What Does 'Lots of Luck in Your Senior Year' Actually Mean? An Investigation

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WASHINGTON — During a State of the Union address full of Bidenese Dictionary classics like “folks” and “I need to be crystal clear,” one entry stood out.

As President Joe Biden delivered his speech Tuesday evening, he issued a challenge to Republicans who have threatened to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act: “That’s OK,” he said. “As my football coach used to say: ‘Lots of luck in your senior year.’ ”

Democrats laughed. Republicans did not. Viewers watching at home smiled and nodded, maybe getting it but not totally getting it. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said that he had “no idea” what the football line meant, but that he was inspired by the president’s economic plan.

The White House did not respond to requests about what the line actually means, but a review of Biden’s public statements over the decades — and a cursory dip into the world of high school and collegiate football — suggests that the phrase has been used by seasoned veterans to signal to the inexperienced that they’re running out of time to learn the ropes.

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Biden usually deploys the phrase as a dismissive insult to less-experienced lawmakers who have logged fewer years in politics and have promised to tackle Democratic legislation.

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In November, when Biden was asked during a news conference to respond to Republican lawmakers planning to investigate his son, Hunter, and his family’s business interests, he again revisited the salty aside.

“Lots of luck in your senior year, as my coach used to say,” Biden said. “I think the American public wants us to move on and get things done for them.”

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[markie]

1. Yes!

good line President Biden

[Samrob]

2. I took it to mean with the possibility of the GOP taking over Pres. and Senate, the Seniors (elders)

among us will need lots of luck to get through their senior years with a potentially cut back social safety net.

[Demsrule86]

12. No I heard this before in school. It means this is your last year. You won't be next year.

It is an insult.

[Samrob]

25. Well, like that much better than my weak thinking.

[IronLionZion]

15. A lot of seniors are GOP voters so they would be screwing themselves

[ALBliberal]

3. I take it to mean Biden is experienced like a "coach" in that he has had

an impressive long career and he is successful in his “senior” year and he didn’t get there by supporting short sighted legislation.

Nor did he get there by being part of unnecessary politically motivated expensive time consuming (enough adjectives?) investigations.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. I was wondering myself.

I'll go with your thought on it.

[JackSabbath]

5. Seems to imply ...

... That because of their poor decisions this will be their last elected term of office. 😆

[2naSalit]

6. That's what I thought in the moment...

But it has other possibilities, none of which sound positive in nature.

[PatSeg]

19. Yes, definitely an insult

Pretty much calling them losers and maybe they'll do better when they grow up a bit, if they even make it that far.

[2naSalit]

21. Indeed.

[yorkster]

7. Joe should also say "Good luck in your senior YEARS",

given what the R's are trying to pull w/ Soc. Sec. and Medicare.

Of course, any so-called reforms would no doubt primarily
affect those who are not yet seniors. Sneaky rats those R's.

Anyone who cares at all about the younger ones will have to fight this and so many other proposed obscenities with everything we've got.

[TlalocW]

8. Biden needs to drop more lines like that

Just to confuse people. One of my favorites from one of my older sisters is, "Hope you brought your lunch." She's 14 years older than I am, and when she was telling me and her daughter a story about almost getting in a fight where she told that to the woman trying to start something with her, she was quite proud until we laughed and asked, "What the hell does that mean?"

He should also sprinkle in, "In accordance with the prophecy," randomly after stating something. "More jobs have been created in just two years of my term than four year term of any president... in accordance with the prophecy."

[PatSeg]

20. Ha, ha, ha!

I love it! "In accordance with the prophecy" - that would drive republicans nuts.

[Hortensis]

27. Lol!

[Brother Buzz]

9. My take: This is it boys, get it done now because you won't be here next year

[lillypaddle]

14. This!

That's what I think it means, too.

[SunSeeker]

18. Yup.

The guys still on the Junior Varsity team as Juniors rarely made it on Varsity as Seniors. Or at least that's how it worked at my kid's high school. If you had any talent at all, you were elevated to Varsity in your Junior year of high school or, rarely, right at the start of Senior year. All those less talented Junior Varsity (JV) kids ended up not playing at all in their Senior year, having graduated out of JV but not picked up by Varsity. So I could just see the high school football coach telling those hapless Juniors in JV who hadn't yet been picked up for Varsity, "lots of luck in your Senior year."

[kentuck]

10. It means it is your last year in school.

You will graduate or you will be defeated.

[fescuerescue]

11. I'm glad they investigated this

Makes more sense to me now.

[CaptainTruth]

13. It makes sense now, thanks for posting!

[SunSeeker]

16. The guys still on the Junior Varsity team as Juniors rarely made it on Varsity as Seniors.

Or at least that's how it worked at my kid's high school. If you had any talent at all, you were elevated to Varsity in your Junior year of high school or, rarely, right at the start of Senior year. All those less talented Junior Varsity (JV) kids ended up not playing at all in their Senior year, having graduated out of JV but not picked up by Varsity. So I could just see the high school football coach telling those hapless Juniors in JV who hadn't yet been picked up for Varsity, "lots of luck in your Senior year."

That's how I understood his comment, that the Repubs are losers who won't get what they want.

[PatSeg]

22. Yes, that makes the most sense

[Ponietz]

17. It means they're still junior varsity

He also talked about “conversion” with Republicans when the context indicated “conversation”. That was brilliant.

[PatSeg]

23. I have a feeling that

"conversion" may have gone over most of their heads.

[SunSeeker]

26. He called it conversion because now they were all insisting they don't want to cut SS/Medicare.

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Whereas before they wanted to end them. Quite a spiritual conversion!

[housecat]

24. That's not the only line that goes right over the heads of magats