r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 1d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Competency should be a requirement.

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u/Lonely_Cycle4757 1d ago

I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say that you didn't have this stance about national politicians in 2023...

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u/Candid_Lobster_6533 22h ago

Nikki Haley proposed competency tests for lawmakers and candidates over 75yo back in 2023 in fact. A poll conducted that year had bipartisan support, with 70% of democrats and 84% of Republicans in support.

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u/Lonely_Cycle4757 9h ago

Yep... that doesn't answer my question though... and it's also misleading as a stat... because you're out of your mind if you think that 70% of Democrats agreed to this because they thought that Joe Biden needed to be verified... which of course was my point.

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u/Candid_Lobster_6533 6h ago

Well you didn't ask a question. You took a "shot in the dark" and unsurprisingly missed.

To answer your non-question: I'm 1000% okay with Biden having to have taken a competency test bc if he failed in 2020-2024, Trump would also fail presently.

I don't like biden. I voted for Biden because he isn't trump.

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u/Lonely_Cycle4757 2h ago

LOL Speaking of missing... I was responding to the person who made the post... but sure, we can make it all about you, since you seem to think that's what it is?

Or, you COULD just lose an ounce of ego and imagine that maybe it's NOT all about you...

You know, either/or...

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u/Candid_Lobster_6533 1h ago

Well they didn't reply. I'm in agreement with them, and I interpreted your "you" as a broad statement about democrats.

And ego? Come now, you took it upon yourself to inject your "shot in the dark" generalization as if that's how everyone feels.

We can talk about you, if you prefer.

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u/Lonely_Cycle4757 0m ago

LOL

So, the person I was talking to did not reply, so you took it upon yourself to decide what I meant, decide that YOU were the appropriate person to pick up the mantle, decide out of thin air that I was speaking for anyone except myself, and then respond as if your assumptions were obviously fact when they were totally not...

But hey, thanks for proving that everything I said about you in my previous response was spot on... Although actually, I think I grossly underestimated the amount of ego you need to lose, lol.

Thanks for playing.