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?

 

[Collections Agent]

Those inflation numbers look a little more accurate.

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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Are you telling me when you don't appease the 3-5% of the population frothing at the mouth on Twitter, the other 90+% appreciate it?

No that can't be right

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

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.

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.

Consolidation. Liberal Arts types have dreams of making it in Hollywood/Book Publishing/Broadway (see Lindsay Ellis). WV and Utah are not cultural centers for the arts. It doesn't really matter that the rent they pay is 3 times what it would have been back home or that gas is a dollar more per gallon; they get to be away from their parents whom they have strained relationships anyways.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

The president of El Salvador trolled Biden.

Someone else posted these text messages but without any context, now it makes sense. Good. The US had been meddling there for decades, I hope this gets more attention.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Consolidation. Liberal Arts types have dreams of making it in Hollywood/Book Publishing/Broadway (see Lindsay Ellis). WV and Utah are not cultural centers for the arts. It doesn't really matter that the rent they pay is 3 times what it would have been back home or that gas is a dollar more per gallon; they get to be away from their parents whom they have strained relationships anyways.

I guess that's why I never really understood those people. A place in the midwestern Red State sounds like heaven to me. Its quiet, peaceful, and low key, and even if I hated the people around me, they are easy to avoid.

Maybe that's just me being an introvert and just loving the idea of being in the middle of nowhere without constant noise of bigger cities, but hey.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

@Super-Chevy454 Given his bitcoin antics, how long until Nayim is disposed in a coup?

A coup would be too suspicious unless then Biden isn't surrounded by complete idiots who fail to do a coup. On the other hand, they will probably menage to scrap the next election in El Salvador knowing how Dems like to fraud.

 

[Blake Chortles]

The true Bible translation is the Passion Translation

 

[CrippleThreat]

Someone else posted these text messages but without any context, now it makes sense. Good. The US had been meddling there for decades, I hope this gets more attention.

This all just makes me curious as to how assumedly decent Assad was for the State Department to orchestrate color revolt, with the media going hard to canvas the situation for our eyes.

 

[Gehenna]

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.

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.

My point was more general, pointing out people who screech about restaurants having to cut hours is being caused by them being totally ignorant of the actual margins involved.

 

[Compositesludge]

My point was more general, pointing out people who screech about restaurants having to cut hours is being caused by them being totally ignorant of the actual margins involved.

Oh! I'm sorry for misunderstanding, that was my bad.

 

[The Last Stand]

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.

COVID numbers go up, it's YOUR fault!

 

[Terrifik]

time for more salt for salt mine

 

[Oxous]

Opinion: It’s time to entertain the possibility that the Build Back Better bill won’t pass​

Spoiler: Full Article

(archive)
Most pundits seem to be operating under the assumption that President Biden’s Build Back Better program will eventually become law. After all, it would be very unusual for a Congress controlled by the president’s party to reject his first major domestic proposal.

But given developments in the past week, it might be time to start seriously considering the chance that BBB is DOA.

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has long been the primary obstacle to BBB’s passage. He represents an energy-producing state, so he has a different view on the bill’s climate provisions than most Democrats. West Virginia also is now staunchly Republican at all levels and voted for former president Donald Trump by 39 points in 2020. To have any hope of reelection, Manchin has to show his constituents that he is fighting hard for them.

His comments at a Wall Street Journal online event show how hard it will be for him to agree to anything that the rest of his party will back. He complained that House Democrats had shrunk the cost of the bill primarily by creating artificial expiration dates for the host of programs they have crammed into the package. And he noted that Congress has rarely adhered to dates like these in the past, saying, “If we keep sending checks, it will be hard to stop the checks.” He reiterated those thoughts Monday, telling reporters that “whatever plan it will be” should be done for 10 years without potentially artificial expiration dates.

Manchin also continued to emphasize the risk that inflation plays in his calculus. He noted that the average West Virginian drives 50 miles a day for work, making inflation particularly problematic for his constituents. And he complained that Congress had already appropriated $5.4 trillion this year between the American Rescue Plan and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, more than what was spent in inflation-adjusted dollars for World War II and the Marshall Plan combined. Yet, “no one wants to stop and take a breath,” Manchin said. He, for one, clearly wants to take a deep breath.

His concerns were documented by last week’s Congressional Budget Office analysis, which showed BBB’s cost would rise dramatically if major programs included did not expire on schedule. The CBO analysis showed that if Manchin’s fears were realized and the BBB programs were effectively made permanent, those extensions would add $3 trillion to the nation’s deficit over the next decade. Those numbers were “very sobering,” he said on Monday.

It’s theoretically easy to meet Manchin’s bottom line by stripping most of the items out of the bill and focusing on one or two large programs. Advocates are pushing hard to make the expanded child tax credits permanent before the month end, when the current credit expires. That may be attractive to Manchin, but doing so would add nearly $1.6 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. That’s more than the entire amount of new revenue the CBO estimated in November that BBB’s tax hikes would raise.

