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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No wonder it intensified back into a hurricane.
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Remember a week ago, Los Angeles reinstated the mask mandates even if you were vaccinated? Good times.
This is what people were saying before, and the one thing I will give Fauci some honesty points for. The government could have said "everyone gets their shots and then everything reopens." But no, they didn't even do that. They are still quite frankly saying "even if you are vaccinated, prepare to put your masks back on if we say Delta is bad for you." So most people just refused to get vaccinated because they didn't even get the reward at the end.
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So, they're doing a six-month anniversary for that day now? Of course they are.
I'm sure they'll post nonstop about it on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 too. We already know they will. Gotta control that narrative!
I simply typed "six-month anniversary" into Google, and guessed what was front and center? You already know the answer.
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It wasn't a matter of honesty...
Political calculus:
Promise something, the constituent gets it, big net gain.
Promise something, make it conditional, constituent doesn't get it, minor net loss.
Promise something, the constituent doesn't get it, big net loss.
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Remember that "everybody" means everyone except those who rightly have claim to something. Just like when they say "all voices"...
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History. "Being on the right side" specifically. Somebody pointed out that greed on behalf of the pharmaceutical companies being the primary factor for the COVID vaccines. Unfortunately vaccines have an expiration date. So the Biden Administration at least has to make the attempt to use them otherwise we're going to see headlines of "billions of dollars of vaccine were wasted."
Biden has to at least make his administration look like it is effective at something. (Good Luck America pointed to a poll that Biden's admin is graded in the C range for younger progressives.)
Jehovah Witnesses have been out here once in my lifetime. I sincerely doubt that you are going to get people more dedicated than them and they only made the trek one time.
Also looking forward to a cat and mouse game. As a matter of fact I'm going to avoid my house and go into stores without a mask on. Specifically to fuck with you.
Can you at least go get Joel Osteen if you are going to attempt to preach like this?
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Id go full doomer, but it's comforting to know the chinese are gonna have to contend with this shitshow now. Such a dam shame about all the civilians though.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...seized-afghan-military-u-s-withdraws-n1273081
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ing-reduce-border-patrol-money-historic-surge
Why? why on gods green earth do they think this wont fuck them over?
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Geez, it might be better paying Cartel protection money instead.
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The left thinks they'll always been in control. They won't notice anything is amiss until their number comes up and the ground beneth them begins to crumble.
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Absolute speculation, but its not entirely impossible that the non-pozzed overseers of the Afghanistan withdrawal (Anyone who sees active combat or oversees it rapidly becomes unpozzed) 'accidentally' ensured that the Taliban gets hold of some high-end gear just to fuck with China when they start things. The problem for China, and why I see it as inevitable that the area will become a military conflict for them, is that they... ironically don't do long-term planning well. Their entire economy is about hitting precisely their next stated goal, and this often comes at the detriment of long-term goals.
For example. They make a bridge, this bridge has to fall within a very specific budget to meet their financial quotas. They realize it will go slightly over, so they use lesser materials to come within budget. Down the line, the bridge breaks causing a significant gap in finances which must be made up with more corner-cutting because China's budgets are -fixed- and utterly unbendable.
If the people in charge are lucky, the damage will be noticed but not significant by the time the new budget is made. If they are less than lucky, it becomes a rapidly swelling 50 care pileup.
So what does this mean in relation to Afghanistan? Well... using their African operations as an example. They tend to increasingly squeeze the native population, while massively favoring their own imported population, igniting tension between the two. They get away with this in Africa due to overwhelming military force being an easy cowing method in Africa.
It exacerbates things in Afghanistan.
Inevitably, they are gonna spark a minor issue. They will send in their goon squads just like they always do. And that will ignite full hell. It's a matter of when, not if.
I think you are missing a "don't" in there. But yes, and it is a big part of why they overreach so hard. They assume they will always be in power, and that all institutional power is rightfully theirs. It's the same issue as China above. All choices they make are for short-term gain because long-term "They will always be in power". This is both an organizational -and- personal view. Though they are not ignorant of the possibility of losing power, unless the consequences can be made obvious within 2-3 steps of their action, they will handwave it.
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China will have no problem in Afghanistan. They aren't held to the Geneva convention and can, if they wanted to, enslave or annihilate the entire population of the country. Nobody will jump in and stop them, at best you'll see some strongly worded headlines.
I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the US is using China as a cudgel and contractor to decimate the region, so that those rare earth materials can be extracted at a fraction of the cost compared to the west, Even with China taking a cut.
I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the US is using China as a cudgel and contractor to decimate the region, so that those rare earth materials can be extracted at a fraction of the cost compared to the west, Even with China taking a cut.
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The USA has spent the last 20 years feeding the Taliban as they fought them. China would have no problem rolling into a town, taking all the women to be slave wives, and then leveling it and poisoning the well. They don't want a population to rule over. They already have enough of that.
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Sure, I mean, Americans arming Muslim extremists to fight against a common enemy has never caused us problems in the past or anything.
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This is a map of Asia. Do you see where Afghanistan and China is?
This is a topographical map of Asia. Do you see the sheer fucknut number of mountains in Afghanistan and Western China?
https://i.redd.it/77e1vlo9u2s11.png
This is a map of ongoing infrastructure projects in Asia. Note, this includes things like maintenance and repair. Notice how the stuff in Afghanistan is mostly Rail, and the vast swathe of fucking nothing in Western China and that there is very little in Afghanistan as a whole?
So here is a very basic question for you. How will China get the forces needed to enslave Afghanistan to there, how will they reinforce and resupply them, and how will they avoid that reinforcement and resupply being destroyed on the regular? Its easy to go "lol. china will just kill them all", its a lot harder to use your brain and actually think of basic logistics.
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They won't leave. This is China's foot in the door of the middle east.
If the US if funding or part funding China to act as a proxy military, has an interest in the extraction of the rare earth minerals, or wants to buy products made with those minerals then we can see China in a similar light to how the US paid China to do the covid research - that is to say that China was used as a bypass to laws and regulations. combine this with the cheap labour of the chinks, then afghan will become an outpost of China. As you say, China have enough population and hate Muslims.
China could flood the country with enough bodies (uighers) that mines and IEDs wouldn't be an issue. Afghan and the middle East could be China's Gulag Archipelago but I'm rambling on
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China doesn't have teleportation technology. Are you even trying to think of the basic logistics here, or are you just assuming that "China will find a way"?
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No need to take that tone pal, this is a discussion forum, not a fart sniffing ackshually problem. Have you been to afghan? because I have and I am well aware of the terrain, location etc etc etc.
How will China get there? Same way the US and West did for 20 years; capture the main airport and fly supplies in, 24/7.
And yes, it is easy as "lol kill them all" because even the US was held back when it came to total annihilation of the population, and were stopped from resorting to vietnam-esque final days of napalm and agent orange. China is free to use whatever tactics it sees fit to secure the country, even if that means the genocide of the innocent population of Afghanistan. The world has done shit all about uighers, they'll do even less about a country that has given the world a bloody nose.
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