Florida mayor laughs off Biden's hot mic f-bomb

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This mayor is very cool

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Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy couldn't recall what he might have said to lead the president to “drop the bomb," as he put it, but he said he felt a kindred spirit when Biden did it.

When President Joe Biden met Ray Murphy, the mayor of Fort Myers Beach, Florida, on Wednesday, the two quickly discovered they had a lot in common. Maybe too much in common.

They got chummy very quickly, so much so that the president may have forgotten that television cameras and microphones were close enough to hear him tell the mayor: “Nobody f---s with a Biden.”

Biden made the remark as he was chatting with Murphy during his second storm-related trip this week, this time to survey Hurricane Ian's damage to the Fort Myers region, where Murphy has been mayor since 2020.

The president met with Murphy and other local officials and residents and delivered remarks at a joint news conference with the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.

“It was not directed at anybody. It was just two guys talking,” Murphy said in a phone interview shortly after Biden's remark went viral. “It didn’t faze me one bit. That’s just the way two guys talk to each other from our respective backgrounds.”

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1. Probably the first good laugh he's had in days.

God bless you, President Biden! Always trying to soothe, comfort, reassure, and be of assistance. Always trying to make us feel better, and encouraging us in bad times.

You just instinctively feel that he cares. In all sincerity. In all honesty.

DAYUM. What a contrast, after the last guy! Night-‘n’-day difference.

[Cha]

2. Yes, I feel Mayor Roy Murphy

is a Kindred Spirit with us, too!

[House of Roberts]

3. I don't think language is such a big deal nowadays.

There's a tv show that is actually called Kevin Can F**k Himself. I haven't watched it, but I've seen it on my cable guide.

It's a little different when you direct it at someone you're supposed to treat with respect, such as when Dick Cheney disrespected Patrick Leahy on the floor of the Senate with the word.

[FloridaBlues]

4. They just became friends I bet. This mayor needs tremendous help from

Federal Government so this exchange is helpful. I bet Biden will call him regularly.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. For this thread

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