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?

 

[Garm]

Saudis and Russians now reacting to Biden's draining of SPR and murmors of an oil export ban. The plan is to reduce production so prices go higher and they can start getting a whole lot richer.

OPEC Weighs Shift in Oil Policy After Crude Release​

Spoiler: Full Article

(archive)
Saudis, Russia consider pausing planned production increases after U.S., others release crude to push prices lower

Top oil producers Saudi Arabia and Russia are considering a move to pause their recent efforts to provide the world with more crude, according to people familiar with those discussions, after Washington and other countries said they would release a slug of stored oil in an effort to lower prices.

Riyadh and Moscow have led OPEC and a group of other oil-producing countries in coordinating output closely amid a demand shock last year caused by the pandemic. Other members of that cartel, including the United Arab Emirates, aren’t convinced a pause is necessary, according to these people.

The U.S. said Tuesday that it and a handful of other countries would tap their national strategic petroleum reserves amid high oil and gasoline prices. The move came after repeated attempts by Washington to convince the Saudi-led Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and a group of Russia-led oil producers to open up their taps. The two groups, which call themselves OPEC+, are set to meet next week to review a long-term deal they reached earlier this year to boost their collective oil output.

The deal involves plans to boost output by 400,000 barrels a day each month through next year, until the group hits its pre-pandemic pumping level. The group slashed its output sharply in 2020 as demand evaporated amid Covid-19 lockdowns.

The group agreed to meet monthly to weigh up supply and demand and adjust that plan accordingly. Oil prices have hovered near multiyear highs, though OPEC and other forecasting agencies have struggled to predict demand amid the on-again-off-again nature of Covid-19 restrictions. Several countries in Europe, for instance, are moving ahead with, or considering, fresh restrictions that could sap economic activity—and by extension demand for oil.

The U.S.-led crude release of up to 70 million barrels threatens to further scramble the supply-demand balance.

To compensate for the new supply, Riyadh and Moscow are now considering a pause of the group’s monthly collective increase, OPEC delegates said. The U.A.E., a powerful OPEC member that has clashed with Saudi Arabia over OPEC policy in the past, and Kuwait are resisting a pause, according to the delegates.

Saudi Arabia sees the released crude as potentially swelling global supply and threatening to reduce prices, according to people familiar with the country’s thinking.

Markets haven’t reacted dramatically to the oil-release plan. After initially falling on news of the release, Brent crude, the international benchmark, was up 0.4% at $81.66 a barrel Wednesday. West Texas Intermediate, the main U.S. contract, was up 0.7% at $79.01 a barrel.

Remember when people touted Biden's foreign policy experience? Really glad we got an expert in charge.

I mean, you pay people enough and they'd do it. You wanna talk about stimulus, hiring hundreds of people to just sit at a border and look at cards all day. Add to that it's California and they'll probably be making twenty dollars an hour minimum with benefits.

I dunno about the rebellion. More likely just succession. Which I'm still immensely skeptical can happen as long as beer, weed, and entertainment flows. Cut that shit off and then we're in trouble.

The issue is Midwest states that have a "country mile grid." You can cross into the next state every mile. I don't think they will have enough people to cover it all.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

Is there an actual reason they seem to be pushing for the collapse of the US or a large scale rebellion?

Thirst for power, selling off the country to the highest bidder, managed decline. The usual.

I dunno about the rebellion. More likely just succession. Which I'm still immensely skeptical can happen as long as beer, weed, and entertainment flows. Cut that shit off and then we're in trouble.

They sure are trying their best on making the entertainment as unappealing as possible, and any country can go down the tubes. Look at Venezuela.

 

[DavidS877]

State borders aren't even monitored. Can't ask for vax papers without manned checkpoints.

From the wording I assumed they were referring to national borders.

There is one state with manned checkpoints already. Almost all roads to California already have Argricultural Checkpoints. They stop everyone, usually passenger cars are just asked if they have any fruits or vegetables, trucks paperwork is checked, RVs may get a more thorough screening. Agricultural pests and diseases are a huge risk to the multi-billion dollar industry in California.

It would seem to be serious overreach to extend that to vaccinations. I don't live in California to know if their exceptional governor has suggested that idea or not.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

From the wording I assumed they were referring to national borders.

There is one state with manned checkpoints already. Allmost all roads to California already have Argricultural Checkpoints. They stop everyone, usually passenger cars are just asked if they have any fruits or vegetables, trucks paperwork is checked, RVs may get a more thourough screening. Agricultural pests and diseases are a huge risk to the multi-billion dollar industry in California.

It would seem to be serious overreach to extend that to vaccinations. I don't live in California to know if their exceptional governor has suggested that idea or not.

