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?

 

[verissimus]

I still say this is an indictment of the American education system, @Gehenna.

...yeah. There's no way you couldn't have heard of the Electoral College until two years. You learn that either in civics or US History.

 

[Salubrious]

I would have so much more respect for people on the left if they could just admit that Biden is doing a shit job, but like their holy and infallible party, continue to triple down on their denial of reality. Even people I know who voted blue and were burned hard by the student loan stuff continue to insist that they'll continue to vote blue in spite of it.

I don't know about you guys, but if I didn't like a Republican candidate, I wouldn't vote for them unless their opponent was demonstrably worse in every way.

They have to be in denial, because one of the reasons for this "red wave" that's coming is because Democrat voters are just going to stay home entirely.

Black people voting Republican is not a threat, although I still argue that the black male vote is getting closer to 25% than they want to admit.

Black people saying "fuck the Democrats" and staying home IS a threat. Along with the rest of their base.

 

[Ita Mori]

Wait until these midterms and you need proof of vaxx to vote starts getting thrown around.

Wouldn't happen given Jamal and Pedro are the most vax-hesitant as opposed to Harry and Chang.

 

[CrippleThreat]

...yeah. There's no way you couldn't have heard of the Electoral College until two years. You learn that either in civics or US History.

Or watch a presidential election. Seriously, @The Last Stand, did you even vote for Hillary?

 

[verissimus]

Or watch a presidential election. Seriously, @The Last Stand, did you even vote for Hillary?

That too but I was specifically referring to schooling. Watching an election is outside the classroom in my book. Like, wtf. You have to read the Constitution in either civics or US History and it explicitly mentions the electoral college ffs. Or has the @The Last Stand not read the US Constitution?

 

[MrJokerRager]

If the US gave out IDs to all legal citizens for free automatically upon adulthood, I would agree with you. But come on dude, we don't have to pretend here. When the Republican Party is preventing people who don't have the extra cash to buy an ID, we both know who they're targeting. Also, what is the justification for limiting early voting? Shouldn't we want as many Americans possible to vote?

Unless the GOP is jacking up the prices for IDs in many red states, ID is needed for almost everything else, like getting SSI and food stamps and trying to get temporary housing, for the working poor and disabled poor. The states decide their own ID laws and some states like California allow folks to get reduced prices for ID cards. It would make better sense for states to allow people to apply for IDs much easier since many hate going to their local DMV

I fail to see the Voter ID being racist unless they raising the prices by race or making the process for applying for an ID so hard. However Democrats have not pushed for federal benefits to not require ID and its only recently now that some states are allowing illegal aliens to get driver's licenses. Why isn't there a push for free IDs for everyone then since the Democratic Party is requiring vaccine passports or that vaccine card for entry, and as of right now, that is hurting blacks and browns the most since they refuse to take the jab for understandable reasons.

Make getting an ID as easy as getting that Kung Flu proof of jab card and make election day a national holiday is what I would go for.

The Jim Crow poll taxes were outlawed because they were intentionally targeting blacks by giving them hard tests while giving whites mostly easy tests and even then they hated poor whites as well and made it hard for them.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/14/peter-doocy-jen-psaki-biden-segregationists-vilifying-republicans-football/

“But as you talked about a year ago, and working with Republicans, now he is talking about Republicans that don’t agree with voting rights—he’s describing them as George Wallace, Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis,” Doocy said. “What happened to the guy who, when he was elected, said ‘to make progress we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy?'”

“I think everybody listening to that speech, who’s speaking ‘on the level’ as my mother would say, would note that he was not comparing them as humans, he was comparing the choice to those figures in history and where they’re going to position themselves as they determine whether they’re going to support the fundamental right to vote or not,” Psaki responded.

“One last thing, the Bengals are playing tomorrow, I’m just giving it a shoutout so that my husband will be excited at home. They haven’t won a playoff game in 31 years,” she concluded.

As someone that unashamedly used to make fun of the Bengals more than the Cleveland Browns in my younger years, this woman is either a liar, or a phony (or even both).

 

[FlappyBat]

I'll believe a single criticism of voter ID once we abolish the ID requirement to own and buy firearms.

 

[Tzeentch]

Joe Biden forgets where the whitehouse is...

 

[Quixotic Man]

I had to present my ID and vax card today so I could sit in Starcucks and drink a coffee.

