I am interested in Joe Biden's response to a potential category 5 chimp out.
same as it literally always is, of course
playbook is always the same:
1. incite racial tension and unrest because it's a goldmine to get people to vote for you (he hates you, I love you, vote me!)
2. let the riots go and tacitly encourage to bring race even more to front of people's minds
3. continue until it reflects negatively in polling
4. stop talking about it/lip service say its bad and use it as ammo to talk about wypipo be raciss in the future (when this fuels fire and has people ask about racial issues, return to step 1)
the US has gone from people genuinely thinking racism was dead and fading just like 2-3 decades ago, to it being a common sentiment that the US is systemically racist and large portions of the white population hate non-whites, and non-whites are justified in their hatred for whites. All while
literally no laws have changed, and in fact tons have been added to pressure against/punish racism. Politicians very cannily exploited race as a tool to garner votes, and got so good at it they managed to spark actual racial tension that's now steering towards even worse than what they said it was. like a game of telephone that starts off "im gonna help black people" and ends with "they're gonna put y'all back in chains", and that's not a made up quote.
America is in the midst of a fabricated state of racial tension that was so well done it managed to become real