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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He talks about this like it’s some sort of hobby…building train sets…that’s not what we’re talking about here.
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verissimus
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Yeah, I'll wait to see what President Manchin has to say about this.
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Whatever exactly lit the fire, the rage is completely legit. People are going hardcore apeshit over there.
https://trendingpolitics.com/spin-c...e-best-job-creator-ever/?utm_source=economics
https://americanlookout.com/poll-al...icans-believe-the-u-s-is-in-a-state-of-decay/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/bad-news-joe-approval-underwater-deep-blue-california/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/white...02081.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=gp
Why should we give a dam about your dirty laundry?
https://welovetrump.com/2022/01/08/..._source=PTN&utm_medium=mixed&utm_campaign=PTN
She looks absolutely terrible, there's one interview I saw on twitter where her eyebrow's look painted on.
https://trendingpolitics.com/covid-...n-unvaccinated-families/?utm_source=economics
Horrifying stuff
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Or but when Trump wanted his Wall to help the border crisis that was bad and wasting money. But when Biden want his windmills that's good and not wasting money. Give me a break!!!!
Allowing strike force to detain a group of people you don't like. Remind me again what side gets constantly accused as Nazis?
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yeah from what I saw in the Happenings thread there's probably some glows of various nations getting onboard the unrest, but the unrest was born more of the energy spike being the straw that broke the camel's back
Russia is involved because Kaz Leader invoked his Bootleg Former Soviet NATO powers and requested assistance from various league members, Russia and Armenia were confirmed onboard and others probably last I checked
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After months of frustration over Manchin's cockblocking, Pelosi appears to have finally returned from Mt. Doom with a new plan. She will cook up some fresh Covid spending, and attach it to raising the debt ceiling in mid-February so the Republicans won't block it! Pelosi took care to make sure everyone knows this was her idea by explicitly saying the administration hasn't asked for more funding.
Pelosi Opens Door to Virus Aid in Spending Plan as Omicron Rages
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“It is clear from the opportunity that is there and the challenge that is there,” Pelosi said in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” noting that President Joe Biden’s administration “has not made a formal request for more funding.”
Additional funds to help mitigate the effects of the pandemic could be added to a bill that’s needed to fund the government after a stopgap spending measure runs out Feb. 18, she said.
“I believe that left to their own devices, the appropriators can get the job done,” Pelosi said. “Something like additional funding can be in there, can be fenced off for emergency, as would be Covid.”
Last week, two senators suggested that additional relief for U.S. restaurants and other service industries hurt by the surge of infections could be added to the spending bills. Senators Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat and head of the Small Business Committee, and Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, said they are working to build support for the plan among their colleagues. Pelosi didn’t specify what any extra funding might be used for.
Pelosi told CBS that the virus’s “resilience” means it’s spreading faster than in previous phases of the pandemic, underscoring the need for everyone “to get vaccinated, to be masked, to have spatial distancing and the rest. And to be tested, tested, tested.”
Senator Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, blasted the administration on the Senate floor last week, saying the problem wasn’t funding but the administration’s lack of a strategy for getting a handle on the virus. Biden officials focused on vaccinations at the expense of additional testing capacity, he said.
“For a full year, the administration has focused almost exclusively on one thing, and testing and treatments have not had the attention they should have had or now that they must have,” Blunt said. “That failure’s come at a steep cost. Today, Americans can’t find over-the-counter tests, and the nation lacks a comprehensive, reliable testing infrastructure.”
Child Tax Credit
Pelosi said it’s unlikely that the spending bill would include an extension of the child tax credit, which expired in December, since the appropriations bill would require 60 votes in the Senate, unlike the president’s Build Back Better plan, which is being considered under a reconciliation process that requires only a simple majority to pass.
“The Child Tax Credit, we have to have that fight, that discussion, in the Build Back Better legislation,” she said. “In order to pass the Build Back Better, it’s under reconciliation, we only need 51 votes. The bill that is the appropriations bill requires 60 votes in the Senate. So we have to do what’s possible there.”
Asked if she had spoken to Senator Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat whose opposition has held back the Build Back Better legislation, Pelosi said they have talked “over time” and that she thinks “there’s an agreement to be reached” with him on the plan.
