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A part of me is trying to think the president was trying to be cordial & not cause a scene, but then, this is Joe biden we're talking about...............................................................

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/12/24/biden_says_i_agree_to_dad_that_said_lets_go_brandon_in_norad_santa_tracker_phone_call.html (https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/12/24/biden_says_i_agree_to_dad_that_said_lets_go_brandon_in_norad_santa_tracker_phone_call.html)

He probably doesn't know what "let's go Brandon" means. I had never heard of it, you would have to be tuned in to certain right wing wavelengths to get it.

^I'd be a wee bit surprised if someone hadn't told him yet.....^

I disagree.  I think he probably knows exactly what it means.  It's been on the news a few times.  It seems to me like he likes to play obfuscating stupidity (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObfuscatingStupidity) games to get his opponents to underestimate him. 

And this is example 1,048,576 of why it's a good thing I'm not President because I probably would have told the caller to go f**k himself.  Those words too. 

If he has heard it, it does show he isn't as thin-skinned and weak as trump since he hasn't responded with a bunch of poorly-written tweets. More credit to him for that.

Well he's not exactly been inspiring confidence..................

 Who cares?
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 :bouncegiggle: ... what you think...?

I wonder what Olive is doing there?  :twirl:

Just curious, has anyone else but Lil Cerb and Sprite ever heard of "let's go Brandon?" I never heard of it and I thought I was pretty well read.

I hadn't heard of it.

Yeah, I’ve seen it used. Wasn’t sure what it meant at first, so I looked it up.

Basically, a news anchor at a car race mistook a rude chant about the president for a celebration of the race’s winner. Some thought this was funny, & since saying too many rude things about the president can get one banned from social media it caught on as a euphemism.

Don’t really care to say “f u” to anyone, so I won’t use it.

I never heard it.

Cussing at the President of the United States is sort of like breaking a concrete block with your head at a karate demonstration. Sure, you can do it, but should you?

Try and stop it from happening. " f**k this guy-f**k that guy". That's what we pay them for. Not to really do anything.
That's what politics is all about.  :bluesad:

Oh yeah. I read those words. Had no clue what they meant.

^Indeed, they said it about the last guy, among other things.^
They wrote it all over the city's landmarks in last summer's riots, then got mad at anybody that tried to wash it off, calling it "our language", even calling it "Art" of all things..........

Yes, the crowd was stealing from Brandon Brown's moment, and Kelli Stavast's attempt to distract from it was corny....

What I was trying to address is just how dense bideen appears when he's off prompter.

I did have to google it to find out what was being talked about.

Don't worry about it. The last guy they had in that job was dense whether he was on or off prompter, so you have an improvement.

^When Biden's ON prompter, he sounds way more crass & uncouth than Trump ever could!^

Let me know if/when he makes a comment more crass and uncouth than the one about grabbing women by the p***y. I figure that would take some beating (that wasn't on a prompter admittedly, but still).

^At least Trump could keep his hands off little girls in public.^

Having known a woman who worked for him (trump) I'd have to say doing it in private isn't any better.

-And if biden likes to get handsy in public, I doubt he's any better in private.

Maybe so. I don't care for either man. However, I knew trump was one of humanities more loathsome and detestable wastes of skin long before he became a politician. Whatever biden may or may not be, does not excuse trump.

Then why did you bring trump into this conversation?

I wanted to see if you'd figure out that the guy you decry is no worse than the guy you support.

Well, for a start, he inherited a fairly decent economy & flushed it down the toilet....
Most of his addresses are strictly solo.... If he he gets asked a question in public, his "handlers" have to intervene & make sure he doesn't say anything, in one case calling to him like he was a lost dog, and the look on his face said so.

He's been foreign policy has been dismal and weak, and when that started to show, he decided to "get tough" on the American people.

As I said earlier, the man does not inspire confidence.

US foreign policy has not looked anything but weak for several decades now. I can't decide if trump's surrender to the taliban was worse than biden pulling out without consulting any of the allies the US had pulled into the war in Afghanistan or not. Certainly since (and including) the days of George W, internationally the US has been increasingly viewed as a paper tiger. Most allied countries are remaining allies, but are making more alliances with countries outside the US, indicating a decreased perception of it is a reliable country to partner with, and a need to seek out other partners), but one that is still valuable to remain on the same side, (at least for the forseeable future) as although some previously pro-Western states have started slipping more and more into China's influence. This has been happening for quite some time, it has just been a process that has accelerated greatly recently (especially under trump. I haven't watched international affairs enough in the last year or so to notice if this has changed any under biden. I did hear he had called China out in fairly hard terms over Taiwan (certainly a much harder line than trump who only ever threatened trade wars), but saying he was unlikely to send in troops in should Russia invade the Ukraine, but would engage in sanctions against Russia. I'd have to look more into how much trade takes place between the US and the Russian Federation to see how big a threat that is. Then again, this is also a stronger response than trump ever had to putin). You've been falling behind China in trade with much of the developing world, especially in those countries that have access to certain rare (or soon to be rare) resources.

