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?

 

[Oats12345]

It's weird when I look back form my childhood do I realize that Bette Mider wasn't playing a character in Hocas Pocus.

 

[Die Dunkle Maus]

More impressed he thinks people are willing to read his shit tbh.

I'm impressed you made a post not ending in "lmao"!

Well done, baby carrot! I encourage you to keep not reading my posts while responding to me, talking about me, and checking my profile.

So autism. Much sad.

Asperger's syndrome, Kanner's syndrome, Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, or pervasive developmental disorder (not otherwise specified)? At least give me an ICD-10 code, your diagnoses are very super important to me!

 

[Collections Agent]

I'm impressed you made a post not ending in "lmao"!

Well done, baby carrot! I encourage you to keep not reading my posts while responding to me, talking about me, and checking my profile.

Do you have a thread on here? Genuinely curious.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Biden delivered his best speech on covid-19 yet​

Spoiler: Full Article

(archive)
President Biden in a speech on Tuesday pivoted to a more nuanced — and more pointed — message on the omicron variant. He firmly leveled with voters, both those who have followed guidelines and are sick of shouldering the burden of the pandemic and those who remain unvaccinated.

Biden made clear that for vaccinated and boosted people, the new variant would likely cause mild or no symptoms. He took advantage of his predecessor’s recent announcement that he had received a booster shot, ruefully remarking that it’s “one of the few things we agree on.”

He also assured the country that it would not return to the sort of lockdowns it saw in March 2020. Likewise, there is no need to close schools, he said. With vaccines, treatments, tests and adequate supply of protective equipment, the United States is in a radically different position compared with the early months of his administration.

As for the unvaccinated, Biden sounded like a stern, concerned parent. “You are at a high risk of getting sick,” he warned. “Almost everyone who has died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated.” He stopped shy of scolding them, but he did tell these Americans that they needed to get the vaccine for themselves, their families and their country. “I, honest to God, believe it’s your patriotic duty,” he added.

This was music to the ears of those urging a more unvarnished, direct message from the president.

Biden pointedly said that people are responsible for their own choices, but also issued a sharp rebuke for those who have been spreading covid-19 disinformation. “These companies and personalities are making money by peddling lies and allowing misinformation that can kill their own customers and their own supporters,” he said. “It’s wrong. It’s immoral. I call on the purveyors of these lies and misinformation to stop it.”

While he did not say it directly, rising case numbers among vaccinated Americans are less meaningful than ever. For a fully vaccinated and boosted person who tests positive but has virtually no symptoms, covid-19 is not much different from other contagious respiratory ailments. The real threat lies among the unvaccinated.

Biden acknowledged his administration’s vaccine mandates are not popular. But to those who feel put upon, Biden offered, “My administration has put them in place not to control your life, but to save your life and the lives of others.” He plainly has not given up on the mandates, but neither are they the center of his effort (in part because so many large employers have already complied).

And while it’s true that the long lines for testing have become a sore point with many Americans, Biden promised to speed up testing locations and the supply of home testing kits (although the 500 million free rapid tests the government is providing won’t start being distributed until January). Asked about the lag in making testing available, Biden sounded somewhat defensive, explaining that it has been only a few weeks since omicron appeared. Surely, we will soon be able to evaluate whether much more testing should have been widely available much earlier, as has been the case in many European countries.

Biden’s speech may have been his best of the pandemic. He recognized the sacrifices of those who have done the right thing while turning up the urgency for the unvaccinated to avoid endangering themselves and others. His harshest remarks were saved for the cynical manipulators who make money from misinforming — and imperiling — others.

Whether Biden’s words move vaccine refusers remains to be seen. But the sheer number of cases may be enough to alarm them, forcing many to finally get vaccinated. And in invoking his predecessor, Biden made a valiant effort to separate MAGA politics from the pandemic. That may be the most critical factor in putting the pandemic behind us.

>Coughs on people
>has a brain fart then suddenly goes to a different topic
>Doesn't know where he is or remembered that he had to make a speech or that he already gave one
<GR8T3EST SP33CH EVA!!!
And people say the media is portraying him poorly.

