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

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

loafers, what a chump

rufus wainwright kinda out of place there famewise

klobuchar vp pick seems impossible now

as if. Lotsa people still love cops.

she'll probably get on TV and do something statesmanlike any day now

Biden said "there are a lot of different things that can change" about police training. One example he said was if cops rushed by unarmed person, they could "shoot them in the leg instead of the heart is a very different thing."

— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) June 1, 2020

such DECENCY

Something like half the American public would view "police should shoot to incapacitate, but not kill" as possibly a sensible alternative to killing unarmed people, and one that should receive serious consideration. Because they are dopes.

disarm the police

Protestors in Berlin don’t worry about being shot by police because German police have killed about 100 people in the past 20ys. Ours top that every 3 months. Their cops are trained for 2+ yrs. The weapons training is literally called “don’t shoot” and focuses on deescalation. https://t.co/i5l0uhVotk

— Lauren Hough (@laurenthehough) May 31, 2020

wow german cops must be some chill dudes

Here is the footage of Biden delivering police training:

Biden today on police training: "Instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there's an unarmed person comin' at 'em with a knife or something to shoot 'em in the leg instead of the heart is a very different thing." pic.twitter.com/2xgqvlQtJ2

— The Recount (@therecount) June 1, 2020

he is going to continue making bizarre and incoherent comments for the rest of his public life. a truly outrageous situation

I wouldn't write this off as some bizarre aberration lol. Man loves cops.

he should read the room though

without bifocals?

milo and xyzzzz make a good tag team, but they forgot to tag up.

I hope Joe Biden dies soon!

Just don't shoot him in the leg, obv. that's NBD

milo and xyzzzz make a good tag team, but they forgot to tag up.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 1 June 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Vote Democrat and we'll train cops to shoot in the leg not the heart. #voteSleepyJoe

Look, fat, we can all agree that three days of cops shooting journalists and bystanders in the face across America is, it's not, we, there's an ideal to aspire to. Under a Joe Biden presidency, we'll be partnering with the tech sector to teach cops to shoot journalists in the genitals, the soft parts.

I hope Joe Biden dies soon!

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Monday, 1 June 2020 20:59 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

please just put this disaster of a party and its geriatric leadership to sleep

after 2024

why not January 21

either way I mean

Look, I have to defend marriage and couplehood and I think they're wretched, so.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/killing-of-george-floyd-shows-our-over-reliance-on-police.html

"But the architects of broken-windows policing misidentified its source, and so do their descendants. Did the people fail the state or did the state fail the people? The liberal politician might concede the latter. He may even approve some new welfare spending or, in the case of de Blasio, experiment with programs like universal pre-K. On the subject of the police, and incarceration, they advocate body cameras and civilian review boards. But that’s often where they stop. The police still know they can beat, shoot, and kill with almost complete impunity in blue and red states alike. Mayors like de Blasio will defend them and repeat their version of events to the press. Governors like Cuomo will give them more money. Democratic voters will nominate the architect of the 1994 crime bill to be president. Matters will go on as usual — unless protesters force a true reckoning."

Biden policy prescriptions in this speech:

-Ban chokeholds by federal legislation
-Set up national use-of-force best practices
-Stop military gear transfers to local police
-End Trump's support for anti-ACA lawsuit
-Expand the ACA

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 2, 2020

That third one is at least on point

words til we see em

remember when Obama promised to walk labor pickets

HAHA Everyone is still on the Maryland primary ballot, even Tom Steyer. I voted for Bern with pleasure.

Biden lies compulsively about lots of things great and small, but god bless him he wasn't lying about this... pic.twitter.com/faRaqEbbbN

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) June 2, 2020

Biden to attend George Floyd funeral, Floyd family attorney says https://t.co/XIS7pcVHEJ pic.twitter.com/3moaYXVM1z

— The Hill (@thehill) June 2, 2020

good photo op

Nixon went to Dr King's funeral

HAHA Everyone is still on the Maryland primary ballot, even Tom Steyer. I voted for Bern with pleasure.

― Boring, Maryland, Tuesday, June 2, 2020 12:22 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Right? My mail-in ballot was for Elizabeth Warren. Felt good.

I voted for Warren too. Useless I guess. But I'm really interested in seeing the results.

my primary was fucking canceled at one point, so at this point I'm just hoping I get to actually vote in it

i sent in my absentee ballot request form for NY. let's hope it gets out in time

would really appreciate if biden -- well, that sentence could be finished a lot of ways but the one I am thinking of just now is would stop emailing me with "Can I give you a call?"

I went to 538 to get some over-optimistic bullshit to cheer me up a bit, but it was too over-optimistic and such unbelievable bullshit that it didn't cheer me up at all.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/biden-doesnt-really-have-a-young-voters-problem/

Yet for all the concern, Biden isn’t actually doing that much worse among younger voters than Hillary Clinton did in the 2016 election.

a selection of graf openers in that story. premium TPM vintage quality here:

Yet for all the concern,

Still,

Then again,

Of course,

I teach students to avoid those transistions.

On the other hand...

I find it hilarious that anyone knew there were primaries yesterday

this is not an election yet

even so

nevertheless