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?

 

[thismanlies]

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https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1432736792818618373

Nice denial. Now let's get that claim verified by someone who hasn't spent the last two weeks lying to us.

 

[Slimy Time]

Lol, saying this was a success but also its Trump's fault. "I did nothing wrong, I did everything correct, thanks for the money votes dummies."

What, has Biden been calling Trump up and asking him how to make this into a disaster? Only the most hardcore TDS sufferers and diehard blueshirts are going to fall for that. It went to shit under his watch. If Trump made a bad plan, then what was this guy doing ever since he got into office? What was with him swearing up and down a month and a half ago, on video, saying that none of the stuff that has happened would happen. Kabul will not fall, there won't be any helicopter emergency evacuation like there was in Saigon. What, was your intelligence so poor as to not see this, or did you lie to your country and the world at large?

We have video after video of this guy and his administration ducking and running for cover and not taking questions while calling the Afghans cowards for running away from live ammo. We have this guy making statements that are continuously proven to be false not a day later, some times even during the speeches he made. What part of the previous president's admin has to do with the current policy of "Americans stuck there don't get preference"? The guy is a disaster, he was meant to "fix things" and "return things to normal". Well, return it to normal he did alright, by fucking things up badly.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

Funny you say that. I went to Catholic school. There were both nuns and priests in my school and we wore full uniforms. These days?

In my city, the Catholic schools are now...more liberal. I did a teaching assignment at one of my local Catholic schools. Third grade. There were no priests. no nuns. All lay teachers and lay administration. The uniforms were more lax and plain. They allowed for a lot of exceptions.

But there is ONE traditional Catholic K-12 school in my city. This school did not come along until I was already graduated from high school. They pride themselves on modeling their pedagogy on the teachings of St. Aquinas. They have the stations of the cross permanently installed on the grounds outside. They have a regular civic requirement for the students as condition of graduation.
One such requirement is to attend anti abortion rallies. Their website has this page where they lay EVERYTHING out as far as the traditional Catholic dogma, belief systems, the beliefs of St. Aquinas, and the civic duty requirements.
There are NO EXCEPTIONS. While they state that they will not deny acceptance to any student based on race, income, or even flavor of Christianity...they and their parents MUST ACCEPT AND AGREE to the conditions and understand their culture and dogma as a condition of being accepted as a student.

And I gotta say that it is REFRESHING. My city also has only one church that offers Latin Mass on Wednesdays. That school uses this church for feast day celebrations, etc.
I am honestly shocked to shit that the IdPol/SJW/Troon/LGBBQWTF/Pedophile brigade hasn't pulled any of its usual antics like prodding some big burly bulldyke to apply and get hired as a gym teacher just to get fired and blubber to the media about it later.

Hasn't happened...yet. It gives me a sliver of hope to see there are traditional Catholics still out there--not just the ones who say they are because they attend mass at St. __________ each week and subscribe to the Observer.

Yeah, sounds like a properly based Catholic school. Was it run by the SSPX? I know they run quite a few schools in America.

There are traditional Catholics out there. We're just a small minority, although we are a pretty visible minority because we tend to be far more active online than liberal Catholics.

 

[LUNEKO]

The fact that after all that's happened, the first people to resign are from the fucking FDA and over something not even related to Afghanistan is fucking infuriating.

If anything they probably saw the writing on the wall and decided to bail before shit came down from Afghanistan to the next disaster which might be the vaccine mandate

 

[Constellationzero]

Of all the ethnic food to get excited about. They were praising fucking naan bread.its like four fucking ingredients to make, I make it all the time.

I like naan but it's not some exotic delicacy. It's just flat bread.

Not in Wisconsin, but my local WOODMAN's sells ready made Naan in the ethnic aisle. Jesus tapdancing christ.

I also lol at these retards all going: HURRRR DURRRRRR, They're, like, gonna open a restaurant and now all the dum dumm dummie dums are gonna get sEaSoNeD fOoD! HURRRR DURRRRR

They're going to open a restaurant
a restaurant
a goddamn fucking restaurant

...but, you know, we're the racists here...

