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?

 

[FaramirG]

Bro how the fuck do you not have money for a plastic card once every five years

Bro have you ever been poor

 

[Salubrious]

Bro have you ever been poor

Been poor and have poor friends.

Every single one of them has an ID.

 

[Oxous]

You left the best part out. AG Miyares has fired the entire civil rights division in the AG office and has announced he will prosecute cases that local DAs (read:Soros-funded DAs) drop.

https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1482188562451902475

Fucking Cubans, man.

Virginia GOP as a whole is really trying to start off things with a bang. Which is good because it means they still remember that Virginia can and will defect back to the Dems if they're not doing good things for the state.

So it's a muslim doing this? It's hard to make out what he's saying because the audio quality is complete dogshit.

The suspect is a Pakistani Muslim and allegedly he has a sister who's in prison for trying to kill US soldiers.

 

[FaramirG]

Been poor and have poor friends.

Every single one of them has an ID.

I worked a full-time night job at Target to pay for college. $11 an hour. Almost nobody had an ID, and the idea of voting for any of us was laughable. The Republican/Center policy of preventing poor people from voting is extremely blatant.

 

[Gehenna]

With Youngkin now having been sworn into office, here's a laundary list of the thingsthe GOP-controlled House of Delegates plan on doing:

• Prevent local governments from banning guns from parks and government buildings
• Cancel a planned minimum wage hike from $11 to $12 scheduled to take effect next year
• Require women to sign written consent if they want an abortion
• Require voters to show photo ID at voting polls
• Cut the early voting period from 45 days to 14 days
• Repeal a state law requiring school boards to do what the state says regarding transgender policies

And what Youngkin personally wants to do:

• Get rid of the Governor's cabinet's "chief diversity officer" position that Northam created
• Rescind the K-12 school mask mandate

All in all, a decent agenda. The Democrats have a 21-19 majority in the State Senate so expect a bunch of DNC money to flow into the state's Democratic Party to ensure that they attempt to stonewall everything.

All good. A couple things thrown to their base with the abortion note and removing the diversity officer. Mainly focused on the big issue that got them in with the CRT stuff. With some election fortification de-rigging. Nothing in here too out there or which will seriously rock the boat, indicating they intend to solidify their position electorally rather than burn out their good will.

Youngkin has signed a bunch of executive orders and directives immediately after being sworn in. Probably gonna have to wait a bit for exact details but he's "investigating wrongdoing in Loudoun County" which suggests that the tranny rape school board saga is far from over. He's also creating a commission to "combat antisemitism" but that's the price of business I guess.

The brokeness is metaphorical to a certain extent. If they weren't even capable of using some emergency fund cash to bribe a couple state senators then they'd be shuttering the doors on everything.

It's Virginia, the state will be screwed demographically in 15 years anyways.

Bribing senators is not done with money. Or more accurately, it is not done directly with money. it is done through kickbacks through bills.

If they do not control the state legislature or the executive branch, they have nothing to bribe with.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

When are we predicting the DNC finally throws Captain Dementia under the bus in order to save themselves? At this rate I'd say by June.

Sooner or later, Biden will forget where he is, and say something he can't come back from. He's already called someone a Negro on TV, and I'd be willing to bet that the guy who was friends with Storm Thurmond and Robert Byrd says far worse behind closed doors.

When he calls Ayanna Pressley an "uppity nigger" on TV or does something equally as racist and equally as hard for CNN to justify, the progressives will demand he be impeached and Kamala will have a quiet word with him. Biden will resign to spend some more time with his family and do the work to become a true anti-racist or whatever, Kamala will be crowned, and all hell will break lose when Kamala tries to stop the progs insisting that America needs to abolish the police and fossil fuels by next Thursday.

I'm not familiar with it, but sounds like something to check out. I'm just disappointed in myself for forgetting that Gavrilo Princip was a Pan Slav guy, not just a dumb anarchist. I don't know if that changes the broader point about 19th Century bad ideas, I don't think a united southern Slavic state would ever work in the long term without an outside force keeping them together.

