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

dick move, smiley or no

Dan if you actually took offense I'll happily apologize but until then I will continue to think it was funny

xp I think you are correct, yes

I didn't take offense :)

I'm just not sure what you want to all want to happen, do you want Trump to win again and destroy our country forever?

Should Joe Biden or Donald Trump survive til November, we want Joe Biden to adopt the leftmost policy positions even if he can't physically sign the executive orders or stand up without Jill mumbling, "We're doing everything we can."

[anti-American screed redacted]

yes we all want Trump to win, how could a clip of Joe Biden bumbling possibly mean anything else

"Reagan and Trump were also sundowning" is not the strongest argument for Biden.

I just want a path back to normal

Robert Mitchum + Deborah Kerr are, though.

Like, even from a right-wing POV, Reagan's second and Trump's first term were not terribly successful. You'd probably want to aim higher for a one-termer like Biden.

I just want a path back to normal

Shades of the "America is ALREADY great" winning strategy.

no just tired of all of this

since he's won the nomination maybe it's time for a new thread

I'm just not sure what you want to all want to happen, do you want Trump to win again and destroy our country forever?

― Dan S, Friday, June 12, 2020 1:55 AM (thirty minutes ago)

given that some of the ppl who never stop reminding us that biden is history's greatest monster have made it clear that they don't plan to vote for him, i think it's safe to conclude that, yes, this is what they want.

If Simon doesn't vote for Biden in November, I'm holding him personally responsible for whatever comes next

posting a clip of a confused Joe Biden is definitely shorthand for History’s Greatest Monster

we all want Joe Biden to defeat Donald Trump, but I guess saying that over and again a million times will my make any difference

will NOT make

it’s p much gaslighting at this point

If Simon doesn't vote for Biden in November, I'm holding him personally responsible for whatever comes next

uh oh

Everyone: “Defund the police!”

Joe Biden: I hear you. I will put more money in de fund for the police

— Ahmaud Arbery (@thecoolliterati) June 10, 2020

It's cool, I'll vote for Biden on your behalf, Simon.

xp

When push comes to shove, a lot of Democrats seem happy to make the whataboutism and “love it or leave it” arguments that they’ll rightfully ridicule Republicans for.

since he's won the nomination maybe it's time for a new thread

nah, this thread is for every time he decides to run. might be needed again.

“Why don’t you just vote for Donald Trump” vs “Why don’t you just move to Cuba then huh”

This thread will be extra relevant when he wins so that people can scold us for not supporting Secretary of the Treasury Jamie Dimon and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.

“Vice President Romney apologized for the dog abuse, why can’t you just accept that and move on?”

gee i can't imagine where i got the idea that you were okay with trump winning:

We survived Reagan and we survived HW Bush and we survived W Bush and we'll survive Trump - none of them managed to end the world. Voting for the lesser evil at each stop did give us a declining standard of living, forever war and the most imprisoned people in the 'free' world.

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, April 15, 2020 7:11 PM (one month ago)

Which of those statements was untrue, again?

The fundamental problem of "normalcy" as a political program being that the norm is awful and miserable for most people.

"we survived reagan"

except for the thousands of people who died in the epidemic that his administration deliberately ignored

"we survived trump"

...

xp but normalcy is sure as hell not what we have now, much less what we'll have under a second Trump term

there is an active Trump thread, you know!

funny that he happens to be the person Biden is running against

xxxp - yes, Reagan and Trump were awful and evil. Good call!

If only Joe Biden recognized that. It's almost like Joe Biden's friendliness to the monsters in the GOP is one of the fundamental problems with him.

In this particular moment it's super fuckin' weird to be so defensive about one of the architects of mass incarceration.

mentioning Biden's deficiencies in a thread that maybe a couple dozen people post to is going to poison the minds of the electorate and get Trump reelected

why continue though, it's not like there is a point to prove anymore

why in the world would so few people post in this thread? It's a mystery

This thread will be extra relevant when he wins so that people can scold us for not supporting Secretary of the Treasury Jamie Dimon and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.

Biden is an astute enough hack to know that when the spoils get passed around you give them to loyalists, and that talking up bipartisanship for your veep or in cabinet appointments is just a thing you do to signal to independents what an open-minded moderate you are. You don't actually give sugar plums to the opposition without concrete concessions in return. Scoff if you like, but time will show which of us is right.

normalcy is sure as hell not what we have now, much less what we'll have under a second Trump term

imo whatever you're thinking of, it's over, it's never coming back and the results of the election won't change that

why in the world would so few people post in this thread? It's a mystery

probably people think you have to be crazy sensitive to participate

pretty sure if Trump loses, the psychic trauma and humiliation of having to deal with a constant daily flow of utterly shitty things flowing from his incompetence and malevolence will in fact come to an end.

xp

but it won't change the underlying contradictions of american society

imo whatever you're thinking of, it's over, it's never coming back and the results of the election won't change that

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, June 11, 2020

some kind of sanity at least, you can't be that nihilistic

no it won't! but it will remove one very big and unpleasant problem that is weighing a lot of us down.

xp

anyway I sincerely hope Trump 2.0 causes you all a little less humiliation in 2024 or 2028

there are absolutely more shitty leaders in our future, things are going to continue to swing back and forth just like they always have. that was a given no matter what.

xp not sure what that means but it doesn't sound sincere to me

I take no pleasure in your collective anguish. But a reactionary movement deferred is one that comes back harder.

And very possibly smarter, since almost everyone who's not Trump is smarter.