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?

 

[Corn Flakes]

If they didn't have a warrant & no charges were filed, how & why were they able to do this?

"Fuck you, we're Feds", that's how and why.

 

[GuntPunt]

I'm just pointing out how funny & pathetic it is that they're willing to acknowledge the legitimacy of conspiracy theories otherwise considered insane if it means getting what they want.

It's why they go after Tucker. They get angry and say its a conspiracy theory because they aren't done yet. If they get their way to one party rule, they will finally admit it because there isn't a thing you can do about it.

 

[mold]

"Several Republican sources" are also backing this defection claim up, and provide the same motive. They're planning to vote against McConnell's wishes because they want to block the funding necessary to enforce any of Biden's mandates and essentially kill them that way.

I was skimming and I read this "sexual republican sources"

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Then there is this...

It Begins: FBI raids house, terrorizes family of mom who protested local school board, elections

By Leo Hohmann via Worldview Weekend Report An FBI SWAT team raided the home of an activist mother of four in Colorado on Tuesday, Nov. 16, knocking down her door, bursting into the house with guns…

leohohmann.com

according to this article, there have still been no charges filed.

Already deboonked

https://www.politifact.com/factchec...arched-womans-home-because-elections-investi/

An article that went viral makes a misleading claim that a Colorado mom was targeted by the FBI because she protested at local school board meetings, and it repeats a debunked claim that the FBI is treating parents like her as domestic terrorists.

The headline on the article says, "It Begins: FBI raids house, terrorizes family of mom who protested local school board, elections." The story, appearing on the website LeoHohmann.com, calls the search "the first known case of the federal government making good on its promise to not only intimidate but actually carry out a raid on a mom who was involved in her local school board politics."The article, shared on Facebook, was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)

Sherronna Bishop’s house was searched by the FBI on Nov. 16, but Colorado authorities and warrants for the search indicated that search was related to an investigation into a breach of election systems in Mesa County, Colo. There is no evidence to support the claim she was singled out because of her protests — either against a school board or elections.Three other related searches were conducted on the same day, including at the home of Tina Peters, Mesa County clerk and recorder. Peters is accused of "sneaking an outsider into Mesa County election offices to copy the hard drives of machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems" a voting technology company, the Washington Post reported.

Dominion is at the center of numerous unfounded claims that suggest the company helped sway the 2020 U.S. presidential election results for Joe Biden. The company has since filed a number of defamation lawsuits in response.

Bishop was identified by media outlets as an associate and "staunch supporter" of Peters.

Colorado authorities issued a statement saying that the Nov. 16 searches were connected to "an ongoing investigation into the alleged election system breach in Mesa County."

Bishop read aloud from warrants she said the FBI left at her home, during a Nov. 17 interview with Brannon Howse on WVW Broadcast Network, a conservative outlet. The warrants indicate that the agency is investigating potential crimes including intentional damage to a protected computer, wire fraud, conspiracy to cause intentional damage to a protected computer and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.Bishop is a former campaign manager for U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., and once made headlines for thanking God for the Proud Boys, a far-right group with members who have expressed white supremacist views. She runs a conservative group called America’s Mom and said during the interview with Howse that she started the organization to educate parents about legislation that "would adversely impact them or their children."

Bishop said America’s Mom has gotten heavily involved in school board races and has been vocal about school board policies.The claim that the FBI is targeting and intimidating parents involved in local school boards is misinformation based on a misreading of an Oct. 4 memo sent by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland instructed federal agencies to address criminal threats against school administrators, board members, teachers and staff.

Garland’s memo did not include the word terrorist or designate anyone as such, but the false claim has proliferated that parents who challenge school curricula are being labeled domestic terrorists.

Our ruling
An article claims that the FBI targeted Bishop and searched her home because she "protested local school board, elections."

Colorado authorities searched Bishop’s home and those of three others on Nov. 16. But the search was connected to an investigation into an alleged election system breach in Mesa County. There is no evidence linking the search to Bishop’s involvement in school board politics or her statements about the election.

