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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Glenn Youngkin: I won't stop local governments that want to impose COVID mandates

With this, the governor-elect will challenge the land-speed record for traveling from populist hero to RINO sellout. But he’s being consistent. When he says he doesn’t support mandates, he...
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How do you even cuck as a [Politician]-elect? I thought this was real people time, Glenn, not government time.

However, I'm not mad. GOPe is totally winning right now. You wouldn't see such firm defeat grasping from the jaws of victory if they weren't.

They grab onto losing like it's a fine piece of ass. Good Lord. And I almost forgot, the Matt Walsh's, Pedro Gonzalez's, Will Chamberlain's, and Mike Cernovich's BTFO'd with their "Youngkin proves we don't need Blumpf" posts.
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This reminds me of the German princes who practiced Lutheranism vs. those who practiced Catholicism.

Hey, you want to be a Lutheran and avoid indulgences and tithes?

Move to a new principality.

Hey, you want to avoid an experimental leaky vaccine that gives you a 71x increase in heart attacks?

Move to a new state.

Peasants' War and Thirty Years' War when?
 
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Joe Biden Is Succeeding​


Joe Biden came to the White House at a pivotal moment in American history. We had become a country dividing into two nations, one highly educated and affluent and the other left behind. The economic gaps further inflamed cultural and social gaps, creating an atmosphere of intense polarization, cultural hostility, alienation, bitterness and resentment.

As president, Biden had mostly economic levers to try to bridge this cold civil war. He championed three gigantic pieces of legislation to create a more equal, more just and more united society: the Covid stimulus bill, the infrastructure bill and what became Build Back Better, to invest in human infrastructure.

All of these bills were written to funnel money to the parts of the country that were less educated, less affluent, left behind. Adam Hersh, a visiting economist at the Economic Policy Institute, projects that more than 80 percent of the new jobs created by the infrastructure plan will not require a college degree.

These gigantic proposals were bold endeavors. Some thought them too bold. Economist Larry Summers thought the stimulus package, for example, was too big. It could overstimulate the economy and lead to inflation.

Larry is one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever known and someone I really admire. If I were an economist, I might have agreed with him. But I’m a journalist with a sociological bent. For over a decade I have been covering a country that was economically, socially and morally coming apart. I figured one way to reverse that was to turbocharge the economy and create white-hot labor markets that would lift wages at the bottom. If inflation was a byproduct, so be it. The trade-off is worth it to prevent a national rupture.

The Biden $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed and has been tremendously successful. It heated the overall economy. The Conference Board projects that real G.D.P. growth will be about 5 percent this quarter. The unemployment rate is falling. Retail sales are surging. About two-thirds of Americans feel their household’s financial situation is good.

But the best part is that the benefits are flowing to those down the educational and income ladder. In just the first month of payments, the expanded Child Tax Credit piece of the stimulus bill kept three million American children out of poverty. Pay for hourly workers in the leisure and hospitality sector jumped 13 percent in August compared with the previous year. By June, there were more nonfarm job openings than there had been at any time in American history. Workers have tremendous power these days.

The infrastructure bill Biden just signed will boost American productivity for years to come. As Ellen Zentner of Morgan Stanley told The Economist recently, it’s a rule of thumb that an extra $100 billion in annual infrastructure spending could increase growth by roughly a tenth of a percentage point — which is significant in an economy the size of ours. Federal infrastructure spending will be almost as large a share of annual GDP as the average level during Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

But Summers was right. The stimulus — along with all the supply chain and labor shortage disruptions that are inevitable when coming out of a pandemic — has boosted inflation. In addition, Americans are exhausted by a pandemic that seems to never end.

And they are taking it out on Democrats. A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll revealed that voters now prefer Republican congressional candidates in their own districts by 51 percent to 41 percent. That’s the largest G.O.P. lead since this poll started asking the question, 40 years ago.

If presidencies were judged by short-term popularity, the Biden effort would look pretty bad. But that’s a terrible measure. First-term presidents almost always see their party get hammered in the midterm after their inauguration. That’s especially true if the president achieved big things. Michigan State political scientist Matt Grossmann looked at House popular vote trends since 1953. Often when presidents succeeded in passing major legislation — Republicans as well as Democrats — voters swung against the president’s party. Look, just to take a recent example, at how Obamacare preceded a Democratic shellacking in 2010. People distrust change. Success mobilizes opposition. It’s often only in retrospect that these policies become popular and even sacred.

Presidents are judged by history, not the distraction and exhaustion of the moment. Did the person in the Oval Office address the core problem of the moment? The Biden administration passes that test. Sure, there have been failures — the shameful Afghanistan withdrawal, failing to renounce the excesses of the cultural left. But this administration will be judged by whether it reduced inequality, spread opportunity, created the material basis for greater national unity.

It is doing that.

My fear is not that Democrats lose the midterms — it will have totally been worth it. My fear is that Democrats in Congress will make fantastic policies like the expanded Child Tax Credit temporary to make budget numbers look good. If they do that the coming Republican majorities will simply let these policies expire.

If that happens then all this will have been in vain. The Democrats will have squandered what has truly been a set of historic accomplishments. Voters may judge Democrats harshly next November, but if they act with strength history will judge them well.
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Opinion | Joe Biden Is Succeeding

Voters may pummel Democrats next year, but future generations will be grateful.
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Vyse Inglebard said:
LOL, Kopmala as President. The coping of "FORST BLACK WAHMEN PRESIDENT EVER" will be louder than ever while she most likely fucks up even more than Sloppy Joe.


Dems always celebrate too early: see, the euphoria after Biden "won" last November, and...this:
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My kingdom for a crescent moon.
 
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McCarthy actually set a new speech length record tonight, he beat Pelosi's record from 2018.

Also, is it just me or have House Democrats been particularly fucking unhinged about this? I feel like McCarthy getting on the podium and delaying the vote by 12 hours drove them much crazier than it really should've.
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Yes. They have been.
 
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Oh, please do try to start pushing gun control again. That'll work well for you. 2A sanctuary and open carry movements are stronger than they've ever been motherfuckers.

...I'd try to post my updated sanctuary map but it's too big for KF to let me insert as an image apparently.
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These dumb assholes really don't seem to get that they're pushing a wedge into the grand-canyon sized political divide in this country with this shit, and making it much worse than it ever needed to be.
 
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