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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Fuck, Biden in his speech TONIGHT is still talking about Russian election interference.
Remember, Trump is the most evil man in history that tried to destroy our democracy for questioning the 2020 results, but the Democrats are STILL implying that Trump won in 2016 due to Russia.
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No I mean I feel like that will happen on screen one of these days
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Fudd faggots do not speak for us, shithead.
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CHINA#1
CHINA NEVER GOT ARRESTED BY THE GAY FEDS ON AMERICAN SOIL... NOT EVEN IN POLICE DEPARTMENTS.
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I hope so, I really do. I need my entertainment from this sham presidency.
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Flint ended up using an odd method of finding their defective plumbing of just randomly checking in the ground to see if it's bad piping. If I remember right they had poor records of what plumbing was where so it's sorta unknowable where there might still be lead pipes leading to liberals imagining the problem isn't largely solved because they can't know if it's 100% solved. They apparently fixed tens of thousands of water lines and have an estimated 500 lines left to replace. It's not that different from the Rona crisis where the left speaks as though the virus will only be considered handled when it no longer exists.
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I still wish Trump had been able to investigate 2016 since that drum constantly getting beaten on is making me more and more convinced that they were going to defraud 2016 too. You don't react like that unless you were damned sure that you had it under wraps, and a little fraud in states like Arizona, Nevada, and Michigan should have sealed the deal.
Trump's margin of victory in 2016 was far, far greater than anyone in the media will ever be willing to admit.
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Well, Kamala isn't really black, so I guess it's a pretty apt comparison.
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Here is the response by Senator Tim Scott.
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Somehow this artist has captured the zeitgeist
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It's so simple and yet this is truly the most horrifying headline in history. We are in hell.
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Please keep it civil
Fuck you nigger
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The cope in this article
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Good evening. I’m Sen. Tim Scott from the great state of South Carolina. We just heard President Biden’s first address to Congress. Our president seems like a good man. His speech was full of good words. But President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership.
He promised to unite a nation, to lower the temperature, to govern for all Americans, no matter how we voted. This was the pitch. You just heard it again.
But our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes. We need policies and progress that brings us closer together. But three months in, the actions of the president and his party are pulling us further and further apart.
I won’t waste your time with finger pointing or partisan bickering. You can get that on TV any time you want. I want to have an honest conversation about common sense and common ground. About this feeling that our nation is sliding off its shared foundation and how we move forward together.
Growing up, I never dreamed I would be standing here tonight. When I was a kid, my parents divorced. My mother, my brother and I moved in with my grandparents, three of us sharing one bedroom.
This rebuttal gave Scott, the lone Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, an opportunity to introduce himself more broadly to the country. This speaking slot often goes to rising figures in the party, many of whom have gone on to run for president themselves. Scott gave a notable speech last year at the Republican National Convention and has become a central figure in discussions about possible bipartisan legislation on policing. He has said previously he won’t run for reelection after his 2022 Senate race.
Barbara SpruntProducer, NPR Washington Desk
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I was disillusioned and angry and I nearly failed out of school. But I was blessed, first with a praying mama. And let me say this: to the single mothers out there who are working their tails off, working hard, trying to make ends meet, wondering if it’s worth it, you can bet it is. God bless your amazing effort on the part of your kids.
I was also blessed by a Chick-Fil-A operator, John Moniz, and finally with a string of opportunities that are only possible here in America. This past year, I’ve watched COVID attack every rung of the ladder that helped me up.
So many families have lost parents and grandparents too early. So many small businesses have gone under.
Becoming a Christian transformed my life, but for months, too many churches were shut down. Most of all, I’m saddened that millions of kids have lost a year of learning when they could not afford to lose a single day.
Locking vulnerable kids out of the classroom is locking adults out of their future. Our public schools should have reopened months ago. Other countries did. Private and religious schools did. Science has shown for months that schools are safe.
This implies that Biden or the U.S. government has been responsible for keeping schools closed. But decisions about reopening are made at the district level or, in some cases, at the state level, based on COVID-19 rates and local conditions. Biden had also promised to reopen schools, a pledge that was easier said than done. The science about children and COVID-19 has evolved dramatically over the past year. Some early research suggested schools could be safely reopened, but most experts urged caution.
According to the site Burbio, just 5.6% of students are now attending remote-only schools. The week Biden became president, it was 42%.
TurnerCorrespondent/Senior Editor, NPR Ed
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But too often powerful grown ups set science aside and kids like me were left behind.
The clearest case I’ve seen for school choice in our lifetimes, because we know that education is the closest thing to magic in America. Last year under Republican leadership, we passed five bipartisan COVID packages. Congress supported our schools, our hospitals, saved our economy and funded Operation Warp Speed. delivering vaccines in record time.
This is correct. While the Democrats controlled the House, Republicans controlled the Senate by a slim margin. So the GOP needed Democratic votes to meet the 60-vote threshold required to approve pandemic relief bills. As a result, both parties indeed negotiated a deal on all of the rescue legislation packages passed last year. And while President Biden made some outreach to Republicans, Democrats passed his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill on strict party lines.
