Well crafted report by ABC Peter Marsh about the latest US Right Wing in-joke:
In early October, at a NASCAR race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, Brandon Brown had won his first Xfinity Series and was being interviewed by an NBC Sports reporter.
The crowd behind the 28-year-old was chanting something at first difficult to make out.
The reporter suggested they were chanting "Let's go, Brandon" to cheer the driver. But it became increasingly clear they were saying: "F--- Joe Biden." Here's the clip...fair warning for some coarse language, obviously.
The clip took off online, and the "Let's Go Brandon" meme was born.
NASCAR and NBC have since taken steps to limit "ambient crowd noise" during interviews.
Now it is sweeping through the US and even set to music
For a linguist’s eye view of its place in the the progress of English and how it is being politically countered by the left, see this short article in the Atlantic
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