Poll of the Day > Do you think that Biden knew what "Brandon" meant?

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this is getting huge coverage in the press. That norad phone call yesterday. Have heard varying opinions on if he knew what it meant yesterday

He's probably aware, and doesn't care.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/6/6/AAC4lPAACvTy.jpg

Funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y-3Fz5w8zs

He probably knew, it's not like it was the right place to get angry about it.

Fuck that dude for pulling that shit

It really seems like he didn't know.

It seemed like he had no idea what it meant and just repeated it back

You're right, the president of the united states doesn't know what 30% of the population are saying when it's directly about him.
They've been so incredibly subtle, and the cabinet of the United States President has an intelligence problem where they aren't spying on people enough to understand what .3% of the population are thinking about.

They got him.

Maybe Joe is a fan of Brandon Brown?

https://i.imgur.com/GVxFfPU.png

Help help, the complex subtly involved in this is too much for someone.

I honestly have no idea what it means.

I get that it's the new slogan for the right, but beyond that I really don't give a shit.

papercup posted...

He's probably aware, and doesn't care.

I really don't think he's very aware of much at all. Looks like he's trying to figure out where he is when he actually appears in public

OhhhJa posted...

I really don't think he's very aware of much at all. Looks like he's trying to figure out where he is when he actually appears in Publix

You really think the office of the President doesn't know what people say about the President? In this country? Really? And that he shops at Publix?

papercup posted...

You really think the office of the President doesn't know what people say about the President? In this country? Really? And that he shops at Publix?

Weird. I don't even go to Publix that much. Funny that my phone would autocorrect to that lol

Either way, dude looks confused a lot. It's the same look I see on my grandmother's face a lot these days. Getting old sucks

Truth be told, Biden reminds me a lot of Bush.

Same general sense of cluelessness that inherited shitty circumstances.

Krow_Incarnate posted...

Truth be told, Biden reminds me a lot of Bush.

Same general sense of cluelessness that inherited shitty circumstances.

I don't think a president has really inherited great circumstances since the 90s

I voted "no" because I feel that if he did know what it meant, he wouldn't have repeated it back; he would've just said "Well, Merry Christmas!" or something like that.

Of course he knew.

What was he going to do, chew out some asshole on national TV after he'd just wished the guy's kids a Merry Christmas? Yeah, because that would have looked so much better.

UT1999 posted...

Do you think that Biden knew what "Brandon" meant?

I'm not even sure he knows who "Biden" is.



shadowsword87 posted...

You're right, the president of the united states doesn't know what 30% of the population are saying when it's directly about him.

You're saying that sarcastically, but I honestly don't think any given sitting President knows what 80% of the population are saying about anything.

When you've got multiple levels of advisors, assistants, and interns working to filter information, your ability to understand what the majority of the population is saying, doing, or thinking is limited at best. Especially when most sitting Presidents aren't spending all their time on Twitter or to keep their finger on the pulse of mainstream thought. What you know is what others choose to tell you - and others will often censor the information they present to you for a myriad of reasons (ranging from politeness or respect all the way up to deliberate manipulation).

There's actually a name for this phenomenon (though I can't remember exactly what it is at the moment). But to quote a 20-year old book on conspiracy theories:

"We thus arrive at a situation that in the Army is called Optimum Snafu. Those at the top are never told what might cause them to punish the informant, and those at the bottom keep their mouths shut about more and more of what they actually see, hear, smell, taste, or otherwise sense of the environment. In the long run, the top people in the pyramid are attempting to regulate things they know nothing about, based on reports that have been invented by liars and flatterers to prevent them from using their awful powers too destructively. But if most people always lie a little in dealing with superiors, those superiors must have a very weird and inaccurate picture of who the people below them are and what they really think and want."


It also doesn't help that most politicians in higher levels of power are literally career politicians who've spent most of their adult lives in politics, and don't necessarily have an awareness of what the world is like outside of that sphere. You essentially get a bit of an echo box scenario where most politicians tend to wind up living fairly affluent lives and interacting with other politicians, not slumming with the average blue-collar worker or "average" citizen. Politicians (especially older ones) tend to be out of touch because they've literally never been "in touch". And most attempts to seem like "just an ordinary person" are deliberate PR maneuvers created by a team of marketing advisors.

OmegaM posted...

I voted "no" because I feel that if he did know what it meant, he wouldn't have repeated it back; he would've just said "Well, Merry Christmas!" or something like that.

Gee, who would have thought!

This topic: The president wouldn't chew the guy out publicly, so of course he would nod, smile, and effectively say "I agree, fuck me."

Sometimes it seems like hes acting like a diabetic with low blood sugar. When that happens to my mom, its harder for her to concentrate on things.

Hard to make out the minds of the mentally ill tbh

Krow_Incarnate posted...

I honestly have no idea what it means.

I get that it's the new slogan for the right, but beyond that I really don't give a shit.

It means "fuck Biden"

It's pretty pointless but if you want people to know you're a conservative then that's what you say.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

It's pretty pointless but if you want people to know you're a conservative then that's what you say.

It started when people were chanting "Fuck Joe Biden" at a sports event. A news reporter was interviewing someone named Brandon at the time and claimed the people were chanting "Let's go Brandon" instead. It's come to be a representation of both Biden's low approval rating and the bias of the news media.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

It started when people were chanting "Fuck Joe Biden" at a sports event. A news reporter was interviewing someone named Brandon at the time and claimed the people were chanting "Let's go Brandon" instead. It's come to be a representation of both Biden's low approval rating and the bias of the news media.

Thank you I've been confused as to who or what this Brandon was in regards to biden

Trump did things 3x as fucking stupid when he was President and these complainers were keeping their mouths shut the entire time.

I wonder if that has anything at all to do with their political beliefs?

I saw somebody wearing a let's go Brandon hat today.

FrozenBananas posted...

Trump did things 3x as fucking stupid when he was President and these complainers were keeping their mouths shut the entire time.

To be fair, people spent four straight years constantly shitting on Trump on Twitter and other social media, and still can't shut the fuck up about him even after he's gone. The anti-Biden sentiment is waaay less than the flack Trump took on a daily basis, even when he wasn't doing much of anything at all.

It's the sort of behavior you're going to get when people treat politics like sports, pick a side, and then root for "their team". Which is why political discourse is mostly shit and why most politicians (on either side) are terrible.

It's also pretty much inevitable when nearly every President we have from either party has less than 50% approval most of the time, and voters are choosing "the lesser of two evils" rather than people they actually want in office. That's always going to lead to a lot of negativity - and while people may have been less vocal/more respectful in the past because they respected the office more than the person in it, the last decade or two (and the Internet in general) have completely worn away anything resembling respect, tact, or restraint. This is pretty much the future of the office - get used to people constantly shitting on everything the President does (no matter who they are or what they do) for at least the next few decades.

Judgmenl posted...

Funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y-3Fz5w8zs

I heard this guy is now backing down and saying I didnt mean it after getting tons of hate mail for it (death threats are a bit much though).

mooreandrew58 posted...

Thank you I've been confused as to who or what this Brandon was in regards to biden

Here's the interview that started it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9UjgITXUJ4&t=18s