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Southwest apologizes for pilot’s ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’ announcement to fliers

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Weeks after a reporter's mishap gave birth to it, the Let's Go Brandon meme is still generating fresh headlines. That's thanks to the innocent-sounding phrase showing up everywhere from social media posts to the halls of Congress, plus in song titles, on merchandise -- and now, somewhat controversially, even the cockpit of a commercial airline.

On Friday morning, an Associated Press reporter heard a Southwest Airlines pilot sign off a greeting to passengers over the plane's public address system with "Let's Go, Brandon." By coincidence, the writer was already working on a story about the phrase's popularity. Some passengers on that flight, from Houston to Albuquerque, audibly gasped. That's because, in some usages of the euphemistic phrase? It's a more family-friendly stand-in for directing an f-bomb at President Biden.

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