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?

 

[Stoneheart]

black vote don't matter, 10% of the black vote is 1% of the total vote.

5% switch in negro vote localy could mean 60 votes more in the EC

 

[murdered meat bag]

If they lose the election and the popular vote then I think that will be moment where the Woke Left will be imperially perma-fucked and the DNC establishment will fully wash their hands of BLM and Antifa. They might even use them as scapegoats for getting four more years of Trump and can easily pull that narrative off by tying them in with the preexisting narrative about Bernie Sanders and maybe the "muh Russian collusion" one as well.

The outcome is going to be close either way, especially if voter fraud's a prevalent issue this year

I think if Biden loses the election then he'll probably lose the popular vote as well since even in the big cities he's got no energy and turnout is probably going to be low across the board. The DNC

you need corporations to stop pandering to the woke shit.

E: you've always had your jim hightowers, ward churchhills and sister souljahs and they've had the ears of various politcians. but it never mattered until your hr department made it company policy worth terminating for and all that happened around in the 2010s.

 

[Harvey Danger]

black vote don't matter, 10% of the black vote is 1% of the total vote.
People argue over the black vote because of the huge chunk of whites that vote based on what blacks want.

It matters more in states where single cities with large black populations provide reliable blue votes. Georgia, Florida, Illinois, the Carolinas, Maryland, and to an extent New York.

Does that mean any of those states flip? Maybe, maybe not. Hitting that threshold makes FL really hard to get, the rest of the South nearly impossible to get. IL and NY wouldn't flip, but in an election like this one where Trump may be down only 5% in NY, it does force Democrats to spend money defending previously safe areas.

The sick truth is that blacks are such an important bloc for the Democrats because the Democrats get them for free. They don't have to spend any real money; they just call the other guy racist, hire an African-American Outreach Director, and make sure some black people are on the stage at some campaign events. That's it. They stopped passing policies and trying to help blacks a while ago, focusing instead on other constituents.

If they have to come back and re-acquire black votes, it bleeds time and money that they haven't planned for.

 

[It's HK-47]

If anyone was curious, this was taken at Joe Biden's ramble from earlier in the day.

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

you need corporations to stop pandering to the woke shit.

E: you've always had your jim hightowers, ward churchhills and sister souljahs and they've had the ears of various politcians. but it never mattered until your hr department made it company policy worth terminating for and all that happened around in the 2010s.

The problem with that is corporations are always going to put short term profit in front of everything else, including culture. Throw in the fact we actually subsidize a lot of those corporations and many CEO have learned to jump from company to company in a twisted game of musical chairs while they just keep making more & more money (and the corporations they leave behind implode 5 or so years later).... well it is a long term recipe for catastrophic disaster.

 

[Corn Flakes]

If they have to come back and re-acquire black votes, it bleeds time and money that they haven't planned for.

Money they likely don't have either.

Hillary outspent Trump 2 to 1 in 2016. The Democrats are spending far less this time around, on an election they argue is even more important than 2016. There's a reason for that, and it's not just because Biden is cooped up in his basement due to COVID.

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

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If anyone was curious, this was taken at Joe Biden's ramble from earlier in the day.

Jesus Christ did they film this at the local reserve center

 

[CrippleThreat]

Money they likely don't have either.

Hillary outspent Trump 2 to 1 in 2016. The Democrats are spending far less this time around, on an election they argue is even more important than 2016. There's a reason for that, and it's not just because Biden is cooped up in his basement due to COVID.

Mail fraud must be one expensive venture.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Mail fraud must be one expensive venture.

About 50 bucks a pop, according to this article.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

The commies are begging to COPE and SEETHE.

 

[Extremist Frank]

the sheer irony of this statement coupled with the fact they posted the follow-up response immediately after the first post is beyond comical

 

[Kane Lives]

the sheer irony of this statement coupled with the fact they posted the follow-up response immediately after the first post is beyond comical

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Gee, Joe. You had your chance to condemn the violence... 90 fucking days ago.

Welcome to the party; everyone's already left.

 

[It's HK-47]

the sheer irony of this statement coupled with the fact they posted the follow-up response immediately after the first post is beyond comical

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"We must strictly and fully enforce our law and have no tolerance for anarchy and no tolerance--zero--for violence."

Nevermind the fact that Trump's been condemning and talking about this stuff for the past three months--where-as Joe didn't start talking about it until the polls inverted on him--Trump literally said this shit earlier in the day but Joe's Twitter handlers are gigantic sacks of shit who lie so blatantly that even by politician standards it's really fucking annoying.

 

[tehpope]

To Joe's handlers:

 

[GuntPunt]

the sheer irony of this statement coupled with the fact they posted the follow-up response immediately after the first post is beyond comical

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This gaslighting to try and pin Trump is going to go on deaf ears with a month of riots in LA in between this statement and the debates. You know, if it doesn't backfire first. He has the baton of being a coward when the country is begging for strength, but can't pass it to Trump without a seismic shift to occur. They are desperately trying with Rittenhouse, but it isn't shifting the needle much.

 

[AGreatDipAtAFairPrice]

So, I saw Joe Biden's 22 minute speech yesterday. 22 minute speech and everybody ran out the room. Whoopity do. A fistful of handpicked brown-noser "journalists" sit in their precious little Social Distancing Circles for 20 minutes then run out the room.

