US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)

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?

 

[mandatorylurk]

Kristi Noem, super conservative, you can't use your power to fight back against government and corporations

I've been thinking, Noem has fallen further faster than even Jeb! did because there was at least those months before Trump ran where Jeb! was in position to make a better run at president.

 

[LurkTrawl]

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You WILL own nothing (not even a car) and be happy, pleb.

More like NYC will dry up like water in the Sahara.

I swear to God at some point the left and right switched sides.

Now it's the left that rants about violence in video games being harmful and problematic.

It's not that sides switched, it's that the authoritarian power-hungry assholes from one side gained more power than the other. The people that run shit don't care which side's crazy, would-be tinpot dictators they need to appease in order to ensure their own wealth and power grows - most of the shit they do for them doesn't affect them directly and the small amount that would they just make loopholes for themselves to avoid.

The religious right was every bit the useful tool as the progressive left is nowadays and it's no coincidence that they're so much alike.

 

[Salubrious]

I've been thinking, Noem has fallen further faster than even Jeb! did because there was at least those months before Trump ran where Jeb! was in position to make a better run at president.

Noem was revealed to be a neo-lib RINO even faster than Romney was.

 

[Terrifik]

Senate Republicans on Monday evening blocked a measure to fund the government and suspend the debt ceiling, carrying through on their threat to not deliver votes for a Democratic measure to raise the government's borrowing limit.

The vote tally was 48-50. Sixty votes were needed to advance the measure.

No Republicans voted for the legislation.

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The setback is the latest in a slow-motion brawl over how to fund the government and deal with the debt ceiling, which kicked back in on Aug. 1 with the Treasury Department using “extraordinary measures” since then to keep the government solvent.

Congress has until the end of Thursday to pass a government funding bill to avoid a shutdown the following day. The deadline for needing to deal with the country’s borrowing limit is less definite. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned congressional leadership they might need to take action as soon as next month.

Democratic leaders haven’t unveiled what their next step will be, but they are vowing to prevent a shutdown on their watch. In order to deliver on that promise, they’ll need Republican cooperation to speed up a government funding bill.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) initially voted to start debate but switched his vote — a procedural move that allows him to easily bring the measure back up for consideration.

"I changed my vote from yes to no in order to reserve the option of additional action on the House-passed legislation. Keeping the government open and preventing a default is vital to our country's future and we'll be taking further action to prevent this from happening this week," Schumer said.

If they punt the debt fight for now, they have options on funding the government, either sticking with the Dec. 3 end date or going with a bill to try to line it up with the potential “x” date in the coming weeks when Congress will have to address the debt ceiling.

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“Well, I don’t want to shut down the government,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), while noting Schumer has the final say on strategy.

A spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) didn’t respond to a request for comment, but Pelosi told reporters late last week that “we will keep our government open by Sept. 30, which is our date, and continue the conversation about the debt ceiling, but not for long.”

Republicans have warned for months, including just hours before Monday’s vote, that they won’t help Democrats raise or suspend the debt ceiling. Democrats voted with Republicans during the Trump administration to suspend the debt ceiling as part of larger funding packages.

“For more than two months now Senate Republicans have been completely clear about how this process will play out. So let me make it abundantly clear one more time, we will support a clean continuing resolution that will prevent a government shutdown. ...We will not provide Republican votes for raising the debt ceiling,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

McConnell and other GOP senators tried to bring up a short-term funding bill without the debt hike but Democrats blocked the attempt.

Democrats, meanwhile, tried to ramp up pressure on Republicans, warning that by shooting down the House-passed bill they are pushing the country closer to a default. Though the United States government has never defaulted, a similar standoff in 2011 resulted in S&P stripping the United States of its longtime AAA credit rating.

Schumer called the GOP position “unhinged,” arguing that there was a choice between “preserving our full faith and credit or vote in favor of an unprecedented default.”

They are “deliberately sabotaging our country’s ability to pay the bills and likely causing the country’s first-ever default in American history,” Schumer said.

Sixty-four House Democrats, including Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.), sent a letter to McConnell on Monday arguing that Republicans are risking the country’s economic recovery, after it took a massive hit last year when businesses closed during coronavirus restrictions.

“Holding the debt limit hostage ... is a dangerous, illogical, and irresponsible way to express that concern,” the Democratic lawmakers wrote.

But that’s done little to move Republicans, who are trying to force Democrats to raise the debt ceiling on their own through the $3.5 trillion spending package that they can pass without any GOP support.

