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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This thread moves way too quick, but some pages ago people were discussing if the pandemic will be declared over.
The thing is Hollywood needs it to be over. I had a surreal experience when I visited a movie theater first time in over a year with my family that wanted to see the new Bond movie (luckily it wasn't as pozzed as I feared):
There are these displays that show which movies are running and when. It was straight lines of 007: No time to die mixed in with two showings of Dune. There existed no other movies. The whole industry is at a standstill. To make it worse I remember reading an article that said that the new Bond movie needs now to make 1 billion dollars to make even. This is due to the movie sitting on the shelf for a year due to covid. They had to release it now or face harsh financial penalty.
Hollywood is dying and soon all the actors will start demanding answers from the government and all the normie NPCs will follow them. It is an unsustainable position.
The thing is Hollywood needs it to be over. I had a surreal experience when I visited a movie theater first time in over a year with my family that wanted to see the new Bond movie (luckily it wasn't as pozzed as I feared):
There are these displays that show which movies are running and when. It was straight lines of 007: No time to die mixed in with two showings of Dune. There existed no other movies. The whole industry is at a standstill. To make it worse I remember reading an article that said that the new Bond movie needs now to make 1 billion dollars to make even. This is due to the movie sitting on the shelf for a year due to covid. They had to release it now or face harsh financial penalty.
Hollywood is dying and soon all the actors will start demanding answers from the government and all the normie NPCs will follow them. It is an unsustainable position.
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Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Obama withdrawn troops in Iraq the same way Biden did with Afghanistan.
Dammit Mandrake!
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Nigger, having you for a mayor is enough, GO. THE FUCK. AWAY!!!
Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/nyregion/bill-deblasio-governor.html
Archive: https://archive.is/qEifc
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Bill de Blasio Thinks He Could Be Governor. Does Anyone Else?
A run for higher office by New York City’s mayor might be viewed skeptically across the state, but he says he wants to remain in public life.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has begun to tell people privately that he plans to run for governor of New York next year, according to three people with direct knowledge of his conversations with fellow Democrats and donors.
Mr. de Blasio, who has been a polarizing figure during his two terms in office, has also sounded out trusted former aides about their interest in working on a potential campaign, according to two people who are familiar with those contacts, and has made other overtures to labor leaders about a possible bid. His longtime pollster conducted a private survey to assess Mr. de Blasio’s appeal beyond New York City. And publicly, too, he has increasingly made it clear that he wants to remain in public life.
“There’s a number of things I want to keep working on in this city, in this state,” Mr. de Blasio said last week, noting his interest in public health, early childhood education and combating income inequality. “That is going to be what I focus on when this mission is over. So, I want to serve. I’m going to figure out the right way to serve and the right time to serve.”
Mr. de Blasio’s move toward a possible run for governor comes even as the city he now leads faces extraordinary challenges and an uncertain future, and should he enter what may be a crowded and well-financed field, he would face significant hurdles.
His approval ratings in New York City have been low, according to the sparse polling that is publicly available, and he faces deep skepticism elsewhere in the state — an environment similar to the one he confronted, unsuccessfully, in his 2020 presidential bid. A run for governor would be contrary to the better judgment of even some people he considers allies, as well as that of many party leaders across the state.
“Osama bin Laden is probably more popular in Suffolk County than Bill de Blasio,” said Rich Schaffer, the chairman of the county’s Democratic committee, who endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday. “De Blasio, I would say, would have zero support if not negative out here.”
At a debate during New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary this year, the candidates were asked to raise their hands if they would accept Mr. de Blasio’s endorsement. Only one contender did so — a sign of the mayor’s standing in his own party.
He could also face significant competition in the city, let alone the rest of the state. New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, who, like Mr. de Blasio, is from Brooklyn, is thought to be nearing a final decision concerning a possible campaign. Jumaane D. Williams, another Brooklyn Democrat and the city’s public advocate, has already begun exploring a potential run, and others in the party are also weighing whether to get into the race.
Asked whether New York should have another white male governor — Ms. Hochul is the first woman to lead the state; Ms. James and Mr. Williams are Black, and Ms. James could be the first Black woman to govern any state in the country — Mr. de Blasio appeared to brush aside the question last week.
“We need people of all backgrounds to be involved in government,” he said.
His plans could change. Peter Ragone, the adviser who may be closest to Mr. de Blasio’s deliberations, insisted that the mayor had not made a determination.
