Oregon father of four who told Bidens 'Let's Go Brandon' on Christmas Eve said he meant it in jest

[mahatmakanejeeves]

“Your speech violates my free speech”

What a loser

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“I am being attacked for utilizing my freedom of speech" for expressing "my frustrations in a joking manner,” complains Jared Schmeck, the #Oregon father of four who told
@POTUS
: 'Let's go Brandon.'

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Oregon father of four who told President Biden ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ on Christmas Eve call said he meant it in jest

Updated: Dec. 25, 2021, 8:32 p.m. | Published: Dec. 25, 2021, 11:41 a.m.

By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive

A Central Point father of four who wished President Joe Biden and the first lady a wonderful Christmas and added “Let’s go, Brandon,” at the end of a live streamed Santa tracker call told The Oregonian/OregonLive that he didn’t intend his parting message to be vulgar.

“At the end of the day, I have nothing against Mr. Biden, but I am frustrated because I think he can be doing a better job,” said Jared Schmeck, 35, who works for an electric company and was previously a Medford police officer for six years until he resigned in July 2018. “I mean no disrespect to him.”

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Schmeck called his remark a “joke,” and a reflection of his frustration with Biden’s policies, including the federal vaccine mandates, inflation and global supply chain problems that have caused shortages in consumer products. ... “And now I am being attacked for utilizing my freedom of speech,” Schmeck said, adding that he’s been receiving some vague but threatening phone calls since the Santa tracker call.

“I understand there is a vulgar meaning to ‘Lets go Brandon,’ but I’m not that simple minded, no matter how I feel about him,” the 35-year-old father said Christmas morning. “He seems likes he’s a cordial guy. There’s no animosity or anything like that. It was merely just an innocent jest to also express my God-given right to express my frustrations in a joking manner...I love him just like I love any other brother or sister.”

Asked why he resigned from Medford police on July 15, 2018, Schmeck wouldn’t say. ... He went on to say he “stood 100% behind what I did and what I said.”

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Oregon father of four who told President Biden ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ on Christmas Eve call said he meant it in jest

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism. The antidote to bad speech is more speech

Now he's complaining people used free speech to criticize his bad speech.

Snowflake.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

19. For bad speech yes, antidote. For hate speech more speech doesn't seem to work.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

37. You hit the nail on the head.

Schmeck the Schmuck is a snowflake who apparently thinks he is the only one who has freedom of speech. No one is supposed to criticize his.

One of those times where it would have been better if he had just kept his mouth shut in the first place. You said it Schmuck, now own it.

[Walleye]

2. So, his hostile remark to the president is a joke, but any remarks to him are attacks?

I love these people who get on national TV or call-in shows and complain about their free speech. Same old shit. They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.

[lark]

14. Typical R's - everything he does is AOK, but it is heinous if it's done to him.

They care nothing about people, just about themselves, their money and their freedom to do anything they want, illegal, immoral, buttheaded or not.

[Walleye]

16. He probably thinks he's just a great father, too

[mitch96]

33. "said he meant it in jest"... Typical bully comment.. "lighten up, it was just a joke" bullshit

I've heard them all.. Like I said a typical gaslighting bully comment...
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[Arkansas Granny]

38. You nailed it. We've all met people like that.

[Walleye]

41. If it's not funny it's not a joke in my opinion

[Lovie777]

3. Awaiting the "Christian" conservatives . . ..

to come to his rescue and award him with gifts and make him a hero and claim liberals are trying to take his freedoms away . ...

GQP congresscritters voicing their approval and calling Democrats communists.

The GQP are always the victims.

[peacefreak2.0]

4. Let's Go, Jared.

The people around you already knew you were an asshole. Now you proved it to the world. Good job, ace.

[onetexan]

9. +1 -K&R

[COL Mustard]

22. We need something to call back with these folks

Something to disparage their hero-god. I’m sure someone can do that!

[mitch96]

34. Lets go 45? nt

[no_hypocrisy]

5. The classic "It-Was-A-Joke" meme

Just own it Jared. You f*cked up.

[modrepub]

6. Play Stupid Games

win stupid prizes.

The saying "silence is gold" applies only to fools so they keep quiet. -H.S. Taleb

[Joinfortmill]

7. What a horse's ass.

[Hmongliberal]

8. Don't dish it, if you can't take it

Just sayn

[GPV]

13. Snowflakes melt so easily.

[Lonestarblue]

10. What a poor example he sets for his four kids.

If he needs someone to blame, then blame antivaxxer Republicans who do nothing but help spread the virus and continue economic disruptions. And blame the lazy Republicans who don’t even bother to discuss a bill or learn what it does for average Americans because they’re only going to vote against it because their mob boss told them to. He is just one more uneducated, ill-informed deplorable.

[Botany]

11. What an asshole. The President and the 1st Lady were speaking to kids on Xmas Eve to try to ...

... make them happy. BTW the vaccines and vaccine mandates are proven to save lives, inflation is caused by
have greater demand then there is a supply for certain items and that is in a large part from Joe B. getting our
economy moving again, and the CEO of WalMart is on record thanking President Biden for his work on getting
the supply chain moving again.