Economywise, I've always felt that economic growth based purely on increasing borrowing is fake growth that will only last until the next crash and I am a lot less impressed with the US economy pre biden than you, but that all depends on what factors you measure the economy against. GDP wise, the US did better than some countries, but worse than others in recovering from the pandemic (despite trumps claims otherwise). Prior to the pandemic the US was showing annual economic growth around two and a half percent, but that is roughly equal to what it was doing under Obama. Trump did see a large increase in the Dow Jones, but the crash pretty much wiped his gains out (although it has recovered under biden), unemployment was pretty low before the pandemic, then shot up (not unexpected). It is falling but has a way to go before getting to pre-pandemic levels. Again, if we go back to Obama, the number of people in employment had increased by more than trump managed under similar time frames, poverty rates were down under trump. Over all comparing the state of the play with the last 3 presidents is difficult economically due to the pandemic, but it does seem by most markers, they are more or less equal in the financial stakes. That isn't to say that individual people aren't better or worse off, but overall from all the available information I've been able to scan over then past half hour (not exactly enough time for an indepth anaylsis, but then again this is a bad movie site, not the deepest corners of Mensa.org). I'd have to say it was a no score draw for both sides. I could get into a very long debate on the merits of trump attempts at moving the country back from a tertiary to a secondary economy.

Trump pulling out of various international deals the US had signed up for also made you look very weak and unreliable, as well as increasing the decline of US influence in areas that will be critical should the US and China ever engage in a hot war. Biden has been able to salvage some of that in some areas, but at a cost of influence and a diplomatic spat with France. You'd have to decide for yourself how important that is for yourself though.

Can't say I've watched any of biden's speaches, so I can't comment on his reactions or body language. I know trump frequently seemed lost on the podium, his speaches descending into wandering, rambling rants, so if what you say is true, it sounds like again both parties are more or less equal there.

If you're saying you haven't been subjected to any of biden's speeches, then you can't possibly comprehend the state of dread he instills in those who listen.

I think you are confusing YOUR reaction with the entire country's.

A not uncommon error these days.

Everything seems to put you into a state of dread.

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Boo!

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The Irony!
The scene where the creature gets handsy with a little girl, kinda like Biden.......

I knew let's go brandon

True, but I know the state of dread people felt from listening to trump, so again we are back to them being fairly even (although I must admit, rather than dread I rather looked forward to having a good chuckle at whatever tripe trump would come out with next). Since a record number of voters elected him though, that would suggest that not everyone is as fearful of his speeches as you are though, unless what you are saying is that trump really was so terrible that people still flocked to biden regardless of what his talks did to them?

One thing I would have to clarify though, after I went to bed last night, I realised the data I'd called up on economics was from up to the end of 2020, rather than 2021. At that point though I was too tired to log back in. To be honest, I doubt I'll be interested enough to lookup more recent data tonight.

I can hardly believe this silly story has gotten this big. The story itself is meaningless--some jackass was rude to the president thinking he was being clever--but it's just become another proxy war between Republicans and Democrats.

Just so long as he didn't say "Let's go, Trevor!" 😉🐢😊

Agreed.

^ Yet that's exactly why you posted it.  :lookingup:

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I posted it because this man's constant displays of infirmity both worry & amuse me at the same time....

To be honest, after giving it some thought I kept meaning to admit just how childish this was on the part of the prankster, even in a political climate like this one, but somebody's inability to get over "last guy" kept getting in the way..........

So, your inability to get over the last guy made you post it?  :question:

no, alex's

^ Alex? What's he got to do with the price of eggs in China?

That's where he gets his eggs?
Why can't he just get them at the store?

^ So you posted it because you were mad at Alex?  :question:
To what means? What are you trying to prove?

The Earth is flat! 

No, the moon is made of cheese!

Australia doesn't exist! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1934898313212788 (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1934898313212788)

^That actually wouldn't surprise me, at least in the Orwellian sense...^

Actually, as it happens, where possible I boycott goods from China. My wife does the shopping though, so I don't buy my eggs from anywhere.  :bouncegiggle:

Australia is what keeps the world from ending today, since it's always tomorrow there. Be in trouble without it.

If you think other people have a problem with "last guy" you might want to check out the number of times you posted about Obama when trump was in power. I am sure you know the saying about living in glass houses and throwing stones...