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?

 

[Socrates]

Bond tier villain lair is right. Holy fuck, even renting that space must have cost a fortune.

I'm just so confused, what was the thought process here? That chandelier alone probably costs more than I make in half a year. "Ah yes, let's have our candidates sit in a Louis XVI-esque palace and smugly chuckle at each other, this is what will compel the peasants to vote for us". What the fuck?

 

[AnotherPleb]

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Both of these pictures were taken today.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, lounging and comfortable in an expensive, air-conditioned room, talking about God-knows what because I refuse to listen to them lie out of the sides of their mouth, and Donald Trump speaking with the residents of Kenosha, who are attempting to rebuild their businesses after they were peacefully burned with peaceful firebombs during a peaceful protest. ... Oh wait, they started calling them violent now, didn't they?

Hey, if all of these riots are Trump's fault and the blame was always to be squarely blamed on him, isn't it interesting that the riots weren't mentioned even a single time during the Democratic Convention? It seems a bit odd to have completely left that out if that's what the Democrats always believed.

Goddamn those two images are so fitting for the reality of the situation today. The Democrats in the most expensive room money can buy talking about how they'll rule the plebs while the republicans are out in the mud trying to hear out the issues actual Americans are having so they can help fix them. And how is this election close outside of massive rigging?

 

[millais]

Some of my personal observations about enthusiasm and messaging. Today I saw the first Biden yard sign I have seen all year long. This was a tiny 1'x2' sign in a rich man's neighborhood. In the working class neighborhood, I saw someone set up a flagpole on his roof, flying a bigass Trump flag that was visible all the way from the main road that passes by the neighborhood. Must be one of those 3'x5' flags, if not one or two sizes bigger than that. I've seen other Trump paraphernalia earlier this year, but first time I saw anything Biden related, even including the primary season.

I also got a DNC donation-begging letter in the mail. Very interesting messaging here. Absolutely zero mention or reference of any kind to Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or taking back the White House, despite the fact that it was just sent out this week. Instead, the letter is ostensibly (ghost)written by Nancy Pelosi and exclusively talking about how the DNC needs to hold the House majority to defeat Trump and how Pelosi is standing up to Trump with her leadership of the Party.

Enclosed is a postcard of this photo of Pelosi in a meeting with Trump about Syria in October 2019. The way the letter and postcard text was worded, they were trying to meme the photo into some iconic moment where Pelosi stood up to Trump, but they had to reach all the way back to October 2019 for this image, and it's not even that great of a photo because I didn't even see Trump in the photo until I read the caption.

The short 1 page, front and back letter goes on to scare the prospective DNC supporter by pointing out that the RNC is outraising them to the tune of $212 million vs $80 million, and the DNC needs more money if it hopes to "buy back Congress". The only topical platform type stuff they have to talk about is the anti-police bills the House has been drafting, but they don't mention that the Senate is smacking them down, and also the played out Russian-influence scaremongering, which as dumb as it is, at least it's some kind of debatably topical issue.

Meanwhile, all the RNC donation-begging envelopes I have been getting are very different in the messaging. They all start off with a big ass rambling 6 page letter written by Trump himself (you know it's him because the letter sounds exactly how he tweets, like a retarded but enthusiastic child, with lots of exclamation marks and all the catchy phrases and insults he has coined). He hits all the main election issues (economy, taxes, China, virus, rioting, Biden, and so on).

Enclosed with the begging letter is a lengthy survey that asks for your opinion on all kinds of pertinent and topical policy issues that you can fill out and mail back with your donation, ostensibly for the purpose of shaping the Republican election platform to match the feelings of the electorate. They almost certainly don't read the survey responses, which are worded in such a way that they nudge the boomer recipient to concur with Trump's stance on the issue, but you are totally free to check the "Other: ________________" option for every question and write in that you think we should stop sending money to Israel or impeach the President again or whatever.

