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?
US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)
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nah, I'm sure there's some water pipes that can burst, or dead illegal aliens, whatever
voters are irrelevant
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I'm an atheist and even I will admit getting rid of Christianity was a horrible mistake for American society. This woman would be going to church potlucks and gossiping about her neighbors and scripture if we hadn't substituted the government for God.
If they manage to pass HR1 and make mail-in voting a universal thing for federal positions, along with preventing states from auditing/questioning electoral practices, they'll never see a 2010 backlash again. It won't matter if New Mexico is actually against them, they'll draw things out and make it roll their way in perpetuity.
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It’s hilarious how much this is a reboot from 2009, even down to pissing off and fucking over his base as often as possible. Back then they just gave cover to Obama because he was black but now that it’s some white guy who has been in politics since their parents were just a twinkle in their grandfather’s eye, they have no idea how to handle it.
A great start! Building back better indeed
A great start! Building back better indeed
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“How positively delightful”. Brooklyn Dad’s favorite flavor of ice cream is boot leather
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This is something to keep in mind. Remember that they’re going to do what they did in 2020 again whenever possible. Hardening the currently held possitions against further intrusion might be a better option right now.
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I doubt any of those people even like each other; they just tolerate working together to enrich themselves and screw over American citizens. They also certainly don't give a single fucking iota about Miss Melanie Benjamin. I wonder if she has any family or friends whatsoever, because that is an incredibly depressing fantasy to concoct in one's head; it seems something only someone who is profoundly lonely and empty would bother dreaming about.
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Biden has promised to reform Social Security — some changes could come as soon as this year
President Joe Biden has promised to address Social Security reform. Accomplishing that could seal his presidential legacy, one expert says.
What is it I always say, children?
Only Democrats can cut Social Security!
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Mexico's president says Biden offers $4B to help Central American countries
Biden's first calls to foreign leaders went to Canada's prime minister and Mexico's president, who says the money would be for Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's first calls to foreign leaders went to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at a strained moment for the U.S. relationship with its North American neighbors.
Mexico's president said Saturday that Biden told him the U.S. would send $4 billion to help development in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala — nations whose hardships have spawned tides of migration through Mexico toward the United States.
López Obrador, who spoke Friday with Biden by phone, said the two discussed immigration and the need to address the root causes of why people migrate.
Mexico has stopped recent attempts by caravans of Central American migrants to cross Mexico.
Biden's call to Trudeau, also on Friday, came after the Canadian prime minister this week publicly expressed disappointment over Biden’s decision to issue an executive order halting construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The long-disputed project was projected to carry some 800,000 barrels of oil a day from the tar sands of Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.
Biden told Trudeau that by issuing the order he was following through on a campaign pledge to stop construction of the pipeline, a senior Canadian government official told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversation.
The White House said in a statement that Biden acknowledged Trudeau’s disappointment with his Keystone decision.
Biden's call with López Obrador also came at a tense moment — days after the Mexican president accused the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of fabricating drug trafficking charges against the country’s former defense secretary.
While Mexico continues to pledge to block mass movements of Central American migrants toward the U.S. border, there has been no shortage of potential flashpoints between the two countries.
Mexico demanded the return of former Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos after he was arrested in Los Angeles in October, threatening to restrict U.S. agents in Mexico if he wasn’t returned. U.S. prosecutors agreed to drop charges and return Cienfuegos to Mexico.
But Mexico passed a law restricting foreign agents and removing their immunity anyway, and went on to publish the U.S. case file against Cienfuegos, whom Mexican prosecutors quickly cleared of any charges.
López Obrador said in a statement Friday that the conversation with Biden was “friendly and respectful."
The White House said Biden mentioned “reversing the previous administration’s draconian immigration policies.”
Trudeau told reporters before the call on Friday that he wouldn’t allow his differences with Biden over the project to become a source of tension in the U.S.-Canada relationship.
“It’s not always going to be perfect alignment with the United States,” Trudeau said. “That’s the case with any given president, but we’re in a situation where we are much more aligned on values and focus. I am very much looking forward to working with President Biden.”
Biden signed the executive order to halt construction of the pipeline just hours after he was sworn in.
“Leaving the Keystone XL pipeline permit in place would not be consistent with my Administration’s economic and climate imperatives,” Biden’s executive order said.
Critics say the growing operations increase greenhouse gas emissions and threaten Alberta’s rivers and forests. On the U.S. side, environmentalists expressed concerns about the pipeline— it would cross the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the world’s largest underground deposits of fresh water — being too risky.
But proponents of the project say it would create thousands of jobs on both sides of the border.
The project was proposed in 2008, and the pipeline has become emblematic of the tensions between economic development and curbing the fossil fuel emissions that are causing climate change. The Obama administration rejected it, but President Donald Trump revived it and was a strong supporter. Construction already started.
