"[A] tactically touchy, explicitly dishonest, explosively aggrieved gang of wokester crybullies who demand the right to push you around, dictate life and stricture to you, and disappear in a cloud of accusation based squid ink whenever challenged."
In a just world you would be America's Poet Laureate. That, Gato, is ****ing art.
I used "brandon administration" completely inadvertently in an email about some news item back to my wife. The thing is, I thought I'd used the resident's proper name when I wrote it, but nope. Later my wife in telling me of my "mistake" calls up the message I'd sent as proof. There it was, "brandon" indeed. I didn't even know I'd done it!
That's how powerful this meme truly is!
You'll become a super-spreader *unconsciously*, and perhaps for the brandon supporters, *unwittingly*!
Like all powerful, culture-transforming memes, this metonymous phrase is about far more than the literal words it represents but is a rallying cry, an anthem exposing the fakicity of the entire news artifice itself. el gato malo captures this Trojan attack eloquently: “it became the criticism of not just a man, but the edifice that propped him up and kept him in place.”
A couple other reasons Let's Go Brandon works: it doesn't sound like the obscenity it replaced, and it is actually an uplifting (though empty) phrase. Like Yes We Can or Hope and Change or Build Back Better. Also, when liberal pundits/activists get confused or offended when hearing it, it shows how out of touch they are.
Same here. I'm hoping to run across one of those tall ads you see at tire stores where an air-pump fills that skinny-guy 20-feet high. Up and down, up and down. "LET'S GO BRANDON"
Soviet style gerontocracy collapsing before our eyes, thanks to the proud Americans who peacefully threw the molotovs at the polls. And just like the downtrodden yet resilient Russians who created code words for the murderous/buffoonish clowns in charge, Let's Go Brandon crystallizes all of the unmitigated disasters--stolen 2020 election, masking 2 year olds on planes, money for torturing snoopy, wide open southern border, Taliban flying Apaches with their roped hanging dissidents, and the piece de resistance, parents at school board meetings chastising their "overloads" for abusing their children and allowing rapes to occur in bathrooms thenceforth called terrorists by the same gerontocracy being dragged off the stage. Jail isn't hard enough for these bureaucrats and bungholes of the Brandon administration. Faux chi for one needs reckoning via Nuremberg-level trials, to start.
"...called terrorists by the same gerontocracy being dragged off the stage". That's a really poignant insight as to which side of history is which right now. I'll run that by a friend who can sketch. It could be a great poster or t-shirt with a little brainstorming. Of course - "Let's Go Brandon" - right above the visual. Maybe a tug-of-war with the child being rescued by the parents from a mob of perverts led by Uncle Joe and a shepherd's crook simultaneously yanking him away.
A thing I've noticed. The progressives don't get humor. They certainly can't laugh at themselves. Their idea of humor includes meanness, and LGB isn't mean on it's face. The fact that it's still a running joke 1 month after it's inception is very significant. Since the progressives won't engage in honest debate, and ridicule has been found to actually get a response, predict there will be more and more of this.
They are junior high level bullies that enjoy destroying others that they do not like.
This is a tactic very well known for democrats. taunting, denigrating, destroying, lying, and then there is the slander. Of course all of this is so childish, but it is not funny when I see adults on tv behaving so utterly bizarre and unhinged
There are those on the right that engage in this kind of behavior too. Not as much.. but still an undercurrent of this. I truly wish we could just debate in good faith and find ways of compromising.. Alas, it's impossible with the woke. The realization that they can't be reasoned with has finally settled in with me.
Loved this. You're right, it's the fact that anyone can say "Let's Go Brandon!" and the way the left reacts to it that gives this thing legs. I have a t-shirt, and I would never have a t-shirt that says "F--" anyone or anything. Even if I said that kind of thing, which I don't, I would not say or wear it in a general crowd, especially when children might be there. But it's 100% innocuous, everyone knows exactly what it means, and the complete inability of the left to laugh at themselves makes it ever-hilarious. "How dare you!" (cue Greta Thunberg)
So today in San Diego, CA I participated in The World Wide Walkout held in downtown SD on the Embarcadero at San Diego Harbor. Hundreds of People lined Harbor Drive on side of the street on the median strip in the middle. The two cutest ‘protesters’ were these 2 kids around 10-12 years old, that chanted ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ & held signs that said the same as the cars went by…LGB is EVERYWHERE! LBG Rights live on! ;)
As a San Diego resident with Mr. Fletcher as my County Supervisor I vote for ‘Let Go Fletcher’! He continues to stay the course of perpetuating evil, fear, and maniacal tyranny!
"[A] tactically touchy, explicitly dishonest, explosively aggrieved gang of wokester crybullies who demand the right to push you around, dictate life and stricture to you, and disappear in a cloud of accusation based squid ink whenever challenged."
In a just world you would be America's Poet Laureate. That, Gato, is ****ing art.
I'm actually stealing it. F--- the IP
Lol I just copied it over to the VivaBarnes locals page!
It's important that the meme is not just vs Biden, but vs the PRESS. It's simultaneously "fuck Joe Biden" AND "fuck the gaslighting press."
..and fuck authoritarians. That's how I feel.
NASCAR fans FTW
desantis at a presser said "... brandon administration...." to whci a few in the crowd responded "let's go brandon"..
desantis for preident!
tweet out!! #TheBrandonAdministration
I used "brandon administration" completely inadvertently in an email about some news item back to my wife. The thing is, I thought I'd used the resident's proper name when I wrote it, but nope. Later my wife in telling me of my "mistake" calls up the message I'd sent as proof. There it was, "brandon" indeed. I didn't even know I'd done it!