 

[Collections Agent]

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Holy shit we've gone from blasts to BODY SLAMS

Hell yeah keep up the buzzwords I want to watch someone verbally Five Knuckle Shuffle Biden

 

[Constellationzero]

https://americanlookout.com/over-20...o-resign-over-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal/

NO, just...no.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

A brother brought up to me that our military numbers are dropping fast as a combination of this shit in Afghanistan, Covid, and CRT. What're the sources for that?

 

[Terrifik]

IF you are RICH RULE DO NOT MATTER

https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1432803432365178885

Chase Bank does about-face, apologizes for Gen. Flynn credit card cancellation letter, says it 'made an error'

Chase Bank on Tuesday told TheBlaze it has apologized for the credit card cancellation letter that retired Gen. Michael Flynn — former national security adviser under former President Donald Trump — posted on his Telegram social media page Sunday.Chase's Aug. 20 letter reads, in part, "we...

www.theblaze.com

 

[JosephStalin]

 

[verissimus]

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JUST SHUT UP BECAUSE TALKING POINT!

I don't think anyone has quite said this yet, but the "warnings" talking point has to be complete snake oil. You honestly expect me to believe the federal government/embassy gave that many warning for people to get out and no one in the press, and I mean NO ONE, i.e. both domestic and international, picked up on that? Really? Either the so-called "warnings" these people harp on were so routine that people essentially ignored them or they weren't issued, that is, until things started to go out of control.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

A brother brought up to me that our military numbers are dropping fast as a combination of this shit in Afghanistan, Covid, and CRT. What're the sources for that?

Nowhere, you're gonna have to take some "trust me bro" salt. Public publishing military numbers would be compromising. However, I can confirm, more of my friends and my spouse's friends are leaving for: "Too much, Woke." reasons. Seriously, one of my Spouse's Chiefs was sent to Mast because a 20 something woman said that his crass humor was offensive. This is the same woman who came up to a bunch of men talking about her vagina in the mess hall. If I had the financial resource, I'd seriously put my money on privatized military over our current military.

 

[Terrifik]

A brother brought up to me that our military numbers are dropping fast as a combination of this shit in Afghanistan, Covid, and CRT. What're the sources for that?

Facing falling enlistment numbers, the U.S. Army takes a new approach to recruitment: Mom and dad

A series of new television recruitment ads feature mothers and fathers in war settings, trying to convince their children not to join the Army.

