An opinion writer for the New York Times just posted an article with a photo that shows Joe Biden as “Dark Brandon” and has him in boxing gloves ready to fight Trump or something.

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This is how the article begins and ends:

Enough already: It is time to unleash Dark Brandon on this soul-sucking downer of a presidential race. And the most obvious place to begin is to invite him to the State of the Union address.

President Biden is set to deliver his annual address to Congress Thursday night, just two days after Donald Trump effectively locked up the Republican presidential nomination, signaling the unofficial start of the general election. This is a big moment for Mr. Biden. A sizable chunk of America has decided he is too frail and dotty to be commander in chief for a second term, and his team’s preferred approach to such concerns — pooh-poohing and whining about them — is not resonating. At least not in a good way. His State of the Union performance — and make no mistake, in an election year, this speech is high-level campaign theater — is the perfect opportunity to show rather than tell Americans that he still has the fire in the belly. When he steps behind the lectern, the president needs to slap on those aviators and start throwing some strategic punches.

I realize voters often insist that they are tired of all the partisan discord in today’s politics. But they also want someone prepared to fight for their interests. As president, Mr. Biden has done much to burnish his measured, reasonable brand. Maybe too much. To convince the American people he’s up for another four years, he may need to deliver a little more sauce now and then.

Let Dark Brandon off the chain for the night. It’s worth the risk.

I’m sorry but there is no such thing as “Dark Brandon”. That’s a delusion of a Biden long-gone. He’ll be lucky to get through the night without confusing words on the teleprompter and talking about having conversations with dead leaders.

Sure, they’ll probably have him hopped up on any med they can find to try and make him seem like he’s still got a strong mind and body. But even if they pull that off, we’ve all seen him in real time and that Biden doesn’t just exist any longer.

And since when does the left use the ‘Let’s go Brandon’ thing to pump Biden up? We all know what that means and it isn’t a good thing for him, to put it nicely.