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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He doesnt mean money, he means quid pro quo You think Zuckerberg will do it without being repaid ? without laws that favor him without kickbags ?
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I'm confused regarding that first quote.
Also of course Zuckerberg won't do it for nothing. The current Facebook moderator or whatever kerfluffle is exactly what he wants.
Also of course Zuckerberg won't do it for nothing. The current Facebook moderator or whatever kerfluffle is exactly what he wants.
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What do you when your President's approval ratings are in the garbage, you can't pass anything in Congress and your propaganda outlets can't do anything to improve the situation? Why, you bring out the RINOs
We Are Republicans. There’s Only One Way to Save Our Party From Pro-Trump Extremists.
(archive)
By Miles Taylor and Christine Todd Whitman
Mr. Taylor served at the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019, including as chief of staff, and was the anonymous author of a 2018 guest essay for The Times criticizing President Donald Trump’s leadership. Ms. Whitman was the Republican governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001.
After Donald Trump’s defeat, there was a measure of hope among Republicans who opposed him that control of the party would be up for grabs, and that conservative pragmatists could take it back. But it’s become obvious that political extremists maintain a viselike grip on the national and state parties and the process for fielding and championing House and Senate candidates in next year’s elections.
Rational Republicans are losing the party civil war. And the only near-term way to battle pro-Trump extremists is for all of us to team up on key races and overarching political goals with our longtime political opponents: the Democrats.
This year we joined more than 150 conservatives — including former governors, senators, congressmen, cabinet secretaries, and party leaders — in calling for the Republican Party to divorce itself from Trumpism or else lose our support, perhaps with us forming a new political party. Rather than return to founding ideals, Republican leaders in the House and in many states have now turned belief in conspiracy theories and lies about stolen elections into a litmus test for membership and running for office.
Starting a new center-right party may prove to be the last resort if Trump-backed candidates continue to win Republican primaries. We and our allies have debated the option of starting a new party for months and will continue to explore its viability in the long run. Unfortunately, history is littered with examples of failed attempts at breaking the two-party system, and in most states today the laws do not lend themselves easily to the creation and success of third parties.
So for now, the best hope for the rational remnants of the Republican Party is for us to form an alliance with Democrats to defend American institutions, defeat far-right candidates, and elect honorable representatives next year — including a strong contingent of moderate Democrats.
It’s a strategy that has worked. Mr. Trump lost re-election in large part because Republicans nationwide defected, with 7 percent who voted for him in 2016 flipping to support Joe Biden, a margin big enough to have made some difference in key swing states.
Even still, we don’t take this position lightly. Many of us have spent years battling the left over government’s role in society, and we will continue to have disagreements on fundamental issues like infrastructure spending, taxes and national security. Similarly, some Democrats will be wary of any pact with the political right.
But we agree on something more foundational — democracy. We cannot tolerate the continued hijacking of a major U.S. political party by those who seek to tear down our Republic’s guardrails or who are willing to put one man’s interests ahead of the country. We cannot tolerate Republican leaders — in 2022 or in the presidential election in 2024 — refusing to accept the results of elections or undermining the certification of those results should they lose.
To that end, concerned conservatives must join forces with Democrats on the most essential near-term imperative: blocking Republican leaders from regaining control of the House of Representatives. Some of us have worked in the past with the House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy, but as long as he embraces Mr. Trump’s lies, he cannot be trusted to lead the chamber, especially in the run-up to the next presidential election.
And while many of us support and respect the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, it is far from clear that he can keep Mr. Trump’s allies at bay, which is why the Senate may be safer remaining as a divided body rather than under Republican control.
For these reasons, we will endorse and support bipartisan-oriented moderate Democrats in difficult races, like Representatives Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, where they will undoubtedly be challenged by Trump-backed candidates. And we will defend a small nucleus of courageous Republicans, such as Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Peter Meijer and others who are unafraid to speak the truth.
In addition to these leaders, this week we are coming together around a political idea — the Renew America Movement — and will release a slate of nearly two dozen Democratic, independent and Republican candidates we will support in 2022.
