‘Just Like We Drew It Up’: What’s behind Joe Biden’s Super Bowl post? [12 Feb 2024 | Sarah Shamim | Al Jazeera]
‘Just Like We Drew It Up’: What’s behind Joe Biden’s Super Bowl post? [12 Feb 2024 | Sarah Shamim | Al Jazeera]
The US president posted a meme featuring himself with laser beams shooting from his eyes. What was that about?
Yet, it was no meme page or troll account posting that image: It was posted on Biden’s own X page early on Monday. Coming against the backdrop of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza that has killed more than 28,000 people and that the US has backed, the image prompted particular criticism of Biden by some social media users.
Many suggested that Biden’s post was distasteful and insensitive as it came amid Israel’s devastating war on Gaza.
While calling for an end to civilian deaths in Gaza, the Biden administration continues to sell and supply weapons to Israel.
“But I don’t think Biden is thinking of the global audience here,” he said. “He is mostly thinking about his US audience.”
“The meme in itself is a political communication tool,” he told Al Jazeera. “It is being weaponised by different parties in order to attract attention and distract from other issues.”
Biden is not the only politician who has used memes to relay political messaging. Social media teams and followers of politicians including former US President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have banked on memes and internet trends to further political messages.
Many suggested that Biden’s post was distasteful and insensitive as it came amid Israel’s devastating war on Gaza.
Elections do not end just because there is a war. He's running for re-election and trolling his opposition.
“But I don’t think Biden is thinking of the global audience here,” he said. “He is mostly thinking about his US audience.”
No shit. It was a response to a right-wing American conspiracy about the Superbowl.
This is silly.
Ah, okay.
FYI, while the Super Bowl was taking place, Natanyahu attacked Rafah, where more civilians were killed.
Responding to online people on things that do not matter are more important than what Genocide Joe is funding...
FYI, while the Super Bowl was taking place, Natanyahu attacked Rafah, where more civilians were killed.
If Biden had not sent that meme, would those people still be alive?
Responding to online people on things that do not matter are more important than what Genocide Joe is funding…
Sorry, how much time and effort do you think it takes for his media team to post a meme?
What a strange way to tell us that your sense of ideological purity is worth more than people's actual lives.
I see your point but he also didn’t say anything about increasing the minimum wage to help out the millions of Americans living in poverty paycheck to paycheck.
Nor did he discuss offshore tax havens and getting rid of tax loopholes.
Nor did he mention the ongoing war in the Congo.
This is beyond stupid to a point that it is convincingly bad faith argument. If you want better protection for people in Gaza but you are so stupid that you are slandering Biden in the process, just wait until the Orange gets “elected”.
Being an apologist to Genocide Joe is your right, I will call it out even if I am not the best person to do so...
I would suggest to raise your standards and look at 3rd Party candidates or just sit out, some may be doing that in 2024 like in 2016, that is your choice.
And what happens in that case? A lot of people sat out or voted third party in 2016, we got the annoying orange in office, and our courts are now fucked for years to decades. Now there's Project 2025 to look forward to if we let the "day one dictator" back in office. Say, you wouldn't happen to be a trump supporter disingenuously pretending to be on the left so as to depress voter turnout as an effort to help him get back in, would you? Because if not, you might want change your behavior, because it's indistinguishable from that case.
I absolutely wish third party candidates were a reasonable choice (and I am voting against Biden in the primary) but our system makes them non-options... additionally it's just silly to decline to vote, you're empowering the absolute worst people when you voluntarily refuse to vote.
Jfc, he (more accurately his social media team) is meeting these homegrown idiots where they're at. Not everything is about his foreign policy..
Yes, when civilians are being bombed while these "oh, so importatant" memes are taking place...
Foreign policy is important to some of us that are anti-war... especially when we are the ones funding these wars, per Genocide Joe.
This is such an obvious bad faith reading of that post, literally no one was confused as to what it was in reference to.
If you read the article, you will know the context. They do explain that it started with the “Let’s Go Brandon” meme and much more...
Anti-war people are the ones calling out the attack that took place in Rafah, while people talk about the Super Bowl.
Look there are so many other actually legitimate topics for criticizing this administration's handling of Gaza that reaching as far as this article is to connect a tweet about the Superbowl to foreign policy just makes you sound unreasonable and insufferable.
Garbage article as every news article based on Twitter reaction comments always are.
I don't see what the big deal is. It's just Biden taking credit for something he didn't accomplish.
O.o Wait, you think this was a legit tweet? Like, that Biden literally meant he worked toward this outcome in the Super Bowl?
Is that what Homelander is going to look like when he gets old?
Will Biden make an appearance on The Boys season 4 as Homelander's father?