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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It's just odd that you wouldn't because she would be up your alley. Maggie makes Hillary look weak in comparison, she was such a force the IRA near assassinated her, not even Hillary has pissed people off to the point that they'll go out of their way to murder her.
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She was Britain's Prime Minister in the 80s, the Falklands War happened on her watch and she was particularly close to Reagan. She was controversial in some regards, starting with a strike by coal miners and the overall decline of British manufacturing, which mirrored the decline in the US. Historically the Iron Lady's reign wasn't that long ago, so even if you stick only to liberal news sites and communities you'd still hear about her, even if it just to excoriate her tenure. Personally I feel she did more harm than good, just like her buddy Ronald Reagan but regardless, people still have strong feelings about her to this day.
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know but being an unlikable incompetent cunt who think she deserves to be president because muh vagina is.
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Maybe Hillary did nothing to warrant that. Unless you count stories about her on the Internet worthy of her losing her life. Please God, don't have her die so soon. I wouldn't know what to do then.
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or maybe she was that incompetent that it served our enemies better for her to stay alive, just like Al Qaeda said about Sleepy Joe
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Hillary is her own worst enemy, the proof being she won't even take advice from Bill, who's a top tier politician. She'd assassinate herself if polls and market research gave her the impression she's become President that way.
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... but i tag you all the time and you give me shit for it
So we're damned if we do, and damned if we don't.
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Hot Take: Well, that just means my attention is much more desirable than yours.... but i tag you all the time and you give me shit for it
Alternate Hot Take: He doesn't know what he wants, much like a woman or a liberal.
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NATO ‘never promised’ not to expand, US claims
NATO has never promised not to admit new members, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed on Friday, labelling Russia’s demands of the bloc inadmissible. However, long-declassified Western documents suggest otherwise.
Ok so while this thread is mostly focused on domestic issues, are we gonna talk about this? We have Biden's SoS bullshitting and playing word games about NATO when there are documents, public documents and assurances, that NATO would not expand a)Eastward past Germany, b)next to Russia.
This is kinda serious and the kind of thing that could legitimately lead to WW3. Russia's response to Kazakhstan indicates they're done letting glowies fuck around in their neighborhood. With China openly threatening Taiwan this seems like a matter of time before the global powers 2 and 3 decide the fucking of 1 needs to be public.
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I would imagine them lieing about this. Because the media are to worried about protecting Biden's image and that "adults are back in charge" narrative. That they would ignore actually serious shit like this form the publicNATO ‘never promised’ not to expand, US claims
NATO has never promised not to admit new members, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed on Friday, labelling Russia’s demands of the bloc inadmissible. However, long-declassified Western documents suggest otherwise.www.rt.com
Ok so while this thread is mostly focused on domestic issues, are we gonna talk about this? We have Biden's SoS bullshitting and playing word games about NATO when there are documents, public documents and assurances, that NATO would not expand a)Eastward past Germany, b)next to Russia.
This is kinda serious and the kind of thing that could legitimately lead to WW3. Russia's response to Kazakhstan indicates they're done letting glowies fuck around in their neighborhood. With China openly threatening Taiwan this seems like a matter of time before the global powers 2 and 3 decide the fucking of 1 needs to be public.
Scary yes. But that's how scary are media egotistical narratives are.
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What’s there to say? Biden’s handlers want war, it’s the perfect distraction from COVID, the cure for the economy, a way to rally the Plebs around the flag, to “unify the Nation” against an external threat. The only problem is that they can’t sell it right now. If they could start some real shit, though, that might be enough. Watch the “anti war Dems” twist themselves in knots justifying another front in the Foreverwar by claiming that it’s every American’s duty to fight the evil Nazi Russians.NATO ‘never promised’ not to expand, US claims
NATO has never promised not to admit new members, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed on Friday, labelling Russia’s demands of the bloc inadmissible. However, long-declassified Western documents suggest otherwise.
Ok so while this thread is mostly focused on domestic issues, are we gonna talk about this? We have Biden's SoS bullshitting and playing word games about NATO when there are documents, public documents and assurances, that NATO would not expand a)Eastward past Germany, b)next to Russia.
This is kinda serious and the kind of thing that could legitimately lead to WW3. Russia's response to Kazakhstan indicates they're done letting glowies fuck around in their neighborhood. With China openly threatening Taiwan this seems like a matter of time before the global powers 2 and 3 decide the fucking of 1 needs to be public.
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Turns out the ones making the vaccines were oompa loombas
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Here's an example of that I just read. Notice how it doesn't call out anyone.
