{"id":49672,"date":"2021-11-14T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T13:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49672"},"modified":"2021-11-14T13:51:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T13:51:37","slug":"lets-go-brandon-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49672","title":{"rendered":"‘Let’s go, Brandon’ explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I guess I need to get out more.<\/p>\n

This morning I awoke and while catching up on some overnight developments, I found the “Let’s go, Brandon” slogan plastered on several items. I looked up the origin of this phrase I’ve been seeing. I found this on Yahoo news:<\/p>\n

Republican Rep. Bill Posey of Florida ended an Oct. 21 House floor speech with a fist pump and cryptically let out the phrase that’s disguised to be upbeat. A day later, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas tweeted the phrase. More recently, Southwest Airlines opened an internal investigation when a pilot used it over the loudspeaker.<\/em><\/p>\n

The phrase\u00a0originated at an Oct. 2<\/a>\u00a0NASCAR race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. Brandon Brown, a 28-year-old driver, had won his first Xfinity Series and was being interviewed by an NBC Sports reporter. The crowd behind him was chanting something at first difficult to make out. The reporter suggested they were chanting \u201cLet\u2019s go, Brandon\u201d to cheer the driver. But it was clear they were saying, \u201c(Expletive) Joe Biden.”<\/em><\/p>\n

What does \u2018Let\u2019s Go Brandon\u2019 mean? Everything you need to know about the Joe Biden insult (yahoo.com)<\/a><\/p>\n

So now it has become a sort of right-wing rallying cry. Social media have carried it around the world, maybe even into outer space.<\/p>\n

Again, as with the term “woke” — which still kinda flies over my noggin — I need to understand some of these trendy sayings that grow legs and traipse their way into contemporary public discourse.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how to use the “Let’s go, Brandon” phrase. Is it an epithet? Do I say it when I want to denigrate a liberal\/progressive policy? Do I hurl it at President Biden?<\/p>\n

I’ll just stick with what I know.<\/p>\n

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I guess I need to get out more. This morning I awoke and while catching up on some overnight developments, I found the “Let’s go, Brandon” slogan plastered on several items. I looked up the origin of this phrase I’ve been seeing. I found this on Yahoo news: Republican Rep. Bill Posey of Florida ended … Continue reading ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ explained<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2505,4300],"class_list":["post-49672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49673,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49672\/revisions\/49673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}