fortune.com

Army recruitment: Facing falling enlistment numbers, the U.S. Army is…

archived 2 Jul 2021 20:03:02 UTC

archive.vn

A slow decline-February 20, 2020 5:25 PM UTC
Interest in military service has been declining since conscription—or compulsory enrollment, commonly known as the draft—officially ended in 1973, but it’s reached its apex with the current generation of potential military recruits, the first to come of age with no direct familial ties to a conscripted force.
After the post-Vietnam crossover from a drafted to a professional army, the part of the population engaged in military service began to decline, says Capt. James Long, a reserve Army infantry officer and innovation fellow.
Now, the military relies on self-selection, says Long.
“There’s this large trend we’ve seen in the last couple of decades where the likelihood of someone in the military following in a parent or family member’s footsteps is pretty high,” he says. “The consequence of that has been less of a broad-ranging appeal to demographics that are increasingly important.”
Young people certainly understand the risks of military service—injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, and long deployments—says Katherine Helland, director of Joint Advertising Market Research & Studies (JAMRS) at the Department of Defense. But, she says, they fail to recognize the value propositions and benefits that the military has to offer.
All it takes is getting them to listen. “We do find that getting that information to the youth market does have an impact,” she says.
Hence the parental outreach.
In the 1990s, about 40% of the youth market had parents who served in the military; that number is now down to 15%. “We don’t have those intimate connections to military service anymore,” she says.
Recent data gathered by JAMRS found that only 32% of mothers and 39% of fathers would recommend service to their son or daughter. The numbers were much lower when there was no history of military service in the family.
The Pentagon says that the campaign to educate parents, whom they refer to as influencers, about service life is now essential to the future of military recruitment.
Without the right information at hand, says Stephanie Miller, director of accession policy at the DOD, parents are often surprised, concerned, and unsure of how to proceed. Often, they just shut down the conversation.
“If we’re not able to reverse these trends that we’re seeing, this disconnect in the market, what is it going to look like when today’s youth become the parents and today’s parents become the grandparents?” asks Helland. “Who will our next generation of youth turn to, to truly understand all of the benefits of military service?”
But the problems with the declining propensity to serve may come to a head way before the next generation of potential recruits are born.
Here comes Iran
A ground war with Iran, while unlikely, isn’t quite as dubious as it once was—at least not since President Donald Trump ordered the death of Iran’s top general, Qassim Suleimani, in January, prompting a retaliatory Iranian missile attack, which left at least 109 people injured. Trump and colleagues like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) seem to have no qualms about publicly and regularly threatening Tehran, either.
Last week, the Senate voted in favor of a resolution that aimed to block Trump from any further military hostilities toward Iran. The bill, crafted by Tim Kaine (D-Va.), would require Trump to end all military action in the country within 30 days. The measure will soon go to the House, where it’s expected to pass without a problem.
But Trump has indicated that he will veto any such resolution, and Congress does not appear to have the two-thirds vote required by each chamber to overturn such a veto.
Officials have indicated that they’re trying to avoid conflict, but the prospect of another prolonged engagement in the Middle East may be enough to turn away potential recruits, just when the military needs them most.
“War in the Middle East is certainly something we have to be cognizant of, and part of the challenge of that longer presence at war is the misperception of negative consequences,” says Miller.
Iran, a country of more than 80 million people with a wide range of missiles and a force of about 550,000 active personnel, “would require military resources far beyond those we employed in Iraq and Afghanistan,” says retired Maj. Gen. Dennis Laich, director of the Patriots program at Ohio Dominican University. “A war with Iran would be a disaster.”
The military simply doesn’t have the manpower to face Iran while keeping other troops around the globe and in Iraq and Afghanistan, he says.
Meeting recruits halfway
In the early 2000s, about 90% of households had phone lines. Today, that number is closer to 40%. The television set, much like the home phone, has also fallen out of vogue. Just 50% of young people watch traditional sources of TV, according to Pentagon data.
That means traditional cold calls and attention-grabbing ads are no longer enough to grip young people’s attention. So, the military is adapting.
“The market is becoming harder and harder and more saturated, so we have to try to meet them where they are,” says Miller. “We’re doing more work in virtual recruiting, and we’re trying to have a stronger presence on social media platforms where people can have a chatroom and live presence with their recruiter.”
They’re also tapping social media influencers to help boost perception. The Marine Corps recently invited YouTube stars to participate in basic training camp and make videos about their experience. The Navy challenged YouTube stars to shadow sailors and then face off to see who could do a specific job best, kind of like the military equivalent of Bobby Flay’s Throwdown.
CrossFit competitions and e-sports events have also been particularly fruitful for recruitment efforts. The Army and Navy have both established their own e-gaming teams.
“You see this movement away from NASCAR to more of a presence at CrossFit and extreme sporting events. Those are the areas where we see people engaging who meet our standards,” says Miller.
But the ROI from their efforts has not yet been established, and the DOD is still analyzing new data.
