US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)

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?

 

[Rykel22]

I just don't fucking get it...

How does the Left work around that the United States occupying Afghanistan is not a form of Colonialism by introducing Western ideology trying to snuff out Islamic tradition?

Something, something, it's ok when we do it.

 

[God of Nothing]

You also have to factor in that CNN went from an echo chamber to "diverse opinions" in the span of 48 hours after being a screaming echo chamber for 5 years at least. CNN didn't suddenly decide to let all these diverse opinions happen when "their guy" was at his weakest. Something else is going on.

The machine is malfunctioning.

 

[Salubrious]

I just don't fucking get it...

How does the Left work around that the United States occupying Afghanistan is not a form of Colonialism by introducing Western ideology trying to snuff out Islamic tradition?

The left screamed for a year about how voter ID is racist and now they have forced everyone in New York City to show ID and a vaccine passport just to enter virtually any indoor building. They have just locked out 2/3rds of black people and all of the disabled who medically cannot get the shot because there are no medical exemptions. So all those cancer patients and MS patients that we are supposed to be protecting? They're just locked in their homes in NYC now indefinitely until the courts over rule the mandate or someone actually remembers to insert a medical exemption.

Don't expect consistency from the left. At least when the right has stupid ideas, they are consistently stupid. It's like the goal of the left is to be hypocritical. The left screams about how the right is fascist and then screams at Abbott/DeSantis for not being authoritarian enough "to save lives."

 

[Billy Beer]

We were always taught to respect the enemy. If you stop respecting him, you stop respecting his abilities. If you stop respecting his abilities, you underestimate.

If you underestimate the enemy...

... you lose.

Unfortunately, the yanks I worked with in Afghan were poorly trained, often young, inexperienced and trigger happy. The view was "America is better than this sandy shit hole full of rag heads, so we win by default". That soured the locals who were acted and spoke very differently to the yanks than they did to Aussies, Brits or Canadians.

Remind us again about how well you did against Nasser? or in Aden?

Nigger please, do you really want to play this game?

 

[soy_king]

Nigger please, do you really want to play this game?

Here you are talking shit about Burger land and waxing poetic about Rule Britannia. How exactly did Aden end, or Palestine, or Cyprus, for your precious empire?

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

So I am watching Tom Tugenhadt's speech in the UK Parliament which is sitting from its Summer Recess to try and do something about the US fuckup in Afghanistan.

Tom Tugendhat's Emotional Speech on Afghanistan

youtu.be

I've clipped it to this point because in about 10-15 seconds he says something rather curious and shocking.

"To hear their commander in chief claim they (the 82nd airbourne) ran is despeciable".

Did sleepy joe actually do this?

coz short of building a new fucking Army I am fairly certain he'd have just signed a bit of a warrent for removal by pissed off military brass.

 

[Gehenna]

So I am watching Tom Tugenhadt's speech in the UK Parliament which is sitting from its Summer Recess to try and do something about the US fuckup in Afghanistan.

Tom Tugendhat's Emotional Speech on Afghanistan

youtu.be

I've clipped it to this point because in about 10-15 seconds he says something rather curious and shocking.

"To hear their commander in chief claim they (the 82nd airbourne) ran is despeciable".

Did sleepy joe actually do this?

coz short of building a new fucking Army I am fairly certain he'd have just signed a bit of a warrent for removal by pissed off military bress.

.... he claimed the fucking 82nd ran? One of our most decorated, lauded divisions?

Fuck, -I- am pissed about that.

 

[LurkTrawl]

Anybody know when Biden's supposed to be speaking today? I'd like to know what his admin plans to do to try and distract from the Afghan shitshow as soon as it comes out.

 

[Gehenna]

Anybody know when Biden's supposed to be speaking today? I'd like to know what his admin plans to do to try and distract from the Afghan shitshow as soon as it comes out.

4:30 PM EST.

 

[AnotherPleb]

4:30 PM EST.

Unless Jill calls another lid.

 

[TaterFarmer]

So I am watching Tom Tugenhadt's speech in the UK Parliament which is sitting from its Summer Recess to try and do something about the US fuckup in Afghanistan.

Tom Tugendhat's Emotional Speech on Afghanistan

youtu.be

I've clipped it to this point because in about 10-15 seconds he says something rather curious and shocking.

"To hear their commander in chief claim they (the 82nd airbourne) ran is despeciable".

Did sleepy joe actually do this?

coz short of building a new fucking Army I am fairly certain he'd have just signed a bit of a warrent for removal by pissed off military brass.

I know biden claimed the afghani ran. I don't remember him saying anything negative about the US military (or any other military).

 

[Gehenna]

I know biden claimed the afghani ran. I don't remember him saying anything negative about the US military (or any other military).

I can only assume it was part of that phonecall that Biden and Boris had.

 

[Billy Beer]

Here you are talking shit about Burger land and waxing poetic about Rule Britannia. How exactly did Aden end, or Palestine, or Cyprus, for your precious empire?

An empire that spanned 2/3rds of the globe and lasted over 250 years had defeats? Shockedpikachuface

You guys deserve the shit you get, all of it. You have an illegally elected president, who can't string a sentence together, who's son is compromised by foreign nations, who is covered for by your own (supposed) media. You, in the land of the free, on the American internet, can't talk about or ask questions about Jan 6th, the 'master minds' of which are sat in jail, illegally held and stopped from receiving basic human rights. You can't talk about the lockdowns, mask mandates or jabs without being banned, cancelled or labelled as a fucking Nazi, without a shade of irony. Even though, there are videos, quotes and documents proving that the cancerous faggots in your country flip-flopping on their words. Doesn't matter, you'll be silenced anyway, comrade.

