Biden, Brandon and F-Word Politics

Townhall.com ^ | October 27, 2021 | Byron York

[Kaslin]

Recently, The Washington Post published a news article, "Biden's critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts," exploring what the paper says is a growing phenomenon of people around the country directing raw insults at the president. As an example, the paper pointed to resident Joe Biden's recent visit to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where a woman stood on the street with a sign that said, "F--- Joe Biden." At other times, Biden detractors say simply, "FJB," which stands for you-know-what.

The Post also noted the "Let's go Brandon" phenomenon. If anyone doesn't know what that is, it stemmed from an NBC sportscast of an October race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama in which a crowd chanted, "F--- Joe Biden." The chants were clearly audible while NBC was interviewing NASCAR driver Brandon Brown. Trying to smooth things over and make it appear to viewers that all was well, the interviewer said, "You can hear the chants from the crowd, 'Let's go Brandon!'" So then, as fast as things happen on the internet, people began saying "Let's go Brandon" as a snarky -- and cleaner -- way to say "F--- Joe Biden."

All this derision directed toward the president has disturbed some in the media. Biden "is increasingly becoming an object of hatred to many Trump supporters," the Post reported. Conceding that "boos, jeers and insults are nothing new for politicians," the paper nevertheless declared that "The current eruption of anti-Biden signs and changes, however, is on another level, far more vulgar and widespread."

To which anyone who was awake from 2016 to 2020 might ask: "What???"

In case you have forgotten, the level of hostility directed at President Donald Trump -- and the prominence of those attacking the president -- far exceeded anything seen so far in the Biden administration. To illustrate the point, just focus specifically on the phrase "F--- Trump."

In June 2018, actor Robert De Niro appeared at the Tony Awards ceremony in New York. His role was to introduce a performance by Bruce Springsteen, but he started with this: "I'm gonna say one thing. F--- Trump." The audience gave De Niro a standing ovation. As they cheered, De Niro said, "It's no longer down with Trump. It's f--- Trump." Now, this was not some woman standing on a street corner in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It was the most celebrated and honored actor of his generation, appearing before the entertainment elite in a nationally televised event, saying, with great pride, "F--- Trump."

In June 2020, a Los Angeles art gallery organized a "hybrid virtual exhibition and protest where all of the works read 'F--- Trump,'" according to Los Angeles magazine. That article went on to say that, "Also integral to the campaign is the logo, with a middle finger thrust up in the center of the 'u' in Trump."

In August 2017, the rapper Eminem appeared at a music festival in England. During his set, he launched into an anti-Trump diatribe. "The audience cheered and began chanting 'F--- Donald Trump' unprompted," Billboard reported, "while Eminem then said he had a request of the audience: 'When I say 'F---,' you say 'Trump'!"

These are just three examples of a very widespread phenomenon. Anyone paying any attention during that time will remember them. But now, The Washington Post says, there is a new phenomenon, one that is "on another level, far more vulgar and widespread" than the insults directed at Trump.

Does anyone really believe that? It might be more accurate to say that "F--- Trump" prepared the way for the age of "FJB." But that is not entirely true -- while some are indeed saying "F--- Joe Biden," it's worth recognizing that the "Let's go Brandon" phenomenon is all about suggestion rather than explicitness, about creating a new euphemism that avoids the F-word altogether. Surely that's worth something.

As the Post suggested, insulting the president has a long history. But it's fair to say that the "F--- Trump" years were a pretty robust time for presidential insults. In some circles, the events of that period served to normalize saying f--- the president. So why should anyone be surprised by what is happening now?

[Ann Archy]

Lat’s Go Brandon!!

[xp38]

The left want one way streets in their direction. Nothing new for totalitarians.

[Travis McGee]

Make your own Let's Go Brandon FJB bumper sticker at home. Here's how.

Buy a couple of blank magnetic bumper stickers for a few bucks on Ebay. [Nobody wants to put a real sticker on their car's paint job. You don't have to.]