While the survey is pretty useless as a data collection tool, I think it is a clever messaging tactic for the intended boomer recipient. The survey presents you with all these questions about pretty much all the pertinent issues, and for each one they present you with a list of possible responses or policy stances on these issues, basically boiling down to Trump's (campaign) position, the radical Democrats' position, and the neocon/neolib's position. It's a little more subtle and nuanced than outright saying "we're right, they're wrong, so vote for us", and it does this without bogging down Trump's enthusiastic begging letter.

Also, almost like an incurably optimistic child, Trump's begging letter comes with a pre-addressed return envelope with 3x stamps already applied to it, in case you want to send him fat stacks of cash that would weigh more than the weight limit on 1x stamp. (The DNC expects you to provide your own stamp for their return envelope)

 

[Corn Flakes]

I'm just so confused, what was the thought process here? That chandelier alone probably costs more than I make in half a year. "Ah yes, let's have our candidates sit in a Louis XVI-esque palace and smugly chuckle at each other, this is what will compel the peasants to vote for us". What the fuck?

They're trying to look classy and refined.

As opposed to Trump, standing amidst the piles of rubble that once were businesses, left behind by the Democrats' own riots.

I'm not sure they're getting the right message across.

 

[TowinKarz]

Some of my personal observations about enthusiasm and messaging. Today I saw the first Biden yard sign I have seen all year long. This was a tiny 1'x2' sign in a rich man's neighborhood. In the working class neighborhood, I saw someone set up a flagpole on his roof, flying a bigass Trump flag that was visible all the way from the main road that passes by the neighborhood. Must be one of those 3'x5' flags, if not one or two sizes bigger than that. I've seen other Trump paraphernalia earlier this year, but first time I saw anything Biden related, even including the primary season.

I don't know if it'll make a difference, but the enthusiasm gap is real. I saw 3 Biden signs before the Harris pick, while there were already 5 times the number of Trump signs since July..... the number of Biden signs went up noticibly after he finally made the Harris pick and there was an official ticket, but, they still lag behind Trump signs by a mile and all but one appear in homes of upper-class types, I've seen only ONE Biden sign in a blue-collar neighborhood, and it "kinda" ended up being a stealth Trump ad because it actually didn't say Biden, but "ANYONE BUT TRUMP"


And here's something - I've seen one thing for Trump I haven't seen for Biden yet, home-made signs. I've seen serious home-made wooden signs put up that have home-made graphics on them, but Biden signs are always, always the same mass-produced ones you pick up from a campaign HQ, no variety, and NEVER home-made ones, even if the house in question DOES have custom "Black lives matter" signs.....

Again, will it matter? Who knows, but it's REAL. Biden's fans are holding their nose and looking away as they vote for him..... they desperately wish they had someone better.

 

[It's HK-47]

I don't know if it'll make a difference, but the enthusiasm gap is real. I saw 3 Biden signs before the Harris pick, while there were already 5 times the number of Trump signs since July..... the number of Biden signs went up noticibly after he finally made the Harris pick and there was an official ticket, but, they still lag behind Trump signs by a mile and all but one appear in homes of upper-class types, I've seen only ONE Biden sign in a blue-collar neighborhood, and it "kinda" ended up being a stealth Trump ad because it actually didn't say Biden, but "ANYONE BUT TRUMP"


And here's something - I've seen one thing for Trump I haven't seen for Biden yet, home-made signs. I've seen serious home-made wooden signs put up that have home-made graphics on them, but Biden signs are always, always the same mass-produced ones you pick up from a campaign HQ, no variety, and NEVER home-made ones, even if the house in question DOES have custom "Black lives matter" signs.....

Again, will it matter? Who knows, but it's REAL. Biden's fans are holding their nose and looking away as they vote for him..... they desperately wish they had someone better.

The enthusiasm gap isn't the only low-energy thing about his campaign, lol

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[Iwasamwillbe]

The short 1 page, front and back letter goes on to scare the prospective DNC supporter by pointing out that the RNC is outraising them to the tune of $212 million vs $80 million, and the DNC needs more money if it hopes to "buy back Congress".

