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?
 
Isn't it a bit brazen and bad-luckish to name your Cabinet before you're even elected, let alone officially nominated?

Maybe the ol' TowinKarz brain is going soft after all these years, but I can't recall the last time a candidate for the Presidency had an official cabinet picked out ahead of time... though I do know they'd float names if someone pressed them, like who would they nominate to be Sec Def or on the USSC, but is it common to go to the debates with essentially a shadow cabinet already openly filled and known?

They don't have any other strategy. The idea has been floated that "a vote for Biden is really a vote for his cabinet." Biden is just a figure head.

Biden is to get the Boomers and Normies who want a "return to normalcy." The next level of people who actually pay attention to politics will say "eh, He's got a solid cabinet."
Leftists will vote because "Orange Man Bad!"

You are correct that it is bad luck since getting one guy everyone can agree on is enough of a challenge, getting a dozen that everyone can agree on will be impossible. But Biden's cognitive decline has been so pronounced and quick that they need to try something different.
 
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They don't even know who the pick will be and they're already decrying any criticism of her(?) as being racist and sexist.
 
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They don't even know who the pick will be and they're already decrying any criticism of her(?) as being racist and sexist.

I can't believe you would ever criticize these brave and stunning frontholers for anything! False evidence, stuffing nursing homes, supporting Communist regimes, a wide tooth gap!

It just disgusts me that you would use such hurtful rhetoric against your bette– uh, these woma– erm, these ovary-bearing BRAVE LEADERS that will bring down the OR—NGE M—N!
 
Question, what happens when Biden gets elected and the riots, and racial violence, and kill whitey keep happening or get worse? Who gets blamed? Trump's ghost?

What riots, Citizen? We are at civil peace, we have ALWAYS been at civil peace under Biden.

Spreading rumors of these so-called riots is treason..... if they existed, surely the media would mention them....
 
Is she really that popular? She seems like a nightmare.

The whole nursing home thing makes her seem like a sociopath too.
She doubled-down on the nursing home thing, too. The republicans in Michigan suggested that she stop doing that, she said no. They asked that she at least house the COVID people in separate nursing facilities, she said no chance. In a sane world every media outlet would be dragging her name across concrete covered in shattered glass over that. Instead all the news outlets still slather her name with honey and pretend like she's some virtuous warrior against Trump. She is responsible for something like 30-40% of all COVID-related deaths in Michigan.

Even before COVID she was considered an incompetent failure who lied her way into office. Now all of her faults are being written off as resulting from COVID. The media really is the greatest enemy.
 
Victor Davis Hanson hits another home run. No mercy for Creepy, Crazy Joe, and NFG.

Who or What Exactly Is Running Against Trump?

The inner-Biden at 77 is turning out to be an unabashed bigot in the age of “cancel culture” and thought crimes that has apparently declared him immune from the opprobrium reserved for any such speech.

By Victor Davis Hanson • August 9, 2020

As we enter the final 90 days of the November presidential campaign, a few truths are crystalizing about the “Biden problem,” or the inability of a 77-year-old Joe Biden to conduct a “normal” campaign.

Biden’s cognitive challenges are increasing geometrically, whether as a result of months of relative inactivity and lack of stimulation or just consistent with the medical trajectory of his affliction. His lot is increasingly similar to historical figures such as 67-year-old President William Henry Harrison, William Gladstone’s last tenure as prime minister, Chancellor Hindenburg, or Franklin Roosevelt in late 1944—age and physical infirmities signaling to the concerned that a subordinate might assume power sooner than later.

In the past, it was to Biden’s advantage to postpone his selection of his female-mandated vice presidential running mate, given the lose-lose choice of either picking a woke young African American female who may polarize swing voters while spending the next three months being vetted in the fashion of California Representative Karen Bass’s Scientology and Fidel Castro issues, or selecting a vetted, but off-putting former National Security Advisor Susan Rice or Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who does not especially like Biden and would be seen as hovering and rummaging about as an impatient president-in-waiting.

