So, Jared Schmeck ("Jared from Oregon") is now claiming that he’s the real victim for using the crass insult “Let’s go, Brandon” – which is GOP code for “F*ck Joe Biden”) when talking to President Biden on a national hook-up being live-streamed for children wanting to talk about Santa Claus.
He says that "I mean no disrespect to" President Biden for his comment. Yet he goes on to add, “I understand there is a vulgar meaning to ‘Lets go, Brandon.'" So, swell, what did mean by the "vulgar" comment, then?? It’s a shame the reporter didn’t ask what would seem to be the natural follow-up question. Whatever he claims to have meant by an expression with vulgar meaning about the president when talking directly to the president during an event about children and Santa Claus, he nonetheless wants people to know that “I’m not that simple-minded, no matter how I feel about him." To be clear, no one is suggesting he was simple-minded for what he did. Just that he was rude, obnoxious and crude. I think most people probably assume that he knew exactly what he was doing and precisely why he said it. Fun fact: Though Mr. Schmeck says he didn’t know the conversation would be livestreamed for children to hear across the country, he did know that he was calling from his own children’s bedroom and held up the phone for both young boys to hear. So…y’know, cool. What seems to most chap Mr. Schmeck, a former police officer who resigned in 2018, is that “And now I am being attacked for utilizing my freedom of speech,” Again, to be clear, Jared Schmeck is not being attacked for utilizing his freedom of speech. He is being criticized for how he utilized his freedom of speech, for what he said with his freedom of speech. No one is saying he should be arrested and jailed for saying what he did – which is what “freedom of speech” is about, that the government shall make no law abridging a person’s right to speak. Just that it’s generally considered crude saying something you acknowledge knowing has a “vulgar meaning” about someone, anyone when talking directly to that person. Whoever that person is. When the people around you listening are children asking about Santa Claus. But also, given Mr. Schmeck’s great concern over freedom of speech, surely he supports others using their freedom of speech to say they’re critical of him. Right? Though seemingly that’s not the case. By the way, I almost find it adorable that Republicans who love saying “Let’s Go, Brandon” think they’re being so cute and sneaky and clever. The reality is, though, that it’s pretty infantile, sort of like making “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?” prank calls and quickly hanging up. Or putting a bag of dog poop on someone’s doorstep, setting it on fire, ringing to door bell and then running away. Rather, they’re unwilling to actually “stand 100% behind” their beliefs. When Democrats wanted people to know what they felt about Trump, they had no trouble at all expressing it, and relentlessly. Apparently, dealing with actual white supremacist fascism has that effect on people. Jared Schmeck says that he “stood 100% behind what I did and what I said.” Except that he doesn’t. After all, given that the Republican Party likes to insist (despite massive evidence to the contrary) that it’s the “Party of Personal Responsibility,” it leaps out that Jared Schmeck is fine with stating that he knows the expression he used has a “vulgar meaning” about President Biden, yet insists he meant no disrespect to President Biden by it. If Jared Schmeck actually, truly stands 100% behind what he said, and is part of the Party of Personal Responsibility (sic), at the very least he should be proud to acknowledge that, yes, he knew what he was saying, it had a vulgar meaning, and he meant that. He’d still have been rude and obnoxious, but at least he wouldn’t be a liar and hypocrite. (Party of Personal Responsibility Bonus: Hours after writing this came the story about lawyer Lin Wood who has been filing many of the 60 losing “Stop the Steal” lawsuits and now blames the “Deep State” on why his children aren’t talking to him. No, really. ) Jared Schmeck had every right to say what he did. But if he doesn’t think he will get criticized harshly for calling the President of the United States something he knows has a vulgar meaning while in his own children’s bedroom on a live, national hook-up for children about Santa Claus…it turns out that he may well be as simple-minded as he has tried to convince himself he isn’t.
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