Disruption, Dismay, Dissent: Americans Grapple With Omicron’s Rise
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/09/us/united-states-covid-pandemic-omicron.html (https://archive.ph/zYzRG)With infection rates mounting, the Omicron variant has ushered in a new and disorienting phase of the pandemic, leaving Americans frustrated and dismayed that the basic elements they thought they understood about the coronavirus are shifting faster than ever.
There were reasons for heightened concern and reasons for consolation: Omicron is more transmissible than previous variants, yet it appears to cause milder symptoms in many people. Hospitalizations have soared to new highs in some states, but “incidental patients” — people who test positive for Covid-19 after being admitted for another reason — make up close to half of their cases in some hospitals.
Public health officials, in response to the new variant, have halved the recommended isolation period for people with positive tests to five days from 10 days, while also suggesting people upgrade their masks from cloth to medical-grade when possible.
“Omicron has turned, quickly, into something that is just different,” said Dr. Allison Arwady, Chicago’s top health official.
Amid shifting federal public health guidance and the new and distinct variant, President Biden’s own former transition team has called on the president to adopt an entirely new domestic pandemic strategy geared to the “new normal” of living with the virus indefinitely, not to wiping it out.
And Americans, confronted with these new sets of facts, warnings and advisories, have responded with a mix of confusion, vigilance and indifference. Left mainly to navigate it all on their own, they must sort through an array of uncertain risks — ride a bus? visit friends? eat inside? — hour by hour.
Many people wonder whether they should keep their children home from school or cancel vacations and dinners out. They scramble for at-home antigen tests or appointments for sophisticated P.C.R. tests and are discarding cloth masks in favor of KN95s and N95s. In some cities, they have returned to wearing masks even outside, and are ordering grocery deliveries or stocking up on supplies to avoid trips for the days ahead.
Others have shrugged off the rising cases, focusing on the encouraging fact that some people who are infected with the Omicron variant suffer little more than a cough and runny nose — if they show symptoms at all.
While some places have maintained limits like restrictions on indoor dining for the unvaccinated, there is little appetite for broad shutdowns. A restaurateur in Austin, Texas, said that customers were out and about, eager to gather in groups.
“It’s obvious: People are over it,” said Daniel Brooks, 45, who owns two restaurants in Austin.
For the most part, American life has not locked down in the latest wave — businesses remain open and schools are largely in session in person — yet this variant has brought significant disruptions to daily life and threatens to bring still more.
Police officers, paramedics and firefighters have been sidelined with the virus, affecting response times in some cities. Across the country, millions of Americans have been sick at home in recent days, igniting debates over testing and safety measures in schools and alarming officials who told the public in blunt terms this past week that they were running dangerously low on hospital beds and health care workers.
“I suspect just about everybody in the state now either has just had Covid, has it today or knows somebody who does,” Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana said. “There has never been more of the disease in our state.”
Omicron emerged in southern Africa in late November, and by Christmas it was the dominant variant in the United States, Britain and parts of continental Europe, including Denmark and Portugal, which have some of the highest vaccination rates in the world.
The record-high caseloads fueled by Omicron have produced their own form of chaos globally, sidelining millions of workers with infections, prompting shortages of test kits and forcing many governments to reimpose social restrictions. Spain, Greece and Italy ordered their citizens to return to wearing masks outdoors; the Netherlands retreated into full lockdown.
The variant is now battering nearly every corner of the world. India, bracing for a tidal wave of infections with only half its population vaccinated, has set up makeshift Covid wards in convention halls. In Argentina recently, the test positivity rate rose to a staggering 30 percent.
But with signs that the wave of Omicron in South Africa is receding, without bringing a huge new surge of deaths, many countries have moved to a strategy of living with the virus, opting to keep businesses and schools open rather than risk the economic havoc of more lockdowns.
Health officials in the United States, weary from two years of repeating similar pleas to the public, have tried to emphasize that the Omicron variant is like no other phase of the pandemic.
Daily case reports have roughly quintupled over the last month as Omicron has taken hold. About 650,000 new cases are being identified each day, more than twice as many as at last winter’s peak — a number that is certainly an undercount, since it does not include many results from at-home antigen tests.
So far, hospitalizations have increased at a much slower pace than cases. But the number of coronavirus patients is still growing rapidly, to about 134,000 nationwide, up from about 67,000 a month ago. In many cities, doctors say, a smaller proportion of Covid patients are landing in intensive care units or requiring mechanical ventilation, but the sheer number of patients is raising alarms.
