Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?
US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)
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A moment of hubris, a moment of believing your own hype, a moment of ego getting the better of sense. All it takes to send a rising star crashing back down to Earth.
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So why is he running for governor? Does he think people reeeeing about abortion and covid will carry him? Are the Democrats throwing out a sacrifice for 2022 because they have nobody?
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It was awesome, he metaphorically took out a pistol and capped himself during the debate.
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Because Beto is desperate to regain the limelight, and they have fucking -nobody- else to run in Texas. He's the only one with even a vague following or relevance, as mauled as it is. They put millions of dollars into making Beto a thing, and have no money at all to raise up another person.
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Given how much you talk about how the Democrats look like they're running out of money in general, this doesn't seem like a winning move. Or even a sane one. Whatever sum they spend on Beto, small as they may be, is going to be throwing good money after bad.
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somebody has to be the Jeb
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Wouldn't the Castro brothers have a better chance since they're actually hispanic instead of an Irish guy larping as hispanic. Figured the DNC would throw their support behind one of them. I think one of them was even the mayor of San Antonio..
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They are in an unenviable position. Doing nothing is not an option, they have to run somebody. If they were to count it as a loss it'd be an open admission of weakness which would signal the Progs and RINOs to pounce. Keep in mind, the RINOs aren't merely controlled opposition, they were controlled by the simple fact that the Uniparty could offer them power and options through betraying their own side. They are, to a man, opportunists. The Progs are much the same, albeit less polite about it.
The DNC and Democrat Establishment, in general, need to continue to project an image of strength even as they take wound after wound. So they -must- run someone or they have to face the vultures gnawing on them at the same time an actual opposition is gunning for them. A war on two fronts. Beto doesn't require them to build a brand, and they can pretend its because he's so good. He's doomed to failure, but an easy sacrifice and the least cost for effort to fail without projecting weakness.
They'd possibly work, but the problem is building them up as a brand. Trying to unseat an incumbent governor is -hard-, and even harder if the one trying it has the wrong politics. They'd need to spend tens of millions to build them up as a brand, and they just don't have the cash.
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"HOLY FUCK" what? It's a routine diplomatic action and largely symbolic. Calm down. France recalling their ambassadors is just a way to show their displeasure with the decision and we'll be back to business as usual by Monday, maybe with a token sanction or painless retaliatory action in the coming weeks.
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This is what baffled me so much. They lost hard in 2016 and instead of going off to lick their wounds and analyze what went wrong they double downed on what wasn't working.The Dems are getting absolutely raw-dogged this year, aren't they? I guess cheating their way to the Presidency was, in hindsight, a Pyrrhic victory for them. Literally nothing has ever gone right for them this year. And yet, I bet this STILL isn't rock bottom for them.....let's see how low they can go!
So they jammed Biden in there only for Biden to be Biden. Dems are getting gored because they couldn't step away. They couldn't realize the game had changed.
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He was an idiot to give up his House seat to run for Senate, but Democrats always get cocky and think they can easily unseat Republicans in red states.
I never hear anyone talk about him anymore or any buzz surrounding him.
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I wonder how much they promised Beto for him to take that fall. Because while he might be impulsive and cocky, he never struck me as an utter retard. So he must know what's going on there.
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It's not that they didn't realize, but that stopping was never an option. Their entire existence was based on their own momentum. Too many checks were signed, too many deals brokered, and Trump managed to wreck many of them and leave them holding the back. And what he was saying he intended to do in his next term would have absolutely dismantled a ton of their entire apparatus. For the Uniparty, unseating Trump was a necessity. The problem is that the coalition they made to do it hated each other.
It's actually fairly common for people to go from the House to the Senate. Its often seen as a normal career trajectory, leading up to either a governorship or a position in a Presidential Cabinet. The Senate usually demands more experience from its members, more decorum and gravitas. So it wasn't stupid pf him if he had reason to believe he could win... and there's the catch.
I don't blame Beto for that, I blame whoever was advising him that he could win.
Probably nothing. The man is -ruined-, his little fuckup means he's political waste. If anything, he's paying them in favours to give him another chance instead of running a no-name Democrat.
