AP News: "Let's go, Brandon" is really code for "**** Joe Biden"

[dirtywick]

This isn't doxing. Per wikipedia:



The information released wasn't private. His police employment history, and his father\father-in-law's history with guns is public information.

For the millionth time, this guy made his identity publicly available on ******* purpose. It wasn't an accident. HE POSTED THE ******* VIDEO TO HIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL. A channel that wasn't private. His wife posted the video to her instagram. Both of those forms of media literally had their ******* names on it, and made it clear that they, themselves, were the people involved. Jesus Christ with this ****.

I agree it's not doxxing for the reasons you stated. On media hosting services, and especially social media where you're attaching your identity to your account, you're making public statements and open yourself up to public responses whether you have good or bad intentions. He's also responding to media outlets and taking interviews about it.

And while I don't think it's cool to be dragging family members into it and I do believe doxxing is definitely a mixed bag and can be pretty awful when it's bad, he seems to welcome the attention.

 

[JoeMorgue]

I'd love to see how this jives with the whole "hE iZ BeE'iNG dOxed, oMGZ" complaint. You can't be doxed if you're drawing all of the attention you can to yourself.

The toddler routine where you stand on the table in the middle of the restaurant and scream about how nobody is paying attention to you and then without pausing for breath go right into screeching about how everyone is looking at you is a well worn technique from these types as is the "Then immediately try to get the discussion into a broad-meta debate instead of their actual actions."

The Trolls and the Proudly Wrong always want to have a "talk" about some broader concept whenever they get caught taking a **** in the salad bar.

 

[plague311]

I agree it's not doxxing for the reasons you stated. On media hosting services, and especially social media where you're attaching your identity to your account, you're making public statements and open yourself up to public responses whether you have good or bad intentions. He's also responding to media outlets and taking interviews about it.

And while I don't think it's cool to be dragging family members into it and I do believe doxxing is definitely a mixed bag and can be pretty awful when it's bad, he seems to welcome the attention.

His children might not be as excited for the attention as their dad is, I'm afraid. Usually parents make decisions that are best for themselves and their children. Seems like this guy felt it was more important to get his 5 minutes of fame than anything else.

He should have thought about his actions before he executed them. Stupid games, stupid prizes.

 

[Delvo]

I wonder what Warp12's new idol said to his kid about this spectacular achievement. He seems like the kind of respectable upstanding citizen who's been ranting & raving about hating Biden all the time, which probably includes teaching his kids the same. So has he actually been sheltering the kid from that instead? Then he'd need to come up with some other explanation for "LGB". If, as seems more likely, he's been smothering the kid with Biden-hatred all along, then that would mean he either didn't tell the kid this was Biden they were talking to (which might be impossible to avoid hearing from somebody else on the phone or TV), or he needed some explanation for why they'd talk to a supervillain about Santa, or he had the kid in on "LGB" all along and not taking the Santa aspect of it seriously.

I'd guess the most likely is the latter. Usually, the more infantile the adult is, the more convinced (s)he is that infantilism is the greatest example to set for his/her kids.

 

[JoeMorgue]

As with all cases I wonder how "in on it" they are. It can be hard to gauge from the surface. He could be a "True Believer" or he could be a bog standard troll repeating the one phrase he knows when his string is pulled or somewhere in between. Hell I think they don't know how much the believe it most of the time.

 

[Sideroxylon]

You should read the article. The catchphrase was actually a quick-thinking ad lib by a TV reporter doing a live interview, with a crowd in the background shouting "**** Joe Biden!" Luckily, her interview subject was named Brandon, and she was able to come up with this alternative on the spot. I want to say that within a couple days of the interview airing, the catchphrase had taken root.

Well gosh. The article has an audience after all.

 

[plague311]

Looks like the family owned company has taken their phones off the hook, and have taken their website down. Which is probably not that surprising as I'm sure someone had an LOIC locked and loaded. It's easier to just remove it then fight it at some point.

I still don't understand why people can't think things through sometimes. He won't be fired, which is good for him, but this will absolutely impact the business he works for, which sucks for them.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Looks like the family owned company has taken their phones off the hook, and have taken their website down. Which is probably not that surprising as I'm sure someone had an LOIC locked and loaded. It's easier to just remove it then fight it at some point.

I still don't understand why people can't think things through sometimes. He won't be fired, which is good for him, but this will absolutely impact the business he works for, which sucks for them.

Because in his head it's still a win.

Now he's can be angry that the SJWs cancelled him.

That's what trolls do. Can't win, can't lose, can't quit the game.

 

[plague311]

Because in his head it's still a win.

Now he's can be angry that the SJWs cancelled him.

That's what trolls do. Can't win, can't lose, can't quit the game.

In his head it still can be, and I'm all for it. The rest of his family might not have the same mindset. I'm sure they're all Trumpers and so they agree with what he said, but once the money starts slowing down the attitudes change pretty quick.

