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?

 

[malleusmaleficarum]

Joe Biden | To Catch a Predator with Chris Hansen

Had to make my own version

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[King Dead]

The entire concept of my idea was the Senate not confirming the new VP. Been a while since I took my Government classes, but I'm pretty sure if the VP dies/resigns, and the President dies before they confirm a replacement, it goes to the Majority Leader in the House. The nominated VP doesn't get to just skip confirmation and directly take over the executive branch.

From my understanding of the line of succession (as well as the 25th Amendment processes), here's how this clusterfuck could play out. There are a few different possibilities:

• As mentioned before, if Biden dies or gets impeached and removed from office, Kamala becomes the new president. If he gets 25th'd out by Kamala and either the Cabinet or Congress, she becomes acting president until he claims he's fit for service again, unless that gets overridden by a two-thirds majority. It's a bit ambiguous as to whether a 25th removal can ever be permanent or if Kamala would remain an acting president only. I dunno. Either way, Kamala then needs to nominate a new VP, but see below for how that could go wrong.
• The least chaotic of the "get rid of Kamala" scenarios: Kamala resigns, Biden nominates a new VP, Congress approves with majority votes in each chamber. This would be the normal route for normal times, but these are anything but normal times.
• More chaotic: Kamala resigns, Biden nominates a new VP, but with a 50/50 deadlock in the Senate and no more tiebreaker, Republicans could effectively hold the VP position hostage to prevent anyone too lefty from getting in. It would be slim, and it would only take one defecting RINO to upset the game, but it could be done. Hell, progs in the House could do the same if they felt the new VP wasn't lefty enough for them. And if there were tug of war between each chamber, with the Senate refusing if they're too lefty and the House refusing if they're not lefty enough...a crazy thought.
• Regardless of gridlock, if Kamala resigns and Biden croaks before the new VP could be selected, then Nancy would become acting president. She'd then be forced to go through the same VP selection process (and potentially face the same gridlock), a new representative would have to be appointed for the San Fran district, a new Speaker would have to be elected...it would be absolute fucking chaos.
  • If Nancy immediately drank herself to death after hearing the news, then the President pro tempore of the Senate would become acting president. If he shot himself in the head, then it'd be the Secretary of State, and so on down the line of presidential succession. This would be the total clown world chaos scenario, and the government would probably be completely unable to function.

It's fun to wargame these sorts of things, but really, it's likely going to be something boring. Either Joe's gonna sleepwalk his way through his term and lose horribly in 2024, or his dementia's gonna kick into high gear and kill him off, making Kamala the new president. If the latter, there could be some minor chaos with regards to congressional approval, but there'd probably be some RINO defections to ruin the fun.

I'm just gonna keep watching Biden deteriorate before my eyes and wonder how much longer they can prop him up.

 

[Oxous]

So apparently Chris Cuomo got caught helping his brother Andrew. Wonder how long both of them will beg Uncle Joe to pardon both of them.

CNN Says It Will Review Texts And Testimony Shedding New Light On Role Chris Cuomo Played In Assisting Brother Andrew Cuomo’s Team — Update

SECOND UPDATE, 7:11 PM PT: Chris Cuomo did not address the new trove of documents released by New York’s attorney general showing the extent to which he advised his brother Andrew Cuomo&#8217…

deadline.com

Chris Cuomo should fear for his job. Not because of this, nobody will ever hold him directly accountable for just doing a little quid pro quo with his brother, but because...

Wait, damn. He has the best ratings out of every talking head on CNN. Guess he'll never get in trouble then.

 

[JabbasAnalFissure]

Chris Cuomo should fear for his job. Not because of this, nobody will ever hold him directly accountable for just doing a little quid pro quo with his brother, but because...

Wait, damn. He has the best ratings out of every talking head on CNN. Guess he'll never get in trouble then.

I am still mystified how CNN continues to double down on their current approach. Their ratings are legitimately terrible. They seem to be going after the audience MSNBC already has locked up. Somehow they manage to be more embarrassing than MSNBC.

How do they make any money?

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

I am still mystified how CNN continues to double down on their current approach. Their ratings are legitimately terrible. They seem to be going after the audience MSNBC already has locked up. Somehow they manage to be more embarrassing than MSNBC.

How do they make any money?

CNN is the cable news equivalent of Twitter: their purpose isn't to make money. Their purpose is to spout the CORRECT OPINION, Pravda-style, and to get fence-sitters to believe the CORRECT OPINION and/or demoralize them into thinking that only the CORRECT OPINION matters. Problem is, as with Twitter, the people who actually believe CNN are a minority. A loud and annoying minority, but a minority nonetheless.

 

[Gehenna]

I am still mystified how CNN continues to double down on their current approach. Their ratings are legitimately terrible. They seem to be going after the audience MSNBC already has locked up. Somehow they manage to be more embarrassing than MSNBC.

How do they make any money?

Relatively low overhead. Their expenses come out to about a billion a year, but given their sheer size that's actually fairly low. Though having a net profit less than their total expenses is really bad for such an industry.

