Tiki Torches and "Let's Go, Brandon": The Dems Have Lost Their Minds
You'd be crazy too if you had to defend Biden all day
Two “news” stories broke over the weekend, and they have one thing in common: Political operatives, including journalists who claim not to be political operatives, frantically tried to protect Democrat politicians and in the process made hilarious fools of themselves.
First up, we had this ridiculous hoax in Virginia:
Just in time for Halloween, a few young people decided to cosplay as Charlottesville Neo-Nazis, complete with tiki torches. They stood in front of Glenn Youngkin’s campaign bus and claimed to be his supporters. Y’know, like ya do.
And no, your eyes are not playing tricks on you:
A woman and a black guy. Even the Nazis are becoming more diverse these days!
And of course, they’re all wearing sunglasses while standing in the pouring rain. A brilliant disguise.
This photo was tweeted out at 10:36 on Friday morning, and within minutes it was rocketing around liberal Twitter. And oddly enough, it was spread by Terry McAuliffe’s campaign staffers and other professional Democrats:
They wanted everybody to see this photo, because they claimed it made Glenn Youngkin look bad. But within hours, everybody started laughing at them because this was an obvious hoax, and either they were part of it or they fell for it. Either way, it’s not the sort of thing a political campaign does when they think they’re winning.
After several of these ersatz Nazis were identified as staffers for the Virginia Democrats, a funny thing happened. And I mean “funny” as in “humorously stupid.”
The Lincoln Project — a group of failed Republican operatives (and successful pedophile enablers) who started releasing anti-Trump ads to make a bunch of money and get themselves out of debt, and who are now outright Democrats — seemed to take responsibility for the transparently moronic stunt:
“Today’s demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican Party’s embrace of those values, and Glenn Youngkin’s failure to condemn it.
“The Youngkin campaign is enraged by our reminder of Charlottesville for one simple reason: Glenn Youngkin wants Virginians to forget that he is Donald Trump’s candidate.
“We will continue to hold Glenn Youngkin accountable. If he will denounce Trump’s assertion that the Charlottesville rioters possessed ‘very fine’ qualities, we’ll withdraw the tiki torches. Until then, we’ll be back.”
This Dem flack backed up their likely story:
On one hand, the Lincoln Project is stupid enough to think this stunt would work. On the other hand, the Lincoln Project is underhanded enough to take responsibility for this incredibly dumb hoax, thereby taking the heat off the Virginia Democrats who were actually standing in front of Youngkin’s bus.
So no, I’m not buying this Lincoln Project diversion. This hoax was perpetrated by McAuliffe staffers and other Democrats. They thought they’d cooked up a clever stunt that would go viral, and when it instantly went bad, they fled like rats from a sinking ship. Then they got their “Republican” pals at the Lincoln Project to take the heat. Democrats think we’re all as stupid as their voters.
To recap: Democrats got caught red-handed planting fake Nazis in front of a Republican’s campaign bus.
So, that was the first Democrat Party debacle of the weekend. Here’s the second: A Southwest Airlines pilot allegedly said “Let’s go, Brandon” over the plane’s intercom, and the libs are losing their minds.
This AP reporter says she was on the flight, and she went nuts because she had just published a story detailing the uniquely scary evil of the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon”:
She wrote a story about it, and then she heard it on her flight? What are the odds?
As I noted last week, “Let’s go, Brandon” is funny and libs don’t know what to do about it. So they’re doing what they always do. They’re trying to get somebody fired for angering them.
Again, this is all based on a claim from an AP reporter. It may or may not have even happened, but the libs want blood.
For four years, every third celebrity in Hollywood was lauded for screaming “Fuck Trump!” Stephen Colbert went on national TV and said Trump’s mouth was “Putin’s cock-holster.” Madonna said she wanted to blow up the White House. Kathy Griffin even beheaded Trump in effigy. But now an airline pilot says “Let’s go, Brandon” and they all want his head.
At first, I thought the whole “Let’s go, Brandon” thing was juvenile but funny. Which is my kind of humor, the first few hundred times I heard it. But now that it’s becoming a cultural flashpoint and I’m expected to take a stand, I’m firmly on Team Free Speech against Team Fascism.
This phenomenon started when stadiums full of people at NASCAR races and other sporting events across the country started chanting “Fuck Joe Biden.” Whether or not you agree with them, whether or not you think the way they express their opinion is appropriate, it’s happening. It’s a sincere, grassroots reaction to Biden’s presidency. If Trump-haters can drop F-bombs, why can’t Biden-haters?
Then this happened:
Now, millions of Americans have stumbled on an amusingly oblique way to express the same sentiment without cursing. And liberals are screaming like big fat babies, because they can tolerate anything but dissent.
The airline is caving to pressure from prominent libs, of course:
Remember: All this fuss is because a pilot said “Let’s go, Brandon.”
One theory I’ve seen about all this hysteria is that the Dems have been able to play identity politics for over a decade — “If you disagree with our leaders, you just hate black people and/or women” — but now they’re stuck with an 80-year-old white dude in the Oval Office and they can’t adjust. Their usual games don’t work. They’ve just spent four years calling Republicans a bunch of old white people, and now they’re saddled with the oldest, whitest president in the history of the United States.
Well, if the Dems think this is going to stop Biden’s opponents from saying “Let’s go, Brandon,” it’s not going to work. On Friday I was already starting to get annoyed with that phrase, and now I’m so fired up that I want the t-shirt. I reserve the right to insult my leaders, for any reason and in any way I choose. And if it drives libs even crazier than they already were, that’s just a bonus.
Let’s go, Brandon!
Here’s wishing Jen Psaki a speedy recovery from COVID-19. Now, maybe people will finally start asking why she’s the only person in the White House briefing room who never wears a mask.
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"At first, I thought the whole “Let’s go, Brandon” thing was juvenile but funny. Which is my kind of humor, the first few hundred times I heard it. But now that it’s becoming a cultural flashpoint and I’m expected to take a stand, I’m firmly on Team Free Speech against Team Fascism."
THIS is what I love about your stuff - you proudly stand by what you believe & it's FUNNY!!
I am in total agreement with this sentiment quoted above. Thanks for continuing to point out the zaniness of the Left.
As you perhaps meant to insinuate, it's not clear that the pilot said "Let's go, Brandon" rather than "Let's go, Braves". The latter would have been more likely than the former to elicit gasps from passengers on a flight leaving Houston. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/lets-go-braves/
If the pilot really uttered the "LGB phrase" (time to get the euphemisms going), he should be rebuked for pestering his captive audience with his political opinions. After the past four-plus years, though, liberals are in a poor position to raise that objection.