Posted on 04/02/2022 9:08:43 PM PDT by DoodleBob
AUSTIN — Confederate flags were banned from NASCAR events in June 2020, and some fans have seemingly started to get behind a new pennant — one that is unabashedly mixing politics and sports.
At this weekend's NASCAR race at the Circuit of the Americas outside Austin, a walk through the car and RV parking lots revealed how effective NASCAR's ban on Confederate flags has been. Among the vehicles for the estimated 70,000 fans, not a single Confederate battle flag or any other flag representing the South's fight during the Civil War was spotted.
But one banner that was conspicuously popular appeared to be the anti-Joe Biden "Let's Go Brandon" flags.
Several fans were also seen wearing "Let's Go Brandon" t-shirts inside the track.
"Let's Go Brandon" has become an anti-Biden rallying cry that originated at a NASCAR Xfinity Series race in October 2021, when Brandon Brown was interviewed following his win at Talladega Speedway in Alabama. The crowd began to chant, "F*** Joe Biden," but the interviewer, mishearing the cheering, believed the fans were yelling, "Let's Go Brandon." The clip of that exchange went viral, and the misunderstanding quickly became a euphemism among people who disapprove of Biden.
The popularity of "Let's Go Brandon" flags has not been limited to this one race in Texas either. The flags have been photographed at the NASCAR championship race outside Phoenix Raceway in November, as well as outside the Daytona 500 earlier this year.
The show of anti-Biden flags does suggest that NASCAR fans seem unafraid to make a political statement.
Stopped at a WalMart Murphy gas station yesterday. There were remains of about 1/2 dozen “I did that” stickers on the pump - some bitter rat must be scraping them off. There’s a new one on there now.
No Biden signs. Curious that.
Yes, that is curious. Which reminds me of something else ...
Has anyone ever seen a BuildBackBetter baseball cap?
BTW, MAGA!!!
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
...But you don’t always know what form it will take.
“Has anyone ever seen a BuildBackBetter baseball cap?”
That is the best point I have ever seen made. Your post would go viral.
And why not? The man is working feverishly to destroy America. If economic devastation, invasion of millions of a totally dependent class and mass famine won’t work, a nuclear war is his ace in the hole. Brandon will do for us what Hitler did for Germany and Tojo did for Japan. It’s always an inside job.
Inside job,,,Yup.
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Enimies,
Foreign and Domestic.
Thanks.
I saw another FReeper post it. If I could remember who it was I’d give them credit.
like that’s a bad thing...
"one that is unabashedly mixing politics and sports"
I love it.....lets see what are betters will come up with to forbid this......
“Stopped at a WalMart Murphy gas station yesterday. There were remains of about 1/2 dozen “I did that” stickers on the pump - some bitter rat must be scraping them off. There’s a new one on there now.”
Love it. Hope Biden did this stickers turn up on all gas station tanks throughout the fruited plain. Love the pics in #1.
Those tanks are typically underground.
For the groundhogs.
81 million votes.
Lots of editing needed on this article.
Exactly. She didn’t “mis hear”. It was clear as day what the crowd was chanting. No. She L-I-E-D.
Like the rest of the corporate media which is just the propaganda arm of the Democrat party, she was trying to cover for Biden.
Thus “Let’s Go Brandon” not only means FJB, it also perfectly illustrates what lying propagandists the corporate media are.
Those tanks are typically underground.
No, I mean the place where you pump, obviously not the underground ones, lol. What do you call them then, where you pump the gas; pumping stations? You knew what I meant.
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