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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Even when Tucker is wrong, the fact that everything he does seems to enrage the media brings me way more joy than it should.
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It will be political PR along the lines of regulations. Increase taxes on so and so a mark, but leave loopholes for billionaires that way you fuck over the middle class same way regulations fuck over small businesses.
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I just wanted to point out, that what happened in Georgia wasn't GOP incompetence but an active collaboration between SoS Brad Raffensperger, director of elections Gabriel Sterling and Stacey Abhrams. They were well aware of the situation in fulton county and others, and had planned it with the democrats.
In other words the fix was in.
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What is "your fair share"? Who determines that, and what metrics do they use?
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Well, when 1,000,000 men and one woman vote on whether or not to legalize rape....
'this vagina inequality is unfair'
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Something something nine most terrifying words something something.
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Why do you say that? What was in it for the first one?
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DNC now owes him big for letting the whole shindig go to plan, and a Favor from the DNC is about as valuable as the Mafia owing you a favor.
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telegraph.co.uk
Dominic Green 12 March 2021 • 12:14pm
4-5 minutes
Joe Biden’s decline has become so painful to see and so embarrassing to watch that it feels cruel to mention it. But it’s even more cruel that Biden’s team act as if it’s not happening, and most of America’s media look the other way.
On Thursday night, Biden marked the first anniversary of the Covid-19 shutdowns and his fiftieth day in the White House by giving the first televised address of his presidency. He hadn’t been seen in public for three days.
From the moment he wheezed up to the lectern and peered into the camera, you could tell Biden was on top form: croaky sentiment, sporadic belligerence, and only the occasional moment when he looked oddly distant and perplexed.
He got through twenty minutes, then tottered off without taking any questions. This is how low the bar now is for Biden. And we can see how hard Biden has to fight, and what a long run-up he requires, if he is to clear it.
We can see it in his struggle to follow the simple lines on his autocue, and in his bungling of the simplest ad-libs. We see it in the clips of his increasingly desperate handlers trying to block him from questions at his rare and carefully managed appearances before the cameras. Most of all, we see it in his eyes.
“What am I doing here?” Biden asked after fumbling his autocue lines in an address in Texas in late February. He reached for the cue cards that are now his constant companion. “I’m gonna lose track here.”
Biden’s supporters call him “gaffe-prone”. It’s true: he’s always thought with his mouth open. It’s also true that he bravely overcame a speech impediment in childhood, and that anxiety and age can cause a stutter to recur. But these aren’t gaffes or stutters.
Compare how he moves and sounds now to how he was a year ago, let alone five years ago. Biden looks and sounds frail. He seems visibly distressed at his inability to carry out the simplest requirements of office – and at a time when the requirements are simpler than usual.
When Biden dodged the press during last year’s election campaign, his aides called it Covid-19 precautions. As the pandemic ends, he will run out of excuses for not travelling. He doesn’t look capable of leading an international summit, let alone taking the proverbial 3 a.m. phone call.
Earlier this week, the Commander-in-Chief forgot the name of the largest department in the US government, the Department of Defense, as well as the name of the man he recently appointed as its leader, Lloyd Austin.
“Thank you to the Sec… the former general… I keep calling him general… my… my… the guy who runs that outfit over there,” he flailed.
Biden is the first President in decades to reach fifty days in office without giving a press conference. He missed giving the traditional speech to Congress in February. His handlers refuse to name when he might talk to the press, and only offer that it’s “something he will do in the future”.
There’s only one possible explanation. Biden’s team don’t trust him to manage one of the simplest requirements of modern political office. But they know they can’t defer the reckoning.
The longer Biden waits, the more newsworthy his delayed appearance will be, and the greater the scrutiny of his performance. And once Biden has surrendered to the rising expectation that he speak live and unscripted, he will be expected to do it again, and again, just like any other President.
This presidency is turning into a theatre of cruelty. It can only end one way. Sooner or later, Biden will be caught in the spotlight. The Democrats who promoted an unfit candidate to America’s highest office, and the media who covered for him, will be exposed as having betrayed their responsibilities to the American people. The people’s trust in democratic institutions will decline further. And we will all be party to Biden’s public humiliation.
Dominic Green is deputy editor of The Spectator’s US edition.
President Biden is crumbling before our eyes
Dominic Green 12 March 2021 • 12:14pm
4-5 minutes
Joe Biden’s decline has become so painful to see and so embarrassing to watch that it feels cruel to mention it. But it’s even more cruel that Biden’s team act as if it’s not happening, and most of America’s media look the other way.
On Thursday night, Biden marked the first anniversary of the Covid-19 shutdowns and his fiftieth day in the White House by giving the first televised address of his presidency. He hadn’t been seen in public for three days.
From the moment he wheezed up to the lectern and peered into the camera, you could tell Biden was on top form: croaky sentiment, sporadic belligerence, and only the occasional moment when he looked oddly distant and perplexed.
He got through twenty minutes, then tottered off without taking any questions. This is how low the bar now is for Biden. And we can see how hard Biden has to fight, and what a long run-up he requires, if he is to clear it.
