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?
 
Never before have I wanted a QB to win the Super Bowl more than I do Aaron Rodgers.

The sports media, Twitter and Reddit meltdown would be amazing.
What's going to be even better is when Tom Brady wins the MVP then loses to Rogers on the packers path to the Super Bowl win.

The salt and the self immolation of sports journos credibility will be G L O R I O U S
 
We did it reddit

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema formally censured by Arizona Democratic Party​

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The executive committee said her inaction on voting rights led to the decision.

The Arizona Democratic Party's executive committee formally censured Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Saturday morning as a result of her inaction on changing the filibuster rules to pass voting rights reform.

"...on the matter of the filibuster and the urgency to protect voting rights, we have been crystal clear. In the choice between an archaic legislative norm and protecting Arizonans’ right to vote, we choose the latter, and we always will," Chairwoman Raquel Teran said in a statement.

"While we take no pleasure in this announcement, the ADP Executive Board has decided to formally censure Senator Sinema as a result of her failure to do whatever it takes to ensure the health of our democracy.”

Sinema is facing renewed heat from those who helped elect her after she and Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia this week were the only two Democrats to vote against filibuster reform, effectively derailing passage of voting rights legislation.

The slim Democratic majority in the Senate meant filibuster reform was seen as crucial for passing the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act -- a top priority for Democrats and President Joe Biden.

Arizona Democrats organized heavily to elect Sinema to the Senate -- she previously served in the U.S. House -- helping give her a narrow victory. They lobbied Sinema for months to change her stance on the filibuster, but many were unable to get a meeting with the senator.

With her refusal to change the filibuster rule -- siding with Republicans -- and voting rights dead for now in the Senate, Democrats in Arizona are fundraising to support Sinema's primary challenger in 2024. Influential Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said this week that he'd support a challenge to Sinema.

Over the summer, the Arizona Democratic Party promised to give Sinema a vote of "no confidence" if she didn't change her stance to clear the way voting reform. They issued her censure Saturday morning.

"This should not be a partisan issue -- the duty to protect our most fundamental right to vote is one that we all share," Arizona Democratic Party Chairwoman Raquel Teran said in a statement. "We were counting on Sen. Sinema to fight for Arizona, find a path forward, and protect our democracy, but on this issue she has fallen short. Right now, Arizona is ground-zero for the modern-day fight for voting rights, and we don't have any time to waste."

The Grand Canyon state is a hotspot for Republican-led changes on voting. After the 2020 election, the state Senate ordered a partisan review of millions of the state's ballots, which unfolded while the Republican-controlled state legislature expressed focus on restrictive voting bills. Republicans all but eliminated the state's permanent early voting list, making it so ballots are no longer automatically sent to voters who haven't used the system. The bills were a cornerstone of GOP lawmaking in 2021, and the 2022 session continues to focus on election reform.

Activists and voters at home point to these Republican-led efforts as a backdrop for Sinema's refusal to budge.

Sinema lost a major endorsement this week from Emily's List, a large political organization that bankrolls campaigns they endorse, including those who support abortion rights.

A coalition of groups -- made up of Democrats in the state -- wrote to the group asking for it to act on the issue. Before the vote, Emily's List announced it would not endorse Sinema again if she didn't change her position.

"If Sen. Sinema can not support a path forward for the passage of this legislation, we believe she undermines the foundations of our democracy, her own path to victory and also the mission of EMILY's List, and we will be unable to endorse her moving forward," Emily's List President Laphonza Butler said in a statement.

Those same activists have written to other big political donor groups, including the Human Rights Campaign, which focuses on LGBTQ+ issues.

Groups looking to fund a primary challenger have raised at least $455,000. Two groups have yet to single out a candidate, but other Democrats are lobbying Rep. Ruben Gallego to challenge Sinema. One political action committee, dubbed "Run Ruben Run," will funnel money in his direction should he choose to enter the race.

Gallego hasn't ruled out a run at Sinema's seat, and he tweeted a veiled warning after the failed Senate votes this week.

"I'm disappointed by the failure of the Senate to move the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. But I'm not giving up & neither should you. Let's work hard to elect good Democrats who support voting rights and defeat the ones who don't — in 22 and beyond," Gallego tweeted.