“The simple fact is that he hasn’t made any final decisions at all about what he’s doing next,” Mr. Ragone said. “The mayor believes in public service because he can do things like push universal pre-K and 3-K. That’s why millions of New Yorkers have voted for him in the past 12 years, to the dismay of political insiders.”
Many New York Democrats are incredulous that Mr. de Blasio would run and, simultaneously, believe that he may do so, pointing to his failed presidential bid as proof that he has an appetite for challenging campaigns and a steadfast belief in his own political potential.
Marc Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive and unsuccessful candidate for governor in 2018, said that many of his fellow Republicans, as well as independent voters around the state, blamed Mr. de Blasio for the “rise in crime and the deterioration of the economic and social strength of New York City.”
Even so, Mr. Molinaro, who said he gets along well with Mr. de Blasio, warned that it would be unwise to discount the mayor’s political prowess.
“I would not underestimate his ability to develop a coalition within his party,” Mr. Molinaro said. “He’s very skilled at that.”
Mr. de Blasio’s allies, too, note that in his mayoral runs, he assembled a diverse coalition in the nation’s largest city, with strong support from Black voters, although that dynamic is hardly guaranteed to transfer to a potentially crowded field in a statewide race.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights leader, said that he had spoken with Mr. de Blasio about a potential run recently but that the mayor had not indicated whether he had reached a final decision.
“He has some standing in the progressive community, he has some standing in communities of color,” Mr. Sharpton said. “He should not be taken lightly.”
Other veterans of New York politics were less interested in discussing the mayor’s future prospects.
“I very seldom pass, but I don’t want to get involved in anything that would be negative,” said Charles B. Rangel, the former congressman from Harlem, after laughing when asked for his thoughts on a potential run by Mr. de Blasio. “And I cannot think of anything positive.”
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Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/nyregion/bill-deblasio-governor.html
Archive: https://archive.is/qEifc
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Bill de Blasio Thinks He Could Be Governor. Does Anyone Else?
A run for higher office by New York City’s mayor might be viewed skeptically across the state, but he says he wants to remain in public life.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has begun to tell people privately that he plans to run for governor of New York next year, according to three people with direct knowledge of his conversations with fellow Democrats and donors.
Mr. de Blasio, who has been a polarizing figure during his two terms in office, has also sounded out trusted former aides about their interest in working on a potential campaign, according to two people who are familiar with those contacts, and has made other overtures to labor leaders about a possible bid. His longtime pollster conducted a private survey to assess Mr. de Blasio’s appeal beyond New York City. And publicly, too, he has increasingly made it clear that he wants to remain in public life.
“There’s a number of things I want to keep working on in this city, in this state,” Mr. de Blasio said last week, noting his interest in public health, early childhood education and combating income inequality. “That is going to be what I focus on when this mission is over. So, I want to serve. I’m going to figure out the right way to serve and the right time to serve.”
Mr. de Blasio’s move toward a possible run for governor comes even as the city he now leads faces extraordinary challenges and an uncertain future, and should he enter what may be a crowded and well-financed field, he would face significant hurdles.
His approval ratings in New York City have been low, according to the sparse polling that is publicly available, and he faces deep skepticism elsewhere in the state — an environment similar to the one he confronted, unsuccessfully, in his 2020 presidential bid. A run for governor would be contrary to the better judgment of even some people he considers allies, as well as that of many party leaders across the state.
“Osama bin Laden is probably more popular in Suffolk County than Bill de Blasio,” said Rich Schaffer, the chairman of the county’s Democratic committee, who endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday. “De Blasio, I would say, would have zero support if not negative out here.”
At a debate during New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary this year, the candidates were asked to raise their hands if they would accept Mr. de Blasio’s endorsement. Only one contender did so — a sign of the mayor’s standing in his own party.
He could also face significant competition in the city, let alone the rest of the state. New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, who, like Mr. de Blasio, is from Brooklyn, is thought to be nearing a final decision concerning a possible campaign. Jumaane D. Williams, another Brooklyn Democrat and the city’s public advocate, has already begun exploring a potential run, and others in the party are also weighing whether to get into the race.
Asked whether New York should have another white male governor — Ms. Hochul is the first woman to lead the state; Ms. James and Mr. Williams are Black, and Ms. James could be the first Black woman to govern any state in the country — Mr. de Blasio appeared to brush aside the question last week.
“We need people of all backgrounds to be involved in government,” he said.