But apparently voting security is less important than making sure I'm not showing someone else's coof shot card.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

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https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/14/peter-doocy-jen-psaki-biden-segregationists-vilifying-republicans-football/

As someone that unashamedly used to make fun of the Bengals more than the Cleveland Browns I’m my younger years, this woman is either a liar, or a phony (or even both).

I am weirdly reminded of when Ted Kennedy died and Scott Brown ran against Martha Coakley for the seat. And Coakley was just a complete disaster on mic. Funniest shit I've seen in a long time.

 

[Mr Cuddles]

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

I'm just going to overlook your previous claims about ID being near impossible to get for the poor. This quote however is absolute bull. There are many people who never vote simply out of sheer disinterest and I think that's a good thing. Excessively worrying about politics is a mental illness (one which I have), if people want no say forcing them to have one is a recipe for disaster.

The problem I have with "voters rights" groups is that always try to make the case that voting should be as available and obstacle free as possible. As even the most disinterested persons voice should be heard. For me, I'm much more interested in a process that is transparent and has integrity than I am making sure every bum has voted.

 

[The Last Stand]

...yeah. There's no way you couldn't have heard of the Electoral College until two years. You learn that either in civics or US History.

Not in the schools I've went to. I'm serious. Only until Trump's win when I heard of that concept. I know OF it now, so better than nothing.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

You need an ID to work, how did they get the I-9 filled out?

Unless you're paid under the table doing illegal stuff

 

[Oxous]

There we go.

 

[Oats12345]

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.

There we go.
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Curse you white Hispanics!!!

 

[Constellationzero]

if you are literally incapable of enough self control to scrape up 1 Dollar a month across 3 years then you are not mentally capable of making important decisions for anyone including yourself.

To even bring up the idea that "an ID is hard to afford" is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen on this website INCLUDING from all the Lolcow threads. Especially in consideration that you need an ID to.

Drive
Buy Booze
Buy Guns
Buy Fireworks
Buy Glue
Buy Medicine
Buy Tobacco
Stay in a Hotel
Ride a Bus
Ride a Train
Ride a Plane
Start a Bank Account
Send Money
Receive Money
Get a Money order over 1000 Dollars
Cash a Check

Oh
AND GET A FUCKING REAL JOB, you need an ID for that too.

OTHER things you need an ID for:

* Go to the doctor/hospital, with or without insurance
* Get your prescriptions
* Rent a house/apartment
* Buy a house
* Lease/rent a car
* Depositing money in your checking account
* Transferring money
* Get a library card

And whoever brought up getting FREE ID's to ALL US CITIZENS (Fuck illegals), YES!
If it's so goddamn fucking haaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrd for blacks (lol, no other races, lol) to get an ID, why not fight for free ID's for all CITIZENS?????

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

There we go.

I'm hard and I don't even have a dick.

Unless you're paid under the table doing illegal stuff

And even if you were, there are still a million other avenues in which you need a form of ID to function.

 

[CrippleThreat]

Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to inform you that McConnell is at it again:

It’s a Ducey: The Inside Scoop on McConnell’s Latest Scheme to Harm Trump and the MAGA Movement

Between the House, Senate, and assorted gubernatorial races, there are nearly 500 major offices up for grabs in the 2022 mid-term elections. And out of those nearly 500 races, the Senate race unfolding in Arizona is by far the most important. It isn’t just crucial that the GOP win this seat and with it an overall Senate majority. It is crucial that the right candidate win the seat, in order to further the long-term transformation of the GOP into an America First political party.

Right now, though, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to sabotage this transformation by urging Governor Doug Ducey to enter the race, and the only obstacle to his plans is Ducey’s wife.

According to a source close to both Ducey and McConnell, Angela Ducey is eager to be out of the political spotlight, and has become irate with McConnell’s constant pleas for her husband to enter the race. Besides the usual difficulties that come with being a politician’s spouse, the past year has been particularly rough for Angela as her husband has been savaged from the right for his role in certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state.

But apparently, McConnell thinks nothing of putting the hurt on the Ducey marriage for the sake of sticking a metaphorical thumb in Donald Trump’s eye.

McConnell’s motivation is simple: He doesn’t like Donald Trump, and doesn’t like the direction Trump has taken the Republican Party. But he also can’t oppose Trump openly, and is instead stuck trying to wait out the president while elevating candidates who are loyal to the old GOP rather than the new one. For McConnell, Ducey is an enticing pawn in this proxy war.

