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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Yeah, “well, there were other meetings going on which had to end first” and “there was absolutely no wait time at all”…

    I think I can discern what he meant but couldn’t articulate, but if we have to interpret what a more capable person would have said any time the president speaks…

    But since we do have to interpret what he must have meant, my interpretation is that he was trying to say “there was reasonable justification for the wait time, it wasn’t artificially increased as a power-play”. Though a counter argument would be, that is exactly how a power play of artificially increasing wait times is accomplished. Instead of scheduling stuff so that people will be met with at a reasonable time given their circumstances, things are shuffled around to make the person unsure when they are supposed to go in. Enough so that they can’t leave cuz it could be any minute, but long enough that they should feel slighted. 2 hours would be a pretty ridiculous slight. Making someone spend 8 hours in your lobby without leaving is overkill. That means the whole time they kept assuring him it would be soon. At no point did they give him any heads up that he could maybe safely go to lunch or dinner or whatever since it wasn’t gonna be “that” soon.

    For these meetings, it is generally considered a normal level of respect for the meeting to occur within an hour of the plane landing. Especially for someone who should be incredibly busy and scheduled to have other meetings in other countries that same day.

    8 hours is fully, literally, toying with him. 100% showing how little they respect him and who he represents. 3 or 4 hours would have accomplished a complete and utter embarrassment… they wanted to set a record, just for fun.









  • I can’t make it be -5 before I posted based on what I posted. Your edit obviously clarified what it meant for most people and turned around your negative. I’m not trying to be a jerk, I am literally defending myself from you.

    Whether you knew what your post should have meant or not, it was obviously not clear, I wasn’t the only person who read it the way I did. Why did you feel the need to edit it?

    This isn’t actually a big deal. I’m ok that it happened. Don’t worry about it.

    Edit: I will add that there is a reason it’s a common practice to put “edit:” in front of any edit that might change the context of a post, especially if there are already replies to it at the time that will change their meaning with that edit.