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What Is the 'Let's Go Brandon!' Meme About? Trend Adopted by Trump Supporters Explained
Newsweek ^ | October 11, 2021 | Jenny Desborough

Posted on 10/11/2021 6:29:56 AM PDT by DoodleBob

On October 2, the Talladega Superspeedway was the host of a Sparks 300 race in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Brandon Brown was the winner, and sportscaster Kelli Stavast believed the crowd were chanting for him during the race.

They were shouting, 'Let's go Brandon!' - or so she thought.

It turned out the fans had a very different intention and were actually shouting out against President Joe Biden.

The chant, believed to have been led by Trump supporters, was actually "F*** Joe Biden," and has since been heard at several other sporting events.

While the chant itself is not new, the idea of the song being in support of Brandon has seemed to capture the imaginations of meme-makers.

Even Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. got involved with his own tweet, which took place at a protest outside the New York Department of Education.

The meme began when, as Brown was being interviewed on NBC by Stavast, she misheard the chant, thinking it was for Brown after his win.

Brown said: "Oh my God, this is just everything we've hoped and dreamed for. Everything I've ever wanted to do is take the trophy home to mom and dad.

Stavast replied: "Brandon, you also told me... you can hear the chants from the crowd, 'Let's Go Brandon.'..."

She paused to let the chant ring out as she continued asking another question, but it became clear this was not the chant at all.

The NASCAR driver gamely continued the interview, not focusing on the protestors.

This meme quickly spread,

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; fjb; kellistavast; letsgobrandon; mediabias; nascar; nbc; notthisagain
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To: DoodleBob

Brandon Brown was the winner, and sportscaster Kelli Stavast believed the crowd were chanting for him during the race.

They were shouting, ‘Let’s go Brandon!’ - or so she thought.

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Seriously misleading at best, outright lying at worst.

She knew what they were saying, and while I know she’s seriously dishonest, I have to give her credit for some quick thinking to come up with a fast save, lame as it may have been.

And she also handed us the best meme of the year...

LET’S GO BRANDON!

Not many people don’t realize what that really means now. T-shirts, bumper stickers coffee cups, a plane flyng it over a Trump rally, it grew wings even faster than hillary’s “deplorables” comment. The next day I saw t-shirts on sale.

And the best part, most people don’t even remember her name

:-)


21 posted on 10/11/2021 6:41:08 AM PDT by Paleo Pete (Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!)
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To: janetjanet998

Saw a video on you tube of Iowa/Penn State game. It was being chanted there too.


22 posted on 10/11/2021 6:42:36 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: albie
One Sunday during Mass the fire alarm went off. The Priest stopped, informed the congregation that it was a false alarm (it had been going off falsely all week), and that he was just going to carry on. He proceeded to celebrate the Mass - and say his Homily - for a good 30 minutes while the piercing alarm jockeyed for our attention. Eventually someone shut off the alarm but the Priest did his job.

Many religious services are conducted with kids crying etc....but the Pastor, Rabbi et al doesn't acknowledge the kid. They simply Do. Their. Job.

I don't know if Ms Savast was just following orders, is a leftist trying to cover for Big Brother, or needs a hearing aid.

But I do know, she's not a professional.

23 posted on 10/11/2021 6:43:03 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: DoodleBob

Yes, excellent explanation.


24 posted on 10/11/2021 6:43:18 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: DoodleBob
LOL, three times in this one article:

"...sportscaster Kelli Stavast believed the crowd were chanting for him during the race..."

"...They were shouting, 'Let's go Brandon!' - or so she thought..."

"...The meme began when, as Brown was being interviewed on NBC by Stavast, she misheard the chant, thinking it was for Brown after his win..."

If there were any doubt that this is their answer, that she misheard it, rather then knew full well what was being chanted and tried to cover for Biden as a form of political advocacy, well, that is it.

They are single, double, and tripling down in this article.

25 posted on 10/11/2021 6:44:04 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: DoodleBob

I love it! Now even the people that are turned off by profanity can join in with this mocking chant of our fake and dementia ridden Commander in Chief.

Let’s go Brandon!


26 posted on 10/11/2021 6:44:25 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Puts me in mind of the Clinton years. If Bill wanted to say FU to someone he always said Nice Tie.


27 posted on 10/11/2021 6:45:02 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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It made it into Urban Dictionary:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Let%27s%20Go%20Brandon


28 posted on 10/11/2021 6:45:36 AM PDT by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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To: albie
She did not “think” they were chanting Let’s go Brandon. Her little ear piece told her what to say.

You're probably right about the earpiece, I don't know, but she knew what was being chanted, and she knew it wasn't "Let's go Brandon".

29 posted on 10/11/2021 6:45:44 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: libertylover

Oh, and by the way, if students had chanted “F*** Donald Trump”, the media would have praised them and encouraged them.


30 posted on 10/11/2021 6:47:36 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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31 posted on 10/11/2021 6:47:51 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: Leaning Right

Newsweek is slipping. They should have blamed the chanting on Russian agents.

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That is so 2016!

A lot of the memes from the 2016 election were truly organic, but the propganda media needed to spin it as Russians. Of course, they got their orders from the DNC who was in the process of manufacturing “russia collusion” against a presidential candidate and subsequently an actual president.

The memo went out in 2020 that you can’t call large groups of American’s who you can physically count and speak with as Russians, so they are ‘domestic terrorists’. They got this idea when thousands of leftists decided to feign civil rights protests and burn down cities, and they realized how powerful it would be to use “domestic terrorism” NOT as an actionable law enforcement campaign against those who had and will pose a real threat to civil order, but instead as a counter intelligence/counter terrorism tool against people they disagree with.

I agree with you though, that newsweek is slipping, if they didn’t call the people chanted terrorists.


32 posted on 10/11/2021 6:48:04 AM PDT by z3n (“If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.” -Charlemagne)
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To: aynrandfreak
Pretty much started after the Afghan withdrawal. I think the watch-checking when the Marines came home in caskets sealed it.

And the real beauty of “Let’s go Brandon!!” is that it’s G-rated. I hope to hear a lot of it during the World Series. People that might be reluctant to chant the F-bomb can join in, and there’s no need for the network to edit it.

33 posted on 10/11/2021 6:48:10 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: DoodleBob

Excellent post, DB


34 posted on 10/11/2021 6:48:36 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: DoodleBob

The idea that she misheard them is absurd and we all know it. She was there. She could more clearly hear what they were saying then we could over the mics. It was a clumsy attempt to lie about what was actually being said. It was overt, not accidental. And that’s why this meme is so precious.

Now we can just say let’s go brandon!. And everyone knows what we mean. 👌


35 posted on 10/11/2021 6:48:59 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Regulator

Especially those in Rio Linda.


36 posted on 10/11/2021 6:50:24 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: DoodleBob

“Let’s Go Brandon!


FJB


37 posted on 10/11/2021 6:51:46 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: All

Biden is not just unpopular, he is loathed.

America just can’t stand him.

He doesn’t dare show himself in public.

His sparsely-attended and increasingly infrequent events can’t even Rent-a-Crowd.

Maybe 12 people show up.....a few aging pony soldiers, illegal aliens looking for freebies, the kill crowd looking to protect their “right” to abort......all of ‘em drJill’s .....cough....psychiatric patients.


38 posted on 10/11/2021 6:54:58 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Link no work


39 posted on 10/11/2021 6:55:36 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolyution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: goodnesswins

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40 posted on 10/11/2021 6:56:48 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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