This is the part no one else gets. What’s so bad about Biden that, even in a two-party system where you have no other (realistic) choices, you would “never” vote for him? Why is he so bad that you’d rather sit out the election and risk watching the Pro-Trump voters possibly put Trump back in power, rather than vote against Trump by voting for Biden?
Biden isn’t perfect, no politician is, but I can’t see what he’s said or done that would make voting for him anathema.
And “The Squad” is your idea of great leadership for this country? Pelosi maybe? Please. Both sides, whether you admit it or not, has their fair share of dolts who lead credibility to the call for term limits.
My side? I’m registered Democrat now so I can vote in primaries, but if they tried to overturn the election, I would be out.
It’s funny that you actually put “both sides” right in your post. There’s no law that says both sides must always be equally bad. Right now, the Republicans are beyond the pale. The Southern Democrats who became the Dixiecrats were also terrible. Sometimes, one party really is worse than the other.
When one of the parties openly advocates to overturn an election and supports the mob that stormed the Capitol, that party is the bad one.
And when that party is actively supported by – and is openly supporting – a hostile foreign power, that’s pretty bad too.
I’ve been an independent for many years (having previously been registered as both Republican and Democrat) but the choice here is between benign incompetence and active malevolence. God knows I’d love to have at least two mature and intelligent candidates in every election to choose from, but in the meantime I will pick the one not actively working to undermine democracy and the rule of law in America.
Whenever I hear any of “The Squad” speak in interviews, I am struck by just how damned intelligent, knowledgeable, and thoughtful they are, even if/when I totally disagree with the position they’re advancing.
That’s the risk of bothsidesism in this context.
Actually, yes; yes, it is. And that is especially so given the utter disgrace the Republican party is now.
“The Squad” have repeatedly demonstrated themselves to be intelligent, thoughtful and bold, despite the firehose of bullshit the right sprays at them (which I’m sure has nothing whatsoever with them all being minority women). They have on occasion made various rookie missteps, but nothing remotely along the lines of what the likes of Greene and Boebert have done (and that’s not even considering the strong possibility Greene and Boebert were complicit in the events of January 6).
I don’t agree with every policy position they hold and I’m in no hurry to launch any of them into a “leader of the party” position from their current spots in the House despite the desperate attempts to paint them as being what the entire Democratic Party is like (hint: they aren’t), but they’re doing fine in the jobs they have.
And while I have my issues with Pelosi too, the main objection the Republicans seem to have with her is that she isn’t cowed by their relentless attacks on her. I wouldn’t want her as President but she’s also doing fine where she is.
Comparing “The Squad” to Greene and her ilk is just weird.
Seems like an appropriate comparison to me. Greene and Boebert frequently say idiotic things, are seditious insurrectionists and are quite possibly on a foreign power’s payroll, but the Squad are Democrats, aren’t white, and have funny names. Apples to apples! /s
I’m pretty sure a BS Business Administration degree is in no way shape or form a SCIENCE degree.
It’s not a BS in Business Administration, it’s a BBA, which is a Bachelor’s in Business Administration. It’s a degree which serious graduate business schools would rather their students not have.
So your response to “why would you not vote for Biden? What has he done that would make voting for him anathema?”
Is : The Squad is not great leadership.
Pro-tip: “The Squad” (a nickname made up by your Trump-loving Republican compatriots) are not leading the Democrats. They are a boogeyman that was constructed by your Republican Trumpists to scare you.
You say you don’t like Trump, but you’re still buying the garbage that he sold you.
It’s worse than that; He’s equating “the squad” to Biden. And assuming that these house members are in a leadership position.
I mean, AOC has been in the House of Representatives for about three years. And the attacks on her and claims that she was somehow the shining future of the party started even before her first term. The only conclusion to draw is that for some weird reason the GOP feel threatened by her, as with Hillary Clinton before her. And given that the two decades of smears against Hillary worked, I guess they wanted to get started early.
As for Biden, who is effectively the head of the party at the moment: he wasn’t remotely my first choice in the primaries (he was about 5th, I think) but he’s done okay thus far. His handling of immigration and asylum seekers started off very badly and his administration failed to anticipate that the government in Afghanistan would fall immediately, but the vaccine program and various economic policies have been reasonably successful, the focus on infrastructure have been crucial, and I happen to think he’s countering Putin about as well as anyone in his position could. Marginally better than I expected, somewhat worse than I’d hoped, and still lightyears better than than Trump.
Well the way Ms. Greene does it, it sure doesn’t seem like an Art which is the only other option.
I am not big on call administration studies Science either, but I think it has to do with adding metrics to the curriculum (Method A is Twenty-Two percent more effective than Method B, perhaps). Mostly I wanted to poke a little fun at MTG.
LOL. Do some research. AOC came up with that name. Any other BS from you? Just a cut and paste from the first thing I found when I Googled it…“Ocasio-Cortez coined the “Squad” name in an Instagram post a week after the 2018 election. The photo, taken at a VoteRunLead event where the four founding members spoke, subsequently went viral.”
And it’s been used as the go-to insult ever since.
AOC is not the leader of a party. To use her as an excuse to not vote for Biden is pathetic in the extreme, and shows that your argument is weak as water.
Much easier to say “the squad” than “the four horsewomen of the apocalypse”.
You still haven’t shown that the Squad, or Biden, are actual dolts. MTG is an idiot of the highest order, as is TFG.
There is a difference between competent, thoughtful people who promote different policies than you like, and people who are idiots.
Why waste your breath? If there’s one thing that’s been proven in recent times, its that Greene, Boebert, Gaetz and their ilk will always have followers who, like them, have an inherent inability to think critically. It simply cannot be fixed. No amount of logic or evidence will change their beliefs. How these people get elected to office is beyond me. One of the weaknesses of a democracy is the possibility that someone wholly unfit for office ends up there, fair and square. Up to and including the highest office in the land. Now, it seems, that’s not good enough. They want to rig the system that not only allows for that possibility but guarantees it. I might have to look into the Nova Scotia real estate market that was hyped a bit back in 2016.