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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Interesting enough, during Baris's show today, he said something odd about Virginia.
He said he expected Virginia to be like a traditional blue state now, where registations follow the presiential electoral margin of D+10 in 2020, meaning blue state gets bluer. It was D+4 during the election, but since has grown in the opposite in the voter model, from D+1 months ago, and now even today. They might've gotten their shit together in the Virginia GOP after 2 decades of being irrelevant.
Will it hold? Dunno. Might just be due to lockdowns / unpopular governor. But the last thing I would've guessed is the Decomcrats relinquishing anything from a now fortified and demographically-terraformed state.
He said he expected Virginia to be like a traditional blue state now, where registations follow the presiential electoral margin of D+10 in 2020, meaning blue state gets bluer. It was D+4 during the election, but since has grown in the opposite in the voter model, from D+1 months ago, and now even today. They might've gotten their shit together in the Virginia GOP after 2 decades of being irrelevant.
Will it hold? Dunno. Might just be due to lockdowns / unpopular governor. But the last thing I would've guessed is the Decomcrats relinquishing anything from a now fortified and demographically-terraformed state.
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Would be interesting if they lose a state they work so hard to transform form red to solid blue
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You have to buy your own medals/ribbons. They're not that durable either, and it's not uncommon to scuff or stain them during a night out drinking at a military ball. They are a uniform item, so you have to keep them inspection ready, and people that have a job where they have a dress uniform on all day may have 2-3 backup sets ready to go. The purple heart is kind of a mother fucker because there's real gold in it. They were (last time I priced one 10+ years ago) about 10-15x the cost of a normal medal.
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jesus christ this is really their backup endgame isn't it
it's retarded but the administration is retarded enough to try it and mic wants their money above all else
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/democ...61424.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=gp
They are ramping this shit up. I dont like it one bit.
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Ever wonder what it was like living in the 5th century when the Roman Empire was collapsing? Now you know!
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Oh fuck we're only just getting started with this crap, aren't we?
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Alternative possible translation: Why heap more fire on to an already blazing inferno when we can release this later to keep it going.
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Love you, brother.
It's called "stolen valor" and there are groups worse than us Farmers out there that will put your ass on a pike if you claim it.
I only ever wore what I was rightfully entitled to wear, and that was a couple doo-dads at best. Besides, looking at these buffoons makes me think of the North Korean Army, where they got shit on their chest dragging the ground. You know of what I speak.
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Because Kamala is that. fucking. bad.
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Who cares about 3d printing, when will COMMON SENSE GUN LAWS be passed for this threat to the nation?
All some madman needs is a t-square, a saw, and a plane! Heaven help us if he manages to get his hands on some sandpaper.
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The Air Force hands out ribbons like candy these days. To be fair though I didn't know I got any new ones until my unit won another Outstanding Unit Award. I hadn't worn my dress blues in something like 5 years since getting into my career field. Kinda nutty going from NDSM, GWoT, and the AF
Any airman that isn't a fuckup is going to look like a goddamn war hero by the end of his first enlistment. It's kinda nuts.
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I have no problem with a female president, the choices so far have been SHIT. Case in point, Kamela. Great standard you've set.
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On a side note; I sometimes wonder if Biden/Harris blackballed Marines who did sentry duty during the trump administration from working at the White House from working said assignment once Trump left.. IE only allowing Marines to work that gig if they were 100% vetted to be loyal blue democrats and punishing those who did work the sentry gig for being "loyal" to Trump simply for working that gig when he was in office. Sounds like the sort of scummy thing Biden and his ilk would do.
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Yeah, be REAL careful about playing with uniforms and medals you didn't earn. There's a whole pack of veterans who are as autistic as we are when it comes to tracking and doxing stolen valor faggots. They range from guys who get pissy if you wear the real medals to kooks who pitch fits if you wear a BDU jacket.
Relevant to the discussion: nobody wants to tell Grandpa Joe the truth (guys, does archive-dot-is no longer work on the farms? I can't get it to link).
I WANT TO GET OFF MR. BONES WILD RIDE NOW.
Relevant to the discussion: nobody wants to tell Grandpa Joe the truth (guys, does archive-dot-is no longer work on the farms? I can't get it to link).