His plans could change. Peter Ragone, the adviser who may be closest to Mr. de Blasio’s deliberations, insisted that the mayor had not made a determination.
“The simple fact is that he hasn’t made any final decisions at all about what he’s doing next,” Mr. Ragone said. “The mayor believes in public service because he can do things like push universal pre-K and 3-K. That’s why millions of New Yorkers have voted for him in the past 12 years, to the dismay of political insiders.”
Many New York Democrats are incredulous that Mr. de Blasio would run and, simultaneously, believe that he may do so, pointing to his failed presidential bid as proof that he has an appetite for challenging campaigns and a steadfast belief in his own political potential.
Marc Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive and unsuccessful candidate for governor in 2018, said that many of his fellow Republicans, as well as independent voters around the state, blamed Mr. de Blasio for the “rise in crime and the deterioration of the economic and social strength of New York City.”
Even so, Mr. Molinaro, who said he gets along well with Mr. de Blasio, warned that it would be unwise to discount the mayor’s political prowess.
“I would not underestimate his ability to develop a coalition within his party,” Mr. Molinaro said. “He’s very skilled at that.”
Mr. de Blasio’s allies, too, note that in his mayoral runs, he assembled a diverse coalition in the nation’s largest city, with strong support from Black voters, although that dynamic is hardly guaranteed to transfer to a potentially crowded field in a statewide race.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights leader, said that he had spoken with Mr. de Blasio about a potential run recently but that the mayor had not indicated whether he had reached a final decision.
“He has some standing in the progressive community, he has some standing in communities of color,” Mr. Sharpton said. “He should not be taken lightly.”
Other veterans of New York politics were less interested in discussing the mayor’s future prospects.
“I very seldom pass, but I don’t want to get involved in anything that would be negative,” said Charles B. Rangel, the former congressman from Harlem, after laughing when asked for his thoughts on a potential run by Mr. de Blasio. “And I cannot think of anything positive.”
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it won't matter. trump never did worse than Bush on the polls either. hell Biden is actually doing worse than trump pre-Jan6th, the problem is that despite dems clearly being awful at governing they're better than the alternative, or at least saying they are.
Its like how abusive parents will give you the chance if you threaten to call CPS, calling your bluff "go ahead an try living with some random person who'll probably rape you or beat you worse"
the california recall election proved that, it doesn't matter how much someone sucks, a good chunk of people will stay the course when met with the alternative. its why primaring people is near fucking impossible in the modern age as well. Sure most people thing Biden sucks but because the reasons are so varied he won't get voted out of office, same reason Gavin or any curent Dem running for reelection in 14 months wont, hell every election comming up in about a month shows none of them flipping away from the Dems either. Beyond that with the way everything is tracking, the economy will get a huge boost by this time next year, the film industry is recovering and their unions are just asking for a 12 hour workday maximum (something our literal founding fathers were able to guarantee most citizens 200 years ago), whatever shortages we have now will be mostly a thing of the past, again by this time next year. honestly its just a matter of keeping the inflation at the steady clip its been going the past 14 months for the next 14 months.
you'd think that but pretty much every politican/person/idea ends up getting a boost when people are polled with the current option or whatever nutcase is the alternative. you'd be surprised how much of that disproval is probably because Biden isn't executing everyone more conservative than jessica yaniv.
TL;DR you'll know if Biden is truely fucked when the late night hosts start fucking him.
does anyone know where that place really is? SW isn't known for its studio space in fact quite the opposite.
that makes the most sense outside of the fact that they dont need to care, Obama was caught redhanded for fucks sake Jon Stewart was caught being given fucking marching orders not a single person in his entire sphere even called him out. which doesn't sound like much to you, but when you think about how many NYC comedians and how many political operatives there are; it might as well be all 7 billion on the planet gave even the smallest of contributors a free pass. so all this hard work would basically be for nothing. especially when gathering all this evidence would greatly help when Kamala steps up, they could fashion some "VP pulls the strings but good-actually" narrative and paint her as this Dick Cheney for good type who was forced to deal with some bigot's bullshit while trying to save america. Its genuinely a massive waste of time, anyone that cares about those logs wasn't going to vote for him anyway.
