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

Fast work. Trump campaign is already selling "You ain't black" shirts for $30. https://t.co/6ZouwVf37H

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) May 22, 2020

Hopefully some MAGAs get the shit kicked out of them for wearing that.

The only good thing about that cringe-worthy Biden comment is that it may corner him into picking Kamala Harris (or Abrams, but I'm still hoping for Harris).

Condoleeza Rice probably isn't doing much these days.

lol

Condoleeza has a sweet seat on the College Football Playoffs selection board. I'mm going to take a wild guess and say she's got several other lucrative sinecures, sitting on a variety of Fortune 500 corporate boards. Those corporations tend to stockpile ex-cabinet level 'retirees' like self-isolating Costco shoppers stockpile toilet paper.

condoleeza rice no, but susan rice I would be happy with

milo, your thread is too long

― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, May 22, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Great post Sufjan!

Hadrian otm upthread.

did he say...? pic.twitter.com/J9Dik9T8L6

— i bless the rains down in castamere (@Chinchillazllla) May 23, 2020

oh lord

The lawyer for Tara Reade, the former Senate aide who has accused Joseph R. Biden Jr. of sexual assault, said Friday that he was no longer representing her, just two weeks after taking her on as a client. https://t.co/NvkQ3vWf07

— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) May 22, 2020

That phrasing makes it clear that the decision to part ways was made by her counsel, not her. Isn't that unusual once a lawyer has accepted a client's case?

OK. Re-reading the tweet, it's less than clear who decided to part ways..

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/politics/tara-reade-credentials.html?smid=tw-share

Well, her ex-lawyer said all the right things so as not to make his dropping Reade as a client appear to be prejudicial against her, but it is very difficult not to draw inferences about his conclusions concerning the viability of her case.

yeah especially given that extra little message about the political double standard... clearly he was itching for another Dem target to "balance" things out

i'll bet this is a net plus for him

I'm not 100% convinced this won't be his 'deplorables' moment

(But as clemenza said, this might mean that he has to choose Harris for VP, who I'm not a huge fan of but who I think is the best out of a meh bunch)

Anyways watch this instead of thinking about Charlamagne

https://youtu.be/nGrB-5ieeMU

Here’s a new Yglesias piece for everyone to throw up on

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/26/21257648/joe-biden-climate-economy-tax-plans

Also very blecch

https://www.chicagotribune.com/election-2020/ct-rahm-emanuel-joe-biden-campaign-economic-policy-20200522-ujxsorrlona7zittfbylv5cyhe-story.html

lol

For the second time in two months, Emanuel this week was a guest on the “Hacks on Tap” podcast, co-hosted by longtime friend and fellow Obama administration alum and Chicagoan David Axelrod and veteran GOP political strategist Mike Murphy.

the Hacks Institute is prepping a lawsuit

what this thread needs is a good fart joke

That is a loud wet fart lmao pic.twitter.com/YdKnuxMShq

— Quibi.com/Joe_Biden (@lib_crusher) May 27, 2020

To think people were worried about Corbyn's age, Biden looks old enough to be his dad.

glad coronavirus has freed us from the ordeal of there being a presidential campaign to pay attention to at least

to balance out the fart tweet, here is a substantive update on one of the "task forces" that biden recently announced:

We've had two meetings with the Biden-Sanders climate taskforce & as promised -- a quick update on how things are going and what my priorities are.

Let me know what you think below.

Keep an eye out for lengthier updates as we progress over the next few weeks. pic.twitter.com/B8TQ3j6F8t

— Varshini Prakash 🌅 (@VarshPrakash) May 27, 2020

"cautiously optimistic", says Prakash. hope they're right!

what does she say in the video say, I won't watch a video

also who is she

she's one of the leaders of the Sunrise Movement (climate youth org). she says that based on the first few meetings of the task force she's cautiously optimistic, and she's stoked to be on the team with AOC.

i'm gonna pivot to providing text descriptions of videos. could be the fabled Million Dollar Idea i've been chasing

and i'll start with the most popular video of all time: the lord of the rings trilogy

it starts out with a really sweet overview of the forging of the great rings. three were given to the elves, seven went to the dwarves, and nine went to 9 humans who resembled an elderly J Mascis...

voice-over by Orson Welles.

I just wanna see the motherfucker deny it (the fart)

Actually ppl might find it endearing

i'm gonna pivot to providing text descriptions of videos. could be the fabled Million Dollar Idea i've been chasing

Rick Astley, a British singer, appears on screen, dancing a trifle awkwardly. A synthesized string riff plays over a sonically thin, quantized drum-machine beat. He begins by declaring that "we're no strangers to love."

He proceeds to list things that he is never gonna do. These include...

Another video for silby to not watch:

There are moments in our history so grim, so heart-rending, that they're forever fixed in each of our hearts as shared grief. Today is one of those moments. 100,000 lives have now been lost to this virus.

To those hurting, I'm so sorry for your loss. The nation grieves with you. pic.twitter.com/SBBRKV4mPZ

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 27, 2020

Political hacks talk about the "Rose Garden campaign," where an incumbent campaigns in a way that suggests he's somehow above petty political squabbling, and instead does high-minded leader-type stuff. Since Donald Trump is totally incapable of non-pettiness, and in fact is busy obsessing over at least two or three insane beefs that exist entirely in his own mind - with Joe Scarborough, with Twitter - it's interesting to see Biden doing stuff like this.

it's good, for sure. it's also what pretty much any candidate would do. trump is so narcissistic that even his supporters don't expect him to care about all the people who died.

(also the beef with twitter isn't in his own mind - he's done a million things that deserve to be banned, and many people have been calling for him to face some sort of accountability from twitter, for years now. twitter did the very least they could do, yesterday, in adding a "here's the truth about mail-in ballots" link to a couple of his posts. but even that was likely only done to distract from the fact that on the same they also announced they wouldn't be granting the father of the deceased scarborough staffer's request to ban the living fuck out of trump.)

Twitter have frequently demonstrated that the least that they can do is absolutely nothing, though.

(this is not really a defense!)

This is gonna be hilarious:

White House says Trump will sign an executive order "pertaining to social media" tomorrow, but provides no details on what it might say or do.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) May 27, 2020

Right to Tweet is now the 12th Amendment, no more voting

I need to find the passage in Notes on Virginia about Jefferson's response to Bezos imo

whut

pic.twitter.com/VaiPYIudSp

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) May 30, 2020

the cros lost some weight

slimming down to be competitive for the VP slot

Five years from now, seven more people who won't be talking to David Crosby.

Real murderers' row there

Why is Joe Walsh giving a lazy Hitler salute?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZYuxkeWkAcmLo_?format=jpg&name=large

loafers, what a chump