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?

 

[Marchesa of the Vast]

smdh New Jersey (a glorified NY and PA suburb) wound up almost flipping and the swampiest of swamp states went Republican and doomers still insist on portraying any change in direction for the country's politics as a facade.
You know, propaganda is as much about convincing people they're alone and isolated and agitating for change won't accomplish anything as it is about pushing a false narrative. You're unironically doing the work to bolster what you clearly hate.

I don't consider myself isolated and alone? Lmao. I just don't see the argument that normies have woken up to even 1/10 of the ways they're actively being fucked. Like, no, I don't think I'm in some isolated minority where the majority thinks men in skirts raping young girls in the bathroom and cutting off the breasts of 15 year olds is popular. Are they going to realize how deep the rot is? Should I be encouraged by their fight to ensure their kids can "go to school in person" and be fed to that machine? There is a difference between demoralization and irritation at this continued inertia towards failed platforms and ideas. It's not demoralization to think that embracing "dems are the real racists" Ben Shapiroisms are gonna get us out of this mess. I'm sorry to be the one to poke a hole in the euphoria that took over this thread but getting institutions out of children's pants is still a long way off.

 

[Oats12345]

So I just look at my local county elections. Well looks like the lefty challenger is the projected winner for the sheriff race. Can't wait to see all the retirements coming. Really I think he only won because he's young. But what I hear form my uncle he's un fit for the job.

The counting isn't done by the why here.

My previous hometown (childhood hometown) that I recently move form last year has 4 Republicans and 1 Democrat serving in the town council.
Their were two town council seats up for election and the two Republicans are the projected winners. By a large amount of numbers.

Town supervisor the incumbent Republican won by a large margin.

My current hometown. There were two town council seats up and it looks like Republicans won them.

Edit: looks like all the town supervisors in my county who won all were Republican.

 

[Marchesa of the Vast]

Oh, I get your gimmick now! Good luck with your alternative to democracy. I think we all know what you have in mind, and you're going to have to look elsewhere to find support for that.

Nice attempt at mindreading. Did I piss on your fireworks too hard about a hedgie and Immigration advertisement being the turning point in this slide down hill?

Here I am just trying to stop you from embarrassing yourselves like the people who cried about McCain losing or all the moderates that danced in the street for Obama and all I get is frothing anger that I am not dancing over this as well.

 

[Marchesa of the Vast]

I think you're underestimating the amount of people in here that are generic republican cheerleaders. Some of them are starting to sound like my boomer relatives, losing track of the point of all of this and getting lost in the political back and forth.

Still,, I think Youngkin winning is a small victory. But I'll never consider it a win just because it benefits the GOP and hurts the Dems.

Yea its funny, and it's a small "victory". Team blue got egg on their face and team red showed they can get elected in VA still.

Neat.

Even in this thread people are talking about how savvy Youngkin was to be neutral and not overtly associate himself one way or the other. That doesn't sound like the highly optimistic analysis that is warranting euphoria. How is that supposed to instill confidence that anything more than Lindsey Graham or Larry Hogan Republicans have a chance there?

 

[jspit2.0]

Ok, I'm prepared for all your Xs, but here me out.

To me, New Jersey was WAY more important than Virginia. Because there is now a chance, just a CHANCE, a 1% I am not totally black-pilled chance, that New York State goes with a Red govenor in 2022.

This is where PVI comes in as useful.

I've previously mentioned that Virginia was six points left of center and New Jersey was twelve. New York in 2020 was twenty points left of center....but there's a huge caveat there.

New York broadly breaks into three geo politic areas. Upstate, NYC proper, and Long Island.

Trump became the first Republican in thirty years to win upstate NY in 2016. He won it narrowly, I think 49-46? (someone else can check). Biden flipped it, but only barely and Trump's base was intact in 2020.

Long Island is one of a handful of GOP holdouts in the NE. It went heavily for Trump in 2016 and though it still voted for him in 2020, it was by reduced margins.

Now, where it gets interesting is NYC. President Trump did horribly in four of the five boroughs in 2016. He won by huge margins in Staten Island, but saw decline elsewhere. Then in 2020, his margin declined in Staten Island, while improving everywhere else!

What this translates to is New York, already having moved right in the Trump era, was actually further right if a GOP candidate puts Trump's 2016 performance in Staten Island, Long Island, and Upstate, together with his 2020 performance in the four boroughs.