Biden, remember, is one of the few primary candidates in history who promised in advance to pick a running mate on the basis of gender and, as events would dictate, and by inference, race as well.

But now there seems an additional urgency to select a running mate, given the Democratic ticket is a construct, with no visible or viable presidential candidate. While traditional polls show a sizable Biden lead, at some point voters will want more than the current contest of Trump alone versus the media, the virus, the lockdown, the economy, and the rioting. But so far, it remains a one-person race, in the fashion of Clint Eastwood’s weird 2012 Republican National Convention appearance speaking to an empty chair.

Perceiving the Inner Biden

So we are witnessing a campaign never before experienced in American history and not entirely attributable to the plague and quarantine. After all, the fellow septuagenarian Trump, with his own array of medical challenges, insists upon frenetic and near-constant public appearances. His opponent is a noncandidate conducting a noncampaign that demands we ask the question, who exactly is drafting the Biden agenda and strategy? Or, rather, who or what is Biden, if not a composite cat’s paw of an anonymous left-wing central committee?



When Biden speaks for more than a few minutes without a script or a minder in his basement, the results are often racist of the sort in the Black Lives Matter era that otherwise would be rightly damned and called out as disqualifying. If his inner racialist persona continues to surface, Biden’s insensitivities threaten to expose a muzzled BLM as a mere transparent effort to grab power rather than to address “systemic racism” of the sort the exempt Biden seems to exude.

Biden needs the minority vote in overwhelming numbers, as he realized in his late comeback in the primaries. But the continuance of his often angry, unapologetic racialist nonsense suggests that his cognitive issues trump his political sense of self-control.

The inner Biden at 77 is turning out to be an unabashed bigot in the age of “cancel culture” and thought crimes that has apparently declared him immune from the opprobrium reserved for any such speech.

For Biden, if any African American doesn’t vote for him, then “you ain’t black”—a charge fired back at black podcaster with near venom. Biden more calmly assures us, in his all-knowing Bideneque wisdom, that Americans can’t tell Asians in general apart—channeling the ancient racist trope that “they all look alike.”

In his scrambled sociology, blacks are unimaginatively monolithic politically, while Latinos are diverse and more flexible. Biden seems to have no notion that “Latino” is a sort of construct to encompass everyone from a Brazilian aristocrat to an immigrant from the state of Oaxaca, and not comparable to the more inclusive and precise term “African American.” Moreover, while the black leadership in Congress may be politically monolithic, there are millions of blacks who oppose abortion, defunding the police, and illegal immigration. The best minds of the conservative intellectual and political movement so often are African Americans.

When asked questions, Biden’s answers so often reveal racist subtexts. A few days ago, CBS reporter Errol Barnett, who is black, asked Biden whether he would take a cognitive assessment exam. Biden fired back to him that such an unfair question would be as if he had asked Barnett whether he was getting tested for cocaine before going live. “That’s like saying,” a perturbed Biden exclaimed to Barnett, “before you got on this program, you’re taking a test whether you’re taking cocaine or not . . . What do you think, huh? Are you a junkie?” Note the tell-tale Biden trademark of racist insinuation delivered with punk-like braggadocio.

Note, too, Biden’s racist assumption that an African American professional journalist might be likely to be defensive about being a cocaine addict. Yet Biden should know—from the drug struggles of Hunter Biden—that cocaine is in fact the favorite drug of the white elite.

Mental Lapses as Force Multipliers

The problem is that in the past, a cognizant Biden was already racially edgy with his various earlier-career riffs about inner-city criminals, blue-collar chest-thumping about busing, and his more recent ideas about donut shops, accomplished black professionals on the verge of returning to slave status (“put y’all back in chains”), his racist descriptions of candidate Obama’s supposedly exceptional personal hygiene and ability to speak well, his corn-pop braggadocio, and on and on.