Well isn't that a Freudian slip if I've ever seen one.

 

[FlappyBat]

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I know Joe's handlers think they can just lie and the rest of us will believe them -- and sadly, they might be right -- but it's also nice to see Trump's team just spell it on out for viewers.

That is an ad he should have had a long time ago. Directly opposing lies and in a compact format. Next time some boomer on Facebook hears that Trump has never condemned the KKK or supported neo-nazies in Charlottesville they have a a video to post back instead of searching through hours of YouTube videos and random blog posts.

 

[Socrates]

That is an ad he should have had a long time ago. Directly opposing lies and in a compact format. Next time some boomer on Facebook hears that Trump has never condemned the KKK or supported neo-nazies in Charlottesville they have a a video to post back instead of searching through hours of YouTube videos and random blog posts.

I really love the deus ex menu music style they have going the whole video. It's the little things.

 

[millais]

Well isn't that a Freudian slip if I've ever seen one.

That wording really popped out to me. I guess they were trying to say that the Republicans were the ones "buying Congress" in the first place, but if your answer to combat that is to "buy back Congress", it's saying that you don't inherently disagree with the influence of money in politics, just that you want to win the game on those same terms.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Some of my personal observations about enthusiasm and messaging. Today I saw the first Biden yard sign I have seen all year long. This was a tiny 1'x2' sign in a rich man's neighborhood. In the working class neighborhood, I saw someone set up a flagpole on his roof, flying a bigass Trump flag that was visible all the way from the main road that passes by the neighborhood. Must be one of those 3'x5' flags, if not one or two sizes bigger than that. I've seen other Trump paraphernalia earlier this year, but first time I saw anything Biden related, even including the primary season.

I also got a DNC donation-begging letter in the mail. Very interesting messaging here. Absolutely zero mention or reference of any kind to Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or taking back the White House, despite the fact that it was just sent out this week. Instead, the letter is ostensibly (ghost)written by Nancy Pelosi and exclusively talking about how the DNC needs to hold the House majority to defeat Trump and how Pelosi is standing up to Trump with her leadership of the Party.

Enclosed is a postcard of this photo of Pelosi in a meeting with Trump about Syria in October 2019. The way the letter and postcard text was worded, they were trying to meme the photo into some iconic moment where Pelosi stood up to Trump, but they had to reach all the way back to October 2019 for this image, and it's not even that great of a photo because I didn't even see Trump in the photo until I read the caption.

The short 1 page, front and back letter goes on to scare the prospective DNC supporter by pointing out that the RNC is outraising them to the tune of $212 million vs $80 million, and the DNC needs more money if it hopes to "buy back Congress". The only topical platform type stuff they have to talk about is the anti-police bills the House has been drafting, but they don't mention that the Senate is smacking them down, and also the played out Russian-influence scaremongering, which as dumb as it is, at least it's some kind of debatably topical issue.

Meanwhile, all the RNC donation-begging envelopes I have been getting are very different in the messaging. They all start off with a big ass rambling 6 page letter written by Trump himself (you know it's him because the letter sounds exactly how he tweets, like a retarded but enthusiastic child, with lots of exclamation marks and all the catchy phrases and insults he has coined). He hits all the main election issues (economy, taxes, China, virus, rioting, Biden, and so on).

Enclosed with the begging letter is a lengthy survey that asks for your opinion on all kinds of pertinent and topical policy issues that you can fill out and mail back with your donation, ostensibly for the purpose of shaping the Republican election platform to match the feelings of the electorate. They almost certainly don't read the survey responses, which are worded in such a way that they nudge the boomer recipient to concur with Trump's stance on the issue, but you are totally free to check the "Other: ________________" option for every question and write in that you think we should stop sending money to Israel or impeach the President again or whatever.