Don't worry it's not a school board raid, it's a raid because she knows someone that might have done something wrong. Much better.

 

[Oats12345]

We need our nigga Teddy back. He'd slaughter all of the swamp creatures then make another national park,like a REAL MANHence why he is one of my favorite presidents.

uh oh...well spoken good looking black man has taken a seat as a Republican in Congress.. Well done Mr. Donald

He's right Biden hasn't had a job that wasn't politics his entire life that is indeed a fact. Love how it piss off the dem that much.
There's one thing dems hate than a black conservative. A black conservative who makes well thought out arguments.

Someone's not Black anymore

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Another black man who's no longer black. He can join Terry Crews, Ice Cube, Vernon Jones and all other blacks that libs have declared are no longer black because he stop and question them.

Then there is this...

It Begins: FBI raids house, terrorizes family of mom who protested local school board, elections

By Leo Hohmann via Worldview Weekend Report An FBI SWAT team raided the home of an activist mother of four in Colorado on Tuesday, Nov. 16, knocking down her door, bursting into the house with guns…

leohohmann.com

according to this article, there have still been no charges filed.

I see the dems want to try this again but on a national scale. It's their funeral.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Why Biden Backers Are Sounding the Alarm on Pennsylvania​

President Joe Biden speaks about his infrastructure plan and his domestic agenda during a visit to the Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton, Pa., on Oct. 20, 2021. Credit - Susan Walsh—AP

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday.

It’s not hyperbole to say Joe Biden’s childhood home state of Pennsylvania put him in the White House. It was The Associated Press’ call of that state’s outcome at 11:25 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, of last year that made it official that the son of Scranton would be heading back to Washington and into a job he’s coveted since his 20s. The counting in Pennsylvania took four days and it was closer than anyone in the Biden campaign wanted. But the Keystone State came through for Biden, who had early on recognized the state as a lynchpin for his strategy and even headquartered his campaign near Philadelphia’s City Hall. (Well, at least until COVID-19 mothballed that operation and sent everyone working from kitchen stools and basement couches.)

So when Biden’s advisers and allies assemble these days to consider his path to success if he runs for a second term—as he has indicated he will— Pennsylvania is always top of mind. It was one of the five states that voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and switched allegiances in 2020. But Biden’s 1.2 percentage-point win there last year seems meager compared to the Obama-Biden victory there in 2012 by 5.2 percentage points. Being a childhood local doesn’t overcome the sincere frustration Pennsylvania voters have harbored for decades and a voting pattern that offers the party in the White House little reason for comfort.

According to a new assessment of where Biden and Democrats stand today with the voters they need in Pennsylvania, things do not look good. The frank findings, presented in a 134-page private presentation prepared for anyone who will listen by two outside groups who are allies of the White House, paint an electorate in Pennsylvania disappointed by the pace of Biden’s work and unsure why he’s chasing compromise with Republicans where none is to be found. In open-ended surveys, focus-grouped test ads and multimedia texting conversations with a range of voters, there remains a persistent lag between what voters thought Biden would work on and what he’s accomplished, according to the blunt document obtained by TIME.

“There still is an incredibly high level of voter frustration (in Pennsylvania),” says Mark Riddle, the president and CEO of Future Majority, one of the outside groups that conducted the research and has been clamoring for Democrats to be more intentional in how they talk about their plans.

And Pennsylvania might just be the bellwether. “We’re doing these studies in a lot of different states. We’re seeing overall this broad sense of malaise about COVID. It’s been a slog that people have been going through,” says Gretchen Barton, Future Majority’s research director. “It presents a strategic opportunity for the party. There are a lot of people in these small towns who want to live and breathe like Democrats and are aligned with what Democrats are about. They just need to be connected with the larger party.”