Claudia GrisalesNPR Congressional Reporter
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All five bills got 90, 90 votes in the Senate. Common sense found common ground.
In February, Republicans told Biden we wanted to keep working together to finish this fight. But Democrats wanted to go it alone. They spent almost $2 trillion on a partisan bill that the White House bragged was the most liberal bill in American history. Only 1 percent went to vaccinations, no requirement to reopen schools promptly.
COVID brought Congress together five times. This administration pushed us apart.
Another issue that should unite us is infrastructure. Republicans support everything you think of when you think of infrastructure: roads, bridges, ports, airports, water ways, high speed broadband. We’re in for all of that. But again, Democrats want a partisan wish list. They won’t even build bridges to build bridges.
Less than 6 percent of the president’s plan goes to roads and bridges. It’s a liberal wish list of big government waste. Plus, the biggest job killing tax hikes in a generation.
Experts say when all is said and done, it would lower wages of the average American worker and shrink our economy.
Tonight we also heard about a so-called family plan. Even more taxing, even more spending to put Washington even more in the middle of your life from the cradle to college. The beauty of the American dream is that families get to define it for themselves. We should be expanding opportunities and options for all families, not throwing money at certain issues because Democrats think they know best. Infrastructure spending that shrinks our economy is not common sense.
Biden's infrastructure proposal remains largely a contentious issue for Republicans. The GOP opposes the price tag for Biden's $2 trillion American Families Plan. Republicans’ own proposal is far smaller: $568 billion. Democrats have said they want a bipartisan deal, but they have also threatened to ultimately pass the plan via a legislative move known as reconciliation to bypass a lack of GOP support for their larger proposal.
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Weakening our southern borders and creating a crisis is not compassionate. The president is also abandoning principles he’s held for decades. Now, he says, your tax dollars should fund abortions. He’s laying groundwork to pack the Supreme Court. This is not common ground.
In fact, Biden has not embraced calls to increase the size of the Supreme Court, despite prodding from progressive activists. Instead, he created a bipartisan commission to study a number of proposals that include adding seats, term limits and other options.
Carrie JohnsonNPR Justice Correspondent
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It’s no surprise that the Republican rebuttal would highlight what GOP leaders consistently describe as a “crisis” at the southern border. They argue that the Biden administration caused the ongoing surge of migrants by rolling back some of former President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, including the “Remain in Mexico” program.
But the reality is more complicated. President Biden has left some of his predecessor’s key restrictions at the border in place, including a sweeping public health order that has effectively closed the border to adult migrants seeking asylum in the U.S., to the dismay of immigrant rights advocates. The White House argues that it needs more time to rebuild an immigration system that was gutted by the Trump administration.
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Nowhere do we need common ground more desperately than in our discussions of race. I have experienced the pain of discrimination. I know what it feels like to be pulled over for no reason, to be followed around a store while I’m shopping. I remember every morning at the kitchen table my grandfather would open the newspaper and read it, I thought, but later I realized he had never learned to read it. He just wanted to set the right example.
I’ve also experienced a different kind of intolerance. I get called “Uncle Tom” and the N-word by progressive, by liberals. Just last week a national newspaper suggested my family’s poverty was actual privilege because a relative owned land generations before my time.
Believe me, I know firsthand our healing is not finished. In 2015 after the shooting of Walter Scott, I wrote a bill to fund body cameras. Last year after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, I built an even bigger police reform proposal. But my Democratic colleagues blocked it. I extended an olive branch, I offered amendments. But Democrats used a filibuster to block the debate from even happening. My friends across the aisle all seem to want the issue more than they wanted a solution. But I’m still working. I’m hopeful that this will be different.
Scott has been negotiating with Democratic Rep. Karen Bass of California and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., over the scope of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Lawmakers have said they could be on the “verge” of progress, but progressive House lawmakers are warning that too much compromise on the idea of shielding police officers from civil liability could torpedo the entire bill. Scott has ruled out another proposal that would change the standard for prosecuting police.
Carrie JohnsonNPR Justice Correspondent
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When America comes together, we’ve made tremendous progress. But powerful forces want to pull us apart. 100 years ago kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic, and if they looked a certain way, they were inferior. Today, kids are being taught that the color of their skin defines them again. And if they look a certain way, they’re an oppressor. From colleges to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven’t made any progress at all. By doubling down on the divisions we’ve worked so hard to heal.
You know this stuff is wrong. Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country. It’s backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination, and it’s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.
I’m an African American who’s voted in the South my entire life. I take voting rights personally. Republicans support making it easier to vote and harder to cheat, and so do the voters. Big majorities of Americans support early voting and big majorities support voter ID, including African Americans and Hispanics.
Recent polling from the Pew Research Center shows Americans favor policies like requiring identification to vote and providing access to early voting. But Scott doesn’t mention that Americans also favor other election reforms too, like automatically registering eligible citizens to vote and allowing for same-day voter registration.
Before former President Donald Trump and other high-profile Republicans spent most of last year raising false security concerns about vote-by-mail systems, a wide majority of Americans also favored universal access to mail ballots.
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Common sense makes common ground. But today this conversation has collapsed. The state of Georgia passed a law that expands early voting, preserves no excuse mail-in voting, and despite what the president claimed, did not reduce election day hours.
