US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)

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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?
 
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Well, let us not forget Ukrainians and Russians actively despise each other. They'd be going at it over Crimea no matter what the USA was doing. Ethnically they may sorta be the same people, but Kiev has historically looked to the West and was a major trading partner of the Byzantines, and were the first to convert to Christianity as well as adopt the Cyrillic alphabet, going so far as to provide no small amount of men to the Varangians. They've never liked Moscow, not during the Rus and not later on when they were conquered by Moscow in the 1400's.
 
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BenisinbaginaII said:
Kemp letting that Sheboon cheat for as long as was needed to unseat Trump only to be thrown under the bus by the Dems right after the election has been a joy to watch.
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What joy? He’s still culpable. He gave them the Senate and helped them get the presidency. He needs to be primaried. Cunt barely won against Abrams as is.
 
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Tour of Italy said:
Taxing by the mile is basically just a nicer way to say either of the following:

“Fuck the rural poor and fuck anyone who travels for work in physical trades”

“Let’s pass a tax that ironically burdens the same kinds of safety and construction contractors that keep our infrastructure functioning in the first place”

Not nearly enough attention is being brought to the fact that Buttegieg is a diversity pick who is grossly unqualified for this or any other cabinet position.

I won’t power level too much, but I have a small amount of professional experience in transportation infrastructure. Buttegieg is a moron, but a lot of the issue also lies with how this issue is always framed. It’s a complex problem, but the short version is that you could get way, way more done by addressing bureaucratic bloat and poor transportation planning than by just increasing the budget. Hell, there’s an argument to be made that by just throwing more money at the problem you’re just making it worse by incentivizing bad behavior and not addressing the root issues.

In simpler terms, you could immediately put America on the path to correcting its infrastructure issues if you fired Buttegieg and every useless uneducated fuck counterpart of his that determine transportation policy from the county to state to federal level and replaced them with someone with even minimum industry experience.

The specific idea of “hurr durr just charge people who use the roads more that way it’s fair” especially irks me because it highlights what must be either ignorance or malice on his part. It plays well to the layman, but it ignores what actually drives the degradation of infrastructure:

1. Mother Nature and time
2. Poor management by government (often unnecessarily amplifying problems caused by number 1.)
3. Heavy vehicles

Any commuter vehicle smaller than a 2 axel cargo truck has a literally negligible impact on bridges and road surfaces. As in, while doing the engineering calculations, you literally neglect the math terms that represent their contributions when considering long term fatigue effects.

“Oh well I live in a city and commute by bus/light rail, I shouldn’t have to pay as much to maintain roads”.

You pay taxes for schools don’t you, even if you don’t have kids? And, more directly, you fucking buy shit, don’t you? Shit that comes in on big fucking heavy trucks? Meaning that you are contributing as much as if not more to infrastructure wear than Billy Bob who runs a landscaping business out of his pickup or Average Joe who lives 30 minutes outside the city and commutes because he doesn’t want his kids to be stabbed by discarded needles while playing outside.

It’s not a fair system to tax by the mile, it’s a blatantly political scheme to appeal to the Zoom class of telecommuting professionals and hipster cosmopolitans while punishing people who live outside the city, who are often the least able to afford it.
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I know I'm late...that's not the point, it's got nothing to do with infrastructure, and everything to do with coercing people to move to where 'they have to be'.
 
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annoyingfuck said:
I know I'm late...that's not the point, it's got nothing to do with infrastructure, and everything to do with coercing people to move to where 'they have to be'.
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In practice, it will just make people more miserable, not make them move for the most part. Same thing with gas prices being higher. People largely didn't abandon the suburbs/rural areas when gas was near 4 or 5 dollars a gallon, so having to pay a higher tax rate because you live in a rural area and commute to work largely isn't going to do much more than make people who live outside of major urban centers increasingly pissed off and unhappy.
 
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albert chan said:
3) ESPN IS A SPORTS NETWORK TALKING ABOUT POLITICS AND THEY‘RE NOT EVEN GOOD AT RECOGNIZING WHO THEIR FAN USER BASE IS.
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Sports broadcasters and organizations will never learn so long as they get good PR.
mandatorylurk said:
If Joepedo is going to push for MLB to boycott Atlanta for the all-star game, by his own convictions he must boycott China for the '22 Winter Olympics. But of course he won't.