While the survey is pretty useless as a data collection tool, I think it is a clever messaging tactic for the intended boomer recipient. The survey presents you with all these questions about pretty much all the pertinent issues, and for each one they present you with a list of possible responses or policy stances on these issues, basically boiling down to Trump's (campaign) position, the radical Democrats' position, and the neocon/neolib's position. It's a little more subtle and nuanced than outright saying "we're right, they're wrong, so vote for us", and it does this without bogging down Trump's enthusiastic begging letter.

Also, almost like an incurably optimistic child, Trump's begging letter comes with a pre-addressed return envelope with 3x stamps already applied to it, in case you want to send him fat stacks of cash that would weigh more than the weight limit on 1x stamp. (The DNC expects you to provide your own stamp for their return envelope)

Speaking of Pelosi, seems she’s in hot water with Twitter as well.

 

[Alba gu brath]

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The enthusiasm gap isn't the only low-energy thing about his campaign, lol

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Strategy there could be them thinking that what Hillary did wrong, was open her god forsaken trap hole of a mouth. That, and with Trumps inability not to just shit post everywhere, they could be betting on him making the foul for them. That, or senile Joe really is just that senile.

But then, there's also the chance that they're actually taking the covid stuff serious, and dinnae want to risk killing ol' Biden afore the elections over with. Hell, could be a combination of all of that.

 

[The Jerk]

I'm just so confused, what was the thought process here? That chandelier alone probably costs more than I make in half a year. "Ah yes, let's have our candidates sit in a Louis XVI-esque palace and smugly chuckle at each other, this is what will compel the peasants to vote for us". What the fuck?

Keep in mind this is the same party as Pelosi, who decided that the best way to show how relatable she was, was to show off her freezer full of extremely expensive ice cream and her collection of quad-digit priced wine bottles, in a time where a lot of Americans were struggling even harder than usual to get by. And then didn't quite get why people didn't wanna latch onto her.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Keep in mind this is the same party as Pelosi, who decided that the best way to show how relatable she was, was to show off her freezer full of extremely expensive ice cream and her collection of quad-digit priced wine bottles, in a time where a lot of Americans were struggling even harder than usual to get by. And then didn't quite get why people didn't wanna latch onto her.

I honestly doubt they even know how the working class lives. Remember that astonished picture of Hillary Clinton in a New York City apartment, when she was a senator of that state for ages? As crass as people say Trump is, I have no doubt in my mind he'd be able to head to the local bar/diner of choice of any of his constituents and at least pretend to like what he's presented. Can anyone say the same about BidenHarris?

 

[thismanlies]

Which answer do you like best?

A. They know they already have it in the bag via cheating and demographic shift.

B. They've written this election off, they're comfortable continuing to throw tomatoes at Trump and scream Orange Man Bad.

C. They're warming up some kind of monster October Surprise they're counting on to save them.

I get that Biden is senile and can't do to many appearances. Maybe Kamala is too unpopular and their internal polls go down whenever she appears. But why aren't they sending out any surrogates? This time in 2016 Bernie was running all over the place to promote Hillary. Maybe the internals show that Bernie appearances also drop Joe's numbers by deepening the resentment of his followers. Isn't there anyone voters like they can send out to campaign?

It's also interesting to note that even as Biden has banked heavily on Obama nostalgia, Obama has done the bare minimum to support him. He gave a speech at the convention and then not much else. Michelle is practically worshiped by the Dem base, why don't they send her on a tour? This suggests to me that answer B is true and the Democrats have given up on Biden. Obama cares more about his image and legacy than anything else; he was embarrassed after he stumped so hard for Hillary and she lost, so he may lack confidence in the Biden ticket and not want to have more egg on his face when Biden flops. Everything from appearances by Dem leaders to celebrity endorsements this year comes across as people doing the bare minimum to look like they're trying.

I think it's option A but not for the reason you've listed.

