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ickplant@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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ickplant@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    Newly re-elected New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was talking to a supporter on his mobile phone when another call came in.

    “I didn’t recognize the number, so I didn’t take it,” Key told a New Zealand television station.

    Only later did aides tell Key who was trying to reach him: President Obama.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/09/22/obama-john-key-new-zealand-phone-call/16057707/

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      Lmao can you imagine President Obama having a call go to voicemail?

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        just thinking logistically, I imagine that happened a lot. Anyway I expect a decent number of his calls were made by aides and he just took the phone after they got through to the right person.

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          Even if it said “President Obama” many people would think it’s a prank.

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            True, but if you just got elected as the head of a US friendly nation, it probably wouldn’t be quite so unbelievable.

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            Well to be fair I’d answer just to say “no you’re not!”

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        Im surprised the aides from each side didnt do all the logistics of connecting with one another and the president wasnt just handed a phone with the call already connected through.

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          That’s what I was thinking, surely it was an aide who was dialing who’d only hand the phone to Obama when it actually connected to Key

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          That was the aides from Obama’s side calling 100%. The minister was newly elected, maybe fairly new to politics as a whole? Maybe he just doesn’t like middlemen. Edit: **Re-**elected, I missed that. I guess the second option then.

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      Its a news site but the only place you can find the date of the article is in the URL. Sometimes I am baffled by the weird design decisions people are making.

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        It’s called USA Today. That means you’re only supposed to read the news that came out today.

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          Oh, so it happened today. Makes it a lot less interesting now that Obama is not a president and hasn’t been in years.

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        It says it right under the headline, no? Or maybe that’s only on the mobile layout or something.

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          • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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            Do you ever get the feeling you’re part of an A/B test?

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      I guess I should start answering… what if it’s Obama?

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        Definitely don’t ghost Obama. He’ll drone strike your house.

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