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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Oxous
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WHO says no evidence healthy children, adolescents need COVID-19 boosters
(Reuters) - There is no evidence at present that healthy children and adolescents need booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine, the World Health Organization's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Tuesday.
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Do we have a thread about Kamala?
Jimmy Dore is mocking a hillarious clip of her where she shows sever brain function decline. Is that transmissable and did she get it from Biden?
Remember, when Biden is retired to the dementia patient hospital, this is the person that will take over.
Jimmy Dore is mocking a hillarious clip of her where she shows sever brain function decline. Is that transmissable and did she get it from Biden?
Remember, when Biden is retired to the dementia patient hospital, this is the person that will take over.
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Probably start pushing to make Breyer retire already so they can get him replaced before the midterm in order to scaremonger people into voting in the midtterms.
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"if you want a dictator you don't love America"
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PLEASE LET ZOG RAPE MY DAUGHTERS THEY CUT 0.0001% OF TAXES HELL YEAH BEER TITTIES AND JESUS CHRIST THAT ABORTS WHITE BABIES
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When midterms voting starts, all their threats disintegrate.
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What's that "Normal" or "Satisfactory" rating below the person's name for? I assume it's a browser extension of some sort.
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Don‘t you dare tone it down. You are a good metric for older women. If you’re stating a flat out rejection, then I know something is truly wrong.
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@Oxous
Going line by line:
1. The president needs a new team, starting with a new chief of staff.
Yes they do, the problem here isn't a need to eat humble pie though. Nobody is possibly a peer here for one. Nobody has the gravitas or political weight save for Pelosi and they desperately need her to stay in congress. noot that she'd agree anyway, since the cabal has fractured apart so anybody brought up would need to be unaligned with any faction. Which is... well, needle in a haystack doesn't begin to cover it. So nobody exists to fill the roll, and if one did they'd not be an option.
2. The president needs to focus on American needs, not liberal wishes.
The writer again spots accurate issues, but again misses that there is no options here. The progs are a force now. With AOC officially kicked from their leadership they are off the chain and all news I get says they are not in fact bluffing anymore. They are making demands that everything they want be passed -or they will pass nothing-. Good luck refocusing when you are held hostage by your own party.
3. The president should remember that he won as a moderate and a unifier.
The president doesn't remember what he had for breakfast that morning. Though the writer here does have a good point and probably the most viable path going forward... if not for the progs and fractured party. It's more or less a continuation of point 2 and suffers the same flaw.
4. The president also won office as a trusted steward of American power.
What? No! Nobody trusted Biden to do anything. Even among his legitimate votes he wasn't trusted and instead it was simply "not Orange Man'. And playing brinksmanship only works if someone thinks you'll go through with it. Good advice for Trump, not good advice for Biden.
Going line by line:
1. The president needs a new team, starting with a new chief of staff.
Yes they do, the problem here isn't a need to eat humble pie though. Nobody is possibly a peer here for one. Nobody has the gravitas or political weight save for Pelosi and they desperately need her to stay in congress. noot that she'd agree anyway, since the cabal has fractured apart so anybody brought up would need to be unaligned with any faction. Which is... well, needle in a haystack doesn't begin to cover it. So nobody exists to fill the roll, and if one did they'd not be an option.
2. The president needs to focus on American needs, not liberal wishes.
The writer again spots accurate issues, but again misses that there is no options here. The progs are a force now. With AOC officially kicked from their leadership they are off the chain and all news I get says they are not in fact bluffing anymore. They are making demands that everything they want be passed -or they will pass nothing-. Good luck refocusing when you are held hostage by your own party.
3. The president should remember that he won as a moderate and a unifier.
The president doesn't remember what he had for breakfast that morning. Though the writer here does have a good point and probably the most viable path going forward... if not for the progs and fractured party. It's more or less a continuation of point 2 and suffers the same flaw.