His mental lapses now serve as force multipliers and accelerants of the old Biden’s foot-in-mouth disease and render him often a caricature of a racist.

Politically, the point is not that he will not win the majority of minority voters, but rather that he won’t win enough of them at a margin necessary that carrying large swing-state cities such as Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, and others, will make up for the likely loss of rural areas and working-class whites, supposedly the “clingers” that “good ’ole Joe from Scranton” was supposed to own.

Even more disturbing, the media simply is unconcerned about Biden’s racial putdowns, stereotyping, and uncomfortableness with the proverbial “other.” And the more the inner-Biden racialist sounds off, the more ridiculous such contextualizing becomes and the less people listen when journalists and activists spout off about a systemically racist America.

Recently, when Biden has attempted to speak without prompts, indeed to clear up “rumors” of his cognitive problems, he simply loses his train of thought and utters a series of unstructured and unsettled thoughts that refute the very premise of his interview. The understandable Democratic strategy is to run out the clock and to choreograph a few post-Labor Day public appearances, to outsource campaigning to his running mate and future cabinet secretaries, and then to hope, in the manner of a 2016 Hillary Clinton, that he has amassed a large enough September lead to outlast a closing October Trump campaign.

There are problems with such a strategy, as we saw in 2016. If Biden late in the campaign stumbles in the debates, there is no post-convention remedy to reassure the public he is compos mentis or otherwise can be replaced by a majority consensus. Then the country would be entering something eerily similar to, but far graver than, the McGovern debacle of desperately looking for a new running mate after it was disclosed that an apparently perfectly cognizant Tom Eagleton—his running-mate for 18 days—had undergone two electric shock treatments in his past as well as undisclosed prior hospitalizations for bipolar disorder.

Biden’s Race Against Time

Right now, the Democrats have a virtual campaign and a virtual candidate and a strategy of running against the Trump news cycle. That may work, but it assumes Americans under quarantine don’t mind that they do not really know who is the Democratic challenger, or that Biden is, in fact, not physically or mentally able to function as either a candidate or president. It also assumes that the Trump-owned news cycle will remain as dismal over the next three months as it has the last five or six weeks, and that the virus will spike in late October again, rather than slowly burn out as it seems to be doing in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe.

Add it all up and the question is no longer whether Biden could fulfill the duties of the presidency but whether he can finish a traditional campaign over the next three months—without outsourcing his duties to a committee, or serially saying something blatantly racist, or simply disappearing to the nether world of his basement where saying nothing beats saying anything.



 
Two living Chinpokómon, a fake black dude and a large fat dude with glasses, are going to “settle” with Joe Biden.


Michael Moore and Shaun King revealed that they are willing to “settle” and vote for former vice president Joe Biden in the November election, even though they believe parts of his policy platform are “worse than virtually every major Democrat’s plan.”


The two far-left activists spoke in a recent episode of the Rumble with Michael Moore podcast.

“In all of the states where Biden campaigned for months, he got his ass handed to him,” King said. “In the places where he spent a ton of time campaigning, legitimately trying to earn people’s votes, from Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada — he got crushed.”

“He didn’t come in second, or third, or fourth in some places,” Moore chimed in.

“And there was zero enthusiasm,” King added. “People were basically making a clear statement that we had a chance to really, really inspect his candidacy, his policies, and we prefer these other three or four people over him, and in states like Nevada and others, the gap was enormous.”

“I ask people, like, ‘Did you ever like Joe Biden before he was Obama’s vice president?’ And people, almost universally, would say no,” King said. He theorized that Biden’s success in the Democrat primary has been thanks to “the power of being Obama’s vice president for eight years.”

“Biden’s platform for justice reform — the revised platform — it’s worse today than virtually every major Democrat’s plan when they were running,” he added.

King went on to say that a member of Congress has privately begged him to stop speaking negatively about Biden.