A united southern Slavic state will always fail unless the state basically rules with an iron fist and shoots anyone vaguely nationalist.

There's too much historical bad blood and too many religious differences for it to work. Serbian nationalists were literally singing Karadzic, lead your Serbs in Bosnia the other night and a couple of years ago about a third of Croatian MP's voted to make "Za dom, spremni" (the Croatian version of the Hitler salute) the salute of the Croatian armed forces. That's not going to go away just because the government says everyone's one nation now.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

I worked a full-time night job at Target to pay for college. $11 an hour. Almost nobody had an ID, and the idea of voting for any of us was laughable. The Republican/Center policy of preventing poor people from voting is extremely blatant.

You're telling me you worked to put yourself through college which is ludicrously expensive these days but couldn't find the time or money to get something as basic as an ID?

 

[FaramirG]

You're telling me you worked to put yourself through college which is ludicrously expensive these days but couldn't find the time or money to get something as basic as an ID?

I had an ID. But most of my coworkers didn't. I was there as the privileged half-white college kid, most of my coworkers were full black and poor as fuck. They didn't have access to the same reources that I did.

 

[Gehenna]

Sooner or later, Biden will forget where he is, and say something he can't come back from. He's already called someone a Negro on TV, and I'd be willing to bet that the guy who was friends with Storm Thurmond and Robert Byrd says far worse behind closed doors.

When he calls Ayanna Pressley an "uppity nigger" on TV or does something equally as racist and equally as hard for CNN to justify, the progressives will demand he be impeached and Kamala will have a quiet word with him. Biden will resign to spend some more time with his family and do the work to become a true anti-racist or whatever, Kamala will be crowned, and all hell will break lose when Kamala tries to stop the progs insisting that America needs to abolish the police and fossil fuels by next Thursday.

A united southern Slavic state will always fail unless the state basically rules with an iron fist and shoots anyone vaguely nationalist.

There's too much historical bad blood and too many religious differences for it to work. Serbian nationalists were literally singing Karadzic, lead your Serbs in Bosnia the other night and a couple of years ago about a third of Croatian MP's voted to make "Za dom, spremni" (the Croatian version of the Hitler salute) the salute of the Croatian armed forces. That's not going to go away just because the government says everyone's one nation now.

The only times the Balkins has been 'peaceful' is when someone bigger took them over and then ruthlessly suppressed their hatred of each other. And that only ever delayed them trying to kill each other again.

I had an ID. But most of my coworkers didn't. I was there as the privileged half-white college kid, most of my coworkers were full black and poor as fuck. They didn't have access to the same reources that I did.

Wow, that is pretty racist of you to say.

 

[Mister DNA]

Almost nobody had an ID, and the idea of voting for any of us was laughable.

Good, then people shouldn't vote if they're so apathetic and incompetent that they couldn't be bothered to go get an ID. This ridiculous canard about how those mean ol' Republicans are just trying to be big doodyheads to the poor isn't going to fly with people that aren't easily manipulated fools. Take that weak shit somewhere else. It's entirely reasonable to ensure secure elections and requiring some form of ID is the norm in virtually every democratic system around the world. The only reason to do away with it is to make fraud easier to perpetrate. I can't believe people are still trying to sell this garbage.

 

[Oxous]

Sooner or later, Biden will forget where he is, and say something he can't come back from. He's already called someone a Negro on TV

Biden's lucky as hell he was referring to a black guy from the 1950s when he said that. I also recall Pelosi personally objecting to some positive things Biden said about Strom Thurmond, essentially saying that nobody in the Senate liked him.

 

[FaramirG]

Good, then people shouldn't vote if they're so apathetic and incompetent that they couldn't be bothered to go get an ID. This ridiculous canard about how those mean ol' Republicans are just trying to be big doodyheads to the poor isn't going to fly with people that aren't easily manipulated fools. Take that weak shit somewhere else. It's entirely reasonable to ensure secure elections and requiring some form of ID is the norm in virtually every democratic system around the world. The only reason to do away with it is to make fraud easier to perpetrate. I can't believe people are still trying to sell this garbage.

