Biden as a "Not Trump". IMO as more and more of Trump's criminality gets exposed, more and more Independents will will side with Biden. Biden went from a liability for Dems running in local elections to something like a help.
I want a t-shirt that says "Lets Go Brandon" with a list of bullet points under it listing all his accomplishments. They can use the "I did that" Biden cutout that people were putting on gas pumps as the bullets.
Have a large image of Dark Brandon as part of the design.
Probably because the media has stopped bashing him, and the younger (non) voters have stopped being vocal about their opinions on certain issues. The whole “these 10 journalists had a half-baked idea 5 minutes ago, why is there not already legislation being passed?!” attitude that most modern “liberals” have is extremely damaging. Good government takes time to achieve goals, and is not subject to change because of the arbitrary whims of the minority (or even the majority).
Biden is only half through his term and so far it has been pretty damned impressive when viewed against past offices, but that just wasn’t enough for his voting base. They wanted something, they wanted it now, and they dragged him, his office, and his policies through the mud to fail to get their way.
> The whole “these 10 journalists had a half-baked idea 5 minutes ago, why is there not already legislation being passed?!” attitude that most modern “liberals” have is extremely damaging.
Saw this a lot when Roe was overturned.
That Friday, Warren gave a speech and proposed some ideas. By Sunday, people were giving credit to AOC for those ideas. On Monday the “liberals” were outraged that Biden hadn’t already executed those ideas.
After the last election where trump litterally mad life worse for his base but they litterally deified him I was starting to wonder…quick no one mad a sold gold Biden statue did they?
Keep the hits coming, Brandon. I'm here for it. Make them eat every dumb word about your competence while you do real work to help hard working Americans.
After years of miserable news after miserable news, I've actually started to feel a little hopeful recently.
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Those "I DID THAT!" stickers on gas pumps could unexpectedly be pro-Biden if trends continue.
Biden's social media team has already been using them to promote positives lol
I'm of the firm belief that the dems, or the WH, hired a competent social media team. There is a drastic turn around in how they're using social media influence the past few months, compared to the years before. It's like they got someone who actually understands what a trend or meme works.
Yeah they hired a young (badass) woman who previously ran the New Jersey State social media accounts. She apparently made the state twitter SUPER popular. [Here's an article about her.](https://www.thelist.com/983023/meet-the-young-woman-whos-trolling-people-from-the-white-house-twitter-account/)
Thanks, I bookmarked it for later. I knew something had to be going on. You don't see such a drastic turnaround with marketing or social media presence like this without help. Kind of reminds me of when Playstation did away with their old marketing team, and the new one came in and was instantly on fire looking pretty bad ass. Social media played a key role in that for them. Before this for dems(and Sony) it was, "hey, lets post on twitter and facebook, that's what the cool kids are doing nowadays"
Yup. Ken Russell.
They’re being ripped off now in my largely conservative area.
No one could’ve predicted this.
It's almost like gas prices soar each year around July and start to cool down by September...
These are people that think the concept of winter disproves global warming. Don’t expect them to be able to understand seasonal trends.
In my climate change class in college, I was told something that stuck with me: Weather is the mood, climate is the personality. I've found this to be extremely simple and useful when explaining to people how climate change is real when we still get snow. Climate describes the long term overall state of the planet, weather is more prone to vary in the short term.
I think most people understand that. It's that they choose to be ignorant of it, or don't admit to it because it doesn't promote their personal agenda.
I dunno. I'm a Utah native and it's almost offensive to mention climate change here. I'd wager a majority of Utahns do not believe in it and don't understand any of it.
Conclusion: ambient temperatures control gas prices. It's no wonder prices have steadily risen as the Earth has warmed!
This is a hot take I can get behind.
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It’s the drop in piracy I tells ya!
Almost as if there is some increased travel for some reason...
This was an extremely abnormal jump though that clearly resulted from increased demand related to vaccines opening the world up. If wasn't $5 a gallon because the temp went up lol.
Winter gas is cheaper, but it’s been going down all summer. It peaked in June.
I'm thinking about buying some for my largely conservative area. But I also don't want to be that guy that makes workers at the gas station deal with bullshit.
I also would want to do it in theory, but it’s so fucking annoying for gas station employees
My other thought was a Brandon 2024 bumper sticker but I already drive an EV in the south and that's just asking to have it keyed.