President Trump actually being in Kenosha is going to blow Kamala/Biden away.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

So, I saw Joe Biden's 22 minute speech yesterday. 22 minute speech and everybody ran out the room. Whoopity do. A fistful of handpicked brown-noser "journalists" sit in their precious little Social Distancing Circles for 20 minutes then run out the room.

President Trump actually being in Kenosha is going to blow Kamala/Biden away.

Oh, they’re already working on it.

 

[Vaclav]

The thing about Woke Leftism is that it's more or less filling the same niche for the Democrats that Traditionalist Protestant Christianity served for the Republicans during the eras of Clinton and Bush Jr. (also Reagan and Bush Sr. to a lesser extent) in that it's the one gimmick they have that sets them apart from being the generic corporatist party.

It wasn't until Trump came along that the GOP was even able to make headway on shaking off the mantle, and the idea had been floated around and discussed after the 2012 Election and if Biden loses 2020, I suspect the Democrats will have a similar post-election autopsy that forces them to admit some harsh truths and make some tough calls behind closed doors.

Exactly this. Wokeism is for the Democrats what Evangelical Christianity was for Republicans.

But here's the big difference: the Republicans were never true believers in their "state religion." The Democrats are. There was a book called "Tempting Faith" written by a guy named David Kuo who was the deputy director for the Faith-Based Initiatives department in the Bush Administration. He described how the administration staff mocked and insulted religion, how transparently obvious it was they were just using it for political gain.

The only recent big-time Republican who was really religious was Mike Huckabee. He's the only one who if you pay attention to, he actually quotes the Bible off the cuff and makes decisions based on Christian philosophy. Unfortunately, his Christian virtues during his time as a Arkansas governor led him to grant clemency to a guy named Maurice Clemmons who went on to kill 4 cops in Washington State, probably because he learned to spout some Bible verses. That incident probably would have tripped him up if he ever got closer to the presidential nomination than he did.

John Ashcroft was also sincerely religious, though he wasn't an elected official. It's funny, when Bush was elected people thought that as Attorney General he would be a terrifying menace trying to replace the Constitution with the Bible. What ended up happening was that he refused to sign off on torturing detainees in Iraq even when he was essentially under torture himself, which led to him being replaced.

For the rest of the Repubs, you can tell that they only think about religion when deciding how to pander for votes. It was the same during Reagan: there was a Reagan White House official who said something along the lines of "We love the religious folks. We hug 'em so close they can't even more their arms."

The Democrats are different. Many, possibly most of the people who form the core of the party's organization are true believers. They fired a guy named David Shor who worked as a statistical analyst for the party because he suggested that violent protests would drive Republican voter turnout:

Big Sister Is Watching You

This guy was one of the best in the business and super loyal, making like 150k/year from the Democrats when he could have worked at an ad company for 500k+. But he was purged by the woke for citing studies indicating that the riots could hurt Dems on Election Day.

Part of the reason the Democrats are like this is that intersectionality doesn't appear to be a religion at first glance. Like a religion, it's based on unfalsifiable ideas and offers a framework for meaning in people's lives, but it doesn't make any supernatural claims about gods or the afterlife or the creation of the world, so it's not subject to the same scrutiny. Enforcing woke ideas with government power should be stopped on the basis of the establishment clause, the same reason the courts would stop the government enforcing religious laws, but most people don't grasp that it's the same way of thinking.

The Republicans would never have become the Bible Party and put preachers in charge like American Ayatollahs. Because the woke belief system doesn't look like a traditional religion the Democrats embraced it uncritically, and now it's taken over the heart of their party.

 

[soy_king]

I honestly dont think the current crop of Democrat leaders are capable of as my serious level of introspection. If they were, they would be in the situation they're currently in.

No, they will only double down even more and enter a purge cycle and we outsiders can only watch and wait to see which faction will emerge from the carnage.

My guess would be the progressives sadly. They have the unity and the raw energy to fight to the last breath, plus they have they have the moral certainty that will allow them to trash anyone, literally anyone who speaks out against them. Yes even St Obama himself should he interfere.

Never underestimate the power of that moral sanction the progressives have wrapped themselves up in. Its a powerful armor that they wear. They're 100% sure that they are in the moral right, that they have the one true path and anyone openly opposing them is just plain evil and so can be de-personed and dealt with harshly. After all they're EVIL right? So fuck em, beat them kill them, destroy them it's all in the cause of a greater good. You don't openly support us 100%? Then your evil too! Do you want to be evil? If yes then get what you deserve if not, then bow down and get on board hertic.

It's nothing new,just another zealous outcropping of the human psyche. We have seen it time and time again.

The modems and neos lack that sense of certainty and will bow before it I think, in the long run. They might have the institutional power and money but deep inside they will quail before the zealots because in their hearts they will not believe.

Zealotry loses in the end a lot, for the very reasons that you stated. Sooner or later powerful people get tired of dealing with the zealots, and as they drive away enough ordinary people, the people in power will be emboldened to use any means necessary to snuff them out. It happened with the flagellants, it happened in Munster, and it happened with the Red Guards. no amount of moral armor saved them.

 

[Cold Root Beer]

In the (horrifying) scenario where Biden wins in November, do you guys foresee Biden keeping all the riot and covid lockdown bullshit going, or now that it's purpose has been served does he snuff it out?