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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Joe's removed the petition submission page from Whitehouse.gov. They really want no one to have access to him.
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That is too deep, simpler explanation is that they were co-opted by Money and Power.
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Supposedly back during the Vietnam war the Luminescent Agencies funded the media through backchannels in order to legitimize the war to the public.
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Why would they use back channels though? Who would do anything about it or report about it?
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Think that's the one I saw.
Vietnam apparently wasn't really popular before the Gulf of Tonkin false flag.
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His administration conducts itself so much like one that knows it doesn't have the support of the people that I believe the election rigging rumors more now than I did this fall.
Putting DC under military lockdown through his first 100 days, a frankly galling about face on policy in office, now he's removing any means for groups to force the office to comment on issues it'd rather ignore? He literally just got rid of one of Obama's most populist policies.
If that "We the People" act makes it through congress and we don't see any kind of blowback in 2022 what's the point in voting federally? They'll engineer whoever they want to win.
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Oh I am not questioning the Why of that, Just..Why would they bother to launder it? Who is going to do anything.
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I don't know, assist in propaganda I guess. I think Obama did some sketchy shit with letting the media run free to propagandize as well.
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Yeah but Trump called Mexican people rapists and he's a fat orange idiot.
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This was one of the first things they did. Because former administrations had a policy of addressing the petitions once they hit 100k signatures. That's a small fraction of the people who know Biden is not the legit president, so he'd have to address the rigged election on a near daily basis.
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They're so lazy they can't even order a fake investigation into the election in order to give Biden a shred of legitimacy. I wish the SCOTUS wasn't so cucked they piss themselves at rocking the boat,
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They are called 'spooks' for a reason. The CIA literally ran drugs(and are probably still doing so) even with the massive budgets they were given. When you are allowed by the government to be criminals you have no reason not to be criminals.
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I'm uncertain if this has been posted, but this is just sad:
Who knew that all you needed to become US President was be in China's pocket?
Who knew that all you needed to become US President was be in China's pocket?
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Thank you Joe for "lifting half of America's children out of poverty."
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When there's guaranteed money to be made, there's an interest in making sure that the right people make that money.
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If he lied so hard about all this when he was a young man, who knows how full of bullshit he is now that he's almost 80 and suffering from dementia? Actually nevermind, we all know.
Completely dead look in her lizard eyes as she spews this bullshit to increase confidence in America's Nursing Home Patient in Chief.
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I didn't realize you could just lift people out of poverty by government fiat.
Apparently they decided to have a whole ceremony for the signing of the passed bill before it's sent to the White House where the Democrats patted themselves on the back.
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The way the poverty line is calculated for high income countries you can lift masses of people out of poverty by destroying the income of middle and upper class people.
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If you tell people that you did, it's as good as actually doing it, isn't it?
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CHaz has come for joe
MINNEAPOLIS (NewsNation Now) — Minneapolis leaders say they’ll reopen a barricaded intersection known as George Floyd Square after the murder trial of the former police officer accused of killing him. But the activists who serve as unofficial leaders and organizers of the area have issued 24 demands before they’ll step aside, even calling for a recall of the county prosecutor.
The square sprang up organically in the days after Floyd’s death. As people gathered to express their grief and anger, including leaving offerings, community members set up barricades of refrigerators, trash cans and wooden pallets to block traffic. The city eventually replaced those with concrete barriers.
The memorial, now called an autonomous zone, was set up by protesters and supporters at the now-vacant Speedway station. It’s very tense near the memorial and a militant-style group has closed off several blocks with barricades. They don’t allow the police inside.
Three jurors picked in Chauvin trial over George Floyd’s death; many saw video of arrest
“The situation at the memorial, from what I understand, is its kind of volatile,” said Kim Griffin, a Minneapolis resident. “People that want to go and support doesn’t feel a sense of inclusion. There is more of a like militant type atmosphere over and a sense of fear.”
Griffin supports police reform and protested Floyd’s death outside the courthouse Tuesday. But she doesn’t agree with what’s happening at the memorial. Her nephew, who she identified to NewsNation as Imez Wright, was shot and killed at the memorial over the weekend.
“Police were not allowed to get into that area; he was carried out outside of the zone of George Floyd Square,” Griffin explained. “It was made clear law enforcement was not welcome to penetrate that zone, which is an atrocity because his life was taken, and I mean who knows whether or not he would have survived had things been different.”
Andrea Jenkins, one of two City Council members representing parts of the neighborhood, said some of her constituents have complained about gunshots and the frequent sound of police helicopters overhead.
“The neighbors deserve to have a level of comfort that does not include gunshots every night, and muggings and carjackings, and all the violent crimes we have been witnessing in this community,” Jenkins said.