For instance, men of color in Pennsylvania told researchers that they feel Democrats have taken them for granted. At the same time, those men of color are starting to sound like country club Republicans, according to the report, co-presented with Way to Win, another outside Democratic group that formed after Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss. “It would be remiss of us not to mention that men of color are spending a lot of time talking about wealth building, financial prosperity and success and talk about freedom from government. They express a desire to be free of things that slow them down (which includes racism, red lining, poor educational opportunities and excess regulation), they want to be invested in and they want to be given the same opportunities as everyone,” the groups warn.

This isn’t coming out of nowhere. National exit polls last year found 12% of Black voters backed Trump, and 32% of Latinos and 34% of Asians did so, too. Trump fared less well among voters of color in Pennsylvania, lagging by 5 points among both Black and Latino voters. But that’s still a concern for some strategists in a state that was decided by less than 82,000 ballots of 6.9 million cast. “Joe Biden has done so much more to change the country than perhaps any other modern President, but the voters who delivered him the presidency—especially voters of color and younger voters—it’s like they don’t know what the President has done,” says Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, a co-founder of Way to Win and the group’s chief strategist.

The broad answer to this problem, these Bidenphiles posit, lies in Democrats’ inherent negativity in their narrative that misses the improvements of the last year: rising vaccination rates, a stronger first-year jobs-added figure than any recent president and unemployment at a 52-year low. Biden signed into law a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill along a party-line vote and delivered a bipartisan infrastructure plan that spends $550 billion on new projects. He and the Democrats are halfway home on another social spending bill that would spend $1.75 trillion on universal childcare, expanded health coverage and efforts to mitigate climate change; it made it through the House and Democrats are trying to get it across the finish line in the Senate before leaving for a holiday recess.

“Democrats have to start acting like winners,” says Riddle, who was instrumental in running outside spending and messaging to help Democrats in 2018 and 2020. “We actually did win the election and we’re actually accomplishing things to help people. And it feels like we’re just playing defense on everything.”

Biden’s victories have been slow to reach the ears of the swing voters whom Democrats will need when voters will pick their congressional delegation to serve Pennsylvania districts that still are not drafted. Instead, their attention has focused on collapsed negotiationsover a criminal-justice bill, free public university falling off the table and an immigration overhaul becoming a non-starter. Biden hasn’t so far pushed to scrap the procedural roadblock Republicans seem intent on putting up on anything approaching a Democratic win, even when it comes to protecting Americans’ voting rights. And an uneven foreign policy has left some voters wondering: Wasn’t this the guy who knows the best restaurants in every global capital from his days chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Barack Obama’s de facto international fixer?

It’s not that Biden hasn’t been trying to sell his record to Pennsylvania: other than his current home state of Delaware or Virginia just across the river from D.C., Biden visited the state more than any other since becoming President. It’s just that voters in Pennsylvania’s cities and small towns just aren’t buying it. They know how they feel, and it’s not dissimilar to how they felt in 2008 when the economic crash they endured seemed purely the creation of the insiders in New York and Washington. A staggering 71% of these targeted voters told the Biden-backing researchers that they feel the world is in chaos, hardly the calm-and-steady pitch Biden made during the campaign.

It might just be something inherent to Pennsylvania. The state seems to be perpetually agitated with Washington and takes special glee in punishing candidates who seem too cozy to their party’s leadership. Sen. Pat Toomey would never be confused as someone who makes life easy on Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. Democrats have come to accept Sen. Bob Casey’s stated opposition to Roe v. Wade. (Democrats also privately cluck that Casey’s own voting record doesn’t match his rhetoric on the issue but give him a pass in heavily Catholic Pennsylvania.) In fact, in the presidential elections held since Watergate, voters in Pennsylvania have voted against the party nominee with pals in the White House more than half the time.

But that doesn’t have to mean defeat for Biden, Ancona argues. If Democrats get smarter about their communication with voters, Pennsylvanians might get the message.

“The simple thing of calling it a spending bill versus calling it a job bill,” she offers as an example. “We’ve created more jobs than any President in his first six months in office. That’s the kind of thing you want to be screaming from the rooftops.”

