1y ago

White House Goes ‘Dark Brandon’ On Marjorie Taylor Greene, Flips Attack Back On Her

www.huffpost.com White House Goes ‘Dark Brandon’ On Marjorie Taylor Greene, Flips Attack Back On Her

"Caught us," the Biden White House mockingly responded to criticism from the far-right Georgia lawmaker.

66 comments

It's a bit sad that the democrats are so milk toast and ineffective in their messaging that even the slightest pushback against republicans is referred to as Dark Brandon.
- milk toast
  Is this sarcasm or do you not know the proper term?
  
  Don't put yourself on a pedal stool like you know all the words in the world
  
  It's milquetoast for anyone curious.
  
  To be fair, there was a time recently when Trump used the term "milk toast" to describe Kayleigh McEnaney, so using the term "milk toast" isn't entirely unreasonable here if it's meant to be a dig at Trump.
  
  Language is fluid. The character named Milquetoast the expression comes from was based on the idea that milk and toast are a bland and uninteresting meal anyway. The idea is communicated either way.
  
  Did not know. English is my second language and I have only heard it spoken. The weird part is that I have written it in comments before (on reddit) and nobody corrected me.
  Also, it should be milk toast. Milquetoast is a reference to a comic character that is referencing the dish.
- Al Gore was the canary in the coal mine for that party and generation. Milquetoast is being very polite.
  
  Are we just going to ignore 8 years of Obama? You can have your differences with him but he was far from ineloquent.
- Agreed.
  They should have never backed down on the Clinton comment calling them deplorable. They are.
  
  What should we do with that half of the country then? I mean I agree, they are deplorable. But then what? They're not going anywhere. We're all in the same boat like it or not. Imo we HAVE to find a way to work together.
  
  And yet it's the progressives who refused to stand behind that comment, not the centrists.
- What is the measure of effective messaging? By my estimation, it would be winning elections, which progressives have a pretty poor record of.
  
  By my estimation it would be getting more votes, which democrats actually have a pretty good record of.
- fyi, the correct spelling for that is milquetoast. Have a nice day :)
- Did you mean Milquetoast?
  
  Yes.
- this isn’t an action/reaction singled out to all democrats, just the idiots that fell into the dark brandon meme culture trap.
  these same people would removed about how MAGA fucking idiots would be like OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH TRUMP OWNED YOU DEM removed. FUCKIN OWNED THE LIBS LOL. etc
  and they don’t see the irony that they’re acting the same stupid fucking way as MAGA cunts.
  quite frankly it’s disappointing.
  
  I got the impression that the "Dark Brandon" meme was an ironic take on all of the MAGA pap being continuously spewed at the time. Some people may miss the irony and take it at face value, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

I love that the 'Right Side Broadcasting Network' that is hosting the video of MTG has fully a quarter of its screen devoted to hawking gold.
- When you're referring to selling something it's spelled hocking.
  Edit: Turns out I was mistaken, Hawking is indeed the correct term for this.
  
  I looked it up before posting, there's a bit of disagreement on that.
  
  https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/hock-hawk/
  Think context matters here. In the context of the top comment, I think hawking is the proper term over hocking.
  
  No it is not. That is selling like to a Pawn shop not selling like promoting, which is hawking.
- "Know your audience."

Biden was trying to “finish what FDR started” in addressing rural poverty, education and medical care, Greene said. She also accused Biden of trying to turn America socialist.
"Socialist" is a good term to scare folks. (At least, folks over 50.) FDR...not so much.

This should fall below the threshold of "things worth posting or writing an article about" tbh.
- Are you new to politics? This is the meat and potatoes of how politics is played.
  
  It's the meat and potatoes of dumb partisan back-and-forth bullshit tbh.

Did MTG always have such a pronounced lisp? What's up with her voice... she sounds different to usual. New veneers maybe.

There go eight seconds of my life that i'm not getting back; thanks huffpost
- These are the matters that deeply concern Sarah Beth and Cleatus and they 12 mostly biological children.

66 comments