"Schmeck said he’s not a “Trumper,” but described himself as “free-thinking American and follower of Jesus Christ.” "

Jesus was real big into telling people to fuck off.

"Schmeck called his remark a “joke,” and a reflection of his frustration with Biden’s policies, including the federal vaccine mandates, inflation and global supply chain problems that have caused shortages in consumer products."

[3Hotdogs]

12. He won't say if he was "helped" out of his cop job or if it was

just that the task of protecting and serving the public caused too much stress.

I wonder if he will have a job by Monday, quitting time.

[PJMcK]

15. Jared is a coward

He now claims his expression during the President’s phone call was a joke.

Oh, yeah, Jared? Then why did you blurt it out and then hang up? Your behavior was immature and akin to Howard Stern’s fans yelling, “Bobba buey!”

The stunt was childish and cowardly. If he wanted to express his frustrations, he had the President of the United States on the phone! He could have acted like an adult and had a (brief) conversation with the President. Instead, he blurted out a schoolyard taunt then figuratively ran away. Now he hides behind the idea that it was a joke. He doesn’t even have the conviction of thought to acknowledge his own political views. His attempts at damage control are amateurish and ineffective.

It was vulgar, stupid and cowardly. Not a great example for his family. Let me add that he probably ruined what could have been an awesome memory for his kids.

What an idiot.

[LizBeth]

17. His god given right to express. My God given right to call him an ass.

The right to speak people such snowflakes wanting more the right to speak without anyone else reacting.

[augyboston]

18. Let me exercise my right to free speech...

FUCK YOU Schmeck, you shcmuck!

[William Seger]

20. No, fuck YOU, Jared

[The Jungle 1]

21. Hey dumb ass. You un-Christian slob.

Here is a light bulb moment for ya. We get to have freedom of speech also. But you don't like that do ya. Poor little baby feels attacked. Why are your eyes all red little boy. Go see mommy and let her pat you on the head. Maybe she can tell you a nice story and tuck you in. While we use the freedom of speech to attack your and you family business.
Hey asshat freedom of speech is not a Philadelphia street.

[samnsara]

23. just cuz you CAN pick your nose in public doesnt mean you should..

..every adult knows this. Jared needs to re attend adulting school

[RAB910]

24. Not many police officers just "resign", he probably got in trouble as a cop

and quit before he could be held accountable for his crimes

[Botany]

27. I would guess he was given the choice of either resigning or being fired.

I would imagine that being on the Medford P.D. gave him and his family medical insurance,
a 401K, good pay, the chance to work as much special duty and or overtime he wanted to,
and a good quality of life too.



Here he is on Xmas Eve getting his son in on telling the POTUS to fuck off as the POTUS
and the first lady were calling kids to wish them a, "Merry Christmas." Plenty of other
pictures of him laughing and smirking as he acted like an asshole during Joe B's call are
on the web but I will not post them.

Odds are he will be fired by noon Monday.

[Blue Owl]

25. Well isn't he the great white dope

[70sEraVet]

26. He's a 'follower of Jesus', so he must have read......

"And Jesus said, " Bless the children, for they provide us with an opportunity to say 'F..k You' to the President".

[Cartoonist]

28. It was a prank call from the beginning.

He's posted a video of him making the call. In it you can see him squirming about with a foolish grin on his face, giggling to himself, barely containing his itch to be an asshole.

[Tommymac]

29. He makes all who sincerely follow Jesus look like fools.

He and millions of other cruel people are why the Christian faith is becoming a joke. (Well, along with those priests who abuse children).

No offense intended for sincere followers, but it is what it is.

Image is everything.

And folks wonder why I am agnostic.

[kacekwl]

30. You're being "attacked" because you're

an asshole. Poor baby snowflake is crying now because everyone knows it. Probably thought his buddies at Buffalo Wild Wings would carry him on their shoulders.

[CaptainTruth]

31. Yes, you are. Welcome to America, where we have the freedom to do that.

Of course threats & bullying are wrong, but the rest of us have the right to express our disapproval of his actions.

And what is it with these folks & their "God-given rights?" Do they think God wrote the Constitution? Or that Moses brought the Constitution down from a mountain top?

[bearsfootball516]

32. Lol no it wasn't. He's just upset about the backlash.

[Scalded Nun]

35. Hey, Asshole! Go fuck yourself! BTW...ha, ha, ha

[George II]

36. He not wanting us to criticize him is violating OUR freedom of speech, douchebag.

[Ziggysmom]

39. Let's Go Jared! Make it the metaphor to F the white nationalist repukes

Tell ol' Jared to give back Jared the 12,000 dollars in tax credits he received for his four kids from President Biden and the Democratic house and senate!

Another shitty Jared. Subway Jared, Jovanka Jared and now Christmas hating Jared.

[Hekate]

40. Jared Schmuck just told us he was only joking. What's wrong with us libs that we can't see that?

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We just need to relax. Obviously.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. For this thread

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[Zambero]

43. Poor Poor Steve-0

He's literally getting jested to death in a joking manner. Somehow, the POTUS can shrug off the taunts, but a 1st Amendment-loving snowflake melts away when he gets the same treatment.