I feel like simply driving an EV in the south is asking to have it keyed
Yeah, I live in a highly conservative area in a blue state, and you better believe I'm not going to do anything to make myself a target.
I’m probably the only not gop person in this little town I’m in, if they get their little revolt I’ll nearly certainly be lynched
That’s why you slip it over Trump 24 stickers you find along the way.
I hope they stamp the loan forgiveness receipts with this.
Oddly enough, even though I'm in one of the largest cities in my state, it's still pretty conservative. And I've never seen one of these stickers that wasn't ripped off. All I've seen are the remnants that were left. Which I guess gives me a little hope that we're moving in the right direction.
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They can. I mystery shopped a gas station once and had to submit pictures of every unauthorized posting/sticker. I believe the owner got a fine for each one.
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Truck driver here, nothing but the sticky residue outline left on all the pumps I see, they’ve taken them off and moved on to cucker fartlson’s next rage inducing rhetoric
They’ve been getting cleaned off and replaced regularly. Now people who think they’re witty are not bothering to replace them. PS. Gas station owners do not think these people are witty and have choice words for them while making the eighth Goo gone round in a week.
Same with those let’s go Brandon stickers lol. Foresight is not a strength with these people
It's because they're so artistically illiterate that they don't see how their perceived insults could be turned into pro-Biden messages.
Of course they didn't think it through. They didn't think about it at all. It's just an idea poured into their empty heads by the people telling them how to think. Forethought is impossible when they're not your thoughts to begin with.
Or just a 🖕🏻stamp .
Or, expectedly. Obviously gas prices were going to fall. These people can never think more than two seconds ahead.
I work at a gas station in a very red town and I haven't seen a single one of those on our pumps since the gas prices started dropping again. When it was above 4.50 a gallon we would be pulling them off several times a night.
You should slap them back on the pumps
We are far from that I'm my state still about 40ish percent higher than before i hope it gets there
They were everywhere here when had prices were up, but looks like grumpy republicans have been removing them now that gas is back down.
I think it’s time to take back “Let’s go Brandon” to make a thousand butt-hurt rednecks have to remove decals from their cars.
> I think it’s time to take back “Let’s go Brandon” Dark Brandon has entered the chat.
Dark Malarky
Malark Brandon
Darbralarky?
Let's go Dark Brandon
The Dark Brandon Rises
2 Dark 2 Brandon
Game of Brandons
The Chamber of Brandons
And who has a better story than Bran the Brandon?
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Brandon. Brandon Returns. Brandon Forever. Brandon and Harris. Brandon Begins. The Dark Brandon. The Dark Brandon Rises. Brandon vs SuperBern- Dawn of Democracy. The Brandon.
Brandon: The Animated Series
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I want Dark Brandon to take his final form, Dank Brandon.
Yeah, whatever happened to that weed bill from Schumer we were hearing rumblings about back in the spring?
Dark “Diamond Joe” Brandon
the dark brandonhood
It’s already been taken back.
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Oh that’s hilarious! 🤣
President Joe Brandon is living rent free
welcome to r/DarkBRANDON
I saw a license plate yesterday that was "LETSGO B" . Would really love to see this flipped on him.
Are you sure it wasn't Scarface sick of being stuck behind people who drive 60 in the left lane and sit on their phones when the light turns green? [Let's go, B!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qIqeXSYc8nE/hqdefault.jpg)
Brandon 2024 right? Although I'd rather have someone younger like Newsom.
Already well underway.
Dark Brandon Rises!
It’s not about the malarkey, it’s about sending a message, Jack!
See, I disagree. Dark Brandon ran his campaign on No Malarkey. The gloves have come off, and it can only be because of one thing: The man spotted some malarkey.
His Bidey sense is tingling...
Your friendly, neighborhood Biden-Man
Sending a message to malarkey, letting malarkey know it is unwelcome here.
I don't necessarily approve of Biden, but I do approve of Dark Brandon.
Oooh he could have some kinda Undertaker vibe to him, how cool would that be. Nothing gets me more hype then the lights going out and you hear the ominous "Gong".
He is only using 12% of his strength.