- Suggests additional funds could be included in appropriations
- Child tax credit is a separate matter, House speaker says
“It is clear from the opportunity that is there and the challenge that is there,” Pelosi said in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” noting that President Joe Biden’s administration “has not made a formal request for more funding.”
Additional funds to help mitigate the effects of the pandemic could be added to a bill that’s needed to fund the government after a stopgap spending measure runs out Feb. 18, she said.
“I believe that left to their own devices, the appropriators can get the job done,” Pelosi said. “Something like additional funding can be in there, can be fenced off for emergency, as would be Covid.”
Last week, two senators suggested that additional relief for U.S. restaurants and other service industries hurt by the surge of infections could be added to the spending bills. Senators Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat and head of the Small Business Committee, and Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, said they are working to build support for the plan among their colleagues. Pelosi didn’t specify what any extra funding might be used for.
Pelosi told CBS that the virus’s “resilience” means it’s spreading faster than in previous phases of the pandemic, underscoring the need for everyone “to get vaccinated, to be masked, to have spatial distancing and the rest. And to be tested, tested, tested.”
Senator Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, blasted the administration on the Senate floor last week, saying the problem wasn’t funding but the administration’s lack of a strategy for getting a handle on the virus. Biden officials focused on vaccinations at the expense of additional testing capacity, he said.
“For a full year, the administration has focused almost exclusively on one thing, and testing and treatments have not had the attention they should have had or now that they must have,” Blunt said. “That failure’s come at a steep cost. Today, Americans can’t find over-the-counter tests, and the nation lacks a comprehensive, reliable testing infrastructure.”
Child Tax Credit
Pelosi said it’s unlikely that the spending bill would include an extension of the child tax credit, which expired in December, since the appropriations bill would require 60 votes in the Senate, unlike the president’s Build Back Better plan, which is being considered under a reconciliation process that requires only a simple majority to pass.
“The Child Tax Credit, we have to have that fight, that discussion, in the Build Back Better legislation,” she said. “In order to pass the Build Back Better, it’s under reconciliation, we only need 51 votes. The bill that is the appropriations bill requires 60 votes in the Senate. So we have to do what’s possible there.”
Asked if she had spoken to Senator Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat whose opposition has held back the Build Back Better legislation, Pelosi said they have talked “over time” and that she thinks “there’s an agreement to be reached” with him on the plan.
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Sooo, we are looking at yet another block until they decouple it and the Republicans can no longer make gains on the debt raise and allow it through. Again.
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Omicron is less dangerous than regular Covid. Making this money being pointless spend.
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It's so boring.
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Not pointless, its about 5% covid and 95% a mixture of pandering to try to retain votes and payoffs to a few groups that are really, really in need of paying off because the debts were due last year.
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That's the best picture that sums up the whole Biden situation if you ask me.
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I thought that was the picture of Biden falling down Air Force One's stairs.
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so am I reading my tea leaves right in that's indicating Nancy is no longer Ridin With Biden
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Nobody is actually Ridin' With Biden. If anything, they're Ridin' Biden.
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Hardly. It just means she wants some of the credit for this, should it pass, to fall on her and not just Biden.
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Pelosi has always been on one side of the Cabal War, that of the Establishment. At this point her actions indicate she is trying to minimize the damage of said war and to ensure her faction isn't dragged down kicking and screaming. She's their only seriously experienced, best connected, and all-around competent piece on the board which is why they are forcing her to stay.
Schumer is a wet fart who couldn't actually run the Senate without her aid.
All backups and successors have fallen one by one.
No promising members of the House exist to take her place on the fly.
Senate is de facto Republican at this point.
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Why aren't the people who are owed money breaking the dnc's knees right now? Does the dnc have too much dirt on them?
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They are, it's just done in political terms. Refusal of further funds, the blocking of important pathways, the simple obstructionism of "We won't do anything for you until we are paid".
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Unironically, if you believe the full extent of the Build Back Better / Great Reset stuff, yeah. Places like Florida would be intended for the elites to visit, while the rest of us live in Bugman Hives like giant Apartment Complexes in Detroit, never leaving the metro area.
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I wonder if Pelosi doesn't realize that she's possibly the only Democrat even less popular than Manchin, or that she simply doesn't care because her family owns California politics. I'd have more respect for her if it was the latter, but I really suspect that it's the former.
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