 

[spinal gas chamber]

I'm impressed you made a post not ending in "lmao"!

Well done, baby carrot! I encourage you to keep not reading my posts while responding to me, talking about me, and checking my profile.



Asperger's syndrome, Kanner's syndrome, Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, or pervasive developmental disorder (not otherwise specified)? At least give me an ICD-10 code, your diagnoses are very super important to me!

You got a case of the ‘tism

 

[Titos]

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Eat absolute shit, you elderly decaying shrew.

Bette Midler is still alive? Do people pretend she is still relevant? She wasn't even in the best TV movies like Halloweentown or Under Wraps.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Biden delivered his best speech on covid-19 yet​

Spoiler: Full Article

(archive)
President Biden in a speech on Tuesday pivoted to a more nuanced — and more pointed — message on the omicron variant. He firmly leveled with voters, both those who have followed guidelines and are sick of shouldering the burden of the pandemic and those who remain unvaccinated.

Biden made clear that for vaccinated and boosted people, the new variant would likely cause mild or no symptoms. He took advantage of his predecessor’s recent announcement that he had received a booster shot, ruefully remarking that it’s “one of the few things we agree on.”

He also assured the country that it would not return to the sort of lockdowns it saw in March 2020. Likewise, there is no need to close schools, he said. With vaccines, treatments, tests and adequate supply of protective equipment, the United States is in a radically different position compared with the early months of his administration.

As for the unvaccinated, Biden sounded like a stern, concerned parent. “You are at a high risk of getting sick,” he warned. “Almost everyone who has died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated.” He stopped shy of scolding them, but he did tell these Americans that they needed to get the vaccine for themselves, their families and their country. “I, honest to God, believe it’s your patriotic duty,” he added.

This was music to the ears of those urging a more unvarnished, direct message from the president.

Biden pointedly said that people are responsible for their own choices, but also issued a sharp rebuke for those who have been spreading covid-19 disinformation. “These companies and personalities are making money by peddling lies and allowing misinformation that can kill their own customers and their own supporters,” he said. “It’s wrong. It’s immoral. I call on the purveyors of these lies and misinformation to stop it.”

While he did not say it directly, rising case numbers among vaccinated Americans are less meaningful than ever. For a fully vaccinated and boosted person who tests positive but has virtually no symptoms, covid-19 is not much different from other contagious respiratory ailments. The real threat lies among the unvaccinated.

Biden acknowledged his administration’s vaccine mandates are not popular. But to those who feel put upon, Biden offered, “My administration has put them in place not to control your life, but to save your life and the lives of others.” He plainly has not given up on the mandates, but neither are they the center of his effort (in part because so many large employers have already complied).

And while it’s true that the long lines for testing have become a sore point with many Americans, Biden promised to speed up testing locations and the supply of home testing kits (although the 500 million free rapid tests the government is providing won’t start being distributed until January). Asked about the lag in making testing available, Biden sounded somewhat defensive, explaining that it has been only a few weeks since omicron appeared. Surely, we will soon be able to evaluate whether much more testing should have been widely available much earlier, as has been the case in many European countries.

Biden’s speech may have been his best of the pandemic. He recognized the sacrifices of those who have done the right thing while turning up the urgency for the unvaccinated to avoid endangering themselves and others. His harshest remarks were saved for the cynical manipulators who make money from misinforming — and imperiling — others.

Whether Biden’s words move vaccine refusers remains to be seen. But the sheer number of cases may be enough to alarm them, forcing many to finally get vaccinated. And in invoking his predecessor, Biden made a valiant effort to separate MAGA politics from the pandemic. That may be the most critical factor in putting the pandemic behind us.

Always bears repeating about Jennifer Rubin, from her twitter account

Conservative opinion writer at @WashingtonPost, MSNBC contributor. “If right doesn’t matter, we are lost.”

I know the Washington Post is all propaganda, but goddamn give us some credit and at least put some effort into hiding it.

