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?
 
I think even if we do get the magical blue Texas, Austin is literally the only place I've heard of in this "great migration" in which blue people are leaving for a red state. Everywhere else, center or center-right people are heading to purple or red states. So even if I think Texas is "lost", those electoral votes will be made up elsewhere. Hell, Florida isn't even a battleground state anymore.
Or Ohio which seems to be transferring into a full on red state
 
Or Ohio which seems to be transferring into a full on red state
Ohioan here, rural Ohio but I work in the city. It's nothing but a sea of "Trump 2024" merch and homemade "fauci lied" and "COVID is a scam" signs sitting up on every house and open ground by the road until you get to the city.
 
This is correct.

Even in the 2020 Presidential Election, once you take away NYC, Biden only won the state 51-49. It's purplish blue at best.

Oh way the way, our governor just reinstated the mask mandate again. Upstate NY is PISSED right now.
I don't even live that far from NYC, and businesses and store owners are just ignoring the new mandate (for now). Even the liberals in Westchester have had enough of this B.S.
 
I mean most people outside of the states don't know this but its $2,50 minimum wage for servers, you have a much bigger problem on your hands if you can't afford them or a cook. irregardless of that you shouldn't be open hours that won't have a reliable customer base. which is why lots of amusement parks close during the winter.
I think even if we do get the magical blue Texas, Austin is literally the only place I've heard of in this "great migration" in which blue people are leaving for a red state. Everywhere else, center or center-right people are heading to purple or red states. So even if I think Texas is "lost", those electoral votes will be made up elsewhere. Hell, Florida isn't even a battleground state anymore.
its been explained multiples times by multiple people the last half century. because college educated voters trend with voting dem and they move for jobs or have the savings to move that usually means most people moving from one state to the next will bring a democrat voter to whatever area they will live, even if its just trust funders moving back home or other stuff like the new great migration where minorities move back south after not being able to afford north eastern cities.

basically anytime anyone moves it fucks the GOP, and has been fucking the GOP the last century. beyond that the boomer-cide happening in combination with the surge in immigration, means the GOP is fucked regardless.

look at the TERFs, or people like bill maher and matt taibbi. they all but admit they hate the Dems but will vote for them regardless. and we're at the point where most people feel the same. most blacks know the Dems are awful overall, but just won't cross that line when the polls hit. just like those Penn girls on the swim team. They'll take a tranny showering with them and turning the season into his own personal harem-anime, if it means they can abort as many babies as they want.

Having said all that if Texas does become blue, turning Florida Red basically means only 10 lost electoral votes, they'd onlt need minnisota or wisconsin to make up the difference. the bigger problem is places like Georgia. as i said the non-white population is surging in the south. biden only won from gaining georgia and penn. but its all but certain any state the dems won in 2020 will 100% be theirs next time. they really only won the west coast, the north east, and the blue wall. the only real outlier was georgia. the rest were solid blues and even georgia was an obvious win in hindsight when you realize how close the governorship was in 2018.

TL;DR the white army had a better shot of winning in the russian civil war in the 1920s than the GOP does of winning in the 2020s.
 
I think even if we do get the magical blue Texas, Austin is literally the only place I've heard of in this "great migration" in which blue people are leaving for a red state. Everywhere else, center or center-right people are heading to purple or red states. So even if I think Texas is "lost", those electoral votes will be made up elsewhere. Hell, Florida isn't even a battleground state anymore.

DFW and Houston have gone deep blue. The surrounding suburban counties have been swinging blue for years as well. An R+6 lead is not insurmountable via demographic and cultural engineering. Just ask Republicans in Virginia and Georgia. There is no magic dirt in Texas. You suggested Texas needs its own Hollywood. This is typical brain-dead conservative magic-dirt thinking. "Texas is conservative, so if the movie industry moves to Texas, movies will become conservative!" It's no different than Abbott thinking that attracting tens of thousands of soyfaced dangerhairs from Silicon Valley to Texas will somehow be anything but bad for the GOP.

No. Texas will just become more liberal. Conservatives need to be hashing out the right mix of policy to completely bankrupt Hollywood and force everyone involved to move overseas, or preferably to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

While we're watching the Democrats self-destruct, don't forget how fucking stupid the Republicans are. The big difference between the two parties on a strategic level is that since the 1960s, Democrats try to identify what kinds of people vote Democrat, and figure out how to make America look more like those kinds of people, while Republicans think that demographic and cultural changes are just forces of nature beyond their control, and instead just try to figure out how to peel off enough disaffected formerly Democratic demographics to eke out a marginal victory. Democrats have restructured American politics as moral and ethnic struggle, which means partisan alliances aren't nearly as fluid as they were for the first 130 years or so of the country's history.