It would also run afoul of what the bulk of Democrats want from the bill. Progressives have clearly stated all year that they expect a transformational package. That means going as far as possible on a host of issues at once, which is why BBB expands the child tax credit and creates universal pre-K and expands Obamacare subsidies and many other things. They have been willing to compromise thus far primarily on the overall cost, which is why the bill that passed the House has so many programmatic expirations. They have not been willing to admit that there isn’t a Senate majority for a transformational bill. Instead, they have been ramping up the pressure on Manchin to go along with the party majority.

That’s not something Manchin is willing to do, per all his public statements. He said last week that “this is not the best job I’ve ever had . . . I’m not going to sell my soul for this.” He said he was “not a Washington Democrat,” and implied that he would leave the Democratic caucus if asked. For him to cave now would require a massive act of self-abasement that would almost surely end his long political career.

Democrats thus face the specter of progressives’ irresistible force meeting Manchin’s immovable object. That clash looks increasingly likely, and the resultant explosion could easily blow up BBB along with it.

 

[MrJokerRager]

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.

The GOP of the 2000s was a different party from the current era version though that theme of GOP embracing Big Business and illegal labor is all over most of the red states. Until the local and state levels are cleared of those chamber of commerce fags, that Reaganite cancer will still be around a bit longer.

 

[The Nothingness]

Opinion: It’s time to entertain the possibility that the Build Back Better bill won’t pass​

Spoiler: Full Article

(archive)
Most pundits seem to be operating under the assumption that President Biden’s Build Back Better program will eventually become law. After all, it would be very unusual for a Congress controlled by the president’s party to reject his first major domestic proposal.

But given developments in the past week, it might be time to start seriously considering the chance that BBB is DOA.

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has long been the primary obstacle to BBB’s passage. He represents an energy-producing state, so he has a different view on the bill’s climate provisions than most Democrats. West Virginia also is now staunchly Republican at all levels and voted for former president Donald Trump by 39 points in 2020. To have any hope of reelection, Manchin has to show his constituents that he is fighting hard for them.

His comments at a Wall Street Journal online event show how hard it will be for him to agree to anything that the rest of his party will back. He complained that House Democrats had shrunk the cost of the bill primarily by creating artificial expiration dates for the host of programs they have crammed into the package. And he noted that Congress has rarely adhered to dates like these in the past, saying, “If we keep sending checks, it will be hard to stop the checks.” He reiterated those thoughts Monday, telling reporters that “whatever plan it will be” should be done for 10 years without potentially artificial expiration dates.

Manchin also continued to emphasize the risk that inflation plays in his calculus. He noted that the average West Virginian drives 50 miles a day for work, making inflation particularly problematic for his constituents. And he complained that Congress had already appropriated $5.4 trillion this year between the American Rescue Plan and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, more than what was spent in inflation-adjusted dollars for World War II and the Marshall Plan combined. Yet, “no one wants to stop and take a breath,” Manchin said. He, for one, clearly wants to take a deep breath.

His concerns were documented by last week’s Congressional Budget Office analysis, which showed BBB’s cost would rise dramatically if major programs included did not expire on schedule. The CBO analysis showed that if Manchin’s fears were realized and the BBB programs were effectively made permanent, those extensions would add $3 trillion to the nation’s deficit over the next decade. Those numbers were “very sobering,” he said on Monday.

It’s theoretically easy to meet Manchin’s bottom line by stripping most of the items out of the bill and focusing on one or two large programs. Advocates are pushing hard to make the expanded child tax credits permanent before the month end, when the current credit expires. That may be attractive to Manchin, but doing so would add nearly $1.6 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. That’s more than the entire amount of new revenue the CBO estimated in November that BBB’s tax hikes would raise.

It would also run afoul of what the bulk of Democrats want from the bill. Progressives have clearly stated all year that they expect a transformational package. That means going as far as possible on a host of issues at once, which is why BBB expands the child tax credit and creates universal pre-K and expands Obamacare subsidies and many other things. They have been willing to compromise thus far primarily on the overall cost, which is why the bill that passed the House has so many programmatic expirations. They have not been willing to admit that there isn’t a Senate majority for a transformational bill. Instead, they have been ramping up the pressure on Manchin to go along with the party majority.

That’s not something Manchin is willing to do, per all his public statements. He said last week that “this is not the best job I’ve ever had . . . I’m not going to sell my soul for this.” He said he was “not a Washington Democrat,” and implied that he would leave the Democratic caucus if asked. For him to cave now would require a massive act of self-abasement that would almost surely end his long political career.

Democrats thus face the specter of progressives’ irresistible force meeting Manchin’s immovable object. That clash looks increasingly likely, and the resultant explosion could easily blow up BBB along with it.

More like Biden's Bill Bombs

 

[Terrifik]

Opinion: It’s time to entertain the possibility that the Build Back Better bill won’t pass​

Spoiler: Full Article

(archive)
Most pundits seem to be operating under the assumption that President Biden’s Build Back Better program will eventually become law. After all, it would be very unusual for a Congress controlled by the president’s party to reject his first major domestic proposal.

