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?

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

that seems more complicated than moving Russians to Russia, not to mention noone wants it
also it's the eastern Orthodox part that has all the AIDS, but less IQ

Point is that this isn't a conflict between Ethnic Russians and non-Russians. It's a Catholic vs. Orthodox conflict and has been that way for hundreds of years before Ukraine even existed in its current state. Trying to pretend it's anything else is just buying into the western narrative that Ukrainians are somehow different from Russians and don't share hundreds of years of religion and culture.

Also what you know as the Ukrainian language is barely used in most of the country there, you can speak Russian everywhere except for the west.

 

[Blake Chortles]

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Someone post this on that hermancain award sub.

 

[Terrifik]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/media-washington-post-steele-dossier/2021/11/12/f7c9b770-43d5-11ec-a88e-2aa4632af69b_story.html

cycle continues the news old time to pidgeon whole the lead

The newspaper’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, said The Post could no longer stand by the accuracy of those elements of the story. It had identified businessman Sergei Millian as “Source D,” the unnamed figure who passed on the most salacious allegation in the dossier to its principal author, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.

The story’s headline was amended, sections identifying Millian as the source were removed, and an accompanying video summarizing the article was eliminated. An editor’s note explaining the changes was added. Other stories that made the same assertion were corrected as well.

Source D, according to the dossier, alleged that Russian intelligence had learned that Trump had hired Russian prostitutes to defile a Moscow hotel room once occupied by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama and possessed a video recording of the incident.

The allegation, which the dossier said was confirmed by a second person described only as “Source E,” has never been substantiated.

Steele’s dossier consisted of raw information and unconfirmed tips from unidentified sources, which he compiled as part of a political opposition-research project for an investigative firm working on behalf of the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. Though Steele shared it with the FBI, its contents remained largely unknown and unpublicized until two months after the 2016 election, when a leaked copy was published by BuzzFeed News.

Trump has repeatedly denounced the dossier as false, framing it as the centerpiece of a malicious effort financed by his political opponents to damage him.

The Post’s reassessment follows the indictment on Nov. 4 of Igor Danchenko, a Russian American analyst and researcher who helped Steele compile the dossier. Danchenko was arrested as part of an investigation conducted by attorney John Durham, the special counsel appointed by Trump’s attorney general William P. Barr to probe the origins and handling of the FBI’s inquiry into Trump’s alleged Russian connections.

Danchenko was indicted on charges that he repeatedly lied to the FBI about where and how he got information that he allegedly gave to Steele for the dossier. He pleaded not guilty in federal court this week. His attorney, Mark Schamel, said in a statement: “For the past five years, those with an agenda have sought to expose Mr. Danchenko’s identity and tarnish his reputation while undermining U.S. National Security. This latest injustice will not stand.”

Buzbee said the indictment and new reporting by the newspaper has “created doubts” about Millian’s alleged involvement. The new reporting included an interview with one of the original sources in its 2017 article, who now is uncertain that Millian was Source D, she said. “We feel we are taking the most transparent approach possible” to set the record straight, she said.

The March 2017 Post story carried the headline, “Who is ‘Source D’? The man said to be behind the Trump-Russia dossier’s most salacious claim.” It said Millian had been identified in different portions of the dossier as Source D and Source E. The article included Millian’s repeated denials that he had helped Steele.

The newspaper removed references to Millian as Steele’s source in online and archived versions of the original articles. The stories themselves won’t be retracted. A dozen other Post stories that made the same assertion were also be corrected and amended.

The Post’s decision to edit and repost the Millian stories is highly unusual in the news industry.

Mainstream publications often add corrections to published stories when credible new information emerges. Some publishers also enable readers to petition them to remove unflattering stories from their websites, a once-controversial practice that has gained more acceptance in the digital era, when articles can remain accessible online for years.

But it’s rare for a publication to make wholesale changes after publication and to republish the edited story, especially more than four years afterward.

“No such case comes immediately or specifically to mind, at least no historical case that stirred lasting controversy,” said W. Joseph Campbell, a professor and journalism historian at American University.

The February 2019 Post story detailed Millian’s involvement in some of Trump’s business activities. It was headlined, “Sergei Millian, identified as an unwitting source for the Steele dossier, sought proximity to Trump’s world in 2016.”

 

[pwnest injun]

This legit makes me MATI because I can almost see the sentiments they're playing on. After all, journalists actually did used to be badass. Anyone who doubts that should pick up a book and read about Robert Sherrod or Richard Tregaskis. Those guys were right there in the trenches getting shot at and at just as much risk of getting gutted by a japanese soldier as any us troops were.

But those days are long gone in American journalism. There are still some Journos with balls and brains but all of them are foreign these days, covering narcowars in Mexico etc.

You're confusing reporters and journalists. A reporter goes somewhere and tells you what they see. A journalist never goes anywhere and tells you what to think.

 

[gaystoner]

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

Tucker proves he's the number 1 news show for a reason. Another major 'lefty' speaking out against the Left

Batya Ungar-Sargon is on and she just appeared on CNN last week:

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Batya has been getting more and more based since her Forward days. Have had issues with her takes in the past, but she is good at explaining why the elites are so out of touch.

>Pointing out hypocrisy on the left while being a leftie

She's on a blacklist now, isn't she?

 

[celebrityskin]

>Pointing out hypocrisy on the left while being a leftie

She's on a blacklist now, isn't she?

It was Batya who Ilhan replied to with the "benjamins" comment a few years ago so she got a lot of flak for "inciting islamophobia" or whatever.

 

[Rustic Ruthenian]

Point is that this isn't a conflict between Ethnic Russians and non-Russians. It's a Catholic vs. Orthodox conflict and has been that way for hundreds of years before Ukraine even existed in its current state. Trying to pretend it's anything else is just buying into the western narrative that Ukrainians are somehow different from Russians and don't share hundreds of years of religion and culture.

