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?
US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)
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I am not sure if i will be sad when he ends up starving to death when Biden doesn't deliver that
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While I admire the orientation of your sentiment, the history is not quite true.
The Republican Party has, from its inception, been the party of big business and big money, going all the way back to when an anti-slavery railroad lawyer became its first President. The Democrats were the populist party of farming families and the working man, and had a seemingly unbreakable hold on this identity until some time in the 1930s, when ideological Communists began to infiltrate the party. There were anti-Communists in both parties, of course (Johnson & Kennedy were stridently anti-Communist), but Marxism's sociopathy, anti-patriotism, internationalism, and militant violence ultimately found its home in the Democrats, with the New Left ascending after Johnson declined to run for reelection and in the wake of violent riots.
The ascent of the New Left, with its emphasis on social upheaval, crippling law enforcement, atheism, the Sexual Revolution, and so on, drove the middle class and evangelicals out of the Democratic Party. They did not find a welcoming home in the Republican Party. The GOP continued to be primarily interested in cultivating donors from among the upper class and ensuring they got riders tacked onto whatever bills the Democrats were working on; the party was mostly run by mid-Atlantic bluebloods who found these so-called "conservatives" fleeing the chaos of the Democratic Party to be a noisome and classless bunch of rabble.
The original conservative grifter arose in this milieu, a man by the name of William F Buckley, Jr, who decided that the path forward was whatever got William F Buckley, Jr, invited to the best cocktail parties in DC. This meant, of course, purging the party of populist rabble-rousers. While the Democrats took the strategy of keeping its weirdos out of the media, but still harnessing their energy to win power, under Buckley's influence, the Republicans took to outright purging anyone who threatened their respectability and 6-figure donation checks, beginning with the John Birch Society, moving on to the paleocons, and eventually sweeping out all the immigration skeptics.
Conservatism was always a grift. Occasionally, someone who wasn't just there to swindle Republican voters out of their donations popped up, but both GOP itself and auxiliary conservative nonprofits have always focused their efforts on neutralizing people who threaten the grift, whether it was making GHWB Reagan's VP or sending armies of consultants to suck up Tea Party donations and prevent them from being spent on campaigns. The most valuable thing Trump did was expose the scam. If you had your doubts before, when the Republican Party appointed Robert S Mueller based on transparently fake allegations to cripple the Trump presidency, that should have been the last time you trusted these snakes.
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"Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
and somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
but there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out."
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The entertainment Manchin has caused from this is amazing.White House lights up Manchin after he crushes Biden's megabill
Holy fuck Manchin was really leading Biden along. Apparently this week he gave Biden a draft for a compromise version of BBB he said he would vote for, which Biden approved of, and then Manchin did a 180 and went on Fox saying he actually won't be doing that. Manchin didn't tell the White House he was gonna go onto Fox and kill BBB until 30 minutes prior, which led to the White House panicking and sending him phone calls which he ignored. Not even Bret Baier, the guy he was on air with, knew Manchin was going to say what he said.
What a class act.
The desperation is tangible. Not only does the White House feel genuinely betrayed by Manchin lying to their faces, they're also well aware that they need to get something, ANYTHING done.
Joe “Salt maker” Manchin. I thank him for the valuable salt we are now mining.
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I am also somewhat perplexed as to what factors are prolonging the labor shortage. I would guess that it's somewhat psychological. Even if you aren't getting a lot of unemployment benefits, you have the expectation that you should be able to go to work on your own terms, whether that means you want to work for a place that has vaccine mandates or a place that won't make you get tested or vaxxed.
But another thing that makes it bad is that some of these companies are in a sort of death spiral, where they are short-staffed, which means the people they can hire or who have been plugging away the whole time are overworked, dissatisfied, stressed, and can't take time off easily. This is definitely the case for me, though my industry had problems before the pandemic and the pandemic just made it harder to fix them.