 

[Oats12345]

Always bears repeating about Jennifer Rubin, from her twitter account

Conservative opinion writer at @WashingtonPost, MSNBC contributor. “If right doesn’t matter, we are lost.”

I know the Washington Post is all propaganda, but goddamn give us some credit and at least put some effort into hiding it.

Was she every conservative? I know at least with Billy Kristol I knew he supported Bush before having TDS.

 

[Constellationzero]

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Eat absolute shit, you elderly decaying shrew.

That is the most rambling YOU PEOPLE speech I've seen in years.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Was she every conservative? I know at least with Billy Kristol I knew he supported Bush before having TDS.

Says she dropped conservative from her twitter in Oct, 20202. So why she still has it there, your guess is as good as mine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/17/why-i-dropped-conservative-my-twitter-profile/

Best I can tell, same deal. Neocon who is ass chapped over Trump.

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

Was she every conservative? I know at least with Billy Kristol I knew he supported Bush before having TDS.

She's a committed neocon. She was a big supporter of the Iraq War even well after most other Iraq War supporters started to realize it was unpopular even among Republicans and started washing their hands of it. So she's naturally given to kvetching about Trump and the anti-interventionism that he's cultivated among the Republican base.

 

[Oats12345]

She's a committed neocon. She was a big supporter of the Iraq War even well after most other Iraq War supporters started to realize it was unpopular even among Republicans and started washing their hands of it. So she's naturally given to kvetching about Trump and the anti-interventionism that he's cultivated among the Republican base.

Let me guess she loved how Biden handled the withdraw?

 

[Homegrown Homophobia]

1. Most tech CEOs don't raise their kids, let alone have physical contact with them. If they can't pawn the child rearing 100% to the wife, Tech CEOs invest in kennels (IE boarding school and various summer and winter break camps ala Archer to warehouse them during the summer and school break periods so they have zero contact with them) or live in nannies or childless housekeepers who serve as the female version of a cuckold by raising another couple's child for them.

2. Most of them, once cocaine and hookers lose it's edginess, move on to meth and crack and all sorts of sexual perversions (many of which are super illegal) to get their kicks, since being a tech CEO gives you money to do all sorts of deviant shit while the HR department reign unopposed in the company causing all sorts of evil shit.

There's a serious lack of wealthy gentleman scholars, archeologists, and explorers these days.

 

[The Nothingness]

With #BidenIsAFailure trending, of course you'll have Dem simp accounts that Twitter will prop up. Like this account who post pure copium.

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

Let me guess she loved how Biden handled the withdraw?

Yes, she was all over running defense for Biden during that, all but outright saying that any Americans who were stranded there had plenty of warning to leave and it was all their fault.

 

[Oxous]

Biden's federal contractors mandate got blocked... again. This is one of three seperate blockages of this mandate: on November 30th it was blocked in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, then on December 7th it was blocked nation-wide, and today it has been blocked in 10 states: Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

If you'll go back a bit, the deadline was initially December 8th but then it got moved and right now the deadline is January 4th. It will probably be moved even further back, assuming the mandate doesn't get aborted.

 

[Die Dunkle Maus]

Do you have a thread on here? Genuinely curious.

I'm Chris-Chan.

You got a case of the ‘tism

You've got at least two dozen empty compressed air dusters in the backseat of your K car.

 

[Sithis]

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Eat absolute shit, you elderly decaying shrew.

As a mountaineer by birth I hope she and others like her keep this up lol we are absolutely used to the entire country looking down their nose at us and it just solidifies resolve. There will likely be people call Manchin and ask him to oppose it just to say fuck you to people like Bette. Even among people up there who might like the BBB, no one likes to have some snot nosed out of touch elitist talk shit about their state, so if this continues we may even see some of the rare blue folk up there at the very least lose some interest in fighting for it.