I used to just pass those agricultural checkpoints every year when I went to Vegas. Not even asked about produce.

 

[jspit2.0]

Remember when people touted Biden's foreign policy experience? Really glad we got an expert in charge.

The issue is Midwest states that have a "country mile grid." You can cross into the next state every mile. I don't think they will have enough people to cover it all.

Why would they want to? They aren't crazy and believe unscientific crap like treating COVID like the fucking cooties.

Thirst for power, selling off the country to the highest bidder, managed decline. The usual.

They sure are trying their best on making the entertainment as unappealing as possible, and any country can go down the tubes. Look at Venezuela.

Isn't that the fucking feels. Still, not sure how they can fuck up beer and weed. But I'd have said the same about Football a decade ago.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Apparently Wikipedia is deleting this page lol.

Mass killings under communist regimes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mass killings under communist regimes (4th nomination) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Except these dumbasses forgot that internet archival sites exist. Once on the internet, always on the internet.

Saudis and Russians now reacting to Biden's draining of SPR and murmors of an oil export ban. The plan is to reduce production so prices go higher and they can start getting a whole lot richer.

OPEC Weighs Shift in Oil Policy After Crude Release​

Spoiler: Full Article

(archive)
Saudis, Russia consider pausing planned production increases after U.S., others release crude to push prices lower

Top oil producers Saudi Arabia and Russia are considering a move to pause their recent efforts to provide the world with more crude, according to people familiar with those discussions, after Washington and other countries said they would release a slug of stored oil in an effort to lower prices.

Riyadh and Moscow have led OPEC and a group of other oil-producing countries in coordinating output closely amid a demand shock last year caused by the pandemic. Other members of that cartel, including the United Arab Emirates, aren’t convinced a pause is necessary, according to these people.

The U.S. said Tuesday that it and a handful of other countries would tap their national strategic petroleum reserves amid high oil and gasoline prices. The move came after repeated attempts by Washington to convince the Saudi-led Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and a group of Russia-led oil producers to open up their taps. The two groups, which call themselves OPEC+, are set to meet next week to review a long-term deal they reached earlier this year to boost their collective oil output.

The deal involves plans to boost output by 400,000 barrels a day each month through next year, until the group hits its pre-pandemic pumping level. The group slashed its output sharply in 2020 as demand evaporated amid Covid-19 lockdowns.

The group agreed to meet monthly to weigh up supply and demand and adjust that plan accordingly. Oil prices have hovered near multiyear highs, though OPEC and other forecasting agencies have struggled to predict demand amid the on-again-off-again nature of Covid-19 restrictions. Several countries in Europe, for instance, are moving ahead with, or considering, fresh restrictions that could sap economic activity—and by extension demand for oil.

The U.S.-led crude release of up to 70 million barrels threatens to further scramble the supply-demand balance.

To compensate for the new supply, Riyadh and Moscow are now considering a pause of the group’s monthly collective increase, OPEC delegates said. The U.A.E., a powerful OPEC member that has clashed with Saudi Arabia over OPEC policy in the past, and Kuwait are resisting a pause, according to the delegates.

Saudi Arabia sees the released crude as potentially swelling global supply and threatening to reduce prices, according to people familiar with the country’s thinking.

Markets haven’t reacted dramatically to the oil-release plan. After initially falling on news of the release, Brent crude, the international benchmark, was up 0.4% at $81.66 a barrel Wednesday. West Texas Intermediate, the main U.S. contract, was up 0.7% at $79.01 a barrel.

Jesus, this really is 1970s Part II: Child-Sniffer Boogaloo.

Rather, while vaccines are desirable; the government can get around something outlandish like the above by simply making you uncomfortable.

On Cruises That Allow Them, the Unvaccinated Are Second-Class Citizens

A way forward has emerged for some cruise companies. And few people are happy about it.

www.bloomberg.com

To be fair, this is consequences of a choice made not to take a vaccine.

Have fun losing money, retards! Seriously, I'm a paying fucking customer. Either give me the full range of options, or don't let me on at all. This "privileges for the vaccinated only" bullshit is literally segregation 2.0. "bUT We'rE SAvInG livEs though!" No, you aren't. Stop lying. You're "saving people" from a slightly worse version of the common cold, a disease most healthy people bounce back from easily.

 

[DavidS877]

I used to just pass those agricultural checkpoints every year when I went to Vegas. Not even asked about produce.

Yea, they definitely do profiling. I've had to not stop, asked about fruit or vegetables, once was moving with a trailer and they asked if I had any firewood.

I can just imagine the mess on I-15 if they made everyone stop. Some of the smaller ones they're just happy to see a car.

