Alabama officials reverse decision to ban anti-Biden license plate after conservative backlash
By: Bradley Dress (TheHill)
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Alabama officials reversed a decision to allow a man to keep an anti- President Biden license plate after first banning the tag.
The Alabama Department of Revenue and Motor Vehicle Division apologized to Nathan Kirk, a local gun store owner, for its initial decision, AL.com reported on Tuesday.
Kirk specialized a license plate in October with the letters "LGBFJB," with the "LGB" referring to the popular anti-Biden phrase "Let's Go Brandon" and "FJB" standing for "F--- Joe Biden."
Last month, the state told Kirk he must change the license plate letters or they wouldn't renew his vehicle registration, prompting Kirk to consider legal action against the department for an alleged violation of First Amendment rights, according to AL.com.
Kirk also spoke to several conservative outlets after the state said it would prevent him from using the license plate.
The Alabama man told AL.com on Tuesday the license plate was about more than just a "goofy tag."
"The meaning behind it does seem like a victory," he said. "Not like I was just throwing a fit that somebody told me I couldn't do so."
Alabama officials were originally concerned with profanity, telling AL.com they do not allow the "f---" on any license plate. But in a letter to Kirk on March 9, the state apologized for the "inconvenience."
"Let's Go Brandon" became synonymous with "F--- Joe Biden" after a reporter at a NASCAR race last year mistakenly thought the crowd was chanting "Let's Go Brandon" when they were chanting "F--- Joe Biden."
It has since been used to mock the president, including in a Christmas Eve presidential phone call when a man spoke the phrase directly at an unsuspecting Biden.
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Most people would have no idea of what that plate meant.
A freedom of speech victory.
You should emulate this vaunted freedom.
I already have. I'm a non-liberal on NT.
So, a 'Trump Sucks' plate would be fine too?
Obviously not.
If you could say it without being bluntly obvious, one could do it.
As you can see many know how to do exactly that.
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Kindly state who you believe is a "pro Nazi MAGA" and state why you believe so...with posted evidence.
Is this what "Conservative Activism" boils down to?
Petty silly childish name calling? Immature insults?
If you find yourself mired in gop, try to get out of it...
GOPERS have nothing except slander, lies and Putin's money.
I guess I'd trust them before I'd trust those capable of fragging.
We are all capable of fragging.
I consider it often.
Thankfully, I have yet to pull the pin.
I guess you could direct a similar comment to bbl-1 too but you won't.
Why is the gop telling our President to go fuck himself? Surely you know. So, let's go arkpdx...
You have something to say? Say it to me.
Because he needs to do just that. He is the most incompetent president since Jimmy Carter.
He is the resurrection of Carter, just as Trump was of Nixon.
With any luck.... Reagan 2.0 is coming.
Your interpretation of competence must be shared with all.
You mean why are the American people telling your president to go fuck himself?
The answer lies with those policies the left wanted so badly. It's to to pay the piker.
Ronny ray-gun was a fool. Not surprised he developed early-onset Alzheimers.
Not surprised the idiot became a god to the brain-dead far right.
Didn't see anything 'bout Helinski.
That's a new one.
No. It is an 'old one'.
No, it's new and it's coming to a neighborhood near you this November.
Just this week, I saw two women (nicely dress and looking) get out of a 'moderate' sized sedan as I checked by side mirror to back out of a store lot. As I "straightened" parallel to their car behind me I saw a driver side rear light "bumper" sticker" placed on the curvature of the "rump": "Let's Go Brandon!" Several things occurred to me:
1. It figures. (I rejected this thought immediately as not wanting to stereotype.)
2. We don't see many cars "signaling" opinion this way in my community.
3. The driver risks something (keying? pounding?) damaging happening to her car while she is out of it.
The true leftist thug reaction whenever offended.
Who the heaven are you calling a 'thug'?
Any leftist that would damage a person's vehicle over a bumper sticker. Get a thicker damn skin. The bumper sticker isn't hurting anyone in any damn way, shape, or form.
You've bottomed out with the name-calling. We're done. She (the driver) can use her liberty and freedom of speech as she sees fit, however, she is responsible for causing any reaction positive or negative to her surroundings driven by an open and public insult. A lack of discretion will effectively make her accountable for an unwise provocation, for which she will have to catch a perpetrator or perpetrators in the act of performing.
Put inciteful political slogans on a vehicle and reap whatever whirlwind comes out from it. I don't say that I wish it so, but it can be a provocation to somebody, or at the least let's say a "conversation starter."
What is your point? Or is this just another in a series of "chat me up" sessions?
If your point is, "Sh*t happens" then, yes it does. We are (all) responsible for taking mitigation steps along the way to avoid it happening when practical. If your point is people should not mess with other people's (exposed) property I agree, but still "sh*t happens" in all our 'worlds.'
We're done. This is going nowhere.