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Stop Putting Lasers in Joe Biden’s Eyes

‘Dark Brandon’ isn’t really that ironic.
Source: Paul Spella & John J. Custer

The president is terrifying! He has laser eyes, or he has laser eyes and he’s screaming, or he has laser eyes and he’s commanding bolts of lightning, like God. He is drinking Republican tears with a splash of lime. He is eating Mitch McConnell’s head?

Although Joe Biden has often been the subject of memes related to his or his , he has lately become a different sort of internet figure, known as “Dark Brandon.” Basically, “Dark Brandon” memes are images of Joe Biden, except and powerful; and they have risen in popularity as the president and . The first “Dark Brandon” I saw was a of a grinning Biden that makes him look like the villain in an A24 via drone strike.

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