US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)

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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?
 
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Damn now he's laughing and smiling?

Did this press conference happen suddenly? I don't remember anyone talking about it before now.
 
All I can think of when he says he's learning

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Diana Moon Glampers said:
Reporter says voters have a problem with school closures and that the GOP could use it to win the suburbs.

"I think it could be," Biden says. "Maybe I'm kidding myself, but as time goes on, the voter who is just trying to figure out how to take care of their family and put three squares on the table and pay their mortgage and stay safe, is becoming much more informed on the motives of some of the political players and some of the political parties. I think they are not going to be as susceptibel to believing some of the outlandish things that have been said and continue to be said. Every president, most every president, has had polling numbers that are 44% favorable, but you all say one poll showed him at 33%, the average is 44, 45%, one poll had him at 49%...the idea that um...the American public are trying to sift their way through what's real and what's fake and I don't think that as...I've never seen a time when the political coverage, the choice of what political coverage a voter looks to has as much impact as what they believe, they go to get reinforced in their views, whether it's MSNBC or it's Fox. What I find fascinating and it will have an impact on how things move, is that, uh, a lot of the speculation in the polling data shows that the cables are headin' south. They're losing viewership. Fox is okay, for a while, but the rest are predicted to be not very much in the mix in the next 4-5 years. I don't know if that's true or not, but everyone has put themselves in certain alleys and they've decided that ,you know, how many people who watch MSNBC also watch fox except a politician? What gets covered now is different than what gets covered in the past. I have a couple...I shouldn't get into this. The nature, the way things get covered, it's my observation over the years, has changed from everything from the Internet to the way in which we have self-identified perspectives based on what channel you turn on, what network you look at, what cable you look at, and it's never quite been like that. Anyway..."
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Did he have a stroke while saying this or am I having a stroke while reading it?
 
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"The fact that I can still stand is amazing," he says.

Mask question: what style to wear? When to test, where to test? Public is confused. Polling dropping. Why did you say you're satisfied with your team, why won't you make changes given that messages have been so confusing?

Biden: Messages are confusing because the science is...they're learning more about what is needed and not needed. One piece that's gotten a lot of attention is communications capacity of CDC. She came along and said, I'm a scientist and I'm learning how to deal with stating what is the case that we've observed. Look, I think it's like saying when we went through the whole issue of how to deal with polio. We moved this way and that way. When we dealt with anything else...this is a brand new virus. Brand new phenomenon. Some of it was deadly. Some of it was more communicable. This is an unfolding story. This is the nature of how diseases spread....So, I think, you know, I think about it this way, think about how astounding it was to be able to come up with a vaccine, you used to write about that, pretty amazing how rapidly they came up with a vaccine that saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Did everyhting get right? No. But...anyway. I'm talking too much."
 
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No wire, so no support., Told to stay out there however long he wants. Clearly not even given flashcards beforehand. List of quests is incredibly short.

He was thrown out there.
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He's now 10 minutes over his deadline. I think he's made his decision: he likes these reporters too much. He's happy to keep talking with them, at least they don't abuse him like his staffers do.
 
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Gehenna said:
No wire, so no support., Told to stay out there however long he wants. Clearly not even given flashcards beforehand. List of quests is incredibly short.

He was thrown out there.
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The only explanation I can think of is they now urgently want him off the table and 25ed in order to salvage what they can from the midterms.
Imagine having this guy in office and bumblin on and "helping" the midterm campaigns?

EDIT: It has to be that. The alternative wuld be that they sent him out to fix his poor polling. Huh? If that is the case, among his enormously big staff not a single person stood up and said "Eh, I don't think that is a good idea"
 
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Do you still plan to cancel $10k of student loans? Will you reach out to GOP about reforming elections?

Yes, he says, I'm already reaching out to them.

"I have no reluctance to reach out to any Repubican, and I've made it clear, I've now had the opportunity to travel for funerals and eulogies I've made, somewhere between 20 and 25 Senators and Congresspeople travel with me, and I get the list and we sit at the conference table and talk to them, I learn a heck of a lot, as President I can't do that as often as I'd like to be able to do it. One thing that is clear to me about polling, the public doesn't want me to be the President-Senator, they want me to be President and for senators to be senators...that role as President is a different role. It's almost 6, with all due respect I'm going to see you next conference."

Absolutely no answer on student loans.
 
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