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?

 

[Some Badger]

Yeah, the Democrats are officially broke and have no funding. Doesn't matter when NGOs do everything for you.

Please don't give me false hope like this, lmao

In all seriousness though, I wouldn't put it past the DNC to pull funding out of thin air via a manufactured crisis a la January 6th, no matter how bad the optics.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

The left is constantly eating itself, right now in the middle of a massive schism, and has descended into open civil war with itself.

They've also whored themselves out to corporations as much if not more than they accused the free market conservatives of being.

 

[Gehenna]

Please don't give me false hope like this, lmao

In all seriousness though, I wouldn't put it past the DNC to pull funding out of thin air via a manufactured crisis a la January 6th, no matter how bad the optics.

You don't get funding for something like that, you get Political Capital... IF people rally behind you. The big problem for that is that people view Biden as fundamentally weak, as truly and utterly useless. While I'd sure as shit not put it past them to try prior to Afghanistan, after... they'd only -lose- more power. Well, they would if they weren't already in the red.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Please don't give me false hope like this, lmao

In all seriousness though, I wouldn't put it past the DNC to pull funding out of thin air via a manufactured crisis a la January 6th, no matter how bad the optics.

The fact that Pelosi met with George Soros tells you where the money is coming from.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

The Dems didn't spend that much on the campaign trail.

Sniffy-Joe stayed in his basement. He didn't really hold rallies, he hung out in people's back yards and sniffed kids. NGO's and other groups ran ads on TV. He used government planes to fly around. He didn't tour.

It was probably the cheapest campaign ever ran.

Just an old man in a basement that would crash people's backyard parties to sniff their kids, then fawning reporters slobbering on his cock after he got his free gibs ride.

 

[Gehenna]

The Dems didn't spend that much on the campaign trail.

Sniffy-Joe stayed in his basement. He didn't really hold rallies, he hung out in people's back yards and sniffed kids. NGO's and other groups ran ads on TV. He used government planes to fly around. He didn't tour.

It was probably the cheapest campaign ever ran.

Just an old man in a basement that would crash people's backyard parties to sniff their kids, then fawning reporters slobbering on his cock after he got his free gibs ride.

The campaign was cheap, now how about the actual rigging? Vast -oceans- of money just -disappeared- in Wisconsin. The campaign was cheap, the fortifying was -expensive-.

 

[Spiteful Crow]

Just from watching the reaction to Biden promising death and revenge against DeSantis, it really seems like DeSantis is just more powerful than Biden. Biden stomped his feet and screamed that he would personally murder anyone who didn't follow his policies. The psychotic old man threatened to "run over" people.

Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis was at a veterans event honoring our nation's heroes.

It's become very clear that Ron is not only more skilled at politics than Biden, but he seems to be quite a bit less fascinated by anger and violence. But is the Governor of Florida stronger politically than the President of the United States?

 

[Gehenna]

Just from watching the reaction to Biden promising death and revenge against DeSantis, it really seems like DeSantis is just more powerful than Biden. Biden stomped his feet and screamed that he would personally murder anyone who didn't follow his policies. The psychotic old man threatened to "run over" people.

Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis was at a veterans event honoring our nation's heroes.

It's become very clear that Ron is not only more skilled at politics than Biden, but he seems to be quite a bit less fascinated by anger and violence. But is the Governor of Florida stronger politically than the President of the United States?

Any individual governor has more power than Biden now. People look to strength when in a time of crisis, and Biden has proven himself whole, unmistakeably weak. The damage Afghanistan did will be felt for a long time.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

People who went into the capitol to take selfies are getting treated as if they flew the planes into the Twin Towers, so is it any surprise people are a little gun shy (no pun intended) of actually doing a *something"?

 

[Gehenna]

People who went into the capitol to take selfies are getting treated as if they flew the planes into the Twin Towers, so is it any surprise people are a little gun shy (no pun intended) of actually doing a *something"?

It's less that, though that is ironically probably reducing the chances of an event the democrats could actually capitalize on. It's more that faith in the system isn't totally gone yet. People are still looking to their leaders to do something, just not looking at Biden as a leader.

 

[SeniorFuckFace]

Any individual governor has more power than Biden now. People look to strength when in a time of crisis

Does it seem the Republican Party/Governors recognizes this opportunity? Are they moving toward leverage it?

 

[Gehenna]

Does it seem the Republican Party/Governors recognizes this opportunity? Are they moving toward leverage it?

Come now, I know you joke about window licking, but you seem actually intelligent. Are there any situations where saaaaay, 27 or so governors have told the federal government to go fuck itself?

 

[Meat Target]

20 years since 9-11. Apparently Joey made some speech somewhere, not that it matters. And I guess he recorded some drivel, again not that it matters.

Sometimes a national calamity galvanizes America to take a lot of positive actions, and ultimately, despite the sacrifices, come out better as a country. Most recent example of that I can think of is Pearl Harbor.

9-11 has not made us better as a country at all. The knee-jerk reactions were much too harsh overall. Still not sure if our continental air defense has been upgraded. We took the good mission of routing the Taliban from Afghanistan and setting the stage for free elections and turned it into a 20-year tale of stupidity and waste in trying to build a nation from a medieval quagmire. As a nation, America started running scared. When you have to make military language students do a threat assessment to have a picnic in a Monterey, CA city park things have gone off the deep end.

And we have paid a terrible price for 9-11, in so many ways. First, all those killed/injured/exposed to damaging substances that day. Second, the waste of Afghanistan's mission creep. Third, the accelerated loss of confidence, faith, and trust in government/law enforcement/judiciary/media at all levels. Please note this has continued while both Republicans and Democrats sat in the White House. Am sure anyone here can add more of the price paid. I cannot think of one single solitary good thing that came out of 9-11. Can you? National unity? Fleetingly.

