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?

 

[Trianon]

Mild whitepill: in my favorite Mediterranean joint for lunch and Fox News is playing on the TV covering this whole fuckup. Everybody is angry and staring daggers at clips of Biden’s speech (btw, first time I listened to it — god it’s worse than I imagined). Seeing so many people IRL feeling exactly how we feel here is actually quite cathartic.

Overheard female hair stylists at a salon talking about how we fucked up Afghanistan by propping up a corrupt government and making it guaranteed that everyone inside would want to leave. These are extreme normies, young mothers, who love talking shit but don't care about politics. They ended the convo with just, "It's fucked."

I think with Washington it made sense. Since he was the general for major battles in the revelation war. I do think it may have been a bad idea to continue that tradition after Washington.

But the alternative is what we have now: an entrenched military leadership that will keep foreign policy going regardless of what the voters have to say. The executive is beholden to the people and has the flexibility to make quick decisions, unlike the other two branches. Actually the entire concept of a standing army was opposed by almost all of the Founding Fathers, who thought it made it too likely that we would start meddling in foreign wars. Whoops. The War of 1812 kind of changed their minds, though, since the militias were simply not prepared for a British invasion.

I cringe whenever I see an Evangelical figure claim that sort of thing, but there were legit moments where it felt like we were watching the hand of God in action. Especially when the DNC leaks happened because someone meant to tell Podesta that the email he'd received was not legit, but instead wrote that it was legit.

The traditional understanding is basically that God allows people to continue making the mistakes that will eventually bring them low. When God hardens Pharaoh's heart, Pharaoh stops listening to what he knows he has to do to fix the issues in his country and doubles down, thus making everything worse until he has to sacrifice as many of his own soldiers as there were Israelite slaves in Egypt, just for the privilege of watching them walk away scot-free. Much of our political problems are the same. It's the lack of humility that makes even natural disasters worse than they need to be (see California forest management, or bad levy systems in New Orleans). Leaders who know what needs to be done and ignore it get judged harshly, by God and man.

I was wondering if this was clickbait, but nope, he specifically contrasts Jesus and Superman as "hero archetypes" to Rosa Parks, who was a real world hero. I hope that he either misspoke or doesn't consider himself a Christian.

Jesus as JUST a heroic archetype is a very common view in liberal mainstream Protestantism. I think here he's speaking to nonbelievers and saying that humans do need a higher belief in what is moral to guide them, and superheroes are a way of understanding it if you aren't religious but still feel attached to the superhero myth. Jesus DOES provide a good path to being a good person, though that's just one aspect of the religion. I follow him on that and agree. Where he tripped up was saying, "and this applies to REAL characters, too" and didn't seem to correct himself, so what he is saying is offensive to Christians and comes off as very "I'm educated, so I don't LITERALLY think any of it is true, I just think people should be able to talk themselves into it for the good of humanity!" The worst kind of fedora-tipping. But best case he was just trying to explain the importance of heroism to different kinds of people. It's what Jordan Peterson is good at.

Why on Earth would you think that'd work? Do you think any letter you send to a "representative" is going to make it through the 20 people who throw all that shit out before it reaches the desk of that official? Seriously, stop thinking it works like that, it's such a naive boomer thing. You don't have a representative government anymore. These people don't give a shit about you, and they don't play by any rules. In fact, they have nothing but utter fucking contempt for you. That's how we got Biden. Does anyone really think he made it all the way to the candidacy on his merits?

lol even if that were true, you get to suck up their time by making them read hatemail when they could be doing other stupid shit. Every second you gum up the works is worthwhile.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Here is the thing about Kamala; she's a cunt but is pretty much politically DOA if they force Biden out 25th Amendment style. Guilt by association uber alles.

If she's made President this way, the DNC will be so fucking snakebit by Biden blowing up in their faces, that they will do ANYTHING to fucking not rock the boat all in the name of putting out the massive number of fires Biden started to survive 2022 with any semblance of a majority intact. ESPECIALLY in the House.

Kamala's own action indicates she knows this, that she won't be allowed to run in 2024 regardless if they kick Joe to the curb before his first term is up, and is DESPERATELY keeping her head down she can exit at the end of 2024 and that she'll be able to get her old Senate seat back.

Kamala's Presidency would have her on the tightest of leashes and in such subservient mode that she'll think she's back at an S&M club playing a sub for some higher up with has a plantation slave owner fetish kink. The DNC will do their fucking damnest to appease and passify the GOP, all in the name of making sure they cockblock Trump or anyone Trump anoints as his successor, in favor of Romney or some other cuckservative that will work with the DNC to bury Trump and Trumpism as a one-off "mistake". And the Democrats probably even allowing Bernie to run and actually WIN this time, the DNC nomination, on the grounds that Bernie losing big in 2024 will allow the DNC to purge the SJW elements from the party by giving them a Bernie defeat to let the DNC rebrand itself while facing another decade in the wilderness

Trump has enough votes to win the 2024 GOP primaries in 90 percent plus landslides so all that shit is moot. Plus GOP commiting suicide would be a bonus if they try that insanity.

