Article 5RCB6 Southwest Airlines investigates pilot’s use of ‘Let’s go Brandon’ anti-Biden jibe

Southwest Airlines investigates pilot’s use of ‘Let’s go Brandon’ anti-Biden jibe

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Martin Pengelly and agencies
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  • Airline says it does not condone political expression on job
  • Rightwing meme has been repeated in Congress and by Trump

Southwest Airlines announced an internal investigation after a pilot was reported to have signed off a message to passengers by saying: Let's go Brandon."

The apparent non-sequitur is in fact a rightwing meme, based on a NBC sportscaster's apparent mishearing of a chant of Fuck Joe Biden" by a crowd at a Nascar circuit in Alabama at the start of October.

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