And Joey, who was VP for eight years of this shit, just bumbles along like Mr. Magoo, not a fucking clue, just incompetent and useless.

Wanna have a really sad thought? Answer me this:

When was the last time you heard someone in meatspace say "it's a free country?" I don't think I have in at least 10 or 15 years.

America the once-great will die not with a bang, but with a whimper.

 

[HarpersFerryWest]

Any individual governor has more power than Biden now. People look to strength when in a time of crisis, and Biden has proven himself whole, unmistakeably weak. The damage Afghanistan did will be felt for a long time.

Certainly. While our system of government is designed for us to expect leadership out of all of our leaders (whether it be local, county, state, federal), things have gotten so bad that my local representative is acting more like a President than the actual President! My representative is a veteran (boost in support from the predominantly-conservative constituency), and they have actively coordinated with public and private parties within their sphere to help get people out of Afghanistan, and has gone the extra step to call for Biden to resign. Political affiliations aside, this representative has accomplished the goal that I feel so many other leaders are failing to realize at the moment:

Spoiler: Longpost: What a lot of politicians lack

As a leader, you have to not only convince your constituency that you are someone that can be trusted to convey the people's wants, but must also have a self-evident, and visibly obvious, passion and love for the country and its people. I know it's so difficult for people to say so these days, especially with the vocal minority on social media fucking the public discourse up, but people on all political sides tend to be, for the most part, patriotic, and want things to go over well. Ron DeSantis, for instance, has made it public knowledge that he loves his country and state, and wants to do the best he can to make both prosper. In doing his job for his constituents, he has become a rallying point for the frustrated citizenry to get behind, a shred of proof that things can actually be done to fix the problems that be.

Focusing on details like these is what keeps me from falling into doomer-isms ands succumbing to pessimism. Not only do I want to see what happens next, but I want to know how problems can be solved, and you can't do that if you're perpetually stuck in the whole "fuck it, why bother" mindset.

 

[JosephStalin]

Here's the Vietnam-esque songs coming out.

Time is a flat circle shit on by a pink haired tranny in a gorilla mask.

This song is REALLY good. Highly recommend listening to this man's other songs. He's telling the truth. Have passed this song to my email buddies. If this song doesn't make you think, and piss you off, you're a Democrat or brain-dead.

Just purchased three of this man's CD's. Quite reasonably priced.

 

[SeniorFuckFace]

Come now, I know you joke about window licking, but you seem actually intelligent. Are there any situations where saaaaay, 27 or so governors have told the federal government to go fuck itself?

*continues to lick window happily*

Politics only caught my attention when Trump was elected, prior to that, I just saw it as a self-perpetuating machine that generally cared for the Peoples' interest and they did their own thing which I did not care about or just thought it was inevitable and the mechanics of the system.

As long as everyone is generally 'cool' with each other then, I just focus on my life and do not pay attention.

That all changed when Trump was elected. That in and of itself really hooked my attention and this continuous shitshow afterwards.

It is difficult for me to understand scale of things in politics and I have no real reference to how it was, how shit worked prior to Trump.

Politics was a non-issue to me...that has changed though as I see something pretty fucking awful creeping its way into my life and I honesty do not like it.

 

[Puff]

America the once-great will die not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Nah, if we're going down, someone will make some fireworks, I'm sure.

 

[Gehenna]

*continues to lick window happily*

Politics only caught my attention when Trump was elected, prior to that, I just saw it as a self-perpetuating machine that generally cared for the Peoples' interest and they did their own thing which I did not care about or just thought it was inevitable and the mechanics of the system.

As long as everyone is generally 'cool' with each other then, I just focus on my life and do not pay attention.

That all changed when Trump was elected. That in and of itself really hooked my attention and this continuous shitshow afterwards.

It is difficult for me to understand scale of things in politics and I have no real reference to how it was, how shit worked prior to Trump.

Politics was a non-issue to me...that has changed though as I see something pretty fucking awful creeping its way into my life and I honesty do not like it.

A former member of the General Populace I see. You then stand as a good example of what happens when the General Populace gets Interested in something in politics. Some can never close their eyes to it, they might not quite grasp all the intricacies, or get the general feel. But they can't suddenly ignore it all again.

 

[Tour of Italy]

A former member of the General Populace I see. You then stand as a good example of what happens when the General Populace gets Interested in something in politics. Some can never close their eyes to it, they might not quite grasp all the intricacies, or get the general feel. But they can't suddenly ignore it all again.

I disagree slightly here. People have awakenings that spur them to involvement; I've seen that in my own life.

But I think they can become selectively blind to certain things as soon as they think they've won, or when the lies become essential to their own self-image of being on the right side. Since 9/11 is the obvious example today, I'll mention that nearly all of my high school classmates who spent their early adulthood protesting Bush and the Iraq war, and the corrupt intelligence agencies magically had a switch flipped in their brain the second Obama won. Then came Trump, and that was the last nail in the coffin to any skepticism they had towards the government, once those same intelligence agencies were validating them daily that Orange Man was indeed Bad. We're seeing the fallout of that now during the pandemic.

They used to care and question, but stopped doing so when it was convenient.

Now in present, and in the short term, I tend to agree with you. More people who previously ignored politics finally have something to latch on to. But there is a need to keep that momentum going. The same people who protested children in cages in December were more than willing to defend it by the end of January. Then again, I think there is a difference between someone who rallies around a cause due to social pressures and personal convenience and someone who does the research because something truly begins to bother them. I do know people who dug deeply into Trump's immigration policies who were still furious when Biden made it worse on every level.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

I was 3 years old when 9/11 happened. Huh. All i could recall about the bush administration was the numerous jokes made about him in family guy and every other comedy movie of the time