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'll give the French one thing, when their people hate something they really hate something. The fuel protests and Rona lockdowns aren't the first time two sides who would otherwise be enemies worked together for a common goal.
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The government tried to have British style speeding ticketry for revenue and their response was to vandalize more than half of the cameras and make the government drop the topic.
If they weren't such confusing faggots in other ways, France has a shot at being the country-wide equivalent of the "become ungovernable" meme.
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Nothing Compares 2U was prophetic, I suppose.
The man has been gone a year and change. People were less neurotic over dubya by trhis point after his presidency, and he had two full terms as the literal nazi racist warmonger of their fantasies.
My persistent issue with american antifa is that their rhetoric has infiltrated into every online space I inhabit. Everywhere I go, I'm bombarded with the same racialist bullshit and demands tjat the working class whites - an american construct if I ever heard it - bow down and cede space to the "oppressed" black man. American racial and identity politics have infested the left and rendered it utterly impotent in the face of the fundamental restructuring of society to serve unaccountable oligarchs.
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Makes me wish more nations would have people do that sort've stuff. I don't like vandalism but when it is'Fuck the government's bullshit' I am all for it.
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This is probably the first time they actually do something approaching "anti fascism" in their miserable lives.
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I have to call bullshit on this one. I've driven in France plenty of times and I've encountered far too many of their speed cameras to ever believe that they're not running the same scheme. By law, in the UK, speed cameras have to be painted bright yellow and clearly visible from a long distance, with clear road markings and signage warning drivers that there are cameras ahead. Meanwhile, in France, speed cameras are instead built to blend into the street furniture, or are otherwise designed to be invisible on approach, to maximise revenue.
This is because of the fundamental difference in how these two states lie to their populations. The French state's approach to this sort of thing is to hide and say that they're not doing the thing, while playing some nice music and supplying some nice wine, and then carrying on doing exactly what they just promised not to do. This is why the French protest so often.
The English state is more honest about its deceit, working from the principle that people will be less likely to protest if you honestly explain exactly how much lube you're going to use before you get started. So our cameras are clear and visible, while the French just pretend that they're not like les rosbifs even as they pay just as much in speeding fines. At least they got a meal out of it, n'est pas?
Obviously I object to the idea of speed cameras on principle, and while I wouldn't condone going out late at night and placing a mid-sized, ceramic flower pot filled with a mixture of iron oxide and aluminium oxide on top of one, then setting it on fire, I can certainly understand why people might do that sort of thing.
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I might be mistaken, but didn't leftists in the US cheer on Macron? Maybe he took a shot at Trump or something, but I thought he was being marketed in the US as France's FDR.
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American leftists supported Mélenchon. Macron is basically French Hillary.
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Of course they won't change. The current Democratic Party places ideology above everything else, they are ideologues first and foremost. It's a meme but they are very much "feels over reals," feelings over facts. They preach about how much they love the science and "being the party of science" while simultaneously denying basic biology. They will just blame every single failure from here on out as the result of too much racism, misogyny, transphobia, and all the other phobias while still throwing tantrums over Trump.
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But it was written by Prince. So...
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there is a major difference constitutionally. one is an overused clause that has been perverted to allow the federal government to bust people with medical Marijuana prescriptions for growing and giving weed to other eligible people for free, and the other is a bullshit question of semantics.
Sibelius is still a bad decision, but my point is it could've been waaay worse.
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Wasn't Macron a literal who banker working fort= the Rothschilds before 2017 though?
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the progressives went "blue no matter who" in 2016. anyone who remotely likes Bernie after his no refunds incident is a political cuckold.
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Roberts actually isn't Establishment. What he is is often way worse, but on a tiny handful of issues better.
His judicial philosophy is Governmental Deference and there are not words sufficient for the scorn I feel for it. In short, his judicial philosophy is that the powers in charge should be deferred to unless they are incapable of providing a reasonable explanation for their overreach. This is why I hates the overreach of the commerce clause but was willing to bitch out on a superficial explanation under something else.
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I don't think Bernie would have won against Trump either, and would have lost the popular vote too.
Bernie never got to be really scrutinized as a presidential nominee, and he would fare extremely poorly if he ever were in that position. All his plans are pretty much AOC-level stupid and untenable. He comes off as a feeble cuck too.
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And he'd be absolute hell to get a lot of the older dems out to vote for and would drive a lot of the older Republican vote who were iffy on Trump out in droves. My firm ran the numbers here in Wisconsin, Bernie almost certainly would have lost unless his message managed to drive out almost 100% of the college vote.
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I've noticed most of the controversial cases hinge on this "reasonable explanation" defense. Nothing can be changed from one admin to the next without justifying it with a thousand airtight studies (changing the census questions, limiting immigration, or even trying to get rid of Remain in Mexico), and yet someone like the Colorado baker can be discriminated against for his religion as long as no one outright says that's why during the complaints process. They were able to go right back to filing complaints against him because the SCOTUS said it was only a problem because the Colorado government was too biased, signaling that they could just be more careful next time.
It feels like a very messy way of reviewing constitutionality. It's just an artificial way of creating consistency, meaning the bureaucrats always have final say over how fast things can change.
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Yes, but they also do it because they're detached from reality. I just saw a Hillary supporter (yes, they still exist) claim on Twitter that Bernie is a puppet of gun lobbyists.
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2016. His message hadn't changed and the general views on his policies had not changed. We did not feel a need to check.
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