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?

 

[derpherp2]

His popularity on covid was always misleading. And it ties into why they didn't go positive from the start.

How to put it.... alright! Say that you are renting a property, your landlord does nothing, the paint is peeling off, the roof sags, and you got cockroaches everywhere. Then, a new guy buys the property and promises to fix it up if you only give him time. He constantly makes noise about trying to help you and looks like he is trying to do... something. But it never gets done.


That is Biden's covid situation. The popularity was "At least he might do something about it" after much of the general populace was critical of Trump's handling of the issue.

It was never popularity for what he -was- doing, it was the popularity of what they -hoped- he'd do and is why his popularity has steadily decreased on the issue.


There is no meat here, no real policy. They couldn't go with a positive message from the start because they had to actually -do- something first. They had to spray for cockroaches or paint the walls.

That's slightly inaccurate.
It's more akin to the new guys hiring an AC guy everyone trusts to gas the tenants into hallucinating there's cracks and cockroaches at the appartment, hiring another unrelated guy to damage the walls everywhere for everyone resistant to the gas - creating a cascading effect of a bunch of other retards following suit, and then blaming another tenant for all of it while saying cockroach eggs are a myth and you should celebrate cock week to show solidarity.

THEN making a vague promise and saying "at least I'm not the Land Owner, he's not doing anything - so when I do nothing something something Orange Bad."

dont forget changing election law without the legislatures

And destroying the firm in charge of the preliminary audits with unrelated suits while a judge you obviously bribed cited said suit even though it didn't even start yet like it was already done and fined said firm a ludicruous amount of money for a publicizing law he apparently didn't understand.

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

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

Even if the money is worthless?

 

[pwnest injun]

That stems from his core issue: listening to RINOs. Every failure from his admin comes from believing his enemies would help him.

A whole lot of that is from his Jew kids, Ivanka and Jared.

I personally believe that environmentalism in general, and climate change in specific, has been weaponized by the CCP as one of the tools to establish their industrial supremacy. Though as I get older, it seems like it was further and further back that the term "environmentalist" was synonymous with "exceptional hippie nutjob."

I prefer the using the term conservationist/ism. It's too close to conservative for any mouth breathing NIMBY activist to attach themselves to, and I personally adhere to it as a realistic approach to trying and preserve wild areas, and do the minimal impact on the environment while still maintaining a modern society

The CCP isn't the brain, just the bankroll. There's plenty of local Commies to run things natively. Essentially the problem is that our system of government is based largely in bribery and graft. The policies of the wealthy are implemented. What the average citizen wants doesn't' matter. So, how do you think that works when China has a bigger economy than we do and therefore more money to buy our politicians than we have? That's the future.

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

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.

This is one reason why if you reach deep enough into conspiracy holes, you'll find discussions of breakaway civilizations (whether already formed or in the process of forming). Throw in things like Epstein's transhumanist beliefs and the massive number of scientists and tech people with whom he spoke about this stuff and then funded, and it smells a lot like the global elite want to take as many resources as they can and run off to their gay luxury space communism while us dirt plebs die on a ruined planet.

Remember, conspiracies don't form out of thin air. They form from people seeing facts and patterns they can't explain reasonably (like everyone in six degrees of the Clintons being at risk of two shots to the back of the head).

 

[The Ugly One]

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.

And that's why I made sure to note that 100 years ago, there were already companies investing in making it a common thing. By 1914, over a thousand commercial zeppelin flights had been made in Germany, and the first commercial airline had been established in the USA. In 1922, 100 years ago, and 6 years after the first transatlantic flight, the first permanent airport was built.

The 1920s were a time of fanciful visionaries driving rapid technological process, and air travel was a white-hot growth technology. Millions had seen how aircraft could revolutionize everything during the Great War, and during peacetime, they only wanted more. I have no idea where you get the idea that not a soul among them thought that transatlantic flight had the potential to be a really big fucking deal. In fact, probably the biggest thing that would shock them about air travel in the 21st century is how we have to take our shoes off and wear masks, and there aren't any zeppelins.

