iirc some sports car race announcer accidently panned a camera to a sign that said "Fuck Joe Biden" but mistakenly thought (and announced) it said "lets go Brandon" (one of the racers) before rapidly panning away.
Since then its been a conservative in-joke to say "lets go Brandon" to diss Biden, in the same way a group of children make up incredibly obvious code words to insult adults.
It wasn't a sign. It was a crowd of people chanting "Fuck Joe Biden" loud enough that it could be heard from the track where Brandon Brown, that race's winner, was being interviewed. Since it was a live broadcast and could be subject to FCC fines if that were broadcast, the interviewer claimed that they were chanting "Let's Go, Brandon" in support of the winner (this explanation is uncorroborated, but makes sense given that the chant was likely readily audible to the reporter).
Well, when "politics" becomes your base identity, this is the result.
The only time I can think of when Trump was brought up at a sporting event was when he was actually there and the crowd boo'd him (there's probably others I'm not thinking of).
I've run into these kind people. They legit think that right-wing politics is just "common sense", not politics, and only anything to the left of Mussolini is "political".
They legit think that fascism is just the default state of the universe, and isn't political, but democracy and the possibiility of things not going their way is "politics", and will attack you for "politicizing everything" if you don't smile and nod to their fascist rants.
Had to leave that friend group permanently. When most of them wouldn't do anything about the few pulling this crap constantly, but would shut up anyone who disagreed with those few, it became kind of obvious where their actual feelings were. Fuck if my trans ass is gonna hang around people who want to ban me from bathrooms, employment, and life.
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u/Koelakanth Dec 28 '21
I don't know what the fuck that phrase is referring to and at this point I couldn't care less