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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Here's based Joe Biden in 1994 talking about Haiti. Needed archiving.
Wargarbl
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Occam's razor: Joe has less authority than the cabinet members and high-ranking staff that would normally resign or be removed by the president for causing extreme embarrassment. Ergo, Joe is a puppet.
Other possibility: Joe and/or the shot callers believe everything is going exactly right, so why would they fire anyone?
Either is kind of horrifying.
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Blake Chortles
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Biden is a demented corpse who legit doesn’t have an unhospitalized year left at the current rate of progression. No one is gonna take a fall for him.
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Christ, listening to him speak back then and him speaking now is night and day. It really drives home how frankly geriatric he's become.
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Exactly. People don't outsource things like this to China because they have the best capability by any means, and it probably wouldn't have even been "cheaper". No, you hide research like this in China because you don't want the fact that you're the one behind the scenes to reach the light of day. Suppression is one of the only things the chinks excel at.
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Biden scrambles between multiple political fires
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-scrambles-between-multiple-political-151825154.html (https://archive.ph/qVoJY)President Joe Biden cut a beleaguered figure Thursday as he raced to extinguish political fires on the left and right, at home and abroad, in an attempt to save his hopes of transforming the United States.
Whether it's war, diplomatic incidents, economic shocks or an obstructionist Congress, all presidents feel the heat sooner or later.
Biden's feeling all those flames at once.
To the south, there is the human and national security drama of thousands of Haitian migrants abruptly appearing across the border from Mexico and camping under a Texas bridge.
To the east across the Atlantic there is a disgruntled ally in France, furious at losing a conventional submarines contract when Australia accepted an offer for US nuclear submarines.
All over the United States there is the fight against Covid-19, which Biden declared on the way to being defeated in July, only to see it roar back with the Delta variant.
And right in Washington, the 78-year-old president faces the mind-boggling task of juggling a Republican opposition eager to wreck his presidency and a Democratic Party flirting with self-destruction.
"I've been here for cliffs and crises and wars, and this is going to be the biggest mashup we've ever had since I've been here," Democratic congressman Peter DeFazio, from Oregon, told NBC News.
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DeFazio was talking about the perfect storm brewing in Congress, where Republicans are fighting Democrats over Biden's agenda and Democrats are fighting themselves.
Put simply, Republicans and Democrats did agree earlier this year -- back when Biden's presidency seemed to be going far better -- to pass a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill.
This was good news for America's crumbling bridges -- and for Biden's promise that he could heal national divisions.
However, the real prize was Biden's push for a separate, mammoth $3.5 trillion social spending bill that he argues will redress gross inequalities by reforming taxes, reinforcing education and resisting climate change.
On this, he never had Republican support, yet with Democrats holding a narrow majority in Congress he didn't have to worry.
That was the theory.
Fast forward to this week and both the smaller and bigger packages are on life support, with conservative Democrats insisting on whittling down the $3.5 trillion figure and leftist Democrats threatening to reject the $1 trillion version if the bigger version isn't passed first in its entirety.
Gleefully watching the infighting, Republicans have upped the tension now by refusing to join Democrats in authorizing more government debt.
In previous years this has been a largely uncontroversial, bipartisan decision that simply allows the government to keep borrowing so it can pay its bills.
This time, hardball-playing Republicans are forcing the Democrats to take the decision by themselves, apparently to try and portray them as spendthrifts. Democrats so far refuse to cave in, insisting that Republicans join them.
Worst case scenario?
Paralysis in Congress. Current debt limits max out some time in October. The borrowing spigot dries up. The government shuts down. And the United States defaults on debts, sending stock markets into a panic.
"I have no idea how it all works out," DeFazio said.
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The mess -- especially the Covid rebound and the ugly Afghanistan withdrawal -- has made Biden deeply unpopular.
His latest Gallup approval rating of 43 percent is at Donald Trump levels and marks a plummet from 56 percent in June.
Yet for now, the veteran Democrat has not lost his trademark sunny optimism -- or belief in his vaunted experience as a lifelong Washington insider.
On Wednesday, he got on the phone with French President Emmanuel Macron to bury the hatchet in the submarine spat.
Then he spent hours in the White House with different Democratic factions to air out differences on the spending packages.
Biden is "rolling up his sleeves," Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, brushing off doomsayers by describing the congressional impasse as "a messy sausage-making process."
But even Psaki, master of the half-glass-full narrative, acknowledges that her boss is up against it.
"Well, I think the country is going through a lot right now," she replied when asked about his plunge in the polls.
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It's kind of funny how people question this. It's been forever but I seem to recall Biden didn't exactly sweep in the primaries. He pretty much got the spot because everyone just dropped out.
The fact it took so long to find someone willing to be VP for him, and it was Copmala who was BTFO right away, should say a lot too.
He was always a puppet/the fall guy.
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Think of all of the shit that was flung at Trump. All of the lies, media collusion, impeachments and screeeching and he still managed to get a lot done at home and abroad.
Biden can't cope or handle anything, even a press that is not allowed to ask questions and get corralled out of the room when a visiting world leader dares to answer an unscripted question.