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

This is one reason why if you reach deep enough into conspiracy holes, you'll find discussions of breakaway civilizations (whether already formed or in the process of forming). Throw in things like Epstein's transhumanist beliefs and the massive number of scientists and tech people with whom he spoke about this stuff and then funded, and it smells a lot like the global elite want to take as many resources as they can and run off to their gay luxury space communism while us dirt plebs die on a ruined planet.

Remember, conspiracies don't form out of thin air. They form from people seeing facts and patterns they can't explain reasonably (like everyone in six degrees of the Clintons being at risk of two shots to the back of the head).

Reminds me of the bored Tessier-Ashpools on Freeside. The dad rapes and murders clones of his adult daughter Jane for fun. The one you meet in Neuromancer is Lady 3Jane Marie-France Tessier-Ashpool. Celebrity names are growing more ridiculous, and the rest of society seems to pattern after Neuromancer besides.

 

[ForTheHoard]

There are a LOT of birds, and their mobility allows them to move through a lot of space. Windmill blades typically don't move fast like a fan blade or airplane propeller, so they don't appear to be a hazard. Birds also flock, and the head of the flock might see the blades and think it's safe, but the back of the flock is only paying attention to the birds around it.

For example, the high end of fatalities from window strikes is a billion birds a year. Now there are a LOT more windows than there are windmills, and I'd say bird hazard is a more minor example of the drawbacks to windmills. It's a very good example of it not being the green dream climate nuts make it out to be.

Source: I really like the board game Wingspan.

Nobody cares about the birds. It's just a grift for power/money.

Probably 25 or so years ago, West Virginia got targeted by environmentalists over "mountaintop removal" coal mining. The biggest group lobbying to end it were pushing for the mines to be turned into wind farms when they were shut down. The state and the mining companies caved, and built a shitload of wind farms. 1-2 years after the wind farms were built, the same groups that lobbied for their existence sued the state and mining companies over the wind turbines interfering with migratory bird patterns, and won. Most of the wind farms got torn down, and the state/mining companies had to eat the cost for everything. It was always bullshit. They just wanted to put their foot on the necks of a dirt poor state and the dying industry that propped it up.

 

[Some Badger]

While we’re on the subject of commercial aircraft, allow me to deliver my own schizo take.

Commercial aircraft is one of the core vehicles (both literally and figuratively) of globohomo because it allowed people in third world shitholes nowhere remotely close to the Atlantic/Global North to emigrate to the west quickly, efficiently, and in large numbers, be it India, the Horn of Africa, South America, Central Asia, etc. If commercial air travel didn’t exist these immigrant communities in the west would have just settled in a country they shared a land border with. The ones who did emigrate to the west, if the cost of travel didn’t deter them, would most likely have integrated better into those societies rather than turning a whole neighborhood into a cultural enclave.

None of what I’m saying factors in the contents and aftermath of the Hart-Celler Act, but we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place if HSA wasn’t a thing. There would still most likely be a migrant crisis in Europe in 2015 and we would still be deporting every LatAm illegal ICE could get their hands on, but it never would have gotten as bad as it is currently if transcontinental air travel wasn’t basically ubiquitous now.

Airplanes serve as both a means of the contemporary elite to enact their horrid policies and as a means of escape when those same policies go tits up and they have to flee the country.

My tinfoil hat is overheating, thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

 

[The Ugly One]

Nobody cares about the birds. It's just a grift for power/money.

Probably 25 or so years ago, West Virginia got targeted by environmentalists over "mountaintop removal" coal mining. The biggest group lobbying to end it were pushing for the mines to be turned into wind farms when they were shut down. The state and the mining companies caved, and built a shitload of wind farms. 1-2 years after the wind farms were built, the same groups that lobbied for their existence sued the state and mining companies over the wind turbines interfering with migratory bird patterns, and won. Most of the wind farms got torn down, and the state/mining companies had to eat the cost for everything. It was always bullshit. They just wanted to put their foot on the necks of a dirt poor state and the dying industry that propped it up.

