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?

 

[NevskyProspekt]

Electric cars won't work for most people. The poor will be jack hammered if they're made to buy the things. Once the lithium cells go bad the cost of replacement is more than any second hand vehicle would be worth, and unlike internal combustion engines there is a known finite life to batteries. On top of that we would need to invest trillions just on the electrical grid, Everyone comes home from work and what's the first thing they're going to do? Plug their cars in, in the middle of summer with the air con blasting. Places like California have routine brown outs now FFS. The tech is nowhere near being ready to replace hydrocarbons. Maybe if we started crash building nuclear reactors it would be doable in a few decades, but then why not just start making hydrogen with the spare electricity?

Was about to say, we should've invested in turbine and hydrogen cars. They're a shitload cleaner and more efficient than both electric cars and gas guzzlers. We could have had a cool, efficient and aesthetically interesting future but instead we got hyper-consumerist, inefficient dystopian garbage.

 

[Sithis]

I swear to fucking god if the envirofags prevent me from achieving my lifelong goal of buying a 69 Charger in my boomer years I'll personally set up my own goddamn coal burning pit in my back yard that will belch out 10x the emissions long term. And there is ample fuel supply within driving distance, it's not work I'm unfamiliar with.

 

[Snekposter]

Ms. Neff, who owns a hardware store adorned with images of Mr. Trump as Rambo and the Terminator, was in Washington on Jan. 6 to support the former president — but refused to go into further detail. Citing false evidence, she called the coronavirus vaccine a “poison” and said she worried that Democrats were planning extermination camps of Mr. Trump’s supporters.

Karen Williams, a Bath County resident who manages vacation rentals, said she resented the current Virginia governor, Ralph Northam, a Democrat, for keeping schools shut down during the pandemic, embracing progressive policies focused on race and removing Confederate statues and monuments. She called this an example of critical race theory, a graduate-level academic framework that has become shorthand for a contentious debate on how to teach race and racism in schools.

“I don’t care if the media said the moon was full of cheese, and there was an astronaut who brought back some cheese,” Mr. Wright said. “If the media said it, I won’t believe it.”

They start strong, but alas, feel the need to dunk on the country bumpkins using their SUPERIOR New York experience and intelligence in the middle. The complete lack of self-awareness right here about how they're contributing to the problem would be hilarious if it wasn't so depressing.

 

[The Man With No Name]

I swear to fucking god if the envirofags prevent me from achieving my lifelong goal of buying a 69 Charger in my boomer years I'll personally set up my own goddamn coal burning pit in my back yard that will belch out 10x the emissions long term. And there is ample fuel supply within driving distance, it's not work I'm unfamiliar with.

Brother I'm trying to do similar, fucking first Obama's "Cash for Clunkers" killed dreams of building shitbox rally cars for fun and now I'm worried I won't be able to build a big block hemi. Life for a gearhead in this age is hell.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

Was about to say, we should've invested in turbine and hydrogen cars. They're a shitload cleaner and more efficient than both electric cars and gas guzzlers. We could have had a cool, efficient and aesthetically interesting future but instead we got hyper-consumerist, inefficient dystopian garbage.

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Say what you will about electric cars, but this story is giving me GM EV1 vibes here.

 

[NevskyProspekt]

American city planning has been in a "cars over people" mentality for decades now, so good luck walking. A lot of places I've been to dont even have sidewalks. Try to cut across the street when theres no traffic? Enjoy backing the blue with the traffic cop whos been watching your ass the entire time. And weirdly enough I find rural cops take jaywalking way more seriously than urban ones.

That's one of the issues the U.S. basically shot itself in the foot with. Cities being constructed around the automobile rather than the human being is a mid-20th century invention resulting from the post WWII boom. The U.S. still had suburbs before then, but they were streetcar suburbs (you know, when the U.S. actually knew how to operate a public transport system well - it had the highest quality urban transport systems on earth at one point) so you didn't need to rely on a car but also had the privacy of a single-family detached house, and a street of shops within walking/short tram ride distance for quick errands. Many people still had personal cars but you weren't forced to use one as the only practical means of getting around - the U.S. also still had excellent passenger rail service at this point too.

