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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It's a stupid game to play, as it's combining being incredibly annoying with the trait of being legitimately dangerous. There's good reason as to why only little kids get away with that kind of argumentation.
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I'm sure Samuel R Delaney doesn't have that many fans here. But his book Babel-17 stuck with me. It's exaggerated as a plot device, but the notion of language influencing thought is important. Sort of a weaker version of how the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is usually presented.
You notice how concepts people don't want you to think about become harder to convey. Men / women become self identification and you have to say adult human female to convey what woman used to mean. Racism is now what happens to blacks; race based prejudice is what happens to whites.
Imagine trying to create a modern banking system using a spoken or written language with only zero / one / many. Or to create calculus using roman numerals. People use words as tools to convey ideas, and the tools you use matter.
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Starset did a stream of their new album, Horizons, yesterday. I tuned in because I love their stuff and they're one of the few bands giving me hope that music isn't dead in current year.
Before the album began, the chat had a lot of Lets go Brandons popping up. Just at random.
I love how far the meme has spread. I shouldn't be seeing this sort of shit in half the places I'm noticing it.
Before the album began, the chat had a lot of Lets go Brandons popping up. Just at random.
I love how far the meme has spread. I shouldn't be seeing this sort of shit in half the places I'm noticing it.
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Merriam-Webster will probably have some convenient new definitions for words that deboonks this.
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anti SJW
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I love "Let's go Brandon" but I think it would have been alot better if the saying became as popular as it is this time last year. Right before the election.
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I mean, the REAL solution to the supply chain is to figure out why it is cheaper to ship a bunch of apples to Taiwan, have them manufacture the applesauce, then ship all the applesauce back across the ocean rather than just do that in the US itself.
It's bad when labor is SO cheap in China that these companies can literally ship raw goods across the Pacific Ocean AND ship the finished goods back to California AND that costs LESS than opening a plant in the US.
I thought the one "good" thing to come out of coronachan was to realize what a giant clusterfuck China is and maybe start manufacturing more here but OH BOY was I covered in pinwheels.
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That last one isn't out of place of a homeopathy, megadose vitamin C and Alex Jones' own mega-vitality pill ads.
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He's a clever guy. Bringing up the MLK speeches, using Marx and Leninism as an example of a cancer that plagued his country, showing the renaming of basic words. You can't disagree, which should give everyone pause for thought. The leader of the biggest enemy for generations, a supposed corrupt communism dictatorship that strips its' citizens of rights, believe in basic freedoms more than the democratic governments of the west.
What next? Kim saying that Ethots should get a job?
Sweet, the vaccine makes me more immune to bullets and car accidents. Enjoy your deaths anti-vax cucks, I'm off for ten shots of impervious-juice!
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To be fair, I'm willing to believe that vaccinated people are less likely to die from other causes. Just because of the SJW catchphrase: correlation does not equal causation.
People that get yearly physicals are healthier than people that don't. It's not BECAUSE of the physical, but because people that would get yearly physicals in the first place probably take better care of their health.
I'm willing to agree with them that people that got their shots PROBABLY ARE more likely to take better care of their overall health than people that don't care in the general population. Hell, the same probably with yearly flu shots. That doesn't mean that the vaccine MADE them healthier; that's just CNN propaganda.
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Considering if the MSM says something the opposite is usually true expect to see/find out people who took the shot are about to start dying from a lot of "non covid" related complications within the next 3 months.
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Holy shit. He's so right. It's kind of upsetting just how correct he described things in the US.
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Biden's early-presidency getaways so far outpace Trump's | CNN Politics
President Joe Biden decamped to Wilmington on Friday, escaping the White House he's likened to a "gilded cage" for a weekend at his Delaware home. It's yet another weekend away from Washington as the President has spent a noteworthy portion of his first year in office at one of his two Delaware...
Joe Biden escapes his White House 'gilded cage' at a faster pace than…
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Almost more than Obama and Trump combined.
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>Waking your husband up by screaming like a banshee over "loosing control over democracy"
I'd file for divorce if I was him, unless he's just given up and/or joined her in the lunacy.
IDK how these people actually function in the real world.
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The fact that Jen Psaki still hasn't resigned is amazing. She legit is terrible at her job and this administration might be the second worst in US history, only slightly beating Bush Jr.
I know niggas gotta hustle, but this lady should be making people's lives miserable in some HR position to avoid being the face of a shattered economy caused by old retards out of touch with the world.
I know niggas gotta hustle, but this lady should be making people's lives miserable in some HR position to avoid being the face of a shattered economy caused by old retards out of touch with the world.
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Frustrated old hags and wine moms that watch television all day are the target demographic of the democrat party. They replaced soap operas with their political brainwashing.
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For these lunatics control is everything.