McConnell, speaking on the Senate floor, noted that Senate Democrats hadn’t voted for raising the debt ceiling during the George W. Bush administration when Republicans controlled both chambers and the White House.

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But Democrats didn’t filibuster that debt ceiling hike, meaning Republicans were able to raise it on their own with a simple majority. GOP leadership has acknowledged that they have conservative members who are filibustering the government funding-debt bill, forcing Democrats to seek the higher target.

Republicans see a political advantage to forcing Democrats to raise the debt ceiling on their own through reconciliation: Doing so forces Democrats to raise the debt to a certain number, instead of doing a suspension through a certain date. The move would likely be fodder for campaign ads against vulnerable Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections.

Republicans also hope that adding the debt fight to the reconciliation bill will make it harder for Democrats to pass the $3.5 trillion package, where they are already facing internal pushback over both the scope and the details of the sweeping bill.

Democrats could amend the budget resolution to try to include the debt limit, though there’s no guarantee that it will line up with the spending bill. They’ve been reluctant to put that option on the table, pushing instead for a debt vote that is bipartisan.

The U.S. is on track to default on the national debt between Oct. 15 and Nov. 4 if Congress is unable to raise the federal debt ceiling, according to a forecast released Friday by the Bipartisan Policy Center.

This week: Democrats hit make-or-break moment for Biden
On The Money — GOP blocks spending bill to kick off chaotic week in...
Durbin said he expected Congress would need to act in a “matter of days” but didn’t endorse using reconciliation.

“I wouldn’t jump into any approach,” Durbin said, adding that “Schumer might have a better approach.”

GOP blocks debt limit hike, government funding

Senate Republicans on Monday evening blocked a measure to fund the government and suspend the debt ceiling, carrying through on their threat to not deliver votes for a Democratic measure to raise the government

thehill.com

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Gov. Newsom signs bill making universal vote-by-mail permanent in California

Every registered California voter will get a ballot mailed to them in future elections under a bill signed Monday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The law makes permanent a change adopted during the pandemic for the 2020 election and the recent recall against Newsom. California, the nation's...

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Gov. Newsom signs bill making universal vote-by-mail permanent in California​

"Well, it is finally official: Election Fraud is legal in the State of California!"

 

[CrippleThreat]

Kristi Noem, super conservative, you can't use your power to fight back against government and corporations

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I've been thinking, Noem has fallen further faster than even Jeb! did because there was at least those months before Trump ran where Jeb! was in position to make a better run at president.

Follow the money. Governor Noem certainly does:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/who-is-kristi-noem-really.100270/

Relevant sidebar: If Texas ever goes blue, and Abbot's still in power, bet money he'll shill for the technocrats fucking shit up.

 

[Puff]

Kristi Noem, super conservative, you can't use your power to fight back against government and corporations

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I've been thinking, Noem has fallen further faster than even Jeb! did because there was at least those months before Trump ran where Jeb! was in position to make a better run at president.

Bitch outed herself as an opportunist a long time ago, if I correctly recall.

 

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98%. I'm extremely confident the medically ineligible category would already make this impossible. This is the confirmation that it was never about herd immunity. Its shut up, sit down, and listen to your betters.

You couldn't get 98% if it was literally ordained from god and a cure for literal death. Failing that, a Zombie Plague. He's fucking insane.

The Right can learn a thing or two from that evil genius. This stuff is on par with Sun Tzu and Machiavelli.

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Radical Book Club: the Decentralized Left

Radical book club examines how to organize for power successfully. After reading Bryan Burrough’s DAYS OF RAGE, one of the things that really stayed with me was the concept of Institutions.

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radical book club: the Centralized Left

Radical book club examines how to organize for power successfully. The last installment of Radical Book Club focused on decentralized organization: important stuff, particularly for Righties lookin…

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radical book club: what Righties can do

Radical book club examines how to organize for power successfully. The first time I raised the idea of Righties learning from Lefties, a lot of people greeted it with derision. Plenty still do. Tha…

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Here's The Playbook Organizers Are Using To Take Down The NRA

Organizing isn't magic. The political campaign against the NRA is the result of a massive amount of hard work and planning.

thefederalist.com

Right Doesn't Need More Courage, But Better Training And Bigger Sticks

No magical elves are going to build your community for you. If people are afraid, don’t tell them that they’re cowards. Teach them how to stand up.

thefederalist.com

Here's How The Right Should Punish Outbreaks Of Campus Hooliganism

Why hasn’t every campus conservative group threatened their colleges with losing conservative alumni donations if they don't protect speech?

thefederalist.com

Hines covers this shit extensively. Including listing the exact books the left use to train their members. Allinsky is baby's first book, there are much more in depth and more insidious ones out there. In fact, the modern left kinda hates Allinsky because he let the cat out of the bag.

