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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The French Revolution was a social contagion, and so is the current 'Successor Ideology' ravaging the Anglosphere and its dependents.
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French Reject American 'Woke' Culture That's 'Racializing' Their Country
Younger French activists have embraced political correctness, but older members of the establishment have reservations.
www.newsweek.com
After French President Emmanuel Macron recalled his ambassadors from the U.S. in the wake of a submarine deal with Australia that was torpedoed by President Joe Biden's administration, French media are now reexamining everything about America.
The latest target? "Woke" ideology.
One of France's leading magazines, Le Spectacle Du Monde, ran a cover story titled "The Suicide of America." The magazine blamed America's retreat from Afghanistan on "a woke dictatorship" and questioned whether the American "empire was collapsing."
In the same issue, an article faulted U.S. universities as islands of extremism, where even students' Halloween costumes are policed, citing Yale University as a place where "offensive" costume-wearers were punished.
A few miles from where U.S. soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy, a conference of leading politicians, journalists and intellectuals devoted a panel to "America's woke ideology." Some panelists seemed alarmed by the trends they saw in American society, including alleged "woke" censorship by Twitter, Facebook and other U.S. tech giants.
Former French Prime Minister Alain Juppé and Agence France Presse CEO Fabrice Fries listened attentively to the panel.
The "Tocqueville Conversations" are an annual conference held at the Chateau de Tocqueville, the stone castle where Alexis de Tocqueville wrote his masterpiece, "Democracy in America." For years, "Democracy in America" was assigned in American high schools and colleges as a friendly analysis of the American experiment.
Jean-Guillaume de Tocqueville, a lineal descendant of the 19th-century liberal philosopher, who presides over the conference, is also friendly to America. He works at the Paris office of Jones Day, a major U.S. law firm. (Full disclosure: Tocqueville is an investor in Zenger News). Still, the panel was full of criticism about the perceived decline of free speech in America.
"Our mantra is that we should talk even if we strongly disagree. Nothing prevents you from talking and exchanging and dialoguing," Jean-Guillaume de Tocqueville told Zenger, shortly after the 2021 Tocqueville Conversations concluded.
The Autumn 2021 issue of "Le Spectacle Du Monde" magazine.VIRGINIA VAN ZANDT/ZENGER
"The French Revolution was an event that led to a bloody civil war because the people who were not in agreement with the new ideas, the really revolutionary ideas, were just killed and beheaded," he said. "It was not a good way to debate."
Some American panelists also used the forum to fault America's speech codes.
"If speech opposes that preferred narrative, we are told it is itself an act of violence. So speech is violence. And responding to such speech with actual violence is an act of self-defense. I think that this is at the core of what is happening to us," said former U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Janice Rogers Brown.
The term "woke" itself has become controversial in the U.S., even as it becomes more widely used in France.
"The progressive political community in the U.S. believes in working together with integrity and dignity as we reckon with our past and build a better future. We don't use the word "woke" to describe ourselves or our values. However, conservatives in this country use "woke" as a loaded and pejorative word to criticize progressives, hoping to divide and distract as they take our freedom to vote and deny us the resources our families and communities need to succeed," Andrea Catone, executive director and co-founder of Action Together Network, told Zenger.
The French are far from united in their opposition to "woke" American philosophy.
The Tocqueville chateau, site of the Tocqueville Conversations.THIBAULT LAFONT
While younger French activists have embraced political correctness, older members of the political and cultural establishment have reservations about the controversial ideology.
The emphasis on racial relations that "wokeness" brings is a stark contrast to the universalism prominent in France since the French Revolution. While American social initiatives often prioritize race, France relies on a color-blind model by allocating resources to students and others based solely on financial status. This legal and cultural difference makes it easier for the French to criticize the Americans.
In an interview with Elle magazine earlier this summer, President Macron said American-imported "woke culture" is "racializing" France and creating more division among minorities. Macron's comments are seen by some as an attempt to cultivate moderate voters in France, as he is up for reelection in April 2022. The election is expected to be close.
Macron's anti-woke sentiment is widely shared in his government, even by the delegate minister for gender equality and diversity, Elisabeth Moreno, a Black woman born in Cape Verde, off the coast of western Africa. In a televised interview with Bloomberg, she praised the increased awareness on social issues, but rejected cancel culture because it can "kick out people from ongoing debates because they think otherwise."
The French have been wary of "wokeness" for a while. The country's reckoning over the "Me Too" movement against sexual abuse and harassment came to a head in 2018, when a group of more than 100 prominent French women, including actress Catherine Deneuve, penned a letter claiming the movement had gone too far. The women warned of "puritanism in the name of a so-called greater good" and compared the new feminist movement to a "witch hunt."
The letter received volleys of criticism from prominent French feminists, including Sandra Muller, the founder of "BalanceTonPorc" (which translates into English as "expose your pig"), the French equivalent of the "Me Too" movement.