Often the recruiters attend these events knowing that they won’t even generate one lead, says Helland. Instead, they’re focused on the long game.
“What we’re trying to do is shift the market in a larger, longer-term way to address this issue of the disconnect,” she says. “We may not get a lead tomorrow, but next year we may.”
Efficiency
Long-term planning doesn’t relieve the current deficit, and the present-day enlisting process is still quite arduous.
It takes between four and six months to enroll the average recruit, with more wait time before they’re shipped off to basic training.
“Right now, there’s a guy who’s served for three years, he comes back and knows every high school in the area,” says Gil Barndollar, the military fellow-in-residence at the Catholic University of America’s Center for the Study of Statesmanship. “He talks to 100 kids, and out of those, 25 call him back. Then, out of those, eight are serious. Then he drills that down and ends up with four recruits. You throw a lot of resources at the problem.”
The recruitment and retention of manpower are also tremendously expensive tasks.
The Department of Defense currently spends about 60% of its entire budget on manpower, and those costs are up about 50% in real terms since 2001, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The defense research group found that if spending increases along the same trajectory, it will eat up the entire Pentagon budget by 2039.
“The all-volunteer force is a misnomer. This isn’t the Rough Riders in 1898 with people stepping forward out of patriotism. They are recruited in a competitive labor market,” says Barndollar. “You can throw money at the problem, but we still have gaping holes in a lot of places.”
Recruitment officers will often sweeten the deal with a signing bonus, and those bonuses can be as high as $40,000.
There are about 10,900 paid recruiters around the country. Those recruiters, says Laich, “should be in the force training and leading soldiers. It’s an awfully expensive proposition that adversely impacts readiness and capability of the military as a whole.”
On average, each recruiter brings in one enlistee every seven weeks, which Laich calls inefficient and expensive.
All volunteer?
But if you ask Laich, the all-volunteer model is long for this country anyway.
Ultimately the Department of Defense will be forced to return to conscription, he says. “We say that it’s an all-volunteer force, but we’re paying huge sums of money to induce people to join.”
In 2018, the Army paid more than $400 million in enlistment bonuses and nearly that much last year. The vast amount of money it takes to sign up recruits, says Laich, raises the question: “If it’s an all-volunteer force, why do you have to pay somebody to volunteer?”
An all-volunteer force, according to Laich, reduces both the quality and quantity of recruits, especially as propensity to serve declines.
“Let’s face it, National Merit Scholars who would make great enlisted intel analysts or cyber-warriors don’t consider joining the military,” he says. “All-state linebackers who would make great infantrymen don’t consider joining the military. So we have a situation where no one has skin in the game, and what we do is prey on the lower socioeconomic classes.”
Department of Defense data found that the largest percentage of new Army recruits, 22.5%, come from households with $40,116 to $51,363 in annual income. Just 14.3% of recruits come from households that bring in more than $84,195.
About 43% of men and 56% of women are either Hispanic or a racial minority, more than their civilian labor force percentage.
“With a volunteer force, you’re always going to be competing in the marketplace,” says Barndollar, who also advocates for conscription. “If this were the type of country where the military was venerated above all else, that could be very powerful. But we’re not that country. We’ve got this unhealthy and maybe even toxic relationship with our military now.”
The all-volunteer force has won only one war (the Gulf War) since 1973, says Laich, whereas the conscripted army only lost one, Vietnam.
“Where’s the winning?” he asks.
Embracing the gig economy
Another and perhaps more plausible option is a change to the way the military searches for new recruits. Instead of playing a numbers game, says Captain Long, it may be better to recruit more mindfully.
“Having 10,000 riflemen may be less effective for your individual objectives than having 10 truly great hackers,” he says.
As wars become more technologically complicated and battlefields become more hypothetical, the military will have a hard time recruiting the brainpower it needs away from tech companies and industries that can pay much more with significantly lower risks.
Instead of taking an all-or-nothing approach, Long suggests that it may be a better option for the DOD to rely on its reservists or to expand the way it utilizes private citizens.
“There are deep and fundamental philosophical shifts that need to happen, that perhaps aren’t happening, at the speed needed to make change today,” he says. The future of the military, he says, should look a bit like the gig economy.
“I would love to hear the conversation expand from ‘We need a draft’ to asking people how they can contribute in a broader sense,” Long says. “There’s immediate value if we break down the barriers to contribution and open it up to skilled people who want to help, but also want to continue building companies or working in the private sector.”
The military is actively working on embracing some of the innovations that Long suggests. They’ve created the Defense Innovation Board, manned with tech industry leaders like Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman. The group advises the Secretary of Defense on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the hiring and retention of I+STEM talent.
The Department of Defense has also been experimenting with pilot programs that include shorter, two- to three-year enlistment contracts.
But that doesn’t mean the military is ready to totally change its ways.
The shorter enlistments, notes Miller, come “with the expectation that once they have their foot in the door and they see how much we have to offer, that they’ll be more willing to commit to a longer-term contract.”

