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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: JerseyDvl; GrandJediMasterYoda; dfwgator; SamAdams76; PIF
Someone referred to LGB as the "delta variant" of FJB...more contagious but less caustic.

There was an article that, while anti-Bidet, lamented that FJB was being championed...basically the author felt FJB was a stark sign of how far we've fallen as a civilized society.

Part of me doesn't care about the decline of civility, because we didn't start this decline. And I'm not a pacifist. Knives to gunfights and all that.

But for those (and that part of me) that DO care about civility, they now have LGB...AND the added bonus of it being handed to us.

As someone else on FR wrote, LGB may be the 2021 equivalent of Basket of Deplorables.

41 posted on 10/11/2021 7:02:25 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Agree- and its straight to the point


42 posted on 10/11/2021 7:02:52 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: DoodleBob
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.

Newsweek has a future in comedy, if they're smart enough to grasp it.
43 posted on 10/11/2021 7:03:06 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: mware

Massive F Zhao Biden chant at the Arkansas-Ole Miss game Saturday.


44 posted on 10/11/2021 7:03:49 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: mware
The original chant seemed to start at college football games.

Promising a bunch of college kids debt relief and then NOT delivering is, I suspect, the real origin of the chant.

45 posted on 10/11/2021 7:04:17 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (My favorite musical instrument is the BAN JOE!)
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To: God luvs America
Massive F Zhao Biden chant at the Arkansas-Ole Miss game Saturday.

Good, he deserves ridicule and we know he won't get it from the GOP or the media. Patriots need to take back the country.

46 posted on 10/11/2021 7:05:09 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: dfwgator
I’ll stick with the original:
Eff Joe Biden!
Eff Joe Biden!
Eff Joe Biden!
Eff Joe Biden!
Eff Joe Biden!
Eff Joe Biden!

There's a slightly longer version I've used (as appropriate) since January 2021:

F@#! Joe Biden and the stolen horse he road in on!

;^)

47 posted on 10/11/2021 7:05:42 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Informing the sheeple who think that they are kind, caring, and know everything. Ya know, the Karens of the World (KOWs)


48 posted on 10/11/2021 7:06:13 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. STILL)
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To: DoodleBob

“the idea of the song “ What song. A chant is not a song.


49 posted on 10/11/2021 7:06:41 AM PDT by pas
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Newsweek had to translate the complex and arcane language of the naked war painted natives!


50 posted on 10/11/2021 7:08:59 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Leaning Right

They have to bring rump and race into everything.


51 posted on 10/11/2021 7:09:30 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: DoodleBob

With 2.5 hours to spare...#Vote2020 ✌🏻 pic.twitter.com/ZqaBWokKY3— Kelli Stavast (@KelliStavast) November 4, 2020

Nice Jean's and shoes! Bad ass— Trisha MacNeil (@TrashyTrishCD) November 4, 2020

Let’s go Brandon!— Sam (@Sam82433551) October 4, 2021

Let’s go Brandon!!— Matt Mann (@mattecamp) October 5, 2021

Let’s go Brandon— kenny wayne (@nameless_papa) October 6, 2021

Let’s go Brandon!— Sam (@Sam82433551) October 7, 2021

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Stavast has offered no comment as of October 2021.

52 posted on 10/11/2021 7:10:39 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: DoodleBob

She is a professional… just not the way normal people think


53 posted on 10/11/2021 7:11:27 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: pas

“All around the mulberry bush , the monkey plays with the weasels,
They run and screw ‘til somebody says,
Let’s Go Brandon!”

There, now you have a song. Enjoy that in your head, all day long. /s


54 posted on 10/11/2021 7:12:12 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. STILL)
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To: conservative98
Stavast has offered no comment as of October 2021.

She's become famous for all the wrong reasons, Like Lewinsky.

55 posted on 10/11/2021 7:13:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: aynrandfreak
Extra implied spin is that the chant just started in October, but it’s been since before Football season started a month before.

The earliest reports I remember seeing was that it started spontaneously at three college football games on September 2-4, 2021.

Joe Biden Is Not Going to Like College Football's Latest Chant Regarding His Name - It's Becoming a Movement

The Citadel vs. Coastal Carolina, September 2

Virginia Tech vs. North Carolina, September 3

Auburn vs. Akron, September 4

It looks like Ground Zero is the state of North Carolina, where two home games were played that weekend.

-PJ

56 posted on 10/11/2021 7:17:52 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: DoodleBob

FJB chant being used in Italy at anti-mandate protests.


57 posted on 10/11/2021 7:19:46 AM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: janetjanet998

OMG that is so funny!
Captain Sum Ting Wong thought it was funny too!


58 posted on 10/11/2021 7:25:16 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: mware

Reminds me of a friend of mine who was a judge and a great joker. When he wanted to give me a hard time he would make a big deal out of complimenting the other lawyer (all in chambers) about his tie and then talk about his tie and knew I wasn’t wearing a tie because I’m a girl. My response would then be to start asking him about his kids who were in community theater with my kids. It’s called woodshedding. My favorite woodshedding event was when I was the referring attorney in a big PI case. I knew this judge too and had been on a long distance ride with her where we had to shower in high school locker rooms. As we went into her chambers to talk settlement, I turned to the defense lawyer and said, “I just want you to know that just because J and I have showered together, she won’t do me any favors. He turned white. (Can I still say that?)


59 posted on 10/11/2021 7:25:57 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: DoodleBob

For once, we are the masters of the meme. This is ours totally. And the left hates it. They were taken by surprise. I’m wondering what the leftist backlash will look like. Will Brandon unleash the fbi to arrest anybody who posts Let’s Go Brandon!?

In a day or two I’ll have a Let’s Go Brandon! sticker on my car. Will the police arrest me for making fun of a decrepit old fool?


60 posted on 10/11/2021 7:31:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Buy a Let's Go Brandon! sticker. Show your disdain for the maniac in the White House. I did.)
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