Oh, and calling the GOP a party of extremists more often might help, too, the study finds. “We did some content testing and one of the ads called the GOP extremists, tying their Jan. 6 Capitol attack to the extreme views that they have on COVID vaccines and reproductive freedom,” Ancona says. “That actually works with the voters who delivered a Biden victory in 2020.”

Democrats’ next test? Getting those voters to show up again.

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[mold]

The abortion issue is the Republican version of gun control. Gun control has long been the albatross around the neck of the Dems, during the Obama years it was one of the biggest stumbling blocks that prevented them from completely taking over the country. Back when the US left was more ideologically diverse, there were a good number of left-wing people who begged leaders to ditch the anti-gun position outside of big cities. They pointed out things like absurdity of pushing "assault weapon bans" when pistols are used in the overwhelming majority of gun murders. The national party always refused and got steadily more anti-gun. In theory this was because of fat Shaniquas crying over their sweet little angels who dindu nuffin and got shot by a rival gang member. The truth is more likely that US elites hate the idea of peasants being armed.

For many people who find themselves alienated by the left, abortion is the issue that absolutely prevents them from considering the right. Just like with guns and drugs, you can ban abortions but that won't stop people from getting them in much less safe ways than before. Guns are an issue where for pro-gun people, gun rights are often their #1 or #2 priority, but for anti-gun people, banning guns is their #7 or #8 priority at best, therefore pushing gun bans was idiotic for the Dems. Abortion is the same way; there are lots of people who will vote against a Republican because they support abortion rights, but there are very few who will refuse to vote for a Republican because they aren't doing enough to ban abortion. Most people who oppose abortion agree with Republicans on most other issues and will still turn out and vote even if there's no movement on abortion, while banning abortion will create a fanatical base of opposition.

Tl;dr abortions don't kill people, abortion bans kill the chance to take the country back from the left.

I agree with this analysis almost entirely but there's one very very big difference between guns and babykilling

The need for selfdefense doesn't really change over time. Higher crime and lower social cohesion makes the wisdom of the second amendment more apparent. But the right to defend yourself and your property is based in unchangeable facts about human nature. It will never change.

But technology has radically changed human reproduction. Most people are at least vaguely aware that you didn't use to be able to go have tons of consequencefree sexual intercourse but people are much less aware of how much technology has changed the experience of pregnancy.

The emotional push and moral reasoning around Roe came out of a world where women regularly, consistently, did not know for certain that they were pregnant until the third to fifth month. Reliable, fast home pregnancy tests are a very recent technology.

Put the following together: mass availability of birth control; plan B; fast reliable home pregnancy testing; less sex happening overall.

What it all means is that the kinds of competent, intelligent, non-crazy professional women who had the experience of selves and family and friends' lives upended by unexpected pregnancy that could only be ended by surgical abortion, who were the activists who led to Roe, *no longer have those kinds of unintended pregnancies.* This is just not the reality in the 21st century.

So while crazy people are going to flip out about abortion and the Democrats are going to keep leveraging those crazy people, most people are never going to really care about abortion again.

 

[GuntPunt]

Joe Biden has done so much more to change the country than perhaps any other modern President, but the voters who delivered him the presidency—especially voters of color and younger voters—it’s like they don’t know what the President has done,”

The best part of that article.

When polled, Democrats were the least informed with what Biden has done in office. Republicans and Independants were more informed, but just hate what he is doing in the White House.

So go ahead and flaunt around your shit record like its gold. It'll only be worse for you in the long run.

 

[Oxous]

@IAmNotAlpharius (reply bug)

At the same time, those men of color are starting to sound like country club Republicans, according to the report, co-presented with Way to Win, another outside Democratic group that formed after Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss. “It would be remiss of us not to mention that men of color are spending a lot of time talking about wealth building, financial prosperity and success and talk about freedom from government. They express a desire to be free of things that slow them down (which includes racism, red lining, poor educational opportunities and excess regulation)

This is why Democrat politicians defend Roe v. Wade so hard.

