To the surprise of no one who lived through the Bush years of “dissent is patriotic” talking point that turned into “dissent is categorically racist and evil” for the 8 years right afterward: Democrats are back to pretending that everyone has to respect the President again.
The meme began when a NASCAR crowd chanting “F*ck Joe Biden” in the background of an interview with an NBC reporter was reframed by that reporter as them sayin “Let’s Go Brandon”.
While it’s possible that this was a sincere mishearing by the reporter, no one believed it to be such and thus the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” was born as a way to say “Fkk Joe Biden – and also Fkk the corporate press for propagandizing for him”
Democrat responses to the trend have ranged from them clutching their pearls about the “disrespect to the office of the Presidency” (lol) to all forms of incoherent annoyance trying to shame people into not saying or spreading the phrase.
Naturally, this highlighted lots of reminders of Republican president hate throughout history.
The Defiant L’s twitter account has a dozen more and others have been posting many more reminders of contradictory declarations by these political weather-vane frauds for awhile.
While “Buck Fush” was a popular phrase and bumper sticker during the GW Bush years, Republicans had no similar phrase for the Obama administration. Then when Donald Trump was elected into office, no cutsie phrase was invented to mask the hate – “F*ck Trump” was just a popular saying.
Too bad Joe Biden is an old rich white man or this could be smeared as some kind of racist Nazi thing, right?
When it was alleged that a Southwest Pilot ended an intercom greeting to passengers with “Let’s Go Brandon”, the eruption of outraged Democrats on social media was as over the top as one would expect from the party. While a sane reaction would range somewhere on the spectrum between “silly joke, who cares” to “bad move – not appropriate to mix political views and work”, tens of thousands on Facebook and Twitter were Liking and approvingly reposting analysis that this was a call for half of the passengers to die and that the pilot could possibly kill himself by intentionally crashing the plane (lolwut??).
Former FBI agent and current corporate news pundit Asha Rangappa had this thought:
All this is a combination of pre-existing mental disorders and illnesses being amplified by corporate media and leveraged by government as a way to deputize “useful idiots” in the citizenry to support authoritarianism.
An example of the mental illness that is being used by those in power:
And an accurate summary of the philosophy they’re being duped into supporting: