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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Texacon on October 30, 2021, 12:28:33 PM

Title: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: Texacon on October 30, 2021, 12:28:33 PM
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215997915


This is really getting under their skin.  :rofl:


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On Friday morning on a Southwest flight from Houston to Albuquerque, the pilot signed off his greeting over the public address system with the phrase, to audible gasps from some passengers."

How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican Rep. Bill Posey of Florida ended an Oct. 21 House floor speech with a fist pump and the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon!” it may have seemed cryptic and weird to many who were listening. But the phrase was already growing in right-wing circles, and now the seemingly upbeat sentiment -- actually a stand-in for swearing at Joe Biden -- is everywhere.

South Carolina Republican Jeff Duncan wore a “Let’s Go Brandon” face mask at the Capitol last week. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz posed with a “Let’s Go Brandon” sign at the World Series. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s press secretary retweeted a photo of the phrase on a construction sign in Virginia.

The line has become conservative code for something far more vulgar: “F—- Joe Biden.” It’s all the rage among Republicans wanting to prove their conservative credentials, a not-so-secret handshake that signals they’re in sync with the party’s base.

Americans are accustomed to their leaders being publicly jeered, and former President Donald Trump’s often-coarse language seemed to expand the boundaries of what counts as normal political speech.

But how did Republicans settle on the Brandon phrase as a G-rated substitute for its more vulgar three-word cousin?

https://apnews.com/article/lets-go-brandon-what-does-it-mean-republicans-joe-biden-ab13db212067928455a3dba07756a160



Lots of whiny posts by triggered liberals.  :lmao:

KC
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: Zathras on October 30, 2021, 12:37:29 PM
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215997915


This is really getting under their skin.  :rofl:



Lots of whiny posts by triggered liberals.  :lmao:

KC
Yeah, they seem to feel that it's perfectly ok for them to use foul language and insults. But, when the tables are turned on them and have the insults and foul language thrown back at them, they go all Karen and Chad about it.

****ing hypocrits one and all.
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: SVPete on October 30, 2021, 01:02:12 PM
Let me guess ... the pilot is POed by Brandon's My Way or the Highway vax mandate.
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: USA4ME on October 30, 2021, 01:41:46 PM
The primitives are upset that one of them didn’t come up with this as a bouncy. It could have been something along the lines of a pilot announcing something derogatory about Trump causing the passengers to temporarily forget to stay seated, buckled, with their seats in an upright position, and to stand applauding the pilot while landing the plane as air traffic control jumped out of the bushes.

Better luck next time, primitives.

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Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: DLR Pyro on October 30, 2021, 01:46:54 PM
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eShirl (17,482 posts)

9. Shut up and fly.

To robert deniro and all of the hollywood elites who gave a standing ovation, shut up and act

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zNr8Pf1QkY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zNr8Pf1QkY)
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: Delmar on October 30, 2021, 01:59:41 PM
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Response to demmiblue (Original post)Sat Oct 30, 2021, 01:32 PM
gratuitous (75,631 posts)
14. They've come up with something they think is clever

Which means they'll run it into the ground. I've decided my rejoinder (should I ever hear this childish nonsense) will be "Grow up."

I'm a little worried about that lady sports reporter who coined the phrase--that she will suffer a leftist whitelash.  I'm guessing that she is a lib and she was only trying to diffuse an embarrassing situation when she came up with the saying but she handed the decent people of this country a fun yet non vulgar way to savagely mock this disaster of a pResident we're stuck with and it has caught on like wildfire. 

If the leftist twitter mob hasn't gone after her already, I'd be surprised.
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: Mary Ann on October 30, 2021, 02:52:57 PM
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Star Member jimfields33 (7,655 posts)

19. I don't agree. What law says you can't say let's go Brandon?

Who cares. I bet Joe could care less. Why are we giving it attention?
No, actually, Joe-mentia is every bit as thin skinned as Trump. It probably drives him crazy.
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: Texacon on October 30, 2021, 03:41:24 PM
Wasn’t there some old white woman who said something along the lines of;

“I have to admit
I’ve thought
An awful lot
About blowing up the White House”?

Wasn’t that a thing when Trump got elected or am I misremembering?

KC
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: Mr Mannn on October 30, 2021, 03:55:39 PM
They can dish it out but they cannot take it.
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Star Member JohnSJ (80,434 posts)
8. F-ck Donald trump, f-ck the proud boys, f-ck the oath keepers, and f-ck the republican party
For four long years we have been hearing this chant over and over again.
Dems hear one come back, and trigger them into agony.
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: enslaved1 on November 01, 2021, 09:29:48 AM
I really don't think the pilot should have made the announcement.  He should not be fired for it, logically, and the moonbats need to unwad their undies, because 1. differing opinions are allowed and you need to learn to deal with it and 2. we've heard and seen the left's virtue signalling fertilizer for years now and had to put up with it.  But I still think it's unprofessional and that was not a good setting. 
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: SVPete on November 01, 2021, 09:55:32 AM
I really don't think the pilot should have made the announcement.  He should not be fired for it, logically, and the moonbats need to unwad their undies, because 1. differing opinions are allowed and you need to learn to deal with it and 2. we've heard and seen the left's virtue signalling fertilizer for years now and had to put up with it.  But I still think it's unprofessional and that was not a good setting.

IMO, it was unprofessional. But a stern, "Please don't do that again," would be the most that would be appropriate.
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on November 01, 2021, 12:25:30 PM
A bit of social media sleuthing calls the Southwest Airlines ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ narrative even further into question:

This Southwest Airlines “Let’s Go Brandon” story just keeps getting better and better!

Recall that over the weekend, AP reporter Colleen Long claimed that the pilot on her Houston-to-Albuquerque flight signed off with “Let’s Go Brandon.”

But when the audio of the purported incident came out, it wasn’t clear that the pilot had said “Let’s Go Brandon” at all. In fact, it sounded to a lot of people like “Let’s Go Braves.”

Well, guess what: there’s even more to this interesting little story. Hope you’re ready for it …

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tsar becket adams
@BecketAdams
Replying to
@BecketAdams
***hold up, guys***

the audio included that New York Post story dates back to at least Oct. 12. See date on this tweet:

https://twitter.com/LexitMovement1/status/1447940439139618819

the Associated Press reporter claims she heard her pilot say “LGB” on **Oct. 29**

LINKY (https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/11/01/hold-up-guys-a-bit-of-social-media-sleuthing-calls-the-southwest-airlines-lets-go-brandon-narrative-even-further-into-question-audio/?utm_source=twtydaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=95d9957ce816a079c07292693691afa549ef2d12eecaada3c83a780675dee604)
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: SVPete on November 01, 2021, 01:06:46 PM
An AP skews reporter making up @#$% in support of a story she's writing? Say it ain't so! Maybe there's no pilot to be disciplined as I suggested above!

Not that DUpipo would care. They'd still call for somebody's head on a pike.

Fixed a typo
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: Delmar on November 01, 2021, 05:55:15 PM
An AP skews reporter making up @#$% in support of a story she's writing? Say it ain't so! Maybe there no pilot to be disciplined as I suggested above!

Not that DUpipo would care. They'd still call for somebody's head on a pike.

A democrat lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Title: Re: Southwest pilot signs off his comments to passengers with, "Let's Go Brandon."
Post by: ADsOutburst on November 01, 2021, 07:16:07 PM
A democrat lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

And when the truth does get its pants on, democrats are like "No! You can't do that! Your pants are nothing but a conspiracy theory!!!"