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Author: commonone 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: OT: Dark Brandon
Date: 04/30/2023 10:13 AM
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At the White House Correspondents dinner last night, president Biden was relaxed, funny, and he fully embraced the Dark Brandon meme, an aspersion by republicans that has been totally reclaimed by Biden. Finishing his speech, putting on dark sunglasses he turned directly to the audience and said:

"I'm going to be fine with your jokes, but I'm not sure about Dark Brandon."

If Biden is able to channel this kind of naturalness and ease during the campaign, he'll be fine. He even addressed his age head-on:

"Look, I get that age is a completely reasonable issue. It's in everybody's mind and by everyone, I mean the New York Times. Headline: 'Biden's advanced age is a big issue. Trump's, however, is not.'"

In case you're unaware, there's a Twitter handle, New York Times Pitchbot, that makes fun of the paper's need to turn everything against Biden, such as: "The US economy is now growing faster than the Chinese economy. Here's why that's bad news for Joe Biden." https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon

And: "They say I'm ancient; I say I'm wise. They say I'm over the hill; Don Lemon would say, 'That's a man in his prime.'"

Funniest line: "I want everybody to have fun tonight but please be safe. If you find yourself disoriented or confused, it's either you're drunk or Marjorie Taylor Greene."

Order your Dark T-Shirt (AMERICAN MADE/UNION PRINTED) here: https://shop.joebiden.com/dark-tshirt/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/30/th...
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Author: WiltonKnight   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT: Dark Brandon
Date: 04/30/2023 10:56 AM
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Looking forward to watching it later today.

I used to love that event - then somehow the celebrities got into it and it became a cool-kids thing.

I'm sure Biden was awesome - his sense of humor is naturally great, and his decency combined with that - will be a treat to watch I have no doubt of it.

I've never once called him the Brandon thing - and I hereby again say - I never would and I wished people didn't. The actual Brandon moment - yeah, that's funny. but just like I didn't like people saying EFF_bush, I certainly don't like people at town meetings showing up say that about Joe Biden. Don't like the pResident - vote him out. Block the agenda. Cajole and convince people. But the man is my President - no different than Trump or Obama or Bush or Clinton or Bush or Reagan was.

It would be wise to embrace it. It nullifies it. No different than W poking fun at his verbal gaffes all the time.
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Author: WiltonKnight   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT: Dark Brandon
Date: 04/30/2023 11:17 AM
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My 2 favorite Correspondant Dinner routines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhJ1ABovYxU&t=208s

Laura Bush crushed it. Was really fun stuff.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbbUYhyoWz8

This one I actually watch once in awhile. It's President Clinton's final year, and this performance they did is really funny.

Quick Tim Russert Snippet in there too. Miss him dearly.
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