Deaths, which are a lagging indicator, have not yet increased as significantly. About 1,500 deaths from Covid-19 are being announced every day in the United States. It could be weeks, officials said, before they will know whether the Omicron variant will result in another large wave of deaths in the United States, where more than 830,000 people have died from the coronavirus.
Andrew Noymer, a public health professor at the University of California, Irvine, said that the Omicron variant has been “legitimately complicated” for many Americans to comprehend, since it clearly differs from previous variants.
“Omicron is milder than Delta, but it’s more transmissible,” he said. “It’s changing two things at once.”
Shifting advice on isolation and quarantines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also left Americans with questions about the seriousness of the variant. Many employers, acting on guidance from public health officials, have encouraged sick workers to return to their jobs after only five days, even without a test showing that they are negative for the virus.
“The confusion is compounded,” said Dr. Gill Wright, the city health director in Nashville. “People are saying, this is supposed to get really bad, but we can go back to work quicker?”
In rural Michigan, people with coronavirus symptoms have arrived at hospitals in recent weeks repeating the conventional wisdom that once you have had Covid, you are unlikely to contract it again quickly.
“A lot of them say, ‘It can’t be Covid, I just had it a few months ago,” said Dr. Mark Hamed, an emergency room physician in Sandusky, Mich. “Lo and behold, they test positive.”
Roughly 62 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated, a number that has barely budged in recent weeks. Even fully vaccinated and boosted individuals have become infected with the Omicron variant, though health officials say that their infections appear less severe than in the unvaccinated.
Across the country, record numbers of public employees have been off the job as a result of surging coronavirus infections, leaving officials scrambling to reassure residents that if they call 911, someone will show up — if a little later than normal.
In Dallas, 204 of the roughly 2,100 employees of the city’s fire and rescue department were in quarantine on Thursday because of positive Covid-19 tests — the most since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Jason Evans, the department’s spokesman. He said that approximately one-quarter of the department’s total positive tests since March 2020 were from the last two weeks.
Los Angeles city officials said at a news conference on Thursday that almost 300 firefighters were off duty because of the virus, the most the department had seen at any one time. Jeff Cretan, a spokesman for Mayor London Breed of San Francisco, said that 140 employees of the fire department and 188 employees of the city police department had tested positive or were out because of quarantine protocols; so were 110 workers at the city’s transit agency.
Schools and colleges were facing the uncertainty of whether to conduct classes in person or virtually, sometimes while balancing competing arguments from parents, teachers and students.
In Chicago last week, the powerful teachers union and Mayor Lori Lightfoot clashed over coronavirus safety and testing in a dispute that has closed schools for several days in the nation’s third-largest school district.
At Rhodes College, a small liberal arts school in Memphis, officials announced over the holiday break that the start of in-person classes was being delayed two weeks — a disappointment for students exasperated with online classes and eager for the kind of college experience they had hoped for.
“Every semester, it feels like we’re almost back to normal and then it gets revoked one more time,” said John Howell, a senior political economy and philosophy major starting his final semester. “It feels like every routine is going to be broken and you should just expect that.”
Bishop James Dixon, the senior pastor at the Community of Faith Church in Houston, said that he and his fellow church leaders have found themselves struggling to strike the right balance as Omicron spreads.
“No one has a set answer,” he said. “It’s trial and error. It’s trepidatious. And we’re supposed to be people of faith and make a decision and take a direction.”
Mr. Dixon said the virus had caused a scare among many congregants because they know so many people now who have gotten it.
“Things are better than they were,” he said, “but simultaneously they’re worse than they were because numbers are soaring.”
There were reasons for heightened concern and reasons for consolation: Omicron is more transmissible than previous variants, yet it appears to cause milder symptoms in many people. Hospitalizations have soared to new highs in some states, but “incidental patients” — people who test positive for Covid-19 after being admitted for another reason — make up close to half of their cases in some hospitals.
Public health officials, in response to the new variant, have halved the recommended isolation period for people with positive tests to five days from 10 days, while also suggesting people upgrade their masks from cloth to medical-grade when possible.
“Omicron has turned, quickly, into something that is just different,” said Dr. Allison Arwady, Chicago’s top health official.
Amid shifting federal public health guidance and the new and distinct variant, President Biden’s own former transition team has called on the president to adopt an entirely new domestic pandemic strategy geared to the “new normal” of living with the virus indefinitely, not to wiping it out.
