US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[macrodegenerate]

My view on Trump VP picks. Take into account that this is viewed through the lens that they will 100% kill him if he doesn't liquidate the entirety of the intelligence agencies as well as their families with predator drones on day one. Dude should straight up dictate they are a terrorist org (there is more than enough proof for this designation) and have them all killed or sent to gitmo.

S+: Flynn: makes alphabet fuckers shit their pants
A+: Rand Paul: makes big pharma shit it's pants
C: Cruz, Tulsi, Burgum, Carson: inoffensive nothing picks that tempt assassination
F: Rubio: guarantees assassination as he is a glowie fuckbuddy

ULTRA PLATINUM RARE SSR HOLOGRAPHIC: Alex Jones

You forgot the Mythic Full Art Masterpiece Rare - Kanye West

 

[Dr J]

Welp, looks like Wisconsin's permablue now.

Not necessarily. Use them. Put a dropbox in every church and gun shop in the state. We'll see how the Wisconsin Supreme Court feels about them after that

 

[George Lucas]

Not necessarily. Use them. Put a dropbox in every church and gun shop in the state. We'll see how the Wisconsin Supreme Court feels about them after that

Fraud can get you maybe tens of thousands of votes. If the polling holds this will be a blow out anyway, like what we saw in the Virginia governor’s race.

 

[ForTheHoard]

Fraud can get you maybe tens of thousands of votes. If the polling holds this will be a blow out anyway, like what we saw in the Virginia governor’s race.

I don't know their capabilities. Part of me hopes that they break the lever off the fraud machine on election day and Biden wins with 2.7 billion votes.

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

I can’t predict how the election will go, but I can predict that the media has fucked themselves hard. They’ve all turned on Biden, but we also know they’re programmed to do everything possible to fight Trump. So when Biden refuses to drop out, they can do one of two things:

1. Keep attacking Biden, creating a civil war among the democrat elite as the propagandists rebel against their taskmasters and start scrambling to hitch their lifeboat to a new piece of flotsam.

2. Do an about-face again to support Biden, despite having blown their loads on attacking him for the past week, showing everyone in the country (who now realise the media was already lying) just how insectile and untrustworthy they truly are.

Through their TDS and retarded partisanship the media has manoeuvred itself into the worst place possible. Couldn’t have happened to a worse group of people lmao.

 

[UnKillFill]

I'm gonna ask a possibly stupid question. One that has very probably already been asked, but what the hell?

Does Kamala *need* to stay Biden's VP in order for him to keep those war chest funds?

I mean to say, Trump has not yet named a VP for 2024 (It obviously won't be Pence again), and he presumably will not name one until the convention, and yet he will also presumably be able to keep his funds, regardless of who he picks as VP this time.

Anyway, is Kamala even *officially* Biden's running mate for 2024 yet? (I know she is presumed to be, but my question is does she *need* to be? I don't know the answer, hence why I'm asking.) Doesn't that decision happen at the convention?

If she isn't, why couldn't Biden just say say.. switch Harris out for... Newsom, Whitmer, Mike Obama, or anybody else *as VP* and then just... bow out/get 25thd/'prematurely' die, etc. And make that new person the new Dem nominee by default?

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

possible stupid question of my own:

It's been 8 years now and I still see supposed alt-right lol people talking about Tulsi gabbard in all kinds of contexts.

Why? Has she ever been in the news since then?

I think maybe she is (was?) decent looking for an old lady and is not (wasn't?) far left commie. I think maybe the combo of those 2 things, coupled with a person getting firmware updates via a lifetime of Jewish media, they like to mention how they appreciate "one of the good ones" from the other side. I'm pretty well rounded you know, not like those other chuds I realize she'd be a great VP, Chad will pick her if she gets some help getting rid of the glasses/braces/bad hair.

 

[Kane Lives]

possible stupid question of my own:

It's been 8 years now and I still see supposed alt-right lol people talking about Tulsi gabbard in all kinds of contexts.

Why? Has she ever been in the news since then?

I think maybe she is (was?) decent looking for an old lady and is not (wasn't?) far left commie. I think maybe the combo of those 2 things, coupled with a person getting firmware updates via a lifetime of Jewish media, they like to mention how they appreciate "one of the good ones" from the other side. I'm pretty well rounded you know, not like those other chuds I realize she'd be a great VP, Chad will pick her if she gets some help getting rid of the glasses/braces/bad hair.