This isn't necessarily planned out. The left just has a natural instinct for this stuff. I mean, look at how they leveraged LGBTQ rights to turn "goes to church on Sunday" as a mark of a fine, upstanding citizen to being an indicator that you are probably a bigot whose ability to participate in public life needs to be severely curtailed. They made being gay trendy and pushed it in schools; now about 1 in 3 Gen Z identifies as LGBTQ, up by a factor of 10 since the 1990s. Republicans get blindsided by this stuff again and again, and when asked to do something, they act confused as to why you think they should even care. After all, what does stopping a purplehaired school counselor from putting your son on estrogen have to do with increasing the profits of blue-chip corporations?
 
Ohioan here, rural Ohio but I work in the city. It's nothing but a sea of "Trump 2024" merch and homemade "fauci lied" and "COVID is a scam" signs sitting up on every house and open ground by the road until you get to the city.
It's amazing watching Flordia and Ohio go form purple states to full on blood red states.
 
The president of El Salvador trolled Biden.
December 14, 2021

El Salvador's President Bukele produces the receipts on Biden corruption​

By Monica Showalter

El Salvador's President Nayim Bukele is something of a freak, a loose cannon. His twitter photo should give you the idea:
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I can't tell if he's on the right or left, he's some kind of opportunist who's often described as a caudillo.
He's an ex-communist with Venezuelan advisors, as the screen shot indicates at the top. But apparently the country's real communists don't like him. He's trashed his country's future by dropping the U.S. dollar as the country's currency and replacing it with bitcoin, an unreliable ledger currency favored by drug dealers, money launderers, and fast-buck speculators. He is said to be popular, based on all the corrupt and ineffective governments that came before him. I can't tell if he really is or not. One thing we do know is that illegal migration from El Salvador is not as bad as it used to be. We also know that he's not on speaking terms with Joe Biden based on some bad treatment the Bidenites gave them when he visited the U.S. in February.
Now Bukele has rattled the pot a little.
In response to a news report, undoubtedly based on Bidenite leaks, he's cut a secret deal with El Salvador's MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs to reduce the country's crime rate, or rather “provided financial incentives to Salvadoran gangs MS-13 and 18th Street Gang (Barrio 18) to ensure that incidents of gang violence and the number of confirmed homicides remained low,” as the U.S. Treasury said in a statement, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Now, he's called out the Bidenites themselves on corruption.
Via Bonchie at RedState, Bukele tweeted this:

That provoked a bad reaction from the Biden administration on Twitter:

Then this happened.

Bonchie explains:

Bukele then responded by sharing private text messages that showed the US Ambassador to El Salvador asking for the release of a man named Neto Muyshondt. Musyshondt was previously arrested on charges related to using government funds to pay off gang members and drug trafficking.
For some reason, the United States is really interested in Muyshondt being released.
Which sounds like bad stuff that the Bidenites should be explaining themselves on. Why are they fighting so hard to get a drug dealer released from a Salvadoran prison where he belongs? Was he an important human smuggler? We know they love their open borders in Biden's America. Was he an FBI informant? We see a lot of that these days, too. Why did they want an obvious bad guy out of the can, and why did they not want to tell anyone?

The Bidenites also need to explain just how Bukele got hold of the ambassador's emails and how many others he's got in pocket. What kind of security do these people have and why do they seem to think that just because El Salvador is a small country, there's no need to practice any sort of security as might be done with Russia or China? Apparently it's all out there for the taking and they forget that this guy is all in for bitcoin, the ledger currency of the world's criminals.

Bonchie flops around a bit with on-the-one-hand, on-the-other hand stuff about Bukele's approach to crime in seeking to cut deals.

On this, all I can say is that I see two things: One, when you are fighting a lake full of alligators, it's natural and normal to take a few out of action through cutting deals. There is evidence President Uribe off Colombia did that, by taking the narco-paramilitaries out of action in order to focus on fighting the nation's most dangerous enemy, the Marxist-narcoterrorist, Venezuelan-sponsored FARC, which was the sensible and effective move. It may have been the case with Bukele and his country's gangs, too, given that these Salvadoran gangs are decentalized, each a faction of its own. Knock out a few and focus on fighting the worst of them. If the Biden administration is horning in on a dynamic like that, it's meddling very illegitimately.

Second, notice that Bukele seems to care about violent crime. He seems to know that violent crime is damaging his country.

We don't have that on the Bidenside of things here in the states. We have defund the police, and Soros prosecutors in blue cities who have contempt for rule of law and let every criminal off without charges. As a result, we now have attack after attack on innocent people minding their own business in urban areas, rich people getting murdered in their own homes as happened in Los Angeles, and smash-and-grab broad daylight mass lootings of pricey retailers, as well as little ones. The Bidenites like crime, and only imprison political dissidents. Unlike Bukele, they fully embrace the Hugo Chavez model. Hugo did that in one of his first steps toward turning Venezuela into a socialist hellhole. The results speak for themselves.