its true, one thing Biden had that the rest didn't was a huge backlog of favors and Dem base support (minorities+women) hell way back when he first announced running SNL even mocked blacks+women for being ok with his bullshit. And in something like an election especially one where you know what the other side is trying to do (get a rainbow coalition of minorities+women on the trump train) its extremely smart to have someone on your side that will be able to put a stop to their plans. i don't know when Biden was chosen by the backroom (it might have been back in 2017) but the way the DNC schedule shook out, it was clear they wanted a candidte that could get the support of minorities and women. they clearly chose biden even before the whole season started, they just used the massive field as a smokescreen to get him through the season without anyone noticing. you can see that with Bloomberg's entire arc, he was a massive biden supporter even before throwing his hat in the ring, openly said he would only run if biden dropped, then joinned in to basically make sure the more socialist lefties focused away from joe and onto him. Its actually quite amazing how the whole election season shook out, but you can say that for literally every primary.
I personally love it because its the first one where it was truely a massive larp by the DNC, on a reality show scale. It was just the Joe Schmo show with Bernie as the dumbass. Bloomberg was just a parody of trump, warren a harpy that attacked him on women+minorities issues, Pete attacked him on age-related issues, Steyer on his financial policies, Klobuchar on rust belt issues, yang was there to take weird twitter support away from him. Biden was the guy who would end up wining because Bernie couldn't/wouldn't focus on him. AKA the friend. the only difference is that unlike the Joe Schmo show, Bernie was a piece of shit instead of an earnest nice guy who grew easily attached to people, which meant the DNC was perfectly justified in making him as miserable as possible.
have you seen the latest box office numbers? its pretty clear that since the summer the only thing keeping people away is 1. no movies coming out and 2. being able to watch at home instead. And its clear Hollywood knows this because the next 3 months are full of fucking great films. WB+disney shot themselves in the foot with their Day+date bullshit. but 4th quarter 2021 doesn't look much different than 4th quarter 2019. Next years looking sweet too. literally all they need to do is make sure a strike doesn't happen, and considering how generous the terms are, (12-on, 12-off with harsher penalties+cost of living increase) they'd be dumb to let it happen.
i'd be legitimately surprised if 2022 doesn't end up being a great year, literally the only way it wouldn't happen is if we have some death plague hit or if hollywood was told to let the people strike so that the hollywood drones would be forced to work jobs at the ports(won't happen different union job) to help with container ship backlog.
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As I mentioned before, there are various factions that don't want the pandemic to end for different reasons. But perhaps worse than those for the Biden administration are the people that mentally can't handle it ending.
When you've been producing fear porn for close to two years now, you've psychologically fucked over a lot of people who have become absolute paranoid nutjobs over a glorified cold. They keep themselves shut-in as much as possible, and if they have to go out, they double-mask and sanitize everything. They're deathly afraid of a disease that they have an overwhelmingly good chance of getting through without issue, all because the media keeps telling them to be. Never once do they look around them and realize that no, the world isn't ending.
And even those who don't go to those extremes might still treat a declaration of the pandemic ending with skepticism. It's hard to switch messaging when you've been saying one thing for years, and you also run the risk of accidentally saying it's over before another wave occurs. Even if said wave is less severe, you still look foolish, a real "Mission Accomplished" moment. And that's more of a credibility loss that they really don't need right now.
The good news is that for most of us, it's already over, no matter what the government says or does. I haven't worn a mask except to go to one store that still requires them for some reason, and to donate blood the last time I went. Fewer people are bothering to wear them in general, and nobody really sticks six feet apart. Store workers are usually required to wear masks by corporate, but I've never once been hassled by a wagie to put one on, barring that one exception. For me, the pandemic's been over for half a year now, and I'm just waiting for everyone else to catch up.
Either way, the feds are in a hole they dug for themselves, so fuck 'em.
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They won't demand answers. They'll demand another bailout.
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This is sure to go over in Vermont like a lead balloon.
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Memo: Biden Admin Weighing Plans To Send Migrants to Vermont - Washington Free Beacon
The crisis on the southwest border is forcing the Department of Homeland Security to consider flying migrants all the way to Vermont for processing, according to internal documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
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Memo: Biden Admin Weighing Plans To Send Migrants to Vermont
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>bringing the migrants to the sheltered, happy and ignorant blue North East.This is sure to go over in Vermont like a lead balloon.
Memo: Biden Admin Weighing Plans To Send Migrants to Vermont - Washington Free Beacon
The crisis on the southwest border is forcing the Department of Homeland Security to consider flying migrants all the way to Vermont for processing, according to internal documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Memo: Biden Admin Weighing Plans To Send Migrants to Vermont
archived 7 Oct 2021 14:12:28 UTC
Genius thinking. It's things like this that won him the presidency.