The congressman also told CNN that his phone has been ringing with requests for him to jump in against Sinema, saying there is "a whole lot of frustration over a lot of things that have occurred in the past with Sen. Sinema, and this has kind of been the breaking point."

Democrats vow the fight to solidify voting rights in the country is not over, but that fight will now continue for some with a focus on replacing Sinema.

"Millions of Democrats and pro-democracy independents are furious with Sinema," one fundraising group wrote in a post after Wednesday's vote. "Give them a chance to do something with that anger that can help turn the tide. This fight is not over. But together we will ensure that Kyrsten Sinema's career in elected office ended tonight."
 
@Oxous You continue to get the bug more than anyone else I know of.

And good! lets see if they push her hard enough to hop parties. Because the politics of doing that means she will vote solid Republican for at least the duration of this presidency, probably up to the duration of the next.
 
@Oxous I'm only getting the reply bug on desktop, it seems to be fine on my phone. Also, this will be hilarious if Sinema decides to switch to independent. I could see manchin doing the same, since its seeming to be that association with the DNC label is going to be a handicap going into 2022

nvm bug is also on mobile for this post I was trying to reply to.
 
@Oxous You continue to get the bug more than anyone else I know of.
I was a doubter at first but it's definitely related to post length. I assume the problem has something to do with the fact that Null's currently running this site on an unlicensed copy of XenForo.
Does a formal censure have teeth? Or is this just more impotent screeching?
To quote Wikipedia:

"It is a formal statement of disapproval. It relies on the target's sense of shame or their constituents' subsequent disapproval, without which it has little practical effect when done on members of Congress and no practical effect when done on the president."

As we already know, Sinema probably has zero sense of shame after getting mobbed by progressives in the bathroom. She's also been unrepentant this entire time so this is little more than the state party signalling displeasure.
And good! lets see if they push her hard enough to hop parties.
Apparently she only has like, 8% approval among Arizona Democrats right now. Either she needs to do a complete and total aboutface or she needs to hop parties eventually because she will not win in 2024 otherwise.
 
@Oxous You continue to get the bug more than anyone else I know of.

And good! lets see if they push her hard enough to hop parties. Because the politics of doing that means she will vote solid Republican for at least the duration of this presidency, probably up to the duration of the next.
No, it looks like a battered body ruse. She's a senator in a Republican state that the locals know is the most liberal senator. To avoid becoming a lame duck like Mark Kelly, she has to appear moderate to have some kind of Maverick effectiveness and pick up dumb independents.
 
Does a formal censure have teeth? Or is this just more impotent screeching?
It’s just impotent screeching, though if it pisses her enough to declare her “independence” and refuse to caucus with Dems in the Senate then that will be quite hilarious! I doubt she’d do it, but you never know.
 
It's part of a CIA/NATO scheme that goes back to right after WWII when they recruited a bunch of Nazi collaborators from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and used them as assets.
Except Russophile's go-to justification of Russia's actions towards Ukraine is to just call Ukrainians a bunch of Nazis. Besides Russia has a pretty big far-right problem themselves so they should really clean their own house first.
 
I was a doubter at first but it's definitely related to post length. I assume the problem has something to do with the fact that Null's currently running this site on an unlicensed copy of XenForo.

To quote Wikipedia:

"It is a formal statement of disapproval. It relies on the target's sense of shame or their constituents' subsequent disapproval, without which it has little practical effect when done on members of Congress and no practical effect when done on the president."

As we already know, Sinema probably has zero sense of shame after getting mobbed by progressives in the bathroom. She's also been unrepentant this entire time so this is little more than the state party signalling displeasure.

Apparently she only has like, 8% approval among Arizona Democrats right now. Either she needs to do a complete and total aboutface or she needs to hop parties eventually because she will not win in 2024 otherwise.
Would be funny to see a openly bisexual Democrat Senator switch parties. That would make 2022 something!!
 
Would be funny to see a openly bisexual Democrat Senator switch parties. That would make 2022 something!!
I would want more than that if I were a Republican. I'd want her to disavow CRT and piss off BLM. If she did that, the threat against her coming from them would serve as collateral. As it stands now, it's opportunism and gatekeeping is of greater value than converts.
 
