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President Joe Biden had conspiracy theorists in a tizzy after posting what appeared to be his reaction to the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl win on Sunday night.

“Just like we drew it up,” Biden posted on X alongside a photo of “Dark Brandon,” the meme created by hardcore—and very online—supporters of Donald Trump that Biden and his team loved so much they adopted it as their own.

The post was apparently referencing far-right conspiracy theories which posit the NFL and high-level government operatives conspired to rig the Super Bowl in Kansas City’s favor to give maximum exposure to a yet-to-be-announced endorsement from Chiefs star Travis Kelce and his girlfriend Taylor Swift.

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[–] Algaroth@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As opposed to every president the US has had since the 1940s? Quit avoiding the question. Do you honestly believe it would be better under Trump? Or can you be honest and admit it would most likely be even worse and that he would also let Russia steamroll Ukraine?

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do I honestly believe it I don’t know. It would probably be better for us in America if Biden won.

But here’s the thing I don’t care what the rest of the presidents did

It was wrong when they did it. It’s wrong now.

Does them doing something else wrong make it right for me to do something wrong?

How many dollars per life are you willing to trade before you say fuck you were not supporting any of y’all give us something real.

Long-term, maybe trump 2 will wake people the fuck up like we thought they did with a version one.

See the problem was people look at Trump and think oh we beat him. It’s over and they don’t remember how bad it was.

So now it’s time to make it bad again today so they remember more next time.

You’re asking us to stand with you, but saying what we care about doesn’t matter.

If y’all don’t care about any of us, why would we stand with you?

I won’t stand with them either.

Fuck you both, figure it out yourselves.

I’m not going to be with you to keep the status quo. I want something better.

[–] Algaroth@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Trump is the end of democracy in the US. Not something better. You're either a disingenuous troll or there is something seriously wrong with your brain. Blocked.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Apparently, they think you should be willing to let your child be tortured in a gay conversion camp to stop the Palestinian genocide, and that it'd just be like not giving your kid ice cream because of world hunger.

They're delusional, and I hope to God they're just young and naive.

[–] Algaroth@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah. Even if you ignored all of Trump's Nazi rhetoric and persecution of minorities I don't get why they think Trump would stop the genocide in Palestine. Netanyahu is exactly the kind of strong man bully that Trump idolizes.

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago

I don’t think he would. That’s why I didn’t vote for him either.