Now we're stuck with the aftermath of a sprawling, overpriced infrastructure overload that has no way of paying for itself for a boom that was expected to last... however the heck long. We absolutely should not be forcing people to get rid of their cars. Cars should have a place in society (and are a necessity in the countryside) but shouldn't have to be the only way to get around for essentials. The whole issue is very frustrating because there's a lot of retarded bugmen spergery on the left and car obsession among others. There's a healthy middle that's classic Americana but it's been lost in clown world.

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[Only A Retard Sometimes]

That's one of the issues the U.S. basically shot itself in the foot with. Cities being constructed around the automobile rather than the human being is a mid-20th century invention resulting from the post WWII boom. The U.S. still had suburbs before then, but they were streetcar suburbs (you know, when the U.S. actually knew how to operate a public transport system well - it had the highest quality urban transport systems on earth at one point) so you didn't need to rely on a car but also had the privacy of a single-family detached house, and a street of shops within walking/short tram ride distance for quick errands. Many people still had personal cars but you weren't forced to use one as the only practical means of getting around - the U.S. also still had excellent passenger rail service at this point too.

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Now we're stuck with the aftermath of a spawling, overpriced infrastructure overload that has now way of paying for itself for a boom that was expected to last... however the heck long. We absolutely should not be forcing people to get rid of their cars. Cars should have a place in society (and are a necessity in the countryside) but shouldn't have to be the only way to get around for essentials. The whole issue is very frustrating because there's a lot of exceptional bugmen spergery on the left and car obsession among others. There's a healthy middle that's classic Americana but it's been lost in clown world.

public transport lets the nogs ride right up to your house. that's why many suburbs actively fight train and bus line expansions. shaqueesha's love to put their kids on public transit for babysitting.

 

[MrJokerRager]

public transport lets the nogs ride right up to your house. that's why many suburbs actively fight train and bus line expansions. shaqueesha's love to put their kids on public transit for babysitting.

Why is everything traced back to nogs.

Though it's time to start enforcement of laws to combat their menace.

 

[Only A Retard Sometimes]

Why is everything traced back to nogs.

Though it's time to start enforcement of laws to combat their menace.

modern black culture is unironically one of the worst things to ever happen to the united states.

 

[Jeremiah the Bullfrog]

Brother I'm trying to do similar, fucking first Obama's "Cash for Clunkers" killed dreams of building shitbox rally cars for fun and now I'm worried I won't be able to build a big block hemi. Life for a gearhead in this age is hell.

Cash for Clunkers pissed me off so bad back in the day. It was one of the first times I realized, that for all their talk, the Democrats actively shit on the working man.

I was 27 years old when Obama got in and knew a lot of folks who didn't have their shit together as well as I did (and I certainly didn't have it all together either). These friends of mine though, they weren't making a lot of money and needed a mode of transportation. What does the government do? They artificially inflate the cost of used cars.

A generation before, people would go out and buy a 20 year old car with a solid engine and limp it through their 20's. My girlfriend at the time and I knew a single mother of two very young children who was working for somewhere around minimum wage and had moved back in with her folks after her divorce. In a sane world, that girl would've been driving a 1987 Buick Regal who's engine was on it's second rebuild or had been plucked out of a junkyard.

However, at that point a lot of those $1500 cars had abrasive substances fed into the engine and been run at redline until they seized. So instead, this girl was driving around in a $18000 car at probably 12% interest when that came out to be somewhere around her annual salary.

About a year or so later, the Great Recession caught up to me and I found myself out of job with no prospects. So I became one of those guys on Craigslist who "Buys Junk Cars". I had played in the car market before this and had gotten to be, what I thought at the time, was a decent mechanic (I'm far better now). There was a world of difference between what cars were available prior to Cash for Clunkers and what was available afterwards. I wasn't trying to do high quality restorations, my goal was to get a junker and get it running well enough to sell it on and try to scrape together enough to make my mortgage. I was successful at it, but it was a lot harder. Those cars that just needed a carb cleaned or some electrical gremlins sorted were gone now. They'd been repaired and then promply driven to the dealership and destroyed (One of the requirements for Cash For Clunkers is that the motor had to run and the car had to drive). Those cars were gone, so I was left picking through stuff with serious issues because the ones that were worth a shit were either gone or way too expensive. Anything 15 years old or newer had engine problems, older was either wrecked or rusty beyond belief.