 

[JoeMorgue]

In his head it still can be, and I'm all for it. The rest of his family might not have the same mindset. I'm sure they're all Trumpers and so they agree with what he said, but once the money starts slowing down the attitudes change pretty quick.

You're describing what happened to most of rural America, exactly what got us Trump in the first place. People with nothing to lose.

 

[plague311]

You're describing what happened to most of rural America, exactly what got us Trump in the first place. People with nothing to lose.

 

[ahhell]

Where Pixel comes from, members of parliament schedule live face time with their constituents. These meetings are supposed to be actual sitdowns across a table in a council hall or church annex or some such place. (Covid has changed that, but not really too much; the UK has its Schmecks.) This a commendable practice. Every democracy should make it a habit.

The Prime Minister is a member of parliament just like any other. The Brits here will correct me, but I think he too is expected to get dirty, excuse me, get close to his constituents sometimes.

Isn't that the oddest thing you ever heard of?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a monarchest but, of late of begun to think that separating the Head of State from the Chief Executive and Commander and Chief is basically necessary for good governance. Let one person get dirty and get busy doing things while someone else gets all the....."adoration"? Whatever that is that people seem to need royalty for.

Also, otherwise, I hate the is conversation. The whole "lets go Brandon thing" isn't worth more than a snicker or an eye roll, even both seems to much effort.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a monarchest but, of late of begun to think that separating the Head of State from the Chief Executive and Commander and Chief is basically necessary for good governance. Let one person get dirty and get busy doing things while someone else gets all the....."adoration"? Whatever that is that people seem to need royalty for.

At best you're describing a punching bag, hate sink, or scape goat.

 

[carlitos]

The whole "lets go Brandon thing" isn't worth more than a snicker or an eye roll, even both seems to much effort.

But it's so much more than that. It encompasses much of the right-wing belief system. Also, it was those liberals who made it a thing. Believing in two completely opposite things is the new normal.

“‘Let’s Go Brandon’ is more than just ‘F Joe Biden.’ ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ encompasses the entirety of our frustration with Joe Biden, the administration, the leftist mob, the cancel culture, the mainstream media,” he insisted. “They’re the ones who made this a thing.”

 

[JoeMorgue]

Because right now the core of the Right in America is made of two things.

1. Backwards idiots who honestly believe that some essence of America is under direct attack from liberal/Progressive ideas.

2. Nihilistic trolls who just find it hilarious when liberals get mad but don't really care about the politics of it because they don't care about anything.

And let me be clear here. Those two groups are a lot of the time the same people just in different moods.

That's the problem and that's what I mean when I say you can't win, can't lose, can't quite the game.

They win, they win. They lose, they win. We give them what they want, they win. We don't give them what they want, they win.

 

[bruto]

I don't think it should be news that you can't win a rational argument with an irrational person. I figured that out when I was about seven.

I do it now as a form of recreation. If I won an argument with certain people here, I'd have to check for editing errors.

 

[alfaniner]

I wonder what Warp12's new idol said to his kid about this spectacular achievement. He seems like the kind of respectable upstanding citizen who's been ranting & raving about hating Biden all the time, which probably includes teaching his kids the same. So has he actually been sheltering the kid from that instead? Then he'd need to come up with some other explanation for "LGB". If, as seems more likely, he's been smothering the kid with Biden-hatred all along, then that would mean he either didn't tell the kid this was Biden they were talking to (which might be impossible to avoid hearing from somebody else on the phone or TV), or he needed some explanation for why they'd talk to a supervillain about Santa, or he had the kid in on "LGB" all along and not taking the Santa aspect of it seriously.

I'd guess the most likely is the latter. Usually, the more infantile the adult is, the more convinced (s)he is that infantilism is the greatest example to set for his/her kids.

I think everyone on that side should call themselves the "Let's Go Brandon!" Team. Complete with caps with the initials.

 

[JoeMorgue]

I don't think it should be news that you can't win a rational argument with an irrational person.

Yes but that rule was put down when ~40 of the population hadn't adopted irrationality as an intentional trolling affect.

 

[dirtywick]

Because in his head it's still a win.

Now he's can be angry that the SJWs cancelled him.

That's what trolls do. Can't win, can't lose, can't quit the game.

cancel culture is the get out of jail free card in this game. you can play it and invalidate all criticism

 

[Stacyhs]

Moron outs himself as moron on Steve Bannon's podcast.

Quote:
Father who said ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ on call with Biden says election was ‘stolen’ and sports MAGA hat on Steve Bannon podcast

Jared Schmeck now claims Donald Trump ‘should still be president right now’

Alternative explanation - Jared Schmeck is really doing some next-level Andy Kaufman schtick.

Since this idiot had to sign up for the POTUS-NORAD call and he's obviously a Trumper, I suspect he planned the "LG,B" sign off all along. That was the entire reason for the call in the first place.