Environmentalists are idiots who are always against anything that exists, because the imaginary thing in their head has no tradeoffs.

 

[LUNEKO]

Nobody cares about the birds. It's just a grift for power/money.

Probably 25 or so years ago, West Virginia got targeted by environmentalists over "mountaintop removal" coal mining. The biggest group lobbying to end it were pushing for the mines to be turned into wind farms when they were shut down. The state and the mining companies caved, and built a shitload of wind farms. 1-2 years after the wind farms were built, the same groups that lobbied for their existence sued the state and mining companies over the wind turbines interfering with migratory bird patterns, and won. Most of the wind farms got torn down, and the state/mining companies had to eat the cost for everything. It was always bullshit. They just wanted to put their foot on the necks of a dirt poor state and the dying industry that propped it up.

To add to this the land that has to be cleared to make space for a single wind turbine to function properly is massive, meaning that destruction of habitat for land fauna is also needed to install wind turbines and even after the turbine is removed the land doesn't magically heal up since the soil with nutrients that plants used was removed entirely to make it flat and usable for foundation of the wind turbines.
You could make the argument that solar can be pair up with nuclear to provide more energy and save costs, but wind turbines are a straight up scam that does more damage to the environment than it saves its legit worse than coal and oil

 

[Polyboros2]

To add to this the land that has to be cleared to make space for a single wind turbine to function properly is massive, meaning that destruction of habitat for land fauna is also needed to install wind turbines and even after the turbine is removed the land doesn't magically heal up since the soil with nutrients that plants used was removed entirely to make it flat and usable for foundation of the wind turbines.
You could make the argument that solar can be pair up with nuclear to provide more energy and save costs, but wind turbines are a straight up scam that does more damage to the environment than it saves its legit worse than coal and oil

A lot of solar hady the same problem, instead of covering big box stores or parking lots, they cheat cut a huge area to put a bunch of panels out of sight. Plus, solar panels require a lot of water to keep efficiency up, and a lot of rare earths that are also polluting to produce and process. All for a small and unreliable source of power. Nuclear has a lot of environmental effects to it as well, but I believe the amount of power to environmental harm is fast superior in nuclear power(not even considering the idea of developing cleaner methods like Thorium).

 

[thx1138]

Even if the money is worthless?

Well, remember, your money will be worthless. Theirs is fine. Theirs has national symbols stamped into the bars.

Some of them, I'd wager, date back to around 1933.

 

[ForTheHoard]

To add to this the land that has to be cleared to make space for a single wind turbine to function properly is massive, meaning that destruction of habitat for land fauna is also needed to install wind turbines and even after the turbine is removed the land doesn't magically heal up since the soil with nutrients that plants used was removed entirely to make it flat and usable for foundation of the wind turbines.
You could make the argument that solar can be pair up with nuclear to provide more energy and save costs, but wind turbines are a straight up scam that does more damage to the environment than it saves its legit worse than coal and oil

To contextualize the amount of space that was used in the WV debacle, the property that was leveled out for wind turbines later went on to be used for some really nice golf courses. Twisted Gun was always one of my favorites.

When I was a teenager, I always thought it was weird that an area deemed fit for wind turbines was also a great place to golf. Golf and high winds don't mix. It makes me wonder if those areas were even close to appropriate for wind investment. On the other hand, WV has the perfect terrain for reservoir batteries. I don't know what they're actually called, but it's when you have a large reservoir on high ground that can be released through a water turbine into an empty reservoir closer to sea level. It's not a great primary source of energy, but they're fairly widely used as an emergency backup. It's essentially turning a lake into a giant emergency battery. Combine that with a very small nuclear reactor to pump the water back into the higher reservoir and you've got enough 0 carbon energy to power most of the tristate area.