There weren't any 1986 Caprices that needed a new distributor left. You see that in the classic car market now. Look at the roundbody Chevy Pickups (88 on for the trucks and 91 and on for the K5 and Suburban). There aren't many left and their value is starting to climb despite them making a bajillion of them.

Joe Biden recently promised that he was going to 'take millions of cars off the road' and frankly I believe he's going to try. I'll believe this isn't something for the plebs and not the elite when he feeds that Corvette of his into a crusher on live television. Until then, it's rules for thee and not for me.

Anyways, I've always wanted a classic convertible and I wanted to buy it and drive it home. Just me, a classic car, a set of hand tools and my gumption. I was on a weekend trip with my wife and found a 1961 Buick Electra 225 Convertible with a 401ci Nailhead that needs a little (not a lot) of love (mostly electrical stuff on the creature comforts... which works out because I'm an Electrical Engineer). I bought her and am picking her up next Friday and am going to drive her across the state of Texas. I figure I'll enjoy her until they figure out how to take that away from me.

 

[tehpope]

That's one of the issues the U.S. basically shot itself in the foot with. Cities being constructed around the automobile rather than the human being is a mid-20th century invention resulting from the post WWII boom. The U.S. still had suburbs before then, but they were streetcar suburbs (you know, when the U.S. actually knew how to operate a public transport system well - it had the highest quality urban transport systems on earth at one point) so you didn't need to rely on a car but also had the privacy of a single-family detached house, and a street of shops within walking/short tram ride distance for quick errands. Many people still had personal cars but you weren't forced to use one as the only practical means of getting around - the U.S. also still had excellent passenger rail service at this point too.

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Now we're stuck with the aftermath of a sprawling, overpriced infrastructure overload that has no way of paying for itself for a boom that was expected to last... however the heck long. We absolutely should not be forcing people to get rid of their cars. Cars should have a place in society (and are a necessity in the countryside) but shouldn't have to be the only way to get around for essentials. The whole issue is very frustrating because there's a lot of exceptional bugmen spergery on the left and car obsession among others. There's a healthy middle that's classic Americana but it's been lost in clown world.

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General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I wouldn't be suprised its more truth than theory.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

 

[SBG]

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What abysmal numbers. I don't think i've seen worse yet.

The Harris numbers always feel like a weird diversion since it's not like the VP has that much power, but Biden and his people kept tossing the shit work like immigration to her to avoid him being tainted by the issue. The head of the DHS has more power regarding immigration than Kamala and that's the old Obama DHS guy Alejandro Mayorkas. So the low approval numbers for Kamala are a bit like a success story for the Biden White House since it means she's soaking up the blame for everyone else there.

 

[Glowing In The Streets]

The Harris numbers always feel like a weird diversion since it's not like the VP has that much power, but Biden and his people kept tossing the shit work like immigration to her to avoid him being tainted by the issue. The head of the DHS has more power regarding immigration than Kamala and that's the old Obama DHS guy Alejandro Mayorkas. So the low approval numbers for Kamala are a bit like a success story for the Biden White House since it means she's soaking up the blame for everyone else there.

didn't even know VP were polled

unless this is a trick to say

heels up is only 51 disliked, that means the regime is liked by the rest (49%)

 

[SBG]

That's one of the issues the U.S. basically shot itself in the foot with. Cities being constructed around the automobile rather than the human being is a mid-20th century invention resulting from the post WWII boom. The U.S. still had suburbs before then, but they were streetcar suburbs (you know, when the U.S. actually knew how to operate a public transport system well - it had the highest quality urban transport systems on earth at one point) so you didn't need to rely on a car but also had the privacy of a single-family detached house, and a street of shops within walking/short tram ride distance for quick errands. Many people still had personal cars but you weren't forced to use one as the only practical means of getting around - the U.S. also still had excellent passenger rail service at this point too.

