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AP News: "Let's go, Brandon" is really code for "**** Joe Biden"

Warp12 said:
You say that like it is a bad thing. :D
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Depends on how you define "bad," I suppose. Good if you're a tasteless, conpiracy-addled moron who thinks blurting out bumper-sticker idiocy is the acme of wit. Luckily for him if for few else he has at least a little league of loyal cheerleaders to carry him triumphant into the pantheon of right oriented political pundits.
 
At this point mere trolling isn't enough for the addicts, they have to do that just to get back to normal. Trolling ABOUT their trolling is necessary for them to get high.

A big showy martyr act about how everyone is being mean to them and trampling on their rights when they get caught ******** in the salad bar is the new normal.

It's like how the racists are no longer just happy being racist, they have to be racist AND do the whole "chip on my shoulder, dare you to knock if off" routine to boot.
 
As a political outsider, I find this whole thing very strange. Both the right wingers who childishly value "triggering" the libs at any opportunity, and the libs who are so easily triggered.

It is kinda funny that libs get their **** absolutely bent by CHUDs being rude to Biden (I mean, come on, Biden is your hero?), but the right wing can't help but jump the shark by becoming absolutely obsessed and running every half-funny joke into the ground. Mocking shrill libs kinda loses its edge if you're sticking your own dick in the proverbial electrical outlet (losing jobs, etc) to do so. They've beaten the dead horse so much it's only a damp spot on the soil now.

I suppose in the absence of any real substantial issues, culture flame wars is all we really have left. Since Biden's administration is largely a lame duck doing ****-all, I guess these culture proxy-wars are all we have to express partisan rage in this country.
 
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In a world where Trump was president and I regularly play disc golf on a course somehow named after the guy that was my High School's football coach in the 80s, the idea that anyone ever has an extremely passionate positive or negative reaction to Joe Biden might be the most inexplicable thing out of all of it.

It is like being really disgusted or delighted by vanilla ice cream.
 
Yes and Biden not attracting any level of demagogary (I invented a new word) is exactly what we should want, it shouldn't be seen as an annoying lull between partisan screaming matches.

It's a feature, not a bug. IT'S A GOOD THING.

I said it a long time ago. A beige Volvo station wagon of a President is exactly what we need, not just now, but always.

American politics is not a drama factory who's sole purpose is to give you an emotional high. I'm sorry the President not being a constant embarrassment is boring you, go read a book.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Yes and Biden not attracting any level of demagogary (I invented a new word) is exactly what we should want, it shouldn't be seen as an annoying lull between partisan screaming matches.

It's a feature, not a bug. IT'S A GOOD THING.

I said it a long time ago. A beige Volvo station wagon of a President is exactly what we need, not just now, but always.
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If you say so. Seems more likely than not stalling for time in between proto-fascist right wing administrations is not a good strategy.

Historically, the contest between effete liberals who can't seem to govern and right wing authoritarians promising to set everything right through naked use of power has not ended well.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
If you say so. Seems more likely than not stalling for time in between proto-fascist right wing administrations is not a good strategy.
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And if I thought about entertaining the notion of possibly maybe considering the mere chance of giving the most fleeting thought to even putting on the table for discussion the hypothetical possible existence of the possibility that's what you care about, I would. But it's not, so I won't.

You like drama in politics. That's all.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
I really find it strange that anyone would be deeply offended on Joe Biden's behalf, but then again I might be out of touch on this point.

I get why anti-Obama animus was so gross, because it was thinly (or not) veiled racism. Similarly for much of the anti-Hilary misogyny. But when it comes to the right hating Biden, it's about as close to an animus-free political statement from the right that we're ever going to get.
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Wut?
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
As a political outsider, I find this whole thing very strange. Both the right wingers who childishly value "triggering" the libs at any opportunity, and the libs who are so easily triggered.

