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Critics slammed the segment as a low point in "modern American political discourse" while some suggested that The Late Show might have inadvertently cast Biden in a villainous light.

maybe-later-kiddo HEAVEN FORBID! maybe-later-honey

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[-] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 113 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Skibidi biden is the harbinger of the apocalypse, the lamb has opened the first of seven seals."

New site tagline material

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 93 points 6 months ago

Forcing people back to work during the pandemic didn't do it, taking part in genocide didn't do it, but this skit is what will have Biden remembered as a villain.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 73 points 6 months ago

Marketing himself as "Dark Brandon" with red lasers coming out of his eyes while doing all of that. Totally normal and wholesome grandpa.

[-] fox@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure Biden has ever opened a laptop, never mind keyed in on memes, so it was probably his unpaid failson interns

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago

It's definitely his team publishing it, but it's official merchandise sold on his campaign website and he drinks out of it to advertise it: https://shop.joebiden.com/dark-roast-mug/

Biden isn't aware of a lot of things- person, place, time- but he definitely knows about Dark Brandon and personally uses it as a publicity thing.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

I love how Biden's official website is just a merch shop and begging for donations, and literally nothing about his actual policies.

[-] fox@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago
[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago

I made sure to archive it for future genocide scholars to confirm that indeed he is selling this mug as of 24 May, 2024 when Israel is invading Rafah.

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[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 46 points 6 months ago

Perfectly encapsulates American politics tbh

[-] kot@hexbear.net 81 points 6 months ago
[-] Guamer@hexbear.net 61 points 6 months ago

It was right there and none of us saw

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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 74 points 6 months ago

lmao this might be the best thing to come out of the Late Show in a while

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 69 points 6 months ago

Those eyes are nightmare fuel.

I feel so bad for whoever had to animate that. The shit that creatives are forced to do under capitalism.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 52 points 6 months ago

Need a Skibidi Biden emote

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 90 points 6 months ago
[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 77 points 6 months ago

Well Stephen Colbert finally found the floor on the whole “hexbear will make an emoji out of anything” thing lmao

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[-] sloth@hexbear.net 70 points 6 months ago

only bolsters the argument that Skibidi Toilets is a legitimate part of our culture

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 77 points 6 months ago

I clicked onto a few of the latter videos in the series- the 73 episode series- and the youth of today were taking it as seriously as Warhammer 40k or Game of Thrones. There were intricate theories about which toilet weapon is going to counter the television weapon. Toilets had names and people hunted through every scene for clues and references to prior lore.

The Elsagate generation is going to have a fully sloppy brain.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 45 points 6 months ago

The Elsagate generation is going to have a fully sloppy brain.

Enhanced by microplastics microplastics-cool

[-] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

Are you forgetting something? covid-cool

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[-] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 63 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The kind Vladmir Ilyich would've double-tapped.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Insufficient...

To make sure

The better Josip Broz Tito would've cuckpit'd them, thrown grenades, and cover these skibidis with limestone...

abbie-cocktail

pit

barbara-pit

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 56 points 6 months ago

the solar flare wasn't strong enough

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 53 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Didn't the creator intend the toilet heads to be a stand-in for fascism? Like I remember a post here a while back where the creator made flag with four toilets that "coincidentally" made a swastika.

If so, very accurate portrayal, mr.colbert

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 47 points 6 months ago

Also one of them is Dick Cheney lol

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

Is this 2024's "Pokemon Go the The Polls Moment"?

[-] fox@hexbear.net 45 points 6 months ago

I said it in the last thread when this came out. Who is this even for? Only gen alpha care about skibidi toilet for its face value and everyone else thinks it's either silly gmod videos or aren't online enough to care beyond going "what are those millennials doing now, toilets of all things" and sticking Biden's head in a toilet is read as disrespectful verging on obscene to anyone watching Colbert at this point

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

LMAO also, what if they're trying to find a justifiable reason for Biden to win and they throw Colbert to the wolves over this in November?

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago

He can join Susan Sarandon, Bernie, and Jill spoiler club.

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[-] JayTwo@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Feel free to start slinging the shit towards me for my apparently hot take, but in the context of the monologue, Biden's campaign hiring a meme person, it made decent enough sense and the fact that it was painful to watch was actually a plus.

When memes aren't organic they're usually cringe. This is where Bernie, despite all his faults, excelled where Hillary "Pokemon go to the polls" Clinton failed. Because Bernie embraced the positive content his supporters independently created rather than have a staff member try to to craft viral moments that they thought the youths would like.

Biden has already tried to coopt "dark Brandon", ruining it, since the entire joke is that Biden is actually not radical nor a threat to anyone.

The more awful the skibidi Biden bit is the more it drives home the idea that a political campaign should not try to meme by giving us an idea of how much wrong could happen.

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[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago

Showing Skibidi Biden to my baby because I confused it with cocomelon

[-] commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Late to the party but I learned about skibidi when babysitting for my neighbor. She is from Afghanistan and speaks little English or the local language, but we get by. Her son, though, spoke the local language well at 4 and was trying, in 4 year old language, to tell me what skibidi was without mentioning YouTube, because the distinction of YouTube film and representing something real was not clear yet in his child brain.

The sound effects he used were so hilarious and confusing. If I can remember right he said "it's this monster head that comes out of the [ground] and goes 'bwaaaam' ". Think of Sound effects for Interstellar lol.

I genuinely thought for a bit that this was some folklore from Afghanistan that I'd never heard of til I tried to ask his mom wtf he was talking about and she was confused but mentioned it possibly being something about a toilet and we looked it up hahahah

In any case, Marg bar amriika

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

Skibidi toilet is the reason Afghanistan is the cemetery of empires

[-] Guamer@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago

wonder if he's such a whipped liberal that he'll wimp-out and apologize for it lol

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[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 6 months ago

I am always too hard on myself with my own writing, I'm always worried when I make a reference to something that it is too lazy or too poorly thought out. But really, I'm doing fine. Seems like even just basic writing skills and basic self-awareness are all that you need to be a decent writer, well above whatever the hell the US media is producing these days.

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[-] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

uhm

uh

new emote... ig?

its just too cringe tho

[-] OutrageousHairdo@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

Here's the actual video of Skibidi Biden, since I couldn't find it in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7orWQZ0gPA

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago
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[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

Skibidi-doo-dah

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