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?

 

[AnotherPleb]

Get ready to be disappointed a lot more often because of this. Sometimes you have to ask up front about it if you get a call back before you go through with the interview process just so that your time won't be wasted.

Remote work is the hottest thing right now because of this, but even THAT has it's limits because now you're starting to see jobs go "LOCAL REMOTE ONLY" because they are receiving applicants from people from different states.

Isn't' local remote only' a way to bait and switch motherfuckers into coming into the office all the time? After all, if you're local, they can call you in to drive to the office.

At least with the actual remote only you can tell them 'fuck off, I live three hundred miles away' when they try to yank the rug and have you come in every day.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Isn't' local remote only' a way to bait and switch motherfuckers into coming into the office all the time? After all, if you're local, they can call you in to drive to the office.

At least with the actual remote only you can tell them 'fuck off, I live three hundred miles away' when they try to yank the rug and have you come in every day.

It's possible... I mean in my area when they say remote, they mean "Until COVID, but we want you masked and jabbed for the few days of training we will ONLY offer you at the building", so i wouldn't put it past these companies in other states to pull the same shit.

 

[DejaThoris]

Some lubricating corruption has been a staple of politics since people started living in villages to make the systems work. Nobody minds a little corruption when the politicians and policies involved benefit the populace. When Senator Jones pulls a little dirty fast one to put some kind of project in town that employs a lot of townspeople and local firms, nobody really minds if he skims a little off the top as a bonus. After all all, the Mayor is getting clout, Charlie's Construction boys get a good gig for building it, Dave and Bill and Jimmy get to work there when its done, Paul's Diner and Tom's Pub all get more business, and so on - everybody is happy so Senator Jones can have a taste as a reward. Take a look at Huey P. Long's entire career, corrupt as could be but because he built bridges, and roads, and improved people's lives he was practically a political messiah.

I think the concept of noblesse oblige also comes into play there too. The idea that being part of the "elite" confers certain social responsibilities towards the peasants seems to have been completely abandoned by our current managerial aristocracy.

It used to be that those in charge knew that they had to throw a bone to the people once in a while to keep us happy. Now those in charge openly despise us and treat us like their enemy.

 

[AnotherPleb]

I think the concept of noblesse oblige also comes into play there too. The idea that being part of the "elite" confers certain social responsibilities towards the peasants seems to have been completely abandoned by our current managerial aristocracy.

It used to be that those in charge knew that they had to throw a bone to the people once in a while to keep us happy. Now those in charge openly despise us and treat us like their enemy.

Noblesse oblige requires the nobles to have ties to the land.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

I think the concept of noblesse oblige also comes into play there too. The idea that being part of the "elite" confers certain social responsibilities towards the peasants seems to have been completely abandoned by our current managerial aristocracy.

It used to be that those in charge knew that they had to throw a bone to the people once in a while to keep us happy. Now those in charge openly despise us and treat us like their enemy.

They fear The People. That’s why they hate us. They’re human, just like the rest of us, and it’s human nature to hate what you fear.

 

[Vaclav]

Windmills are the biggest environmental scam since solar panels.

They are an unreliable source, so you'll always need conventional sources to turn on, they burn up a shit ton of lubricants so they still use fossil fuels, they chum up the skies by killing tons of birds.

I'm assuming since powerful entity profits greatly from their production(China? It's an awful lot of steel and aluminum. I'd actually be curious about how much metal production is required per X kilowatt-hour, mining and smelting metal is very polluting). Biden essentially doesn't do something if it isn't profitable for his sponsors(it seems all he does is product rep for Pfiezer.)

I read that a wind turbine needs to run for 100 years to offset the carbon footprint of its own manufacture. It's a virtual certainty that none of them will last that long, so they're a massive net negative for emissions. Chinese companies are making a lot of money manufacturing them, that money talks and so their manufacture continues. They also kill lots of birds along with migratory bats. Bats reproduce slowly (just 1-3 young per year depending on species) and turbines kill hundreds of thousands per year so this is more damaging than you might think.

 

[AnotherPleb]

They fear The People. That’s why they hate us. They’re human, just like the rest of us, and it’s human nature to hate what you fear.

It's more that they don't give a shit if things go bad for the people when they can be halfway across the world within a day. Sure, they may have destroyed your economy, but they can take a private plane to New Zealand so what do they have to really fear from you? In the past if shit was going to go wrong, or if an army was rolling in, their ass was on the line too as all their wealth was tied into where they stayed. That's not the case at all any more.

There's a reason they stopped giving a shit in the latter half of the 20th century, and you don't need any echoposting to come to the conclusion that being able to run so easily from problems that the elites made caused them to stop caring about the plebs.

It's only going to get worse if and when they find out how to leave the planet easily.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Trump's single biggest mistake was the Jeff Sessions appointment. Sessions' panicky recusal when the Russiagate pieces were being put into place permanently crippled the Trump administration. He needed somebody with balls of steel to stare down the plotters and refuse to let that conspiracy advance a single step. Instead, he let it spin completely out of control. He also chose to focus on marijuana busts instead of rolling up antifa and BLM. Sessions was so inept that Trump had to replace him with a Bush guy who wasn't gonna do shit about The Steal, but at least shut down Russiagate so that Trump could kind of have at least half a Presidency. Sleepy Jeff was a complete disaster in every way, and his cowardice led directly to the 2020 defeat.

Sessions recusal was one of those "damned if you do, damned if you don't" deals.

The coup via Russiagate was never going to be easily swept away and it was blatantly obvious the plotters behind Russiagate were WANTING Trump to go Nixonian trying to shut it down.