Violent crime at the intersection and the blocks immediately surrounding it rose dramatically in 2020, though crime also increased citywide. There were 19 nonfatal and fatal shootings in the area in 2020, including 14 shootings from May 1 through Aug. 31. That’s compared with three shootings in all of 2019 and none during the summer months.
Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Medaria Arradondo last month disputed frequent characterizations of the square as an “autonomous zone” but cited those perceptions as a major reason it must be reopened.
Jenkins said officers have been met with “protests, resistance, opposition” that have sometimes led them to avoid policing the area. Howard and other leaders dispute that anyone in the square has impeded officers.
A flashpoint of that argument was the fatal shooting of Dameon Chambers at the square when many people had gathered to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday.
A city document says emergency services workers were unable to get to Chambers and that police “ultimately had to pull Mr. Chambers to an area where the ambulance could access the area.” The Floyd Square caretakers say it was police who delayed emergency workers, and their demands include an investigation of his death.
During a group’s recent meeting at the memorial last month, children roasted marshmallows on a fire pit while adults discussed topics ranging from activism to snow removal.
“Black joy is a form of protest,” said Marcia Howard, one of the group’s organizers, referencing plans for celebrating Arctic explorer Matthew Henson as part of Black History month.
“The narrative will be, to this day, that the people blocked the EMS,” Howard said. “Show me the bodycam footage of people blocking emergency services vehicles for a dying Black man. You won’t have it, because it doesn’t exist.”
Howard, a 47-year-old retired Marine who lives around the corner from the square, was so affected by Floyd’s death that she took a leave from her job as a high school English teacher to more or less watch over the square. Howard said the neighborhood has been largely supportive of volunteers, with many residents cooking food for them.
A video on her TikTok account shows a resident’s child giving her a cupcake as the family left the square, bringing Howard to tears.
“I haven’t had to grocery shop in six months,” she said.
But the support isn’t total.
Derek Chauvin’s 3rd-degree murder count could be reinstated
Jenkins and others also argue that businesses in the area are being hurt by the street closure. She said business occupancy in the area has fallen from more than 90% last March to “probably less than 50%” nearly a year later, although it’s difficult to discern the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on those numbers.
Amid concerns that the barricaded square was decimating businesses and making the neighborhood less safe at night, city leaders recently pledged to reopen it after former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death David Chauvin’s murder trial. Jury selection for the trial began Tuesday, so far three jurors have been selected.
The residents and activists who serve as unofficial leaders and organizers of George Floyd Square say they won’t step aside unless the city meets their list of 24 demands.
Among them: recall the county prosecutor, fire the head of the state’s criminal investigative agency, and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on programs to create jobs, combat racism and support affordable housing. They also are demanding that the square remain closed until the trials scheduled for August of the other three officers charged in Floyd’s death.
Since the city asserted it would reopen the square after Chauvin’s trial, the caretakers of the space have declined to talk in detail about negotiations to reopen it. Jeanelle Austin, a racial justice leadership coach and a lead caretaker of the memorial area, said the demands that fall within the city’s control aren’t unreasonable.
“The thing about it is that a lot of the different demands are asks from different people, and Black folks aren’t monolithic,” said Austin, who is Black. “So it’s really incumbent upon our city leadership to really look at the needs behind the asks, and really fulfilling those needs.”
A towering steel sculpture of a raised fist dominates the middle of the intersection, a replacement for the wooden sculpture that first went up. Murals memorializing Floyd or marking the struggle against discrimination have overtaken nearly every vertical surface. Warming houses are available at the barricades, and so is hand sanitizer in a nod to COVID-19 safety precautions. A small library, a community closet for clothing and food shelves are among various services available to visitors.
Although many in the community say it has presented some headaches for the city, some consider it a sacred space.
Such is life at George Floyd Square, the place where the Black man died after Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes.
Members of Howard’s group say that while they’re hoping Chauvin gets convicted, the occupation of the square is about far more than the case against him.
“Injustice closed these streets, and only justice can open them back up,” Howard said.
The square sprang up organically in the days after Floyd’s death. As people gathered to express their grief and anger, including leaving offerings, community members set up barricades of refrigerators, trash cans and wooden pallets to block traffic. The city eventually replaced those with concrete barriers.
The memorial, now called an autonomous zone, was set up by protesters and supporters at the now-vacant Speedway station. It’s very tense near the memorial and a militant-style group has closed off several blocks with barricades. They don’t allow the police inside.
Three jurors picked in Chauvin trial over George Floyd’s death; many saw video of arrest
“The situation at the memorial, from what I understand, is its kind of volatile,” said Kim Griffin, a Minneapolis resident. “People that want to go and support doesn’t feel a sense of inclusion. There is more of a like militant type atmosphere over and a sense of fear.”