It would still likely be out of reach, but the GOP candidate would be in the lower mid forties. Dems likely dodged a bullet by taking out Cuomo with his scandals. But in the right environment, with a good candidate? It could be something where Democrats have to waste money.

Lee Zeldin (I'll presume he's gonna be the Republican's guy) is an interesting guy. He's a Trump supporter, he served in Iraq, he was a Lieutenant Colonel and he's also Jewish. Unfortunately I doubt the GOP will lend any serious resources to NY for a good campaign to happen. Too many other purple and light blue states have become vulnerable.

That's the one thing, just like in 2018, the field could be so broad there isn't enough to go around.

 

[Homegrown Homophobia]

Doomerism is a hell of a fucking drug.

 

[Only A Retard Sometimes]

I think you're underestimating the amount of people in here that are generic republican cheerleaders. Some of them are starting to sound like my boomer relatives, losing track of the point of all of this and getting lost in the political back and forth.

Still,, I think Youngkin winning is a small victory. But I'll never consider it a win just because it benefits the GOP and hurts the Dems.

Youngkin isnt a romney clone. He ran on CRT, and pro-parent involvement in education. solidly populist ideas. he ran a very tight campaign with trump shoring up the rural areas and himself getting the suburbs.

 

[jspit2.0]

I think you're underestimating the amount of people in here that are generic republican cheerleaders. Some of them are starting to sound like my boomer relatives, losing track of the point of all of this and getting lost in the political back and forth.

Still,, I think Youngkin winning is a small victory. But I'll never consider it a win just because it benefits the GOP and hurts the Dems.

This is why Bernie and AOC succeed in pushing Dems left and Trump struggled to push the GOP toward populism.

It's not about outright winning. AOC may be stupid, but Bernie knows what he's doing. He's making things worse on the chance that if it gets bad enough people will be desperate enough to turn to him.

Youngkin and company are populism for Virginia, unfortunately. Once people become red pilled once and split their vote, they're more willing to do it a second time. A third. If Dems have to waste time on Virginia, that's time they were spending fucking up Georgia.

 

[Meat Target]

Yea its funny, and it's a small "victory". Team blue got egg on their face and team red showed they can get elected in VA still.

Neat.

Even in this thread people are talking about how savvy Youngkin was to be neutral and not overtly associate himself one way or the other. That doesn't sound like the highly optimistic analysis that is warranting euphoria. How is that supposed to instill confidence that anything more than Lindsey Graham or Larry Hogan Republicans have a chance there?

I, for one, am not gonna look a gift horse in the mouth.

 

[Back me up!]

The Virginia house flipped republican by one seat, so they really should push to get some election day lockdowns on certain gay counties like Fairfax the way Miami Dade was cleaned out in FL.

All Youngkin has to do is bare bones republican shit. No mandates, no CRT, prune some election bullshit here and there, and he'll have succeeded. Running on a platform of "I want to leave you and your family alone" is a winning formula because you don't have Obummer trying to strawman it as being heartless.

Its TWO seats now: https://www.vpap.org/electionresults/20211102/house/

But yes, Youngkin plans looks 100% to be "I'll leave you alone, you figure out what's best for your family" with COVID along with some school choice/no CRT stuff thrown in. He won on improving and fixing education so I bet he'll spend a lot of time focusing on that.

And god willing letting his new Republican AG loose on every single school board member in Loudoun and Fairfax Country.

 

[Jeremiah the Bullfrog]

Oh, ok. "There's blood in the water." More delirious celebration from the right over inferring the state of their opponents. At least we're progressing off the hopium and back into reality. "Leftism proved unpopular once again!"

I think we can both agree that the infrastructure and BBB bills would be incredibly destructive if passed. This kills the BBB bill at the very least (which is the worse of the two). The moderate Democrats aren’t just going to walk away from that, they’re going to run and run like hell. The infrastructure bill is likely DOA as well.

In a country that is experiencing record high inflation, that alone is a win (at least for a guy like me who’s trying to keep the lights on and the food on the table for his kids).

Does this fix the underlying issues? No, but it limits the damage Biden can inflict.

Secondly, this shows everyone that there is a lot of blowback that comes after you push the CRT and tranny bullshit in schools. No matter how you slice it, that’s a good thing and hopefully this is a sign of things to come. That hits somewhat close to home for me as the former superintendent from Loudoun County has taken a position up the road in a neighboring school district here in Texas.