It is kinda funny that libs get their **** absolutely bent by CHUDs being rude to Biden (I mean, come on, Biden is your hero?), but the right wing can't help but jump the shark by becoming absolutely obsessed and running every half-funny joke into the ground. Mocking shrill libs kinda loses its edge if you're sticking your own dick in the proverbial electrical outlet (losing jobs, etc) to do so. They've beaten the dead horse so much it's only a damp spot on the soil now.

I suppose in the absence of any real substantial issues, culture flame wars is all we really have left. Since Biden's administration is largely a lame duck doing ****-all, I guess these culture proxy-wars are all we have to express partisan rage in this country.
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I don't know fust who here is getting absolutely bent. I, like many others, do consider the gesture to have been in bad taste and stupid, but so, obviously, do you, if you refer to a person as a "CHUD." I think Biden handled it with reasonable aplomb and reduced it to the level of triviality it deserves. It should have been entirely forgettable, and it is to those here who insist it was some kind of conservative coup that I am speaking. The actual event is predictable and trivial.
 
JoeMorgue said:
"Boring President doesn't spend all time tilting at windmills and that makes me angry."
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It's the 'on Joe Biden's behalf' that I'm not getting. Is that what some media is doing? I don't watch much tv media any longer so I wouldn't know, but that's just not been the discourse I've seen...anywhere.

I wish it didn't need saying, but being critical of how the entire '**** Joe Biden' reflects badly in various ways on the right wing does not have to, and in actually doesn't appear to, spring from any special love of Biden. It isn't specifically on his behalf that people are being critical of the insane childishness.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
I really find it strange that anyone would be deeply offended on Joe Biden's behalf, but then again I might be out of touch on this point.

I get why anti-Obama animus was so gross, because it was thinly (or not) veiled racism. Similarly for much of the anti-Hilary misogyny. But when it comes to the right hating Biden, it's about as close to an animus-free political statement from the right that we're ever going to get.
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Haha oh wow.

Dislike Biden because of his track record or policies or ideology or incompetence, and it's exactly what it says on the tin.

Dislike Obama for any of those same reasons, and it's actually racism.

Dislike Hillary for any of those same reasons, and it's actually sexism.
 
theprestige said:
Haha oh wow.

Dislike Biden because of his track record or policies or ideology or incompetence, and it's exactly what it says on the tin.

Dislike Obama for any of those same reasons, and it's actually racism.

Dislike Hillary for any of those same reasons, and it's actually sexism.
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Are we just forgetting the whole Obama "Truther" thing? You couldn't get a handful of right wing people in a room complaining about Obama without the accusation that he was some crypto-Muslim ISIS agent from Kenya making an appearance.

Shrieking about "death panels" and other non-racial inanity strikes me as more or less "fair game" if you don't mind being absolutely insane, but it's no coincidence that overtly racist attacks had the most purchase on the right wing.

Hell, Trump made his political bones on the whole birth certificate thing. Racism is arguably how Trump first built up credibility with the political right wing.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
As the Biden admin drags on and he quietly continues many of Trump's most objectionable policies, it's becoming increasingly clear that the liberal objection to Trump was almost entirely based in aesthetics rather than substance. The problem with Trump isn't that he was a heartless freak overseeing horrible atrocities in our name (the covid die-off, border camps, police abuse), the problem was that he was crass about it rather than a polished politician.

As much as I try to pose as the doomer lefty on here, I really was a bit shocked by how quickly all these people immediately stopped caring about "kids in cages" or "9/11 worth of covid deaths per day" the second a polite guy with some platitudes was running things. I kinda thought that some of this stuff would have had purchase in the broader political imagination, but it was all smoke and mirrors. So long as the guy running things isn't a Republican rubbing it in their faces, it doesn't matter.
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And we Sir are in violent agreement.

You want a President who walks around making a big showy deal of fighting everyone and getting nothing done.

Biden is getting what little he is getting done because he knows how to play the game and you find that offensive because you want the whole game burned down and rebuilt so you can pretend the progressive-socialist revolution is going to spring out of the ashes.
 
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