• Hoomod@lemmy.world
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      I think it was a Nascar race or something, and the crowd was chanting “fuck Joe Biden”, and the commentators tried to cover it by saying they were chanting “let’s go Brandon” because the driver in the lead was Brandon (something)

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          Just changing that in unison… you know… like normal functional people do…

          That’s exactly right. They think mindlessly repeating something that gross is a normal thing. The state of the GOP today.

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      At a NASCAR race, a bastion of redneckery, a person on camera said Fuck Joe Biden, and the reporter said something along the lines of Let’s Go Brandon, I suppose mishearing the person in a loud venue and/or confusing it for a driver.

      It stuck and Let’s go Brandon became a tongue in cheek way of voicing their displeasure with our current president.

      On the other side…

      Any time Biden has done anything progressive or to stymie the GoP it is his “Dark Brandon” persona that the internet created.

      Basically dems flipped the meme, or at least tried to and it became a memetic way to celebrate perceived victories over the GoP, as I understand it.