How the hell can you expect to win a foreign war or bring 'Freedom and Democracy' to other countries, when your own country is compromised?

And the worst part of all? You know this is all true.

 

[Aqua Panda]

You also have to factor in that CNN went from an echo chamber to "diverse opinions" in the span of 48 hours after being a screaming echo chamber for 5 years at least. CNN didn't suddenly decide to let all these diverse opinions happen when "their guy" was at his weakest. Something else is going on.

Good chance it's ratings. CNN has been in the toilet ratings wise since Trump left office. They are in dead last place when you compare all the major 24/7 news outlets. The disjointedness is them failing trying to find something that brings in the metrics they want.

They went so hard on TDS it caused most people to begin tuning out. IMO, a lot more people seemed to see just how heavy editorialized they have become.

 

[Gehenna]

Good chance it's ratings. CNN has been in the toilet ratings wise since Trump left office. They are in dead last place when you compare are the major 24/7 news outlets. IMO they disjointedness is them failing trying to find something that brings in the metrics they want.

They went so hard on TDS it caused most people to begin tuning out. IMO a lot more people seemed to see just how heavy editorialized they have become.

But why now, why so sudden? They have been in the shitter well before now, and had plenty of fodder to turn on him well before now. Something changed, that's our point.

 

[Juan's Sombrero]

The thing is, everything you've been lead to believe about the war was a lie. The US went into Afghanistan because of Al Queda and then it just became a way for military contractors to get rich. Pretending it was a fight for the country. It wasn't. The US could use its power to push the Taliban out of Government. Create a new Government, but that Government had little to no power. It didn't really represent or run the country outside of a few cities. For most of the country, it was just life going on as usual. Where they knew little or cared not.

The Taliban would fight back, but lost every time. So they just laid low. Every now and then pushing the occupiers, but getting pushed back. No meaningful change was done to the country to push it from what it was, everything tried failed. Yet they lied to you and the world about it. Pretending it was a war they were winning. Pretended they were training a capable army. Which was mainly just Afghan's fighting for a paycheck, not because they believed in the mission of the new government, but it's a poor country and it's a job. Pretending they were succeeding at nation-building and changing the culture. Outside of those few cities, they were not.


The Taliban didn't win a war to drive the US out. The US just retreated. So the Taliban just stop laying low. No nation-building was ever done. Nothing is lost because nothing was ever real. The scene in Kabul isn't the Talban winning, it's the US and their allies just giving up. Going home. This is an embarrassing scene. It's humiliating but it's just the truth of the lie coming to the surface. Nothing meaningful ever was achieved except funnelling money to the Industrial Millitary complex.

The situation Trump and now Biden have had is ending this farce. Ending this con. I respect little about either of them, but I respect them for getting out and putting an end to this. It absolutely sucks for those people in those cities where their lives will now descend into hell but for most of the country, they won't practically notice a difference. They'll just be safer at funerals and weddings for fear of drone strikes.

The Romans occupied the Middle East for 1000 years, and they left and it was like they were never there. Besides some of the cool stuff they build. No difference here.

I just watched a recap broadcast one of our veteran reporters did at Afghanistan in 2002.

It was unnerving since I was a kid at the time and didn't pay much attention to it, but at my age, today, there was this poignant realization how fucked the country was, even back then.

Landmines everywhere, even in the town. She and her crew risked getting blown to pieces. In horrific irony, an ambulance was even totaled while it was hauling a coffin of a de-miner that was blasted to bits.

The news crew were scared, they panicked a little, some of the locals mourned how fast it all went. The ambulance was full of other de-miners and she recalled how it could have been them.

Even a kid was almost caught in the blast range, but he survived when the dust cleared.

A year later, when the Taliban was beaten back, the afghans had some semblance of freedom when they were allowed modern amenities like TV, radio, movies, etc. But, you could easily tell that their society was still fragile, like a ticking bomb ready to go off at any minute.

This is just...

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

 

[Aqua Panda]

But why now, why so sudden? They have been in the shitter well before now, and had plenty of fodder to turn on him well before now. Something changed, that's our point.

It changed because they started losing money and access hand over fist. It's them scrambling to find a way to shore themselves up when they've severely poisoned the well.

Yes, they were already trending downwards, but Trump gave them those sweet, sweet rage clicks.

 

[Juan's Sombrero]

It changed because they started losing money and access hand over fist. It's them scrambling to find a way to shore themselves up when they've severely poisoned the well.

Yes, they were already trending downwards, but Trump gave them those sweet, sweet rage clicks.

Could they be pushing for Kamala?

 

[Gehenna]

It changed because they started losing money and access hand over fist. It's them scrambling to find a way to shore themselves up when they've severely poisoned the well.

Yes, they were already trending downwards, but Trump gave them those sweet, sweet rage clicks.

You are not quite getting the issue. Why -now-. Why, over a span of only 2 days, did they suddenly abruptly switch. They didn't suddenly start losing money, they were already having issues with it when Trump was in and have been losing it -since he left office-. That isn't new, that isn't a chance. If they were going to turn on Biden over just money they'd have A: Done it well before now and B: Done it over a much larger span of time.