Poor people should not be excluded from voting. If we disagree on that point, then fine.

My ideal society, and I believe most cons would agree is: every adult is required to cast a vote,

 

[Gehenna]

Poor people should not be excluded from voting. If we disagree on that point, then fine.

As someone who grew up in the poorest part of my neighborhood, who lived in the same falling-apart apartment as those same 'full black' people you mentioned. Your low expectations are more racist than any of the "kike" and "Nigger" throwers I have seen on this site.

 

[Cuckoman]

Please, find me that group. I beg you. I'm close with the upper-middle class white and black suburbanites who supposedly make up Biden's core support, and even they hate him. Biden is a zombie. Nobody likes him. He's not Trump or Hillary. That is his ONLY quality.

He still have fanatical supporters. I would imagine the most severe cases of TDS who will never accept that Biden, their saviour, has any flaws.
Just look at twitter you have people twisting their minds in hoops to explain away how every Biden failure is actually a good thing. These people are not just going to go "ok, Biden is bad now, so now we are against him."
But even if these fanatical supporters go away, you still have the republican party.
If the DNC turn on Biden in June, it would be grossly incompetent by the republicans if they do not turn it into a major major issue.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

I had an ID. But most of my coworkers didn't. I was there as the privileged half-white college kid, most of my coworkers were full black and poor as fuck. They didn't have access to the same reources that I did.

That already makes you more white than me and I didn't exactly come from money and privilege either, other than the privilege of having parents that actually gave a flying fuck. The idea of ID being an insurmountable barrier to poor people voting is so laughable to me that yeah, I do firmly believe people incapable of passing that barrier have no business voting in the first place.

 

[Mister DNA]

Poor people should not be excluded from voting. If we disagree on that point, then fine.

Hilarious. You'd make better use of your time regurgitating this horseshit to gullible senior citizens while phonebanking for whatever Dem is running for office in your area.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

The last time I had to renew my license I'm pretty sure it was $10 or less for a new one.

A non-plastic copy of an ID (so like a SSC or birth certificate) is probably cheaper.

If someone is the type of person that has money for an iPhone but not money to buy a new SSC or license...they shouldn't vote.

 

[Gehenna]

How much do you people think an ID costs? Here in Wisconsin, a state with Voter ID laws, it costs 28 dollars for a new id. Free, by the way, if its for the purpose of voting. But let's look at the 28. That's... not much. Even in the absolute shithole I grew up in. Even with a complete hand-to-mouth existence, that much could be saved for easily. Just requiring maybe not going to McDonalds for a month or choosing to have a few 'poor-folk meals'. Maybe not pleasant to afford, but also not some insurmountable obstacle.


Random addendum: McDonalds rocks. You can tell who has never been really poor by their reaction to the idea of eating there. For us, a single trip to McDonalds was the -highlight- for us.

 

[Trianon]

Wasn't one of Northam's last actions as Governor to give himself emergency power for a month?

Yes, but it was really only two weeks, meant to be transferred to Youngkin. Northam said the surge would probably be over in a month.

His real last action was pardoning a pedophile.

https://archive.md/0BVZR

Former Obama adviser Axelrod: Biden's Atlanta speech rhetoric 'not very useful'​

Spoiler: Full Article

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Biden has also been criticized by Rev. Al Sharpton and Sen. Dick Durbin

Former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod added his name to the list of prominent Democrats critical of President Biden’s racially charged speech linking opponents of his party’s federal election overhaul bill to segregationists and Confederates.

"I don’t think the president’s rhetoric in Atlanta was particularly useful," Axelrod, a CNN senior legal adviser said on Thursday. "There are real issues here and they shouldn’t be obscured by hyperbolic rhetoric."

Axelrod was President Barack Obama's senior adviser when Biden was Obama's vice president.

Axelrod’s comment comes days after President Biden accused opponents of the federal election overhaul bill of standing with prominent Democrat segregationists George Wallace and Bull Connor as well as Confederate President Jefferson Davis, also a Democrat.

