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

This is my mom. I miss her so much and her brave support of me. https://t.co/okU80kqWAI

— taratweets ( Alexandra Tara Reade) (@ReadeAlexandra) April 24, 2020

I'm nowhere near this story, don't have a vote, but even I feel this dramatic.

Gray and Reade should definitely just shut up

feel like pure shit and just want him back

Find someone who looks at you like Jeffrey Epstein and @JoeBiden's top economic advisor look at each other. pic.twitter.com/73GYafb1Yn

— wokie from muskogee ☭ (@thereisonlypf) April 24, 2020

don't you guys understand, accepting people who run in such circles as a necessary part of our guvmint is "adult"

I can’t believe I have to say this, but please don’t drink bleach.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 24, 2020

Joe drink that bleach. It's good for you, and you only.

don't expect Medicare4All either

Joe and Aimless disagree on drinking bleach

Joe and Aimless sitting on the beach
Disagree on drinking bleach

maybe one upside of this clown being the democratic nominee is that his name recognition (and laziness and fear of putting his foot in his mouth) are cause to limit campaigning and thus campaign spending. so maybe this'll help set a precedent for less $-intensive presidential campaigns in the "future".

It would work the opposite direction. If he can't do live events (because of dementia or coronavirus or etc.) that means more spending on ads.

man Groundhog Day is in that weird dark cycle now huh

yeah, we're in the montage, only it's regular speed. very disorienting

i was just thinking of that movie earlier today. it seems likely that this ordeal will boost it up into a critical consensus top 3 movie of all time

i believe reade's story.

it appears that democrats aren't going to hold biden accountable. maybe some want to, but it seems clear that the vast majority of us don't want to hear about it. it's exhausting and frustrating, after everything else, to end up with a candidate like this.

so now what?

it’s basically this or worse for the rest of your life because rich people who are sorta vaguely liberal can’t countenance the idea of a tax on Wall Street speculation or removing the FICA cap.

The Business Insider story published today is way more disturbing, and it's made me pause. We're gonna learn more.

As an example of how sordid our politics have become, the women who went on the record today said they'd vote for Biden over Trump.

Platform? Rules? We'll take care of those...

How Democracies Live. https://t.co/wXxJqh8LYt

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) April 27, 2020

so glad I got to participate in this shitshow

what -- life?

an electric word, it means forever

you know the one -- president everything'll be alright

Joe Biden should drop out and let the convention nominate somebody

the elevator has been breaking down lately

Heard a rumour today taht Joe Biden drinks a heck of a lot and his blunders are a result of that.
Well hope there is a candidate who is well in November anyway.

Biden doesn't drink at all, not sure how long he's been sober though. And yes, I too wish he'd just drop out, considering it seems even more true now than it did two months ago that the specific Democratic candidate isn't going to matter a hell of a lot to the outcome of this election.

I thought he never drank

Nobody remembers the Suds Summit?

O wait Biden drank a non-alcoholic "Buckler." Lame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy#";Beer_Summit"

Biden had O'Doul's, I think. Still the most embarrassing moment of the Obama presidency.

xpost ah i'm sure you're right, i didn't mean to imply he was an alcoholic and quit, i just knew he didn't drink now but wasn't sure if that was a lifelong thing or not. now i'm thinking i read that his dad was an alcoholic or something, and that's what put him off the stuff?

Biden should start visibly committing crimes just to see how long people stick with him as the lesser of two evils. Rob a Wendy’s in broad daylight. Carjack somebody

— california guy now (@InternetHippo) April 27, 2020

irony or ironies but i'd still vote for him if he shot someone on 5th Avenue.

irony OF ironies

Wiki

b.^ Obama had a Bud Light, Crowley had a Blue Moon, Gates had a Sam Adams Light and Biden, who does not drink alcohol, had a Buckler, which is a low-alcohol beer.[82] Some local brewers had lobbied for a Boston-based beer to be served; Obama is generally said to prefer Budweiser.[70]

Oh ffs, none of it is sinister but the whole thing just screams LAME

When I am president all meetings will begin with mandatory shots of JAMES. MUTHAFLIPPIN. BEAM.

as a nondrinker I will say Buckler is a really bad nonalcoholic beer even by that pretty sorry standard.

drinkin' joe

As a journalism guy, I wish the BI reporters had asked and published (maybe they asked but didn't go on the record) the new on-the-record corroborators' responses to the question about why Reade's story changed from an allegation of sexual harassment/hair touching/neck feeling to an allegation of sexual assault -- what did they think when she originally limited the allegation to the former?

Also, as awful as times were in 1993 even after the Hill-Thomas hearings, the reputations of Biden bros Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd were well known. Everyone knew them as skirt chasers and hosts of boozy parties with lots of women. Had Biden conducted himself in the manner Reade describes, I'd think the Obama vetting team -- working for the first winning black male candidate in a country where black men were accused of every rancid crime and was himself called a Kenyan commie -- would have caught...something? I guess vetting teams can suck too.

I'm not committed to Biden. If there were a way to replace him without upsetting Dem turnout, I'd onboard. I just don't see a way in which it happens. So I'm stuck voting for the lesser of two sexual assaulters because the other one is the most dangerous president in American history.

https://i.imgur.com/3wkQJdm.jpg

the most dangerous president in American history

this is a case I have yet to see made convincingly

you gotta give him top five, cmon he's earned it

this is a case I have yet to see made convincingly

^ this --- about a man who very clearly has never cared about or loved any person on earth except himself and displays profound ignorance of every aspect of his job, which job just happens to affect every person on the planet (people who he mostly sees as inhuman and unworthy of his slightest consideration).

???

but enough about Joe Biden!

clever, but Biden is not in Trump's league in terms of narcissism and ignorance.

Aimless, the award is for "worst/most harmful President", not "worst person to be President"

Simon, you read American newspapers?

I'm getting bored of this line about Bush being worse because he killed people overseas

It’s always hilarious when Alfred says something completely reasonable on these threads and then one of the usual suspects can’t help but pipe up with “hard to see how Trump is worse!!!!”

no, "most dangerous" is not quite the same as "most harmful". if somehow a religious nut who yearned for Armageddon and eagerly sought the end of the world were sworn in as president they would immediately present a catastrophic danger, even before their first official act.

But enough about George W Bush!

sorry you're bored Alfred