So some kind of corruption is going on with the Bidenites and one wonders what else Bukele has on Biden. He's a scrappy character and not for amateur diplomats, such as Kamala Harris, who was only allowed to visit Guatemala's sane and recognizable leader last June, despite being the root causes border surge czar focused on the Northern Triangle countries of which El Salvador is one. The Guatemalan president noted that she hasn't been heard from since.

But now the U.S. diplomats seem to want to micromanage Bukele's war with his country's gangs, and are trying to call him corrupt. Well, it turns out there's some kind of corruption going on but it seems to be on the Biden side. He called them out, the emails tell a bad story, and now we need to know why the Bidenites want drug dealers let out of prison scot-free. Could it be that they want this guy out in order to ensure he inflicts chaos on the U.S.? Stranger things have happened.

Something fishy is going on, and you can bet that Russia and China are taking notes. The most important thing the Salvadoran president has highlighted here is that the Bidenites have a history of corruption. Although this isn't a Hunter Biden email type of corruption that's been exposed, we know that Russia and China do have that kind of information. They are more calculating than Bukele, and may well have a lot of bad stuff on Biden corruption.

If Bukele can use this kind of knowledge of secret corruption to discredit the Bidenites, so can America's much more threatening enemies. The gate has been opened.
 
That massive blue splotch is Tompkins county, which contains both Cornell University (25K students) and Ithaca college 6K students.

Cornell is an Ivy League university, which is why it's more heavily blue than Binghampton, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse.
Question, and I am stupid this morning so please forgive, but can students really vote in state elections where they are studying? They're not permanent residents. So you're telling me (skepticalkid.jpg) that these young adults can vote to make a difference in a place where they very well won't be residing in after graduation?

That seems a little fucked up.
 
Question, and I am stupid this morning so please forgive, but can students really vote in state elections where they are studying? They're not permanent residents. So you're telling me (skepticalkid.jpg) that these young adults can vote to make a difference in a place where they very well won't be residing in after graduation?
Yes they can which is why college towns in otherwise red/purple areas are deep deep blue.
 
Question, and I am stupid this morning so please forgive, but can students really vote in state elections where they are studying? They're not permanent residents. So you're telling me (skepticalkid.jpg) that these young adults can vote to make a difference in a place where they very well won't be residing in after graduation?

That seems a little fucked up.
Too bad it will take a complete overhaul of the current political system (namely, the House and Senate) in order to leave the privilege of voting "rights" to those who have met certain requisites. In hindsight, however, those types in current year might not be the right people to leave things up to.

EDIT: It's gonna be COLD winter...
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Despite Blumpf's spending, Biden's handlers do not possess the same economic acumen as the Trump admin (pre- and with Steven Mnuchin) to turn this shit around. The media is going to have to just ghost economic reporting at this point.
 
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Question, and I am stupid this morning so please forgive, but can students really vote in state elections where they are studying? They're not permanent residents. So you're telling me (skepticalkid.jpg) that these young adults can vote to make a difference in a place where they very well won't be residing in after graduation?

That seems a little fucked up.
They are residents there for most of the year. I always voted in the state where I went to school. I lived there, I depended on the police and firefighters to keep me safe, I drove on the roads and paid all the local sales taxes, etc. Why wouldn't I want to have a say in how my community was governed?
 
I've used a bit of everything from KJV to ESV when I've written brief study papers, but all y'all sleeping on the true king version: Hawaiian Pidgin.

God Make Da World
1: Da time wen eryting wen start, God make da sky an da world. 2: Da world come so no mo notting inside, no mo shape notting. On top da wild ocean dat cova eryting, neva had light notting. Ony had God Spirit dea, moving aroun ova da watta.
 
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Texas Republicans have been losing about 1 point of the electorate per year. It was R+21 in 2000, and was just R+6 in 2020. Given demographic trends in the state, and the way those demographics have been voting Texas is expected to flip blue no later than 2028. Texas has also been pretty soft on illegals, not as bad as California, but that's not saying much. This is because the big Republican donors in the state are cattle and oil guys, and they rely heavily on illegal labor. It's gOoD fOr bUsiNeSsEs, so the state GOP has always gone easy on businesses that violate labor laws by relying on border-jumpers. This changed in the last year because Greg Abbott is facing serious challenges from his right. He campaigned on cracking down on businesses who hire illegal aliens originally, but did a 180 as soon as he took office because of donor pressure.
I think even if we do get the magical blue Texas, Austin is literally the only place I've heard of in this "great migration" in which blue people are leaving for a red state. Everywhere else, center or center-right people are heading to purple or red states. So even if I think Texas is "lost", those electoral votes will be made up elsewhere. Hell, Florida isn't even a battleground state anymore.
From what I've heard, newcomers on average tend to be slightly more conservative than the Texas norm, though this is an average and likely split between among liberals moving to the cities and conservatives dispersing through the state.