These “renewers” must be protected and elected if we want to restore a common-sense coalition in Washington. But merely holding the line will be insufficient. To defeat the extremist insurgency in our political system and pressure the Republican Party to reform, voters and candidates must be willing to form nontraditional alliances.
For disaffected Republicans, this means an openness to backing centrist Democrats. It will be difficult for lifelong Republicans to do this — akin to rooting for the other team out of fear that your own is ruining the sport entirely — but democracy is not a game, which is why when push comes to shove, patriotic conservatives should put country over party.
One of those races is in Pennsylvania, where a bevy of pro-Trump candidates are vying to replace the departing Republican senator, Pat Toomey. The only prominent moderate in the primary, Craig Snyder, recently bowed out, and if no one takes his place, it will increase the urgency for Republican voters to stand behind a Democrat, such as Representative Conor Lamb, a centrist who is running for the seat.
For Democrats, this similarly means being open to conceding that there are certain races where progressives simply cannot win and acknowledging that it makes more sense to throw their lot in with a center-right candidate who can take out a more radical conservative.
Utah is a prime example, where the best hope of defeating Senator Mike Lee, a Republican who defended Mr. Trump’s refusal to concede the election, is not a Democrat but an independent and former Republican, Evan McMullin, a member of our group, who announced last week that he was entering the race.
We need more candidates like him prepared to challenge politicians who have sought to subvert our Constitution from the comfort of their “safe” seats in Congress, and we are encouraged to note that additional independent-minded leaders are considering entering the fray in places like Texas, Arizona and North Carolina, targeting seats that Trumpist Republicans think are secure.
More broadly, this experiment in “coalition campaigning” — uniting concerned conservatives and patriotic progressives — could remake American politics and serve as an antidote to hyper-partisanship and federal gridlock.
To work, it will require trust building between both camps, especially while fighting they are side by side in the toughest races around the country by learning to collaborate on voter outreach, sharing sensitive polling data, and synchronizing campaign messaging.
A compact between the center-right and the left may seem like an unnatural fit, but in the battle for the soul of America’s political system, we cannot retreat to our ideological corners.
A great deal depends on our willingness to consider new paths of political reform. From the halls of Congress to our own communities, the fate of our Republic might well rest on forming alliances with those we least expected to.
By Miles Taylor and Christine Todd Whitman
Mr. Taylor served at the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019, including as chief of staff, and was the anonymous author of a 2018 guest essay for The Times criticizing President Donald Trump’s leadership. Ms. Whitman was the Republican governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001.
After Donald Trump’s defeat, there was a measure of hope among Republicans who opposed him that control of the party would be up for grabs, and that conservative pragmatists could take it back. But it’s become obvious that political extremists maintain a viselike grip on the national and state parties and the process for fielding and championing House and Senate candidates in next year’s elections.
Rational Republicans are losing the party civil war. And the only near-term way to battle pro-Trump extremists is for all of us to team up on key races and overarching political goals with our longtime political opponents: the Democrats.
This year we joined more than 150 conservatives — including former governors, senators, congressmen, cabinet secretaries, and party leaders — in calling for the Republican Party to divorce itself from Trumpism or else lose our support, perhaps with us forming a new political party. Rather than return to founding ideals, Republican leaders in the House and in many states have now turned belief in conspiracy theories and lies about stolen elections into a litmus test for membership and running for office.
Starting a new center-right party may prove to be the last resort if Trump-backed candidates continue to win Republican primaries. We and our allies have debated the option of starting a new party for months and will continue to explore its viability in the long run. Unfortunately, history is littered with examples of failed attempts at breaking the two-party system, and in most states today the laws do not lend themselves easily to the creation and success of third parties.
So for now, the best hope for the rational remnants of the Republican Party is for us to form an alliance with Democrats to defend American institutions, defeat far-right candidates, and elect honorable representatives next year — including a strong contingent of moderate Democrats.
It’s a strategy that has worked. Mr. Trump lost re-election in large part because Republicans nationwide defected, with 7 percent who voted for him in 2016 flipping to support Joe Biden, a margin big enough to have made some difference in key swing states.