And Americans, confronted with these new sets of facts, warnings and advisories, have responded with a mix of confusion, vigilance and indifference. Left mainly to navigate it all on their own, they must sort through an array of uncertain risks — ride a bus? visit friends? eat inside? — hour by hour.
Many people wonder whether they should keep their children home from school or cancel vacations and dinners out. They scramble for at-home antigen tests or appointments for sophisticated P.C.R. tests and are discarding cloth masks in favor of KN95s and N95s. In some cities, they have returned to wearing masks even outside, and are ordering grocery deliveries or stocking up on supplies to avoid trips for the days ahead.
Others have shrugged off the rising cases, focusing on the encouraging fact that some people who are infected with the Omicron variant suffer little more than a cough and runny nose — if they show symptoms at all.
While some places have maintained limits like restrictions on indoor dining for the unvaccinated, there is little appetite for broad shutdowns. A restaurateur in Austin, Texas, said that customers were out and about, eager to gather in groups.
“It’s obvious: People are over it,” said Daniel Brooks, 45, who owns two restaurants in Austin.
For the most part, American life has not locked down in the latest wave — businesses remain open and schools are largely in session in person — yet this variant has brought significant disruptions to daily life and threatens to bring still more.
Police officers, paramedics and firefighters have been sidelined with the virus, affecting response times in some cities. Across the country, millions of Americans have been sick at home in recent days, igniting debates over testing and safety measures in schools and alarming officials who told the public in blunt terms this past week that they were running dangerously low on hospital beds and health care workers.
“I suspect just about everybody in the state now either has just had Covid, has it today or knows somebody who does,” Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana said. “There has never been more of the disease in our state.”
Omicron emerged in southern Africa in late November, and by Christmas it was the dominant variant in the United States, Britain and parts of continental Europe, including Denmark and Portugal, which have some of the highest vaccination rates in the world.
The record-high caseloads fueled by Omicron have produced their own form of chaos globally, sidelining millions of workers with infections, prompting shortages of test kits and forcing many governments to reimpose social restrictions. Spain, Greece and Italy ordered their citizens to return to wearing masks outdoors; the Netherlands retreated into full lockdown.
The variant is now battering nearly every corner of the world. India, bracing for a tidal wave of infections with only half its population vaccinated, has set up makeshift Covid wards in convention halls. In Argentina recently, the test positivity rate rose to a staggering 30 percent.
But with signs that the wave of Omicron in South Africa is receding, without bringing a huge new surge of deaths, many countries have moved to a strategy of living with the virus, opting to keep businesses and schools open rather than risk the economic havoc of more lockdowns.
Health officials in the United States, weary from two years of repeating similar pleas to the public, have tried to emphasize that the Omicron variant is like no other phase of the pandemic.
Daily case reports have roughly quintupled over the last month as Omicron has taken hold. About 650,000 new cases are being identified each day, more than twice as many as at last winter’s peak — a number that is certainly an undercount, since it does not include many results from at-home antigen tests.
So far, hospitalizations have increased at a much slower pace than cases. But the number of coronavirus patients is still growing rapidly, to about 134,000 nationwide, up from about 67,000 a month ago. In many cities, doctors say, a smaller proportion of Covid patients are landing in intensive care units or requiring mechanical ventilation, but the sheer number of patients is raising alarms.
Deaths, which are a lagging indicator, have not yet increased as significantly. About 1,500 deaths from Covid-19 are being announced every day in the United States. It could be weeks, officials said, before they will know whether the Omicron variant will result in another large wave of deaths in the United States, where more than 830,000 people have died from the coronavirus.
Andrew Noymer, a public health professor at the University of California, Irvine, said that the Omicron variant has been “legitimately complicated” for many Americans to comprehend, since it clearly differs from previous variants.
“Omicron is milder than Delta, but it’s more transmissible,” he said. “It’s changing two things at once.”
Shifting advice on isolation and quarantines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also left Americans with questions about the seriousness of the variant. Many employers, acting on guidance from public health officials, have encouraged sick workers to return to their jobs after only five days, even without a test showing that they are negative for the virus.
“The confusion is compounded,” said Dr. Gill Wright, the city health director in Nashville. “People are saying, this is supposed to get really bad, but we can go back to work quicker?”
In rural Michigan, people with coronavirus symptoms have arrived at hospitals in recent weeks repeating the conventional wisdom that once you have had Covid, you are unlikely to contract it again quickly.
“A lot of them say, ‘It can’t be Covid, I just had it a few months ago,” said Dr. Mark Hamed, an emergency room physician in Sandusky, Mich. “Lo and behold, they test positive.”
