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?
US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)
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I just hate these people.
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we hate you too <3
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Something to keep in mind about American blacks is that they have been the 'beneficiary' (and I use that word with enough sarcasm to armor-plate a tank) of Democrat social programs for the last sixty years. As a result, social engineering has... helped select for certain traits, and resist the reinforcement of others.
There are good blacks. But the 'Great Society', the 'War On Poverty' has wreaked so much havoc it's going to take generations to fix -- if it's even possible.
And I honestly think we're rapidly heading for a scenario not unlike Porretto's 'Two Doors' short story. Where a large chunk of feral American blacks get told 'Get on the ships or die, we're done fucking with you.'
There are good blacks. But the 'Great Society', the 'War On Poverty' has wreaked so much havoc it's going to take generations to fix -- if it's even possible.
And I honestly think we're rapidly heading for a scenario not unlike Porretto's 'Two Doors' short story. Where a large chunk of feral American blacks get told 'Get on the ships or die, we're done fucking with you.'
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What gives me that reservation is that some of the counties have legal arguments for why they think they're able to ignore Youngkin. Is it in bad faith? Absolutely but the argument they've made could actually be found to be correct, and Youngkin could actually be found legally overstepping his boundaries.
A runthrough of what the issue legally speaking is: Virginia is a Dillon Rule state, which means that the only powers local authorities have are powers that the state gives to them. But the school boards in Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax disagree, and so do government officials in Richmond, Henrico and a bunch of other counties.
Fairfax and Arlington are specifically saying that SB 1303, a bill passed by Virginia's General Assembly last year, sort of obligates them to go against Youngkin. It was a bipartisan bill which required schools to provide in-person education, but it also included this text: “provide such in-person instruction in a manner in which it adheres, to the maximum extent practicable, to any currently applicable mitigation strategies for early childhood care and education programs and elementary and secondary schools to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 that have been provided by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
To simplify that: Fairfax and Arlington say they have to follow the CDC's guidance. And what is the CDC's guidance? That they need to enforce a universial mask mandate for students and staff. Fairfax and Arlington are saying that they are being forced to choose between a bill which is now law, and Youngkin's executive order. They think that the bill takes precedence, and thus they are obliged to follow the CDC's rules and can ignore Youngkin.
The lawmakers who passed that bill are already fighting over it should be interpreted. Schuyler VanValkenburg, a Democrat senator from Henrico who voted for the bill, has gone on record saying a lawsuit needs to provide "judicial interpretation" on its meaning. He also admits that the school year will probably be over by that time.
So in short, it's not a black and white issue. Things could get messy if/when this ends up in the legal system.
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Just off the top of my head, the Floyd nonstop peaceful riots of 2020 led to the narrative that Blormpf had lost the plot. It one of the biggest factors that led to Orange Hitler's decisive and undeniable defeat. Probably not that important but we live in a time with no sense of history so it seems like the biggest deal ever.
I'd also include that it changed the way your average NPC honkey looked at kneeling niggers. When Kaepernick did it, it was widely unpopular. A couple years later after George Floyd's OD, you have sportsball teams not playing the national anthem and playing the Black National Anthem instead. You had seemingly unmelenated sane people prostrating themselves before any black they could find to formally absolve them.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the effects are/were cultural.
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Of course the man who said he was proud to work with segregationists is trying to downplay a man who played arguably the greatest hand in eliminating segregation.
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Wow, we were witnessing a high-tech lynching.
No, not a lynching of MLK. He helped destroy America and is burning eternally in Hell where he belongs, as is just.
I'm talking about the Last Stand who can't make a decent point here to save his life. That was just sad.
EDIT: Had to past tense this. I was late and missed all the fun!
No, not a lynching of MLK. He helped destroy America and is burning eternally in Hell where he belongs, as is just.
I'm talking about the Last Stand who can't make a decent point here to save his life. That was just sad.
EDIT: Had to past tense this. I was late and missed all the fun!
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One big issue that the Dems have right now is that they effectively traded the effectiveness of their ground game for total control of it.
When I was still in the activist base, ages ago, the low-tier managers at the local level were almost unilaterally low-level politicians themselves. They were dudes who cares about local issues and their constituents, and would, later, be running for Town Clerk or something like that. So you'd be helping them canvas and get out the vote for a higher-level candidate, and in turn, you'd be helping someone who gave a shit actually get into office later. They'd basically sink or swim on their own from there; the DNC didn't give a fuck once the bigger dudes were elected, and it wasn't unheard of for some dude you canvassed with and later were helping run for office to be directly opposed by someone his ground game helped get elected. The internecine conflicts between local-level Dems were fucking brutal.
Then, as was the case much later, the DNC were heavily invested with the concept of "you have no choice" as the primary reason to go with them, strategy-wise. Don't improve your candidates, don't get better candidates, just threaten that the world will be destroyed if your guys don't get in. See if you recognize a few of these gems from when I was still involved:
"Vote for us, or you'll get more religious nutjobs like Santorum."
"Vote for us, or there will be more war in the middle east."
"Vote for us, or we'll be ruled by racists."