Also what you know as the Ukrainian language is barely used in most of the country there, you can speak Russian everywhere except for the west.
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That map is 18 years old and ignores the existence of surzhyk, a creole that mixes the two. Since Russia invaded in 2014 usage of Ukrainian has risen significantly. The areas you listed as Catholic are also 57% Orthodox with 30% being Catholic.

Ukraine is a nation with a distinct history and culture in the eyes of the majority of Ukrainians, but it isn’t an ethnic or religious conflict. It’s a strategic conflict that Russia tries to justify to others by claiming it’s an ethnic conflict. They have done the same thing in other neighboring countries to create frozen conflicts that will prevent them from joining NATO.

 

[celebrityskin]

It’s a strategic conflict that Russia tries to justify to others by claiming it’s an ethnic conflict. They have done the same thing in other neighboring countries to create frozen conflicts that will prevent them from joining NATO.

Yeah exactly what happened with Georgia, as South Ossetia is pretty much just Russia occupying them via a proxy state.

 

[Michael Wade]

Seems to be a slow news day.

Recently the Chinese almost pulled a Gravity and hit the international space station with destroyed satellite parts. Although it was from an explosion in 2007.
https://www.jpost.com/science/inter...rly-struck-by-chinese-satellite-debris-684809

 

[Potatoherder]

>Pointing out hypocrisy on the left while being a leftie

She's on a blacklist now, isn't she?

People like her are rats fleeting a sinking ship. They think the wind has shifted enough that they can be safe even if a blacklist goes in place. I think Virginia and New Jersey followed by this rittenhouse trial were a red flag that finally got the attention to the 'moderate' left. A Romney is always a Romney and will stab you the moment they think they can gain from it.

 

[tehpope]

Seems to be a slow news day.

These last few days have been slow. Biden in hidin.

Most of the focus is on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Lot of permaonline folks salting over it.

 

[Potatoherder]

Ukraine is the prime example why you never give up your arms. It was the 3rd largest nuclear power after the soviets folded and look at them now.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Rhetorical Question.

And McCarthy and McConnell will do nothing.

 

[JosephStalin]

Paid $4.39 on base for regular today. Cheapest in my area.

 

[Rustic Ruthenian]

The problem with the "distinct Ukrainian identity and culture" that you're referring to is that it was entirely fabricated by the west over the course of the last 20 years.

No matter how much Ukrainian nationalists try to rewrite history, the fact that Ukrainian culture and history is inherently connected to Russia cannot be disputed.

No matter how many times Russian nationalists try to rewrite history Rus’ is still broken apart by the Golden Horde in 1240, the independent Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia exists for 150 years, Poland-Lithuania still rules over the majority of Ukraine from the 15th century until the Khmelnytsky uprising in 1648 finally splitting Ukraine in 1667. Russification still begins in 1720, Tara’s Shevchenko still is born in 1814 and publishes works in Ukrainian, independent Ukrainian states are still declared and fight the Soviets in 1920, Holodomor still effects majority Ukrainian territory, the UPA still fights Soviet rule until 1954, a Ukrainian government in exile still exists between 1948 and modern independence in 1991.

But it’s pointless to argue because ideologues don’t change their minds so I’m gonna stop dragging the thread off-topic.

 

[Mepsi Pax]

The problem with the "distinct Ukrainian identity and culture" that you're referring to is that it was entirely fabricated by the west over the course of the last 20 years.

Ukrainian nationalism has been a "thing" since at least WWII. The partisan fighters of WWII continued it as a movement after the war's end. Russian nationals were sometimes denied employment, housing, and otherwise harassed inside of the Ukraine throughout soviet times. I've heard accounts of (pretty serious) ethnic discrimination firsthand from Russians who lived in the UA, it's not something the west just made up on the fly after the cold war ended.

Exactly how widespread it was I don't know, but the conflict's been around a lot longer than the digital age. Russian nationalists tend to think Ukrainians don't exist (when they're not calling them hohols) while many Ukrainians insist that they're a separate group. The truth is somewhere in the middle (there are minor ethnic differences) but it's not all just a western fantasy.

 

[Stoneheart]

Ukraine is a nation with a distinct history and culture in the eyes of the majority of Ukrainians, but it isn’t an ethnic or religious conflict. It’s a strategic conflict that Russia tries to justify to others by claiming it’s an ethnic conflict. They have done the same thing in other neighboring countries to create frozen conflicts that will prevent them from joining NATO.

Its only a conflict at all because somebody had to intervene in european wars...

No matter how many times Russian nationalists try to rewrite history Rus’ is still broken apart by the Golden Horde in 1240, the independent Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia exists for 150 years, Poland-Lithuania still rules over the majority of Ukraine from the 15th century until the Khmelnytsky uprising in 1648 finally splitting Ukraine in 1667. Russification still begins in 1720, Tara’s Shevchenko still is born in 1814 and publishes works in Ukrainian, independent Ukrainian states are still declared and fight the Soviets in 1920, Holodomor still effects majority Ukrainian territory, the UPA still fights Soviet rule until 1954, a Ukrainian government in exile still exists between 1948 and modern independence in 1991.

They are all Russian... there is no culture difference, since they only have basic culture...
there is also no ethnic difference, since they are all the same. im not even sure if the language is different or if its just the same language with different level of intoxication like Polish and Russian are.

 

[Corette]

...and this is why ze Reich lost the eastern front.

 

[verissimus]

Ukraine is the prime example why you never give up your arms. It was the 3rd largest nuclear power after the soviets folded and look at them now.

So is Australia. Imagine the government there trying to pull off the current COVID tyranny going on still.