I think it's because the democrat bench has gone so insane that the only name that people still remember being moderately palatable was a has-been from 2020.

Manchin used to be mentioned in the same breath, until he sold WV out for that one Biden bill lol

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

I think it's because the democrat bench has gone so insane that the only name that people still remember being moderately palatable was a has-been from 2020.

Manchin used to be mentioned in the same breath, until he sold WV out for that one Biden bill lol

See if we're talking about politics like it's a a sport and the mistakes made by the other team and what they could have done different or can do in the future for a win your post makes sense.

But Tulsis name is brought up a lot as someone we want to invite into the klavern.

 

[pwnest injun]

I'm gonna ask a possibly stupid question. One that has very probably already been asked, but what the hell?

Does Kamala *need* to stay Biden's VP in order for him to keep those war chest funds?

I mean to say, Trump has not yet named a VP for 2024 (It obviously won't be Pence again), and he presumably will not name one until the convention, and yet he will also presumably be able to keep his funds, regardless of who he picks as VP this time.

Anyway, is Kamala even *officially* Biden's running mate for 2024 yet? (I know she is presumed to be, but my question is does she *need* to be? I don't know the answer, hence why I'm asking.) Doesn't that decision happen at the convention?

If she isn't, why couldn't Biden just say say.. switch Harris out for... Newsom, Whitmer, Mike Obama, or anybody else *as VP* and then just... bow out/get 25thd/'prematurely' die, etc. And make that new person the new Dem nominee by default?

AFIK, there's no legal reason they can't swap her out, only political reasons. So no hard wall, just thorny hedges.

 

[Gehenna]

I'm gonna ask a possibly stupid question. One that has very probably already been asked, but what the hell?

Does Kamala *need* to stay Biden's VP in order for him to keep those war chest funds?

I mean to say, Trump has not yet named a VP for 2024 (It obviously won't be Pence again), and he presumably will not name one until the convention, and yet he will also presumably be able to keep his funds, regardless of who he picks as VP this time.

Anyway, is Kamala even *officially* Biden's running mate for 2024 yet? (I know she is presumed to be, but my question is does she *need* to be? I don't know the answer, hence why I'm asking.) Doesn't that decision happen at the convention?

If she isn't, why couldn't Biden just say say.. switch Harris out for... Newsom, Whitmer, Mike Obama, or anybody else *as VP* and then just... bow out/get 25thd/'prematurely' die, etc. And make that new person the new Dem nominee by default?

No they do not. Short version why, who gets to keep the funds is based on the main ticket holder. So Biden and Trump for their respective campaigns.

 

[AnotherPleb]

The WEF put out a creepy paper outlining their plans to repopulate Ukraine with African and Middle Eastern immigrants and bring in Western corpos to strip mine resources after the war so between that and Russia's 20 to 1 KD ratio I'm not even sure I believe victory or even a stalemate was ever in the cards for Ukraine.

Hollowing it out to turn into a staging ground for Globohomo in Eastern Europe might have been the plan all along.

Always remember: while it is dangerous to be America's enemy it is deadly to be her friend.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Some news articles this morning.

The Atlantic dismisses the various "you're stuck with Biden because no other candidate can get on the ballot/use your existing funds" excuses as desperate bullshit from a failing campaign:

On Sunday, Rob Flaherty, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, sent an email to the president’s supporters arguing that a contested convention would be “chaos,” all of which would be “in service of a nominee who would go into a general election in the weakest possible position with zero dollars in their bank account.”

The point of arguments like this is to make you think, Well, I suppose the party’s hands are tied. That’s not true. And Biden’s supporters know it’s not true. Ultimately, nothing is holding back a change of candidate besides the people who don’t want to see one happen. No law or regulation prevents Biden from retiring and even endorsing whoever he truly believes is the strongest candidate. The choice is entirely up to Biden. Whatever comes next is up to him.

So what would happen if Biden were to relinquish the reins? The Stetson University law professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy told me that the Democratic National Committee could get all of the Biden-Harris cash and dispense it as the organization sees fit for use on behalf of another candidate. The Federal Election Commission is clear, she explained, that “a candidate’s authorized committee may transfer unlimited campaign funds to a party committee or organization.”