The bigger concern is definitely the illegal issue + the educational issue. It doesn't matter how many conservatives migrate to your state, if the next generation comes out of college voting straight Soc Dem.

@Super-Chevy454 Given his bitcoin antics, how long until Nayim is disposed in a coup?
 
What about the Not Knoweth Jesus Version?
Assuming NKJV, I've always preferred the RSV and offshoots as my preferred "modernized" KJV. I very much appreciate the literary worth of KJV, but so long as a translation is as accurate as possible and accessible, it's all good. I even have David Bentley Hart's New Testament, which attempts to recreate the feel of the Greek used.

A good hardcover NIV is good for practical uses, like kindling or hitting people with.
 
They are residents there for most of the year. I always voted in the state where I went to school. I lived there, I depended on the police and firefighters to keep me safe, I drove on the roads and paid all the local sales taxes, etc. Why wouldn't I want to have a say in how my community was governed?
It's not so much that, because that is a valid argument that I'm not even trying to start. I thought I knew that students could vote, my brain is really froggy this morning. I get your point, I really do.

What bothers me is the transient nature of the population of the epicenter of the large universities that are now little more than liberal indoctrination camps due to the confluence of Social Justice (TM) and the relatively recent phenomenon of YOU NEED A DEGREE TO GET A JOB kind of bullshit. Now that the bachelor's is the new HS diploma, you can hook 'em into your viewpoints at Uni, then they vote for SocJus practically as a bloc locally, then scatter like roaches when they graduate to infest the surrounding areas.

The Dems not only have their pre-school to prison pipelines for their pets, they also have the high-school to college pipeline for their white donor class (not to mention the boon to the student loan industry). I was raised up working my first job in the fucking 80's and college degrees were for business, actual science and engineers - not inundated with soft science majors and churning out useless race/gender philosophers.

I'm just saying that the long march through the institutions really did work. There never existed such a position as "diversity and inclusion officer" pre-2000.
 
The NYT 2020 Election Map does a good job of depicting this stark difference:
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The colors of this map are somewhat deceiving. Those light/pale red areas you see covering most of Upstate NY make it look like a small margin, when in reality they're actually anywhere between +15 and +50 Trump. The sole exception to the "Democrats only congregate in cities" trend is that massive splotch of blue you see between Binghampton, Syracuse and Rochester - there's no major city there but it still voted +70 Biden.
I've heard it said before but we really need a state electoral college, otherwise state governments will get fucked over by the Democrat bases in the two or three major cities in most of fifty.
Neither is going red before 2050, and a lot changes in 30 years.
And that is IF America exists in thirty years.
In fact there is a -lot- of infighting going on in Nevada right now between the Democrat factions.
The dems shackling themselves to woke progressivites and similar radical factions has to be one of the funniest course of events in the history of this country, especially when it comes to th Squad needing tardwrangled away from scaring away the moderate base of boomers and millenials who aren't as radical as the progressives think they are. My only fear is what happens when the old guard finally retires or dies out.
Honestly, the Republicans should be calling for an audit of the VA race. I have a hard time believing that Youngkin only won by 2%
I'm willing to bet the state GOP didn't want to push their luck and the Dems are up to their Midterms electoral fuckery again. Time will tell how bad the 2022 midterms are.
 
EDIT: It's gonna be COLD winter...
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Those inflation numbers look a little more accurate.
@Super-Chevy454 Given his bitcoin antics, how long until Nayim is disposed in a coup?
Nayib is one of the most popular leaders in the world, and his approval rating has hovered at something like 90% his whole presidency despite being an almost stereotypical Latin American strongman. He's probably safe, as long as Biden doesn't invade El Salvador...

His approval rating, if anyone is curious, is probably at least in part because he's based.
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That is... honestly besides the point.
We're talking about an IHOP in Alaska reducing its hours and blaming it on Biden, right? Your point would be more applicable if IHOP was reducing its hours across the board, although it is cool to see how it all breaks down.
its been explained multiples times by multiple people the last half century. because college educated voters trend with voting dem and they move for jobs or have the savings to move that usually means most people moving from one state to the next will bring a democrat voter to whatever area they will live, even if its just trust funders moving back home or other stuff like the new great migration where minorities move back south after not being able to afford north eastern cities.
I mean, are they gonna want to move to West Virginia or Utah, or are they going to want to be with other like-minded people (costs permitting) in California/New York? This is a bit of a genuine question, I'm just not sure if we're looking at diffusion or consolidation.
 
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