# Let's Go Brandon **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 28, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385 "2021-10-28T13:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/1 "2021-10-28T13:37:21Z")
What is this supposed to mean? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/2 "2021-10-28T13:40:06Z")
Well, it sounds like _someone_ was encouraging _someone_ named Brandon. Was Brandon playing in a game you were watching? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/3 "2021-10-28T13:41:30Z")
Anti-Biden meme > **[What does Let’s Go Brandon mean?](https://www.wtrf.com/local/what-does-lets-go-brandon-mean/)** > > You may have seen the hashtag or phrase ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ on social media and wondered what does that mean? Trump says Republicans won’t vote in ’22 or’24 election The phrase or … ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/4 "2021-10-28T13:42:32Z")
It means “fuck Joe Biden.” It was being chanted at a NASCAR game. A reporter, who was interviewing a driver named Brandon, said something like, “oh, the crowd is chanting let’s go Brandon.” It has become a popular meme as a very thinly disguised dogwhistle. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/5 "2021-10-28T13:48:37Z")
You can see it here in this video at 00:17 Crowd chants F Joe Biden, and the reporter (intentionally or unintentionally) repeats it as “Let’s go Brandon.” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLCzrkqxUzc) ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/6 "2021-10-28T13:50:29Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > It has become a popular meme as a very thinly disguised dogwhistle. For when they really want to be an asshole, but don’t have the integrity to actually just be an asshole. So, ya know, cowardly assholes. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/7 "2021-10-28T13:53:24Z")
Sounds like it should include a sneaky OK hand signal, and a cartoon frog in the corner. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/8 "2021-10-28T13:57:35Z")
Let us pause to remember a time when Republicans went to great pains to assure us that sporting events shouldn’t be politicized. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/9 "2021-10-28T14:01:57Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Crowd chants F Joe Biden, and the reporter (intentionally or unintentionally) repeats it as “Let’s go Brandon.” An awkward situation for the reporter (they generally don’t want to call attention to curse words from a crowd, so not sure if she deliberately changed it something more TV friendly or just heard it wrong), but what crowd starts randomly chanting fuck the President at the end of a race?! ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/10 "2021-10-28T14:05:18Z")
There are numerous songs with this name. I haven’t listened to any of them, but when I went to buy some music yesterday, there were several of them in the top ten. Different artists with the same titled song. I guess they’re selling well. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/11 "2021-10-28T14:12:22Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > An awkward situation for the reporter (they generally don’t want to call attention to curse words from a crowd, so not sure if she deliberately changed it something more TV friendly or just heard it wrong), but what crowd starts randomly chanting fuck the President at the end of a race?! It wasn’t random. [Crowds had been chanting “F Joe Biden” at stadiums for weeks prior to this, especially at college football games.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i77cfYyj8jU) As for the reporter - it’s possible she genuinely misheard. Given that she was interviewing a newly-crowned NASCAR champion Brandon Brown, and the crowd was chanting something that _sounded_ like “Let’s Go Brandon,” it would make total sense that she would _think_ that’s what they were saying. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/12 "2021-10-28T14:14:44Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > It wasn’t random. Crowds had been chanting “F Joe Biden” at stadiums for weeks prior to this, especially at college football games. This breaks my brain. Like I simply can’t comprehend this. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/13 "2021-10-28T14:20:15Z")
Bro, after the past five years, nothing should be considered uncomprehendable in America anymore. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/14 "2021-10-28T14:48:57Z")
Even Republican Congressmen are embarrassing the institution with this. > ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/15 "2021-10-28T15:17:53Z")
Maybe they were saying boo-urns. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/16 "2021-10-28T16:37:45Z")
Good lord, I thought conservatives were supposed to be the party of values and “being the adult in the room”? This is about as childish and immature as it gets. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/17 "2021-10-28T17:05:04Z")
As foretold by the Firesign Theater (audio NSFW) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1A5DftXzIqs/hqdefault.jpg "High School Madness - The Firesign Theatre") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A5DftXzIqs) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/18 "2021-10-28T17:16:03Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Good lord, I thought conservatives were supposed to be the party of values and “being the adult in the room”? This is about as childish and immature as it gets. They stopped pretending to be such once they embraced Donald Trump. Perhaps even earlier than that but he doesn’t even pretend to be an adult. ---
**Author:** ![jjakucyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jjakucyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjakucyk)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/19 "2021-10-28T18:53:16Z")
I was saying boo urns. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385/20 "2021-10-28T19:45:11Z")
To a liberal I guess it’s crude, childish nonsense, fake news, or something like that. To a conservative it’s a stinging criticism of the lying liberal media. And pretty damn funny. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/953385.md?page=2)