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Now we're stuck with the aftermath of a sprawling, overpriced infrastructure overload that has no way of paying for itself for a boom that was expected to last... however the heck long. We absolutely should not be forcing people to get rid of their cars. Cars should have a place in society (and are a necessity in the countryside) but shouldn't have to be the only way to get around for essentials. The whole issue is very frustrating because there's a lot of exceptional bugmen spergery on the left and car obsession among others. There's a healthy middle that's classic Americana but it's been lost in clown world.

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Last year my city tried out doing free bus rides for everyone, but was also requiring lower capacity to help with social distancing. The result was that a lot of people couldn't ride the bus to get to work because the buses kept getting filled up by homeless.

The shitty public transit in the US and the neighborhoods being so spread out that you have to have a car all seems like an effect of people not wanting to be near the degraded parts of society themselves or want to avoid the 'diversity' in their city. I think it becomes so natural to people to avoid others within their city that they don't even know what a lot of their cities' population looks like. So it's not due to incompetence with how the transit or neighborhoods are designed, it's purposeful. If people felt safe and comfortable around most of the people of their cities then we'd likely have great public transport.

 

[God of Nothing]

I once witnessed a nigger with two children with him beat a middle-aged leaning on elderly Mexican man on a bus for no reason at all. When one of his old white bus buddies asked him if he'd be pressing charges, he said the man had two kids. Elder abuser even said he dindu nuffin to the driver when he was going to call it in.

Fucking niggers, I swear. Half a century and we're still more civilized: the people with ancestors that flayed people alive and sacrificed them as a religion.

Other than that, no bus problems aside from the occasional creep or brainfucked passenger. Watching dogs rest beneath their owner's seat is an adorable sight everyone should see at least once in their lives. The homeless are nice when they're not depressing

 

[Only A Retard Sometimes]

I once witnessed a nigger with two children with him beat a middle-aged leaning on elderly Mexican man on a bus for no reason at all. When one of his old white bus buddies asked him if he'd be pressing charges, he said the man had two kids. Elder abuser even said he dindu nuffin to the driver when he was going to call it in.

Fucking niggers, I swear. Half a century and we're still more civilized: the people with ancestors that flayed people alive and sacrificed them as a religion.

Other than that, no bus problems aside from the occasional creep or brainfucked passenger. Watching dogs rest beneath their owner's seat is an adorable sight everyone should see at least once in their lives. The homeless are nice when they're not depressing

the blacks have actually gotten mroe savage since the 1960's.

 

[Puff]

Brother I'm trying to do similar, fucking first Obama's "Cash for Clunkers" killed dreams of building shitbox rally cars for fun and now I'm worried I won't be able to build a big block hemi. Life for a gearhead in this age is hell.

I work for who will likely be the last V8 holdout. You have until 2025.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

I work for who will likely be the last V8 holdout. You have until 2025.

You work for FCA? I was wondering how long they could keep refreshing their decade old Charger/Challenger with a giant hemi stuff in it.

 

[NevskyProspekt]

Last year my city tried out doing free bus rides for everyone, but was also requiring lower capacity to help with social distancing. The result was that a lot of people couldn't ride the bus to get to work because the buses kept getting filled up by homeless.

The shitty public transit in the US and the neighborhoods being so spread out that you have to have a car all seems like an effect of people not wanting to be near the degraded parts of society themselves or want to avoid the 'diversity' in their city. I think it becomes so natural to people to avoid others within their city that they don't even know what a lot of their cities' population looks like. So it's not due to incompetence with how the transit or neighborhoods are designed, it's purposeful. If people felt safe and comfortable around most of the people of their cities then we'd likely have great public transport.

It's a combination of incompetence, infrastructure/urban design and general social decay across the country. You're absolutely correct regarding the fact that most Americans live in a low-trust socioeconomic situation. Whatever sense of community that used to exist has been obliterated for all sorts of reasons.