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Vermont will either accept it or Bernie will shake one of his tiny fists and call them racist.This is sure to go over in Vermont like a lead balloon.
Memo: Biden Admin Weighing Plans To Send Migrants to Vermont - Washington Free Beacon
The crisis on the southwest border is forcing the Department of Homeland Security to consider flying migrants all the way to Vermont for processing, according to internal documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Memo: Biden Admin Weighing Plans To Send Migrants to Vermont
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Biden admin doesn't have much choice, people like I have been writing up some rather nasty reports to our GOP employers about where best to put the migrants to minimize electoral damage. To the point we... more or less neutralized it in Wisconsin.
The surprising thing is that, for the first time in a long time, it was our employers asking us to write them up. So yah, Biden can send the immigrants to purple states, but he can't control where they settle. That goes to the -republican- state legislatures and mostly governors. Evers decided to not contest it.
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I have actually looked around on Twitter before to see how accepted “Latinx” is in that progressive echo-chamber and even there, when a big entity or person uses the term you see a lot of Hispanic and South American people responding to say “stop using that term, we don’t want it and you’re forcing it on us” or “I would literally rather be called a slur than Latinx”. Usually a lot of ‘gringo’s thrown in too. The only people using it are white SJWs and companies on the bandwagon and the Latino population knows it.
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Amazing how "injunctions" are granted all the time for things like the "texas abortion law" or illegal immigration while it plays out in court, but no injunctions are granted for all of these vaccine mandate lawsuits.
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The only time I've seen hispanic or latino people using "latinx", they were almost always university educated and paler than I am, and I literally set on fire when the sun is too bright.
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This might be the only good thing Biden has done since....ever.This is sure to go over in Vermont like a lead balloon.
Memo: Biden Admin Weighing Plans To Send Migrants to Vermont - Washington Free Beacon
The crisis on the southwest border is forcing the Department of Homeland Security to consider flying migrants all the way to Vermont for processing, according to internal documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Memo: Biden Admin Weighing Plans To Send Migrants to Vermont
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Anyone who actually speaks Spanish hates what Latinx is proposing: essentially turning every last letter in every word to -x because "its gendered." For an English equivalent, its like replacing vowels with "q". Have fun saying "cqr" or "Mqssqssqppq."
"Chingx tu madrx, putx."
How to you even pronounce this? How do you understand thia colloquially in a conversation? How do you go about rewriting every book with this batshit format? How do convince people to change their language over night? They think because white people are partially indoctrinated, and that they vote majority (for now) for Democrats like joggers, Hispanics will follow like them like liberals and blacks.
Spoiler alert: It's not going to happen. They aren't going to give up their language for feefees.
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Also Hollywood Hispanics. But your right that's the only Hispanics I see who go along with it
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My company's email had a similar wait and see approach, but our CEO is a hardcore Blue No Matter Who type that has been signing every email, even if unrelated to corona, with "Go get the jab". The only reason they haven't forced it on us yet is that they know a vast majority of their employees are of the "Let's Go Brandon" crowd and will jump ship if the jab gets forced.
I know I will.
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I can't, I'm not from Essex.
They don't care. They literally do not give a shit. Asking a question like that makes you a racist cultural appropriator nazi scum for even daring to question the sanity of it.
The truth is, you aren't supposed to pronounce it any differently, you're just supposed to blindly accept the new spelling because they said so. It's only and entirely about exercising power over people by forcing them to conform to insanities. They presume to scream at reality itself until it bends to their whims.
I assume it'll fall by the wayside eventually, like womyn or womxn did (though I suspect that one is still around), but in the meantime they'll do amazing amounts of damage to race relations wherever they insist on its use, because nothing says racial harmony like hijacking an ethnicity you don't inhabit and a language you barely speak, and then completely mangling both to own the huwites.
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Here's the thing: As an entertainment industry, unlike say, banking or the auto industry, they already have a built-in bailout: it's called their fucking audience. You know, the people they've kept telling not to watch their increasingly shitty movies ("IF YOU'RE A WHITE MALE, DON'T SEE THIS MOVIE")? Maybe if they stopped pinching woke turd logs in our mouths for 15 fucking seconds and offer us something we actually want to watch, they wouldn't be suffering as hard right now.
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