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?

 

[Oats12345]

It’s less about that and more about the fact that these folks don’t want to be out of a job next year. Everyone sees what’s coming.

I'm wondering if my Democrat congressman is seeing the warning signs on the wall or not

 

[XYZpdq]

I'm wondering if my Democrat congressman is seeing the warning signs on the wall or not

you should call his office and ask

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

I'm wondering if my Democrat congressman is seeing the warning signs on the wall or not

Yes. They see it. It’s probably all they talk about in private.

 

[Gehenna]

I'm wondering if my Democrat congressman is seeing the warning signs on the wall or not

If they hired anyone in my field with even vague levels of competence then yes, yes they are. I know there are a -lot- of Wisconsin Democrats who are suddenly very, very interested with bipartisanship.

 

[Oats12345]

you should call his office and ask

Good point.

They are.

The reason I ask is because my district is still consider some what Republican. He got in 2018. He won re election. But Virginia had made me wonder.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

Good point.

The reason I ask is because my district is still consider some what Republican. He got in 2018. He won re election. But Virginia had made me wonder.

He’s wondering too.

Everyone knows the Biden Admin is a sinking ship. No one is going to vote for this shit except Establishmentarians in safe seats. Therefore, it will not pass. The Admin’s only play is to try and create a situation where they can blame the GOP for it instead of shouldering the blame themselves. The problem is that nothing is going their way. The Propagandists can’t sell the story that the Dang Dirty GOP is obstructing when the Dems hold both chambers of Congress and the Presidency, and can’t get their own Party to vote on the Biden Admin’s agenda

 

[make_it_so]

I recall Michelle saying she has no interest in running for any elected office. Also I think the Democrats want nothing to do with the Obamas beyond having them show up at rallies. Obama was one of the worst party leaders in their history despite his popularity, he bankrupted the party and left a lot of their infrastructure in ruins.

People talk about Oprah running but forget that she has no experience being placed under any kind of scrutiny. Her show was set up to venerate her as a saint and she was never questioned. She'd crumble fast if she had to face opposition, especially when the photos of her palling around with Harvey Weinstein come out.

Counterpoint - as Styxhexenhammer666 pointed out, one of the things that put Trump over the top in 2016 was he had a "brand name recognition" that was more positive and more well known than Hillary Clinton's. Guess who the one person in America is that has an even larger and more popular "brand name recognition?"

 

[deeplyhigh]

Has average donation was $75 cause he had one of his billionaire puppeteers donate $50 100,000 times

Don’t forget the BLM Actblue racket. I dug through the election donations records for people who work at my company (yes I am autistic) and while the cofounders donated their max, with one having his wife donate the max while listing her job as the COO which is her husband’s job, the majority of donations were from rank and file employees via ActBlue. At least some of which came from the CEO sending out emails about where to donate money during the Fenty Floyd riots.

 

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I work for a large defense contractor where a significant portion of the production workforce isn't vaccinated and doesn't want to be. A bunch of anti-mandate employees I know are actually still playing chicken, watching the company and gov't sweat as they miss both the exemption submission deadline and 2 out of 3 possible vaccination deadlines. Most of us filed for religious exemptions though, and everyone who submitted got a case number. We've been sharing our case numbers among each other to get an idea of how many are refusing, and so far the highest I've seen was 11,196.

They simplified our religious exemption form after a couple days too. The office drones in general seem really eager to comply with the vaccine and mask mandates, so I'm guessing they were shocked by the number of exemptions they received and realized there's no way they could possibly scrutinize a fraction of them by Dec 4th. When first released it was a purposefully-labyrinthine 4 pages long with multiple essay sessions, it required a letter from your "religious leader," and indicated there'd be two interrogations by an HR panel to get approval. Now it's one page, a letter is recommended but not required, and there's no mention of one interrogation let alone two

IIRC, the SCOTUS found that you do NOT need to be a member of a specific religion or even have your religion publicly share your objection to qualify, so this might have been a combination of "oh shit people who disagree with us actually exist" and "oh shit our legal counsel just came into the office red faced and started choking the HR rep that sent this out."

 

[Gehenna]

Counterpoint - as Styxhexenhammer666 pointed out, one of the things that put Trump over the top in 2016 was he had a "brand name recognition" that was more positive and more well known than Hillary Clinton's. Guess who the one person in America is that has an even larger and more popular "brand name recognition?"

Brand recognition means people know you, and start out well-disposed. It is not a replacement for substance though. the problem for Clinton is that she attempted to use it as a replacement for substance, against someone with better brand recognition.

 

[Oats12345]

If they hired anyone in my field with even vague levels of competence then yes, yes they are. I know there are a -lot- of Wisconsin Democrats who are suddenly very, very interested with bipartisanship.

Not surprised. You have to be a complete idiot to see what happen this Tuesday and go "everything's fine, let's continue on our radical poplar agenda"

He’s wondering too.

Wondering "maybe I shouldn't vote for that bill on a second thought"

 

[deeplyhigh]

IIRC, the SCOTUS found that you do NOT need to be a member of a specific religion or even have your religion publicly share your objection to qualify, so this might have been a combination of "oh shit people who disagree with us actually exist" and "oh shit our legal counsel just came into the office red faced and started choking the HR rep that sent this out."