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Biden’s critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...71836e-3122-11ec-a880-a9d8c009a0b1_story.html (https://archive.ph/chpig)On a quiet street south of downtown Boise, Michael Dick has festooned his front yard with homemade signs, including a large yellow placard that facetiously thanks President Biden for a growing list of grievances — $4-a-gallon gas, inflation, Afghanistan, covid-19. In capital letters in black marker, Dick, 59, recently added "dead civilians" and "dead U.S. soldiers" to his bill of particulars.
In another part of town, alongside a “No trespassing” sign, Michael Schwarz, 60, used black spray-paint to scrawl “Joe Blows” across an electric-pink poster board.
And that’s mild compared to the sentiments some people — largely in conservative areas — are expressing in their front yards and on the signs they lug with them to greet Biden as he travels the country.
On Wednesday, when the president visited Scranton, Pa., he was greeted at the corner of Biden Street by a woman holding a handmade “F--- Joe Biden” sign, with an American flag as the vowel in the offending word. And back in Boise, Rod Johnson, a retired gunsmith, has hung a blue flag from the roof of his home that reads “F--- Biden.” Underneath, in smaller letters, he added, “And f--- you for voting for him!!”
“I’m not the only Republican that doesn’t like Biden,” Johnson, 68, said in an interview, sporting a red “Proud White American” hat and puffing a skinny cigar. “I just chose to show it.”
During the 2020 presidential campaign, one of Biden’s political superpowers was his sheer inoffensiveness, the way he often managed to embody — even to those who didn’t like him — the innocuous grandfather, the bumbling uncle, the leader who could make America calm, steady, even boring again after four years of Donald Trump.
But it’s clear that after nine months in office, Biden — or at least what he represents — is increasingly becoming an object of hatred to many Trump supporters. The vitriol partly reflects Trump’s own repeated baseless claims that Biden is a usurper, depriving him of his rightful claim to the presidency, and partly stems from Biden actions that Republicans deplore, from his spending plans to his immigration policies.
Yet the anger also demonstrates how a political party or cause often needs an enemy, a target of vilification that can unite its adherents — and, in this case, one refracted through the harshness, norm-breaking and vulgarity of the Trump era.
Boos, jeers and insults are nothing new for politicians, especially those who reach the White House. Former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as Trump, were all heckled, weathering protests along their motorcade routes and at some of their events. At one 2011 fundraiser in Los Angeles, a heckler called Obama the Antichrist; “F--- Trump” graffiti adorned some walls in Washington.
The current eruption of anti-Biden signs and chants, however, is on another level, far more vulgar and widespread.
The ubiquity of Trump signs, especially in rural stretches of the country, has long been striking, and possibly unprecedented for a losing candidate — especially nearly a year after the election. But now, in towns like Boise — in states both red and blue, and almost all across the country — anti-Biden signs are cropping up as well, frequently with angry and profane insults.
Some of are scrawled by hand. Others are bought on Amazon. Still others are professionally procured. The crude signs are held by people lined up along Biden’s motorcade routes and clustered near his events. Protesters shout obscenities from outside his appearances.
Then there are the chants. In early Oct., a “F--- Joe Biden!” cry broke out among the crowd at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway. Kelli Stavast, an NBC Sports reporter, was interviewing NASCAR driver Brandon Brown live on air at the time, and she quipped, “You can hear the chants from the crowd, ‘Let’s go Brandon!’”
Trump supporters instantly saw signs of a coverup, claiming on social media that journalists were deliberately censoring anti-Biden sentiment. The brief video exchange quickly turned viral.
The result has been a proliferation of chants in recent weeks, both of “Let’s go Brandon!” — now used as a stand-in by the Trump faithful — and the more vulgar original, sometimes shorthanded as “FJB.”
Trump’s Save America PAC has even begun selling a $45 T-shirt featuring Biden’s black-and-white visage above the phrase “Let’s go Brandon.” And the PAC sent a message to supporters that read, “#FJB or LET’S GO BRANDON? Either way, President Trump wants YOU to have our ICONIC new shirt.”
The former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., has repeatedly promoted the meme, and the original chant, on his social media feeds. At a speech in Georgia, he took the stage after the crowd had been chanting “USA! USA!” and roared, “There’s a couple other chants I’ve been hearing going around. Have you heard the other one that’s been going around?” The crowd took the cue and broke into cries of “Let’s go Brandon.”
The vitriol has even entered the House chamber. Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) wrapped up a floor speech this week with the sign-off, “Let’s go Brandon.” Then, in a jarring return to House decorum, he concluded, “I yield back.”
When Trump was in office, he deployed public profanity in a way unlike any other modern president, which his supporters saw as truth-telling and his opponents as vulgarity and sometimes racism. He railed against immigrants from “shithole countries.” He tweeted that Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) was a “pompous ass.” He was elected after boasting of grabbing women’s crotches.
Sometimes he prompted obscenities from Democrats in return.