4. The president also won office as a trusted steward of American power.
What? No! Nobody trusted Biden to do anything. Even among his legitimate votes he wasn't trusted and instead it was simply "not Orange Man'. And playing brinksmanship only works if someone thinks you'll go through with it. Good advice for Trump, not good advice for Biden.
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Sorry for going out on a tangent, but there are quite many elder democrats that will retire this year and not go up for election, I think 26 or is it 28?
Do you think these seats are ripe/in-danger for being taken over by the progressive flank?
Will we see two concurrent campaigns? democrats vs republicans but also progressives vs ordinary democrats?
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Holy -fuck- yes. The safe Democrat seats are going to, overwhelmingly, go prog. Any seats even remotely in range of a Republican candidate last time they went up is going Red.
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This sounds like the Democrats pushing even harder to the extreme left and somehow increasing the level of polarization in our society. What's the endgame here? What would an even more prog-centered Democratic Party try to do in 2024?
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You misunderstand a key point. It is not the 'Democrats" as a group. There is a civil war within the Democrats on how to take the party between the Uniparty Establishment, the Progs, Big Tech, and the moderates aren't even really a force in it. The progs will take those seats and every other faction will be horrified.
Though as to that specific factions end goal. Communism. No, seriously, they outright say it.
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Are the progs and big tech separate? To me they seem one and the same or at least as in bed together as the Establishment and CNN
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Progs hate big tech because taxes and shit.
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While big Tech tends to be staffed with a lot of progs, its upper management cares only for money and power for the sake of money and power. The politics is... secondary.
Also, on a related but side note:
A bit of a discussion on how our political parties work. Both of the U.S. political parties are what is referred to as "Big Tents". Each party has its generally agreed-upon values, policies, and opinions. Hence the "Two parties" idea. But the reality is a bit more complicated. Each major party is made up of multiple smaller parties which have their own focuses and interpretations of those overarching values, policies, and opinions. A Santorum is a very different politician to a McCain who is a very different politician to a Paul. But all are identified under the big tent of Republicans.
What we see with the Democrats is what happens when the big tent burns down. When those previously unifying values, policies, and opinions instead become separate, mutually exclusive ones.
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That's all well and good, but despite the civil war the Democrats still have to operate as a party once 2024 rolls in. That's why I asked the question. Unless you're implying that the Democratic party is going to either dissolve or be so tied up in their own internal struggles as to be completely inactive (which is ludicrous), they'll need a coherent plan going forward. What would that plan be with the progs gaining more power? Particularly if they lose their majorities after the midterms, simply stomping their feet and demanding social justice and reparations won't do them any good.
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Here's the thing, they don't need to operate as a party.
I don't know if you are American, if you are disregard this bit since it is me just explaining how the system works.
When an election occurs, there are actually six main elections with a bunch of side positions. You have the federal positions of President, Representative, and Senator. Then you have the state positions of Governor, State Representative, and State Senator. Each state has their own executive and legislative branches. Additionally, each Federal position except President is sent by the states to D.C. They are responsible to and empowered by their states.
So, why bring up the micro civics lesson? Well, if those internal struggles get significant the party will remain. but they would have no unified operation. But, they would also not dissolve or become inactive.
Rather, the states would be left largely on their own. Each kind of doing their own thing and operating on a state by state basis rather than as a single unified federal entity. If the federal party stops being able to function, the state-level ones retain their freedom. But in the end, they would not be operating as a unified party. And in the end, the Progs would in fact just be stamping their feet and demanding social justice and reparations. You are right it won't do any good. But if there is no way to reconcile the differences between the parties of the big tent which I mentioned in my post above this one... that is what happens. The Big Tent burns down, and the states will do their own thing until the federal-level party rebuilds the thing.
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Now, in the theoretical vacuum of a functional federal level party, wouldn't the individual state-level DNC be hideously vulnerable to an organized push by the GOP? Or is this one of those things where federal level organization is a marginal benefit at best?
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