Even still, we don’t take this position lightly. Many of us have spent years battling the left over government’s role in society, and we will continue to have disagreements on fundamental issues like infrastructure spending, taxes and national security. Similarly, some Democrats will be wary of any pact with the political right.
But we agree on something more foundational — democracy. We cannot tolerate the continued hijacking of a major U.S. political party by those who seek to tear down our Republic’s guardrails or who are willing to put one man’s interests ahead of the country. We cannot tolerate Republican leaders — in 2022 or in the presidential election in 2024 — refusing to accept the results of elections or undermining the certification of those results should they lose.
To that end, concerned conservatives must join forces with Democrats on the most essential near-term imperative: blocking Republican leaders from regaining control of the House of Representatives. Some of us have worked in the past with the House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy, but as long as he embraces Mr. Trump’s lies, he cannot be trusted to lead the chamber, especially in the run-up to the next presidential election.
And while many of us support and respect the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, it is far from clear that he can keep Mr. Trump’s allies at bay, which is why the Senate may be safer remaining as a divided body rather than under Republican control.
For these reasons, we will endorse and support bipartisan-oriented moderate Democrats in difficult races, like Representatives Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, where they will undoubtedly be challenged by Trump-backed candidates. And we will defend a small nucleus of courageous Republicans, such as Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Peter Meijer and others who are unafraid to speak the truth.
In addition to these leaders, this week we are coming together around a political idea — the Renew America Movement — and will release a slate of nearly two dozen Democratic, independent and Republican candidates we will support in 2022.
These “renewers” must be protected and elected if we want to restore a common-sense coalition in Washington. But merely holding the line will be insufficient. To defeat the extremist insurgency in our political system and pressure the Republican Party to reform, voters and candidates must be willing to form nontraditional alliances.
For disaffected Republicans, this means an openness to backing centrist Democrats. It will be difficult for lifelong Republicans to do this — akin to rooting for the other team out of fear that your own is ruining the sport entirely — but democracy is not a game, which is why when push comes to shove, patriotic conservatives should put country over party.
One of those races is in Pennsylvania, where a bevy of pro-Trump candidates are vying to replace the departing Republican senator, Pat Toomey. The only prominent moderate in the primary, Craig Snyder, recently bowed out, and if no one takes his place, it will increase the urgency for Republican voters to stand behind a Democrat, such as Representative Conor Lamb, a centrist who is running for the seat.
For Democrats, this similarly means being open to conceding that there are certain races where progressives simply cannot win and acknowledging that it makes more sense to throw their lot in with a center-right candidate who can take out a more radical conservative.
Utah is a prime example, where the best hope of defeating Senator Mike Lee, a Republican who defended Mr. Trump’s refusal to concede the election, is not a Democrat but an independent and former Republican, Evan McMullin, a member of our group, who announced last week that he was entering the race.
We need more candidates like him prepared to challenge politicians who have sought to subvert our Constitution from the comfort of their “safe” seats in Congress, and we are encouraged to note that additional independent-minded leaders are considering entering the fray in places like Texas, Arizona and North Carolina, targeting seats that Trumpist Republicans think are secure.
More broadly, this experiment in “coalition campaigning” — uniting concerned conservatives and patriotic progressives — could remake American politics and serve as an antidote to hyper-partisanship and federal gridlock.
To work, it will require trust building between both camps, especially while fighting they are side by side in the toughest races around the country by learning to collaborate on voter outreach, sharing sensitive polling data, and synchronizing campaign messaging.
A compact between the center-right and the left may seem like an unnatural fit, but in the battle for the soul of America’s political system, we cannot retreat to our ideological corners.
A great deal depends on our willingness to consider new paths of political reform. From the halls of Congress to our own communities, the fate of our Republic might well rest on forming alliances with those we least expected to.
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Gas here jumped .20 a gallon overnight this past week. I use diesel, but it jumped the same amount. Currently at $3.49 a gallon in most stations. I have no strategy for dealing with it other than always keeping my tank full, fill up at 3/4 tank to avoid the big hit at the pump. A fill up from dead empty runs about $132. (38 gallons).
