Lame duck. You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Getting a negative swipe in under the guise of a compliment? I don’t think Biden is senile.
Just about everybody running for major office gets hair stylists, makeup artists, voice coaches, speech writers, etc.; even if they’re 36. That’s just normal behavior ever since Nixon lost to Kennedy.
Cite re the testosterone and HGH? Not that there aren’t legitimate medical uses for those that have nothing to do with senility, anyway.
Apparently, not a fan of satire…
Kind of hard to tell satire from serious, these days. I gather I got whooshed?
What the f*** is it with you Americans, I am British OK. We got a clown in office who may make us go broke and alone, shit bad divorce from Europe. Your clown is looking for world war three, fuc**** Big bird would be a better candicate for prez but you the mother f’ing people choose who has power. But prefer to piss against the wall to see who is better. Fuck that shit. What is it America needs to do to prove its place at the table of democracy. I ain’t going to tell ya. But get it wrong and you as a country will be on your own.
This. Biden is very qualified to do the job of being a President. Four decades in the Senate and eight years as Vice President mean that he’s well aware of how things get done in Congress, and presumably has the connections and skills to do so.
Maybe he’s not the most charismatic candidate to be nominated, or even the most charismatic that was running in the primary election, but he’s easily the one with the most actual practical experience in the Federal legislative process.
So I think he’ll do a good job, provided he doesn’t have a stroke or some other age-related issue that causes him serious issues.
ANY Democratic president runs the risk of being followed by that in these post-Tea Party days. It wouldn’t matter if we had FDR 2.0 in the White House, the GOP would be working up some ass to run against his “ruinous” agenda (which in reality is likely not far left of center).
That’s the issue these days- the Republicans have taken such a hard right/authoritarian turn between the Tea Party and Trump that there’s not any middle ground anymore for politicians to reach across the aisle into to get stuff done.
Hopefully (and it’s very optimistic), there’ll be a wholesale beatdown of GOP candidates come November, and the Republican party will take stock and realize that letting the Tea Party and/or Trumpers run stuff is a terrible way to go about business, and set about marginalizing them within their own party, and returning to something closer to center than they’ve been for the past 10-15 years.
I think the term “vision” is a bit overrated, but to the degree that he is not the most exciting of candidates to ever come down the pike, what he wants to do might get lost. And especially given the lack of campaigning all-around due to the virus. If I had to guess, I think Biden falls asleep at night thinking about all the things he wants to accomplish as president and be remembered for long after he is gone. Yes, he’s been in public service his whole life, but as president you have a much better chance of actually aiding in your goals coming to fruition.
Here are some things Biden wants to do, and I hardly think this qualifies him as just someone who wants to put another notch in his belt:
Raise federal minimum wage to $15
Free college for most (College for All Act)
Add a public option to the ACA
Triple funds for low income schools, to $48 billion
Etc, etc. Link: Joe Biden’s extensive policy agenda, explained - Vox
One might reply that he has to run on something, and he doesn’t really give a damn about actually helping anyone. I personally suspect he does though.
Wie heisst das “whooshed”? I have not been in your country long distance, and I am unfamiliar with your ways.
It is the sound of a word, phrase or argument going over one’s head, or taking a non-serious response as a serious response.
I think it’s just this board using the term; only place I’ve seen it, anyway. And while I was typing an explanation I realized Czarcasm had just done so.
Nah, it’s quite common over the internet. I’ve seen it on other message boards (including reddit), Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Not that I disagree with you that Biden isn’t going to fix the systemic problems that have led to Trump’s election, nor do I disagree that both Biden and Trump can be undeserving of your vote (I feel the same, frankly) but, really? You’d vote for Kanye if it wasn’t for the God thing? Because somehow a mentally unstable rap singer with a penchant for self-promotion, no public service experience nor the ability to put together a competent campaign that gets him on the ballot in all 50 states is preferable to Godless Trump or Catholic Biden? I can’t decide, but I’m leaning towards being far more disturbed by this logic than that displayed by 2020 Trump supporters. No disrespect intended, but mind blown.