"So I ask every elected official in America, how do you want to be remembered?" Biden said during remarks from the Atlanta University Center Consortium, on the campus of Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College. "Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?"

The speech was widely panned by Republicans but was also criticized by some prominent Democrats including longtime Biden ally Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) who said Biden "perhaps went a little too far."

MSNBC commentator Al Sharpton also dinged Biden on the speech, calling it a "You’re going to hell" speech rather than one that would get voters’ support.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dismissed criticism of the speech by pointing the finger at former President Trump.

"I know there has been a lot of claim of the offensive nature of the speech yesterday, which is hilarious on many levels, given how many people sat silently over the last four years for the former president," Psaki said during a Wednesday press briefing.

They would have no problem with his rhetoric if it got the bill passed.

I worked a full-time night job at Target to pay for college. $11 an hour. Almost nobody had an ID, and the idea of voting for any of us was laughable. The Republican/Center policy of preventing poor people from voting is extremely blatant.

Come off it. Poor people who have a stake in their country and desire its success, however they define it, vote. They are not helpless and have dignity and responsibilities like all of us. If they don't live up to the idea of themselves as a person who can complete a simple task to make sure their vote counts, then their stake in the country is ephemeral anyway.

When New York City allows noncitizens to vote, the entire thing is rendered a joke and drives away a lot of conscientious voters. My grandmother refused to vote for years because she had the impression the polling booths were just places drunks congregated to get their votes bought and paid for with alcohol. Lax voting policies created that problem and disillusioned voters. Treat people with respect and show them that the voting process is taken seriously by responsible adults, and you will raise voting percentages. The supposedly draconian, racist Georgia voting laws increased participation.

Studies in Georgia and across the nation indicate that almost all voters who want to vote will find a way to cast their ballots despite tougher ID requirements, limits on ballot drop boxes and a shorter early voting period before runoffs.

...

Academic research shows that voter ID laws have little to no effect on turnout. One nationwide study found that expansions of absentee voting in some states in last year’s election didn’t alter turnout. A federal government report that summarized elections research said the evidence is mixed on whether early voting or no-excuse absentee voting made a difference in turnout.

Voting rights advocates say they’re convinced Georgia’s voting law will have a negative impact.

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The impact of requiring absentee voters to provide additional proof of their identities is likely “pretty close to zero,” said Trey Hood, a University of Georgia political science professor who has studied voter ID laws.

It's good that you are concerned about poor people's access to democracy, but you are assuming that valuing the integrity of the vote is somehow driving people away, and it's not the case. Being convinced that it will have a negative impact doesn't make it so, and activists continually push it despite contrary evidence. Maybe we should ask why they keep ignoring evidence.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

The only times the Balkins has been 'peaceful' is when someone bigger took them over and then ruthlessly suppressed their hatred of each other. And that only ever delayed them trying to kill each other again.

Or when Tito took over and used the secret police to repress anything vaguely nationalist.

It helped that Croatian nationalism was discredited in lots of people's eyes because the Ustaše (Croatian nationalists) took over Croatia during WW2 and were so vicious the Nazis told them to calm down a bit.

Biden's lucky as hell he was referring to a black guy from the 1950s when he said that.

True. The big question is what happens when he isn't that lucky. I don't think even CNN could find a way to positively spin him calling Obama an articulate young Negro or something like that, and if the rumours about Biden being completely gone are true, which they probably are, then he probably says far worse and has to be persuaded not to be racist in public.

Dementia patients tend to forget where they are as their dementia gets more advanced, and they tend to regress to the state of mind they were in when they were younger (this isn't just true for racism, by the way - one of my relatives in Finland knew an old lady from Karelia with dementia who grew up during the Winter War and would scream "THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING" if she saw anyone she didn't recognise. Dementia can be really cruel.) Biden probably threw around lots of gamer words when he was 20 and drinking with his buddies, so it wouldn't surprise me if he eventually drops one when he's giving a speech or in a meeting with the Justice Dems or some other situation where you really don't want to do that.