Evidently “Let’s Go Brandon” is so last year, because it seems the new epithet is spelling the president’s name “Xiden”. I first saw it in the comments to an article on MSN, thinking it was a typo. I saw it again in the comments to another MSN article*, and then when I Googled to find out more, I came across a Twitter post that used it in the same way.
Where did this come from, and what does it refer to?
*By and large, MSN seems to be reasonably fair as a news aggregator; their mix includes content from across the political spectrum. But for some reason it seems the comments are mostly right wing.
Xi is the top communist in the People’s Repubic of China. President Biden is the top politician in the Democratic party in the United States. It’s an offensive and not at all clever mashing of the name to paint President Biden as a communist and worse, a communist stooge.
There may be more than a tinge of Russian apologist sentiment behind “Xiden”. Some Putin stooges in the U.S. think that Russia is getting an unfair shake to the benefit of China.
Wow another christian themed reference where is has been common to use the X for Christ such as in Xmas. Another one is the use of woke, which means awake and what Jesus tells us to be, and still another one is the gold statue of Trump that was at one of the right’s political events. It is so ironic how many things the terms the right are using are terms that relate to biblical symbolism which places them on the side of Satan and his war on God and God’s children, which the right themselves are coming up with.
That hasn’t worked. If you’re polite to a right winger, they just think that means you’re afraid of them and they feel safe to increase their attacks on you.
You don’t start a fight with a bully. But when a bully starts a fight with you, you hit them back and make them feel it. It’s the only way they’ll learn not to start fights.
I don’t think it’s a question of what idol was created, but just that an idol was created and worshiped. It is a common theme repeating many times besides the golden calf, here is a sampling, but there are many more:
[Psalm 115:4]
But their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands.
[Isaiah 2:20]
In that day people will throw away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship.
[Isaiah 40:19]
As for an idol, a metalworker casts it, and a gold smith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.
[Hosea 8:4]
They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.
[Revelation 9:20]
The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk
Given how clever the MAGA crowd is, I can not imagine there’s any other explanation. If can be proven that more than 1 in a 100 has any idea how we get from Christmas to Xmas, I’d faint from shock.
I’m pretty sure it has nothing to do with Christianity and is about China (Xi Jinping specifically.) After all, Biden already had the nickname “Beijing Biden” among the conservatives.
I’ve never seen “Xiden,” but I have seen “Xoe” (as in “Joe”) many times. It is meant as a perjorative, and has nothing to do with Christianity.
It refers to the belief of many right-wingers that Biden is controlled by the Chinese. He’s supposedly being paid by them for something, but it’s never clear exactly what. Or the Chinese have something on Biden and/or his family, which they’ll keep quiet about as long as Biden does what they want. Or something-something-something.
Like I said, those who use “Xoe,” and I suppose “Xiden,” don’t really make things clear. But again, it’s is not related to Christianity in any way; it has to do with Biden’s supposed ties to China.
You think that the silly Trump names are hitting back and making them feel it?
That’s … cute.
More scarily I suppose you’d then also support “our” stoking crazies of “our side” to break into the homes of GOP leaders to try to murder them or their spouses if not there…?
The hitting back that hurts I’d like to see is having free and fair elections with a strong win. Unfortunately it is not looking too probable.
Mind you humor and mockery can be powerful political weapons well wielded.
