President Joe Biden

[deegee33]

Thanks, I appreciate you building on top of my analogy. It actually took me a while to think of that one and I was very deliberate to settle on that one.

That's not what I said and I think you're aware. My choice of analogy was in response to someone else too remember.

For people like myself who don't pay much attention to the political landscape we only see so much. I see a lot of Trump hate. I see a lot of Republican hate. Most of the information I receive off of social media is generally some kind of negative response to some right wing (apologies if the wrong term) angle or action or stance or whatever. I put this down to my demographic and social circles. As a result I personally don't see much Democrat hate or Republican love in, or Trump love in. I very rarely have political conversations to begin with, especially those outside of my social circles and demos that would likely support these ideals.

Point is, because I don't actively pay too much attention, I very rarely see anything pro Republican, pro Trump, and in this case Democratic related either way. I spent a good year wondering why everyone was getting so hyped about Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain when everyone in the US was talking about AOC, for example. I know what Trump did about keeping immigrants in cages and stuff was bad because my social media was filled with very upset people, but that doesn't tell my anything about what the Democratic policy would be.

Now this entire election has been TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP. Here's what he's had to tweet. Here's what he said in front of the Alabama gun fuckers club. Here's him giving an interview where he's saying that Iran will pay for their deeds. Blah blah blah. Also here's what his crazy son said...

Meanwhile I really know nothing about Biden. Like nothing. Well I knew he was Obama's VP, and he was pretty popular at the time. He was constantly referenced on a show I watched called Parks and Recreation, but that's about it. This stuff about him being creepy is news to me. That's how out of the loop I am. So comparing him to Obama, Bush, Clinton etc seems far beyond my remit. It's probably not right, but given it's politics of another country to my own I don't feel it's my responsibility per se to keep up with it if I don't want to.

As you can see by my post history, I haven't made any efforts to interact on this election until election night itself, where I was mostly asking what was going on. It's generally easier for someone who gets what's going on to explain it all to you, as many have above for me, than to go away and do the research on something you're admittedly ill-informed on.


So me personally, I only asked because I genuinely don't know, and didn't see the point in asking until I was sure Biden would win. This is a 320 page 7 month old thread that is not worth going through if I can avoid it.


As an aside, I've noticed on social media such as this and many others, asking questions can be difficult. I think so many people can be so dickish and sly and argumentative to one another that we've reached a stage that when someone comes along asks a question it is assumed that they MUST have an angle (because they often do). I've merely asked whether Biden will be good or not, and now two people have kind of suggested that it's the old enlightened centrist angle (my friend taught me that term) of pretending to be neutral when actually I'm pushing a right wing agenda. I can see why both did it, and I've probably done it myself 1000 times in the Jesus thread. But it'd be nice given my obvious lack of presence and history of not being a wum to at least assume I was posting in good-ish faith.

I admire your candor. I have no answer for you, but start paying attention and hold on tight.

 

[mccity]

I admire your candor. I have no answer for you, but start paying attention and hold on tight.

Thanks. I don't have anything to gain pretending I know more than I do on an obviously extremely serious set of issues. I know bits here and there, maybe a smidge more than I've let on to, but nowhere near enough to actually make any inferences on it either way. Which I'm 99% certain is half the reason why so many people do get so much wrong, which evidently for this kind of stuff is potentially dangerous to the extreme.

I do find eventually when people see that you're genuinely ignorant as opposed to mischievous they open up, but fuck me there must have been some right pricks over the years to get people guarded like that.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Thanks. I don't have anything to gain pretending I know more than I do on an obviously extremely serious set of issues. I know bits here and there, maybe a smidge more than I've let on to, but nowhere near enough to actually make any inferences on it either way. Which I'm 99% certain is half the reason why so many people do get so much wrong, which evidently for this kind of stuff is potentially dangerous to the extreme.

I do find eventually when people see that you're genuinely ignorant as opposed to mischievous they open up, but fuck me there must have been some right pricks over the years to get people guarded like that.

Yes there were.

Having said that, take some time and do some research on the guy. You’ll learn 1000x more than from anyone here.

 

[mccity]

Yes there were.

Having said that, take some time and do some research on the guy. You’ll learn 1000x more than from anyone here.

Yeah I have no excuses anymore, time to do my own homework. But importantly I have a platform of the responses here to know that if/when I click on an article entitled 'Why Biden is bad for America's women' (as a hypothetical example), then I know it's likely misinformation.
So thanks :)

 

[buckshot]

The title of this thread should be President-Elect Joe Biden

 

[urban genie]

To be honset Biden is a liberal typical democrat capitalist yank.
And the **** thinks he's Irish ;-)


He will jist re-ajust american governance to the norms of global politics, doubt he will be some great force

 

[manimanc]

This geezer is 78!!. 78!!
I'm not saying he's going to do a bad job but isn't he a bit too old to be running a country and making huge decisions?
I didn't realise his age until now.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Thanks. I don't have anything to gain pretending I know more than I do on an obviously extremely serious set of issues. I know bits here and there, maybe a smidge more than I've let on to, but nowhere near enough to actually make any inferences on it either way. Which I'm 99% certain is half the reason why so many people do get so much wrong, which evidently for this kind of stuff is potentially dangerous to the extreme.

I do find eventually when people see that you're genuinely ignorant as opposed to mischievous they open up, but fuck me there must have been some right pricks over the years to get people guarded like that.

I started in here not that far ahead of you.
Ive gleaned a lot of information about the American system from my fellow posters.
I have followed CNN for a while now also at lunchtime during Covid.
Stick with it.
You’ll find regardless of how cautious people may be of new posters in here you can ask questions. You’ll be sussed quickly enough if you’re wumming, but equally too, it’ll be noticed if you’re not.

Regarding Biden.
As I very concisely answered you first time around, time will tell.

I hope he’s given time and the GOP don’t continue this horrible line of tactics of playing the man every time.
He has his work cut out for him and there are a lot of problems over there. Normality wouldn’t be such a bad thing at the moment though. Things were getting far too heated.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

no doubt hes pretty old to be running a country, but as with most things in life i think its best to judge a person on how they perform not on how you think they will perform.

 

[blueparrot]

To be honset Biden is a liberal typical democrat capitalist yank.
And the **** thinks he's Irish ;-)


He will jist re-ajust american governance to the norms of global politics, doubt he will be some great force

Don’t think anyone expects a great force, just a sensible hand on the tiller after the storm of Trump. And much safer than an unbridled re- elected Trump.