Blue anon afraid trump people-Wednesday, Mar 10

Trust in the military is dropping significantly, new survey suggests

About 56 percent of Americans said they have great trust in the military, down significantly in recent years.

www.militarytimes.com

About 56 percent of Americans surveyed said they have “a great deal of trust and confidence” in the military, down from 70 percent in 2018. The poll includes views of more than 2,500 individuals who were asked questions in early February 2021.

“To see this drop is quite a concern,” said Roger Zakheim, Washington director of the institute. “This is not just the events of the past 12 months. We’re seeing this trend now.
Researchers saw a similar drop in confidence in law enforcement in recent years (down from 50 percent to 39 percent).

But they noted that even with the military’s decreased reputation, the institution still remains regarded very highly among Americans. Only 6 percent said they had no trust at all in the armed forces. Other institutions such as public education (21 percent), public health officials (33 percent) and Congress (10 percent) trailed significantly behind trust levels in the military.
The foundation has compiled the poll in recent years as a way to gauge public opinions on defense issues and help guide policy decisions on those topics.

About 74 percent of those surveyed said they favor increasing military spending, a figure that has remained consistent in recent years. But only 11 percent said that the military should be the highest priority for budget planners, listing health care and education issues ahead of defense.

Roughly 61 percent of individuals surveyed supported maintaining current U.S. troops levels overseas. But the same amount said they believe that internal threats are a greater or equal challenge for America than external threats.
“There has been a rising concern over domestic division and political violence in the United States and for a number of years now,” Zakheim said. “We see in this poll that Americans are experiencing a sense of pessimism in almost every question [regarding] confidence or trust or reliance on allies. The numbers are generally ticking down.”

Zakheim said the results could be reflective of much of the political turmoil of the last year of former President Donald Trump’s term in office, which featured public debate over the role of the military in civil disturbance and social justice protests.

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looks like other information is from past articles of a lot of miltart not wanting to take covid shot/ CRT- Should be findable on tim pool channel.

 

[Constellationzero]

I like that liberals believe emaciated people that struggle to find food in their home country are suddenly masters of cuisine.

Hey--they're the ones saying that all the people coming over here are doctors and rocket scientists and shit.

And don't you DARE say that coming here is exacerbating brain drain and further fucking up the quality of life in their home country--whaddarya, a rayciss?

 

[The Nothingness]

Holy shit we've gone from blasts to BODY SLAMS

Hell yeah keep up the buzzwords I want to watch someone verbally Five Knuckle Shuffle Biden

I'm waiting for a verbal Tombstone Piledriver.

 

[JosephStalin]

Nowhere, you're gonna have to take some "trust me bro" salt. Public publishing military numbers would be compromising. However, I can confirm, more of my friends and my spouse's friends are leaving for: "Too much, Woke." reasons. Seriously, one of my Spouse's Chiefs was sent to Mast because a 20 something woman said that his crass humor was offensive. This is the same woman who came up to a bunch of men talking about her vagina in the mess hall. If I had the financial resource, I'd seriously put my money on privatized military over our current military.

When people ask me about joining the military, I tell them to think hard about what they want out of it first. Also tell them things are highly politicized in the service now. But I no longer recommend to anyone that they join the military, at least until the military acts like a military again.

 

[gaystoner]

 

[Meat Target]

So, we're getting evacuations going again with no military presence and an empty embassy?

IF you are RICH RULE DO NOT MATTER

https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1432803432365178885

Chase Bank does about-face, apologizes for Gen. Flynn credit card cancellation letter, says it 'made an error'

Chase Bank on Tuesday told TheBlaze it has apologized for the credit card cancellation letter that retired Gen. Michael Flynn — former national security adviser under former President Donald Trump — posted on his Telegram social media page Sunday.Chase's Aug. 20 letter reads, in part, "we...

www.theblaze.com

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[Absurdist Laughter]

When people ask me about joining the military, I tell them to think hard about what they want out of it first. Also tell them things are highly politicized in the service now. But I no longer recommend to anyone that they join the military, at least until the military acts like a military again.

Good fricking policy mate. I won't deny, service has helped us get our lives together...but it was during a time before all the woke. We caught a whiff of it and said, "Later."

 

[make_it_so]

So, we're getting evacuations going again with no military presence and an empty embassy?

I'm sure they got the Taliban to double pinky swear that they'd let people through.