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?
 
A CHINESE BASE SOUTH OF HAWAII!?
Oh but it is really far away.

A CHINESE BASE IN THE ATLANTIC!?!?!?
Oh but it is a refueling depot that is already in use by multiple nations and it is really far away.

Right. So two bases that we need to freak out over. What's the count? A small handful of Chinese forward bases versus several hundred American forward bases. And no sign of the logistical wherewithal to make these Chinese bases of consequence if the mythical America-China War happens. We should probably stay focused on President Biden being corrupt with strong familial/business ties to the Chinese military. That might be a better use of our time.
 
These job numbers are bad, really really bad. It's not really possible to spin them which is why they'll probably shift to just ignoring them instead.
It's almost like killing off 60+% of restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, gyms, and tourism spots is a terrible idea for the economy.

No joke, the middle-class economy in my area has been destroyed by this shit and it's not coming back.
 
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This is one of the smuggest smoothbrain attempts at trying to spin an insult in a good while.

"You said I'm the next Bill Cosby? You mean, super successful actor and comedian? I mean, I guess I am..." *movieblob mayo chuckle*
Trump Jr. has some nice banter, gotta admit it.
Biden was a little lucid there it seems.
How much silver, canned goods, and ammo are we supposed to buy again for the upcoming superinflation/economic collapse event?
Not enough.
Can't wait to see an army of Downies starting Wacos.
Not even joking. I've read that they use to staff the food kiosk with blind workers. Institutional paranoia in service of equal opportunity.
This sudden push for disabled shit and hiring the disabled came so fast. I don't remember anywhere in 2020 where you had the deaf hand language people but now they're everywhere making their funny hand movements and faces.
 
Why of course. Whenever the government fails, it's because it didn't have enough power and money to succeed!
A lot of people are flat out refusing to work because they get more on unemployment than they would at the low paying service job they usually work. We’ll have to see what happens when the extended UE runs out. I suspect a new class of people that will never work again has been created like when there was 99 week unemployment in the last crash.
 
It's almost like killing off 60+% of restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, gyms, and tourism spots is a terrible idea for the economy.

No joke, the middle-class economy in my area has been destroyed by this shit and it's not coming back.
I saw the middle class cheering on the lockdowns the most, so they get to reap the rewards of cheering on the authoritarian neoliberal establishment.

A widespread economic depression will cause more indirect deaths than the coof ever would have.
 
I saw the middle class cheering on the lockdowns the most, so they get to reap the rewards of cheering on the authoritarian neoliberal establishment.

A widespread economic depression will cause more indirect deaths than the coof ever would have.
I wonder how many people voted for Biden because he said he'd stop them. I'd feel bad if it wasn't obvious he wasn't.
 
I wonder how many people voted for Biden because he said he'd stop them. I'd feel bad if it wasn't obvious he wasn't.
Anyone who voted for Biden because they thought he'd bring muh "normalcy" back is a moronic bootlicker. I know "bootlicker" is overused, but they really think you can appease violent mobs by just giving into their insane demands. They're somewhere between a doormat and a bootlicker.

"Normalcy" is not coming back; that bird has flown.
 
I'll be more concerned about the jobs report if the next two months are abysmal as well. A single incident does not indicate a pattern.

Of course I fully expect the Biden Administration to have shit the bed on this like everything else but it is too early to break out the champagne and confetti.

I'm just trying to understand here. They're running the economy at full tilt right now with near 0 interest rates and they literally just got done dumping trillions of dollars of liquid cash onto the markets, and the response is unemployment INCREASING? What measures do they even have left to stop the coming train wreck? Negative interest rates? even more free cash for everybody (but mostly for giant international corporations)? This shit don't look good at all.
The system has exhausted all of its options. More than likely this is the death spiral that everyone has expected since forever.
I saw the middle class cheering on the lockdowns the most, so they get to reap the rewards of cheering on the authoritarian neoliberal establishment.

A widespread economic depression will cause more indirect deaths than the coof ever would have.
Are they the same ones who decided they needed to over rule the CDC and keep mask requirements? Because more than likely COVID just made people retarded instead of killing them.
 

Biden fills immigration court with Trump hires​




The Biden team has hired a slate of immigration judges initially selected during the Trump era, angering advocates who argue the White House is already failing to deliver in its pledge to push back against the prior administration's shaping of the judiciary.

The first 17 hires to the court system responsible for determining whether migrants get to remain in the country is filled with former prosecutors and counselors for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as well as a few picks with little immigration experience.