Bush didn't survive Katrina; it basically wiped out all of the stat boosts/immunities 9-11 gave him and first the first time since September 10th, 2001, it became OK and socially acceptable to shit on him as the media stopped sucking Bush's dick and started calling him out on his bullshit.

The only reason he didn't get impeached was that Pelosi (who became House Speaker after the Democrats reclaimed Congress in 2006) still had the memory of the failed Clinton impeachment fresh in her mind and was fearful that impeaching Bush II both would reignite his popularity as a President under siege, but also wouldn't pass in the Senate.

I disagree if that was Pelosi's motivation since she tried to get rid of Trump twice and basically made him more popular than Reagan as far as the GOP base goes. Or probably just forgot it all since 2018, the Democrats have gone full retard and somehow still control the house.

Jesus, they're reaching new levels of heinousness than I thought possible. They could at least pretend to care for fallen marines, but this is just cartoonishly disrespectful. I hope the families loudly voice their disgust at Biden/Milley/Blinken/the rest of this administration of pure assholes.

They will find some nigger or sheboon to simp for Biden or just write articles calling the marines as nazis since the main opposition to them, is very impotent.

 

[ShapelyMutton]

Despite the amount of negative press the current administration is getting I still feel like nothing is going to directly happen from the current situation in Afghanistan. I know I'm extremely demoralized/jaded about the current state and future of politics in the United States and that it colors my expectations. I want to say that the response to Hurricane Ida will either fully break the administration or give them some breathing room but I still can't feel that's true from the amount of collaboration between the media and the uniparty/deepstate/invested political interest.

I don't think that Ida can be anywhere near as damaging as Katrina was(because of the level of statewide mismanagement during) and I feel like that fact alone will be used to give the administration positive press. Any comparisons being made between Katrina and Ida is being used to prime the public for catastrophe and when that catastrophe doesn't happen no amount of arguing will be able to dissuade the talking heads from giving credit the to the presidency following the usual photo op of the president handing out supplies (If the aftermath is even severe enough to justify such a thing). It's wrong of me to hope that it's catastrophic because of the impact it would have on the individuals, because the failures in the response likely wouldn't rest on the federal government, and because of the grief it would cause the country as a whole, but...

Democracy is right and good but the impotent feeling you get from a lack of direct action on the federal level is killer. The ascent of the federal government and the gradual persistent death of state and local culture in favor of the consistent, hectic, diverse,and bland unified cosmopolitan culture that permeates from every city really makes me hope for a non-secessionist states rights movement more so than we already have with differing covid mandates. I wait in the hope for the coming of a day when I can post the Ron Paul Happening gif in a sense of joy. Until then I will disparately shitpost.

Here's a 50 page segment from Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies that's specifically about the handling of Hurricane Katrina that I've got no clue if I'm allowed to post

 

[SmokeyMcRunFast]

I know a dude who served in this shithole and he's just out of it from how surreal the events are. Like, even Uncle Joe is struggling to comprehend just how bad of a fuck-up this is, and the the man was a high-ranking staff officer. A crayon-eating Marine enlistedman like my buddy is can't even begin to think about the endless ways this is a disaster. Not that he's stupid, quite the opposite, since he made it out with all his pieces still attached despite kicking in doors for a living, so I really feel for the poor guy.

Vets, check on your buddies. This guy ain’t the only one.

To the shock of literally no one, not a single member of the Biden administration was there when the caskets arrived at Dover.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/talib...lapse-of-afghan-government.93275/post-9868854

My expectations of 0 have yet again failed to be met.

 

[ditto]

To the shock of literally no one, not a single member of the Biden administration was there when the caskets arrived at Dover.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/talib...lapse-of-afghan-government.93275/post-9868854

Has this ever happened before? Of course if it was Trump we'd be hearing about the outrage 24/7

 

[BibiLivesMatter]

What worries me a lot about recent events, is how there's been little to no leadership, no accountability, and people working hard to get out of things when it was easier if they just did it. A leader is a reflection of the people they lead, I firmly believe that. And...well that's what scares me the most with future events.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

What worries me a lot about recent events, is how there's been little to no leadership, no accountability, and people working hard to get out of things when it was easier if they just did it. A leader is a reflection of the people they lead, I firmly believe that. And...well that's what scares me the most with future events.

So Biden is a reflection of inner-city poll workers, SWPLs, and corpses? Checks out.

 

[Bolo]

C'mon men, give the guy a break. He's old and tired.

He really fell asleep...

