‘Dark Brandon’ is Learning How Political Twitter Works, Meme By Meme By Meme
Dark Brandon is figuring out how Twitter works.
“Dark Brandon,” if you haven’t heard, is a Twitter meme promoted by liberal tweeters to rebrand the right’s “Let’s Go Brandon” taunts of President Joe Biden’s competency.
You could hear Dark Brandon’s voice punching back Friday morning in White House tweets responding to Republican put-downs of Biden’s announced forgiveness of student loan debt.
Biden knew he was taking a big political gamble, but he wanted to make good on a campaign promise to wipe out significant amounts of student loan debt for more than 40 million Americans.
His plan calls for canceling $10,000 in debt for those earning less than $125,000 per year and $20,000 for those who had received Pell grants for low-income families.
The political gamble is his apparent hope that voters who favor loan forgiveness, a strong faction in his party, outnumber those who see forgiveness as a slap against those who dutifully paid back their loans without getting a break or worked to avoid taking them out in the first place.
That’s the message from Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who lashed Biden’s move in a Newsmax appearance as “completely unfair” to “taxpayers that never took out a student loan, taxpayers that pay their bills and maybe even never went to college and are just hardworking people.”
That was a typical and predictable reaction from the right. But I wasn’t expecting see her soundbite retweeted by the White House with the added caption, “Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven.”
Ouch! Dark Brandon awakes.
Other GOP congressmen were similarly zinged by the White House, including Florida’s Matt Gaetz, Pennsylvania’s Mike Kelly, Florida’s Vern Buchanan and Markwayne Mullin and Kevin Hern, both from Oklahoma.
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