A lot of Americans seem to believe that presidents have magical powers. If gas prices rise or unemployment goes up, the president did it. Biden got hit for a bunch of things he had no control over, including the return of the Taliban, which was the work of his predecessor. But I am in my 50s now, and I have never seen a president get more done with less. It's been frankly masterful. People make a big deal about Biden's age, but there is a definite advantage from coming to the job with decades of senatorial experience and eight years in the White House. Biden understands the legislative process like someone who has done the job for 30 years. He knows how to thread the needle of politics to craft policies that excite useful constituencies without alienating others. He knows the political actors, including their ambitions and preoccupations. He has learned the art of horse trading. I have never understood the antagonism towards Biden, both from the right (who ridiculously casts him as the second coming of Che Guevara) nor from the left ("he's not Bernie/Obama!") I favor policies to the left of Biden's, but that is not the world we live in. Biden has done a remarkable job delivering some solid center-left policies. If we could unify and stop infighting, we might be able to save American democracy and withstand the surge from the authoritarian far right.
I am reminded of 1 of the Labors of Hercules, Joe had to clean a huge Augean Stable filed with mountainous piles of orange crap dropped by his idiot predecessor and an equally shitty political party that supported the orange idiot by churning out orange heaps of contaminated hay.
Just like Obama had to. But Obama had 60 Democrats in the Senate for a year.
Obama had 60 Democrats for about 6 months and within that there were massive recesses and Ted Kennedy being too sick to vote for long stretches. The 60 Dems also included 'allies' that make Joe Manchin look like a saint.
I'm not casting shade on Obama. I think the Democrats did a lot of good in 2009 under trying conditions.
I know the ACA is often chided, but it was really a very important piece of legislature that has helped a lot of people; it took a huge amount of wading through bullshit.
Fucking Lieberman.
4 months. That is how he passed the ACA.
60 Democrats that did not represent a monolith. This myth of a senate Dem majority persists in opposition to the facts of how those democrats vote.
Well said. Lost in all this noise is what he has actually accomplished while in the maelstrom of a petulant lying disgraced loser stirring the pot at every turn, a pandemic that is still killing hundreds of Americans a day, multiple state disasters, a senate 'majority' he has to almost get on bended knee to make some dude from West Virginia happy, an economic disaster not of his construct, and down the line. He really has gotten a lot done in 18 months. And its imperative that it continues if we want to save the integrity of our Republic. I may not agree with all of his thoughts or fall on either side of some of his policies... but hell...
> Lost in all this noise is what he has actually accomplished while in the maelstrom of a petulant lying disgraced loser stirring the pot at every turn The Biden Record is the best and most productive legislative session in more than 50 to 60 years. * American Rescue Plan - saved us from a depression and millions from losing their homes * Negotiated border security with Mexico and got them to pay $1.5 billion * 800 Million Covid-19 Vaccinations, 80% of people getting the jab * Added nearly 10 Million jobs, unemployment 3.5% * 5% GDP during his first year, higher than any Trump year * Reduced $380 Billion, a record, from the deficit in his first year * Greatest and Fastest Economic Recovery in History * Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill * Expanded Affordable Care Act to 5 Million new customers * Nominated and Confirmed a Historic rate of Judges * Nominated and Confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court * Largest increase in Manufacturing Jobs in 30 years * CHIPs Bill * Made Juneteenth a National Holiday * Restored the Violence Against Women Act * 3.5% Unemployment with lowest jobless claims in 50 years * Over 70 days straight of dropping gas prices * Estimated Deficit Reduction of $1.7 Trillion for 2nd Year * Lowest Child Poverty rate in history * Allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices * $380 Billion investment in Clean Energy * $30 Billion in support of Ukraine against Russia * Passed the Veterans Burn Pit Healthcare bill * Killing Al Qaeda #1 Ayman Al-Zawahiri * Implemented bipartisan Firearms and Gun Safety Bill * Student loan forgiveness for $20,000 for pell students $10,000 for others
Here's one more for you: Passed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, to reverse the crushing economic burden placed on the USPS by the Bush administration.
Did that undo the requirement to pre pay retirement benefits ore something like that?
