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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I'm torn on China's prospects in Afghanistan. On one hand, all their goals are more or less economic in the region. You'll trigger the Taliban hard if you try to come down on their drug production or rule of power in the area, and prove you aren't willing to play by the rules of life there, mainly bribery and looking the other way. China is no stranger to working with corruption, looking the other way, and not worrying much about what else happens there, just look at how they treat North Korea. Everyone knows the NK border is a black market trade hell, and China mostly tolerates it because its preferable to getting overinvolved in that quagmire. The Taliban would benefit long term from better regional connections to move their assets around with, and as Long as China doesn't try to force in too many puppet politicians (Or more accurately, doesn't force out too many Taliban ones), and turns a blind eye to the rest of their actions, its plausible that they avoid any major conflicts. I don't think points about China's treatment of the Muslims in their country count for much, Muslims themselves have an excellent reputation for hating and murdering their own kind, so China wouldn't be a unifying player in that regard.

On the other hand, China could be eager to prove their military is totally better than US or Russian forces, and stamping out a country known to be a hellhole could be an appealing prospect to prove themselves on the global stage. I'm disinclined to believe this, because they're not ignorant to the reputation, and the last thing they want to do is show their military hand just to reveal its weaknesses. But it'd be foolhardy for me to assume that Ego couldn't lead to a shit move.

I just get the feeling we will see an uneasy truce like situation in the region. Not true peace, but a very slow, measured tit for tat. Think along the lines of the occasional Taliban attack being responded to by a half hearted Chinese drone strike, with the Taliban letting a few inconvenient local warlords take the fall when they overstep on those attacks. China supposedly already has connections and support going to the Taliban, so its not unprecedented for them to find a mutually beneficial arrangement. Hell, the odds of this happening are actually higher if the US does indeed refuse to withdraw completely. Militant Taliban assets can continue to shoot up US bases, and Chinese industry can quietly walk in the back door.
 
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HandsomeDan said:
What the hell is the fascination with getting ice cream? Is this some evil code or something?
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
My guess is the disconnected elites think that going out to ice cream shops is the current, hip, working class american tradition, and they think its a great press event to show that Biden is grounded with the people.
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Maybe it's the new cheese pizza? Is that still too crazy, what's the barometer at?
 
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Gehenna said:
1: Kamala Harris
2: The Oligarchs behind it all.
3: The Progressives. (separated from the Oligarchs in that the Oligarchs are the business interests only wanting to make money, the Progressives are the True Believers)
4: Jill Biden (speculated)
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I would add Obama to the mix. He's unofficially treating the whole dam thing as his third term.
 
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LurkTrawl said:
So to put it more succinctly, they're scared shitless of an 'Obama 2.0' situation where a president becomes too capable of being independent of the party. I never looked at it that way but it makes perfect sense.
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I'm not corrupt, soulless, nor hold any world-dominating ambitions (maybe scratch that third part), but I would hate that some guy I propped up before, during, and after his campaign(s) as the hopeful and prodigal savior of this nation, easily won his election(s) and left my ass in the dust as soon as he got the keys to the Double O.

Obama was a weed-smoking preacher who got away with it all by "speaking good," nothing more, nothing less. At least I could tell Blumpf was a salesman.

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He's been too quiet. While he has weighed in, his ego is far too great to have been this quiet if he was actually in control.
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Considering he'll eternally have to live with the fact that Biden "btfo'd" his popular vote total. Same goes doubly when you account that Trump did the same, and likely prompted dissenters running the polls to pump those numbers up (Biden, realistically, got 76 million, at least).
 
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Gehenna said:
This is happening faster than I thought it would.

So, there are 4 major entities/factions within the Biden Administration. 3 for sure, one speculated by me. All of them are using Biden as the pawn.

1: Kamala Harris
2: The Oligarchs behind it all.
3: The Progressives. (separated from the Oligarchs in that the Oligarchs are the business interests only wanting to make money, the Progressives are the True Believers)
4: Jill Biden (speculated)

The top three are for sure in a slowly brewing war. Harris was promised the reigns of power to be the power behind the man and realizes she's meant to be a puppet. The title means nothing if it doesn't have power behind it, and unlike Joe Biden, her mind isn't swiss cheese enough to be content with it. So she has a brewing discontent with 2 and 3. 2 and 3 have to deal with the fact that they have rapidly diverging interests but neither can just remove the other without losing basically all actual power. Jill Biden is a speculated 4th power. As the Wife of Joe Biden, he remembers her best and clearest and anything she says he'll go along with -way- more readily than anything said by 1-3. And as his mind deteriorates, that power only grows. She's a blatantly political animal with a lot of ambition of her own, and I speculate that she's not happy having her husband used as a mask... and doubly hates that she has no power by extension. She's supposed to sit there and be pretty.

So 1 and 4 hate everyone else, with 2 and 3 hating each other and having to worry that 1 or 4 might begin to assert power, all while their puppet degenerates more and more with every passing day and with it their ability to keep the charade up.

This situation is untenable, it's -going- to crash and burn. The question is how and what the fuck happens when it does. If Joe Biden kicks it or degenerates past the point of hiding, then they have Kamala... who if she was discontent as VICE President, that discontent is going to magnify as President when she is still stripped of any real power.
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Does Jill Biden really have all that much power? I always thought that she was just noisy but powerless, maybe moreso than Kamala.

I would also like to know where the returning Obama State Office fits into the this. Obviously they are a middle man sticking the Oligarchs, the bureaucracy, and the Biden regime together, but like in the past, it's not impossible for them to work towards their own ends as well (i.e. there must be Progressive & Neoliberal factions in there as well).
 
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