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?

 

[spinal gas chamber]

Wtf the Loaf is fucking dead!?

Oh my God its real, Jesus...

And what he won’t do for love remains a mystery.

 

[Kane Lives]

Oh I’m pretty sure more than just consumers are pissed. Insurance companies are pissed, manufacturers are pissed, retailers (Amazon) are pissed, investors (including anyone with a 401k) are extremely pissed…. Maybe California and truckers are fine with it, but this is impacting a lot more than just consumers.

Agreed. The shippers might be raking in profits hand over fist, but they're just pissing the rest of the supply chain off. Nobody likes being held hostage to the whims of an unaccountable few, and I suspect they will regret it when a coalition of megacorps lobbies the gummint to regulate them out of existence.

EDIT: or lol, Amazon or some Big Tech equivalent simply starts up their own superior competitor and pours money into it being a loss leader until the rest gets fucked.

 

[Garm]

I mean, he's close to or at rock bottom in terms of popularity at this point. What did they have to lose by sending him out there on his own?

I've seen this too many times in my life. Whenever someone "hits rock bottom" some people have the drive, nay, the GOD GIVEN TALENT, to punch through and find even lower depths.

Apologies if this is late, our lolcow president's thread moves fast and I'm a little behind.
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Hopefully this spreads. Leave Biden crippled on the foreign stage as well as domestically.

Not just "crippled" but "nobody returns phone calls anymore" kind of crippled.

Build Back Better's dead. Voting rights bills are dead. And now the next legislative battle might be over... abortion?
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Psaki is referring to the Women's Health Protection Act, which was essentially written as a response to Texas's abortion law. As she said, it would de-facto codify Roe v. Wade into law and remove a lot of the ability of the states to provide abortion on their own terms.

The House passed it all the way back in August but it hasn't been voted on in the Senate. That's because there are two Democratic senators who would be expected to vote against it: Joe Manchin and... no, not Sinema! Bob Casey from Pennsylvania. If the Supreme Court decision drops soon I think this would probably be the next battle.

This past two weeks Biden has been stumbling around like he is wrapped in barbed wire and on fire and someone said "We need to make it rain gasoline."

Seriously, pack it up. You can only hurt yourself more by doing this.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

Palmer is a particularly weird individual in that he wants cosmopolitan hyper leftism and social justice shit but also aggressive corporatism and unfettered capitalism.

I'm trying to think of another high profile political extremist that wants both these things simultaneously and I'm drawing a blank.

The two aren't exactly incompatible.

You can lick the corporate boot all you want, so long as that boot has a rainbow flag painted on the side.

 

[murdered meat bag]

Andrew Yang sent out an email a few hours ago which made some predictions and comments.

Spoiler

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In summary:

• Yang says a donor told him several other donors are probably sitting out until the DNC can settle on a candidate for 2024. Which obviously goes against the official Biden narrative. Says there is some talk among these donors about finding a replacement for Biden and that they probably have multiple options.
• Yang says he's been in contact with a couple of people considering a 2024 run.
• He thinks the fight to select a nominee within the Democratic Party will probably begin before midterms, since Trump is considered to already be the uncontested pick of the Republican Party.
• Yang specifically names Sinema and JB Pritzker as being "among a host of new candidates".
  • Adds that JB Pritzker is one of the only candidates who could finance his own campaign.

really pritzker? he pulled a power play on the IL Dem party, ousting the long time kingmaker (name forgotten).

 

[Oxous]

I am a firm doubter that the Federal Reserve is willing to let stock markets crash by raising interest rates (beginning in March) to curb inflation. Hopefully I am wrong, because we all know inflation is worse than stonks going down.

 

[Only A Retard Sometimes]

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I am a firm doubter that the Federal Reserve is willing to let stock markets crash by raising interest rates (beginning in March) to curb inflation. Hopefully I am wrong, because we all know inflation is worse than stonks going down.

if the dems commit to throwing biden under the bus the FED might feel safe in rasing rates. it can be blamed on biden.

 

[Josterman]

another 747 full of anti-tank weapons heading to Ukraine courtsey of uncle sam. The Brits have also been flying C-17's full of rockets and the like several times a day for a few days. if putin wants to play he will have a hard time of it.
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This ain’t good how recent is this

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

The "my body my choice" argument really throws a wrench into the jab machine, so what if they want to get abortion taken away in a 5D Chess move to force jabs?

if the Supreme Court says vote to abolish it the left is going to get nuts fast

We might actually get a real insurrection attempt and left wingers trying to bomb churches. They "love" dead fetuses that much.

 

[Josterman]

The "my body my choice" argument really throws a wrench into the jab machine, so what if they want to get abortion taken away in a 5D Chess move to force jabs?

We might actually get a real insurrection attempt and left wingers trying to bomb churches. They "love" dead fetuses that much.

before that they will encourage some of their extrmeists followers to rise up and some not right in the head means to either firebomb churches or go on into a crowded church protestant or catholic and open fire. I’m already going to feel like that’s going to happen

 

[Oxous]

Biden will be spending his weekend at Camp David continuing to work with his puppetmasters staffers, diplomats and spooks trying to unfuck the Ukraine situation. Nothing of consequence will come of it.

 

[tehpope]

I am a firm doubter that the Federal Reserve is willing to let stock markets crash by raising interest rates (beginning in March) to curb inflation. Hopefully I am wrong, because we all know inflation is worse than stonks going down.

The Fed wants the market to crash to buy up everything. To be the only lender of choice.

Biden will be spending his weekend at Camp David continuing to work with his puppetmasters staffers, diplomats and spooks trying to unfuck the Ukraine situation. Nothing of consequence will come of it.
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He'll be sleeping and playing mario kart in the arcade all weekend while the real people in charge try to unfuck Ukraine.