Attendees of the Tocqueville Conversations listen to a panel in Tocqueville, France, in September 2021.THIBAULT LAFONT
When "BalanceTonPorc" came for Dominique Boutonnat, a powerful French producer accused by his godson of sexual assault and attempted rape, activists were quick to point out that Macron previously appointed him as the president of the National Center for Cinema.
Macron is a vocal supporter of equal rights for women and the French version of the "Me Too" movement, but said during a speech on the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women in 2017 that he doesn't want to see a society where "every man/woman interaction is suspected of domination."
As the French wrestle with the changes "wokeism" may bring to their society, a new book in the United States is addressing its effect at home.
"The two most toxic ideologies of the 20th century were Nazism and Marxism. In my opinion, Nazism was identity politics on steroids, and Marxism was an oppressor narrative on steroids. The combination of the two is actually modern wokeism that was born in the United States," said Vivek Ramaswamy, author of Woke Inc.
"I do think" said Ramaswamy "that it's actually becoming one of America's most toxic exports, the rise of modern wokeness."
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This will all end in tears, I just know it.
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Pedophile: My daddy said when someone was bad, he meant that that person was lazy. And a lazy person couldn't be part of the big picture. Because in my house, you were either part of the big picture or you were lying down on the job. And if you were lying down on the job and you weren't part of the big picture, then the langoliers would come and take you out of the picture, take you out of it altogether. He said you'd be lying in bed one night and you'd hear them coming towards you—crunching, chomping, and smacking...
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Imagine thinking you can just use the National Guard as scabs to replace workers that won't allow you to make medical decisions for them.
This is an unsustainable situation. Wonder how the collapse will occur.
This is an unsustainable situation. Wonder how the collapse will occur.
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It could all be lies and fake news, but googling his net worth and history, he's not worth that much for someone who has been in congress for 30 years: https://www.rollcall.com/wealth-of-congress/ . He didn't hold office till he was 40, and again this is just wikipedia info so maybe he wrote it himself, but he held a number of jobs between college and mayor of podunkberg. Maybe he was a shitty carpenter and had to find other work, I dunno.
I think the left has a deep bench of sleazy motherfuckers to demonstrate how morally bankrupt they are, but I think Bernie is one of those true believers who legitimately cares about people and would be the first against the wall AFTER the revolution because you can't have that sort of person around. You're not wrong though, I'm pretty low information when it comes to voting and can't always articulate why I like a candidate. In 2020 I wrote in Tulsi and just voted against every single incumbent regardless of party.
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Europeans: Actually, you Americans don't have a far left like we do here in Europe...
French President: American's leftism is fucking nuts.
French President: American's leftism is fucking nuts.
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If the French are getting involved, maybe the boys are getting back together!
Maybe they saw what Ronald Reagan did with the air traffic controllers and thought they could do it with healthcare.
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bro they're just fucking mocking us at this point. they know that we know they know we know,but they still fucking dance around like the disgusting gremlins they are.
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He lived off his family money and while he worked odd jobs here and there as a hippie in Vermont he never held a steady job until he got elected to office. He's also a deadbeat father who let Vermont taxpayers take care of his son while he was off larping as Vermont Jewish Che Guevara. So sure, he's a true believer, a true believer in getting rich of the state and letting it pay for his obligations.
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This will all end in tears, I just know it.
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BRB moving to Kentucky so I can vote for this Chad.
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Where the fuck is the fire department? They need to hose down all these sick burns Sen Paul is giving out.
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Someone tell this white man its illegal to own people.
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Sounds like a true communist tbh
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Their unions and major school district groups are trying to get parents declared as domestic terrorists lol.
There are no winners here, just a lot of assholes and shitheads everywhere who only care about themselves.
Teachers are heavy Democrats to begin with.
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You can be excused for believing the hype in 2016.
However, if you looked again in Bernie's 2020 campaign, it suddenly changed from rejecting illegals to wholeheartedly embracing them for votes.
He's not a true believer. He is a sheepdog who plays at being a true believer, like Elizabeth Warren.
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Only blue states are going to shit, the deep blue states. The red states are overall in better shape.
Seems like the blue states are ran by suicidal boomerlibs scared of death and willing to drag America into hell.
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Goddamn, they look more geriatric than normal when together. Just hobbling along with that unsteady gait, Joe looking dazed while she clearly appears uncomfortable with the Alzheimer’s-patient-esque image and sensation that his hand-holding provokes. She knows this horror as she’s far more coherent than he is.
They’re both far past their use-by dates, but Biden looks fucking dire. Like an old ventriloquist dummy pulled from a dusty attic. Like Bernie Sanders, I trust that he, too, smells of mothballs and death.
A drop of the hard R would be legendary, but I would also consider it a win if he used an outdated slur that sees lesser use these days- like spook, darkie, coon, or porch monkey. Reagan almost said the gamer word when talking about Huckleberry Finn and his friend…Jim.
There’s also this, but he was directly quoting a memo- cheap to fault even him for that.
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