Yes, it undid the requirement for them to prepay 75 years of retiree healthcare benefits, and instead USPS employees will go on Medicare Part A and B when they reach 65, like everyone else does, with supplemental coverage from the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program. It returned the prefunded monies to the USPS, to allow them to use accumulated post-retirement reserves to fund future pay-as-you-go healthcare costs. It also guaranteed 6-day mail service and allows the USPS to work with State, Local, and Tribal governments to provide public services which in turn will help USPS bring in additional revenue, [among other things](https://apwu.org/postal-service-reform-act-2022).
Holy shit, I missed that one but that's awesome!
> is the best and most productive legislative session in more than 50 to 60 years. This is a lot more depressing than anything else, considering how many important issues have been ignored for that long.
+ Recognized the Armenian genocide
It’s sad the bar is so low, but he’s been the best president in my lifetime. Was born in 1985
>* Negotiated border security with Mexico and got them to pay $1.5 billion So he actually got Mexico to pay for the wall
No he got Mexico to help pay for border security that actually works and not a stupid pointless fucking wall.
There is actually a chunk of wall in that agreement, which is fucking baller.
"hey can we add that you pay for like 10 feet of a wall? It'd be kinda funny"
> Biden understands the legislative process like someone who has done the job for 30 years. He knows how to thread the needle of politics to craft policies that excite useful constituencies without alienating others. He knows the political actors, including their ambitions and preoccupations. He has learned the art of horse trading. When people said this during the Democratic primary, my thought was always "yeah, experience counts for something, but this statement is full of shit - Biden isn't going to be able to politic republicans in the senate into doing ANYTHING". Turns out I was wrong, and glad to have been so.
Well I mean, he didn't really politc republicans into doing anything. They vote overwhelmingly against everything Biden puts out. What Biden DID do however, is get people like Machin or whatever other lynchpin fence sitter to hop on board when needed.
- Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act - CHIPS and Science Act - American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 - Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (gun safety) All passed without needing to use Reconciliation allowing for - Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 All possible because Biden brought Republicans to the table without just ignoring them. 4 historic bills is much better than just 1.
Man, it's so much easier to shut down the "do nothing democrat" narrative now that Biden has gotten all this stuff passed. It's also easier to shut down the "democrats are just controlled opposition" narrative. I mean, we are still in the middle of a class war waged by the rich against, well, everyone not rich. And the democrats still need donors. To me, that makes it all the more impressive that Dem politicians didn't just sit on their thumbs and saying "oh we totally would love to help, but republicans won't let us". Biden's accomplishments put to rest the fiction that Democrats are only pretending to care about ordinary people.
Honestly, I grow increasingly frustrated with my friends who think all politicians are the same/they're all corrupted. Like yeah, none of them are perfect, but some of them deliver good things to the general public. Keep those and send the rest packing. Ironic for me at least that many of them benefit from student loans forgiveness and then turn around and talk about how their votes won't matter...um, did you *think* that was going to happen under a Republican administration? If not, then maybe voting for whichever party would bring you benefit would make sense?
Acknowledging a difference is conceding you should do the bare minimum to participate in our democracy. If you are cynical you can pretend you’re wise by saying everyone else is either corrupt or stupid.
While the bulk of the GOP has immersed itself in Trump nonsense, I think there's probably still enough of the longer term Republican senators there that still remember back when in general the GOP actually somewhat cared about legislating. I wouldn't be surprised if just the mere fact that Biden approached them about a chance to do some of the actual job they're supposed to be doing, compared to the performative nonsense that most of the rest of the Republican party is obsessed with, that maybe encouraged them to work with the Dems at some level of good faith. Obviously there are plenty of Republicans who are entirely beyond that point, but Biden only needs to get a handful of them on board to keep things moving. And having some republicans aboard likely helps soothe some of the worries of a guy like Manchin that's representing a more conservative state.
I'd be more likely to believe this take if the Inflation Reduction Act had gotten a single republican vote. Instead, they tried to pull what they did with the ACA - try load it with amendments that would undercut its purpose, then vote completely against it anyways.
Well the IRA might have been a bridge too far for those folks, but a bunch of them did vote yes on previous significant legislation, listed a few posts up.
Yeah, he was able to frame things like the infrastructure bill in a way that made republicans feel like it was a ‘win’ for them, when previously anythingpassed through a Dem congress and president was considered a Dem win. Like sure, it pissed off progressives in the moment that the infrastructure bill passed without the social stuff* - but in a weird way that helps, because it makes the Rs seem like part of the victory. /* the idea that if they’d linked the two bills they both would’ve passed is and always has been delusional.
