In a remarkable moment during Joe Biden’s State of the Union, the president shamed congressional Republicans for a plan to cut back on Social Security and Medicare – and made GOP lawmakers, publicly, on live television, agree to preserve them.
That moment and several others throughout his address on 7 February revived “Dark Brandon”, a meme that challenges right-wing caricatures of a tired 80-year-old man by turning him into a laser-eyed demi-god-like figure, or depicting him smoking a cigar or as an eyepatch-wearing Metal Gear Solid character.
