Brandon vs karen12/16/2023 Imagine the morale boost of cheering stadiums, well-wishing billboards and people wearing encouraging T-shirts and hats. This is one joke where I wish I wasn’t in the know. This latest salvo in 2024 election jockeying makes me long for the old days, back before flag-flying monster truck convoys and unoriginal and crass phrases like “FJB” and “No More Bull-.” Views & Voices: Editorials, columns and commentary, delivered to your inbox Would #Let’sGoBrandon have taken off at a different type of sporting event? Another place or time? Without an attention-craving ex-president? Without reality television? Without Ricky Bobby’s interview in “Talladega Nights”? Without social media? The random preciseness of it all leaves me with questions. On : Lingle: Two Afghans, but only one journey to safety 6 and frustration with the pandemic, vaccines, face masks, the Afghanistan withdrawal, border issues and fiscal policies. In the background: the former president, the next election, political division, Jan. In the foreground: a young driver sponsored by Larry’s Hard Lemonade, a reporter and a crowd slamming the current president in the fall afternoon light somewhere between Birmingham and Atlanta. Others are cashing in with #Let’sGoBrandon T-shirts, flags that look like Trump flags, hats that look like MAGA hats, beer glasses, vacuum insulated tumblers and bumper stickers, some sporting the letters “FJB” which, of course, stands for what you think it stands for.Īnd in terms of meme origin stories, this one is so good it seemed planned. People’s fever for #Let’sGoBrandon has them sneaking it into news interviews, paging it at airports, flying it behind airplanes and painting it on billboards. On : Lingle: If only Milley’s calls to China were fiction F- Joe Biden chants at sporting events are hashtagged with #LetsGoBrandon and vice versa. The phrase is trending online with jokes, comments, videos, more memes, memes of memes, GIFs and theme songs - yes, multiple.Ĭrowds now use both phrases interchangeably. From there, like a Doge Coin-fueled starship piloted by Elon Musk himself, #LetsGoBrandon launched into the pop-culture lexicon to forever be synonymous with “F- Joe Biden.” The presidential slur was clearly audible in the broadcast, but Stavast misheard or quickly recast the words and highlighted the crowd as chanting “Let’s go Brandon!” in honor of the 28-year-old’s first series win. 2, after the NASCAR Xfinity race at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway, some in the crowd repeatedly shouted “F- Joe Biden!” as television reporter Kelli Stavast interviewed winner, Brandon Brown. Sounds can be deceiving - but that’s not what happened in Talladega. On : Lingle: In purging archive, DOD transparency takes a step backīoth sounded like the “Let’s go (name your team)” chant with the bam - bam - bam-bam-bam clap. In another, a group of people wave American flags and yell, “Let’s go Brandon!” In one, a football game crowd chants, “F- Joe Biden!” with the old 2-3 “Let’s Go!” clap. ‘Let’s go Brandon,’ is a thing,” he said, before texting some TikTok examples. Thankfully, my neighbor Trent clued me in to this craze as we watched the field goal feud between the Packers and Bengals Sunday, making me about a week late to the joke. Yes, add “Brandon” to the long list of forever hijacked names like Karen, Sharon, Susan, bye Felicia, Ken, Chad, A-a-ron, Harambe, Rick roll, Leeroy Jenkins and damn Daniel.
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