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

To see "Summers" name above "Bloomberg" is cognitive dissonance.

Biden's campaign organizers have a union contract - the first major party nominee's campaign to ever do such a thing.

Field organizers for Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign ratified a union contract that will give them a $15-an-hour minimum wage, overtime pay and a grievance process.

Biden’s campaign had previously recognized a union representing its organizers in Iowa, the first state to vote in the Democratic presidential primary.

The new agreement covers all of the campaign’s organizers throughout the country. The organizers will be members of the Cedar Rapids-based Teamsters Local 238.

“For the first time in history, the campaign staff for a presumptive nominee of a major political party will be covered under a union agreement,” said Jesse Case, the union’s secretary-treasurer. “We are pleased to announce that Biden for President field organizers, represented by Teamsters Local 238, have ratified a collective bargaining agreement effective May 1.”

Can they go on strike til Joe drops out now

Biden Leads Trump in First Poll to Address Sexual Assault Allegation

Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s lead over President Trump is growing nationwide even though most voters are aware of a sexual assault allegation against him, according to a Monmouth University poll released Wednesday. It is the first major national survey to ask voters about the allegation by a former Senate aide against the former vice president.

All told, 50 percent of voters said they would vote for Mr. Biden in a head-to-head matchup, and 41 percent said they would vote for Mr. Trump. In an Monmouth poll in April, Mr. Biden led the president by just four percentage points; in March, he led by three. The margin of error in the new poll was plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.

A large majority of voters — 86 percent — were aware of the allegation that Mr. Biden sexually assaulted a Senate aide, Tara Reade, in 1993. Ms. Reade says he pinned her to a wall, reached under her clothing and penetrated her with his fingers.

After Mr. Biden publicly denied Ms. Reade’s accusation on Friday, Monmouth added a question to the poll already in progress, asking whether voters had heard about the allegation and whether they thought it was true.

Joseph R. Biden Jr

They didn't use to say 'William Jefferson Clinton' in 1992, did they?

Do you mean in general or the Times specifically? I think Clinton's full name was mentioned a lot back then.

A better comp might be Carter and Ford who are also both Jrs

Don't you cease to be a junior once senior dies? I know I stopped using mine once my dad kicked. There only being one of us left, after all...

It is customary to use "the younger" when there may be confusion. Cf. Pliny, Pitt, etc.

what if joe biden is actually the hottest bad boy in the game?

Op-Ed: How Joe Biden Can Defeat Trump From His Basement

If Joe Biden plays his cards right, the death of the traditional presidential campaign will turn out to be a blessing in disguise. The 77-year-old Mr. Biden, whom the president derisively calls “Sleepy Joe,” can become the hottest bad boy and disrupter in the media game.

I think Clinton's full name was mentioned a lot back then.

yeah that's the style in reporting on legal proceedings

It is customary to use "the younger" when there may be confusion. Cf. Pliny, Pitt, etc.

Sometimes, especially towards the end of his career, I'd sometimes see the Jr. dropped from Ken Griffey--he was Ken Griffey, period, his father was Sr. If the son eclipses the father's fame significantly, and is the only one anybody ever talks about, the Jr. seems redundant. (Having said that, because I grew up a Reds fan in the '70s, I still said Ken Griffey, Jr. But to a kid who only knew the younger, I'm sure that felt weird.)

weird for the nytimes to call him joseph r. biden, jr. should stick with "sleepy joe."

You can't post a link without the funniest line

By Lis Smith
Ms. Smith advised campaigns by Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Cuomo and Barack Obama.

They didn't use to say 'William Jefferson Clinton' in 1992, did they?

They did indeed, usually when they were explaining how he brutally murdered Vince Foster

Plus there was that great single R.E.M. put out during the Lewinsky scandal, "William Jefferson Clinton (I Think We're Lost)."

If the son eclipses the father's fame significantly, and is the only one anybody ever talks about, the Jr. seems redundant.