In other words: If the Democrats field a different ticket, the only way the new presidential nominee enters the race with “zero dollars in their bank account” would be if Biden wanted that to happen. The substitute candidate could ultimately have use of not only the Biden campaign’s cash but also its offices, computers, cellphones, and other campaign infrastructure, which would be treated as in-kind contributions. (The torrential downpour of donations sure to drop on any Democrat challenging Trump makes the campaign-finance argument doubly empty.)

The argument that campaign-finance laws will punish any nominee other than the incumbent is an embarrassingly weak one for the president’s campaign team to be making. But it’s attractive to Biden boosters because it has the veneer of conclusiveness. It spares Biden and his aides from engaging with tougher considerations, such as that several alternative candidates (including Harris, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer) outperform him in every battleground state.

Other superficially decisive arguments have been floating around—for instance, that at least in some states no Democrat besides Biden would be able to get on the ballot at this point. This claim is also not true. The UCLA legal scholar Richard Hasen told me that if a candidate were to be replaced, “this is a good time for it to happen, before there’s been an official nomination.” That’s because, according to Hasen, state laws typically say that for major political parties, whoever is nominated at the convention is who goes on the ballot. “I don’t know how there’s a state law that locks Joe Biden in at this point as the Democratic candidate,” the state-election-policy lawyer John Ciampoli recently told the nonprofit newsroom NOTUS. “How can a state make someone a candidate when the party hasn’t made him their candidate yet?” After the convention, and particularly once states begin to print ballots, the logistics become far trickier.

Axios says the interview was a failure in the eyes of elected Des and their staff:

Four House Democrats have publicly called for Biden to step down from the ticket, with lawmakers saying they expect more to follow soon.

• "The drip drip is about to be more than that," said one.
• Another told Axios: "We'll certainly amp up the public pressure as needed."

All the big donors are jumping ship. The Biden campaign's frantic "the money can't go to another candidate" excuse-making has led to people calling to not donate to the campaign or any PACs until he's off the ticket. Some have put up money for a last-minute mini-primary.

 

[Surprised Pikachu]

Trump’s VP pick - does it have to be a politician? I’ve thought for a long time that Lara Trump is a fantastic asset to him and she’s political enough in her involvement with the RNC(?). She’s also intelligent, loyal and gorgeous whilst not being blood family.

Reasons why not?

 

[pwnest injun]

Reasons why not?

Extremely bad optics. A Trump/Trump ticket would turn normies off bigly.

 

[Vic Viper T301]

the "Biden is as sharp as a tack!" lie

Speaking of, did anyone see this?

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Even Nate Silver is done.

“This is a pretty incoherent answer including a non-sequitur [complaining] about a New York Times poll, which he incorrectly claims had him down 10 points before the debate,” Silver wrote on X, sharing a clip of the interview. He added that The New York Times survey only had Biden down 3 or 4 points.

“I wimped out in today’s column and deleted a line saying he should formulate a plan to transition the presidency to [Vice President] Harris within 30-60 days, but I’m there now,” Silver said. “Something is clearly wrong here.”

He joins a growing list of people calling on the president to preserve his legacy by stepping aside and allowing someone new to take on former President Trump this November.

“The most generous way to put it is that he doesn’t seem in command, and that’s an extremely hard sell when you’re Commander in Chief,” Silver said.

The pollster shared a statistic that said 57 percent of people believe Biden will drop out. He said he thinks that number is low, and Democrats will apply “incredible amounts of pressure.”

 

[The Ugly One]

I think maybe she is (was?) decent looking for an old lady

now listen here you little shit

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Saw the claim that politicians opposed to "woke" think education beyond kindergarten level is "woke" -- pretty sure that's a SJW lie. Also being opposed to "woke" in higher education isn't opposition to higher education, as SJWs claim "wrongthinkers" "alt-right" are.

 

[The Last Stand]

Big brained theory I thought of while glancing at my Hedy Lamarr poster: when Biden dies, that would be the literal death of the Democratic Party as we know today. Nobody else now is marketable for a presidency. All cards were played to fortify Biden as a successor to Trump, and they fumbled the bag every possible way.

If the DNC doesn't regroup/reform after 2025, they'll be reduced to that party that acts against the American people.