 

[Garm]

Why would they want to? They aren't crazy and believe unscientific crap like treating COVID like the fucking cooties.



Isn't that the fucking feels. Still, not sure how they can fuck up beer and weed. But I'd have said the same about Football a decade ago.

I took it as "Biden is going to somehow monitor all roads for the unvaccinated." No mention of the logistics of such a retarded notion but it kinda doesn't matter.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Why would they want to? They aren't crazy and believe unscientific crap like treating COVID like the fucking cooties.



Isn't that the fucking feels. Still, not sure how they can fuck up beer and weed. But I'd have said the same about Football a decade ago.

Weed's fucked in the sense that Cartel weed is the cheapest to produce and now grown in the US desert, which also fucks with the water rights of the local residents. Dispensaries are priced out of the market due to being overregulated (yet somehow select for higher concentrations of THC) while also competing with Cartel weed who don't care about government regulations, which a part of me admires. If they didn't kill people or bring in illegal immigrants, I'd be on the Cartel's side.

 

[jspit2.0]

Have fun losing money, retards! Seriously, I'm a paying fucking customer. Either give me the full range of options, or don't let me on at all. This "privileges for the vaccinated only" bullshit is literally segregation 2.0. "bUT We'rE SAvInG livEs though!" No, you aren't. Stop lying. You're "saving people" from a slightly worse version of the common cold, a disease most healthy people bounce back from easily.

Well, it's significantly worse than the common cold. It's a particularly nasty variant that's problem is it can be like the cold or, alternatively, it can actually kill normally health people due to its nature.

I don't particularly care for Russian roulette and most people don't either. Note,

Most people infected with the virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. However, some will become seriously ill and require medical attention. Older people and those with underlying medical conditions like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, or cancer are more likely to develop serious illness. Anyone can get sick with COVID-19 and become seriously ill or die at any age.

It's such a pain from a contagion standpoint because its unpredictable.

 

[Scale Smerch]

Saudis and Russians now reacting to Biden's draining of SPR and murmors of an oil export ban. The plan is to reduce production so prices go higher and they can start getting a whole lot richer.

OPEC Weighs Shift in Oil Policy After Crude Release​

It's almost as if the solution to this predicament is to incentivize and encourage more domestic production instead of praying for OPEC to do "the right thing."

 

[Gehenna]

It is fun watching the total demographic collapse of the Democrats. So a bit of info I have collected.

Most Hispanic voters absolutely hate a bad economy. They either came here or their parents came here to get a better life away from the shit Hispanic economies. So they poll particularly poorly on a subject that already polls particularly poorly.

The black vote is increasingly cracking. Faster than expected, possibly only a decade to see a significant split to the point it goes more in line with the current Asian and Hispanic vote, so about a third going Red.

The White vote, which Trump supposedly did worse in, has firmly solidified behind "Anyone but Biden". Largely we have found this is due to suburban voters who didn't like the attitude of Trump, now they go "Fuck yeah, more Trump".



There is not a single demographic that has not seen a swing towards Red.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Weed's fucked in the sense that Cartel weed is the cheapest to produce and now grown in the US desert, which also fucks with the water rights of the local residents. Dispensaries are priced out of the market due to being overregulated (yet somehow select for higher concentrations of THC) while also competing with Cartel weed who don't care about government regulations, which a part of me admires. If they didn't kill people or bring in illegal immigrants, I'd be on the Cartel's side.

I always wondered how different things would be if it was legal to have but illegal to sell. Basically empower anyone willing to plant a plant but still have a way to hit cartels. Sucks about the desert environment getting wrecked by these assholes.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Well, it's significantly worse than the common cold. It's a particularly nasty variant that's problem is it can be like the cold or, alternatively, it can actually kill normally health people due to its nature.

I don't particularly care for Russian roulette and most people don't either. Note,



It's such a pain from a contagion standpoint because its unpredictable.

Looks like someone didn't bother to read their own quote:

Older people and those with underlying medical conditions like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, or cancer are more likely to develop serious illness.

Categories of people who probably wouldn't do well against the common cold anyway.

Older people are more likely to develop a more serious infection compared with adults or older children. And people who smoke—or who are exposed to second-hand smoke—are also more likely to get a cold and have more severe symptoms. Studies have shown that patients who have undergone a bone marrow transplant can have a higher likelihood of developing a serious respiratory infection. While rhinovirus is not thought to be the main cause of this, other viruses that are associated with symptoms of the common cold, such as RSV, adenovirus and parainfluenza virus, are.