I've linked to copies of said books in a previous thread, but god only know which thread that was in.

 

[Weppers]

Yep, the Church of Liberalism. They have the exact same concepts too (blasphemy being the most obvious one, saints and sinners, self-flagellation, the practice of besmirching others and demanding repentance etc.)

I'm going to keep calling it "Critical Theory Dogma" and hope that I magically start seeing other people say it too.

 

[Gehenna]

@Terrifik

Senate Republicans on Monday evening blocked a measure to fund the government and suspend the debt ceiling, carrying through on their threat to not deliver votes for a Democratic measure to raise the government's borrowing limit.

The vote tally was 48-50. Sixty votes were needed to advance the measure.

No Republicans voted for the legislation.

ADVERTISEMENT
The setback is the latest in a slow-motion brawl over how to fund the government and deal with the debt ceiling, which kicked back in on Aug. 1 with the Treasury Department using “extraordinary measures” since then to keep the government solvent.

Congress has until the end of Thursday to pass a government funding bill to avoid a shutdown the following day. The deadline for needing to deal with the country’s borrowing limit is less definite. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned congressional leadership they might need to take action as soon as next month.

Democratic leaders haven’t unveiled what their next step will be, but they are vowing to prevent a shutdown on their watch. In order to deliver on that promise, they’ll need Republican cooperation to speed up a government funding bill.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) initially voted to start debate but switched his vote — a procedural move that allows him to easily bring the measure back up for consideration.

"I changed my vote from yes to no in order to reserve the option of additional action on the House-passed legislation. Keeping the government open and preventing a default is vital to our country's future and we'll be taking further action to prevent this from happening this week," Schumer said.

If they punt the debt fight for now, they have options on funding the government, either sticking with the Dec. 3 end date or going with a bill to try to line it up with the potential “x” date in the coming weeks when Congress will have to address the debt ceiling.

ADVERTISEMENT
“Well, I don’t want to shut down the government,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), while noting Schumer has the final say on strategy.

A spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) didn’t respond to a request for comment, but Pelosi told reporters late last week that “we will keep our government open by Sept. 30, which is our date, and continue the conversation about the debt ceiling, but not for long.”

Republicans have warned for months, including just hours before Monday’s vote, that they won’t help Democrats raise or suspend the debt ceiling. Democrats voted with Republicans during the Trump administration to suspend the debt ceiling as part of larger funding packages.

“For more than two months now Senate Republicans have been completely clear about how this process will play out. So let me make it abundantly clear one more time, we will support a clean continuing resolution that will prevent a government shutdown. ...We will not provide Republican votes for raising the debt ceiling,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

McConnell and other GOP senators tried to bring up a short-term funding bill without the debt hike but Democrats blocked the attempt.

Democrats, meanwhile, tried to ramp up pressure on Republicans, warning that by shooting down the House-passed bill they are pushing the country closer to a default. Though the United States government has never defaulted, a similar standoff in 2011 resulted in S&P stripping the United States of its longtime AAA credit rating.

Schumer called the GOP position “unhinged,” arguing that there was a choice between “preserving our full faith and credit or vote in favor of an unprecedented default.”

They are “deliberately sabotaging our country’s ability to pay the bills and likely causing the country’s first-ever default in American history,” Schumer said.

Sixty-four House Democrats, including Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.), sent a letter to McConnell on Monday arguing that Republicans are risking the country’s economic recovery, after it took a massive hit last year when businesses closed during coronavirus restrictions.

“Holding the debt limit hostage ... is a dangerous, illogical, and irresponsible way to express that concern,” the Democratic lawmakers wrote.

But that’s done little to move Republicans, who are trying to force Democrats to raise the debt ceiling on their own through the $3.5 trillion spending package that they can pass without any GOP support.

McConnell, speaking on the Senate floor, noted that Senate Democrats hadn’t voted for raising the debt ceiling during the George W. Bush administration when Republicans controlled both chambers and the White House.