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

 

[CrippleThreat]

Ok, I'm prepared for all your Xs, but here me out.

To me, New Jersey was WAY more important than Virginia. Because there is now a chance, just a CHANCE, a 1% I am not totally black-pilled chance, that New York State goes with a Red govenor in 2022.

Hear me out. New Jersey was supposed to be won by like 15-20 points, and the blue looks like it will BARELY hang on.

New Yorkers voted overwhelmingly against nearly every prop last night. I cannot understate how much Hochul is HATED in Upstate, and I don't think she's going too well even in NYC. Letitia James, the NYS Attorney General that might actually primary Hochul, is just as hated.

There is a CHANCE after seeing New Jersey last night, that enough of Upstate just goes "fuck it; literally anyone else."

Shut up, let me have this.

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There might have been, but the GOPe decided to take Murphy's "We're the California of the East" prattle at face value.

Oh, what Jack's campaign could have done with the RNC fully behind it, instead of shrugging at a lost cause.

 

[Chamaelirium]

OK somebody tell me is the $600 IRS bank account bullshit they were planning on doing dead in the water now? Huge white pill If this is the case

 

[Michael Wade]

It won’t.

Correction: it might, depending on who you voted for. If you voted “correctly”, it might even count twice!

You were dead wrong, I mean wow. Razofist had you dead to rights.

Yea its funny, and it's a small "victory". Team blue got egg on their face and team red showed they can get elected in VA still.

Neat.

Even in this thread people are talking about how savvy Youngkin was to be neutral and not overtly associate himself one way or the other. That doesn't sound like the highly optimistic analysis that is warranting euphoria. How is that supposed to instill confidence that anything more than Lindsey Graham or Larry Hogan Republicans have a chance there?

Take your doubleposting blackpilled bullshit elsewhere.

Love em hate em. He's right on the money. So put up or shut up.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Looking at other local state elections, a lot of credit needs to go to Scott Presler, the best gay republican. He knows exactly how to register and set up the ground level ops MAGA people needed who could be relied on compared to the swamp McCarthy GOPe who did "great things" like Romney's failed big tech voter databse for 2012's flop.

 

[Marissa Moira]

OK somebody tell me is the $600 IRS bank account bullshit they were planning on doing dead in the water now? Huge white pill If this is the case

No they still plan on tracking your guns and ammunition purchases that way.

 

[SBG]

Even in this thread people are talking about how savvy Youngkin was to be neutral and not overtly associate himself one way or the other. That doesn't sound like the highly optimistic analysis that is warranting euphoria. How is that supposed to instill confidence that anything more than Lindsey Graham or Larry Hogan Republicans have a chance there?

Seems like people are trying to frame it as Youngkin not bogging himself down with the failing aspects of guys like Trump, without really saying what the failings were. Which is a tad fucked up when most of the RNC consultants (who tell these politicians what to support to get votes) are promoting the idea that the failings were populist policies or disagreeing with the left, which in turn means Repub politicians will distance themselves from or be silent about populist policies.

With Youngkin this meant not daring speak of illegal immigration.

Mr. Youngkin hasn’t aired a single radio or TV ad about immigration at a time when the U.S.-Mexico border is a mess, Republican governors are sending National Guard troops to help and Republican politicians are making pilgrimages to be photographed with Border Patrol agents.

Regarding Mcauliffe, there also is the issue that he was unpopular with a lot of Democrats in the state after how he did previously as governor. I suspect a lot of people have no idea there were issues with him due to the fact he wasn't voted out of office, but rather forced out because Virginia doesn't allow governors to serve consecutive terms. So the election became one between an unpopular former governor and a Repub running on a single issue of schools, even suggesting he'd increase teacher pay when the teachers are the problem.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

You were dead wrong, I mean wow

As I’ve said multiple times since last night, I’ve never been happier to have been proven wrong in my entire life. Hell, I might even register to vote again.

 

[mandatorylurk]

 

[Calandrino]

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Sir I think you're focusing on the wrong inter-party civil war

It really makes no sense. Youngkin's base is White Supremacists brandishing tiki torches and Confederate flags, I think we've all seen the photos. Virginia is now Nazi territory and Trump is the Fuhrer of all racism. This is a decisive win for gamergate.