Sessions recusal allowed Trump, at least, the ability to convince moderates that he was willing to go along with the charade in order to clear himself (or at least expose it as a coup attempt). A hard attempt to crush it would require several rubicon crossings Trump didn't have the stomach for and would probably have given the plotters the ammo they needed to get Trump successfully impeached and get the Turtle to stab Trump in the back as well.

 

[Oxous]

It's only going to get worse if and when they find out how to leave the planet easily.

Seeing NASA award hundreds of millions of dollars to companies designing private space stations really gets the noggin jogging, especially when NASA seemingly always has to struggle with a limited budget.

On the bright side, technology hasn't advanced enough to keep humans in zero-g more than a year or two. So gay luxury space communism isn't on the table at least.

 

[MirrorNoir]

I have a Final Solution to our Fauci Problem.

Problem is that Fauci has enough blackmail dirt on the Democrats that he can nuke them from orbit if they move against him.

In particular, the fact that he most likely has been actively conspiring with the DNC since the pandemic started, to fuck over Trump and make shit worse and worse, purely to turn everyone against Trump and help get Biden elected (with the quid pro quo that Biden will keep Fauci employed once he takes over).

That's the chief reason Fauci hasn't been removed. That he probably has all sorts of receipts from where he was collaborating with the DNC to blotch the response to the pandemic so Biden gets elected/tarnish Trump.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Seeing NASA award hundreds of millions of dollars to companies designing private space stations really gets the noggin jogging, especially when NASA seemingly always has to struggle with a limited budget.

On the bright side, technology hasn't advanced enough to keep humans in zero-g more than a year or two. So gay luxury space communism isn't on the table at least.

One hundred years ago nobody thought that transatlantic flights would be a common thing.

 

[silverstacks]

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[The Ugly One]

One hundred years ago nobody thought that transatlantic flights would be a common thing.

The first transatlantic flight was 103 years ago, and various investors were already working on taking technology developed for WW1 bombers and developing it into what would become commercial passenger aircraft.

 

[Oxous]

One hundred years ago nobody thought that transatlantic flights would be a common thing.

I probably should've put a disclaimer about technological advancment but I don't really envision humans settling space habitats in any appreciable numbers within the next 100 years, certainly not the next 50.

 

[DejaThoris]

Seeing NASA award hundreds of millions of dollars to companies designing private space stations really gets the noggin jogging, especially when NASA seemingly always has to struggle with a limited budget.

On the bright side, technology hasn't advanced enough to keep humans in zero-g more than a year or two. So gay luxury space communism isn't on the table at least.

It would be awesome if a bunch of engineers at NASA convinced the elite that we had built a big city on Mars. Then built a big luxurious space yacht and put all the elite on it and sent them to Mars. But it was a trick, the engineers preprogrammed the space yacht to fly into the sun instead.

Or to make it comedic, the engineers could all be diversity hires. They lie and say they built a city on Mars because they don't want to get in trouble for not building one. Then they send the space yacht into the sun on accident because of incompetence. If Hollywood wasn't so pozzed they could make it into a funny movie.

 

[AnotherPleb]

The first transatlantic flight was 103 years ago, and various investors were already working on taking technology developed for WW1 bombers and developing it into what would become commercial passenger aircraft.

That's why I specified it being a common thing - if you told any of those investors how ubiquitous plane travel would become by the end of the century, they'd have a hard time believing you.

I probably should've put a disclaimer about technological advancment but I don't really envision humans settling space habitats in any appreciable numbers within the next 100 years, certainly not the next 50.

I see where you're coming from, but never underestimate the amount of money that can go towards fleeing from the problems the elites made.

 

[UselessIdiot]

One hundred years ago nobody thought that transatlantic flights would be a common thing.

I don't think that will be possible for a very long time, if ever really.

And, how many people really want to live in space or on Mars--especially rich people? Why would you want to live there when you can live on some tropical island or Lake Como?

 

[Standardized Profile]

It would be awesome if a bunch of engineers at NASA convinced the elite that we had built a big city on Mars. Then built a big luxurious space yacht and put all the elite on it and sent them to Mars. But it was a trick, the engineers preprogrammed the space yacht to fly into the sun instead.

It doesn't need to fly into the sun. Just fly it to Mars. Keep that half of the promise.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

I probably should've put a disclaimer about technological advancment but I don't really envision humans settling space habitats in any appreciable numbers within the next 100 years, certainly not the next 50.

Its worth keeping in mind that most of the space infrastructure issue is a bootstrapping issue - NASA doing these contracts is a way of seeing what the private sector could achieve today, with what they know. Most of the Earth Orbit problems are already being addressed or advanced, mainly lifting capacity and life support technology - Private Sectors already massively improving the former in just a decade, and the latter just hasn't been tested on larger scales. Improved lift capability and improved life support capability open up the way to semi-permanent Earth Orbit and Lunar colonization, and the latter offers a lot of solutions to the industrial issues that Earth lift will present for the foreseeable future.

We're a lot closer than people think, its just sort of like air travel - its pretty all or nothing, getting halfway to flight is just crashing a bit farther away.

 

[DavidS877]

It would be awesome if a bunch of engineers at NASA convinced the elite that we had built a big city on Mars. Then built a big luxurious space yacht and put all the elite on it and sent them to Mars. But it was a trick, the engineers preprogrammed the space yacht to fly into the sun instead.

Or to make it comedic, the engineers could all be diversity hires. They lie and say they built a city on Mars because they don't want to get in trouble for not building one. Then they send the space yacht into the sun on accident because of incompetence. If Hollywood wasn't so pozzed they could make it into a funny movie.

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