ADVERTISEMENT
But Democrats didn’t filibuster that debt ceiling hike, meaning Republicans were able to raise it on their own with a simple majority. GOP leadership has acknowledged that they have conservative members who are filibustering the government funding-debt bill, forcing Democrats to seek the higher target.

Republicans see a political advantage to forcing Democrats to raise the debt ceiling on their own through reconciliation: Doing so forces Democrats to raise the debt to a certain number, instead of doing a suspension through a certain date. The move would likely be fodder for campaign ads against vulnerable Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections.

Republicans also hope that adding the debt fight to the reconciliation bill will make it harder for Democrats to pass the $3.5 trillion package, where they are already facing internal pushback over both the scope and the details of the sweeping bill.

Democrats could amend the budget resolution to try to include the debt limit, though there’s no guarantee that it will line up with the spending bill. They’ve been reluctant to put that option on the table, pushing instead for a debt vote that is bipartisan.

The U.S. is on track to default on the national debt between Oct. 15 and Nov. 4 if Congress is unable to raise the federal debt ceiling, according to a forecast released Friday by the Bipartisan Policy Center.

This week: Democrats hit make-or-break moment for Biden
On The Money — GOP blocks spending bill to kick off chaotic week in...
Durbin said he expected Congress would need to act in a “matter of days” but didn’t endorse using reconciliation.

“I wouldn’t jump into any approach,” Durbin said, adding that “Schumer might have a better approach.”
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GOP blocks debt limit hike, government funding​

Senate Republicans on Monday evening blocked a measure to fund the government and suspend the debt ceiling, carrying through on their threat to not deliver votes for a Democratic measure to raise the government

thehill.com

48-50, meaning two dems refused. Hello Manchin.

 

[737 MAX Stan Account]

Kristi Noem, super conservative, you can't use your power to fight back against government and corporations

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I've been thinking, Noem has fallen further faster than even Jeb! did because there was at least those months before Trump ran where Jeb! was in position to make a better run at president.

When I was younger, the RINOs were much better at keeping their mask on in front of their constituents, yet nowadays they can't even up their charade for more than a few months. What gives?

 

[Jaimas]

What we really need is to identify specifically every single avenue they used to facilitate their fraud and stomp on that shit as hard as possible. No more mail in voting past a certain date, no more extended "oopsie woopsie poopsie it's a week past election day but sure". No more of any of it, and the second they protest, refer them to this shit show.

If Arizona can pull it's head out of its ass and decertify and things go right in 2022 (rainbows in spirit plz) this may be THE best opportunity we get to finally implement voter ID requirements nationwide and finally remove the deadvotes and illegal votes from the democrat voter rolls.
Then we can finally begin work on the rest of what we need to do to fix this country, safe in the knowledge that without their election fraud machine as functional, their political power will go down by at least a third and probably more by my estimate.

I feel the need to point out something given my experiences. There's been an infamously long-held belief, even by the party fork-and-spoon operators, that the entire Dem policy apparatus is a farce and has been for years. It's not hard to see why the more cynical minds in the Dems would walk away with this assumption; there are so goddamn many cases of people who push actually good policy getting swept aside while the worst of a very bad lot are defended with everything the DNC has in its arsenal. It's fucking mesmerizing to see in the same way watching a disaster unfold is. Watching it, the only conclusion one can come to, watching them fuck up, time and time again, is that they are intending to do so, and thanks to the last half a decade or so, we know that is, essentially, the case.

With the news coming out of Maricopa, I want you to remember that that level of fraud emerged in an essentially blood-red district. Think of how often this shit goes on in the Blue stronghold districts without anyone being the wiser. People go on about how Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and New York City do this to themselves, but ask yourself how much of that is because of the True Believers and how much of it is because of shit like this. You'd never fucking know, and it goes a long way to explain why Dem standard bearers who have approval ratings lower than sexually transmitted diseases never seem to be beatable.

As someone who worked in the DNC, this surprises me effectively nil.

 

[Billy Beer]

lmfao

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I'm putting money on this being a scam.

Online teaching and online classes is much cheaper, less stress on the facilities/dorms and means lecturers have an easy as fuck life while creaming in the money.

Notice how harvard and co, don't lower or refund tuition. It's a giant scam that you can't question because covid is the plague and we al gun die

 

[Jaimas]

I swear to God at some point the left and right switched sides.

Now it's the left that rants about violence in video games being harmful and problematic.

