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

Twaitor

2-week delay in naming veep, sez WaPo

they could blow it again

makes sense tbh, why strain for the spotlight when yr opponent is busy fucking up

delay from what? did they announce a date?

This veep shit is overblown anyway, no one cares -- at this moment -- except Chuck Todd types.

What veep would Todd Chuck pick if a Todd Chuck could Chuck Todd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbTcHpPDCu8

no one cares -- at this moment -- except Chuck Todd types

Chuck Todd got a substantial demotion today, btw - his midafternoon MSNBC show is being moved to 1 PM and cut to 1 hour, and Nicolle Wallace is getting two hours from 4 to 6.

They said it was gonna be this week. xxxp

Who's "they"?

something jerry hairston jr said, probably

Bernie Horowitz

km lol

pretty sure it was a leak from Camp Joe

so, Chris Dodd or someone even younger

i haven't heard anything about a schedule, i don't think there's any evidence of a delay, and if the plan has changed it's just as easy to attribute that to not wanting to interrupt trump while he continues publicly throwing up on himself as it is to ... problems? i dunno what the implication is here.

the ghost of Bill Clinton whispered it to Morbs in a curiously sweaty dream

why strain for the spotlight when yr opponent is busy fucking up

so, will be named on Jan 20

tbh not a bad idea

Delay? That just puts it during the convention, which is SOP. I never figured Biden would announce his veep until the convention anyway.

tbf to morbs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bidens-delay-in-choosing-a-vp-intensifies-jockeying-between-potential-picks/2020/08/02/6eea5068-d4d2-11ea-930e-d88518c57dcc_story.html

Biden’s timeline for picking a vice president has slipped significantly. He initially said he would make the decision by Aug. 1, then said it would be the first week of August. Now the campaign is signaling that it will likely wait until the second week of August.

on the other hand

In other words, Biden waiting is totally normal. https://t.co/BOKrQtCEAh

— Geoffrey Skelley (@geoffreyvs) August 3, 2020

Left off Cruz-Fiorina

started writing a series of mystery novels where a retired joe biden solves murders in Delaware, punctuating his statements with folksy exhortations. ("listen jack!" being a catchphrase of sorts). on my 10th manuscript, no publisher.

"No Malarkey," by Tree S. Hip. Now a major motion picture starring Gary Sinise as Joe Biden

treeship that's quite an image.

good luck getting Sinise to play a liberal

Fair point. My first thought was George Peppard, but it turns out he's been dead for twenty years.

Perfect!

started writing a series of mystery novels where a retired joe biden solves murders in Delaware, punctuating his statements with folksy exhortations. ("listen jack!" being a catchphrase of sorts). on my 10th manuscript, no publisher.

well, yeah. someone beat you to it:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/D42/obama-biden-mysteries

good luck getting Sinise to play a liberal

Oh, that's what Biden is! Been great at keeping it a secret.

xp: Behind the Bastards did a reading from one of those novels in today's episode

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/we-read-an-unbearably-thirsty-joe-69435764/?embed=true

well, yeah. someone beat you to it:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/D42/obama-biden-mysteries

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, August 4, 2020 11:11 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

My favorite was Hope You Didn't Die From That Drone.

Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident

spoiler: Hillary did it

His two most prized possessions are his Medal of Freedom and a Sig Sauer pistol, which he calls his “bean shooter.” At one point he gives himself the alias Joe Tingler, to Obama’s distress. He refers to his legs as “getaway sticks,” complains that the weather is “as nasty as a devil’s armpit,” and says, “I’m so hungry I could eat the balls off a low-flying goose.”

Low-Flying Goose for Secy of Agriculture

Ha well I guess that’s that

Rep. Karen Bass, on Biden’s VP shortlist, eulogized her “friend and mentor” in Congressional Record remarks, mentioning his long progressive record but eliding his Communist Party membership https://t.co/PwzIr4qioC

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) August 4, 2020

Since when are communist party members capable of friendship?

she's trying to hide from Angela Lansbury

There's been a lot of talk about my vetting process lately. Here’s an inside look: pic.twitter.com/tFRKJOE3hi

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 5, 2020

It sure would be awful if the Trump campaign responded with a five-minute video of America's Big Strong Boy honking an 18-wheeler's horn in the White House driveway.

I couldn't stand the deification of Biden with this Onion approach a decade ago, but it will work now, and I don't give a damn.

"Biden addressed calls to defund the police while speaking at a virtual fundraiser hosted by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D).

"I don't want to defund police," Biden said. "I want to get police more money in order to deal with the things they badly need, from making sure they have access to community policing, that they have also in the departments social workers, psychologists, people who in fact can handle those god-awful problems that a cop has to have four degrees to handle."

There have been some calls on the left to “defund the police” following the police killing of George Floyd that sparked nationwide protests and national discussions on race."

i have heard of these calls to defund the police

Where does Joe Biden stand on ACAB?

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

When life imitates art

"I want to get police more money in order to deal with the things they badly need, from making sure they have access to community policing, that they have also in the departments social workers, psychologists, people who in fact can handle those god-awful problems that a cop has to have four degrees to handle."

Seattle City Council today managed to have the Seattle Police Department's executive salaries cut for 2020.

Nine of the 13 executives will, under these cuts, be paid more then 49 states' governors.

Where does Joe Biden stand on ACAB?

He thinks it's one of the better Genesis albums

lol

that they have also in the departments social workers, psychologists, people who in fact can handle those god-awful problems that a cop has to have four degrees to handle."

Oh, yes, Joe! The very best public system to oversee the work of social workers and psychologists is to make them a subsidiary interest of police departments. Good thinking there.

"put down your books, shrink. pick up this taser. you'll need it"

I’m not saying people should not vote for him but I wonder if any of the...principals (or “will of the voter”, pick your euphemism) have a bit of buyer’s remorse that this is the line the handpicked challenger to trump takes, given...this particular moment