Conflict is happening all over the place for the first time in world history? What's going on now has nothing on the world wars or the Cold War. The world's industrialized nations spent the first half of the20th century trying to annihilate each other, and then spent the next few decades with the specter of global nuclear annihilation hanging over them.


No one saw the right as "ceding moral high ground" on 1/6. People with a brain understood the incident was a clown show where the only person who died was a protester killed by a cop, and not remotely equivalent to angry mobs killing people and burning entire city blocks. Brainwashed NPCs who gobble up the 1/6=9/11 rhetoric always believed anyone on the right is pure evil, with the news coverage just confirming their views.


They wouldn't do that. One of the most important codes the elite adhere to is that members of the elite are not to be harmed unless they start acting squarely against the interests of the other elite (i.e. JFK). They follow this rule because it protects all of them. Otherwise if they do that to Joe, who might be next? Who might they put on the chopping block for the sake of expediency? None of them want that question asked, let alone answered.
Also, they'd never be able to sell it to the masses that a white supremacist killed Biden, let alone convince the American public and certain members of the GOP to pretend all of Biden's sins didn't happen and make a saint out of him in death.

TPTB couldn't even convince the bulk of the nation that Oswald killed Kennedy, and that was when you literally only had three tv stations and radio was still a big deal and even then, had to scorch earth LBJ to cover up a lot of Kennedy's sins (most notably, officially kickstarting the Vietnam War).

It would be easier and cleaner to just poison Biden and blame his death on illness. Scapegoat-wise, it's easier to blame a medical issue (heart attack, stroke, or even a freak allergic reaction to anesthesia if they poison him during a routine medical procedure) than blame a section of the general public and go jihadi on that part of the public.

Too many people have reasons NOT to go along with an assassination narrative and the blowback from it getting exposed would be a Pandora's Box akin to if not explicitly leading to Civil War II. Death by "illness" is cleaner and more believable at this point in the game if (((they))) want Biden gone.
 
No, it looks like a battered body ruse. She's a senator in a Republican state that the locals know is the most liberal senator. To avoid becoming a lame duck like Mark Kelly, she has to appear moderate to have some kind of Maverick effectiveness and pick up dumb independents.
If that were the intent it backfired horribly since Democrats in Arizona fucking hate her right now and she almost certainly will lose to whatever Republican comes next time.

Addendum: Also, Senators can't really become lame ducks...
 
Russia having a hard red line on Ukraine, a sovereign nation with no binding agreements, joining a defensive pact after being invaded by them is dumb.
If you seriously think a nation having a hard red line on an opposing force being able to set up shop right on their border is dumb you are beyond retarded and nobody should listen to anything you have to say regarding any potential geopolitical matters.

You don't have to agree or even like something to understand why it's being done.
 
>covid severity denial
Yeah, that disease that all except olds have a >99% chance of surviving, and most people who die from it have multiple comorbidities, so it's really a straw-breaking-the-camel's-back situation. Heaven forbid Bill Maher suggests that it isn't the modern day Black Death.

But that's the average Redditor for you. Stuck in their ideological bubble and unable to comprehend they've been gorging on misinformation for two years now. Probably more, given how wrong they always seem to be about every other topic as well. @Jaimas could probably tell many a similar story from his days in the bubble.

It's not just that. Again--it's Reddit. Think about the average Redditor.
I do casework trying to find jobs for felons, sex offenders, drug addicts, alcoholics, tards, and mentally ill people. When this happened two years ago, I very quickly saw that cOvId is a BLESSING and a GODSEND for this type of individual.
It was nothing for me to be cussed out and threatened by a client (or adult client's parent), for having the brass balls to call them to...gasp...schedule a PHONE APPOINTMENT (not in person, but phone) for their weekly meeting. Weekly meetings after intake mostly consisted of job searching and filling out/sending applications.
That thing that puts you in GRAVE DANGER of getting a call back to schedule an interview. And what made things worse was, the state paid the agency a stipend each week because of the "lack of job openings." Like...they were still there, but somehow the state was adding extra welfare bux to these people in the program. There was only incentive to NOT WORK.

So, while there miiiiiiight be a tiny percentage who truly think Captain Tripps has been released, I press X. We have way too many opportunists looking for a way to slide by without doing anything. Saint Fauci of the coofs is granting them Papal Dispensation to be lazy POS.
 
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