Roughly 62 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated, a number that has barely budged in recent weeks. Even fully vaccinated and boosted individuals have become infected with the Omicron variant, though health officials say that their infections appear less severe than in the unvaccinated.
Across the country, record numbers of public employees have been off the job as a result of surging coronavirus infections, leaving officials scrambling to reassure residents that if they call 911, someone will show up — if a little later than normal.
In Dallas, 204 of the roughly 2,100 employees of the city’s fire and rescue department were in quarantine on Thursday because of positive Covid-19 tests — the most since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Jason Evans, the department’s spokesman. He said that approximately one-quarter of the department’s total positive tests since March 2020 were from the last two weeks.
Los Angeles city officials said at a news conference on Thursday that almost 300 firefighters were off duty because of the virus, the most the department had seen at any one time. Jeff Cretan, a spokesman for Mayor London Breed of San Francisco, said that 140 employees of the fire department and 188 employees of the city police department had tested positive or were out because of quarantine protocols; so were 110 workers at the city’s transit agency.
Schools and colleges were facing the uncertainty of whether to conduct classes in person or virtually, sometimes while balancing competing arguments from parents, teachers and students.
In Chicago last week, the powerful teachers union and Mayor Lori Lightfoot clashed over coronavirus safety and testing in a dispute that has closed schools for several days in the nation’s third-largest school district.
At Rhodes College, a small liberal arts school in Memphis, officials announced over the holiday break that the start of in-person classes was being delayed two weeks — a disappointment for students exasperated with online classes and eager for the kind of college experience they had hoped for.
“Every semester, it feels like we’re almost back to normal and then it gets revoked one more time,” said John Howell, a senior political economy and philosophy major starting his final semester. “It feels like every routine is going to be broken and you should just expect that.”
Bishop James Dixon, the senior pastor at the Community of Faith Church in Houston, said that he and his fellow church leaders have found themselves struggling to strike the right balance as Omicron spreads.
“No one has a set answer,” he said. “It’s trial and error. It’s trepidatious. And we’re supposed to be people of faith and make a decision and take a direction.”
Mr. Dixon said the virus had caused a scare among many congregants because they know so many people now who have gotten it.
“Things are better than they were,” he said, “but simultaneously they’re worse than they were because numbers are soaring.”
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Jesus fucking Christ. Can these assholes stop pretending that the normal path of viral evolution from pandemic to endemic is something never before seen? Literally every pandemic in history has progressed the same way, but they're trying to gaslight the public into thinking that, now that the coof is little more than a cold, it's even scarier than ever.
"Hospitals are overflowing with coof patients!" Except no, it's mostly people admitted for other reasons that also test positive (setting aside the potential for false positives).
"The unvaxed are catching it more and dying in droves!" Except, if that Danish study is anything to go by, it's the vaxed who are catching it more, with boosted catching it more still. But really, it doesn't matter because nobody's dying of it all that much.
"Jab the kids, they need to be protected from this variant most of all!" Except kids continue to be the least affected; see above as well.
This may have started under Trump and he really should have gotten rid of Fauci the week this started, but Biden is making everything worse for no measurable benefit against the coof. I hope the Supreme Court doesn't cuck and strikes down the mandates, because he and his puppetmasters need a slap in the face.
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British Politician known as the Iron Lady, was PM during the same time as Reagan. Is largely hated because she started the de-industrialization of the UK, but was more or less off loaded with the bulk of it by other parties.
Fun facts: She survived more than a few assassination attempts by the IRA. Her father owned a grocery store and she was called wealthy for this. She helped invent soft serve ice cream.
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And yet, Trump was the one who was "GOING TO START WWIII AND DOOM US ALL AHHHHHHHHHH", all because he droned some sandnigger general. Journalism: not even once.NATO ‘never promised’ not to expand, US claims
NATO has never promised not to admit new members, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed on Friday, labelling Russia’s demands of the bloc inadmissible. However, long-declassified Western documents suggest otherwise.
Ok so while this thread is mostly focused on domestic issues, are we gonna talk about this? We have Biden's SoS bullshitting and playing word games about NATO when there are documents, public documents and assurances, that NATO would not expand a)Eastward past Germany, b)next to Russia.
This is kinda serious and the kind of thing that could legitimately lead to WW3. Russia's response to Kazakhstan indicates they're done letting glowies fuck around in their neighborhood. With China openly threatening Taiwan this seems like a matter of time before the global powers 2 and 3 decide the fucking of 1 needs to be public.
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