The stakes are high. With the Senate split 50/50 between Republicans and Democrats, the Grand Canyon State offers the most likely opportunity for the GOP to pick up a seat and, with it, take control of the chamber. That means more than just offering a symbolic rebuke to the Biden Administration. It means the opportunity to hold up extremist nominees to the federal courts, or even the Supreme Court. It means blocking the installation of ideologues like Gigi Sohn onto crucial regulatory bodies like the FCC. It means blocking President Biden’s plan to eliminate the filibuster in order to rewrite election laws in all fifty states. In turn, it means blocking more ambitious Democratic plans like packing the Supreme Court, admitting D.C. and Puerto Rico as states, abolishing the Electoral College, and giving amnesty to the two million illegal immigrants who swamped the border last year, plus the ten or twenty or thirty million other illegal immigrants already squatting in this country.


But the Arizona Senate race matters for even more reasons. A newly-released Quinnipiac poll shows President Biden mired at a miserable 33 percent approval rating, with just 28 percent support among Latinos. If numbers like this even remotely hold up over the next three years, then no amount of ballot harvesting and late-night pauses will save Democrats from a 2024 wipeout. The Republican president holding office after that wipeout could very well be Donald Trump once again, or an anointed successor running on the same platform.

In 2017, President Trump’s America-first promises were badly undermined not by Democrats, but by two Arizona senators from his own party: John McCain and Jeff Flake. If a second Trump term or another America First presidency is going to succeed, then having new faces in the Senate who will understand and defend the president’s platform, instead of undermining it, is critical.

Above all, the Arizona race is a test: A test of whether a candidate can run, proudly, in a swing state, on President Trump’s revolutionary America-first platform and take home a victory.

This is a test that Mitch McConnell does not want voters to face. And right now, McConnell is taking advantage of President Trump’s hesitancy to try and sabotage the odds of a MAGA candidate being elected.

So far, Trump has refrained from endorsing anyone in the Arizona race. A Politico article published Thursday highlighted his likely thought process:

“If Trump is planning to run for president — which all signs point to, he is — the most important thing should be to elect more people to the Senate who share his worldview,” one Trumpworld adviser said. “I think the biggest problem Trump had in the first four years was the lack of ideological supporters in the Senate.”
That determination has prompted Trump to be more nuanced, at least so far, with some endorsements. While the 45th president has given his seal of approval to candidates ranging from a local mayor to the autocratic prime minister of Hungary, he has held off on doing so in key Senate races. That includes Missouri, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Pennsylvania — where his early pick, Sean Parnell, dropped out after messy details of his divorce were revealed.
This Saturday, Trump will hold a rally in Florence, Ariz. But he is not expected to make an endorsement of any Senate candidate in that state, according to aides. People close to the former president say Trump isn’t being judicious so much as cautious, having been burned too many times backing candidates that weren’t fully vetted or weren’t sure things in their primaries.

The truth of the matter is that by not making an endorsement in Arizona, Trump is creating room for McConnell to pick away at his influence. By refusing to give his endorsement to a candidate, Trump is keeping the field from narrowing and creating the opportunity for Ducey to swoop in as the state’s GOP standard-bearer.
Despite all the red-on-red fire he’s taken over 2020, if Ducey entered the Senate race he would instantly be the favorite for the nomination, simply due to name recognition. He is a two-term governor, a proven winner, and has a robust fundraising machine in the state.

But if Ducey enters the race, it will certainly not be as an ideological or political ally of President Trump. Another Politico article, also published Thursday, makes that plain as day:

In the past several months, Ducey has brought on four new staffers who previously worked for Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake, including two who were state directors, according to a POLITICO review of the governor’s office’s staff announcements.

With staffers like that, it is clear that a Ducey entry would be disastrous for the long-term evolution of the Republican Party. In the short term, he would increase the odds of Democrats winning the seat since thousands of Trump supporters haven’t forgiven him over 2020, and Trump himself said last July that “there is no way he would get my endorsement” if he ran. In the long run, even if he wins, Republican voters will be rewarded with a Jeff Flake-style Republican ready to undermine the next Republican Administration just as much as his predecessors undermined the last one.

Donald Trump is nearing victory in his long struggle with McConnell for control of the Republican party. McConnell is on the ropes and he knows it. Trump should not give him the opportunity to get back in the ring.

Too bad Blompf stopped that shit before it could even take off. Eat shit, Bitch.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Won't power level too much but I work with addicts: specifically they make up a good chunk of the clientele at work. Even the ones that bitch about the cost of X whilst owning an iPhone X all have IDs - at least driver's licenses - otherwise we can't service them.