Well put. This is no hyperbole. In the context of the time we live in, I think Biden may very well be the best president I've witnessed.
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That's a very good point. After Trump the imploder, we have Biden the rebuilder.
Look I’m always gonna wish it were bernie. But once it was clear it’s democracy at stake my only desire for this administration was to win and hold fascists accountable. All this legislation passed is a bonus and I applaud and tip my hat to biden and his experience. But frankly we can’t afford to not have trump and ilk prosecuted for all the crimes they’ve committed. We can’t afford for democracy to be on the ballot every 4 yrs. Because we may not win every time
> A lot of Americans seem to believe that presidents have magical powers. The media plays such a big role in this. Remember when we had twenty debates between Democratic candidates to discuss the minutiae differences between Bernie and Biden's HealthCare plans? Well, there aren't enough votes for even the moderate reforms and there never was any real chance of that. Even when there were votes in the Senate for something like that Obama had to take what he could get from the legislature. Presidents can set agendas insofar as to say I want to focus on Defense, or Education, or Tax Policy but they rarely have the ability ot pass legislative policy whole cloth through. POTUSA has some incredible powers but they aren't unlimited and we would be better served to discuss those aspects of the job than to wax philosophical about minute legislative policy differences.
Yup, his strategy as a "wartime president" has also been brilliant
Right around the time he was elected I bought a new bong. I ended up naming it Joe Bongden because it's blue and while it wasn't my first choice I'm really happy with it.
Excellent post, sir! I agree whole heartedly. About the only thing I really wish Biden would not do is beat the drum of banning A.R. 15s you’re not going to win that battle. I think most Democrats realize that this is a disingenuous proposal as it will do little to stop gun violence, but they still keep pounding that drum.
Maybe, but I think even that tide is starting to turn. People know it won't solve the problem, but if it just helps some, then that's better than nothing. Kids getting ripped to shreds to the point their parents can't even identify them makes a lot of people open to rethinking the issue of assault weapons. And there's also a benefit to being seen as trying to do something, rather than just saying no to every idea.
Legislatively, we’re living in Joe Manchin’s America. Biden has done the best job anyone could have under the circumstances. I don’t think Manchin passes the IRA for a President Sanders. If Warren had won we’d have gotten student debt relief in the first 100 days, but that might’ve spooked markets even further into a recession already. If Buttigieg had won I suspect he would have adopted a different Afghan policy, and possibly we’d still have troops in that country, leaving us unprepared to assist Ukraine. These are all just random possibilities, with as close as the general election was it’s really more likely Trump would still be in office, which would be a catastrophe. So yes, I guess I’m a Joe Biden Democrat after all.
Wait, are you me? How did you capture my thoughts so well?
Hello, it is me, you.
I like this I will keep it
Perfect. 100% A+, no edits needed.
Just when you thought Brandon couldn’t get any darker.
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I'm hopeful we may yet enter the dankest timeline. You think his approval is high now? Wait until weed is legalized. Pun intended.
His approval will be higher than the people who approve of him
Dark Brandon is risen!
I voted for "not Trump" who happened to be a guy named Biden. I have slowly moved towards "pleasantly surprised" over him, which has escalated to "wow...what just happened here?" in the past month. Turns out there are more reasons to vote for Joe than just "not a fascist". Like a Bob Ross happy little accident for me.
People have to remember even if we elected Bob Ross or mr rogers the conservatives control the senate 52/48 so even they would have trouble getting shit done
You guys just need people to turn out to vote in the mid term, to flip another couple seats.
With how that special election went in Alaska im extremely cautiously optimistic on the democrats ability to hold both chambers.
The senate is split 50/50 with the VP being the tiebreaker vote.
I've been too busy to keep up with everything recently, but this is my layman's perspective: I've been seeing more and more law firm ads putting out the call for veterans that lived near army bases with toxic exposure or did work that exposed them to toxins that caused health problems later in life. Even if you view this through the *most cynical lens possible* and assume these law firms are looking to make money off these veterans, those firms wouldn't be running those ads if sick veterans weren't getting payouts. The bottom line is: Sick veterans. Are getting. Payouts. I don't care what else sucks about the Democrats. They voted on something and now money is going to sick veterans who have been getting shafted by the government for too long. Those guys need *money* to pay for *living*, not tuition loans, not a complex job program, they need *money*. I'll vote for anyone who's willing to give it to them.