Biden and Trudeau also discussed the prospects of Canada being supplied with the COVID-19 vaccine from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan, according to a second senior Canadian government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
Canada has been getting all its Pfizer doses from a Pfizer facility in Puurs, Belgium, but Pfizer has informed Canada it won’t get any doses next week and will get 50% less than expected over the next three weeks. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has publicly asked Biden to share a million doses made at Pfizer’s Michigan facility.
The U.S. federal government has an agreement with Pfizer in which the first 100 million doses of the vaccine produced in the U.S. will be owned by the U.S. government and will be distributed in the U.S. Anita Anand, the Canadian federal procurement minister, has said the doses that are emerging from the Michigan plant are for distribution in the United States.
The two leaders also spoke broadly about trade, defense and climate issues. Trudeau also raised the cases of two Canadians imprisoned in China in apparent retaliation for the arrest of a top Huawei executive, who was apprehended in Canada on a U.S. extradition request, according to the prime minister's office.
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This is the "return to normalcy" all these people wanted. Seeing it all play out in the matter of days and seeing some people realize that a return to normal sucks seems surreal. His supporters all claim that election was legit, so what are they complaining about? This is what they voted for, this is what they wanted.
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In my fantasies, you get culturally enriched by imported joggers.
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Normalcy for them "is normal for us to be in charge", not about the rest returning to their normal lives, lockdowns are not going to go away any time soon, they get all of this shit because a orange man tweeted and said mean things on tv
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I agree i don't think we should rush DeSantis just yet. Not only is he continuing turning Florida into a solid red state. He also was able to deal with fraud fuckery before election night which is way Florida didn't end up like all the other states that went to Biden through fraud.
No one cares for the national debet anymore. That we just through it to other countries at this point
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Was Biden's justification to our fucking ally that it was a campaign promise? Are you fucking serious? He can't even give our fucking neighbor a decent reason why he opposes the pipeline except for he fucking campaigned on it? Holy fucking shit. I know it might seem minor, but he can't even give him a valid justification as to why he opposes it. He couldn't even say environmental reasons or he doesn't think the construction will be competently done or it might lead to more ecological disasters its just...'CMON MAN I CAMPAGINED ON THAT'.
Like I don't oppose Keystone XL and I can give better reasons why to oppose it than the fucking President of the United States. Jesus christ. Its like he doesn't even remember why he opposed it, just that he knows he campaigned on it for some reason. That is some really shitty diplomacy.
I hope our next President is an extremely corrupt, smart populist. That's what we need. I don't care about the party. A corrupt as fuck, machine politician who is a populist demigod. Why corrupt? Because you cannot run fairly as a populist, you will not win. You have to be absolutely ruthless. A corrupt populist would be a nice change from the usual corrupt corporatists neo-libs and neo-cons. I'm also tired of politicians who think they can win by playing fair. If there's a populist politician who plays fair, he will lose.
Like I don't oppose Keystone XL and I can give better reasons why to oppose it than the fucking President of the United States. Jesus christ. Its like he doesn't even remember why he opposed it, just that he knows he campaigned on it for some reason. That is some really shitty diplomacy.
I hope our next President is an extremely corrupt, smart populist. That's what we need. I don't care about the party. A corrupt as fuck, machine politician who is a populist demigod. Why corrupt? Because you cannot run fairly as a populist, you will not win. You have to be absolutely ruthless. A corrupt populist would be a nice change from the usual corrupt corporatists neo-libs and neo-cons. I'm also tired of politicians who think they can win by playing fair. If there's a populist politician who plays fair, he will lose.
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Did he even campaign on it though? I certainly don't remember the sources I follow bringing it up, and I assume that they would have made a big stink about it.
I mean, I know he didn't technically campaign on anything, but still.
I mean, I know he didn't technically campaign on anything, but still.
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Bitch is literally on record laughing at prisoners asking for water. She doesn't care what people think.
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She might not, but even the neolib establishment around her is probably cognizant enough of just how sociopathically unlikable she is that they realize they have to at least try to keep up appearances.
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I don't see the difference, both of them are pretty useless and don't really help anyone.
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Went out of town for the weekend, still saw Trump signs everywhere, really encouraging. At dinner someone said this is the most monkeys paw wish in politics they’ve seen to date. Biden wanted so bad to be president even as he is a puppet, but everyone is so not ready for prime time that they’re starting to buckle under the actual weight of running things. The media can only hold up the charade for so long before this starts affecting the liberals in congress.
Two things kept standing out in talking to people in a more light blue city: the lack of $2,000 is pissing more and more people off, and people are already tired of the fake America’s Grandpa angle they’re shoving down peoples throats. “Chocolate Chip is a focus group ice cream answer.”
Two things kept standing out in talking to people in a more light blue city: the lack of $2,000 is pissing more and more people off, and people are already tired of the fake America’s Grandpa angle they’re shoving down peoples throats. “Chocolate Chip is a focus group ice cream answer.”
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So in those terms, would someone like Chavez, or Mugabe, have a chance of taking down Biden in the next election? And would someone like that even appeal to the masses in this age?
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