College football stadiums across the country ring with students chanting a three-word phrase that can be translated “Let’s Go, Brandon!” Is this a surprising sign of rising opposition to President Joe Biden? Is there an army of young conservatives preparing to lead the nation? Should we celebrate young people adopting the course language of the Left?
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16 replies on “FJB! Season is Back: Do Students’ Stadium Chants Voice Surprising Rising Opposition to Biden?”
Taking all the rich people’s money & redistributing it lasts 1 time. After that, mobody works. I’m not liftig a funger if somebodys taking my ‘excess’ money to redistribute to someone sitting on their donkey.
There ARE conservatives in college, they just tend to keep their mouths shut. The fact that they feel bold enough to start these chants in a very public platform … yeah, probably a good sign.
Hey, why don’t you guys do a Virtue Signal on the lack of virtue involved in letting clinically crazy people run around in our society hurting or killing innocent unsuspecting citizens? The way the Left has set things up it’s not helping either the crazy people or the average person living their life peacefully.
You might also consider exploring how the Left is using false virtue as an excuse to spike the crime rate. Which they use as an excuse to further their intersectional identity agenda. Which common citizens react to with violence when counter violence is their only means of self defense. Which the Left uses as an excuse to clamp down on those who defend themselves. Etc. They’re intentionally created a positive feedback loop.
For the rest of you/us — Put on your Citizen Producer hats and start producing something. Don’t let this opportunity to have people who can state our case for us go to waste. Give them some things to talk about.
Related to your comment – Michael Shellenberger published an essay about mental illness in Bari Weiss’s substack today, further raising the issues of the tradeoffs involved in managing the violent mentally ill in our society:
https://www.commonsense.news/p/its-time-to-mandate-treatment-of?utm_source=email
Shellenberger is turning up in several areas of social commentary beyond the climate change and energy management areas for which he is perhaps better known. He may not be an expert in every area but he seems to explain the core aspects of those issues pretty well.
Some other ideas to add to the list of topics you are soliciting:
Possibly an interview with Shellenberger himself? [if you can get to him]
Possibly an interview with Anthony Watt at the Heartland Institute, on the reality of the data around climate change, temperature measurement issues, and how to get the real info out there [Watt may be more available than Shellenberger?]
Other interviews I can think of include: Project Veritas* with James O’Keefe; Greg Lukianoff at Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)*; Tom Fitton at Judicial Watch*; probably others our BWDC crew knows better than I do. [*I have staffer level contacts for these organizations if Scott or Bill wants them as an entre to the senior people?]
Consider how to educate high schoolers and young adults in the virtues of wise money management [ saving up a 6 month emergency fund; HSAs; mortgage and other loan requirements and obligations; IRAs/401Ks and further personal retirement planning and savings; role for trusts etc. in estate planning.; etc.]
I would like to think that the BWDC crew now has a large enough subscriber base [paid and unpaid] that would also be attractive to these other possible interviewees in their efforts to get their respective messages out, and to access additional potential doners to their respective generally conservative causes.
Good suggestions.
We clearly need to do some ‘producer’ work here because if all The Virtue Signal can come up with is ragging on Southerner’s Battle Flags and who drops an “F Bomb” where … the gravy’s getting a bit thin.
I use foul language without hesitancy when foul language is what is called for but I don’t condone it in polite company and never, ever use it there.
I don’t really care if conservative Southerners want to fly an ancient flag because they think it’s making a statement about their independent thinking.
In both cases where The Virtue Signal has brought these things up it has been to criticize people who are nominally and apparently on our side.
That’s not the way to win.
It’s not like we have run out of things to criticize on the other side of the aisle. We don’t need more fratricide, we’re doing more than enough in that vein already.
I’m really getting a lot from my Common Sense subscription.
Wouldn’t be a bad thing for BW.com folks to follow. That, and Jordan Peterson. If you want to look for depth in material and thought … both good sources.
Politics in professional sports has ruined them for a lot of us. So that leave us with collegiate sports. As soon as they go woke, I will stop watching them, too. Most of us view sports, whether team or individual, as a place to enjoy life without our political differences being the topic du jour. Good discussion, guys!
Unfortunately, I think that college-age students would love to chant “F” just about anybody. Brandon just happens to be the “funniest” meme today.
You might have a point but as long as they’re on this particular Brandon topic I say let ’em go and make the most of it while it lasts.
I HOPE Bill’s comment “This is a psychological time in EVERY human’s life where they are wired by hormones and psychology… a biological function… burning desire to be as far away from your parents as possible” was a deliberate hyperbole, because stating it as an absolute, as he did, is utterly absurd. Few cultures around the world have this embedded alienation against parents. Even in America, sound familial relations, and birth order, can transcend the social influences affecting whether a person is more or less responsive to authority figures.
Yeah, you’re right about that. My kids, grandkids and sister’s kid don’t fit that model at all, none of them. Nor do any of my friends kids that I can think of.
I think, though I hate to speak for Bill, that he was talking about a generic sort of college kid and not an absolute that applies to all young people that age. Bill doesn’t have any kids, or grandkids, so his scope on this topic may be somewhat limited.