The easiest solution would be overhead national and state policies that get the boot off the gas when it comes to trying to micromanage how businesses can operate. Drive down inflation by making it easier for businesses to work without dealing with any national overhead, like demanding diversity ratios and vaccine mandates. Right now, very few businesses have the resources to accommodate all this bullshit, and the ones that have those resources are evil to their workers, so no one wants to work for them. We need like a moratorium on governments requiring ANYTHING from businesses so that quality jobs can establish themselves in a competitive environment.
But another thing that makes it bad is that some of these companies are in a sort of death spiral, where they are short-staffed, which means the people they can hire or who have been plugging away the whole time are overworked, dissatisfied, stressed, and can't take time off easily. This is definitely the case for me, though my industry had problems before the pandemic and the pandemic just made it harder to fix them.
The easiest solution would be overhead national and state policies that get the boot off the gas when it comes to trying to micromanage how businesses can operate. Drive down inflation by making it easier for businesses to work without dealing with any national overhead, like demanding diversity ratios and vaccine mandates. Right now, very few businesses have the resources to accommodate all this bullshit, and the ones that have those resources are evil to their workers, so no one wants to work for them. We need like a moratorium on governments requiring ANYTHING from businesses so that quality jobs can establish themselves in a competitive environment.
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The problem is that inflation is always very uneven. Producer prices have gone way up, squeezing already thin margins, and they can't raise prices too much, which would kill sales, and raising wages would squeeze those margins even more. Wages will go up eventually, but in an inflationary environment, they're always the last thing to rise. The money flow is
Federal Reserve -> Investors -> Capital Markets (incl commodities) -> Producers -> Employees
with each step either benefiting less/hurting more from the inflation.
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That BLM is just as much an enemy of the American people as the other BLM. Out here during the Obama years there were constant protests outside the local BLM office thanks to his fuckery. Not that it mattered since it was all hot air and all the actual decisions were made in DC, but... better that than bombings. There's a reason a lot of Oregonians were and are sympathetic to the Bundy ranchers, and its because BLM are massive fucking pricks to anyone who actually wants to use land.
The same people joining the Nat Guard are largely the same ones joining the military. There's a reason the ones in D.C. had to get screened for political reliability... That out of the way, I doubt the local cops will do all that since they're probably just as tired of cleaning up after the messes "their" leaders make.
Homemade rat burgers>vegetarian Taco Bell.
"Never interrupt the enemy when he's making a mistake" is sound advice. So I'm just glad the GOP's laziness is in charge of things instead of so much of the institutional desire to bend over and let the Dems ass-fuck them.
Good news is this is so hilariously, blatantly unconstitutional as a direct violation of... pretty much every single civil rights amendment that even if it does pass the courts will immediately throw it out. Assuming of course people in upstate don't just start shooting people over this.
You mean a hillbilly from backwoods Illinois who grew up doing backbreaking manual labor, and quite possibly invented the chokeslam during his wrestling tours? Who campaigned on a platform of tariffs protecting the jobs of industrial workers (you know, same thing Trump did), pushed for a Homestead Act granting land to small farmers against the wishes of the Democrat plantation classes, and a transcontinental railroad allowing for a massive economic boom as the deprived middle could now reap the benefits of both sides of the country?
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I love you Joe Manchin. You actually know what your constituants want and don't want you to do.
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"Zippity zoppity all people are property" - the government of New York.
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The transcontinental railroad and its associated bonds benefited investors and what were then some of the largest companies in America directly, and there were more than a few F-35-like boondoggles of overspending associated with it. That doesn't make it entirely a bad thing. In fact, big business isn't entirely a bad thing. Good luck getting anywhere on a handcrafted, artisanal DIY passenger jet. Let's just not pretend Lincoln did it all for the little guy.
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Senator Warren has Covid, womp womp womp
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Oh no, you know how the Native Americans are when it comes to foreign diseases.
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Can't believe I'm saying this, but I hope Biden has a death count with this dude. Political devotion is asisine.
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New Trump interview just dropped
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Oh fucking please, that nigga isn't on a "hunger strike" like not eating food, he's probably whittled it down to chicken broth over rice and some broccoli and thinks he's Mahatma Gandhi. Yeah, he's getting skinny: anyone eating 900-1000 kcal/day is going to lean up.