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I can't wait for the future senator chat leaks where we learn about their favorite hentai and I can vote soely on the fact on whether or not they have shit taste
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Oh, a bit of side explanation since it might be relevant, how each party works for choosing candidates:
Democrats: It's basically a popularity contest. At the state level, low-level politicians attempt to first make a name for themselves, enough to be picked up into one of the countless cells and subsections of the Democrat apparatus. This is why there is such an unbelievably high number of former and current activists among the Democrats. They start on the ground level out of the political structure and get picked up when they make a splash.
From there, they continue to leverage their party acclaim into higher positions, always seeking to be brought on by someone sympathetic to the cause. Eventually, they work their way up to being the 'pet' of some politician. Having shown an unlikeliness to simply exploding and not having fallen afoul of either the machinations of their party or the realization of corruption, they now are in a position to run themselves.
From there, it's merely a matter of ambition. Aim for the highest position they think they can take, sink their teeth into it, and try to win the popularity contest.
Now, amplify this across any group of Democrats. Start small, become liked by someone in charge, use that to launch upwards. Welcome to every single democrat operation, from the lowest city position to the Speaker of the House. Nearly impenetrable to anyone not already inside of it, or who doesn't have the luck of the devil.
Republicans: It's a corporation. No, seriously. You apply for a job, work under some no-name bureaucrat. If you do well, he passes it up the chain and you get promoted. Now do this all the way to the presidency. It's a lot more orderly and a lot more boring. Where the Republicans notably break from the Democrats is that they are, like a corporation, more ready to acknowledge outside expertise. If you have valuable knowledge or experience, it lets you cut ahead in line and work your way up more quickly. Have enough of it and a bit of the good old popularity contest from the Democrats, and it can even net you major positions.
Democrats: It's basically a popularity contest. At the state level, low-level politicians attempt to first make a name for themselves, enough to be picked up into one of the countless cells and subsections of the Democrat apparatus. This is why there is such an unbelievably high number of former and current activists among the Democrats. They start on the ground level out of the political structure and get picked up when they make a splash.
From there, they continue to leverage their party acclaim into higher positions, always seeking to be brought on by someone sympathetic to the cause. Eventually, they work their way up to being the 'pet' of some politician. Having shown an unlikeliness to simply exploding and not having fallen afoul of either the machinations of their party or the realization of corruption, they now are in a position to run themselves.
From there, it's merely a matter of ambition. Aim for the highest position they think they can take, sink their teeth into it, and try to win the popularity contest.
Now, amplify this across any group of Democrats. Start small, become liked by someone in charge, use that to launch upwards. Welcome to every single democrat operation, from the lowest city position to the Speaker of the House. Nearly impenetrable to anyone not already inside of it, or who doesn't have the luck of the devil.
Republicans: It's a corporation. No, seriously. You apply for a job, work under some no-name bureaucrat. If you do well, he passes it up the chain and you get promoted. Now do this all the way to the presidency. It's a lot more orderly and a lot more boring. Where the Republicans notably break from the Democrats is that they are, like a corporation, more ready to acknowledge outside expertise. If you have valuable knowledge or experience, it lets you cut ahead in line and work your way up more quickly. Have enough of it and a bit of the good old popularity contest from the Democrats, and it can even net you major positions.
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These are all good points but honestly I think one other factor is that they also actually think that Texas is purple now.
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The possibility of that died screaming with Texas' new voting law. It's why they put up such a massive fuss over it.
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It's being partially covered up by the fact that most of the Republicans only now realized it and many still don't.
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I'd argue, that the majority of those who 'don't', do realize that things have changed, but are not sure if it's a permanent change or if the Uniparty will end up victorious in the end.
In such a scenario, it's wise to play dumb and side with the winner in the end.
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Well, shit. Everybody was screeching so hard about Texas' new abortion law, I barely heard anything about voting laws. I can't find any articles online that aren't just autistically screeching about how rayciss Texas is for restricting voting options in "diverse" areas, so what's the gist of those?
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