Normal, healthy people like you and me have about as much chance of dying from COVID as Biden has of making it to 2024 (i.e. little to none). And if I'm given a choice between getting a nasty cold for a few days before getting better, and getting a jab that not only doesn't protect you from COVID as much and they want you to think it does (to the point where you have to get boosters forever), but also has a chance of giving me myocarditis, I'm choosing the former option, thank you very much.

The black vote is increasingly cracking. Faster than expected, possibly only a decade to see a significant split to the point it goes more in line with the current Asian and Hispanic vote, so about a third going Red.

There's my white pill for the week. Legit, thanks.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I always wondered how different things would be if it was legal to have but illegal to sell. Basically empower anyone willing to plant a plant but still have a way to hit cartels. Sucks about the desert environment getting wrecked by these assholes.

I don't think it'd make much of a difference. Weed smokers are just another form of consoomer and weed happens to be a water-intensive crop. They don't want to spend time growing it.

As Ventura points out in the interview, weed farms in LA county are practically legal as it is. If they were completely legal, well, the Cartels now run a completely legal enterprise. They could even legitimately hire lobbyists if their enterprise was legal.

 

[Oxous]

It is fun watching the total demographic collapse of the Democrats. So a bit of info I have collected.

Most Hispanic voters absolutely hate a bad economy. They either came here or their parents came here to get a better life away from the shit Hispanic economies. So they poll particularly poorly on a subject that already polls particularly poorly.

The black vote is increasingly cracking. Faster than expected, possibly only a decade to see a significant split to the point it goes more in line with the current Asian and Hispanic vote, so about a third going Red.

The White vote, which Trump supposedly did worse in, has firmly solidified behind "Anyone but Biden". Largely we have found this is due to suburban voters who didn't like the attitude of Trump, now they go "Fuck yeah, more Trump".



There is not a single demographic that has not seen a swing towards Red.

Those polls ain't looking too bright. The Senate Democrats actually called a meeting about the poll numbers Monday (archive), I don't think anyone mentioned it within this thread though.

Democrats are in a panic. After a Quinnipiac poll released last week showed Biden’s approval rating has plummeted, Senate Democrats were compelled to hold a “crisis meeting.”

The Daily Mail reports that after several months of party infighting, damaging media reports about vice president Kamala Harris, and devastating Democratic losses in Virginia, “Senate Democrats huddled with pollsters and advisors last week to try to assess the situation.”

Among those in attendance was reportedly former senior White House advisor to Biden, Anita Dunn. A source familiar with the meetings told The Hill that the pollsters level of concern was “extremely high.”

Senate Democratic Steering Committee Chairwoman Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) allegedly organized the meeting with the Democratic pollsters. “We’re just talking about how we’re going to message. Mostly it was talking about Build Back Better” Klobuchar claimed.

The Hill reported one Democratic senator who requested anonymity stated “the Democratic base is very frustrated and very depressed about our inability to just get things done.” The senator added, “The American Rescue Plan has worn off. That was a million years ago.”

Klobuchar told The Hill that the numbers aren’t as bad as some of her colleagues are making them out to be. She also said the best way to get better poll results is to pass meaningful legislation.

Klobuchar claims it’s just a symptom that Democrats need to “get things done.”

“Unlike the other party, when things happen with the electorate, we look at what we’re doing as opposed to trying to change our voters, which is what they’re doing with their voter suppression.”

So all the hope lies in BBB. They need to pass BBB and hope that any positive effect from that carries all the way into next November, negates the +10R advantage and lets them retain control because everyone seems positively out of any other ideas.

 

[Lodoss Warrior]

It is fun watching the total demographic collapse of the Democrats. So a bit of info I have collected.

Most Hispanic voters absolutely hate a bad economy. They either came here or their parents came here to get a better life away from the shit Hispanic economies. So they poll particularly poorly on a subject that already polls particularly poorly.

The black vote is increasingly cracking. Faster than expected, possibly only a decade to see a significant split to the point it goes more in line with the current Asian and Hispanic vote, so about a third going Red.

The White vote, which Trump supposedly did worse in, has firmly solidified behind "Anyone but Biden". Largely we have found this is due to suburban voters who didn't like the attitude of Trump, now they go "Fuck yeah, more Trump".



There is not a single demographic that has not seen a swing towards Red.

How about the Asian demographic? I imagine the answer depends on which Asian country the migrant or native’s family originated from.

 

[Terrifik]

book is thrown

 

[Gehenna]

book is thrown
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Not surprising, their case was much less black and white and honestly... I lean towards it being murder myself.

 

[Oxous]

Not surprising, their case was much less black and white and honestly... I lean towards it being murder myself.

The defense's behavior probably didn't help their clients any. Wanting black pastors removed from the courtroom, using flimsy reasoning to get black jurors removed, the 'long, dirty toenails" comment...