Create something like this on MS Paint or any other similar program. Print it on a sheet of regular paper. Make 2 on one sheet of paper. Cut it out, just smaller than your magnetic bumper sticker.

Use clear packing tape, starting at the bottom, and overlap 3 strips of tape.

Use enough tape to wrap around the back and over the top, this will make your homemade magnetic bumper sticker rain-proof.

Put on a new message anytime you feel like it.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Hypocritical, over-educated libtards ticked that they couldn’t come up with something as witty as the proles did, and it was co-opted from one of their own pets.

[Sirius Lee]

If leftists aren’t busy projecting, then they are busy suffering from communist Alzheimers.

[laconic]

Right after Trump was elected, some goofball theater group in New York put on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar with Trump substituted for Caesar in the knifing assassination scene. To their credit, Laura Loomer and Jack Posobiec, on separate nights, stormed the stage yelling “A*******”. I don’t remember a single critical word that some doofs would put on a performance in a public park with the President being assassinated. Its a bit worse than stating, “Let’s go, Brandon” or FJB, isn’t it?

[xp38]

The left have a long history of political murder in their hearts. There was that obscure movie about the assassination of W some 15 or so years ago. One could make a list that could go on and on.

[Scarlett156]

** ******* *** *********** !!!!

[jughandle]

As always with the left...get caught, deny, blame.

[mewzilla]

We’re no longer a republic.

Public profanity is the least of our problems.

And if its use makes things harder for Deep State, I say let it spew.

I’ll just get a bigger cuss jar.

[King_Corey]

Remember that THEY started this. Civil society was a standard of American life. THEY said “get in their face”, THEY said “make them uncomfortable”, THEY wrote and followed RULES FOR RADICALS. Now they are butt hurt at the results of their work.

F J B

[Elsie]

Brandon is indeed going, and soon!

That’s why Kamala has been mostly invisible these days.

She’s being brought up to speed to enter the WH after Slo Jo finally sputters out.

[Elsie]

I’m guessing it’ll be a stroke.

[sanjuanbob]

She even is learning the phony whisper tactic which acts out sincerity to her statements…an Obama tactic.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

It wasn’t just “F____ Trump.”

There was a vile, murderous level of rage and blind hatred directed toward Trump that far exceeds anything we’re seeing against Biden.

[know.your.why]

Theres no comparison between the driving factors of the F-Trump crowd and the F-biden crowd. People hated Trump because of his hyper self confident arrogant name calling mean tweeting political style. He stuck/sticks his foot in his mouth plenty. He however is a genius at every level when it comes to running this country in a beautiful way that benefits ALL real americans. Biden on the other hand is a insecure frightened anxious crooked hypocritical career politician that controls no one and takes orders from handlers then projects them as his own orders. He has in a mere 10 months turned the most admired independent national economy in the world into a headache and looming disasterous “brain cancer” for its citizens and also a joke of a country for the rest of the world to see. Even the Chinese leader Xi called biden a “sleep walking president”...and when you see biden he actually looks like he is sleepwalking. People say F-Trump and back it with “Orange Man Bad”. People say F-biden and back it with: Rigged election. Ruined economy. Dead Marines. Retreat from Afghanistan. $83T of abandoned military hardware. Southern border and illegal immigration disaster. Destroyed energy/oil independence. Huge taxes. Degradation and abandonment of the working class. Unconstitutional vaccine mandates. “Woke” politics. Racial politics as CRT corrodes the identities of vulnerable children in schools. And on and on....

F-biden...means sooo much more then F-Trump ever did.

[Josa]

disgusting vagina hats???

Bueller, Bueller?

[oldtech]

After DeNiro expressed his political feelings & said what he did, I lost all respect for him as an actor or a person. If he showed up at my house, I wouldn’t answer the door, though admitting that he is talented as an actor.

[Kaslin]

I agree with what you said.