We can see it in his struggle to follow the simple lines on his autocue, and in his bungling of the simplest ad-libs. We see it in the clips of his increasingly desperate handlers trying to block him from questions at his rare and carefully managed appearances before the cameras. Most of all, we see it in his eyes.
“What am I doing here?” Biden asked after fumbling his autocue lines in an address in Texas in late February. He reached for the cue cards that are now his constant companion. “I’m gonna lose track here.”
Biden’s supporters call him “gaffe-prone”. It’s true: he’s always thought with his mouth open. It’s also true that he bravely overcame a speech impediment in childhood, and that anxiety and age can cause a stutter to recur. But these aren’t gaffes or stutters.
Compare how he moves and sounds now to how he was a year ago, let alone five years ago. Biden looks and sounds frail. He seems visibly distressed at his inability to carry out the simplest requirements of office – and at a time when the requirements are simpler than usual.
When Biden dodged the press during last year’s election campaign, his aides called it Covid-19 precautions. As the pandemic ends, he will run out of excuses for not travelling. He doesn’t look capable of leading an international summit, let alone taking the proverbial 3 a.m. phone call.
Earlier this week, the Commander-in-Chief forgot the name of the largest department in the US government, the Department of Defense, as well as the name of the man he recently appointed as its leader, Lloyd Austin.
“Thank you to the Sec… the former general… I keep calling him general… my… my… the guy who runs that outfit over there,” he flailed.
Biden is the first President in decades to reach fifty days in office without giving a press conference. He missed giving the traditional speech to Congress in February. His handlers refuse to name when he might talk to the press, and only offer that it’s “something he will do in the future”.
There’s only one possible explanation. Biden’s team don’t trust him to manage one of the simplest requirements of modern political office. But they know they can’t defer the reckoning.
The longer Biden waits, the more newsworthy his delayed appearance will be, and the greater the scrutiny of his performance. And once Biden has surrendered to the rising expectation that he speak live and unscripted, he will be expected to do it again, and again, just like any other President.
This presidency is turning into a theatre of cruelty. It can only end one way. Sooner or later, Biden will be caught in the spotlight. The Democrats who promoted an unfit candidate to America’s highest office, and the media who covered for him, will be exposed as having betrayed their responsibilities to the American people. The people’s trust in democratic institutions will decline further. And we will all be party to Biden’s public humiliation.
Dominic Green is deputy editor of The Spectator’s US edition.
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The DNC-Media-Industrial Complex is all guilty of elder abuse.
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AZ ain't what it used to be. I can offer some insight as to why, being R and living here for 40+ years.
There's always been a divide between Tucson and Phoenix in the sense that Tucson has been somewhat hippyish liberal and Phoenix being much more conservative in nature. Look at the likes of Raul Grijalva out of Tucson compared to the likes of Dennis DeConcini out of Phoenix. Night and day different. Has always been that way until recently, even when McCain ran for president. AZ was red and one of the most conservative states among the 50.
The rise of Trump changed things for Republicans in the sense that some of the idjiots coming to power within their ranks were/are complete whackjobs. Jeff Flake going RINO. McCain going RINO, and people like Kelli Ward (now runs the state GOP), a woman who believed and promoted chemtrail theories and other assorted conspiracy nonsense. It's like the GOP choices were crazier than the liberal choices. The smear campaigns here were off the hook and I was thankful when the election was over and I didn't have to hear the Mark Kelly eats Chinese bats for lunch everyday bullshit anymore. Martha McSally lost to him for exactly this reason - people get fatigued by the constant attack/mudslinging politics. Even when they did debate, this same shit would go on. Tell me how you're going to fix the issues affecting Arizona, I don't give a fuck if your opponent eats Chinese bats.
That's kind of where we are today. The GOP candidates shot themselves in their own feet. And unless the AZ GOP brings in a crop of good solid candidates for the next election cycle, it does indeed look like my fine state will continue to get bluer. We have a few good ones - Gossar and Biggs in DC, but they are getting smeared as white supremacist and other nonsense. Even these two trend towards whackjob to the general public and the left is constantly trying to hatchet them.
So in summary, what has happened here has nothing to do with blue taking over, it has to do with red putting out unelectable candidates that people can't stand to vote for.
(Slappy needs a drink. Yup, make that a double!)
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From what you're saying, an alternative reading is that you would have to be a whackjob to even think of trying to be right-wing and take power with the left-wing smear machine always going in full force.
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Truly a historic presidency.
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Surely someone will "fact-check" this right?
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Let's be honest, Washington Post doesn't want unity.
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Unity doesn't make anyone money.
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Marc Thiessen is Potomac Pravda's token GOPe writer. Yet, I'm sure the combox on that article is full of NPC whingeing that makes Reddit look redpilled.
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The media is certainly no help. But the true point I was making is even reds don't want to vote full alt-right red and that's what happened. Just as you see now with Cornpop in power - the Dems are abandoning or eating those at the alt-left extreme. The country is so polarized these days that there is no longer a middle ground; just degrees of extremism on both sides. And no one wants the 100% extreme within their respective party.
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