But given developments in the past week, it might be time to start seriously considering the chance that BBB is DOA.

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has long been the primary obstacle to BBB’s passage. He represents an energy-producing state, so he has a different view on the bill’s climate provisions than most Democrats. West Virginia also is now staunchly Republican at all levels and voted for former president Donald Trump by 39 points in 2020. To have any hope of reelection, Manchin has to show his constituents that he is fighting hard for them.

His comments at a Wall Street Journal online event show how hard it will be for him to agree to anything that the rest of his party will back. He complained that House Democrats had shrunk the cost of the bill primarily by creating artificial expiration dates for the host of programs they have crammed into the package. And he noted that Congress has rarely adhered to dates like these in the past, saying, “If we keep sending checks, it will be hard to stop the checks.” He reiterated those thoughts Monday, telling reporters that “whatever plan it will be” should be done for 10 years without potentially artificial expiration dates.

Manchin also continued to emphasize the risk that inflation plays in his calculus. He noted that the average West Virginian drives 50 miles a day for work, making inflation particularly problematic for his constituents. And he complained that Congress had already appropriated $5.4 trillion this year between the American Rescue Plan and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, more than what was spent in inflation-adjusted dollars for World War II and the Marshall Plan combined. Yet, “no one wants to stop and take a breath,” Manchin said. He, for one, clearly wants to take a deep breath.

His concerns were documented by last week’s Congressional Budget Office analysis, which showed BBB’s cost would rise dramatically if major programs included did not expire on schedule. The CBO analysis showed that if Manchin’s fears were realized and the BBB programs were effectively made permanent, those extensions would add $3 trillion to the nation’s deficit over the next decade. Those numbers were “very sobering,” he said on Monday.

It’s theoretically easy to meet Manchin’s bottom line by stripping most of the items out of the bill and focusing on one or two large programs. Advocates are pushing hard to make the expanded child tax credits permanent before the month end, when the current credit expires. That may be attractive to Manchin, but doing so would add nearly $1.6 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. That’s more than the entire amount of new revenue the CBO estimated in November that BBB’s tax hikes would raise.

It would also run afoul of what the bulk of Democrats want from the bill. Progressives have clearly stated all year that they expect a transformational package. That means going as far as possible on a host of issues at once, which is why BBB expands the child tax credit and creates universal pre-K and expands Obamacare subsidies and many other things. They have been willing to compromise thus far primarily on the overall cost, which is why the bill that passed the House has so many programmatic expirations. They have not been willing to admit that there isn’t a Senate majority for a transformational bill. Instead, they have been ramping up the pressure on Manchin to go along with the party majority.

That’s not something Manchin is willing to do, per all his public statements. He said last week that “this is not the best job I’ve ever had . . . I’m not going to sell my soul for this.” He said he was “not a Washington Democrat,” and implied that he would leave the Democratic caucus if asked. For him to cave now would require a massive act of self-abasement that would almost surely end his long political career.

Democrats thus face the specter of progressives’ irresistible force meeting Manchin’s immovable object. That clash looks increasingly likely, and the resultant explosion could easily blow up BBB along with it.

absolute cope

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Merck’s Covid Pill Might Pose Risks for Pregnant Women

Some laboratory studies suggest that molnupiravir can insert errors in DNA, which could in theory harm a developing fetus, sperm cells or children.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Oxous]

Remember when the year-over-year CPI inflation numbers came out? Turns out it's worse than that

As much as CNN and affiliates may want to cover for Biden, putting out spicy headlines comes first in terms of importance. And what's more spicier than "prices rose 10% this year"?

 

[Billy Beer]

You can't hide inflation. You can run defence, flashy "why this is a good thing" headlines and print lies, but when average joe walks in to his local supermarket and is seeing prices go up by 10p+ on all of his items, no amount of headlines will change the fact that he is now out of pocket compared to last year.

 

[Compositesludge]

Remember when the year-over-year CPI inflation numbers came out? Turns out it's worse than that

As much as CNN and affiliates may want to cover for Biden, putting out spicy headlines comes first in terms of importance. And what's more spicier than "prices rose 10% this year"?

Are we talking spicy? Here's a candidate:

Things are really bad, folks!

 

[Sithis]

Senate poised to raise debt limit by $2.5T, avoiding default

Anyone have any insight on what "deal" Mitch the bitch struck?

 

[Oxous]

Senate poised to raise debt limit by $2.5T, avoiding default

Anyone have any insight on what "deal" Mitch the bitch struck?

The deal was that Mitch would betray his promise to not raise the debt ceiling again, and in exchange he would make even more Republicans despise him. Probably sounded like a good idea in Cocaine Mitch's brain.

This raise would kick the can all the way down the road to early 2023... meaning that Republicans would no longer be able to use the debt ceiling as a weapon before the midterms. If anyone is curious what the rationale is.