I’ve noticed that The Virtue Signal has demonstrated a tendency the last few weeks to get lost in the weeds. I think it’s time we all put our thinking caps on and came up with some topics they could cover because their material seems to be running a bit thin lately.
Frankly, I can’t think of a sentiment that I endorse more completely than “FJB” and more so when applied to the whole gestalt that Biden represents. Biden is just the head of the pimple on a great big festering zit. I don’t really care how that sentiment is phrased. If Zo, who I like a lot, wants to get his knickers in a knot about the words used not fitting ‘the conservative standards’ … That’s an example of getting lost in the weeds as far as I’m concerned. There have got to be much more important things for us to focus on than that.
I know it’s hard to come up with topics on a schedule with a deadline so if anyone thinks of anything that would be good to cover I’m sure any suggestions would be appreciated.
Zo, I agree with your not using foul language on camera. I don’t need to hear it and I doubt anyone else wants to hear it either. This is not the same thing.
If you’re going to apply prudishness to society in general and use it as a milestone for what constitutes conservatism you’re saying that every other Marine I know and including myself are not ‘Conservatives’. I assure you we are and applying that standard to us is just weak.
I say what I mean and I mean what I say. If I inject a ‘four letter word’ that’s because I mean it and I mean it with all the emphasis that four letter word conveys. I do not drop profanity idly, I drop it purposefully. (I’ve known Marines that were genuine artists in their own right at this sort of thing.) That does not make me ‘not a conservative’ but it certainly does make me not a member of the specific denomination of Christianity that you subscribe to. Which also BTW does not make me not a Christian either.
So I do not agree at all with what you said on this matter in the video. Largely because these college kids should not be condemned for the sentiment they are expressing, nor the raw language with which they choose to express it. If you’re going to defecate on them for a single word you’re not doing anything helpful.
I also agree with Bill that these are more likely to be ‘normal’ people. We normal people are fed up to the point where the impact of profanity is needed to get across the degree of disdain we all feel.
Because chanting “A pox on Joe Biden” or “Gosh darn Joe Biden” or “Joe Biden can go straight to heck” just doesn’t have the same impact and nowhere near the same degree of emphasis.
This is the one college event where social justice warrior traitors do not cluster around and try to cancel these people’s free speech. It’s not at all surprising that they would chose the words they do. They’re not just speaking to Joe Biden, they’re speaking to their fellow students too. The language is intentionally chosen for impact and emphasis to both Joe and Joe’s supporters.
Using the language they choose does not make them conservatives. It neither excludes them from being conservatives. It’s an expression of a sentiment not a thesis on ideology.
This expression of a sentiment in three words repeated over and over again is something that reaches the world when those college ball games are televised. It lets the rest of the world know that it’s OK to have and express that sentiment.
I don’t really care if those chanting this slogan are conservatives or not. I hope they are and would like them to vote that way but as far as my opinion goes I agree with the sentiment and support their right to express it. My ears are not virginal and I never, ever pretend that they are. Using that particular word does not pop my auditory cherry.
I question the premise of the authors of the article. I don’t question the chanting going on at college football whether it be Let’s Go Brandon or FJB. However, at most college stadiums, the non college aged crowd out numbers the college aged by a significant margin.
These are actual adults who are paying a lot for their tickets, tend toward middle age, as football fans lean more conservative, but even if not on the political Right, can see what this admin has done through failed policy.
These are the people giving vent to their frustrations rather than doing yoga and chanting OMMMM, have a few adult beverages and release their tensions by shouting Let’s Go, Brandon.
Oh, and these people vote. Unlike the college crowd and recent college crowd.
Now, I will say having s recent grad in the family, and one who couldn’t stand Trump’s lack of social grace, she (and her friends) hates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as much, or more than her mother and I do. Mostly because she and her friends feel lied to. They can see cause and effect.
And after being told for years that old white men are the ruin of everything, here is an old white man ruining everything. And he’s really old. And doddering.
So, they may also be expressing their frustration. But I suspect that this frustration among younger people will result in many fewer of them going to the polls in 2 years. This Nov? My bet is that turnout among 18-29 year old’s will be at multi-cycle low unless Stacey Abrams votes for them.
My question toward the authors would have been whether they think the students chanting were conservative because of where the colleges were or some other political survey, or because the chanters were exhibiting politically incorrect opinions.
We’ve seen a lot recently when someone said something off script that the person must magically be -phobic or a traitor to their race or something, just because they broke with the orthodoxy on one single topic.
GEEE I would have thought they would have loved him more after he wants to reduce their legal responsibility for repayment of just debt.
I’m not a football fan, but I am a fan of the FJB craze. I hope that Bill is correct that this resurgence is an encouraging one; however, knowing the fickle and disinterested nature of college students, I am not optimistic that it is either significant or lasting. I am also cynical about the significance given the fact that the D’s are doing everything that they can imagine to buy the votes of youth — too many of which cannot think beyond the next meal or sexual encounter.