Almost none have made their career representing migrants in court.

The Thursday announcement from the Department of Justice (DOJ) initially perplexed immigration attorneys, advocates and even some former immigration judges who wondered why the group so closely mirrored the jurists favored by the Trump administration.

“The 17 new immigration judges referenced in the notice all received their conditional offers under the prior administration,” a Justice Department spokesperson told The Hill.

Critics said the Biden administration has an obligation to fully vet the judges hired under their watch and rebalance a court system heavily shaped by the Trump team.

It’s also a surprising move for a president that has otherwise sought to quickly reverse a number of Trump immigration policies while calling for a more humane response to migration.

“This is a list I would have expected out of Bill Barr or Jeff Sessions, but they're not the attorney general anymore. Elections are supposed to have consequences,” said Paul Schmidt, now an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School after 21 years as an immigration judge. That included time serving as the chair of the Board of Immigration Appeals, the highest administrative body dealing with immigration cases.

“No one on that list is among the top 100 asylum authorities in the country, and that's the kind of people they should be hiring — not prosecutorial re-treads,” he added.

Under the Trump administration, the Justice Department, which oversees the immigration court system, filled roughly two-thirds of the 520 seats on the bench, often picking those with long careers in ICE who argue in favor of deporting people.

“The Trump administration was very astute when it came to the importance of who sits on the bench. That was as true of the Supreme Court as it was all of the federal circuits and the federal district courts, and to their immense credit they did not have a blind spot for the immigration court,” said César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a professor at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law.

“I think it's important for the administration actually putting these individuals on the bench to decide if they have the information they need to make this decision or delay the process or to take ownership for making these appointments,” he added.

Biden’s budget calls for hiring 100 new immigration court judges — a figure many argue will hardly make a dent in a backlog of 1.3 million cases that will take an estimated four years to get through.

And his designated White House counsel wrote in a letter to lawmakers in December seeking suggestions for who to nominate to the bench, writing that they were “focused on nominating individuals whose legal experiences have been historically underrepresented on the federal bench, including ... those who represent Americans in every walk of life.”

For many, that means the immigration court system needs to be filled with more immigration defenders.

“The bottom line is that the president has been clear and forceful that he wants to put judges on the bench with diversity that had been lacking in past, and that’s not just in terms of race and other markers but that diversity in professional background is just as important,” said Peter Markowitz, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.

“You can’t just have judges that were former prosecutors," he added. "We need former defense attorneys and other actors in the legal system represented on the bench as well.”

A failure to do so under the Trump administration has led to an imbalance in the system, García Hernández said.

“People who work as immigration lawyers and immigration defense lawyers develop a different perspective than people that work as immigration prosecutors,” he said.

Some of that can be seen in the number of asylum case denials, which surged under Trump as judges denied petitions from those arguing they would face danger if they returned to their home country due to things like their race, religion or political beliefs.

Denial rates that had hovered around 50 percent under prior administrations jumped closer to 70 percent.

“All but one of these new judges were former prosecutors, law enforcement, or in other branches of government, demonstrating a clear lack of diversity and little change from hires made under the Trump administration whose bench had the highest rate of asylum denials in history at 72 percent,” Greg Chen, director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told The Hill by email.

“The Biden administration is rushing to hire more judges to address the massive 1.3 million backlog in cases, but on its own more judges won’t fix the fundamental lack of fairness in the immigration courts which is why Attorney General [Merrick] Garland must immediately institute reforms to restore the court’s integrity,” he said.

DOJ pushed back against criticism that the new judges would contribute to a pattern of rulings that favor government attorneys over immigrants, saying it “takes seriously any claims of unjustified and significant anomalies in adjudicator decision-making and takes steps to evaluate disparities.”

“Note also that the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) continually evaluates its processes and procedures to ensure that immigration cases are adjudicated fairly, impartially and expeditiously and that its immigration judges uniformly interpret and administer U.S. immigration laws,” the spokesperson said

But Schmidt said diversifying the attorneys on the bench is what will be needed to have a greater impact.

“You need to get some progressive immigration experts into the system who recognize what good asylum claims are who can establish precedent for granting cases and then move those cases through the system,” he said.

“I haven't seen much evidence to back up their initial claim they want to be fair and just to asylum seekers. It’s just Stephen Miller Lite.”

Was Trump a cuck who selected judges the Democrats would have picked? Is Biden a backstabber who is secretly based? You decide.
 
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