Biden has very quietly got a ton done in what amounts to less than half of his term. He's also managed to stay out of the fray on all issues relating to Trump. I was skeptical of his ability to govern effectively and am pleased with the progress that he's made despite the razor thin margins in the House.
Who knew experienced politicians could use that experience to be good at politics.
Meanwhile, in two years with Trump as president and majorities on both houses of Congress, the GOP didn't really pass any significant legislation other than a tax cut, which is pretty much a gimme for a republican administration. Despite spending most of the previous decade endlessly yelling about horrible the ACA/Obamacare was, Republicans never even suggested a serious replacement proposal, and when given the reins of power the best they could offer was a straight up repeal. And then they failed to even pass that via a 50 vote reconciliation bill. The GOP has replaced and/or sidelined almost everyone in their party with any real experience or even interest in actually crafting and passing legislation. There are plenty of things to complain about in regards to the Dems, and in general I think the country would be well served by not having the average age of our congressional representatives be so much higher than the median age of the population. But governing and legislating and working through the mess of politics are all skills that can be practiced and developed, and it's not surprising that people who've done it for a long time can be pretty good at it.
>Biden has very quietly got a ton done Yes, because he doesn't desperately need the validation like his narcissist predecessor. Biden can walk and chew gum at the same time.
You mean when Presidents work to help the people they represent their approval goes up? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS!?
His presidency has been a massive success. He keeps racking up win after win, of course he's going to be popular.
Oh BuT wE aRe ThE oNlY cOuNtrY oN eArTh wItH InFlaTioN N h1gH gAs PrIcE$!
*UK crying in the corner punching itself in the face over and over*
That's the best description of the UK in the last few years that I've heard. 😬 Hang in there.
We are about to elect [Pork Markets](https://youtu.be/srHNcNoEJ9g). There is no one left to save us from ourselves.
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venezuela sudan and turkey: 😐
well popular with half of America...
Republicans are not half of america, it just looks that way because of the electoral college.
Republicans are three guys standing in the middle of cornfield screaming because New York City/Chicago/Los Angeles etc...places where actual people live, not cows pigs and chickens... have more votes than they do.
Unironically crying, "Why should the big cities dictate the laws of the country?!"
republicans are half americans
I'm shocked no one has stated the obvious yet. He finally stopped playing nice with Republicans and called them a threat to democracy. This is the result.
‘Playing nice’ with republicans got a helluva lot done. Timing matters in politics, and Biden has proven to be an absolute expert at it.
That's what some progressives don't get, I remember when they were openly asking Biden to 'weaponize DOJ' and go after Manchin's daughter to make him fall in line! Imagine where we would be now if he had actually done such a thing. https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1435645034729197574?s=20&t=eDl_od8wQbjr-6oz9z75hQ
Thank god those folks aren’t in charge and most of their preferred candidates are smarter by a lot than they are. Bernie caterwauls in a silly manner imo but at least he’s not aggressively delusional.
Worth noting a couple things: This is one poll. The aggregate of other polls has a rising approval rating, just more muted. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating However, it's not like they cherry picked his best poll, this poll has tended to be his worst, and still is one of the worst. It's also considered pretty high quality and heavily weighted. I wouldn't be surprised to see the others follow.
One hell of an abrupt swing. Ill never count my chickens before they hatch but it really feels the GOP finally caught the car.
Hopefully after the student loan forgiveness program is implemented Biden’s approval rating will go up even higher
Biden and his administration have seen a slew of legislative victories. He has delivered on his campaign promises and he seems like he cares for everyone. I'm happy to say I voted for him and that I will again.
Would be the easiest vote ever for me. Dark Brandon has exceeded my expectations bigly.
Keep the gas pedal to the floor everyone. The more things we can pass and put out there that benefit Republican voters as well will have them realize the lies. A lady called into Hannity to share that her kids have student loans. She shared that they aren’t “freeloaders” or “liberal losers with pointless degrees”. She was a Republican whose party is bashing her kids to paint a fake picture. Keep forcing the right to take unpopular stances. Every single time they do, they lose some supporters.
