I disagree with almost everything he believes. I don’t feel the need to defend or rationalize his beliefs.
Biden 1st term
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There is a wide gulf between defending and trying to see a different point of view.
Look, the Catholic Church has had a lot of chances to be on the right side of history and morality, and frankly, it has whiffed on A LOT of them.
You won't see me try to explain or defend, say, killing 700 indigenous Canadian kids, or hiding pedophilia for decades, practically institutionalizing it.
Do I think the RCC is a horrible remnant of a different Era with backwards views on most moral and social rifts? Yes I do.
Do I think that means the RCC is automatically in the wrong and utterly indefensible on everything? No, I do not. Trying to look at an issue and understanding several different points of view (excluding the "let's just kill them all" style extremes) is a valuable learning experience and might change or shift your own points of view. Or it might at least help you understand how to better away people to your position. Considering all people on the other side of some imaginary line as automatically Evil, Wrong, and indefensible just puts you in an echo chamber and won't help anyone.
Look, the Catholic Church has had a lot of chances to be on the right side of history and morality, and frankly, it has whiffed on A LOT of them.
You won't see me try to explain or defend, say, killing 700 indigenous Canadian kids, or hiding pedophilia for decades, practically institutionalizing it.
Do I think the RCC is a horrible remnant of a different Era with backwards views on most moral and social rifts? Yes I do.
Do I think that means the RCC is automatically in the wrong and utterly indefensible on everything? No, I do not. Trying to look at an issue and understanding several different points of view (excluding the "let's just kill them all" style extremes) is a valuable learning experience and might change or shift your own points of view. Or it might at least help you understand how to better away people to your position. Considering all people on the other side of some imaginary line as automatically Evil, Wrong, and indefensible just puts you in an echo chamber and won't help anyone.
I misunderstood this initially so here's my new response:
I think that pedophilia is ok because if I said it would bad that would make me no different than people who say that other things are bad that might not actually be bad.
We got him boys @FBI
He was always so quiet, kept to himself, never really caused any ruckus. We never suspected anything.
--Patrick
As milqtoast and pathetic Joe often is politically, he has CLEARLY had enough of everyone's shit already.
Annnnnnddddd, Just stump the stupidity when the morons show up with what they've said instead of engaging . . . .
They should have been doing this shit when Obama was in office.
They should have been doing this shit when Obama was in office.
Like a boss
Biden event has hecklers. "It's fine, let them talk. No one cares."
Trump rally has protestors. "Get those sons of bitches out of here."
Trump is the First Amendment President.
Trump rally has protestors. "Get those sons of bitches out of here."
Trump is the First Amendment President.
This just in: there are people who believe that he won't be president next year because he'll be impeached when the "red wave" hits in November.
Just one little problem: the maths says there's no realistic way the GOP will have 67 votes in the Senate to remove him from office. And maybe someone needs to go over their civics courses they didn't have in their private/charter schools that would have told them that removal from office would mean that VP Harris would then become President.
Just one little problem: the maths says there's no realistic way the GOP will have 67 votes in the Senate to remove him from office. And maybe someone needs to go over their civics courses they didn't have in their private/charter schools that would have told them that removal from office would mean that VP Harris would then become President.
GasBandit
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NUH UH WE'LL INCLUDE HER
OK even if that was how it worked, which it isn't, next in line is the Speaker of the House.... Nancy Pelosi.
(Sound of QOP head exploding)
We can just keep going 'till we hit the person we want! Which will of course be... Speaker? Whip? Whatever, Trump.
I mean, if the republicans take the house she wouldn’t be.
GasBandit
Staff member
Fair point. I forgot the other part of the delusion.
Biden, despite his claims otherwise in getting elected, will never do a fucking thing to help your student debt issue.
www.businessinsider.com
A judge approved $100,000 in student-loan forgiveness for a 35-year-old man who filed for bankruptcy. Biden's education secretary just took the first step to block that decision.
Ryan Wolfson achieved the rare feat of obtaining student-loan forgiveness through bankruptcy. He's had trouble holding a job because of his epilepsy.
www.businessinsider.com
I am in the process of getting some of debt taken care of due to his temporary student debt relief. It might not be enough or fast enough for you but it is literally true that I am going to benefit from Biden's student debt relief.
Also, it says in the editor's note at the top that they are withdrawing the appeal.
Same here. We were at $54K for one of the wife's student loans before the interest freeze, and are now at $34K. That might not seem very big, but it's huge when you consider interest.
figmentPez
Staff member
Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court.
Dave
Staff member
I like the pick (from what I know of her which is admittedly not much) but I think Biden fucked up by saying black woman before even starting his search. Had he given a short list with a myriad of people and THEN picked her I think it would have defanged the right's belief that her only qualification is race & gender. The way Biden did this means that her race and gender were, indeed, the main reason she was looked at before qualifications.
Honestly, if he had given a list that included any white men on it, he would have gotten flak from the left. There is no appeasing people who hate you for the party you belong to. Let them complain because there are loads of qualifies judges of almost every gender and ethnicity.
You would have thought he would have learned after he did the exact same thing and got saddled with Harris.