Edit - as I was typing that I noticed that Fox News is covering it which means by tomorrow there will probably be a lot of people up there discussing "fuck Hollywood and fuck these people" in general

 

[CrippleThreat]

From CNN: Biden's economic ratings are worse than Carter's

President Joe Biden is struggling in the minds of the American public. While his approval rating is down on a slew of issues, his difficulties are perhaps most noticeable on the economy.

Biden now sports the lowest net economic rating of any president at this point through their first term since at least Jimmy Carter in 1977.

In the latest CNN/SSRS poll, Biden comes in with a 44% approval rating to 55% disapproval rating among registered voters on his economic performance. This makes for a -9 point net approval rating. The average of all polls taken in December is quite similar with Biden at -13 points on the economy.

To put that in perspective, the average president at this point in the last 44 years (since we have been polling on the topic) had a net economic approval rating of +5 points. That means Biden's is 18 points worse than the average.

The best rating, perhaps unsurprisingly, belonged to George W. Bush following the September 11 attacks. He was at +37 points at a time when his approval ratings on all issues were high thanks to the "rally around the flag" effect.

Notably, Biden's net rating is worse than his two immediate predecessors, Barack Obama in December 2009 and Donald Trump in December 2017. Both Obama and Trump had net approval ratings on the economy of -4 points.

The economy was, by a lot of measures, in deep trouble in December 2009. The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index was well below average at 72.5. Today, it's at a similar 70.4. Yet, Biden's ratings on the economy are considerably worse.

Trump was a different story. Consumer sentiment was at 95.9 in December 2017, but Trump's overall net approval ratings (-20 points) were so bad that they were dragging down his popularity on a host of issues.

Interestingly, Trump's problem then is the opposite of Biden's now. Back in late 2017, most voters were not concentrated on the economy. It was not the nation's top problem. Ergo, what Americans saw as a relatively stronger economy wasn't translating into helping Trump.

Today, the economy is viewed as the top problem for both the nation and for people's families, so the low consumer sentiment is dragging Biden down. A Monmouth University poll released earlier this month found that 41% listed economic concerns (either everyday bills and groceries; inflation; job security and employment; or the economy overall) as the top issue for their family. That's far more than for any other issue.

Inflation, in particular, seems to be a big issue for Biden. Just 28% of Americans approved of the job he is doing to handle inflation in a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll. This comes as more voters said they were concerned about inflation than any other issue in a December Fox News poll, and only 22% said the Biden's administration efforts to get inflation and rising prices under control were helping. The plurality (47%) said they were hurting.

Indeed, the issue of inflation hurting a president helps to put Biden's bad position in perspective. The public reaction now looks at least somewhat similar to how the public was reacting to another president under whom inflation was an issue: Carter.

A lot of Republicans like to draw parallels between Carter (who was a one-term president) and Biden. And at least early on, when it comes to public perceptions of the economy and inflation, there are some similarities between them.

Carter's economic net approval rating of -8 points in an early January 1978 CBS News/New York Times poll was the lowest around this point in a presidency before Biden's -13 points. The economy, and particularly inflation, was listed as the nation's top problem in a late October 1977 Gallup poll.

Importantly, far more Americans (52%) in a November 1977 Time Magazine poll thought that Carter was not making a good start to fighting inflation than thought he was (21%). In other words, Americans felt his efforts were not enough to control inflation.

The good news for Biden is that it's far from clear what the economy and inflation will look like in the future. Carter ended up losing in 1980, in part, because voters felt he didn't solve the economic crisis. Biden, on the other hand, still has nearly three years until the 2024 election, although his party may still suffer in the midterms because of fears voters have about the economy.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Biden's federal contractors mandate got blocked... again. This is one of three seperate blockages of this mandate: on November 30th it was blocked in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, then on December 7th it was blocked nation-wide, and today it has been blocked in 10 states: Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

If you'll go back a bit, the deadline was initially December 8th but then it got moved and right now the deadline is January 4th. It will probably be moved even further back, assuming the mandate doesn't get aborted.

How does this work with the business mandate that is back on the table again, given that a lot of federal contractors certainly exceed 100 employees?