If you somehow didn’t know, current U.S. president Joe Biden and ex-U.S. President Donald Trump had a presidential debate last night. How did we get here? Well, our country’s two-party system is so absolute that people looked at these two geriatrics who can barely string two sentences together and thought, “One of these two people should have the most powerful seat in the country’s government again.” Meanwhile, the average citizen looking for a third option that might actually fix anything in this collapsing country is left to stare around themselves, wondering what they’re supposed to do now. Well, my friends, we do what we always do when things are bad: We post through it.
There are always a lot of good jokes at the expense of undeservedly powerful people when we reach the election cycle, and last night’s presidential debate was no different. We got memes and shitposts aplenty. We had guffaws and chortles galore. Most of the jokes focused specifically on Biden’s behavior, as the man is clearly too goddamn old for the position and was spacing out, speaking nonsense, and even Trump who has very few coherent thoughts to his name was able to call him on it. But we also got video game-related jokes specifically, and that means we get to write about it here at Kotaku period com, where we cover video games and the ways they intersect with culture, art, and politics. So join us in laughing as the ship sinks around us.
He looks like he’s about to say THE UNIVERSE IS SINGING TO ME pic.twitter.com/me9pex2tH0
— Mr Zeddus (@MrZeddus) June 28, 2024
a dva ult would go crazy on that debate stage
— phoenix 🚀📼 (@gayviatorr) June 28, 2024
this game sucks lol pic.twitter.com/IrInHFEKEo
— adam (@burgerkrang) June 28, 2024
if you walk within 30 feet of Biden, you start seeing a flashing health bar and a prompt to enter a Quicktime Event that has no fail state
— George Sears 2028 Voter (@ByYourLogic) June 28, 2024
this mf is on 1hp pic.twitter.com/a4LzBq8p9f
— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) June 28, 2024
presidential debate 2024 pic.twitter.com/GXnl5uHAeE
— rj 🍉 (@rjisreall) June 28, 2024
Biden has a finisher dot above his head
— Outro (@RealOutro) June 28, 2024
Moderator: Okay President Biden you have one minute to respond
Biden: pic.twitter.com/eNgZpSNRNG
— jack (@sorryitsjack) June 28, 2024
“Your sons a convicted felon”
“You had sex with a pornstar”
We’re in COD lobby territory
— Angantýr (@BasedNorthmathr) June 28, 2024
Hold on, Watching the Fortnite presidential debate pic.twitter.com/W1ZAJzMmL2
— JawsClaws (@JawsClawsPaws) June 28, 2024
Breaking: to appeal to younger audiences CNN will have subway surfers under the debate footage pic.twitter.com/gLt4zxn1IU
— Organizermemes (@OrganizerMemes) June 27, 2024
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1806498923181392249
Silksong fans should tune in for this one 👀 https://t.co/cx7solmF7r
— Philosopher (@TheSillySnail) June 27, 2024
— essie🍉 (@unhingedbxans) June 28, 2024
See friends, we just have to laugh through the pain of knowing that our nationwide political elections are based on an undemocratic electoral college system operating a binary, two-party system that allows no nuance and try not to fall into despair. Remember: The key to real change is being active in your local community instead of only caring about politics when these barely functioning old dudes are wheeled out every four years for a presidential election.
