Cont: The Biden Presidency Part II

[Stacyhs]

There was a famous and controversial (at the time) science fiction story published by E.C. Comics in 1953, "Judgment Day". A human astronaut visits a planet inhabited by sapient robots in order to determine if they're ready for membership in a Federation-style organization. Some robots are orange, and others are blue, with the orange robots being in charge while the blue robots perform menial or unpleasant jobs, live in squalor, and have few rights. The orange robots claim that this is natural, since the blue robots are intellectually inferior and can't do any better, but the robots are physically identical other than their color. The real difference is that the orange robots receive full educational programming when constructed, while the blue robots only receive rudimentary programming, forcibly keeping them in their inferior position.
(The controversy came from the final panel, in which the astronaut removed his helmet and was revealed to be black, producing a reaction similar to what was shown in the DS9 episode "Far Beyond the Stars" when it was reprinted in 1956, post-Comics Code.)

 

[zorro99]

1 in 3 Americans say violence against government can be justified, citing fears of political schism, pandemic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ified-citing-fears-political-schism-pandemic/

 

[gnome]

1 in 3 Americans say violence against government can be justified, citing fears of political schism, pandemic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ified-citing-fears-political-schism-pandemic/

Wording. "Can be justified" is vacuous. The entire US was founded on violence against government being sometimes justifiable. So asking people that way doesn't really tell you anything.

 

[Fast Eddie B]

Wording. "Can be justified" is vacuous. The entire US was founded on violence against government being sometimes justifiable. So asking people that way doesn't really tell you anything.

Agreed. I’d probably be among the 1 in 3.

 

[Delvo]

Not only was the country founded on it, but the schools consistently prime students for it by talking about that revolution as a good thing.

 

[Fast Eddie B]

“And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

Thomas Jefferson, in a 1787 letter to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams

 

[catsmate]

Ah Biden. So nice to see a US President who can speak coherently, use words properly and string those words into sentences that carry ideas. Something of a difference from "the former president".

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Ah Biden. So nice to see a US President who can speak coherently, use words properly and string those words into sentences that carry ideas. Something of a difference from "the former president".

Yeah, the plating of this turd sandwich is much more graceful

 

[Stacyhs]

Some people need to get over Bernie losing.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Some people need to get over Bernie losing.

Beyond parody.

 

[Cain]

By some polling, Joe Biden has higher unfavorable ratings than the guy who, just one year ago, attempted a coup.

 

[acbytesla]

By some polling, Joe Biden has higher unfavorable ratings than the guy who, just one year ago, attempted a coup.

By some polling the week before the election the previous guy wins reelection in a landslide.

 

[Delvo]

Some people need to get over Bernie losing.

Beyond parody.

Some people need to get over the fact that Bernie was who people actually wanted. (...and/or the fact that Biden keeps proving us right.)

 

[Cain]

By some polling the week before the election the previous guy wins reelection in a landslide.

What polls were those? Rasmussen??

 

[acbytesla]

What polls were those? Rasmussen??

I don't remember.

What I do know about polling is how worthless it can be unless it's against an opposing candidate. Give me some Trump beating Biden tomorrow. Then I won't sleep for a few years.

 

[Aridas]

Some people need to get over the fact that Bernie was who people actually wanted. (...and/or the fact that Biden keeps proving us right.)

To poke at this, I'd disagree a little. Elizabeth Warren was who the plurality of Democrats actually wanted, IIRC. They just didn't think that she was as electable. With that said, though, the constant MSM attempts to nitpick and create conflict certainly did hurt her chances.

 

[Delvo]

Elizabeth Warren was who the plurality of Democrats actually wanted, IIRC.

In a poll which asked people not only their top choice but also the order of the rest after that, she was the most common #2 for a while. That was before she started trying to turn herself into Hillary.

 

[Stacyhs]

Some people need to get over the fact that Bernie was who people actually wanted. (...and/or the fact that Biden keeps proving us right.

That's why Bernie beat Biden in the primaries and became the Dem nominee.

Oh, wait.....

 

[Cain]

I don't remember.

What I do know about polling is how worthless it can be unless it's against an opposing candidate. Give me some Trump beating Biden tomorrow. Then I won't sleep for a few years.

A poll showed Trump beating Biden tomorrow is still subject to three years of possibility. What's remarkable is that Trump still enjoys new-normal approval/disapproval ratings after a disastrous term and an attempted coup.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

A poll showed Trump beating Biden tomorrow is still subject to three years of possibility. What's remarkable is that Trump still enjoys new-normal approval/disapproval ratings after a disastrous term and an attempted coup.

Because of, I would say.
Right-wingers have been conditioned to believe that every battle might be their last before the NWO takes over and takes away their rights.
Admitting that their leader went too far would mean admitting defeat in a battle of a war for survival.