If you actually read this law, it’s mainstream. It will be easier to vote early in Georgia than in Democrat-run New York. But the left doesn’t want you to know that. They want people virtue signaling by yelling about a law they haven’t even read. Fact checkers have called out the White House for misstatements. The president absurdly claims that this is worse than Jim Crow.
Some of the provisions in the 98-page bill are indeed “mainstream” and are provisions that local election officials had asked for, like being able to process absentee ballots early to allow for smoother elections. You can read the entire law here or read Georgia Public Broadcasting reporter Stephen Fowler’s detailed overview here.
But the bill also makes it harder for voters to request and turn in absentee ballots. That could have a real effect on future races, considering that Biden won the state by less than half a percentage point, and Democrats are expected to use mail ballots at much higher rates than Republicans going forward after former President Donald Trump’s false attacks on vote-by-mail security.
Broadly, Georgia Republicans passed a bill in the name of further securing a process that was found by recounts and audits not to be insecure. In doing so, the process to vote for many voters will become more challenging, which is why a number of companies and Major League Baseball took action in recent weeks to show their distaste for the law.
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Biden did twice incorrectly characterize the new Georgia voting law as limiting early voting hours, as The Washington Post fact-checker notes here.
An original draft of the bill did seek to limit early voting hours, but the bill that ultimately passed did not. It actually expanded in-person early voting access “for most counties in most elections,” Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Stephen Fowler explained on All Things Considered in March.
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What is going on here? I’ll tell you. A Washington power grab. This misplaced outrage is supposed to justify Democrats new sweeping bill that would take over elections for all 50 states. It would send public funds to political campaigns you disagree with and make the bipartisan Federal Elections Commission partisan. This is not about civil rights or our racial past. It’s about rigging elections in the future.
And no, the same filibuster that President Obama and President Biden praised when they were senators, the same filibuster that the democrats used to kill my police reform bill last year, has not suddenly become a racist relic just because the shoe is now on the other foot. Race is not a political weapon to settle every issue the way one side wants. It’s far too important.
This should be a joyful springtime for our nation. This administration inherited a tide that had already turned. The coronavirus is on the run. Thanks to Operation Warp Speed and the Trump administration, our country is flooded with safe and effective vaccines. Thanks to our bipartisan work last year, job openings are rebounding.
On Inauguration Day, COVID-19 vaccines, developed in record time with major efforts from the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, were getting distributed at a rate of around 1 million per day. Case counts and deaths — around 3,000 per day — were still very high. Biden urged all Americans to mask in public and worked to increase the pace of vaccinations — two strategies that health experts credit with bringing cases, hospitalizations and deaths way down since January.
Pien HuangNPR Science Desk Reporter/Covers Global Health And Development
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So why do we feel so divided, anxious? A nation with so much cause for hope should not feel so heavy laden. A president who promised to bring us together should not be pushing agendas that tear us apart.
The American family deserves better, and we know what better looks like. Just before COVID, we had the most inclusive economy in my lifetime.The lowest unemployment rates ever recorded for African Americans, Hispanics and Asians, and a 70 year low, nearly, for women.
Hear me, wages were growing faster at the bottom than at the top. The bottom 25 percent saw their wages go up faster than the top 25 percent. That happened because Republicans focused on expanding opportunity for all Americans.
In addition to that, we passed Opportunity Zones, criminal justice reform and permanent funding for historically Black colleges and universities for the first time ever. We fought the drug epidemic, rebuilt our military and cut taxes for working families and single moms like the one that raised me.
Our best future will not come from Washington schemes or socialist dreams. It will come from you, the American people, Black, Hispanic, white and Asian, Republican and Democrat, brave police officers and Black neighborhoods.
A big theme of Scott’s response was the idea that Biden’s proposals represent big government. It’s a throwback to a traditional Republican argument that was less prominent during the Trump years. Republicans like Scott argue that the federal government should not be imposing its will on individuals, or on states when it comes to issues like voting rights and education spending.
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We are not adversaries. We are family. We are all in this together, and we get to live in the greatest country on earth. The country where my grandfather in his 94 years saw his family go from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.
So I am more than hopeful. I am confident that our finest hour is yet to come. Original sin is never the end of the story. Not in our souls and not for our nation. The real story is always redemption.
I am standing here because my mom has prayed me through some really tough times. I believe our nation has succeeded the same way, because generations of Americans in their own ways have asked for grace, and God has supplied it.
So I will close with a word from a worship song that really helped me through this past year of COVID. The music is new, but the words draw from Scripture:
“May the Lord bless you and keep you, make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May his presence go before you and behind you and beside you, in your weeping and your rejoicing, He is for you. May his favor be upon our nation for a thousand generations and your family and your children and their children. “
Goodnight and God bless the United States of America.
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Five minutes of BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
Is that necessary, Fox?
Edit: Chick-fil-A operator? That sounds like some tasty af operating operationally!
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I don't even know or care what the point of that is other than punchable face
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Imagine the leftist racist howls if this dude actually runs. They'd print pages of him being called coon and nigger by unnamed and unidentified people on the street.
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