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]

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).

Nobody said being rich meant you're smart I guess, because the last thing I want to be stuck in in a space colony are a bunch of scheming greedy fucks whose only saving grace is massive amounts of money.

Maybe they'll call it Rapture, at this point Clown World Reigns after all.

 

[Smoke Manmuscle]

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.

Term you are looking for is pumped storage. The reason they don’t get built is because the greenies will bitch and scream about how it will destroy the environment when you do all the blasting and digging to set up the storage areas.

 

[DicksOutForKiwigglers]

Just woke up. Did the supreme court continue arguments yesterday?

 

[Gehenna]

Just woke up. Did the supreme court continue arguments yesterday?

No, but they have been doing a suite of less highlighted rulings that all go one way.

SCOTUS rejects E15 case, biofuel groups call for Midwest solution | EthanolProducer.com

The Supreme Court on Jan. 10 denied a petition filed by Growth Energy in October 2021 seeking a review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s July 2, 2021, ruling that vacated a portion of a 2019 EPA rule allowing year-round E15 sales.

www.ethanolproducer.com

SCOTUS is very slowly gutting a lot of the small things used to consistently maintain political capital for the Democrats. Which is... going to really hurt soon.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

SCOTUS is very slowly gutting a lot of the small things used to consistently maintain political capital for the Democrats. Which is... going to really hurt soon.

Tick-Tock, amirite?

 

[Gehenna]

Tick-Tock, amirite?

The Democrats need to do something. But I am not sure what they can do now. They are out of capital both of the political kind and monetary kind. They can't gain any lump sums because all their legislation is gridlocked. They now not only have debts due, but many are now past due. All will be past due after November, And their former biggest strength for capital, that being a massive series of small policies designed to mostly passively maintain it, are now being attacked and gutted at the state level with SCOTUS entirely ruling against them.

And that is -just- their capital situation. It's not getting into any of the half dozen other major events that are now all converging into one ball of 'fuck!".

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

The Democrats need to do something. But I am not sure what they can do now. They are out of capital both of the political kind and monetary kind. They can't gain any lump sums because all their legislation is gridlocked. They now not only have debts due, but many are now past due. All will be past due after November, And their former biggest strength for capital, that being a massive series of small policies designed to mostly passively maintain it, are now being attacked and gutted at the state level with SCOTUS entirely ruling against them.

And that is -just- their capital situation. It's not getting into any of the half dozen other major events that are now all converging into one ball of 'fuck!".

Ok. So the Dems end up shitting the bed and doing nothing and the GOP take the House and Senate? Then what? Because I remember the last time the GOP took the House and Senate and they didn’t do shit. Then when they got the White House too, they reneged on all the promises they’d made and spent their time in charge attacking themselves and allying themselves with the Dems.

But “Trust The Plan”, right? I mean, that’s your job, to get people out to vote for your “side” of this shit, right?

 

[Gehenna]

Ok. So the Dems end up shitting the bed and doing nothing and the GOP take the House and Semate? Then what? Because I remember the last time the GOP took the House and Senate and they didn’t do shit. Then when they got the White House too, they reneged on all the promises they’d made and spent their time in charge attacking themselves and allying themselves with the Dems.

But “Trust The Plan”, right? I mean, that’s your job, to get people out to vote for your “side” of this shit, right?

No and no to both questions. My job has nothing to do with the actual voters beyond in an abstract sense. I work for a political analysis firm for a state-level politician. Our job is to analyze current events, determine how it affects our employer, and report as such. As well as helping to craft, analyze, and predict policy. We work solely with and for our employer and his aides.

As to plan trusting. If you trust anything a RINO says you deserve a frontal lobotomy. The question of what happens if the Republicans wins is entirely dependent on a separate question. How deeply has Trumpian Populism spread within the Republicans? If it obtains at least a sizeable majority, a third or more but less than 50%, of the Republicans in the House and at least five members in the Senate, then they have enough power to force the whole of Congress towards Trumpian Populism. At which point, whatever Trump wants goes and the real purge of the RINOs begins.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

If it obtains at least a sizeable majority, a third or more but less than 50%, of the Republicans in the House and at least five members in the Senate, then they have enough power to force the whole of Congress towards Trumpian Populism. At which point, whatever Trump wants goes and the real purge of the RINOs begins.

If “if”s and “but”s were candy and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas.

 

[General Disarray]

Glad to hear Johnson is running again in WI. Hoping Donovan gets the MKE mayorship.

 

[Tour of Italy]

I am skeptical that they can ride wuflu hysteria into the midterms to justify pulling the same bullshit they pulled in 2020, but I am certain they will try. I have no trust in almost any source anymore. But I can always count on the desperate to go to any lengths. Perhaps even public official's going so far as to lie about testing positive in order to bolster the narrative.

The less publicized story of Youngkin's win over McAuliffe is the fact that for the first time in years the VA level GOP had their shit together and there was a record number of poll watchers and new election department volunteers. Even if the national level Republicans are too feckless to call out electoral abuse on the national stage, there are literally millions of people on the ground who have not forgotten and are now watching their districts like hawks.