“I had a congressperson, who was a surrogate for Joe Biden, call me and say, ‘Listen, please, I’m asking you to stop criticizing Joe Biden,'” he said. “Now — I’ve never said this publicly — I have decided to limit my criticisms of Joe Biden to like once or twice a week.”

“So, I have something to say every day, and several times a day, and I’m routinely frustrated with him,” King admitted, adding that he “was so pissed” when this particular congressperson asked him not to criticize Biden.

“Listen, I will vote for the man, but I’m not going to be silent, I’m not going to lie and say that the plan was good, it wasn’t,” he continued. “I’ll vote, but I’m not gonna lie for him. I’m not gonna misrepresent his policies and say they kick ass when they don’t.”

King then brought up Democrats suggesting that Biden should avoid debating President Donald Trump. “At first I was like, ‘Are they serious?’ and I went and I watched the Sunday clips, and they were dead serious,” he said. “Imagine if Trump said, ‘I’m not doing the debates.’ Man, the uproar would be crazy, and so I hate, like, we’re in this period where it seems like Democrats, their goal is just to, like, keep Joe Biden as quiet as possible until he wins.”

Moore jumped in to clarify that this criticism of Biden does not mean refusing to vote or committing to vote third-party. “I think we all know we’ve gotta get rid of Trump,” he said, adding that he has heard of an Instagram group called “Settle for Biden.”

“They post these things like, ‘Yeah, okay, alright, I’ll settle for Biden,’ and they’re gonna vote,” Moore explained.

King replied: “Joe Biden was generally, like, the least preferred major candidate among young people, and virtually every other major candidate had higher enthusiasm ratings than Biden.”

“Young people have had to learn a lesson,” he continued. “Sometimes you get an opportunity to campaign and vote for somebody you’re crazy about, and when you get that opportunity, you should cherish it, you should relish it, you should go for it. Other times, though, you don’t get that. And when you don’t get that — you have to be more pragmatic than you want to be. You don’t get to necessarily be a dreamer, you have to really say, ‘Yeah, I am settling for this candidate.'”

With the Democratic National Convention (DNC) looming — scheduled to be held from August 17 to 20 at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — Biden is expected to announce his pick for vice president any day.
 
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer set to speak at Democratic convention as VP speculation swirls
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is scheduled to speak on the first day of the Democratic National Convention next Monday.

A schedule released Tuesday by the Democratic National Committee Tuesday shows Joe Biden’s unnamed vice presidential nominee is scheduled to give remarks Wednesday. Whitmer has been considered for Biden’s running mate and reportedly met with the presumptive Democratic nominee in Deleware earlier this month.

Several other politicians considered to be on the shortlist are scheduled to speak at the convention, including U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates. Notably absent from the lineup is former U.S Ambassador Susan Rice, another rumored VP contender.

Whomever Biden chooses to run alongside him on the Democratic ticket will speak before former President Barack Obama on Aug. 19. Biden is scheduled to deliver his remarks on Aug. 20, following Harris.

“Joe Biden is a man of character and decency, and of empathy and compassion who believes in America’s promise,” a statement from the convention schedule reads. “Joe Biden will speak about his vision for uniting America to move us forward out of constant chaos and crisis, and for delivering on that promise for all.”

The DNC will be based in Milwaukee, though Biden and other speakers are set to appear virtually due to the coronavirus.

Organizers previously announced Gerald Lang, a Lake Orion auto worker at General Motors and member of the United Auto Workers union, will have a speaking role at the convention next week.

Several former Democratic primary candidates are also scheduled to deliver remarks, including U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Monday; U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Tuesday; and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Thursday.

Other notable speakers include 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Republican and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., former First Lady Michell Obama, former President Bill Clinton, and other Democratic leaders.

Convention programming will air from 9 to 11 p.m. An official live stream for the 2020 Democratic National Convention will be hosted on DemConvention.com.
Earlier today Andrew Yang tweeted something like, "i would have liked to speak", so this must have been what he was talking about.
 
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