Versus:
A hypothetical godless Kanye’s appeal wouldn’t be his lack of religiosity, but rather the very fact that he’s not an insider. I never believed for a second that Trump would actually “drain the swamp” (or even try), but that is something I very much would’ve liked to see. So yes, I would much prefer a disruptive force. Trump was a revolutionary of sorts, just on the wrong side: further entrenching corruption and malice. I want someone on the other side – for the people – but who would be willing to attack the system with equal fervor. Someone willing to actually drain the swamp, not add more monsters. Would Godless Kanye be that person? Probably not. Would he have been more disruptive than Biden? Maybe, if he doesn’t get puppeteered by the establishment the way Trump has. That Biden is an experienced insider isn’t a plus in my book, but one of the biggest negatives. Experienced = “I believe that the system is working.” I do not share that sentiment.
As for strong religiosity being a deal-breaker, of course it is. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s a mental illness, as far as I can tell. The belief that the world is secretly run by a powerful zombie, the bastard son of a rapey ghost, who’s just waiting for the right moment to come back to reclaim the earth for his adoptive sky-daddy, who’s actually himself, by vacuuming away worshippers into the afterlife… eh, that doesn’t sound like a good qualification for public office. And then to use that as justification for everything from slavery to genocide to reducing women’s rights to pedophilia to the entrenchment of white patriarchy everywhere… eh, no thanks.
As for Biden… I looked over his climate plan a few times (or at least summaries, analyses, opinions, and some parts of the full text). I think it really is a Green New Deal by another name, at least the most important parts of it: a climate action plan put into action by a labor stimulus program funded by corporate taxation. It’s a pretty big fucking deal to me.
I definitely have my reservations about Biden’s intent and ability to deliver that campaign promise, but it seems worth the risk…
I’m probably going to vote for him after all, unless something changes a lot between now and election day.
So is it a deal breaker or no?
I was responding to a post about Kanye. If Biden starts opposing abortion, etc., then yes, it would be a deal breaker.
Thankfully secular society has somewhat tempered the worst excesses of the Abrahamic religions in the USA. Still a long way to go, of course.
I know you were, but Biden is well known for being strongly religious. He’s a very faithful Catholic. And his faith guides his politics.
After all, according to your screed, Biden suffers from mental illness.
I still find it baffling that religiosity is a deal breaker but untreated and appatently debilitating mental health issues is not, to say nothing of utter ignorance of the rule of law, governmental procedure, and political processes.
I’ll never understand the lure of an outsider with absolutely no education, experience, or apparently even interest in political science. It’s like hiring a frycook to work on your electrical system because you don’t trust licensed electricians. Its like a huge multi-billion dollar company hiring a truck driver as its CEO. It makes no sense. Regardless of what you think of career politicians, POTUS should not be an entry-level position for any joker who thinks they have all the answers. Since it’s not a dictatorship, POTUS needs to have political skills and savvy that a rap star or failed real estate mogul/reality tv celebrity is not going to possess. “Political outsiders” may get by on city councils, state legislatures, and maybe the House, but the qualifications of a candidate for POTUS should be a lot more rigorous, exceptional and relevant to the job.
Yes. Who doesn’t, these days? It’s hard for anyone to find any optimism in the future, and if his faith guides him and gives him hope, well, I still think it’s silly but that’s his choice. I don’t really care what people believe, even if I think they’re crazy, unless they try to force that nonsense down my throat or use it to shape public policy. Biden hasn’t made religion a central point of his campaign (that I know of) the way Kanye has. Or am I wrong about that? As long as he keeps it in his pants, so to speak, and doesn’t use it to weaponize homophobia, sexism, etc. Religiosity is unfortunate but tolerable, up to a point. Hence the “strong”.
My entire life, I’ve seen Washington insiders accomplish nothing while worsening climate change, income inequality, gerrymandering, corporate power, the arbitrary use of violence against foreigners and our own citizens, etc. I’m not sure why you think a disconnected priest class whose primary qualification is a lust for power is automatically respectable. Political experience is tantamount to corruption experience. Social change in this country always bubbles up from the common people. If it were up to me, the office of the president would be symbolic and we’d have much more representation in the congress and courts, and civil service would be a draft like the jury. Power should never be that concentrated in one individual to begin with, and if it has to be, then yes, I would prefer that a decent commoner wield it than one who actively thirsts to be king. Shrug. You’re free to disagree, but that’s the rationale. It’s not some deep conspiracy, just a healthy suspicion of people who seek power for power’s sake, or spent decades in politics without fighting for meaningful change.