You don’t understand: President Biden supposedly didn’t recognize George Clooney at a dinner Clooney was holding last year, but that’s just because Clooney is so damn unrecognizable, and had nothing to do with Biden’s cognitive state.
Biden’s an octogenarian. Of course he checked out of popular culture in the 1980s. If that’s the best evidence you have for a “declining cognitive state”, then Biden must be quite sharp indeed.
Except that apparently, Biden and Clooney were friendly and had met on many occasions.
I don’t recognize Clooney, either. But I’m pretty sure Biden’s failure to do so was a sign of cognitive decline.
Clooney has been world-famous for over 30 years, has been a friend of Biden’s for at least half that time, and is a leading Democratic activist.
More to the point, DrDeth is trying to score useless political points, on a subject he’s obsessed about, in a completely unelated Cafe Society thread. Can we agree that’s kind of silly?
Yes, and he needs to avoid that. Politics is not supposed to be dragged into the Cafe. Maybe if we’re talking about a Political commentary show, but not fluffy Cafe threads.
It was a fluffy cafe thread. And i suppose i made it explicit what he was doing. Sigh.
I sent him a hopefully helpful DM about this.
I’d go beyond “silly” and say it’s truly obnoxious.
Isn’t this whole thread about how this is DrDerp’s standard mode?
Yeah, but at least you’re aware now that Pete Buttigieg is gay, so that’s helpful.
He completely whooshed me on it, too. I had forgotten about the story on Biden not recognizing Clooney last year, so I guess I had just assumed that DrDeth named Clooney, at random, as a celebrity he wouldn’t recognize.
Now that I’ve been reminded of this, his intense, angry reactions to another poster and me in that thread, which amounted to “how dare you try to correct me about who I would and would not recognize,” makes more sense, and are on-brand with his obsession over Biden’s cognition, and correcting anyone who states otherwise in the political threads.
Hope springs eternal but may not be warranted at this point.
It’s in the news now because the guys who wrote that book about the Biden dementia cover-up are talking about it in interviews, and i assume it’s also in the book. But i heard a long piece about it on NPR, which was pretty damning, honestly.
And entirely appropriate for a thread titled “Celebrities Biden doesn’t recognize”.
He came into The Last of Us season 2 discussion thread to say that 1. He doesn’t watch it. 2. “Can anyone tell why HBO puts a lot of good stuff on Max, that isnt on HBO itself?”
He drug MAGA thoughts into the Survivor thread (out of nowhere), getting it temporarily shut down. And then goes on to argue that he doesn’t like “villains” on the show because in a real life survival situation, you want team players - not villains.
He is deliberately obtuse and the very definition of obduracy. I don’t know why I let myself get drawn into debating his idiocy.
Maybe that’s his thing. He shat on Poker Face, a dramedy police procedural, because it’s unrealistic.
I never really understood that attitude. You’ll hear the same thing about other shows as well. The Office isn’t like a real office. Friends wouldn’t be able to afford that apartment. The cops would never let an un-uniformed cleaning woman work alone and go through all their evidence.
That’s all correct, but there’s a reason TV shows aren’t just 22 minutes of unedited CCTV footage from various workplaces. Doesn’t get much more realistic than that, but it would be awfully boring.
As I find myself saying to my lovely bride, when she makes similar complaints about TV shows (or, even worse, commercials): “It’s not a documentary.”
FWIW, I believe that a lot of people have a difficult time enjoying a TV show (or movie, book, etc.) which is centered on their profession, their hobby, or their hometown, because part of their brains can’t help but notice – and get upset by – the “inaccuracies” that are in there, either due to artistic license, or lack of deep knowledge on the topic on the part of the writers or producers.
Absolutely. I still get annoyed by a scene in The Bear when (no spoilers) there’s problem that’s driving the plot forward but the problem is so easily fixable that it didn’t even make sense. Granted, this was something I knew how to fix because of stuff I do IRL, but there where people there that had the same knowledge as I do. It would be like having an episode of The Office where they had to work in the dark because no one thought to turn the lights on.
Spoiler for The Bear
I’m referring to the scene when Carmine was locked in the walk in cooler. Even if the button on the inside was broken, the hinges are on the outside, as was Fak, who we knew from earlier in the episode had a screwdriver in his pocket He could’ve had Carmy out in a few minutes.
But I don’t think DrDeth is a cop.
Amen to that, and that’s why I cut our otherwise almost always obnoxious Doc some slack on that point. I’m an IT guy, and I have to roll my eyes at almost any scene in movies or TV shows that involve computers. But I’ve learned to live with it, and sometimes it’s even funny.