President Joe Biden’s aides were “too scared” to question him on key decisions made in the run-up to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, sources close to the administration have told The Telegraph.
Mr Biden, who is facing the greatest crisis of his presidency, is said to have insisted on recalling troops ahead of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and ignored warnings that it would not leave the military with enough time to get US citizens and allies out.
Speaking to people close to the administration, The Telegraph has managed to build a picture of a stubborn-headed and defensive president continuing to tout his foreign policy nous, and a staff too afraid to question him.
One former defence official, who is in regular contact with senior White House aides, suggested that there was not much pushback from concerned officials because they were "too afraid".
“People are simply too afraid to tell Biden (and) Jake Sullivan (his National Security Adviser), they're wrong. It's one thing to crack down on leaks (as Mr Biden has done), it's another thing to allow a mistake like this,” they told The Telegraph.
“This White House is very disciplined, especially when it comes to leaks and such. But the downside of discipline is if you're running things like an autocracy, and you broker no dissent internally, that's not what the purpose of a White House staff is."
Others told The Telegraph that they urged him, without success, to keep open Bagram Air Base, which has more runways than Hamid Karzai International Airport and has long been the beating heart of American operations in Afghanistan.
With nine days remaining until the US’s self-imposed August 31 deadline and a capacity to evacuate some 5,000 to 7,000 people a day, that would still leave tens of thousands of at-risk civilians trapped in Afghanistan.
It is understood the State Department is now pushing Mr Biden to extend the deadline, even if it means striking a new deal with the Taliban.
Passing August with a large contingent of troops still in the country would be awkward for Mr Biden given his insistence on ending the 20-year US war by that date.
Mr Biden, who won the presidency on a promise of compassion and empathy, has faced criticism for his seeming failure to treat the situation with the sensitivity required.
“That was four days ago, five days ago,” he snapped at ABC's George Stephanopoulos when asked about the harrowing footage of Afghan civilians clinging on to the landing gear of a departing US military jet.
“At points the president evinced little sense of the human toll as the Taliban swept back to power,” Peter Baker, the New York Times’s Chief White House Correspondent, said of the interview.
Insiders told The Telegraph the 78-year-old president has an unrivalled ability to “tune out the DC noise” and ignore the “media rabble”.
“The Trump administration, while pretending to hate the networks, was obsessed with getting approval from them. But Biden is very much his own man.”
Mr Biden does not read the papers cover-to-cover as his predecessor did while in office.
He has spent just four of the last 15 days of the unfolding crisis at the White House and on Saturday was forced at the last minute to cancel plans to return to his beachfront home in Delaware for the weekend. He reportedly took 24 hours of convincing to return to DC to address the nation on Monday.
Kamala Harris, meanwhile, told reporters that Afghanistan “couldn’t be a bigger priority” as she boarded a non-urgent flight to Singapore for a Southeast Asia tour on Friday, in the midst of the biggest challenge of her vice-presidency.
The chaos in Kabul has left Mr Biden, whose rhetoric has become more “America First” than Donald Trump’s, seemingly more intent on washing his hands of Afghanistan than expressing concern over the humanitarian tragedy unfolding on the ground.
Some critics say Mr Biden’s cold-eyed focus on US interests has left him increasingly isolated internationally.
General David Petraeus, the former CIA director who led US and allied forces in Afghanistan under Barack Obama, said the president was not right to deflect blame onto the Afghan army and questioned his suggestion that Nato allies "had a choice" to stay after the US withdrew.
"Theoretically (Mr Biden is right), but probably not practically,” Gen. Petraeus told The Telegraph. “In fact, the withdrawal of the other coalition forces from Afghanistan, as the US military withdrew, confirmed the critical role US forces and capabilities play in such missions.”
By Friday's speech, Mr Biden struck a decidedly more empathetic tone, with the president acknowledging that images of desperate Afghans chasing planes and handing babies over barbed wire have been “heartbreaking” and “gut-wrenching”.
Mr Biden, the only US president with a child who served in Afghanistan, has made the gamble that the scenes at the airport will be forgotten by the midterm elections next year, when the Democrats will be fighting to hold control of both Houses.
The president’s supporters are trying to frame the pullout as an act of bravery by a realist who knew there would be political fallout but was unwilling to bear the costs of continued inaction.