I wonder for how long the Dems will be able to kick this can down the road, because shit ain't gona get better in terms of Biden's health.

Look, stuff like the inflation and the Afghanistan can be argued that they were inevitabilities that any presidency could face, if you are willing to look past partisain issues, but to insist on a presidency where you can clearly see that the president isn't well, and not doing anything to prevent it, well, that is on the democrats.

And I don't think the Democrats can afford further hits against them, and the media can only go so far to carry their water. They already paid a high price to take out Trump, who like it or not, is the second most voted candidate in US history, and looks like he isn't going away that easily.

Dunno what to say, I ain't much of a armchair quarterbacking when it comes down to politics, but to me, looks like the reasonable thing would be let the dust settle down a bit, and put the old man down, and you can have the first woman POC president festivities for Harris so she can get some sympathy points and just go from there, because Biden is a dead end.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Something odd with RealClearPolitics' and 538's Joe Biden approval numbers. They have just -stopped-. Normally these run throughout the week, daily updates. But the last one for both was Thursday. No updates since.

They tanked. I imagine they're trying to spin some sort of support for Sleepy Joe but he's pretty much dead (figuratively and literally), all across the political spectrum.

 

[ditto]

He really fell asleep...

At least he didn't drop to his knees..

 

[Snekposter]

My expectations of 0 have yet again failed to be met.

The thread's subtitle should be changed to "We expected less than nothing and we're still let down". And yeah, I'm checking in on my buddy to make sure things are still okay with him.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

He really fell asleep...

I wonder for how long the Dems will be able to kick this can down the road, because shit ain't gona get better in terms of Biden's health.

Look, stuff like the inflation and the Afghanistan can be argued that they were inevitabilities that any presidency could face, if you are willing to look past partisain issues, but to insist on a presidency where you can clearly see that the president isn't well, and not doing anything to prevent it, well, that is on the democrats.

And I don't think the Democrats can afford further hits against them, and the media can only go so far to carry their water. They already paid a high price to take out Trump, who like it or not, is the second most voted candidate in US history, and looks like he isn't going away that easily.

Dunno what to say, I ain't much of a armchair quarterbacking when it comes down to politics, but to me, looks like the reasonable thing would be let the dust settle down a bit, and put the old man down, and you can have the first woman POC president festivities for Harris so she can get some sympathy points and just go from there, because Biden is a dead end.

@MirrorNoir is right. Harris destabilizes the Senate too much and is a charisma void herself. The fact that she's ducking and weaving away now instead of stabbing Biden is proof she doesn't want to be president. Her mandate, should she become president now, is get our people home. That's impossible now and the public will not accept the substitute of vengeance.

 

[Gehenna]

They tanked. I imagine they're trying to spin some sort of support for Sleepy Joe but he's pretty much dead (figuratively and literally), all across the political spectrum.

I know he tanked, what's odd is that they stopped reporting it. Makes me wonder what they intend to do, because they can't keep that pause going forever because it will make foreign nations and basically every politician get increasingly... antsy. The more obvious it is they are hiding something, the less support the admin will get.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Bernie is too old. I would even argue Trump running in 2024 would not be that good, because he is old as fuck too. I mean just look at how quickly Biden has fallen. There should be an age limit for presidency.

Bernie shouldn't run not because he's too old but because he's Bernie.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

I know he tanked, what's odd is that they stopped reporting it. Makes me wonder what they intend to do, because they can't keep that pause going forever because it will make foreign nations and basically every politician get increasingly... antsy. The more obvious it is they are hiding something, the less support the admin will get.

Those are external polls, I'm sure the internal ones are quite accurate and that's why we're seeing inaction. Of course this is going to blow up, and I predict its going to blow up spectacularly.

No one wants to be the one to give Biden the shove and Harris the kick in the ass to step up while salvaging as much as they can, because no one wants to get the blame when it crashes down. So here we are.

 

[TurkishOreo]

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Killed 13 service members and can't even guarantee being there to greet them and their families.

"Sorry but that is an unlucky number"
-Kamala
"zzzzz...zzzzz..zzz" -Binky Biden

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Just in case we wanted a tell on the Taliban's opinions on Free Speech.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

We could very well be waking up to the shitty sequel to Hurricane Katrina just like how this entire shitshow was the shitty sequel to the end of the Vietnam War, so that'll probably be what pushes Biden off the precipice. Or maybe the media will finally realize you can blame local authorities for disaster response too.

 

[pwnest injun]

Just in case we wanted a tell on the Taliban's opinions on Free Speech.

Wasn't that the "comedian" who liked to rape children?

 

[BlueSpark]

The fact that she's ducking and weaving away now instead of stabbing Biden

The Democrats probably won't let her. She must know that she's just a scapegoat for people to get mad at so that when they do the Democrats can blame sexism and racism for the criticism.