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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An energized and outraged right-wing base + appeal to cucky moderates who didn't vote for Trump means that Youngkin can win the LEGAL votes in Virginia for sure, and I'd make peg him as the favorite to win the legal votes (I do not think Trump won the legal votes in Virginia in 2020 because he didn't come that close in 2016 either, when things were less fraudulent; but Youngkin can, in a similar way to how someone like Susan Collins won a bunch of voters in Maine who voted for Joe n the Ho, except I don't think Youngkin's crossover appeal is as powerful as Collins') .
It is also a good sign that there are only ~360k mail in votes so far whereas at this point in time in the 2020 cycle there were ~1 million mail in votes. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that Dems failed to overturn signature match requirements this year.
A McAuliffe victory at this point hinges on whether or not they can fortify the election, there's still room for them to do so. Many Dems are total pussies, particularly the young nu-male millennials, but their political operatives have enough ballsy psychopaths that I wouldn't be surprised if 2021 VA Gubernatorial is a repeat of 2020 in the close battleground states like Wisconsin where they get just enough needed to 'win.'
It is also a good sign that there are only ~360k mail in votes so far whereas at this point in time in the 2020 cycle there were ~1 million mail in votes. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that Dems failed to overturn signature match requirements this year.
A McAuliffe victory at this point hinges on whether or not they can fortify the election, there's still room for them to do so. Many Dems are total pussies, particularly the young nu-male millennials, but their political operatives have enough ballsy psychopaths that I wouldn't be surprised if 2021 VA Gubernatorial is a repeat of 2020 in the close battleground states like Wisconsin where they get just enough needed to 'win.'
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It's sad. People really used to dream big back then. It was about 66 years between the first powered flight and putting a man on the moon, and now, nobody has been beyond low Earth orbit. At least visible light telescopes the size of the ground-based ones on Earth, but without the atmospheric distortion. What happened?
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We chose to strip NASA of funding and putting it into "disadvantaged communities."
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That's because if the people in charge allowed for us to escape Earth, that wouldn't allow them to have so much power as they do now. And fostering money on their pet nogs and other assorted brownies helps to keep people on Earth.
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Niggas didn't think going the speed of sound was possible until Chuck Yeager did it but we go Mach 3 all the time now and Mach 5/hypersonic is a thing even dumb commie chinks can copy.
FTL may very well be possible.
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Steve Jobs had a saying: A players hire A players, B players hire C players, C players hire D players.
The most competent people want to surround themselves with other competent people who they know won't let them down. However, people further down on the ladder of competence want people under them who are less competent so that they don't become a threat. Right now, we're seeing the world's elite institutions burn through the C players and D players and get down into the F players, the dropouts and the kids who spent class eating paste off their hands.
This seems to be a natural lifecycle seen in many organizations, from governments to fly-fishing clubs. Competent people amass resources, incompetent people inherit those resources and then fall into a downward spiral of promoting more and more useless people out of fear that they'll lose their position. Inevitably this comes to pass as the amassed resources aren't enough to offset their weakness, a period of chaos ensues and then another strong leader amasses power and restores stability. From there the cycle repeats. The "strong men create good times" cycle is another way to describe it.
It's not surprising that an increasingly incompetent and debauched elite will spin ideologies that justify its behavior. All of the anti-meritocracy propaganda justifies their promotion of increasingly useless people. The good news is that this regime won't last forever as its compounding incompetence ensures its collapse. The bad news is that once it collapses, all bets are off until a leader comes along who's strong enough to stem the chaos, and that leader may not be one you want.
Gerrymandering, checks and balances.
Alternatively, a state could just balkanize and those big urban areas could just become city/states.
Wouldn't work so well for them. Greater California has five or six million people depending on how you define it and actually makes shit. Upstate NY has about four million. Downstate Illinois has about three. Add to that most cities would be fucked. They'd lose natural resources, (water, oil, wildlife and farming) transit (roads and rest stops), and outlets (suburbs/exurbs).
It's a trade off. If you don't value the rest of the state and instead use blunt democracy to tyrannically dictate to them; division is better.
Fortunately, that's not the case in the United States writ large. Until recently, there wasn't a huge divide in the Northeast between rurals/urban areas. The Rust Belt pre Trump was largely the same.
In the South, the rest of the state tends to outvote a loony Democrat core; except Virginia.
The West is were this is a real problem and even then mostly along the West coast.
Most states in the US had a form of check and balance before the Supreme Court ruled it illegal. Tennessee had State Senators elected by county.
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Don't forget that Yeager went on that flight with a pair of broken ribs after falling off of a horse just days earlier, and he had to have a buddy rig something up to let him shut the aircraft door since he was in too much pain to reach for the lever. He was a fucking madman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager#Post-World_War_II
Dude was the maddest of mad lads. He also did a full dive in that same year when testing a MiG-15 a Korean defector brought over, a maneuver which Russian pilots considered near-suicidal.
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there's a legend that when shown the Strike Witches character based on him his take was largely approving, since she had tig ol bitties
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That's pretty fucking weird, but there's stranger things in life. You have a sauce for that legend though?
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Correct. At least here in Wisconsin, but we tend to be pretty reflective of the U.S. as a whole. Though I have made the mistake of assuming that's universal at times and been called out. But I don't see a good reason this would break from the national average, so his numbers are likely within that range nationally.
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He wasn't shy of making public appearances at places like EAA in Oshkosh. Someone could have easily walked up and asked him while he was hanging out watching airplanes.
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All the men in my immediate family were/are pilots, I have horrible vision so I can't but I do know a lot about flying and planes from them (during long flights I used to always wander into the cockpit as a child and pilots always indulged me, it was great). Yeager did some amazing flying in WW2 and afterward simply topped it, over and over again.
Yeager was also badly burned after another test flight and I remember hearing him talk about the debridement and I was like...omg. He said he was simply happy it didn't affect his vision because he yanked off his helmet as it had a component that produced oxygen, which kept his face from being burned.
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It's insane to think that fuckers that fought WWII lived to see this shit.
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Gen Yeager took to shitposting on Twitter a few of years before he passed, he hadn't changed a bit.
and yep he was a Trump fan
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She shouldn't have talked about Michael Obama then.
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Given how they used to paint their planes with risque pictures of questionably-clad fems, I think they might understand it a bit more than we'd think
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Joan Rivers was awsome in that she was one of the few big names in Hollywood who openly criticized the Obamas and even liberal celebs couldn't touch her
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Born a few decades too early to paint their planes with risqué pictures of questionably-clad anime girls. What a shame!
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