They were pulling out of Afghanistan because it quite simply was no longer serving American interests, they told reporters this week.
Polling seems to support his hunch. The surveys show there is little appetite among either Democratic and Republican voters to remain in Afghanistan.
David Axelrod, a former strategist for Mr Obama, said he had no doubt that most Americans agreed with Mr Biden that it was time to wrap up the Afghanistan operation, but that his botched handling risked tainting the mission.
“The way it’s ending, at least thus far, is more problematic,” he told the New York Times, “and cuts against some of his core perceived strengths: competence, mastery of foreign policy, supreme empathy. It’s as if his eagerness to end the war overran the planning and execution.”
Mr Biden has said he believes America’s “forever war” had led US leaders to take their eyes off the ball regarding the main national security threat facing their country, specifically the rise of an increasingly assertive China.
“I know my decision will be criticised, but I would rather take all that criticism than pass this decision on to another president,” he said this week before concluding his speech without taking questions.
Mr Trump, a Republican who has dangled the possibility of running again for president in 2024, has repeatedly blamed Mr Biden, a Democrat, for Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban, even though the US withdrawal that triggered the collapse was negotiated by his own administration.
"Biden’s botched exit from Afghanistan is the most astonishing display of gross incompetence by a nation’s leader, perhaps at any time," Mr Trump said at a boisterous rally on Saturday packed with his supporters near Cullman, Alabama.
Mr Biden has said he inherited a bad withdrawal agreement from Mr Trump.
At the rally, Mr Trump blamed the situation on Mr Biden not having followed the plan his administration came up with and bemoaned US personnel and equipment being left behind as troops withdrew.
"This is not a withdrawal. This was a total a surrender," he said.
Mr Trump said the Taliban, with whom he had negotiated, respected him. He suggested the quick takeover of Afghanistan would not have happened if he was still in office.
"We could have gotten out with honour," Mr Trump said. "We should have gotten out with honour. And instead we got out with the exact opposite of honour."
Mr Biden, who is facing the greatest crisis of his presidency, is said to have insisted on recalling troops ahead of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and ignored warnings that it would not leave the military with enough time to get US citizens and allies out.
Speaking to people close to the administration, The Telegraph has managed to build a picture of a stubborn-headed and defensive president continuing to tout his foreign policy nous, and a staff too afraid to question him.
One former defence official, who is in regular contact with senior White House aides, suggested that there was not much pushback from concerned officials because they were "too afraid".
“People are simply too afraid to tell Biden (and) Jake Sullivan (his National Security Adviser), they're wrong. It's one thing to crack down on leaks (as Mr Biden has done), it's another thing to allow a mistake like this,” they told The Telegraph.
“This White House is very disciplined, especially when it comes to leaks and such. But the downside of discipline is if you're running things like an autocracy, and you broker no dissent internally, that's not what the purpose of a White House staff is."
Others told The Telegraph that they urged him, without success, to keep open Bagram Air Base, which has more runways than Hamid Karzai International Airport and has long been the beating heart of American operations in Afghanistan.
With nine days remaining until the US’s self-imposed August 31 deadline and a capacity to evacuate some 5,000 to 7,000 people a day, that would still leave tens of thousands of at-risk civilians trapped in Afghanistan.
It is understood the State Department is now pushing Mr Biden to extend the deadline, even if it means striking a new deal with the Taliban.
Passing August with a large contingent of troops still in the country would be awkward for Mr Biden given his insistence on ending the 20-year US war by that date.
Mr Biden, who won the presidency on a promise of compassion and empathy, has faced criticism for his seeming failure to treat the situation with the sensitivity required.
“That was four days ago, five days ago,” he snapped at ABC's George Stephanopoulos when asked about the harrowing footage of Afghan civilians clinging on to the landing gear of a departing US military jet.
“At points the president evinced little sense of the human toll as the Taliban swept back to power,” Peter Baker, the New York Times’s Chief White House Correspondent, said of the interview.
Insiders told The Telegraph the 78-year-old president has an unrivalled ability to “tune out the DC noise” and ignore the “media rabble”.
“The Trump administration, while pretending to hate the networks, was obsessed with getting approval from them. But Biden is very much his own man.”
