US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)

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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?
 
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mandatorylurk said:
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This photo comes to mind anytime I hear news like this.
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Gehenna said:
Sadly, not familiar with Asian politics, so I will choose not to put my foot in my mouth here. But yah, it's a stronghold.
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New Jersey isn't what I'd call their stronghold. Massechussets, Vermont, California. Those are strongholds. Republicans have a solid forty percent base in Jersey.

PVI is a good measure. If America is considered neutral, Viriginia in 2020 was six points left of center and Jersey was twelve points left of center.
 
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Kane Lives said:
So, perhaps to provide context to a non-American, how bad does it look for the DNC if they actually lost NJ?
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Normally it wouldn't be so bad. But considering how much Biden "won" NJ by in 2020 and how much MSNBCNNPR were talking up the VA race as being a definitive signal for how the midterms will go without so much as a peep about the NJ race, pretty fucking bad.

This would be like betting on red and black at a roulette wheel for shits and giggles and the ball landing on 00 - green.
 
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jspit2.0 said:
New Jersey isn't what I'd call their stronghold. Massechussets, Vermont, California. Those are strongholds. Republicans have a solid forty percent base in Jersey.

PVI is a good measure. If America is considered neutral, Viriginia in 2020 was six points left of center and Jersey was twelve points left of center.
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Mass is actually also 40% Republican, bit it's so gerrymandered that they never win congressional seats
 
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jspit2.0 said:
New Jersey isn't what I'd call their stronghold. Massechussets, Vermont, California. Those are strongholds. Republicans have a solid forty percent base in Jersey.

PVI is a good measure. If America is considered neutral, Viriginia in 2020 was six points left of center and Jersey was twelve points left of center.
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Anything with a greater than ten-point lead is generally a stronghold. A lesser one, not a core stronghold, but a stronghold.
 
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Gehenna said:
A bit of elucidation because smug posting aside I try to be actually informative in here.

Pelosi wanted out in 2020, she was very public about this. She agreed to stay on to steward in Biden's presidency as a major favor to the Cabal. The idea was simple, she'd ensure the house stays in control and calm while the Cabal works the kinks out of its operations.

A few problems:
1: The extremely narrow margins in Congress were unexpected.
2: The cabal backstabbing began
3: What was meant to be a defeated and pacified Right now became resurgent and angry.

So basically everything she was promised was wrong, she was already planning to leave, and now she has every reason to flee the scene before things go -south-.
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With Pelosi retired, who is strong enough to replace her and keep the squad in check?
That is what I think will be interesting to see. Will her replacement be able to keep the squad to stay in line?
 
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soy_king said:
Thailand? if so, how do you feel about Sinawatra?
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Haha nope. No opinion on this exceptional creature either, except he was a laughing stock for a bit when the coup went down. (It shouldn't surprise anyone that SEAsians are a fractious lot that likes to poke fun at each other... sometimes very seriously).
 
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Cuckoman said:
With Pelosi retired, who is strong enough to replace her and keep the squad in check?
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No,

Just no.

Pelosi had a successor lined up, but he got ousted by AOC in 2019. There hasn't been enough -time- to groom a successor. There is absolutely nobody lined up who even has the basic qualifications, let alone who can handle the progs.
 
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Cuckoman said:
With Pelosi retired, who is strong enough to replace her and keep the squad in check?
That is what I think will be interesting to see. Will her replacement be able to keep the squad to stay in line?
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I'm just laughing that the man Pelosi was grooming as her replacement was primaried out by AOC of all people. I think that played a small but non-zero role on why Pelosi made AOC bend the knee on that Iron Dome vote among other things. Or maybe I just want to think that.
 
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Salubrious said:
I expect their to be a MASSIVE reversal in the mandates in the next week or so. Even if the Dems hold on in New Jersey, they know now without question how much the country is against them.

Or they could go the MSNBC route and remain completely fucking delusional.
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If the Dems start caving on Covid they're ruined. The fear of the virus is the strongest card they have in their hand, it's one of the issues they're most trusted on. They've done a good job planting the narrative in people's minds that "Trump fumbled the virus response and hundreds of thousands died, Biden is the only hope to stop it."

If they backtrack on the mandates, Covid fear will no longer be a viable instrument to control people. The mandates and the doomer Fauci press conferences are what maintain their hold on people's minds. If they start to backtrack and say "maybe it's okay to work without a vaccine after all" then any future fearmongering attempt will be crippled as people start to notice how the virus is sometimes a deadly threat requiring us to upend our lives and sometimes it might as well not exist.

This is one of the main reasons they go so hard on mandates and Covid restrictions, they have to maintain the narrative that the virus is a horrible deadly threat and if they let up on that even a little the house of cards will collapse and they'll be left trying to explain why they wrecked so many people's lives over a case of the sniffles. If they cave it'll be a huge blow to their influence over the public.
 
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soy_king said:
Mass is actually also 40% Republican, bit it's so gerrymandered that they never win congressional seats
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Trump got 32% his two times at bat there, Romney got 37%, McCain got 36%. Bush got 36 and 32. Conversely Trump and McCain both got 41%, and Romney just barely ran behind that. Bush got 46 and 40.

Massechussettes Republicans live in a nightmare as they are evenly distributed throughout the state instead of concentrated anywhere.

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Anything with a greater than ten-point lead is generally a stronghold. A lesser one, not a core stronghold, but a stronghold.
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Well, my definition differs.

I agree with you though, its a state they can bank on usually and if it goes so goes allot of other states.

Speaking of...Essex dropped the hammer. 72% in and it's erasing a good chunk of Murphy's deficit as I thought. Ciatrelli is at 25% there. Good news is, Salem is still out and Sussex hasn't dropped.
 
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