Robert Downey Jr still keeping the flame

larry mullen jr

I saw larry mullen junior walking with the queen

doing the werewolves of london

MLK Jr.

MLK Jr.

his hair was perfect

I thought this was solid reasoning

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/opinion/tara-reade-joe-biden-vote.html

Written by one of the reporters: https://www.vox.com/2020/5/7/21248713/tara-reade-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accusation

A data point, nothing more.

Tara Reade has hired high-powered Manhattan attorney Douglas Wigdor. He is a Trump supporter. pic.twitter.com/0f1DBLLhwm

— Philip Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) May 7, 2020

I mean would David Boies take her case?

Just hiring a lawyer, in itself, is not suspicious. If Ms. Reade is given the full Richard Mellon Scaife Red Carpet Treatment by some conservative billionaire who pays her legal fees, hires image consultants, buys her clothes and generally subsidizes her pursuit of Biden in the courts, then I will smell a rat.

I suspect this particular lawyer is not cheap. Does anybody know what Tara Reade does for a living?

Pro bono cases are requirements.

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article242527331.html

Tara Reade is a curious character.

Through my lens, President Putin brought a chaotic and failed nation to become a vibrant, creative, economic force within a decade. I don’t care what your politics; just admit that his sheer, calculated vision and willful energy brought Russia back to be a world power. Now, I said this to a friend recently, she waved her glass of Merlot at me and began the “anti-Russia” lecture...I start to drift. I listen to the Sade song playing in the background “The Sweetest Taboo” as she speaks. When she finishes, I say, “Well, he is very good to women, holds them in high regard.”

President Putin has an alluring combination of strength with gentleness. His sensuous image projects his love for life, the embodiment of grace while facing adversity... President Putin’s obvious reverence for women, children and animals, and his ability with sports is intoxicating to American women.

A court document from 1996 shows former Senate staffer Tara Reade told her ex-husband she was sexually harassed while working for Joe Biden in 1993.

The declaration — exclusively obtained by The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California — does not say Biden committed the harassment nor does it mention Reade’s more recent allegations of sexual assault.

Reade’s then-husband Theodore Dronen wrote the court declaration. Dronen at the time was contesting a restraining order Reade filed against him days after he filed for divorce, Superior Court records show.

Sanpaku, the Putin shit doesn't mean anything to me tbh.

Oh god I didn't expand the thread before cntl-Fing. Mea culpa.

I’m sure the sixth time someone posts that fucking Putin thing it won’t seem like an irrelevant attempt to undermine a sexual assault claim

Xpost ffs

Anyway fuck Joe Biden

I for one can’t believe that a woman facing mountains of media scrutiny AND death threats hired a lawyer.

ew no

xpost

Bazinga!

wtf @ some posts here

That McGann piece in Vox was good.

yeah, i thought so too

ok that's it, i'm out of this thread

i guess i’m late on this but i was pretty surprised reade chose to have her interview conducted by megyn kelly of all... ghouls. this whole thing blows

the Vox piece was illuminating but really only through a journalist's lens. Reporting absolutely demands that level of rigor and it's good to see a journalist actually grappling with these contradictory pieces of the puzzle in an honest way, but I don't think the rest of us should feel so obligated. I am inclined to believe Reade's account(s) until it/they are flatly shown to be false, mainly because I have zero authority to comment on how trauma can affect a person's recollection or characterization of events and also because it seems like the instances of a person willingly putting themselves through this much public scrutiny just to disseminate a false accusation, while they do exist, are proportionally extremely small.

it seems like the instances of a person willingly putting themselves through this much public scrutiny just to disseminate a false accusation, while they do exist, are proportionally extremely small

Politics and celebrity break people's brains.

Oh, okay.

Politics and celebrity break people's brains.

Yeah, they make some of you start cosplaying Brock Turner's lawyers.

"celebrity"

fuck outta here

i genuinely feel like this is always coming from the same person