 

[Titos]

If they didn't have a warrant & no charges were filed, how & why were they able to do this?

Feds don't think laws apply to them. Just look at that one guy who a fed tried to straight up murder who has had to go through a ton of lawsuit shit just to try to get the court to say "No, feds can't actively try to murder you just for making them angry due to your presence".

 

[Oxous]

Another decisive L for Kamala “No Border Left Behind” Harris as Biden reached a deal with the Mexican government to reimplement Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy. He had to be forced into doing it by a court order from a federal judge, but it was done.

There was a holdup in negotiations for a bit because the Mexicans wanted the U.S. to guarantee that migrants’ paperwork would be handled swiftly and they wouldn’t just spend years sitting around in refugee camps in Mexico.

 

[Some Badger]

Oh, and calling the GOP a party of extremists more often might help, too, the study finds. “We did some content testing and one of the ads called the GOP extremists, tying their Jan. 6 Capitol attack to the extreme views that they have on COVID vaccines and reproductive freedom,” Ancona says. “That actually works with the voters who delivered a Biden victory in 2020.”

A lot of stuff in this article bugged me (calling fairly reasonable libertarian positions as "country club republicanism" for one), but this last part just makes me feel tired, like I don't even have the energy to be mad at these people for actually confirming what we were all thinking in that they will actively smear GOP voters unilaterally as extremists and shut them out of discourse as a means of discouraging independents.

If you're like me and try to make a concentrated effort to vote for candidates based on policy first and party affiliation second, nothing leaves a worse taste in my mouth than openly admitting to shame tactics in order to discourage opposition. It really reeks of the Dem's hubris that they can admit it out in the open like this.

 

[CrippleThreat]

They express a desire to be free of things that slow them down

Lol no. Every obstacle provides desire to overcome it.

which includes racism

It's 2021. I'd personally laugh my ass off if some legitimate racist called me a nigger.

red lining

lol, I'll get out of low income community

poor educational opportunities

It's 2021. I have a craptop and a decent smartphone; the news is a click away. And I read every day. In fact, going to class is a nuisance, at times

and excess regulation

And repeat from the top!

 

[Blake Chortles]

Looking forward to having to give my car a blowjob to turn it on. All part of the gay agenda.

 

[Oats12345]

I do love how that article jerks off to Biden and yet when asked dem voters were the most uninformed. Well Republicans and independents were the most informed and were upset at his agenda. Yet the writer of the article still tries to jerk to Biden.

 

[Puff]

Looking forward to having to give my car a blowjob to turn it on. All part of the gay agenda.

I thought that was in the tossed stimulus bill.

 

[Aldeland]

I thought that was in the tossed stimulus bill.

Let him have his homoautomotive-erotic fantasies in peace.

 

[verissimus]

And what exactly is wrong with a federal vaccine database if it's not coupled to mandatory firings for not getting the Vax or publicizing people's identities?

yes, this is a cart before the horse situation, but vaccine databases done properly are useful public health tools.

1) It's unconstitutional unless hospitals or state governments are supposed to voluntarily share their data with the federal government;
2) It's going to be unenforceable (thus making it meaningless); and
3) It sets a precedent for other nefarious databases.

 

[Snekposter]

I do love how that article jerks off to Biden and yet when asked dem voters were the most uninformed. Well Republicans and independents were the most informed and were upset at his agenda. Yet the writer of the article still tries to jerk to Biden.

What? You mean admit that the Dem base is all low-information voters? They're the party of education and sophistication. They have to keep pretending that the Republican voters are a bunch of morons who don't know what's good for them and not the other way around for the sake of their own egos.

 

[XYZpdq]

12/2/21 Governor's Press Conference on State National Guard Budget Priorities - The Florida Channel

Courtesy of WEAR.

thefloridachannel.org

A Florida Governor announces a Florida State Guard to help the National Guard and totally not for fighting the Feds in a war of secession.