Every faggot's bitchfit about the rather weak voting bill in Georgia should be responded to "Don't you fly to Delta, China? Don't you do business in China, Coke?" Tell them to fuck off and move on.
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Georgia wanting ID is cultural differences.
737 MAX Stan Account said:
Georgia gave him the senate and the presdiency and this is how he repays them. I guess no good deed goes unpunished, after all.
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I am curious why the Georgia GOP are doing election reform now after they basicallly gave the country away. I assume it is to curry favor with their base.
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Eh, he looks white enough the media will use him.
FAQnews Correspondent said:
Time to up the brightness.
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Didn't they do that with George Zimmerman?
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Are we going back to segregation? I guess it's ok so long as you paint it in a good light for minorities.
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NASA is such a joke at this point anyways with the amount of diversity hires they take.
Sekirodiealot said:
How would biden be remembered in 20 years?
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If they win, a second Obama.
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Because oil being trucked or taken in by train over your burial grounds or rain water dance spots is so much better, fucking loons. I doubt half the people there are even Native American.
Radical Cadre said:
Ukraine is effectively the European analogue to Iraq. It is entirely manufactured and therefore unable to exist within the parameters of existing ethnic, historic and regional considerations. It is fake. The West made it and its mere existence causes turbulence within the region at large.
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From my understanding Ukrainians as an ethnic/cultural group never really existed properly until the Soviet Union. There were linguistic differences of course before that but the region was heavily mixed and still is between those who see themselves as Russians, and those who see themselves as wholly different.
Michael Wade said:
There is one positive thing to consider, the establishment is starting to lose control of the flow of information. Before the mid 2000's the internet either did not exist or was a relatively niche thing, but its existence has jeopardized their monopoly on the truth. They cant blow smoke up our asses as easily as they did 80 years ago and right now their news networks have pissed away enormous amounts of credibility in their desire to eradicate Trumpism and deify Biden

Simply put, the ringmasters are getting old and out of touch with the currents of life. They have an outdated understanding of how the world works and its going to bite them on the ass if it hasn't already.

Trump was the biggest fracture they've ever had to face so far, and I would argue he is the first legitimate president we've had in decades. You've seen their fear and desire to put the genie back in the box, time and time again. The playbook has changed, and they are desperately trying to stack the deck anyway they can.
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I find it horrifying how every dystopic work of fiction seems to be coming true. How many things was Deus Ex right about at this point for example?
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Lunacy, pure unadulterated lunacy.
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With how the media is shilling this wacko infrastructure plan and the COOF relief bills, I don't know why anyone thinks it is for the American people.
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Buttgag has the bonus of being the insufferable smug type of gay guy on top of being a normal corrupt politician.
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Will he be taxing his own vehicles per mile? Who am I kidding, they'll be tax exempt due to some loophole with government related vehicles.
 
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Corpun said:
From my understanding Ukrainians as an ethnic/cultural group never really existed properly until the Soviet Union. There were linguistic differences of course before that but the region was heavily mixed and still is between those who see themselves as Russians, and those who see themselves as wholly different.
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Its complicated, but suffice to say they were hacked off enough with Moscow (and everyone else in Eastern Europe since they had been ruled in part or whole by every major power, including the Poles) to have a go at independence in 1918.
The territory of modern Ukraine has been inhabited since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, the area was a key centre of East Slavic culture, with the powerful state of Kievan Rus' forming the basis of Ukrainian identity. Following its fragmentation in the 13th century, the territory was contested, ruled and divided by a variety of powers, including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Russia. A Cossack republic emerged and prospered during the 17th and 18th centuries, but its territory was eventually split between Poland and the Russian Empire. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, a Ukrainian national movement for self-determination emerged, and the internationally recognized Ukrainian People's Republic was declared on 23 June 1917. After World War II the western part of Ukraine merged into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and the whole country became a part of the Soviet Union. Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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Source.
 
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Corpun said:
From my understanding Ukrainians as an ethnic/cultural group never really existed properly until the Soviet Union. There were linguistic differences of course before that but the region was heavily mixed and still is between those who see themselves as Russians, and those who see themselves as wholly different.
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A Ukrainian ethnic group existed in the 17th century. Ukrainians are a part of a larger Ruthenian ethnic group that includes Rusyns and Belorussians. There were efforts made by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to create a Grand Duchy of Ruthenia and create the Commonwealth of Three Nations.

Even after that though Taras Shevchenko and Ivan Franko wrote in dialects that a modern standard Ukrainian in the 19th century. During WWI and the Russian Revolution there were a few independent Ukrainian states founded. The Soviets went through cycles of repressing Ukrainian culture and language. They persecuted bandurists and forbid the language from being taught in schools. With all that the Soviet Union wasn't really the point I would consider the beginning of the Ukrainian ethnic group.
 
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Garm said:
I'm half tempted to write to an elected official to show my opposition to Vaccine Passports. It won't do anything but it is better than sitting on my ass letting this thing roll over us.

Biden is going to get pushed around in ever foreign policy crisis.
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I did. And it looks like pushback is gaining momentum.
 
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