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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Dark Edea
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President Biden is so inconsequential that the media are still wholly focused on President Trump. It is all I've seen on the morning shows so far.
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Imagine believing a bunch of cynical career politicians live life exactly like a 90s sitcom, then thinking that idea was so brilliant you needed to share it with the world.
Jesus tittyfucking Christ. How fucking sad is your life when even Twitter thinks you live in a bizarre Dem fapfic world?
She's one of the most toxic personalities on the Dem side, IMO. This was evidenced by how, despite being an absolute media darling in the primaries (I guess because POC?), she got utterly eviscerated on live TV by a political non-entity in Tulsi Gabbard, never recovered any momentum despite constant fawning coverage, and then got the token nomination as VP... because brown woman and absolutely no other reason, and they made sure to minimize her campaigning despite Biden being debatably braindead. She's a Hillary clone, except she's even worse than Hillary at hiding her utter disdain for the plebs.
She should be sitting in some cozy appointed position in Cali being awful, but her sociopathic narcissism has bigger ideas.
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His 100-day evaluation is going to be "he was not Trump for 100 days straight, we nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize!".
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As a leftist, this is why I find all the hysteria in US politics about "the left" pretty hilarious.
A good 90% of "leftists" in the US are just Radical-Neoliberals who focus on Neoliberal identity issues that corporations want like BLM/LGBT shit because it allows the more successful use of selling identity in marketing and the 10% of us actual Leftists who remain.
We have nobody that is even involved in machine politics, not a single person that really hits any winning combo of "extremely machiavellian, good public speaker, good networker and good looking". I mean, the closest figure the left has is Jimmy Dore, and does anyone see a stoner ex-bricklayer as leading a mass movement victory against the Dems and Republicans? Guy would fall down the stairs and land on 5 bullets that lodged themselves into the back of his head the moment he hit 5% in the polls. Even serious fighters who knew the dangers of the game like Long and Hampton got the bullet.
How can the left be such a "threat" in US politics when the left couldn't even punch it's way out of a paper bag without arguing first is it racist to punch something that's brown, is it toxic masculinity to use strength and violence as a means to escape and will the sound of ripping paper hurt the ears of autistic comrades?
A really good audio/book worth listening too/reading on the sort of intellect and tactical thinking you need to play the game is October by China Mieville. It really shows what sort of person can successfully lead a mass movement when literally everyone, including their own party, started off against them. (also doesn't hurt it's legit one of the most gripping and entertaining history books there are)
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Get ready for it to ramp the fuck up when they impeach him again. They are going to talk about him as if he never left office. Watch Biden and the Dems closely while that bs goes on, I suspect a lot of shady shit will go down while they put on bread and circuses for the masses.
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In my town there are now more Trump signs than before the election. I have no idea where they got them.
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Newsom sees the writing on the wall and is doing his part by (probably) lifting all restrictions today.
How convenient.
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Turns out Donald Trump was the virus all along.
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So THATS why all the MSM stopped tracking COVID deaths as soon as Biden stepped in!
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So, what do we think? Will Biden be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? I mean, they gave it to fucking Obama for not being Bush, and apparently Trump was so much worse than that.
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Right after he starts a new war just like how Obama got his right after bombing Syria.
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Eh... That would be stretching credulity. Biden has 50 years in political baggage that anyone would question. If they want to make it obvious that the peace prize is absolutely meaningless, then they would do it.
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Not Biden, but maybe Harris. Black women are natural peace-makers.
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Dude, they've given it to Arafat and Henry Kissinger. It's already a meaningless prize.
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not to mention the genocidal terrorist Mandela
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In addition, her rhetorical and oratorical skills suck. She was halfway to crying during her debate with Pence, and she smiles inappropriately.
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I still can’t get over that. She’s the most visibly sociopathic person I think I’ve ever seen, but she seems to lack the ability to manipulate you usually see with that.
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How exactly is that possible in this day and age? The only other people/group with that much money to bribe politicians outside the mega-corporations would be real-estate right (which of course is where Trump came from)?
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Apparently she can suck a golf ball through a garden hose, a skill that isn't helpful in televised debates.
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Alinsky talks about how the concept of tactics involves doing what you can with what you have, and in describing the power of the "Have-Nots", he says that activist groups that don't have money have to make up for it in flesh and blood. From this, he describes several principles that don't rely on money but do rely on cunning and-- very important-- organization.
Either base needs to be mobilized well enough to raise a populist candidate. Trump was a unique case in that he had enough in "fuck you" money to do his own thing, he seized upon the lowbrow woes of the Republican base without even having any party ties, and castrated the competition so quickly and furiously that they didn't even consider doing what the DNC did and just rig the primary against him-- in part because they expected 2016 to be a wash given the Hillary hype. Of course, the RNC is going to be wary of this post-Trump, but just being extremely charismatic, rich by independent means and willing to pander to the hoi polloi for the sake of your ego (rather than special interests for the sake of your wallet and re-election campaigns) is a difficult combo to get.
So, you need to order, invigorate, and mobilize the base to insist that the party does their bidding. Of course, "their bidding" needs to be conveyed rationally-- this is something that the masses can't do within themselves. In Trump's case, it's something every Republican decided not to do in the last four years because they were really banking on Trump, and the people able to either transmute the rabble into coherent policy suggestions or act upon said suggestions either weren't initially interested in the movement he led or were opportunistic banes of it (see: wignats).
Essentially, money isn't so much the issue-- consider that Trump prevailed over Clinton despite spending a magnitude less. The issue is firstly rousing enough people awake to hold their politicians to the fire (or primary them in favor of a politician they desire), and secondly getting them to do so in an effective and intelligible way. Given the actual allegiances of these parties as a whole (their special interests), this needs to happen on a substantial scale (a lot of representatives and senators need to have their feet held to the fire in the same time period with unrelenting ferocity). If they choose to throw out a politician, they need to make sure that there's a line connecting the politician replacement and the will of the people in order to mitigate defection to the Swamp (making it clear that they can and will lose any favor they had with the community they ostensibly represent if they screw up). AOC belongs to one such organization, but she's also very vapid and the district she represents is second in safety to Pelosi's, so between that and the fact that she's rather isolated in influence ("the Squad" can't do jack against the might of the rest of the party, and any movement they're a part of is either not gaining traction elsewhere or rested on their laurels far too early) she seemingly was able to be overtaken by Washington politics.
It's inevitable that the revolutionaries of today will become the establishment of tomorrow if they succeed, but you cannot allow your revolution to be assimilated into or tolerated by the establishment-- this is what happened with Trump's. It must overtake it wholly.
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