 

[Oats12345]

I also noticed that Michelle Obama recycled the "vote in 2022 like Democracy depends on it" line. I don't think it's good when a political party can't be anything other than a powerless outsider, even when they're in power, but what do I know?

Yeah that line falls flat
When you have the white house and both chambers of congress under Democrat power.

The less publicized story of Youngkin's win over McAuliffe is the fact that for the first time in years the VA level GOP had their shit together and there was a record number of poll watchers and new election department volunteers. Even if the national level Republicans are too feckless to call out electoral abuse on the national stage, there are literally millions of people on the ground who have not forgotten and are now watching their districts like hawks.

That's what I'm relaying on similar to the Virginia election many averge Republicans become poll watchers.

 

[Kane Lives]

If “if”s and “but”s were candy and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas.

Hey, everyone thought Youngkin would cuck and lose VA too.

Sometimes the bad guys don't win.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

Hey, everyone thought Youngkin would cuck and lose VA too.

Sometimes the bad guys don't win.

I seriously doubt that Youngkin is a “Good Guy”, but I see your point.

 

[Gehenna]

If “if”s and “but”s were candy and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas.

It's ifs because it has not happened. Do you want me to speak in Whens as if I have a crystal ball with which I can positively determine the future?

Things are on a good track, but only a fool says what -will- happen, for chaos is always a thing.

Yeah that line falls flat
When you have the white house and both chambers of congress under Democrat power.

That's what I'm relaying on similar to the Virginia election many averge Republicans become poll watchers.

This is but one of the things on a good track. A renewed interest by younger Republicans in the process and a worry for its sanctity. The ones who were watching the polls back in 2020 were almost universally the older generation who had been carrying that torch far too long. And they were running out. Now there is much more, and they are highly paranoid.

Remember all the articles bitching about Republican poll watchers challenging everything? Remember how -bitter- they were over that?

They were bitter for a reason, and for at least the next two decades this issue is -done-.


Addendum:
Hell, let me talk some actual white pills. I know I have some sort of reputation here for them, but mostly it's me pointing out the less terrible side of a bunch of bad news. So let's actually white pill.

Digital voting? Dead. No further pushes will be made on that for decades and even some blue states are quietly nudging away from them. While it won't be rid of entirely, it is entirely expected to see a lot more security go into them or to even nudge away entirely.

Mail-in voting? Super dead. No red or purple state wants anything to do with it. We could have the Black Plague 2: Electric Boogaloo going and red states would refuse. Nobody liked how fucked it made the system and made everyone else look. Some super blue states are going to keep it, for obvious reasons, but anything with even a slight tinge of purple knows the very idea of it is poison to the electorate.

Voting laws? The ones making it stricter are -very- likely to stand. Notice how you have heard absolutely jack and shit about the Attorney General's lawsuits against the states for implementing it? Despite the fact multiple other major issues,m started before those, have already come and gone in front of the courts? That's because they are locked up in hell because the AG is doing everything he can to slow the process since he knows he will lose. Its pure delay to stop the floodgates, and is finite.

Voting laws 2? The big federalization bill? Notice how all the latest news on Manchin and Sinema doesn't mention their opposition to the voting bill, but their opposition to the filibuster rule? You go after the most manageable issue first. This means that the Democrats believe 'altering the filibuster' is the easier task than budging Manchin and Sinema. Why would this be? Well, because it's not just Manchin and Sinema. A -lot- of Democrats do in fact remember, very painfully, how changing the Senate rules over judicial nominees came back to bite them -hard-. And it's a bit too late to now implement the voting rights bill and have it in effect and past the courts before the midterms. It would be handing the Republicans both Congress and the ability to nuke them to hell and back. The voting rights bill is -dead-.

 

[Compositesludge]

The Democrats need to do something. But I am not sure what they can do now.

Declare war on Russia.

 

[Gehenna]

Declare war on Russia.

That'd do fuck and all.

1: The overwhelming majority of Americans don't... actually view Russia as a threat.
2: Any war on Russia, short of them for some completely insane reason attacking us, would be fundamentally viewed by the American people as a war of aggression... by us.

So lacking the first and establishing the second, it'd do nothing but tank their numbers more.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

It's ifs because it has not happened. Do you want me to speak in Whens as if I have a crystal ball with which I can positively determine the future?

Things are on a good track, but only a fool says what -will- happen, for chaos is always a thing.

@Gehenna hard at work this morning, I see.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

Declare war on Russia.

More like work to destabilize areas near Russia and then use that destabilization to open another Front in the Foreverwar. Rally their “antiwar” Party ‘round the flag and tell them that “we have to fight those evil Russian Nazis over there so we don’t have to fight them here!”. “Anyone who disagrees is obviously a Nazi and a traitor!”.

 

[Gehenna]

@Gehenna hard at work this morning, I see.

And what is it you think should happen? For everything to suddenly become better overnight? I fail to see your point here really, unless its an attempt to rile me? Mostly just confused.

You are either ignoring the fact that many good things have happened and things are on track to go well. Or you are trying to claim none of it matters. The first is silly and the second is defeatist. Neither is really rooted in reality.