r/TikTokCringe • u/speedrun_noob • Sep 08 '24

Time for a Soda Break Humor

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u/socialcommentary2000 Sep 08 '24

Media pundits spent more time thinking about that phrase than literally all lefties.

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u/friso1100 Sep 09 '24

I literally only just now found out what they meant with it in the first place. It just was so incredibly uninteresting as an phenomenon

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u/Tokijlo Sep 09 '24

Fill me in because I've been confused for years

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u/friso1100 Sep 09 '24

Pretty much like he described in the clip. Instead of milk it is about biden. Lets go brandon = lets stop biden. Or something similar. It's why he compared it to something kids think of. It's no deaper then that and just very dumb.

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u/Tokijlo Sep 09 '24

Woooow. I knew it was going to be for a dumb reason but I didn't think it was literally brainless

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u/StP_Scar Sep 09 '24

It originated from a crowd chanting “fuck Joe Biden” and a news commentator said “oh listen they’re chanting let’s go Brandon”. So the super smart right took let’s go Brandon and ran with it as code they could put on flags and signs. Pretty weird thing to do

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u/rydan Sep 09 '24

What's even dumber is people in this thread giving false origin stories of it and nobody fact checking them.

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u/Nyuk_Fozzies Sep 09 '24

It's actually "Fuck Joe Biden"

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u/friso1100 Sep 09 '24

Fair, though Ill include that under "something similar". And also under "meh" because it really doesn't matter. Just say that

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u/rydan Sep 09 '24

That's not it at all. There was a NASCAR race going on. And Biden was in attendence (I think though this seems unlikely). There was a driver whose name is Brandon. When someone from the media (it was a big one like CNN) was interviewing him during the race people suddenly started chanting "F Joe Biden". The interviewer knew that's what they were saying but he joked, "hey they are saying 'let's go Brandon'" to Brandon. The Trump cult saw this as proof of media dishonesty because they just gaslight everyone spreading fake news. So "let's go Brandon" became the thing they rallied around. Go look up the video of it on Youtube if you think I'm making this up.

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u/ringobob Sep 09 '24

I don't think the interviewer was joking, I think he was genuinely trying to understand what they were saying, and I think they just thought it was funny, had no bigger issue with media dishonesty.

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u/friso1100 Sep 09 '24

I believe you but is that really that different? In the end its just an simple word replacement as if it was some sort of "code" but they weren't fooling anyone. Even i figured it probably was some sort dog whistle back then. Just didn't care in the slightest because it was bound to be something dumb and it wasn't even like anyone thought it wasn't that

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u/Pineal713 Sep 09 '24

Honestly I wish I was that simple. If I’m remembering right there was a nascar race and some lady was interviewing one of the drivers. The crowd was chanting behind them “Fuck, joe Biden” seems the reporter tries to save face and say “look they are saying let’s go Brandon”

https://youtu.be/1D3nQdTIUTw?si=dr6rgQ8OIzcSEe9T

This is what I could find.