 

[Grundlejungle]

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In other news: Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, water is wet, and the government is lying to you about 9/11.

 

[verissimus]

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John Glenn confirmed for pedo?

Or former Senator Nelson from Florida.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Not... quite. In fact, this is good news for anyone who wants to fuck over the Democrats. Effectively it's a continuation of the policy extending it to October, so just kicking the can down the road, right? Yah... kicking it down the road. A can that is actively ripping apart the Democrats.

"I'll continue to kick the can down the road, while you guys work amongst yourselves over that infrastructure bill. We'll keep kicking it, -so long as you are working on it-"

Ah, this was the answer I was looking for.

So I've skimmed my way to page 2,897. Has anything significant happened since then, chaps?

 

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Yes, he tried to nominate Harriet Miers, at the time White House Counsel, to Sandra Day O'Connor's old spot. She was so unqualified that even a lot of Republicans refused to support her, and she had to withdraw her nomination. If Kamala was nominated to the Supreme Court, it would be an even bigger shitshow, because not even is Kamala at least as equally unqualified, it's such an obvious political ploy. And if Biden tries this as a plan to pack the courts (funny how we never hear about that idea anymore), well, get the popcorn ready.

He can't pack the courts, him even considering it showed that he thought he had effectively an unlimited mandate -- and thus, infinite political capital -- to do whatever he wanted.

I do wonder if he could, I dunno, "start the nomination process early" for Harris, or "I'm nominating her as a reserve SCOTUS member in case one of them ever gets sick and has to temporarily step down."

We'll see how desperate they are to get rid of her while letting her save face.

 

[Gehenna]

He can't pack the courts, him even considering it showed that he thought he had effectively an unlimited mandate to do whatever he wanted.

I do wonder if he could, I dunno, "start the nomination process early" for Harris, or "I'm nominating her as a reserve SCOTUS member in case one of them ever gets sick and has to temporarily step down."

We'll see how desperate they are to get rid of her while letting her save face.

I want them to try, if anything would push Manchin into pulling a fuck it and switching over to the right, it'd be that. He'd get -massive- brownie points with his constituents which would let him coast into the Governor's seat. And I guarantee you he already has the offer on the table of "Switch over, and we will do our best to ensure an easy nomination" from the Republicans.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

and the government would probably be completely unable to function.

How would that be any different than now?

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Which is why you'll probably never see censorship on the internet; it hurts the bottom line so much by culling all of the bots that make up the 'clicks', which investors use as a metric for the health of a site.

If we do see censorship, expect that to come hand in hand with some form of paid service. Ban everyone except those willing to put their account details online to pay X a month to have an account.

So Something Awful, basically.

 

[Oxous]

How would that be any different than now?

The difference is that the government right now functions (at making your life worse). If we ever get to the stage where the Presidential and VP slots are both unfilled the government will only be able to make your life worse passively, because the politicians will be too busy caning each other like Buchanan's back in the White House

 

[The Last Stand]

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The most relevant quote of all time since 2020.

Joke's on him, his fat ass is dead and WOULD be if he contracted COVID.

 

[JosephStalin]

How very true.

Biden's failures continue to mount as Americans suffer. What a missed opportunity.

Biden's failures continue to mount as Americans suffer. What a missed…

archived 30 Nov 2021 05:49:53 UTC

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[CharlesBarkley]

GAY



NOT GAY

lol at black people voting the most non-black person in the world. I bet Trump listens to Defari while fucking more black women than section 8 housing. No wonder the world tried to stop him.

 

[pwnest injun]

I am still mystified how CNN continues to double down on their current approach. Their ratings are legitimately terrible. They seem to be going after the audience MSNBC already has locked up. Somehow they manage to be more embarrassing than MSNBC.

How do they make any money?

They get paid by pharmaceutical companies, defense contractors and Chinese cut-outs. It doesn't matter how many people directly watch, so long as they can report what they're told to and others will echo it outward with the force of their institutional credibility. It's just a brand that's being worn as a skin suit.

 

[Trianon]

They are starting oral arguments for the abortion case on Wednesday in the Supreme Court (not the Texas one, the one that directly challenges the current "viability" restrictions as arbitrary and moves it to a 15-week line). EDIT: I originally said it was using a heartbeat test, but that's a separate Mississippi bill that is not being considered.

Sometimes the tea leaves for those days in court are very easy to read. We'll definitely see more "pack the court!" language soon.

 

[Snekposter]

Lawsuits aren't the risk, it's finally crossing the line of the Publisher/Platform divide in such a way that even the Democrats can't quite ignore it. Dorsey toed a -fine- line where they technically could nail his balls to the wall, but there was just enough plausible deniability to mean the Democrats could hide behind it and pretend nothing was happening.

The new guy has almost explicitly said "to hell with that". Meaning Twitter is poised to become more of a political liability than a benefit.

Interesting. I hadn't quite considered the Section 230 implications here. I can't wait for the fireworks then.