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?

 

[Salubrious]

Once you get outside of shithole NYC, you'd be surprised how red New York State gets. Even Suffolk county, which has Nassau as the NYC buffer, is pretty conservative. Once you get to upstate NY, it's pretty much all red with a few exceptions. The only problem is nearly half the population lives in NYC proper, and once you count the pozzed metro area, it's over half and enough to cancel out the conservative part of the state.

This. NYC is literally half the population of the state and DEEP blue.

Any county that doesn't hold a city like Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Ithica, or Albany is almost all red. Even those counties are only light blue except Ithaca.

Even in 2020, the Democrats LOST two seats in the House to Republicans. It's still 19-8, but that was NOT nothing.

This is what the 2020 Presidental map looked like for NYS.

 

[Oxous]

This. NYC is literally half the population of the state and DEEP blue.

Any county that doesn't hold a city like Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Ithica, or Albany is almost all red. Even those counties are only light blue except Ithaca.

Even in 2020, the Democrats LOST two seats in the House to Republicans. It's still 19-8, but that was NOT nothing.

This is what the 2020 Presidental map looked like for NYS.

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If you look back at the county vote maps for Cuomo’s elections you can see a very obvious trend: he won all 3 times, but every election Upstate NY became more and more hardcore Republican. Not just in presidential elections, in fact its even more Republican in local elections. Here’s 2010:

And here’s 2018:

 

[Kane Lives]

Once you get outside of shithole NYC, you'd be surprised how red New York State gets. Even Suffolk county, which has Nassau as the NYC buffer, is pretty conservative. Once you get to upstate NY, it's pretty much all red with a few exceptions. The only problem is nearly half the population lives in NYC proper, and once you count the pozzed metro area, it's over half and enough to cancel out the conservative part of the state.

Oh yeah, so I read about. Which I think has become a repeating pattern in most states. I think there was also something about Biden being the candidate to have won (or well """won""") the presidency with the fewest counties actually won.

 

[HandsomeDan]

U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

Can someone explain this to me as I like to consider myself informed but I have no idea what this is.

Why is this thing becoming a 4 star Admiral if it is not in the Navy? What the hell is going on here?

 

[Vivec]

This. NYC is literally half the population of the state and DEEP blue.

Any county that doesn't hold a city like Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Ithica, or Albany is almost all red. Even those counties are only light blue except Ithaca.

Even in 2020, the Democrats LOST two seats in the House to Republicans. It's still 19-8, but that was NOT nothing.

This is what the 2020 Presidental map looked like for NYS.

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NY has 8.8 million people, NYC metro area has 8.4 million, but a good chunk of those are in New Jersey.
NY has 20.1 million people, NYC metro area has 20.2 million, but a good chunk of those are in New Jersey.

NYC Metro is actually closer to 2/3 the state's population discounting NJ. There's a reason that in many regards, the governor of NY is treated as an inferior of the mayor of NYC, and yes, everyone upstate is 100% a political hostage of the city. Even the Buffalo dems and Rochester dems are subject to dumb policies they don't agree with, decided by the citizens of the only place that matters.

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[SeniorFuckFace]

What the hell is going on here?

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[Salubrious]

If you look back at the county vote maps for Cuomo’s elections you can see a very obvious trend: he won all 3 times, but every election Upstate NY became more and more hardcore Republican. Not just in presidential elections, in fact its even more Republican in local elections. Here’s 2010:
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And here’s 2018:
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NY has 8.8 million people, NYC metro area has 8.4 million, but a good chunk of those are in New Jersey.
NY has 20.1 million people, NYC metro area has 20.2 million, but a good chunk of those are in New Jersey.

NYC Metro is actually closer to 2/3 the state's population discounting NJ. There's a reason that in many regards, the governor of NY is treated as an inferior of the mayor of NYC, and yes, everyone upstate is 100% a political hostage of the city. Even the Buffalo dems and Rochester dems are subject to dumb policies they don't agree with, decided by the citizens of the only place that matters.