The problem, of course, is that these threats only really hold water if you aren't familiar with the undercurrents behind each. Any problem you wanted to complain about the Neocons over - and there was ample things to complain about - were stuff the Establishment Dems did worse. Shitheads like Santorum and friends were in the Neocon cesspit, but Bush was the one that fucking ended Don't Ask Don't Tell and was the president when Gay Marriage was legalized after nearly two decades of promises by the Dems. Neocon economic policy was and still is a shit-show, but it was a Dem that brought you NAFTA and another one that tried to bring you SOPA and PIPPA. Dubya may have been the president at the time, but the Iraq war wouldn't have happened without most of the Establishment Dems voting in favor of it, a reality they'd prefer you forgot.
In short, the threats stopped working, because the Dems happily gave us what they were threatening us with if they didn't get in anyway.
Eventually, the inevitable happened, and oldschool Dems decided to take things into their own hands, because the establishment Dems obviously weren't going to. They started pressuring via grassroots activism, running outsider candidates, and primarying establishment darlings. The DNC pretended to put a brave face forward while fucking seething over this shit, because each time they'd have to get involved, either by destroying that upstart candidate (watch how quick Dems, especially outsider Dems, mysteriously have sex scandals materialize the nanosecond they start trying to represent interests that aren't the DNC; it's really amazing how consistently it happens), or pumping untold millions into a race after one of your darlings gets successfully Primaried the fuck out (Joe Lieberman, for instance). By the time of Occupy, the Dems were firmly in the crosshairs of their constituents, and like the Tea Party before them, the establishment decided that this was not going to be allowed to continue.
The solution? Identity politics. It would scare off the normies and the oldschoolers, but the more aggressive parts of the base would react like you just gave them red meat. This was one of many major reasons for the shake-up in DNC membership; the hard lefties could be counted on to give the exact brainless response the establishment needed while undermining any opportunity for grassroots activism to push things in a better direction. Good luck pushing for financial accountability or economic reforms when every time you have some kind of rally, you have the dumbest motherfuckers the left has show up to let their freak flag fly. Better still, the newcomers had a tendency to sit in a position of minor power like fucking Ryulong and use it like a petty tyrant for "the cause." Minimal ambition, willing to do what they're told, and easily denied if they got too big for their britches. Win-win-win, from an establishment perspective, though their shortsightedness would not allow them to see the danger these newcomers actually posed to their rule in the long term, though they had ample warning from saner heads they chose to actively ignore.
By 2009, they hit sufficient saturation in the DNC that they had basically pushed all the old guard out (because Entryism is a fucking religion to hard lefties), and by 2010, they had firmly established themselves. The fucking difference in the sort of emails my political contact account would get were fucking weird to watch in real time, and I'm pretty sure any Dem or Independent who was watching their correspondences at the time could relate to you painfully similar stories.
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Potentially if it's not for the fact that we vote in droves no questions asked. Closest thing to that reality would be de facto segregation enabled by coddling.
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Yeah, about that..
I don't know whether he was a member of any communist organisations per se but the Indian independence movement was a very broad church politically - you had socialists, Islamists, Hindutva nationalists, communists, fascists, Sikh seperatists, and about fifty different flavours of ethnic nationalists that wanted Lower Bumfuckistan to become its own independent state because the only thing worse than the Raj is being ruled by Upper Bumfuckistanis - so I wouldn't be surprised if he was associated with some.
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I worked in a charter school for a while back in the 2000's. I saw so much insanity there, like one of the teachers was teaching her kids that the reason we invaded Iraq was because Sadaam Hussein had flown the planes into the towers on 9/11. The teachers just taught whatever ridiculous crap they wanted and nobody seemed to care.
Also the amount of corruption was absolutely insane. The school got quite a bit of money and much of it flowed in one way or another into the pockets of the staff. Like they hired an outside firm to do IT and paid them way above market rate. Of course that IT firm was owned by the husband of one of the schools administrative staff. Everything was like that, just a free for all where everyone was taking anything that wasn't bolted down.
I am sure that some charter schools are good. I just mention my bad experience because lots of people act like charter schools are some kind of panacea when often they are just more of the same.
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The primary difference between charter and public schools is that charter schools don't have to take problem kids.
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MLK assassinated by a white man of authority.
Floyd assassinated by a white man of authority.
They're the same.
Floyd assassinated by a white man of authority.
They're the same.
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I remember George Floyd. I remember him lacing up his shoes and marching forty miles for equal rights. I remember George Floyd as checked his mail every day knowing there was likely a new batch of death threats written and signed by Klansmen waiting for him. I even remember how the director the FBI tried to blackmail him into killing himself in order to stop him from marching against injustice. That's why I'm glad we have a national holiday named after him and...
Oh wait, I'm thinking of Martin Luther King Jr. George Floyd was a fentanyl addict who robbed pregnant women at gunpoint.
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They're both black. Therefore, they're the same.
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No they're not.
After all, most likely the eternal punishments they are receiving at the hands of their demonic tormentors are somewhat different.
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There's a Black Jesus joke in here somewhere.
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I don't know, are you capable of not seething when someone points out that MLK was scum?
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