 

[The Periodic Gamer]

Agreed. The shippers might be raking in profits hand over fist, but they're just pissing the rest of the supply chain off. Nobody likes being held hostage to the whims of an unaccountable few, and I suspect they will regret it when a coalition of megacorps lobbies the gummint to regulate them out of existence.

EDIT: or lol, Amazon or some Big Tech equivalent simply starts up their own superior competitor and pours money into it being a loss leader until the rest gets fucked.

Problem is, the 'gubmint' is in on it.

The ships that are anchored off the coast of LA pay money hand over fist in fees to anchor there. And the problem, the bottleneck, is the ports. California is used because it has the biggest ports on the west coast. Any time people want to set up a port in another state, in a bay that is suitible for it, a bunch of NGO's pop up out of nowhere to protest it out of existence.

Why?

Because California makes huge money taxing any shipments that go through the state, and will do just about anything to keep it that way.

Amazon or big tech cannot simply magic a port and all of its related infrastructure into existence.

Maybe the feds could do something about it, but if they did, Cali would screech bloody murder. Think about how they treated the joggers in the summer of love. Do you really think the swamp is going to alienate California when thats a massive chunk of their power base? Not happening. You see, those evil corporations, and those terrible people who this shortage is really fucking over? They live in the wrong states. The bad states. It's that simple.

Things will get better when the cargo ships start skipping california in favor of sailing through the panama at the expense of an additional million dollars in fuel, if not more. But you are going to eat that cost, not the shipping companies.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Supply chain is complicated.

TLDR is that everything is all fucked up.

Longer TLDR is that basically, the only people who want it fixed happens to be the consumer. California makes money no matter what charging fees for shipping stuff through their ports. The ports charge fees for shipping containers sitting on the docks. The trucking mega-corps get to charge more fees because space is limited. The dock workers get paid no matter what. in fact, this is good for them, because they have as much work as they want ATM.

This is benefitting everybody in the shipping industry, and fucking everyone outside of it.

The one exception is independant truckers, and those are basically gone. Between covid and California's insane regulations, independent truck drivers realized that because they were literally waiting 10+ hours in line at the docks, and even then couldn't always get their cargo container, between fees, buisiness expenses, and the fact they were paid by either the mile, or delivery, not by hour, sometimes they were making less then minimum wage. Some even lost money.

They, understandably, had a bitch fit, and said "Fuck this."

Independant truckers make up a huge portion of the trucking industry. The only people who really are picking shit up from california now are the mega corp truckers, who are paid by the hour and don't give a single shit, and the independent truck drivers too stupid to realize that they are being screwed.

A pretty big portion of the independent truckers retired.

And now we can't get more truckers. Partly because DOT says truckers have to be over 21, and partly because the shipping industry isn't willing to pay drivers enough to ship, because this situation isn't losing them money.

As someone on the procurement end, people don't quite understand just how ugly it's making things other than grocery stores. Shit was starting to get bad this time last year in some industries, like plastics and stainless steel, and it's just getting worse. My lead times on certain kinds of stainless have shifted from four to five weeks to four to five months. Remember when Texas turned into an icicle and the refineries shut down? Plastics and foam have never recovered and people never think of all the other things that oil gets turned into. EPS foams have about doubled in price and are difficult to get because some of the production materials are on container ships. There was a brief PVC shortage last year and ABS plastics fucked at the moment. Wood prices are creeping back up again and certain kinds of screws are fucked too. Shit's bad and a lesson about why you don't offshore all your industry to the fucking Chinese who historically are some of the worst trading partners in history. The Brits didn't create the world's first drug cartel and beat the shit out of China to sell opium for shits and giggles.

 

[thx1138]

"Paul, do we have some music for this? A little end-of-the-world music?"
"Absolutely, Dave."

 

[Only A Retard Sometimes]

This ain’t good how recent is this

it touched down 11:38PM (local time) 1/21/2022. In other news: the Czechs are transferring Artillery shells to the Ukrainians, the Estonians want to lend a bunch of east German D30 artillery pieces to the Ukrainians but the Germans are making a fuss over it. the US is considering evacuating non-essential diplomatic staff and US civilians as well.

 

[spinal gas chamber]

it touched down 11:38PM (local time) 1/21/2022. In other news: the Czechs are transferring Artillery shells to the Ukrainians, the Estonians want to lend a bunch of east German D30 artillery pieces to the Ukrainians but the Germans are making a fuss over it. the US is considering evacuating non-essential diplomatic staff and US civilians as well.

Well, our last evacuation worked out perfectly so why not?

 

[Josterman]

it touched down 11:38PM (local time) 1/21/2022. In other news: the Czechs are transferring Artillery shells to the Ukrainians, the Estonians want to lend a bunch of east German D30 artillery pieces to the Ukrainians but the Germans are making a fuss over it. the US is considering evacuating non-essential diplomatic staff and US civilians as well.

Shits getting hot

Well, our last evacuation worked out perfectly so why not?

second time is the charm

 

[Only A Retard Sometimes]

Well, our last evacuation worked out perfectly so why not?

Its supposed to be decided in the coming week to evac or not according to the rumors. Even in the Russians invade though it will take them a month to reach the outskirts of Kiev. The Ukrainians have been digging fortifications for years at this point and are much better armed and have real combat experience. The Ukranians have 655,000 troops including reserves but can call up to 6,970,035 in a full mobilization (according to the Ukrainians themselves).

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Well, our last evacuation worked out perfectly so why not?

I mean, this is Ukraine, not Afghanistan, it's not like the Russians ever got way ahead of our glowies and we're able to seize a major chunk of geography before we were able to figure out what was happening...

Wait...

FUCK.