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Source: Business Insider
A Southwest Airlines pilot reportedly used an anti-Joe Biden chant during an announcement to passengers with an AP journalist onboard
Thomas Pallini
Sat, October 30, 2021, 1:29 PM·3 min read
A Southwest Airlines flight on Saturday turned political when one of its pilots finished an announcement to passengers with "Let's Go, Brandon," a chant used to insult President Joe Biden.
"On Friday morning on a Southwest flight from Houston to Albuquerque, the pilot signed off his greeting over the public address system with the phrase, to audible gasps from some passengers," AP's Colleen Long wrote in an article published on Saturday.
Long was a passenger onboard the flight for a vacation, she explained in a Twitter thread, and was almost removed from the aircraft after unsuccessfully trying to get the pilot to comment for her story on the topic.
Colleen Long
@ctlong1
TFW youre trying to go on vacation and then the pilot says the very thing youre working on over the loud speaker and you have to try to get him comment but then almost get removed from plane.
apnews.com
How 'Let's Go Brandon' became code for insulting Joe Biden
10:48 AM · Oct 30, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
Link to tweet
"Also in defense of airline (sic) I was asking them to open locked cock pit (sic) and probably sounded insane!" she wrote in a follow-up tweet.
Additional information about the specific flight is unknown. When asked for comment, Southwest told Long and Insider: "The Southwest Team takes pride in providing a welcoming, comfortable, and respectful environment for the millions of Customers who fly with the airline each year and behavior from any individual that is divisive or offensive is not condoned."
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CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)Let's go Brandon. It isn't clever. It isn't funny. It doesn't make any sense. It' s like a bunch of kids got together, made up a secret language, & now they think it's a big deal when they use it around the adults.
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,028 posts)They want to say F Biden but dont have the guts. So they play their little lol triggering Dems game.
Bev54
(10,053 posts)There are people of all stripes on a flight, and it is time to get politics out of every bloody aspect of people's lives. This guy has no place being in his position.
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,028 posts)lame54
(35,293 posts)You could ditch your cart and walk out of the store
Not so much on an airplane
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Ive lost count on the number of threads about this stupid saying.
Casady1
(2,133 posts)Race where brandon won. In the background the fans were yelling Eff joe biden and the announcer said they saying lets go brandon
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)I searched yesterday for how the phrase started & couldn't find anything. At least that makes a little sense. They are still like children, though. Dangerous, full-grown children who are okay asking when can they use their guns.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/10/27/charlie-kirk-denounces-violence-mh-orig.cnn
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Nascar has been dead for years now.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)And fuck Southwest unless and until they fire this guy.
panader0
(25,816 posts)It was Friday from Houston to Albuquerque. I told them I wouldn't fly Southwest until that
pilot was fired. Kind of a hollow threat because I never fly anymore.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)But you did well. Any time someone is motivated enough to call, their alarm bells go off. Their sacred brand is taking a hit.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)marble falls
(57,102 posts)tanyev
(42,564 posts)He wants to pull that crap, he can work flying charter flights for rich Trumplicans.
ratchiweenie
(7,754 posts)we don't fly with him.
Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)Dumb asses dont see what they dont want to see.
radius777
(3,635 posts)Remember their lame 'OK sign' thing ... it's the 4chan basement dweller type of humor that only they find edgy.
The pilot should be fired as what he did amounts to shouting fire in a crowded theatre. His job is to serve the public and maintain safety in an apolitical fashion, not rile people up.
XanaDUer2
(10,682 posts)No one in a cabin should give a shit about your political beliefs