I've sperged on this a couple of times before. But there's going to be a civil war within the Democratic Party should Trump win a second term. On one side you have aging establishment cunts like Pelosi who can appeal to the donors. People in her camp are in full control of the party, hence why Biden won the nomination and he "chose" Kamala as his running mate. The other side is run by progressives like AOC and the Squad, who can appeal to every motherfucker calling themselves an activist. If Trump wins 2020, each side will be blaming each other for it. The establishment will blame the progressives for being a bunch of violent retards who thoroughly alienated the moderates and the progressives will blame the establishment for running a senile white guy and a crooked prosecutor who couldn't appeal to black voters if she came in waving a stack of reparations checks.

They have to cheat. That's the only way the establishment camp comes out of this alive. Otherwise the violent retards turn their attention away from the small businesses and towards the offices and homes belonging to politicians. You think the riots these past hundred days were bad? Wait until the police guarding Pelosi's house are forced to beat commies like it's the 1960s. Any credibility the establishment has with the activist crowd will disappear the second those videos hit the Internet, opening the floodgates to nationwide protests demanding resignations.

 

[Ashen One]

They're trying to look classy and refined.

"We've already told the starving peasantry to eat cake soy, why are they still angry we let their fields cities burn?"

Every time these people try to show how much they relate to you, the middle class american, they either go full "How do you do fellow kids? I'm #AnimalCrossingNewBidens" or they dive head first into the "ivory tower elitist looking down on the plebeians" stereotype.

They could have done that Biden and Kamala talk literally anywhere in the world because it's not live, and instead of doing it on an office or anywhere that might be related to a political campaign they chose a room that looks like a fucking palace to host their event in.

I joke but these people genuinely embody that quote attributed to Marie Antoinette. They understand so little about the world outside their bubbles, they literally cannot fathom why people wouldn't just eat cake when their bread has run out.

For them the only thing Hillary did wrong was say the quiet part out loud too soon, because everyone there seem to believe they are some ascended part of humanity with the divine right to rule over the unenlightened deplorables.

 

[Memento Malum]

I've seen only ONE Biden sign in a blue-collar neighborhood, and it "kinda" ended up being a stealth Trump ad because it actually didn't say Biden, but "ANYONE BUT TRUMP"

Yeah, that tracks with my observations. I haven't seen a single Biden sign/sticker/shirt or whatever, but I've seen quite a few variations on the "Get Trump Out" theme. Only clever one was the "8645" sticker because it didn't explain the joke so I didn't realize it was political until after I'd idly looked it up. (It refers to 86ing (killing usually, but I'll be charitable and assume it means getting rid of here) 45 (Trump, the 45th president)). Not a great sticker overall, but compared to the usual drivel it seemed downright inspired, and I didn't have to read 6 paragraphs to get the message unlike another sticker I saw.

Trump on the other hand has a strong contingent of older white men proudly wearing MAGA gear, and a smaller but growing group of younger white men who wear Trump gear as well. The most notable was a pickup truck being driven by a pair of, I'd estimate, late teens, early twenties males with two oversized Trump flags flying out of the bed. Definitely eye-catching.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

him pandering to joggers is as effective as when Clinton made that "hot sauce" reference

I just realized that she made the "hot sauce" comment on The Breakfast Club. The same show Biden made his "you ain't black" comment on. The same show Kamala made her "Snoop and Tupac" comment on.

It would greatly behoove any Democrat to avoid the show because it seems they can't avoid putting a foot in their mouth whenever they appear on it.

 

[Alba gu brath]

I just realized that she made the "hot sauce" comment on The Breakfast Club. The same show Biden made his "you ain't black" comment on. The same show Kamala made her "Snoop and Tupac" comment on.

It would greatly behoove any Democrat to avoid the show because it seems they can't avoid putting a foot in their mouth whenever they appear on it.

Now I've just got this image of Biden doing that power dance after smoking a joint.
That, or he's the perv that slipped under the desk, either way, you've ruined the breakfast club for me now, you cruel bastard.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

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I know Joe's handlers think they can just lie and the rest of us will believe them -- and sadly, they might be right -- but it's also nice to see Trump's team just spell it on out for viewers.

Politifact won't do this.

They won't even do a whole segment on each of Biden's lies, unlike Trump.