Griffin supports police reform and protested Floyd’s death outside the courthouse Tuesday. But she doesn’t agree with what’s happening at the memorial. Her nephew, who she identified to NewsNation as Imez Wright, was shot and killed at the memorial over the weekend.
“Police were not allowed to get into that area; he was carried out outside of the zone of George Floyd Square,” Griffin explained. “It was made clear law enforcement was not welcome to penetrate that zone, which is an atrocity because his life was taken, and I mean who knows whether or not he would have survived had things been different.”
Andrea Jenkins, one of two City Council members representing parts of the neighborhood, said some of her constituents have complained about gunshots and the frequent sound of police helicopters overhead.
“The neighbors deserve to have a level of comfort that does not include gunshots every night, and muggings and carjackings, and all the violent crimes we have been witnessing in this community,” Jenkins said.
Violent crime at the intersection and the blocks immediately surrounding it rose dramatically in 2020, though crime also increased citywide. There were 19 nonfatal and fatal shootings in the area in 2020, including 14 shootings from May 1 through Aug. 31. That’s compared with three shootings in all of 2019 and none during the summer months.
Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Medaria Arradondo last month disputed frequent characterizations of the square as an “autonomous zone” but cited those perceptions as a major reason it must be reopened.
Jenkins said officers have been met with “protests, resistance, opposition” that have sometimes led them to avoid policing the area. Howard and other leaders dispute that anyone in the square has impeded officers.
A flashpoint of that argument was the fatal shooting of Dameon Chambers at the square when many people had gathered to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday.
A city document says emergency services workers were unable to get to Chambers and that police “ultimately had to pull Mr. Chambers to an area where the ambulance could access the area.” The Floyd Square caretakers say it was police who delayed emergency workers, and their demands include an investigation of his death.
During a group’s recent meeting at the memorial last month, children roasted marshmallows on a fire pit while adults discussed topics ranging from activism to snow removal.
“Black joy is a form of protest,” said Marcia Howard, one of the group’s organizers, referencing plans for celebrating Arctic explorer Matthew Henson as part of Black History month.
“The narrative will be, to this day, that the people blocked the EMS,” Howard said. “Show me the bodycam footage of people blocking emergency services vehicles for a dying Black man. You won’t have it, because it doesn’t exist.”
Howard, a 47-year-old retired Marine who lives around the corner from the square, was so affected by Floyd’s death that she took a leave from her job as a high school English teacher to more or less watch over the square. Howard said the neighborhood has been largely supportive of volunteers, with many residents cooking food for them.
A video on her TikTok account shows a resident’s child giving her a cupcake as the family left the square, bringing Howard to tears.
“I haven’t had to grocery shop in six months,” she said.
But the support isn’t total.
Derek Chauvin’s 3rd-degree murder count could be reinstated
Jenkins and others also argue that businesses in the area are being hurt by the street closure. She said business occupancy in the area has fallen from more than 90% last March to “probably less than 50%” nearly a year later, although it’s difficult to discern the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on those numbers.
Amid concerns that the barricaded square was decimating businesses and making the neighborhood less safe at night, city leaders recently pledged to reopen it after former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death David Chauvin’s murder trial. Jury selection for the trial began Tuesday, so far three jurors have been selected.
The residents and activists who serve as unofficial leaders and organizers of George Floyd Square say they won’t step aside unless the city meets their list of 24 demands.
Among them: recall the county prosecutor, fire the head of the state’s criminal investigative agency, and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on programs to create jobs, combat racism and support affordable housing. They also are demanding that the square remain closed until the trials scheduled for August of the other three officers charged in Floyd’s death.
Since the city asserted it would reopen the square after Chauvin’s trial, the caretakers of the space have declined to talk in detail about negotiations to reopen it. Jeanelle Austin, a racial justice leadership coach and a lead caretaker of the memorial area, said the demands that fall within the city’s control aren’t unreasonable.
“The thing about it is that a lot of the different demands are asks from different people, and Black folks aren’t monolithic,” said Austin, who is Black. “So it’s really incumbent upon our city leadership to really look at the needs behind the asks, and really fulfilling those needs.”
A towering steel sculpture of a raised fist dominates the middle of the intersection, a replacement for the wooden sculpture that first went up. Murals memorializing Floyd or marking the struggle against discrimination have overtaken nearly every vertical surface. Warming houses are available at the barricades, and so is hand sanitizer in a nod to COVID-19 safety precautions. A small library, a community closet for clothing and food shelves are among various services available to visitors.
Although many in the community say it has presented some headaches for the city, some consider it a sacred space.
Such is life at George Floyd Square, the place where the Black man died after Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes.
Members of Howard’s group say that while they’re hoping Chauvin gets convicted, the occupation of the square is about far more than the case against him.
“Injustice closed these streets, and only justice can open them back up,” Howard said.
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