There are surely three words too many in that phrase, a phrase that Americans seem to use ALL THE TIME. As in 'Let's go ahead and start the car, let's go ahead and look at what the weather is doing tomorrow, let's go ahead and scratch our arses[sic]...' The word* 'Let's' does the job. What's the matter with you people?

I don't know if it is specific to one particular area of America, so perhaps you need not all hang your heads in shame. Or rather, go ahead and hang your heads in shame...

*Alright, 'contraction'.

I'm fixing to give this guy the what for. Anybody with me?

Whyn't you go ahead and try, awready, hm?

And it can be "Let's go ahead and just ______." As in "Let's go ahead and just sail across the Atlantic and live on an entirely new continent, even though we come from a prosperous, civilized country."

It actually carries a different connotation of meaning than merely "Let's." It has an immediacy about it, like "now." It has a slight feel that we've waited longer than we should (or you have waited longer than you should). That there's been some sort of pause, and and it's time for that pause to be over.

It's an expression of fortitude, carrying the idea that we are not going to let the universe stop us despite the present chaos that caused this pause. It can be read as if the word "anyway" appears after the action described, like we are going to "go ahead" despite the previous thing under discussion.

Or a resignation to the circumstance, as in "We're all going to die one day, but let's go ahead and eat this spaghetti."

Let's go ahead and give it to Evans in his back bottom.

Never mind, Jay, if it were in Evans's blood to understand, he'd have been born here.

Another variation:

At this time, let's go ahead and just eat our salads.

(That one might be heard from the MC at a banquet where there's to be a guest speaker).

American is a far superior language to all others, including Mexican.

Mexican is a language?

Don't they speak English with a Spanish accent?

I know what it means, that it modifies the original phrase, but it seems to me that many of your fellow Americans do not see the distinction and so they use the phrase incessantly and in a way that makes me want to punch their necks very hard.

Like this guy:

Punch in the neck. I'm gonna just go ahead and punch him in the neck. The neck.

DON'T ASK why I was watching a video for a phone I don't own. It's a thing I do.

Let's go ahead and agree to disagree.*

*my most hated phrase

Those phrases are apples and oranges*

*Another jaw clencher for me.

Evans is so full of hate.

It is what it is.

What does that even mean?

I'll always be there for you.

Where? WHERE?

Right here.

It is what it is. i.e. You can't change it so get over it already.

I hear what you say.

ARGGHHHHHH