Mr Biden does not read the papers cover-to-cover as his predecessor did while in office.
He has spent just four of the last 15 days of the unfolding crisis at the White House and on Saturday was forced at the last minute to cancel plans to return to his beachfront home in Delaware for the weekend. He reportedly took 24 hours of convincing to return to DC to address the nation on Monday.
Kamala Harris, meanwhile, told reporters that Afghanistan “couldn’t be a bigger priority” as she boarded a non-urgent flight to Singapore for a Southeast Asia tour on Friday, in the midst of the biggest challenge of her vice-presidency.
The chaos in Kabul has left Mr Biden, whose rhetoric has become more “America First” than Donald Trump’s, seemingly more intent on washing his hands of Afghanistan than expressing concern over the humanitarian tragedy unfolding on the ground.
Some critics say Mr Biden’s cold-eyed focus on US interests has left him increasingly isolated internationally.
General David Petraeus, the former CIA director who led US and allied forces in Afghanistan under Barack Obama, said the president was not right to deflect blame onto the Afghan army and questioned his suggestion that Nato allies "had a choice" to stay after the US withdrew.
"Theoretically (Mr Biden is right), but probably not practically,” Gen. Petraeus told The Telegraph. “In fact, the withdrawal of the other coalition forces from Afghanistan, as the US military withdrew, confirmed the critical role US forces and capabilities play in such missions.”
By Friday's speech, Mr Biden struck a decidedly more empathetic tone, with the president acknowledging that images of desperate Afghans chasing planes and handing babies over barbed wire have been “heartbreaking” and “gut-wrenching”.
Mr Biden, the only US president with a child who served in Afghanistan, has made the gamble that the scenes at the airport will be forgotten by the midterm elections next year, when the Democrats will be fighting to hold control of both Houses.
The president’s supporters are trying to frame the pullout as an act of bravery by a realist who knew there would be political fallout but was unwilling to bear the costs of continued inaction.
They were pulling out of Afghanistan because it quite simply was no longer serving American interests, they told reporters this week.
Polling seems to support his hunch. The surveys show there is little appetite among either Democratic and Republican voters to remain in Afghanistan.
David Axelrod, a former strategist for Mr Obama, said he had no doubt that most Americans agreed with Mr Biden that it was time to wrap up the Afghanistan operation, but that his botched handling risked tainting the mission.
“The way it’s ending, at least thus far, is more problematic,” he told the New York Times, “and cuts against some of his core perceived strengths: competence, mastery of foreign policy, supreme empathy. It’s as if his eagerness to end the war overran the planning and execution.”
Mr Biden has said he believes America’s “forever war” had led US leaders to take their eyes off the ball regarding the main national security threat facing their country, specifically the rise of an increasingly assertive China.
“I know my decision will be criticised, but I would rather take all that criticism than pass this decision on to another president,” he said this week before concluding his speech without taking questions.
'We should have gotten out with honour': Trump
Former President Donald Trump has launched a sustained attack on Mr Biden's handling of the retreat of US forces from Afghanistan, which he called "the greatest foreign policy humiliation" in US history.Mr Trump, a Republican who has dangled the possibility of running again for president in 2024, has repeatedly blamed Mr Biden, a Democrat, for Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban, even though the US withdrawal that triggered the collapse was negotiated by his own administration.
"Biden’s botched exit from Afghanistan is the most astonishing display of gross incompetence by a nation’s leader, perhaps at any time," Mr Trump said at a boisterous rally on Saturday packed with his supporters near Cullman, Alabama.
Mr Biden has said he inherited a bad withdrawal agreement from Mr Trump.
At the rally, Mr Trump blamed the situation on Mr Biden not having followed the plan his administration came up with and bemoaned US personnel and equipment being left behind as troops withdrew.
"This is not a withdrawal. This was a total a surrender," he said.
Mr Trump said the Taliban, with whom he had negotiated, respected him. He suggested the quick takeover of Afghanistan would not have happened if he was still in office.
"We could have gotten out with honour," Mr Trump said. "We should have gotten out with honour. And instead we got out with the exact opposite of honour."
I WANT TO GET OFF MR. BONES WILD RIDE NOW.
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