Speaking for my company, the changes were related to questions about “other medications“ we refuse to take. They were basing their questions off of the Coof Task Force template, which also appears to have changed and removed those questions: https://www.saferfederalworkforce.g...EST FORM_FINAL REVIEW_20211003 10.29 11am.pdf

 

[Gar For Archer]

Not surprised. You have to be a complete idiot to see what happen this Tuesday and go "everything's fine, let's continue on our radical poplar agenda"

Wondering "maybe I shouldn't vote for that bill on a second thought"

“Let’s continue on our radical agenda that I never even approved of and is going to cost me re-election”.

At this point, there’s literally no incentive to NOT defect. It’s a choice between towing the party line or keeping your job.

 

[Gehenna]

Not surprised. You have to be a complete idiot to see what happen this Tuesday and go "everything's fine, let's continue on our radical poplar agenda"

Wondering "maybe I shouldn't vote for that bill on a second thought"

Right, to defend state-level and congressional representative politicians.

That vast majority aren't radical. Outside of California at least.

It's been a steady trend in American politics on both sides that when your Executive branch leader says they want X, you go lockstep without question to try to get it done. Holdouts like Manchin are incredibly rare in the modern political landscape, but used to be much more common.


I am entirely happy to see more people breaking from their party. On both sides. Yah it's a bit iffy in the moment, but my hope is that it results in congresses around the nation and at the federal level remembering they are their own faction in the balance of powers. They aren't meant to be lapdogs of the Executive branch. It's part of why courts don't want to weigh in too, because if they do they face the combined might of both other balances in our system.

Congresses regaining their balls and independence can only ever end up good for us in the long run, and step one of that is for them to stop voting in lockstep just because the guy uptop said to.

 

[Cubanodun]

I'm going to put my... reputation (ha) where my mouth is and say that they're working on grooming Representative Ocasio-Cortez to be that

lol no, AOC and the rest of the squad are the democrats designated noise makers, in every retard banana country you have them, some people that are keep inside to say takes so unfathomable stupid to make the media and the opposition put their attention on them to distract of other issues ,they are keep high in the ladder to people to notice them but low enough to not annoy the big bois in the party

She will leave when her career doesnt go anywhere

 

[Oats12345]

Right, to defend state-level and congressional representative politicians.

That vast majority aren't radical. Outside of California at least.

It's been a steady trend in American politics on both sides that says when your Executive branch leader says they want X, you go lockstep without question to try to get it done. Holdouts like Manchin are incredibly rare in the modern political landscape, but used to be much more common.


I am entirely happy to see more people breaking from their party. On both sides. Yah it's a bit iffy in the moment, but my hope is that it results in congresses around the nation and at the federal level remembering they are their own faction in the balance of powers. They aren't meant to be lapdogs of the Executive branch. It's part of why courts don't want to weigh in too, because if they do they face the combined might of both other balances in our system.

Congresses regaining their balls and independence can only ever end up good for us in the long run, and step one of that is for them to stop voting in lockstep just because the guy uptop said to.

I agree. It's great seeing more state level assemblies being more independent and realizing they don't have to rely on big brother government for policies.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Counterpoint - as Styxhexenhammer666 pointed out, one of the things that put Trump over the top in 2016 was he had a "brand name recognition" that was more positive and more well known than Hillary Clinton's. Guess who the one person in America is that has an even larger and more popular "brand name recognition?"

She has to want to run, and she'd have to pay off a lot of people to cover up some of her well known issues, like Weinstein and John of God and some lesser known ones, like her lesbian relationship with her "BFF", her beard Steadman, some weird African goings on and so on. She's a fat, comfortable black celebrity who crossed over to be popular with soccer moms, the gay agenda doesn't sit well with the former and the latter are getting spicy over woke politics, which she embraces, and the LGBTBBQ agenda, both of which Republicans would exploit as its the focal point in schools.

I don't think Ooprah wants to run as she happy being fat and sitting on her ass interviewing vapid losers like Megan her cuck, making millions that way.

 

[StuffedBallot]

It will. The goal is to reach 100% vaxxed, and that means homebodies too.

Might help to read the OSHA FAQ. (https://web.archive.org/web/20211104145645/https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/ets2/faqs | https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/ets2/faqs )

Yes. If an employer has 150 employees, 100 of whom work from their homes full-time and 50 of whom work in the office at least part of the time, the employer would be within the scope of this ETS because it has more than 100 employees. However, the standard’s requirements would only apply to the 50 employees who work in the office at least part time around other individuals, and not to those 100 employees working exclusively from their homes.

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[Lorne Armstrong]

“Let’s continue on our radical agenda that I never even approved of and is going to cost me re-election”.

At this point, there’s literally no incentive to NOT defect. It’s a choice between towing the party line or keeping your job.

If we’re talking Dem non-Prog Congressmen not in “safe seats”, they don’t even have to defect. All they have to do is not vote on it. They all know Nancy Pelosi is a paper tigeress now and won’t be around after next year anyway. She has no power and can’t inflict any real pain on them for refusing to vote for it. Threatening them with a primary challenge just means a Progressive gets the nomination and that’s another seat lost to the GOP next year.

 

[XYZpdq]

Might help to read the OSHA FAQ. (https://web.archive.org/web/20211104145645/https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/ets2/faqs | https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/ets2/faqs )

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dirtsheets say they're already feeling out upping shit to be lower thresholds of employment