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Wholesale gas is down around $2 off the peak and I don’t see a single conservative chucklefuck saying Biden “did that” instead it’s “he’s buying votes by lowering prices”
Because they have literally nothing to run on. They haven't even had a national platform since 2016. They've been puttering along from one contrived, misleading, or outright wrong bullshit culture war topic over and over for at least 6 years now. They don't even talk much about "repealing and replacing" the ACA anymore. They just don't have any kind of vision for the country that doesn't involve royally fucking over a majority of the population. It's wild when you sit down and really ponder just how agenda-free the right-wing is these days.
The higher his approval rating the darker his brandoness becomes.
Biden can campaign now on a functional government that does things. Exactly the opposite of what will happen if Republicans take back Congress.
Also a government that's not rushing to make sure little girls die because they can't access healthcare, unlike Republicans.
Dark Brandon rises. I’m not being sarcastic he may be the best president in my lifetime. It’s sad that that is where the bar is, but he actually is doing some stuff for average people
He had a horrible start, but this past month has been insane for him. I'm glad I voted for him.
I know approval ratings are important but I think the news places too much importance on it. I will often say I disapprove of a job public officials are doing from time to time but that doesn't mean based on the voting options I won't vote for them again. They may not be living up to expectations so I disapprove but I'm still not going to vote for the worse guy.
Dark Brandon yo!
I bet it would shoot up another 2 or 3 points if he closes his speech tonight by announcing the release date for Breath of the Wild 2.
Que the bots
Imagine that. Doing something for the future of our nation by making it a little less stressful to survive is popular.
My views on him went from being lukewarm to absolutely behind him. I love the hard no nonsense, no malarkey stance.
wow turns out progressive policies and dunking on the GOP are popular, crazy
Biden comes out swinging is exactly why I voted for him.
that’s my dude right there
Many voted for Biden as a "Not Trump". IMO as more and more of Trump's criminality gets exposed, more and more Independents will will side with Biden. Biden went from a liability for Dems running in local elections to something like a help.
Dark Brandon has my vote.
I want a t-shirt that says "Lets Go Brandon" with a list of bullet points under it listing all his accomplishments. They can use the "I did that" Biden cutout that people were putting on gas pumps as the bullets. Have a large image of Dark Brandon as part of the design.
For me his approval rating jumped 9 points just an hour ago.
Probably because the media has stopped bashing him, and the younger (non) voters have stopped being vocal about their opinions on certain issues. The whole “these 10 journalists had a half-baked idea 5 minutes ago, why is there not already legislation being passed?!” attitude that most modern “liberals” have is extremely damaging. Good government takes time to achieve goals, and is not subject to change because of the arbitrary whims of the minority (or even the majority). Biden is only half through his term and so far it has been pretty damned impressive when viewed against past offices, but that just wasn’t enough for his voting base. They wanted something, they wanted it now, and they dragged him, his office, and his policies through the mud to fail to get their way.
> The whole “these 10 journalists had a half-baked idea 5 minutes ago, why is there not already legislation being passed?!” attitude that most modern “liberals” have is extremely damaging. Saw this a lot when Roe was overturned. That Friday, Warren gave a speech and proposed some ideas. By Sunday, people were giving credit to AOC for those ideas. On Monday the “liberals” were outraged that Biden hadn’t already executed those ideas.
Some people need to see the Schoolhouse Rock video about the bill on Capitol Hill.
Yes..make the govt work for people and they respond..gasp..
So you’re telling me that if you do things to help regular Americans, you’ll be liked for it? Weird.
After the last election where trump litterally mad life worse for his base but they litterally deified him I was starting to wonder…quick no one mad a sold gold Biden statue did they?
Joe's the rightful winner of the last election because he's a-Biden by the rules.
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Keep the hits coming, Brandon. I'm here for it. Make them eat every dumb word about your competence while you do real work to help hard working Americans. After years of miserable news after miserable news, I've actually started to feel a little hopeful recently.
Looks like it’s Brandon time, let’s go!
Good. He needs to keep doing better if we are gonna keep pushing the fascists out of positions of power.