“One of the many legacies of the Trump presidency is he normalized angry speech,” said Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist and Trump critic. “Trump and our culture in general has beaten decorum out of politics, so now it’s just angry rage therapy — so you get out your Magic Marker and you do your coarse lawn sign.”
Murphy, whose Twitter bio describes him as “Infuriated GOP Strategist,” added, “When Trump acts like a savage, it makes other people think it’s okay to act like a savage. . . . We’re so tribal, everybody now is an angry Democrat or an angry Republican.”
That tribalism is reflected in surveys. A 2020 AEI poll found that 64 percent of Democrats see the Republican Party as so misguided that it poses a serious threat to the country, while 75 percent of Republicans say the same thing about the Democratic Party.
Schwarz — the Idahoan with the spray-painted sign — said he was motivated in part by his anger that the 2020 election was stolen, an assertion Trump has repeatedly promoted despite its falsity. “I don’t see how he won without doing fraudulent things to the voting machines,” Schwarz said of Biden. “How the hell did he get a landslide?”
Now that Biden has been in office for nearly a year, Schwarz said he has lost faith in his ability to handle foreign policy, as well as such domestic issues as immigration and the current labor shortfall.
“A lot of people don’t want to work,” Schwarz said. “They’re waiting for the government to hand out another check.”
For Johnson — who immediately asked his son to help him find his own anti-Biden flag online after he saw one waving from the back of a truck — immigration is also a motivating issue. He said he wants to see Biden clamp down on the number of people crossing the border, adding, “Where the hell are we going to put the people who are already here?”
But the signs often appear to be as much a manifestation of the general rage against the system that helped fuel Trump’s ascent as a specific indictment of the current president.
“The psychological dynamic that led to the rise of Trump is happening again — this sense that you’re losing your country and it’s being led by an individual without the cognitive capacity to run a fast-food joint,” said Cliff Sims, who served in a senior role in the Trump administration. “The anger is less about Joe Biden individually and more about the state of the country that he is presiding over. He’s an avatar — he’s like the symbol of the decline of America.”
Administration officials sought to downplay the phenomenon, and at least one claimed to be unfamiliar with the “Let’s go Brandon” chant or its cruder cousin, though they are now chanted everywhere from football stadiums to concert arenas to local bars.
“I had never heard of that chant until you explained it to me,” said White House spokesman Andrew Bates. Referring to an anonymous message board known for promoting online extremism, he added, “I guess I’m not spending enough time on 8chan or whatever.”
The signs have followed Biden nearly everywhere, held aloft by protesters. The president addressed them obliquely when he visited Howell, Mich. earlier this month.
“They said it was time to build an economy that looks out from Scranton, Pennsylvania — where I grew up as a kid — instead of looking down from Wall Street,” Biden said in his speech that day, then quickly added, “notwithstanding some of the signs that I saw — that’s why 81 million Americans voted for me, the largest number of votes in American history.”
In an interview after that speech, Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), a centrist who represents the area, said the protesters in her district are clearly energized. While she supports freedom of speech, she added, she found the use of crude language distasteful.
“What I think was really disappointing was the profanity and the sort of really over-the-top, heinous things that people wrote on signs, just blocks from a school,” Slotkin said. “And I think it reflects that there is a strain in the country right now of people who are angry and they’ve sort of lost their decency and civility.”
Less than two weeks later, during a visit to a child development center in Hartford, Conn., Biden again found himself dogged by signs sporting the four-letter anti-Biden slogan.
“The protesters outside the child care center today had a giant ‘F — k Joe Biden’ sign and were chanting the same thing loud enough to make sure all the children could hear it,” tweeted Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) after the president’s trip. “Just heartbreaking for kids to see how crude and uncivil some of our discourse has become.”
And as Virginia gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin campaigned in Culpeper last week, the crowd several times attempted to start a “Let’s go Brandon!” chant. After Youngkin jokingly referred to Biden as the “uncle” of his opponent, Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe, one attendee called out, “Brandon! Let’s go Brandon!”
Hours later, at a Richmond-area rally organized by conservative radio talk show host and former Trump state campaign chair John Fredericks, multiple speakers led the crowd of a few hundred in the chant.
Among them was Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem, a candidate for Arizona secretary of state who has been endorsed by Trump. Finchem knew how to elicit loud cheers after a 10-minute speech about his campaign to overturn Biden’s win in his state, urging, “So with that, I’d like to have a one round — if you don’t mind it, just humor me — of ‘Let’s go Brandon!’”
Some who have erected anti-Biden signs, especially vulgar ones, have found themselves in conflict with local officials, including one woman in New Jersey who was asked to take down several banners because they violated a local anti-obscenity ordinance. She has said she plans to fight a judge’s order in court.
That hasn’t deterred Trump supporters. As reporters left a Biden event in Elk Grove, Ill., earlier this month, an anti-Biden protester could be heard speaking over a loudspeaker nearby, booming, “We’re all waving at you to let you know how much you suck.”
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