That's how powerful this meme truly is!
You'll become a super-spreader *unconsciously*, and perhaps for the brandon supporters, *unwittingly*!
that is telling and absolutely hilarious
Like all powerful, culture-transforming memes, this metonymous phrase is about far more than the literal words it represents but is a rallying cry, an anthem exposing the fakicity of the entire news artifice itself. el gato malo captures this Trojan attack eloquently: “it became the criticism of not just a man, but the edifice that propped him up and kept him in place.”
Liberal Hivemind recently did a good video on the power of LGB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JX-OvKcelQ
That was a fun video. Thanks for sharing, and I learned a new word - metonymous!
Glad you enjoyed the video, and yes, I love that word so got excited about an opportunity to use it ;-)
A couple other reasons Let's Go Brandon works: it doesn't sound like the obscenity it replaced, and it is actually an uplifting (though empty) phrase. Like Yes We Can or Hope and Change or Build Back Better. Also, when liberal pundits/activists get confused or offended when hearing it, it shows how out of touch they are.
great points
“Meme them until they cry; then make memes about them crying.” I laugh out loud every time I think of this. Thank you, you bad kitty. 😂🤣
Same here. I'm hoping to run across one of those tall ads you see at tire stores where an air-pump fills that skinny-guy 20-feet high. Up and down, up and down. "LET'S GO BRANDON"
Soviet style gerontocracy collapsing before our eyes, thanks to the proud Americans who peacefully threw the molotovs at the polls. And just like the downtrodden yet resilient Russians who created code words for the murderous/buffoonish clowns in charge, Let's Go Brandon crystallizes all of the unmitigated disasters--stolen 2020 election, masking 2 year olds on planes, money for torturing snoopy, wide open southern border, Taliban flying Apaches with their roped hanging dissidents, and the piece de resistance, parents at school board meetings chastising their "overloads" for abusing their children and allowing rapes to occur in bathrooms thenceforth called terrorists by the same gerontocracy being dragged off the stage. Jail isn't hard enough for these bureaucrats and bungholes of the Brandon administration. Faux chi for one needs reckoning via Nuremberg-level trials, to start.
"...called terrorists by the same gerontocracy being dragged off the stage". That's a really poignant insight as to which side of history is which right now. I'll run that by a friend who can sketch. It could be a great poster or t-shirt with a little brainstorming. Of course - "Let's Go Brandon" - right above the visual. Maybe a tug-of-war with the child being rescued by the parents from a mob of perverts led by Uncle Joe and a shepherd's crook simultaneously yanking him away.
it happened, it's not hyperbole. make the t-shirts!
Amen
Nobody puts Brandon in a corner
well, except brandon...
he forgot where the corner is...
A thing I've noticed. The progressives don't get humor. They certainly can't laugh at themselves. Their idea of humor includes meanness, and LGB isn't mean on it's face. The fact that it's still a running joke 1 month after it's inception is very significant. Since the progressives won't engage in honest debate, and ridicule has been found to actually get a response, predict there will be more and more of this.
they only "get" anger.
They are junior high level bullies that enjoy destroying others that they do not like.
This is a tactic very well known for democrats. taunting, denigrating, destroying, lying, and then there is the slander. Of course all of this is so childish, but it is not funny when I see adults on tv behaving so utterly bizarre and unhinged
There are those on the right that engage in this kind of behavior too. Not as much.. but still an undercurrent of this. I truly wish we could just debate in good faith and find ways of compromising.. Alas, it's impossible with the woke. The realization that they can't be reasoned with has finally settled in with me.
Those with an authoritarian bent don't like humor because it is subversive. That makes it dangerous.
ding ding ding!! that's why all the comedians are killing it at the moment.
Beautiful! Thank you Gato, this must be my favorite read since the pandemic started. So positive and uplifting! 😁😁😁
Amen
I love watching leftists get apoplectic with rage over it
That “Let’s go Brandon” compilation on Rubin’s Twitter was spectacular! Genius.
my absolute favorite
Loved this. You're right, it's the fact that anyone can say "Let's Go Brandon!" and the way the left reacts to it that gives this thing legs. I have a t-shirt, and I would never have a t-shirt that says "F--" anyone or anything. Even if I said that kind of thing, which I don't, I would not say or wear it in a general crowd, especially when children might be there. But it's 100% innocuous, everyone knows exactly what it means, and the complete inability of the left to laugh at themselves makes it ever-hilarious. "How dare you!" (cue Greta Thunberg)
It ticks all the boxes!
"clutching their pearls and getting the vapors over disrespecting a sitting president". Loved this.
And btw, when did they decide to take the tack that CRT isn't real? I have only started to hear that in the past week. Interesting strategy.
This is brilliance. Patrick Henry said “Give me Liberty or give me death!” We have “Let’s Go Brandon.” The meaning is absolutely the same.
YES!
So today in San Diego, CA I participated in The World Wide Walkout held in downtown SD on the Embarcadero at San Diego Harbor. Hundreds of People lined Harbor Drive on side of the street on the median strip in the middle. The two cutest ‘protesters’ were these 2 kids around 10-12 years old, that chanted ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ & held signs that said the same as the cars went by…LGB is EVERYWHERE! LBG Rights live on! ;)
As a San Diego resident with Mr. Fletcher as my County Supervisor I vote for ‘Let Go Fletcher’! He continues to stay the course of perpetuating evil, fear, and maniacal tyranny!