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See, this is why I'm not worried about a migration or "turning Texas blue". I think the media emphasizes those stories about the Californians going to Austin, but I think for the most part, it's the center or center-right fleeing blue states for purple states, which in turn will turn those purple states light red.

Most people moving out of NYS or California to go to Ohio or Florida probably aren't voting Democrat, or at least most of them. I think the blue will get "deeper blue" and the purple will turn light red.

 

[Forest Portal Triumph 747]

Red Wave prediction in NY of all places.

It partially relates to this debate I posted

Article: https://longisland.news12.com/vote-...d-albany-will-bring-positive-election-results
Archive: https://archive.md/fSCBX
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Vote 2021: Is a ‘red wave’ coming? Republicans hopeful that trouble in DC and Albany will bring positive election results
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With Election Day just a few weeks away, some are wondering if there will be a “red wave” on Long Island due to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation and President Joe Biden’s relatively low approval rating.

State and Nassau County Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs says he thinks voters are more focused on what’s happening locally, including in the county executive race in Nassau County.

“I think what’s on voters’ minds is whether or not Democrats in Nassau County have done a good job or a bad job,” Jacobs says. “Yes, the political environment does have an impact. At this moment in time, with the polling that we’re doing, we’re not feeling it going against Democrats.”

Republicans, however, say that the Democratic-led bail reform package passed in Albany will be a factor in the district attorney races taking place in both Nassau and Suffolk.

Suffolk County Republican Chairman Jesse Garcia says cashless bail is a revolving door, meaning people can commit a crime one hour and be out on bail in 90 minutes.

“These policies that the liberal Democrats have enacted in Washington D.C. and in Albany are now demonstrating to the voters about the mistakes they made,” Garcia says.

Political consultant Mike Dawidziak predicts that most independent voters will be voting Republican because they don’t see the Democrats in Washington delivering and don’t like what they see in Albany in terms of bail reform and talks about defunding the police.

This year’s elections are expected to be dramatically lower than the 2020 presidential election.

Both parties are hoping their faithful voters will show up.
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Repubicans are definitely far more competitive in Long Island than NYC, but after Dems gained supremacy in the state legislature after 2018, they ended up making it far too easy to cheat via mail-in voting. A congressional seat in upstate NY, NY-22, was called MONTHS after November 2020 because of mail-in ballot shenanigans. Claudia Tenney (R) ended up very narrowly edging it out but certainly won by quite a bit more. You can check my poast about my own experience with the mail-in ballot system for the 2021 NYC Mayoral Race in the voter fraud thread. It's easy for a total amateur to cast mail-in ballots in someone else's name as long as you know their birthday+zip-code, which means that a professional organization who keeps track of names of countless dead people and people no longer in NY/NYC can use it to commit fraud in the tens of thousands at the very least, which would be enough to steal competitive local races.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

Can someone explain this to me as I like to consider myself informed but I have no idea what this is.

Why is this thing becoming a 4 star Admiral if it is not in the Navy? What the hell is going on here?

The Public Health Service has always been considered a pseudo-military branch and they have Navy/Coast Guard uniforms and rank structures if commissioned since they were derived from some naval hospital system. Not all the Assistant Secretaries of Health are commissioned though, so making this thing an Admiral is almost certainly the Biden Administration trying to get the first troon flag officer to wave in our faces, as even with the ongoing pozzing of the military there aren't any actual troon military officers yet that you can suddenly give stars to.

 

[Snekposter]

The Public Health Service has always been considered a pseudo-military branch for some reason and they have Navy/Coast Guard uniforms and rank structures if commissioned since they were derived from some naval hospital system. Not all the Assistant Secretaries of Health are commissioned though, so making this thing an Admiral is almost certainly the Biden Administration trying to get the first troon flag officer to wave in our faces, as even with the ongoing pozzing of the military there aren't any actual troon military officers yet that you can suddenly give stars to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Woodworth#Surgeon_General

In 1871, Woodworth was appointed the first Supervising Surgeon of the Marine Hospital Service. The Service had its origins in a 1798 Act of Congress "for the relief of sick and disabled seamen." The 1798 law created a fund to be used by the Federal Government of the United States to provide medical services to merchant seamen in American ports, which was expanded to include military and others who made their living associated with seagoing. The marine hospital fund was administered by the Treasury Department and financed through a monthly deduction from the wages of the seamen. Medical care was provided through contracts with existing hospitals and, increasingly as time went on, through the construction of new hospitals for this purpose. The earliest marine hospitals were located along the East Coast of the United States, with Boston being the site of the first such facility, but later they were also established along inland waterways, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf Coast and Pacific Coast.

