On 4/21/23 5:01 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> atropos@mac.com wrote:
>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>> On 4/19/2023 1:39 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> A Friend <nope@noway.com> wrote:
>>>>>> trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 4/18/23 4:41 PM, A Friend wrote:
>>>>>>>> moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 4/18/2023 3:59 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> President Biden has always been a gaffe machine, but his slip-ups
>>>>>>>>>>>> have gotten more frequent, and his trip to Ireland last week was
>>>>>>>>>>>> no different.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> One of the most head-scratching moments of Biden's Ireland trip
>>>>>>>>>>>> was when he encouraged his audience to "lick the world".
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> "Let's go lick the world," Biden told Irish leaders during a
>>>>>>>>>>>> banquet at Dublin Castle on Thursday evening. Biden still
>>>>>>>>>>>> received applause and a standing ovation from the crowd of Irish
>>>>>>>>>>>> leaders though, despite the licking remark.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, Biden claimed (again) he has traveled 17,000 miles
>>>>>>>>>>>> "with" Chinese President Xi Jinping.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> "I met more with Xi Jinping than any world leader has over the
>>>>>>>>>>>> last 10 years," Biden said. "Over 91 hours of just one-on-one
>>>>>>>>>>>> conversations, 68 in person. I've traveled 17,000 miles with him
>>>>>>>>>>>> through Asia, primarily, through China."
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Biden has been making this claim since at least 2020, and he said
>>>>>>>>>>>> a version of it in 2016 as well. In 2021, the White House tried
>>>>>>>>>>>> to explain that Biden meant "the total travel back and forth" in
>>>>>>>>>>>> China and the U.S. for meetings the two presidents held together.
>>>>>>>>>>>> However, even The Washington Post came up empty after racking its
>>>>>>>>>>>> brains trying to figure out what Biden meant.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, Biden confused a rugby team with a violent
>>>>>>>>>>>> 1920s-era British police force. The president mistook New
>>>>>>>>>>>> Zealand's All Blacks rugby team for the Black and Tans, a brutal
>>>>>>>>>>>> police force deployed against the Irish during the Irish War of
>>>>>>>>>>>> Independence.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> "He was a hell of a rugby player, and he beat the hell out of the
>>>>>>>>>>>> Black and Tans," Biden said about former Irish rugby player Rob
>>>>>>>>>>>> Kearney, Biden's distant relative, during remarks in Dundalk,
>>>>>>>>>>>> Ireland.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The president seems to be popular in Ireland. He jogged onstage
>>>>>>>>>>>> to speak to a cheering crowd with the Dropkick Murphys playing in
>>>>>>>>>>>> the background, and he was mobbed by supporters outside a pub.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Beyond Ireland, the last few months have given us no shortage of
>>>>>>>>>>>> Biden gaffes.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Biden was even more incoherent than usual this week, mixing up
>>>>>>>>>>>> China and Canada and promoting "tax credits for elected [sic]
>>>>>>>>>>>> vehicles."
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> In Ottawa, the president declared: "Uh, I have, uh. We have, uh,
>>>>>>>>>>>> um, ya know, uh."
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> A few weeks ago, Biden said he "applauds China" when he meant
>>>>>>>>>>>> Canada during remarks to the Canadian Parliament. That move
>>>>>>>>>>>> surely caused facepalms among White House staffers.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Last month when he was supposed to address the nation about the
>>>>>>>>>>>> Nashville school shooting that killed six, Biden said he "came
>>>>>>>>>>>> down because he heard there was chocolate chip ice cream".
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Let's not forget Biden's habit of falling down the Air Force One
>>>>>>>>>>>> stairs too.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Maybe the White House gaffe prevention squad went on vacation
>>>>>>>>>>>> sometime last month. Well, who could blame them?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> All that and they're just from the last few weeks. But Dan Quayle
>>>>>>>>>>> misspelled "potato" and it was the end of the world.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> And it wasn1t even him that did it.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It wasn't??? But I *saw* him...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Me too. The kid wrote POTATO on a blackboard. Quayle said he'd
>>>>>>>> misspelled it and should add an "e." The kid knew better but did it
>>>>>>>> anyway. When Quayle left, the kid quickly erased the "e."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> No, it wasn't the end of the world, and no one ever treated it that way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No, but it was the beginning of right wing guy looking dumber than a
>>>>>>> pile of dog shit.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think his nonsense about the water-filled Martian canals predated
>>>>>> Potatogate.
>>>>>
>>>>> You do realize that all of this is in the context of the current
>>>>> Democrat presidenbt saying 10 times the number of stupid things Quayle
>>>>> ever did just this month, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> And let's not forget his vice president who was slack-jawed and reduced
>>>>> to giggles over the idea of a battery-powered school bus.
>>>>
>>>> Such 'whataboutism' seems to suggest that the stark magnitude and
>>>> circumstance of Quayle's gaffe is routinely equaled. I disagree.
>>>
>>> As do I. Quayle's gaffe was peanuts compared to the daily display of
>>> Biden's senility and what can only be described as the "stoned sorority
>>> girl" demeanor of Harris.
>>
>> "We have a thousand billionaires in America. You know the average tax rate they
>> pay? Eight. E-I-G-H percent. 8%"
>>
>> "... you need some respect. R-E-F-P-C-T"
>>
>> "Jobs is a three-letter word"
>
> Multiple examples of a VP misspelling words and miscounting letters just
> like Quayle did once, but for some reason Quayle's had 'cachet' and
> Harris's do not. I wonder what that reason could be? I just can't quite put
> my finger on it...

Holy fuck, who knew you'd be this butt hurt over Quayle? "But but but
Harris!" Let us know when you get some traction on that "issue."