Joe Biden, Senator from Citibank (oops, DELAWARE), to Run for President

Millions of people are losing their jobs as the economy collapses in the middle of an election year and the savvy pundits on here will look down on you as an ignorant peasant if you suggest this will have any effect except to make Trump even more popular as he sails to reelection

— Galar Regional Medical Director (@weedlewobble) April 10, 2020

“bimbo joe” biden

— law dog, esq. (@ggooooddddoogg) April 10, 2020

imo, you've turned the logic upside down. There are (quickly calculates) 35% of the eligible voting population that withholds their votes in every presidential election and they exert (quickly calculates) just about zero influence over the candidates.

― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, April 9, 2020 8:23 PM

I think this is because, rightly or wrongly, the people in that 35% are perceived as so checked out of the political process that there's virtually no point in courting them. Sanders's primary voters, on the other hand, have just shown that they're willing to get involved. That's why they (we) might have some leverage that the committed non-voters don't.

This is a bad idea. A really bad one, on multiple levels - for starters, it threatens the integrity of Dem voter data & puts Nov prospects in hands of a shady firm w/ a failed track record.

Plenty of orgs bid for contracts. I hope there is enough good sense to reject this one. https://t.co/8kRIog03YM

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 10, 2020

if u missed the link

In modern campaigning, control of voter data and technology is everything. Currently, the Democratic National Committee houses the party data in a tense, underfunded, and inefficient alliance with 50 state parties. But all candidates have equal access to the data, including the voter file. The party does not bar challengers to incumbents, or members of Congress who cross leadership, for instance, from accessing that voter file. But in private hands, the most up-to-date data could be withheld as a disciplinary tool against renegade candidates and lawmakers, or offered as a reward to loyalists. Winning the Biden campaign contract would give Hawkfish an opportunity to dramatically grow its data acquisition operation. Without it, Hawkfish is a big firm with no big client. Hawkfish and its leadership did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The Biden campaign declined to comment.

Waleed Shahid, spokesperson for Justice Democrats, which recruits progressive challengers to incumbents, said that Bloomberg’s firm running the party’s data operation would send the wrong signal and could have long-term, damaging repercussions. “The idea of the Democratic nominee potentially rewarding Bloomberg’s firm with this contract is disturbing,” he said. “We shouldn’t be the party of helping billionaires amass huge amounts of mega-data on voters that allow them to keep accruing obscene amounts of power in our democracy.”

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/10/bloomberg-hawkfish-biden-campaign/

NYT write-up:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html

I truly thought the fact that no one really feels personally invested in a Biden presidency would make the timeline a bit less wild this time but it's actually somehow worse because they're already preemptively blaming you for him losing

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 13, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/aoc-progressives-joe-biden.html

Good stuff from AOC about prospects of working with Biden and bringing the disparate strands of the party together. I especially liked her insistence that Biden's nomination doesn't correspond to a rejection of progressive reforms. And of course she's smart enough to recognize that defeating Trump is top priority (though I did notice she kept saying she'll support "the Democratic nominee" rather than "Joe Biden," perhaps still a bit of wishful thinking that Joe will have to be replaced?

Excellent interview.

perhaps still a bit of wishful thinking

he's an old fuck, 7 months is a long time

small sample size, but the last three presidents who died were 93, 93, and 94. and Carter's still kicking at 95.

that is a small sample size

This will infuriate some people.

NEW: Joe Biden praises Bernie Sanders: "You don't get enough credit, Bernie, for being the voice that forces us to take a hard look in the mirror and ask ourselves: 'Have we done enough?' And we haven't." https://t.co/35Zg7cQ9nU pic.twitter.com/Ebb5UAlTTS

— ABC News (@ABC) April 13, 2020

I can think of one cool thing he could do to reward him

nah, Sanders is too old to be VP.

propose and implement sanders' version of the green new deal?

no wait - better for biden to offer up the 1/10th version of Sanders' GND as a pre-emptive compromise, and then settle for 3/100th in the end as the tough cost of a hard negotiation with our good faith friends across the aisle

commit seppuku for shepherding Clarence Thomas’ ascent to the Supreme Court of the United States of America

Nominating Clarence Fucking Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall was pure evil. For that we have to thank George H. W. Bush.

nah, Sanders is too old to be VP

I agree completely, I was thinking more like stepping aside entirely, for the lols

aw now I think there’s plenty of thanks to go around on that front

I agree completely, I was thinking more like stepping aside entirely, for the lols

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, April 13, 2020

I know, I was playing along.

Interesting and at least encouraging:

the former vice president announced that his and Sanders’s teams would convene six joint working groups devoted to various policy areas.

who knows, given time Biden's staff might even learn how to run a decent campaign

https://movieboozer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lucy-football.jpg

pic.twitter.com/F1TfyiIALi

— libcom.org (@libcomorg) April 13, 2020

I suggest you give up revolutionary hero worship, become a community organizer, and rise to the rank of trusted, but humble, leader through the example of your own personal sacrifice and commitment. Then report back here.

hysterical meltdowns over this on one generally reasonable FB political group I'm in from Bernie supporters who previously never posted a single thing, including statements like "biden is worse than trump" and "I don't want to trump to win but I want biden to lose catastrophically". THe worst 5-10% of Bernie bros are having a day.

pic.twitter.com/yIJcQYRWAF

— travis f welch (@TravisFWelch) April 12, 2020

Sure, and how many phone calls are Trump supporters making on behalf of Trump today? This is not an active phone banking phase of the election rn, so the question is framed stupidly to make a disingenuous point.

That's just good times on twitter don't sweat

zing culture

hey by the way, fuck Joe Biden, he sucks shit

That's zing kulcha

who is travis f welch? because he looks like 10000 other smug bernie supporters (glasses, facial hair, smug grin, the only thing missing is his hand pensively on his stupid chin)

akm, we're not supposed to touch our chins these days

good thing no one on this thread is ever smug

he has glasses!

amazing how smug people pour acid in their eyes to show off how poorly they can see

I put jelly on my shoulder and kiss culprits.

glasses!

Surprised ILX libs are going to leapfrog democratic socialism straight into Khmer nationalism.

icmi, Pareene:

"The nomination of Biden will ensure that, for the foreseeable future, the party will be run by people who haven’t had a new idea since 1992."

https://newrepublic.com/article/157265/democrats-decide-again-not-try-anything-new

no glasses or facial hair at this here message board

I suggest you give up revolutionary hero worship

revolutionary lol

should be xyzzzz’s new dn

ilxor revolution lol hero = LBJ

yeah he was no stalin

hysterical meltdowns over this on one generally reasonable FB political group I'm in from Bernie supporters who previously never posted a single thing, including statements like "biden is worse than trump" and "I don't want to trump to win but I want biden to lose catastrophically". THe worst 5-10% of Bernie bros are having a day.

― akm

can i just say how much i dislike the word "hysterical"?

yep it’s time for that word to die