The marine hospitals hardly constituted a system in the Antebellum period. Funds for the hospitals were inadequate, political rather than medical reasons often influenced the choice of sites for hospitals and the selection of physicians, and the Treasury Department had little supervisory authority over the hospitals. During the Civil War, the Union and Confederate forces occupied the hospitals for their own use, and in 1864 only 8 of the 27 hospitals listed before the war were operational. In 1869, the United States Secretary of the Treasury commissioned an extensive study of the marine hospitals, and the resulting critical report led to the passage of reform legislation in the following year.

The 1870 reorganization converted the loose network of locally controlled hospitals into a centrally controlled Marine Hospital Service, with its headquarters in Washington, D.C.. The position of Supervising Surgeon (later Surgeon General) was created to administer the Service. Woodworth began his service in the position on March 29, 1871, and he moved quickly to reform the system. He adopted a military model for his medical staff, instituting examinations for applicants instead of appointing physicians on the recommendation of the local Collector of Customs. Physicians, whom Woodworth placed in uniforms, were no longer appointed to serve in a particular facility, but appointed to the general Service. In this way, Woodworth created a cadre of mobile, career service physicians who could be assigned and moved as needed to the various marine hospitals. The uniformed services component of the Marine Hospital Service was formalized as the Commissioned Corps by legislation enacted in 1889 under Woodworth's successor, John B. Hamilton.

Yes, this means the USA did have a state-run healthcare system at one point. And it went about as well as you'd imagine given American politics.

 

[HandsomeDan]

The Public Health Service has always been considered a pseudo-military branch and they have Navy/Coast Guard uniforms and rank structures if commissioned since they were derived from some naval hospital system. Not all the Assistant Secretaries of Health are commissioned though, so making this thing an Admiral is almost certainly the Biden Administration trying to get the first troon flag officer to wave in our faces, as even with the ongoing pozzing of the military there aren't any actual troon military officers yet that you can suddenly give stars to.

I see, so this thing has never served a day in the Navy and much less ever commanded a ship correct?

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Its always depressing to see how red most states are. It seems like even in "deep blue" states, its one or two highly populated counties, and the small counties are just left at the mercy of the major cities that quite frankly suck.

 

[Blackhole]

Its always depressing to see how red most states are. It seems like even in "deep blue" states, its one or two highly populated counties, and the small counties are just left at the mercy of the major cities that quite frankly suck.

this is why we need to nuke the cities.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

this is why we need to nuke the cities.

or we can give state electoral college a try

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

Dear God, Trump has zero chill.

I love it.

Wait, that’s real?

 

[Lards and Lasses]

or we can give state electoral college a try

Why not just do electoral towns? Hell, let's do electoral neighborhoods. Fuck it, electoral homes!

Do you see the problem with this logic? It's just a different method of gerrymandering.

 

[Damocles_Sword]

Yeah, I work intermittently with an HHS branch and they have their staff and engineers in uniform with rank. I'm sure Levine is raping his current captive extra hard tonight since he now gets to play dress up with all those shiny stars.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

I see, so this thing has never served a day in the Navy and much less ever commanded a ship correct?

He's been a doctor and then a politician-doctor his whole career. He's as much a real serviceman as he is a real woman.

 

[Vivec]

A state electoral college is a pipe dream. It would liquidate every ounce of power the dems have in an instant, and the cities of the nation would have no choice but to rebel. Also it's impossible to justify constitutionally, we are a nation of states, not a nation of counties. Theoretically a state's power within it's own domain is supposed to be supreme over both the federal and local governments.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

i miss him so much

Lol.

Can you believe soy kids were upset about orange man's nonstop shitposting?