The Democrats gain in congressional polling as November approaches, and the media are eager to chalk

it up to dark Biden. Americans remain in the dark about the FBI's raid on Donald Trump,

and Lizzo's defenders come to her rescue after a comedian tells jokes about her.

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The Republican Party thought that they were just going to run away with the 2022 election cycle.

It no longer looks like this is the case. According to Nate Silver, there is now a two-thirds chance that the Republicans lose the Senate.

And they are favored, of course, to win the House because they have a very, very small gap in the House. It would be almost impossible for them not to take back the House. But the kind of wave election that people were talking about, even six weeks ago, no longer appears to be on the horizon for the Republicans. There are a bunch of factors that are responsible for this. The media are trying to chalk it up to the rise of dark Biden. The idea being that Joe Biden is just a magic, magic man. And he has somehow revived himself before he was a dead body, like lying prone in the corner. Now he's active, man. He's got his inflation reduction act that doesn't reduce inflation and also spends an enormous amount of money. He's doing his student loan bailouts. And those are going to get people really jazz to go out to the polls. It's all about dark Biden.

They've revived this meme that actually started on the Trumpian right about Joe Biden. It was a joke about Joe Biden basically no longer being a sentient human being.

And it started off, I believe actually, the original dark Biden meme started off as a Chinese cartoon about Joe Biden being like a dark lord,

an edge lord. And so there are all of these memes that are out and about about Joe Biden.

And they show him with glowing eyes and shooting lasers from his face and all this kind of stuff.

I mean, here is here's, for example, a dark Biden meme video that has become very popular.

It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It example, a dark Biden meme video that has become very popular.

You can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. You can see, there he is.

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