You haven't been paying attention then. Jackyboy Thompson was literally backed by the fucking Democrats, most notably Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman. It's a major reason fucking no one who remembers the shit they did will back them.

The establishment Dems have always leaned in exactly one direction: Against you, and towards anything giving them control over your lives. Every time a Dem arrives that gives a shit and actually tries to help fix shit, they nuke that shit, usually with sex abuse allegations.

 

[Corn Flakes]

You couldn't get 98% if it was literally ordained from god and a cure for literal death. Failing that, a Zombie Plague. He's fucking insane.

98% is more than nations with comprehensive and non-controversial vaccination programs get after over a decade of yearly vaccination programs. Not even fucking polio reached that level of immunization. Smallpox went away with fewer people vaccinated against it. COVID would be gone long before we reached that level of immunization. Hell, it would turn into the equivalent of a seasonal flu just from general population exposure.

 

[Gehenna]

At this point, Manchin and Sinema are de facto Republicans. Manchin because he's angling for the governorship, Sinema because the AZ Republican party -owns- her now. Arizona is one of the few states that has a method of a recall election for its federal level senators, the news out of Maricopa and the general ill will means Sinema would lose -hard-. She has likely been made very aware of this, and very aware that unless she does what the AZ Republican party wants, she gets to lose her seat.

No fuss, no media circus, no fight. Sinema keeps her job, AZ gets a very 'Republican' senator. I admire the ruthlessness of it.

 

[Puff]

I'm putting money on this being a scam.

Online teaching and online classes is much cheaper, less stress on the facilities/dorms and means lecturers have an easy as fuck life while creaming in the money.

Notice how harvard and co, don't lower or refund tuition. It's a giant scam that you can't question because covid is the plague and we al gun die

College in general and Ivys in particular are a scam, so I don't get your point.

 

[Billy Beer]

College in general and Ivys in particular are a scam, so I don't get your point.

Less work, same money. Super scam. Scamception.

 

[Socrates]

You know, this whole pandemic making airlining a colossal pain in the ass could've been a great opportunity to increase ridership on amtrak. Easier marketing campaign ever: "No Mask? No Problem!" But since you're legally required to be mentally retarded in order to be a part of the gov't, they squandered that opportunity.

I take it you didn't hear about the latest derailment lmao

 

[Salubrious]

I feel the need to point out something given my experiences. There's been an infamously long-held belief, even by the party fork-and-spoon operators, that the entire Dem policy apparatus is a farce and has been for years. It's not hard to see why the more cynical minds in the Dems would walk away with this assumption; there are so goddamn many cases of people who push actually good policy getting swept aside while the worst of a very bad lot are defended with everything the DNC has in its arsenal. It's fucking mesmerizing to see in the same way watching a disaster unfold is. Watching it, the only conclusion one can come to, watching them fuck up, time and time again, is that they are intending to do so, and thanks to the last half a decade or so, we know that is, essentially, the case.

With the news coming out of Maricopa, I want you to remember that that level of fraud emerged in an essentially blood-red district. Think of how often this shit goes on in the Blue stronghold districts without anyone being the wiser. People go on about how Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and New York City do this to themselves, but ask yourself how much of that is because of the True Believers and how much of it is because of shit like this. You'd never fucking know, and it goes a long way to explain why Dem standard bearers who have approval ratings lower than sexually transmitted diseases never seem to be beatable.

As someone who worked in the DNC, this surprises me effectively nil.

It's kind of sad that practically every major city is deep blue shithole with no hope of getting better, yet everyone still thinks the Republicans are the problem. Chicago hasn't had a Republican mayor in NINETY years.

It doesn't help that the entire Democratic strategy seems to be (1) undocumented immigrants have more rights than Americans [remember when San Diego last year opened their in-person schooling to ONLY non-Americans?] or that (2) we'll give JUST enough money to the poor to keep them "not homeless" and then run on every election that the scary Republicans will take away their welfare checks. It's sad being a black man and listening to every Democrat basically say "any policy that doesn't assume black people are poor, helpless, lazy, or stupid is RACIST!" You can't expect black people to be able to go to the Registrar and get free IDs! You can't expect black people to be able to actually read the instructions on their mail-in ballots! You can't expect black people to actually succeed in a meritocracy!

I mean, THIS is Philadelphia. And this is not an aberration; EVERY major city looks like this now. And somehow Democrats are always talking about "well we just need to give poor people more money [so they'll keep voting for us]".