# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/21 "2021-12-25T01:15:46Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > It’s in part to mock the sycophantic, gaslighting media. I’m pretty sure those doing the original chant weren’t afraid of a little profanity. If these people were afraid of profanity, then why do they self-censor like this? Be a man, say “Fuck Joe Biden” if that’s what you mean. “Let’s Go Brandon” is a fifth-grader ringing your doorbell and then running away giggling. Expected behavior for a child, but weird and pathetic for an adult. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/22 "2021-12-25T01:48:54Z")
We’re dealing with a group of people so removed from common decency, they’ll say “fk you” to a sitting US president as he kindly inquires about their children, yet be so cowardly they cannot let the actual words leave their lips. I am not at all surprised at seeing who is defending this pathetic display of childishness. Propriety is hard. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/23 "2021-12-25T21:12:53Z")
Oh yeah this coming how gleefully people were about the woman flipping off Trumps motorcade. Pot kettle black? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/24 "2021-12-25T22:37:31Z")
I like this quote from an interview with the guy, after: > Schmeck said he’s not a “Trumper,” but described himself as “free-thinking American and follower of Jesus Christ.” I love a free-thinking follower 🙂 [**SOURCE**](https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/12/oregon-father-of-four-who-told-president-biden-lets-go-brandon-on-christmas-eve-call-said-he-meant-it-in-jest.html) ---
**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:** [December 25, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/25 "2021-12-25T22:55:39Z")
Is that like a definite maybe? ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/26 "2021-12-25T23:14:18Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > I love a free-thinking follower I can guarantee he hasn’t had a thought in the last 10 years that didn’t originate with a Fox News or similar shit stirrer. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/27 "2021-12-25T23:30:50Z")
This. Remember that NPC thing that floated around for a while. Or “orange man bad”. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/28 "2021-12-26T00:36:38Z")
Because it’s also, as I said in the first sentence, meant to mock the media. ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/29 "2021-12-26T01:19:23Z")
Chant hateful vulgarities at the NASCAR track on Saturday, then sit in church all pious on Sunday… ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/30 "2021-12-26T05:07:45Z")
How the fuck can anyone who was credulous/stupid enough to fall for the orange grifter think they can mock Biden? It’s a little surreal. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/31 "2021-12-26T06:06:32Z")
Why isn’t anyone thinking about the Brandons? Won’t someone think of the Brandons? 😧 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/l3PRfAI-yK4/maxresdefault.jpg "Weekend Update: A Guy Named Brandon on “Let’s Go Brandon” - SNL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3PRfAI-yK4) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/32 "2021-12-26T09:34:04Z")
Fans of the show understand… [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776262443_8a8e2ba5bf.jpg "20211226\_033232") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51776262443/) ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/33 "2021-12-26T09:48:47Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Oh yeah this coming how gleefully people were about the woman flipping off Trumps motorcade. Pot kettle black? The woman flipping off the motorcade was just out riding her bike. This idjit knew he was on a televised phone call. Not that flipping off a known hateful human being is actually equivalent to crypto-insulting someone who’s going above and beyond to not tell the haters to f right off. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/34 "2021-12-26T12:43:02Z")
If that had resulted in millions of people doing the same thing for weeks and months on end, spawning a small cottage industry in the process, your comparison might be reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/35 "2021-12-26T13:21:19Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Oh yeah this coming how gleefully people were about the woman flipping off Trumps motorcade. Do you mean the woman who was fired for doing so? ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/36 "2021-12-26T13:22:09Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Because it’s also, as I said in the first sentence, meant to mock the media. “I said the no-no word and I got away with it!” is childish and banal, really a self-mockery more than anything (regardless of what they intended). It’s hilarious that actual leftists will say “fuck Joe Biden” while the the GOP are content to bowdlerize themselves like a bunch of daring grade-schoolers. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/37 "2021-12-26T17:19:53Z")
But was got a payout for freedom of speech. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/38 "2021-12-26T17:36:04Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > Thank you Brandon > > Is the lefts answer to that. No, the left’s answer is “Let’s go Darwin.” At least [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/search?q=Let%E2%80%99s%20go%20Darwin&src=typed_query). ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/39 "2021-12-26T18:47:12Z")
Well, actually rightists will say it as well. But the neutered phrase also pokes at the gas-lighting media. It’s not that complicated. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/40 "2021-12-26T18:52:19Z")
I don’t think “gaslighting” means what you think it does. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266.md?page=3)