# Let's go Brandon **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 18, 2021, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266 "2021-12-18T06:30:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Wrenching\_Spanners](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecb155/32.png) [@Wrenching\_Spanners](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wrenching_Spanners)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/181 "2022-01-03T16:29:49Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Meh. You either know what I’m talking about or you don’t. > Either way I don’t really care. > [@Wrenching\_Spanners](#): > > Your surrender is acknowledged. And have a Happy New Year. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/182 "2022-01-03T16:30:14Z")
Biden was being an adult in response to a childish taunt. And some folks here are apparently confused by an adult response. They think a Trumpian tit for tat Twitter war is what is called for. It’s a sad reflection on their thinking process that they cannot understand a mature response. Also, I’ve heard the phrase is code language that child porn users will say to each other. People are saying that. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/183 "2022-01-03T16:30:21Z")
> [@Wrenching\_Spanners](#): > > The easy answer, and the most likely accurate one, is that he didn’t quickly recall the phrase The easy answer, and the most likely accurate one, is that he knew what the idiot was saying, but that he also knew he was on a phone call with the idiot’s innocent children, with many other such families listening in, and realized that just repeating the innocuous-sounding phrase that the kids probably didn’t understand was the best response to avoid awkward family conversations in thousands of households across America on Christmas Eve. If he literally didn’t remember the phrase, why repeat it at all? Are _you_ in the habit of repeating complete non-sequiturs in your conversations? ---
**Author:** ![Wrenching\_Spanners](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecb155/32.png) [@Wrenching\_Spanners](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wrenching_Spanners)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/184 "2022-01-03T16:33:37Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Oh, everyone else gets it. Wrenching\_Spanners is just trying their theory of “ignore it or play stupid” that they think would have worked so well for Biden. And it obviously isn’t. So detail **“it”**. What’s your explanation of the interview where Biden said “Let’s Go Brandon”? ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/185 "2022-01-03T16:37:02Z")
Biden, and the vast majority of American do not give a shit about this infantile lunacy. That is the explanation. Adults do not take the bait and do not act like children when taunted with childish BS. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/186 "2022-01-03T16:37:16Z")
Moderating: This thread has run on for nearly 200 posts. I see no purpose in letting it continue. Everyone has had an adequate opportunity to express their opinions – ad nauseam, even – and now some are merely picking at each other. I’m going to close this thread now with a general admonition to attack posts, not posters. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/187 "2022-01-03T16:37:30Z")
Just like one after another people are bailing out of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/188 "2022-01-03T16:37:31Z")
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