Fuel prices, more than anything will drop Biden in the toilet faster than having the Mexican Quickstep. Funny how we went from energy independent to sucking Middle East oil dick again. And to echo your sentiment - "Let's Go Brandon!"
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Stop make Crisis Actors look like a fucking reality.
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NY Medical Workers Update: Religious believes trump mandate
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Some of them might be willing to do it without pay now. How many of these people bought the same shit that animates the democrats? How many are also in the hole on their end? If you’re going through hell, keep going. A lot of the people holding the favors they called on are too prideful to go with a more contructive, less repulsive option; so they’ll raise the stakes or push all the way in, and we might not have the chips to get anything meaningful back if we call.
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"The base of the party is misinterpreting their own opinions".
Take a long walk off a short cliff, Judaservatives.
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Sounds like the Republican party to me. - TheDonald
The Donald is a never-ending rally of patriots dedicated to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
patriots.win
Most of the RINOs originate from the country clubs of New England and some of them are usually referred to as liberals who want a speed bump.
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Imagine being a RHINO and scared of Trump rather than someone like Biden who has fucked up diplomacy, economics, and health.
"Well. Yeah, my daughter was raped by a HIV+ Haitian who jumped our security fence and gas is 8$ a gallon.. but at least he didn't make mean tweets!"
"Well. Yeah, my daughter was raped by a HIV+ Haitian who jumped our security fence and gas is 8$ a gallon.. but at least he didn't make mean tweets!"
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We here in CA WISH gas was only $3.49/gallon. Most places regular $4.38 or so, on base $4.25. Know of a place about 15 miles away offering regular for $3.98. Premium in some places over $5/gallon, most about $4.75/gallon.
We fill up on base every two weeks, usually about half a tank. I rarely drive. Car is pretty economical.
Gas started shooting up just after Joey's regime came to power and he stopped the Keystone pipeline.
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No you don't understand, friend: some things are so terrible, so heinous, that pointing them out can only strengthen the perpetrators and deaden the will of the victims!
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Yup. Ohhhhh noooooooooo what will we do without the RINOs muh principled conservatives ohhhhhh noooooo.
Only A Retard Sometimes
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reminder that neo-cons (and by extension most Rinos) are trotskiyists.Sounds like the Republican party to me. - TheDonald
The Donald is a never-ending rally of patriots dedicated to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
Most of the RINOs originate from the country clubs of New England and some of them are usually referred to as liberals who want a speed bump.
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Yeah, youse guys are always getting ass-raped on fuel prices. At least a buck (if not more) a gallon more than 95% of the rest of the country. Having just driven to Alabama and back to AZ a week or so ago, avg. fuel cost diesel ran about $3.15 a gallon. (3280 miles, 210.4 gallons of diesel, $664 spent). Texas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi were the cheapest noted, most hanging under the $3.00 gallon mark ($2.89-$2.99). Consistently the most expensive across the entire trip? Love's Truck Stops. .30 to .40 cents a gallon more than getting off I-40 and finding a local station, which isn't always an option for the semi trucks moving everything in both directions.
The sad part is, no how much it goes up, we're still going to be pay for it in everything else we buy. Those increases just get passed right along to us because it costs that much more to put shit on the shelves.
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I wanna make a political party called the "Fuck Fags" party. It's not anti-gay or a sex club or anything, but instead is primarily focused on horse whipping people who are labeled fags on the internet
As retarded as this sounds, I believe it still would be better then most political ideology and marxist aligned origins.
As retarded as this sounds, I believe it still would be better then most political ideology and marxist aligned origins.
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Wait until people start doing that with food.
MrJokerRager
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It does explain one thing, the protests against CRT are nationwide yet why does Fox News concentrate on this one county lol.
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Excuse you sir, I for one have been extremely consistent in saying that the Rs have no shot in places like that have a significant professional class of that type.
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Careful now. If you compare Joe Biden to Mr. Rogers one more time, he’ll ride his trolley down from the great neighborhood in the sky and sing the song that destroys the earth.
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