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

a few posts up

yes I see the name, don't know his identity

I’m not going to convince anyone to not vote for Biden, I just really don’t want to hear anyone’s self-flagellation about it. Whatever you think he’s done wrong is not a deal-breaker to you and the same things and worse will never be a deal-breaker to you so long as the Republican Party exists.

I carry no whips when I explain.

i shoot from the hips and i'm not afraid to roll the dice if the odds are lookin' good

well, yeah

trevor drops in on ilx from time to time, quite irregularly, to share his highly aggro wisdom on political subjects. I've not yet seen a post from trevor that was in other than a howling tone, setting aside whatever merits might be possessed by the opinion being expressed.

social security and medicare for all, birth to the earth

A vote for the Greens or Libertarians or Peace and Freedom can, quite easily, be interpreted ideologically.

lol a vote for peace & freedom can be interpreted as "I don't care who actually gets the gig"

"Obama vetted him"

when I think of all the things that disappointed me about Obama this by far is my #1.

It never made sense that Biden was his second. Or, it did and it explained Obama really well.

Even Obama's endorsement of Biden a few weeks ago (!) was exactly what I thought it would be.

it "shored up his right flank"; just ask Rahm Emanuel

stop triggering me Morbs

when Obama was quoted (by Bob Woodward?) saying that Trump is "just a bullshitter" he meant "who is more obvious about it than me and Joe."

oh my gawd

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL

BAH GAWD THAT'S HILLARY'S MUSIC

I would 100% support this as the funniest possible outcome, especially if she gets lowered onto the DNC stage like a Wrestlemania intro

The DNC has a stage?

a platform

hell in a cell

hitting someone with the dnc chair when the ring official is distracted

folks, pic.twitter.com/U91AzUunRL

— toilet_nightmare.aspx (@Phylan) May 2, 2020

grebt

Also: expect assault allegations against every male Dem nominee. I'm sure the right's got something cooking based on those early writings.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 1, 2020 9:21 PM (six minutes ago)

this reminded me that there was a bogus accusation against buttigieg last year that turned out to have been concocted by right-wing operatives.

Is the argument more than they would do this against any nominee but the range of people it would be effective with increases in line wirh if its credible or not? I'm not sure how much that turns out to be true in practice, but allegations that are credible surely have a head start over those that aren't.

If making a noise about not voting does have any effect, that seems a message not being sent in November but now, in terms of any decisions being made about whether to swap him out for Klobuchar or someone else or not

Something tells me Biden isn't a good candidate. Who would have thought?

One thing you have to give credit to Biden for - and is a strangely underutilized argument for him, in the event he is able to win he's the one that will bring out the biggest popcornest meltdown from Trump.

Trump oddly respects Bernie on a personal level, he'd still have a meltdown losing to him but he recognizes game. Losing to a woman would be tough for him to take and there'd be a meltdown but "history wanted a woman, but thats ok, in some ways I paved the way". Losing to guy that falls asleep on live tv and has almost completely checked out? Thats the biggest blow to ego by far, can you imagine losing to Joe Biden? Its hilarious, the ensuing meltdown definitely the most grandiose

So what? The purpose of winning the election is to dismantle and erase the shame and embarrassment of the Trump administration. I wouldn't care if he turned out to be a magnanimous loser and stepped aside quietly. Won't ever happen, but it would be better than acting as a rallying point for the whining, narcissist, white-privilege base who elected him.

"She could count on President Obama to campaign for her, as Biden also can, and she would also have ever-popular husband Bill helping out."

and to think trump got himself impeached over this guy

The purpose of winning the election is to dismantle and erase the shame and embarrassment of the Trump administration

You would think so, but there are some questions to be asked about the suitability of the weapon chosen for the battle

puerto rico statehood, DC statehood, expand the supreme court to outflank dubious trumputin appointees, medicare for all, social security for all, rebuild america, joe, bernie, liz, amy, andrew, peter, senator harris, governor inslee, governor whitmer, and/or stacey abrams 2020

Thread is for Biden, Joe not Billy Joel

we didn't start the mire

it starts with an earthquake. miles standish proud. congratulate me

the twin excruciations of the biden situation and covid19 may actually destroy me this year

Felling this hard but I'd add my own third excruciation of being trapped in Shitigan while it transforms into Asshat Central :( I'm 100% over this country.

*Feeling

It’s fine. I’m sure Trump won’t attack Biden with this 2007 clip where’s he’s indistinguishable from Donald Trump. 🤦🏻

Hope Biden is prepared. Preventing another four years of Trump is on him now. pic.twitter.com/RNfVYqhlPy

— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) May 2, 2020

Trump would never attack Biden with that clip. First, the audio quality is awful. Next, there's no short pithy sound bite to grab out of it. Last, it would be ridiculous of Trump to attack someone for sharing ideas that are similar to his. But if you are Vic Berger and want to attack Joe Biden, it makes a certain sense to circulate that clip. But not if you actually think that "preventing another four years of Trump" is a worthwhile ambition. That goal doesn't seem to be on Vic's mind atm.

I didn't post it for Vic Berger's commentary. Is that your takeaway?

First, the audio quality is awful.

lol

Last, it would be ridiculous of Trump to attack someone for sharing ideas that are similar to his.

He wouldn't need to attack him though. It'd be more like "Isn't it interesting to hear that Sleepy Joe agrees with me 100%--maybe I should put him in charge of the fence after the election!" (You might be right about the audio quality, although I'm sure that'd easy to fix.)

so yes there are these things but also the issue that the presumptive Dem nominee wants to build a wall and is chill w/ disparaging Mexicans

interesting to hear that Sleepy Joe agrees with me 100%

Yeah. That would needle Democrats, but it's not really that effective, except to dismay people who fiercely loathe Trump. The only way to use it to attack Biden would be to do exactly what Vic did and Hadrian is doing by spreading Vic's tweet. Trying to frame it as a 'concern' is the definition of concern trolling.

who is Vic Berger

An off the menu item at In'n'Out.

that mullet can't be from 2007 right

Vic Berger is a national treasure for this video alone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DmtpkJJXJw

Tara Reade says a Senate report she filed against Joe Biden didn’t refer to sexual harassment or assault. https://t.co/J3B4PIIUdp

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 2, 2020

She canceled her FOX News interview with Chris Wallace too.

This is false. https://t.co/w4yXGI1DQm

— taratweets ( Alexandra Tara Reade) (@ReadeAlexandra) May 2, 2020