The problem that arises is that achieving reliable carbon neutral energy sources kills the multi-billion dollar environmentalism industry. Their biggest victory was taking over the EPA and putting a soft federal ban on anyone that attempts to build a modern nuclear reactor. Ironically, we won't be able to rely on clean energy as long as the EPA exists, and it will never go away because pop culture and corporate media have everyone convinced governments are the only ones that won't fill the local rivers with poison. That's the same government that gets exemptions from the EPA so their military can dump millions of tons of used oil, diesel fuel, and plastic waste into the ocean.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

While we’re on the subject of commercial aircraft, allow me to deliver my own schizo take.

Commercial aircraft is one of the core vehicles (both literally and figuratively) of globohomo because it allowed people in third world shitholes nowhere remotely close to the Atlantic/Global North to emigrate to the west quickly, efficiently, and in large numbers, be it India, the Horn of Africa, South America, Central Asia, etc. If commercial air travel didn’t exist these immigrant communities in the west would have just settled in a country they shared a land border with. The ones who did emigrate to the west, if the cost of travel didn’t deter them, would most likely have integrated better into those societies rather than turning a whole neighborhood into a cultural enclave.

None of what I’m saying factors in the contents and aftermath of the Hart-Celler Act, but we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place if HSA wasn’t a thing. There would still most likely be a migrant crisis in Europe in 2015 and we would still be deporting every LatAm illegal ICE could get their hands on, but it never would have gotten as bad as it is currently if transcontinental air travel wasn’t basically ubiquitous now.

Airplanes serve as both a means of the contemporary elite to enact their horrid policies and as a means of escape when those same policies go tits up and they have to flee the country.

My tinfoil hat is overheating, thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

It wasn't always like that though. Back in the heyday of commercial aviation, back when the British Empire was still a thing and America was testing nukes in the Pacific, it was more of a means to connect empires to its colonies more efficiently. Times changed of course and now getting a plane ticket halfway around the world is feasible for almost anyone.

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

Pretty crazy to think that the Wrights invented the airplane and their own bespoke aviation powerplant in 1903. That was back when the concept of the aileron and propeller were still novel, almost incredulous ideas. Fast forward only 43 years later and you get the first jet powered plane in the ME262 that could reach amazing speeds. Maybe another war is needed for us monkeys to progress technologically in bounds again.

 

[thx1138]

Fast forward only 43 years later and you get the first jet powered plane in the ME262 that could reach amazing speeds. Maybe another war is needed for us monkeys to progress technologically in bounds again.

It was the Henschel 187, but yeah, it's so crazy. I mean, 29 years from there and men are walking on the Moon.

 

[Blackhole]

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.

>the elites
>human
smh,i thought we all knew that they're child raping vampires.

 

[The Last Stand]

Welp, just got rejected from a job interview because I wasn't jabbed. Didn't say it upfront on their website, either. I have natural immunity as well because I got Omicron over the holidays. THANKS BRANDON!

More potential for me then. Still, that sucks.

 

[Blake Chortles]

It wasn't always like that though. Back in the heyday of commercial aviation, back when the British Empire was still a thing and America was testing nukes in the Pacific, it was more of a means to connect empires to its colonies more efficiently. Times changed of course and now getting a plane ticket halfway around the world is feasible for almost anyone.


Pretty crazy to think that the Wrights invented the airplane and their own bespoke aviation powerplant in 1903. That was back when the concept of the aileron and propeller were still novel, almost incredulous ideas. Fast forward only 43 years later and you get the first jet powered plane in the ME262 that could reach amazing speeds. Maybe another war is needed for us monkeys to progress technologically in bounds again.

Seriously imagine being like 8 and watching the first glorified gliders fly a few hundred feet, then be sitting retired watching us land on the fuckin moon.

I’m just old enough to remember when the internet wasn’t used for much of anything and it was called the information super highway. I wonder what it’ll be like before I die. Probably something degenerate.

 

[JosephStalin]

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

Environmentalists are idiots who are always against anything that exists, because the imaginary thing in their head has no tradeoffs.

Neo-Environmentalists, maybe. Well that and climate activists. I doubt any of these people who claim to be environmentalists have participated in a beach cleanup, animal rescue, change of habit, etc. that requires work and they may have a blue whale proposition them for marriage.