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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din_far said:
Does she actually have to quit as Governor to run for VP? Seems unlikely that a power-grabber like her will voluntarily give it up, and it's a long shot to the White House.
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Ask yourself, is THAT the face of someone who understands "long term consequences of my actions"? She's already nuked her reelection chances and doesn't even know it.
 
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While we're on the subject of Gretchen Whitmer and the election, have a couple recent articles. I hope they aren't too off-topic.

Michigan is still sending elderly patients with COVID to ordinary nursing homes.
www.clickondetroit.com

Michigan considers change to controversial nursing home policy

Nursing home deaths related to COVID-19 account for about 29% of all deaths in the state.
www.clickondetroit.com www.clickondetroit.com
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"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last week extended her Executive Order that placed coronavirus patients in with COVID-19 negative patients. It expires Wednesday [today, May 20]. She’s now considering changing that policy.
“We want to make sure that it is thoughtful, that it is informed by the best data that we have currently and so that’s why it’s a shorter extension,” Whitmer said. “But we will continue.”...
[State] Sen. Pete Lucido [(R)] sent a letter to the Michigan Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney’s Office demanding a criminal investigation into the policy."

Our former secretary of state Ruth Johnson (R) is questioning our current SOS Jocelyn Benson (D)'s motivations in sending applications for absentee ballots to all Michigan registered voters. Ms. Johnson claims this is usually more of a matter for local clerks, cites the cost of printing and mailing so many applications, and questions the timing and possible political angle.
www.mlive.com

Ex-Secretary of State Ruth Johnson questions motive behind Michigan’s mass absentee ballot application mailing

Republican state Sen. Ruth Johnson, R-Holly, is questioning the motives and logic behind Michigan's decision to mail absentee ballots to every registered voter leading up to the August primaries.
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polonium said:
Great, now I'm having an existential crisis over whether the fruit is named after the colour, or the colour is named after the fruit.

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The color is named after the fruit. We didn't have a specific name for the color until the 1500's.

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I didn't know it was solved that the colour was named after the fruit. I do know colour is a bit iffy. I even heard some conspiracy theory that blue didn't exist until quite recently, which was a bit trippy.

I think that is the only Technology Connections video I haven't watched, specifically because I thought "Brown, isn't that interesting, can skip" but now I think I'll go watch it.
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What? They are probably confusing the fact that in the ancient near-east there wasn't a word for just plain blue, but instead names for light blue and dark blue.
 
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Big Gretch said:
“We want to make sure that it is thoughtful, that it is informed by the best data that we have currently and so that’s why it’s a shorter extension,”
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"The best data"? What about the fact that old people are more susceptible to severe complications from this very contagious virus? How about the fact that even Cuomo ceased this policy?
 
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"That's my girl!"
 
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din_far said:
Whitmer literally comes from old english meaning "white marsh"
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Drain the swamp! She even looks like a swamp monster!
SpookNuker said:
In English, the color is named after the fruit. More precisely, the name of the color was borrowed directly from the name of the fruit (and prior to the name "orange" all citrus fruits were simply called "limes" and being used as a scurvy-fighting staple on ships of the once renown British navy led to the use of the slur "Limey"). Before "orange" was used to name the color it was simply described as "red," "yellow," or "yellow-red." English is a glorious mess of a language, and the intersection of color and linguistics is an interesting topic. Many languages long had no proper description for many hues, like blue which was often just described as "dark" or some analog thereof. Technology Connections has an interesting video about how brown is not even a "real" color which goes over this.

But as for the topic at hand, Gretchen Whitmer is a power-striving cunt and I hope she gets the VP pick so she can go down in flames with the rest of the DNC.
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The color is named after the fruit. We didn't have a specific name for the color until the 1500's.



What? They are probably confusing the fact that in the ancient near-east there wasn't a word for just plain blue, but instead names for light blue and dark blue.
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Wasn't there some point in the Greco-Roman period where they didn't have a word for blue? I seem to remember very strange (to us) ways they describe the color of the sea and sky.
 