But he's not starving himself, and I promise he's eaten in the last 40 days.
Fuckin' drama faggot, I swear.
It's funny you mention that, because the F22 (which is arguably vastly better than the F35) effectively is a small-batch artisanal fighter jet. A hundred and twenty got built, so there was never any chance to get economics of scale working like there is for the F15 (50+ years in production and still going strong), and then the tooling was ordered broken up, despite Japan and Israel wanting to buy them. I've heard the material tooling was eventually warehoused but I could be wrong about that.
F22-kun was supposed to step up and help retire F15-sama, but that's not happening. 1000+ F15s in US service vs. 120 F22s? I don't care what sci-fi wet dream the USAF is living in, weight of numbers will get through high tech, eventually. Back me up on this one, Bone_Buddy.
But he's not starving himself, and I promise he's eaten in the last 40 days.
Fuckin' drama faggot, I swear.
It's funny you mention that, because the F22 (which is arguably vastly better than the F35) effectively is a small-batch artisanal fighter jet. A hundred and twenty got built, so there was never any chance to get economics of scale working like there is for the F15 (50+ years in production and still going strong), and then the tooling was ordered broken up, despite Japan and Israel wanting to buy them. I've heard the material tooling was eventually warehoused but I could be wrong about that.
F22-kun was supposed to step up and help retire F15-sama, but that's not happening. 1000+ F15s in US service vs. 120 F22s? I don't care what sci-fi wet dream the USAF is living in, weight of numbers will get through high tech, eventually. Back me up on this one, Bone_Buddy.
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"When I put out the statement that [Hillary] was spying on my campaign, all hell broke loose. Why did all hell break loose? Because they knew I was right."
I AM THE ONE
DON'T DROP A DOOK
DON'T NEED A NUKE
TO GET RESPECT
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Donald was spittin' facts all throughout this interview. Also, watch the RINOs he called out be like "NO U! REEEEEEEEE"
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Go Joe!White House lights up Manchin after he crushes Biden's megabill
What a class act.
The desperation is tangible. Not only does the White House feel genuinely betrayed by Manchin lying to their faces, they're also well aware that they need to get something, ANYTHING done.
Also for the Biden Administration:
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So with today's news I can safely say that the off-chance possibility that they were switching to the voting bill because they thought they had a better chance to pass it is -not- a thing. They instead switched to it because their second mainline item was officially DOA. This means a few things.
1: No RINOs even thought about supporting it. If there was -any- opening for one of them to jump ship, they'd have gone for it full hog. Instead... nothing.
2: Voting bill is DOA. If Manchin held up on this, there is no way they have any ammo to get him to support the election bill. He has to know it will be used against him, as well. Something that already was not going to get RINO support now lost at least one crucial Dem vote. At -least- one because there were plenty of rumblings on it from around the entire caucus, hence why they moved to their second mainline item in the first place.
3: Reconciliation is in peril. The easiest thing to pass, they keep trying to pile pork into it despite it overtly and explicitly being -not- for that. The continued efforts to force in what they lost from the infrastructure bill will now also get what they lost from the BBB bill. Which in turn... alienates Manchin all over again.
1: No RINOs even thought about supporting it. If there was -any- opening for one of them to jump ship, they'd have gone for it full hog. Instead... nothing.
2: Voting bill is DOA. If Manchin held up on this, there is no way they have any ammo to get him to support the election bill. He has to know it will be used against him, as well. Something that already was not going to get RINO support now lost at least one crucial Dem vote. At -least- one because there were plenty of rumblings on it from around the entire caucus, hence why they moved to their second mainline item in the first place.
3: Reconciliation is in peril. The easiest thing to pass, they keep trying to pile pork into it despite it overtly and explicitly being -not- for that. The continued efforts to force in what they lost from the infrastructure bill will now also get what they lost from the BBB bill. Which in turn... alienates Manchin all over again.
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