But Michelle Obama has basically no relevant qualifications.

What qualifications should be relevant? And why does close confidant and advisor to a president for 8 years not count in your mind?

Eisenhower would like a word. As would Hoover, Grant and the orange man.

has absolutely zero qualifications

This is completely false.

As some have touched on, this also means that the MAGA crowd will believe that by extension they are also entitled to immunity and will act accordingly.

I have news. This “rapid technological change” thing? It’s window dressing. At the end of the day it’s how humans relate to and interact with technology that matters, and humans haven’t changed. The core principles, that you develop a deeper understanding of with experience, really haven’t changed appreciably.

When professions are protected from competition by government, those participating in those professions get lazy.

Congrats! I know it’s early but this is definitely the silliest take I’ve read so far today.

I see orange man knows his Goebbels well.

It means: “Leftist” Who defends/supports regimes like Russia and China, and their use of Tanks to suppress thier opposition, hence the term.

LOL. Joe-bob over there thinks it means anyone who supports authoritarian & statist leftism but Sue-Ann thinks it means anybody who supports anti-Western states with a socialist history. Bubba and 8627of his friends just use it to mean, practically speaking, “leftists I think I disagree with but don’t really know because this is Lemmy and I never bothered to ask”.

Edit: or in other words, QED

He’s only unpopular because of bots, trolls, and the likes of fox “news”.

And a years-long campaign by Republicans to tap into people’s prejudices against old people. Never mind they’d struggle to name one actual policy position they’d disagree and haven’t bothered to learn of all the things they’d wholeheartedly support if they were just aware of them.

If Biden was 15 years younger he would be ahead of Trump.

So IOW people are just ageist.

Doubling down, too. Fascinating.

Doubling down on what tho?

What do you think you said? Because I took that as questioning their existence as well.

What I didn’t say was “there is no such thing as tankies”. And what I implied, albeit subtlety, was that people bandy about this term so freely that it can really only be taken as “people I disagree with who might be leftist-ish”. The use of the term has morphed so much over many decades that it means essentially nothing… or, “whatever I say it means”.

By some definitions, humans are in fact now robots.

“There’s no such thing as tankies” is the weirdest doublethink propaganda I’ve seen in a while.

Is that what you think I said? Interesting.

The leftist fifth columnist menace is the single greatest threat to American freedom and liberty.

Sure grandpa, sure. Let’s get you to bed!

Are these “tankies” in the room with you now?

Not to quibble but technically dispersed camping, according to the USFS, is camping anywhere outside designated sites. The distinction is important because people believe they can’t camp on USFS (or BLM) land for free, almost anywhere they want. In fact with relatively few exceptions and with a bunch of rules like time limits, proximity to water sources, fire restrictions etc etc, you can.

Which one is the drag queen?

Meow.

Surely you’re not implying you believe Biden actually has a chance after seeing his Debate performace. He barely won in 2020 and he’s a walking skeleton now that’s already behind in the polls.

I’m not implying it, I’m saying it. And your hyperbole doesn’t strengthen your argument. In fact, it’s downright ridiculous. This shit happens. It always gets blown out of proportion, no matter the candidate. Hell, Obama at one point was counted out because of a poor showing at a rally or debate early on - they said he was a terrible orator. LOL. In this case it happens to tap into a steady stream of GOP BS about Biden that seemingly many otherwise rational people on Lemmy have bought hook, line, and sinker.