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SpookNuker said:
In English, the color is named after the fruit. More precisely, the name of the color was borrowed directly from the name of the fruit (and prior to the name "orange" all citrus fruits were simply called "limes" and being used as a scurvy-fighting staple on ships of the once renown British navy led to the use of the slur "Limey"). Before "orange" was used to name the color it was simply described as "red," "yellow," or "yellow-red." English is a glorious mess of a language, and the intersection of color and linguistics is an interesting topic. Many languages long had no proper description for many hues, like blue which was often just described as "dark" or some analog thereof. Technology Connections has an interesting video about how brown is not even a "real" color which goes over this.
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Ped Xing said:
At one point, "black" meant "colorless."

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>Tfw black people of color have no color and brown people aren't of a real color as well

Getting back on topic, there's no way that Michigan doesn't go red by a larger margin this cycle. The way that the Dems are handling this pandemic response is not only incompetent, but it's downright tyrannical. That's literally one of the few ways you can drive turnout for Trump even higher in the Rustbelt states.
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
If you were wondering how they were gonna make Michigan's little hitler recover herself, while also making her look vice presidential for Biden, that's easy.



Just blow a dam. You can blame the dam bursting on Trump, of course.
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Honestly, I 100% feel this dam situation was manufactured. It's too much coincidence. Life isn't that exciting on it's own.
 
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Just blow a dam. You can blame the dam bursting on Trump, of course.
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Apologies again if I'm helping derail this into a Gretchen Whitmer megathread, but if they actually try to do that, the feds have been worried about that dam since at least 2006 [Edit: 1999] and revoked its license to generate power almost two years ago.

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"Numerous violations and longstanding concerns that the Edenville Dam could not withstand a significant flood led the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to revoke its license for power generation in September 2018."...
[ETA: "The energy commission (FERC), which regulates U.S. power generation, notified the dam's previous owner as far back as 1999 that it needed to increase capacity of the Edenville dam's spillways to prevent a significant flood from overcoming the structure."...]
"In January 2019, FERC sent a two-page letter to Boyce Hydro, noting that it had canceled its scheduled October 2018 "functional exercise" at the Sanford, Second and Smallwood dams. Functional exercises simulate an emergency to test preparedness."...
"That action came after years of citations issued by FERC against the owners of the Edenville dam. They included violations for making unauthorized repairs, unauthorized earth moving, failure to file proper safety plans, failure to provide recreational areas and public access, failure to secure necessary property rights and failure to comply with water quality orders."...
""Michigan DEQ has extensive dam safety regulations, including enforcement mechanisms such as the ability to commence a civil action for appropriate relief for violations," commissioners found."
"For over 14 years, the commission has gone to great lengths to compel compliance with the license requirements and Boyce Hydro has delayed, disregarded its responsibility, and claimed that it was not financially capable of meeting such requirements. Meanwhile, Boyce Hydro continued to benefit from the revenues generated by the project."

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CeleryStalks said:
Apologies again if I'm helping derail this into a Gretchen Whitmer megathread, but if they actually try to do that, the feds have been worried about that dam since at least 2006 and revoked its license to generate power almost two years ago.

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Some highlights:
"Numerous violations and longstanding concerns that the Edenville Dam could not withstand a significant flood led the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to revoke its license for power generation in September 2018."...
"In January 2019, FERC sent a two-page letter to Boyce Hydro, noting that it had canceled its scheduled October 2018 "functional exercise" at the Sanford, Second and Smallwood dams. Functional exercises simulate an emergency to test preparedness."...
"That action came after years of citations issued by FERC against the owners of the Edenville dam. They included violations for making unauthorized repairs, unauthorized earth moving, failure to file proper safety plans, failure to provide recreational areas and public access, failure to secure necessary property rights and failure to comply with water quality orders."...
""Michigan DEQ has extensive dam safety regulations, including enforcement mechanisms such as the ability to commence a civil action for appropriate relief for violations," commissioners found."
"For over 14 years, the commission has gone to great lengths to compel compliance with the license requirements and Boyce Hydro has delayed, disregarded its responsibility, and claimed that it was not financially capable of meeting such requirements. Meanwhile, Boyce Hydro continued to benefit from the revenues generated by the project."
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So this was a dam disaster in the making.

If she gets picked, Trump should refer to her as that dam governor.
 
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The Littlest Shitlord said:
I wonder how many employees working on the dam were considered 'essential'. Is it possible that they were not working, and had they been allowed to work, something could have been done?
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When the feds and every other regulatory body in the area have been pestering the dam's management about safety compliance for the last two years, I somewhat doubt this was a stunt triggered by Whitmer's dalliance with authoritarianism.
 
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