Biden can't cope or handle anything, even a press that is not allowed to ask questions and get corralled out of the room when a visiting world leader dares to answer an unscripted question.
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Still the same old racist, self serving old man.
Bolo
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If that is the case, then he is the worst fall guy in history and the Democrats are beyond retarded.
A fall guy needs to be someone of no real consequence, a no name burocrat that won't impair the party's public image in any shape or form.
Joe Biden is the face of the democrat party, and the goddamend president of the United States, and his fuck ups aren't just his, it is his entire party who already had a pretty bad reputation of being incompetents blowhards, too in love with their own progressive rethoric, but too damn dumb, lazy and incompetent to follow through, and Biden is just proving it.
So, again, why isn't anybody taking the heat for the old man, or are the dems that stupid.
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He is the face of the "old" Democratic party.
The old guard that everyone has been bitching about endlessly for a decade now.
TPTB are using the face of the old guard as the fall guy to bring about the great reset.
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Conservatism without religion will never work.
When you don't have a higher power that you hold yourself accountable to, you will eventually replace it with your own narcissistic sense of divinity, and suddenly the rules can be bent and anything justified to suit your needs.
Excessive religion is bad just like anything in excess, but a healthy dose of religion does keep a society held together. "In God We Trust" wasn't coined just o sound cool.
However, the reality is that both left and right are increasingly secular with very little suggesting we're going back anytime soon. The left seems to be replacing God with themselves, while the right seems to be (slowly) abandoning God and just sticking with country and family.
Conservatism is also an ideology based around survival. Very little that does nothing to ensure or facilitate survival passes through in conservatism. It's why gay rights was extremely low, if ever, on the priority list; homosexuality does nothing to advance our family or our species, and there's bigger problems to worry about like maintaining our food and shelter than if gays aren't looked at like weirdos.
But America is, for the most part, no longer a place where survival is hard. In a society where your survival is all but guaranteed and your food/shelter is secured, you suddenly have time to focus on issues that any other place would deem retarded to discuss.
Is it any surprise that liberalism is popular in the coasts and in areas of opulence? Is it any wonder that NEETs and parasites are the biggest advocates of woke/identity politics? Meanwhile the poorer a nation is, the more religious and conservative (for the most part) it seems to be?
Liberalism can only thrive where society is already successful.
However I'm getting off-track.
My point is that conservatism that doesn't adhere to religion and takes place in a 1st world society is conservatism that won't last, especially if that nation is non-homogenous (thanks Obama) and as every household has a different view on what "real" conservatism is and what is/isn't acceptable, as opposed to those old books written by men who claimed to be inspired by God and simply carrying out his will that societies used to embrace as the gold standard for their agreed-upon values/morals.
Hence why I think nationalism is taking it's place instead; most on this thread love 20th century America, but have different ideas about God/ethics/values. What unites us isn't conservatism, and I'm willing to bet that prior to 2004 most would be DNC-alligned.
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I will say my stance of feeling bad for Biden hasn't changed. He's ludicrously corrupt, a liar, and incredibly incompetent. But I don't think that's who we elected, I think that man left long ago. I think people recognized he was a big name, dementia be damned, and instead of letting him live out the rest of his days they stuck him on a podium after giving him a ton of drugs to make him more coherent.
Then they rigged everything so he'd win, none of the people that voted for him would question him being "the most popular president ever" cause the media just spammed BIDEN GOOD TRUMP BAD 24/7.
Now that he's won his condition is just getting worse and worse and they're losing control over him day by day. You can't blackmail someone with dementia who has no idea what or when they did anything worth blackmailing.
"We will verify Hunters laptop" will be answered with "Who's hunter? Oh my son? Does he want a laptop?". Any corruption claims mean nothing to him cause he won't remember doing them, assuring himself he's innocent.
This entire situation is insanely sad, and on the biggest stage in the world. I legit hate the Democrats platform. I hate barely anything but I hate what these people stand for so much.
Then they rigged everything so he'd win, none of the people that voted for him would question him being "the most popular president ever" cause the media just spammed BIDEN GOOD TRUMP BAD 24/7.
Now that he's won his condition is just getting worse and worse and they're losing control over him day by day. You can't blackmail someone with dementia who has no idea what or when they did anything worth blackmailing.
"We will verify Hunters laptop" will be answered with "Who's hunter? Oh my son? Does he want a laptop?". Any corruption claims mean nothing to him cause he won't remember doing them, assuring himself he's innocent.
This entire situation is insanely sad, and on the biggest stage in the world. I legit hate the Democrats platform. I hate barely anything but I hate what these people stand for so much.
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You do realize that the Democrats literally voted MTG out of committees earlier this year, right?
I'd probably have a huge chip on my shoulder and have a "fuck it" attitude, too.
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It's still stupid, albeit funny to witness. THese are the people in charge.
Leon Breitling
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The tag on a shirt and old-man neck skin is supposed to mean what exactly?
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Haven't you seen Mission Impossible?
Garth
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Is Freddy and the gang going to stroll out, pull off the mask and reveal someone? And please, I beg of you good people, format the size of your fucking images.
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