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

Hockey is boring, thus I have never clicked on the annual hockey thread.

why not go there and post "hockey is boring" every day?

Because it's a hockey-positive thread.

This thread is about Joe Biden being a 6'3" bag of dicks.

in case anyone is curious about what would make vote 3d party -- or not at all -- for president, it is this. and i am saying this as someone who would vote for lieberman if the republican was much worse. everytime you use yer credit cards, you pay for this assclown's campaign.
that said, i anticipate that he won't even come close to winning the nomination.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, June 19, 2005 2:51 PM (fifteen years ago) bookmark

that's a lot of dicks

I know you had a point in dredging up that post from 15 years ago but it's a dud

It is strange that on the negative thread about Joe Biden, posters being negative about him are being told that it's getting tiresome.

should there be a different thread for just general talk? hell, even the Trump thread is C or D.

Bro Biden: The Thread

Economically comfortable liberals are going to love him like 65% as much as they do Obama, because his failures aren't going to impact them (as Obama's didn't).

I consider myself economically comfortable and I identify more as a liberal who sees the need for radical reform in the direction of socialism, than as a centrist or a revolutionary. (NB: I'd define revolution as sweeping away the present form of government, and radical reform as sweeping away and replacing the present policies of governance.)

I'm so glad to be informed about my future feelings regarding Obama and Biden. Without your perspicacious insights, I might have gone astray in my duties toward my cohort.

everyone should be free to speak their truth imo

lol at bro biden

Oh my god pic.twitter.com/fBqtYRBllX

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) August 11, 2020

This is the de facto thread about Biden. I know there are other Biden threads in the archives,
but this is the one people post on in 2020 to discuss all sorts of things related to Biden's campaign for president, not limited to discussions of how much he sucks.

I'd much rather discuss the day-to-day news and chatter about the campaign in a separate thread, especially if it meant that there were fewer "Biden sucks" posts. But the last time we had this conversation, Dan S started a 2020 general election thread, proceeded to get clowned on for the typo in the thread title, and the thread died a quick death.

But to address the question of how much Biden sucks, I see politicians like him as an instrumental means to an end. The mere fact that he negotiated with segregationists in the Senate in the 1970s concerns me less than the fact that he held up that behavior in 2019 as proof that he can reach across the aisle and get things done. The former isn't worth defending, but it's understandable within the context of how Congress functioned at the time. The latter suggests that he doesn't fundamentally understand how the rules have changed and thus won't be as effective at wielding power.

jaymc otm! the thread is working :)

Thing is, nobody is stopping anyone from posting posi vibes about Biden itt, nor are they shouting at ppl who do post posi vibes about Biden for posting posi things.

if that is your primary contribution to this thread, you are just repeating yourself and making everyone else's experience on this message board that much worse.

It's not like anyone is actually repeating themselves, either - nobody's harping over and over on the same individual topics. Those of us who vent lightly about stupid things Biden does or shitty opinions that he has or profoundly alarming things that he says, are coming here occasionally to mention new things that he does or says or confirms that he thinks. Even the strong likelihood that he has committed sexual assault as a sitting politician is not being harped upon, or even mentioned in passing.

A number of people do keep saying the same thing over and over, though.

Hadn't seen that general election thread before - the typo jokes are funny and good-spirited imo, not clowning on Dan. It probably died more because it's functionally redundant with the monthly US politics thread?

If all 2020 campaign discussion happened in the monthly US politics thread, that would be fine, I suppose. But enough also happens in this thread that it would seem to argue for a dedicated thread. Especially now that the conventions are approaching.

Lol come on pic.twitter.com/Lkrz7heh0S

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) August 11, 2020

...i'm announcing that i really need you to give me $5

A friend who styles himself a Russiagate investigator/blogger is constantly reposting the terrible fundraising emails from the Trump campaign, I don't have the heart to tell him that all campaign e-mails are awful in the exact same way.

they're all awful, but i think in different ways. biden is the pathetic flavor of awful, but trump's are creepy white nationalist awful

but yeah, they end up in roughly the same place

- give this pathetic biden guy $5, for crying out loud, or give him $30 if you have a heart people, ya gotta be kidding me give him a shot

- the enemies of america are at the gate, and it's everyone. your children are pledging allegiance to satan and what have you done about it? give trump $50 and you will become a special member of his annihilation advisory group. we will send you information about everyone that deserves to be fed to alligators and you will tell us how good we are doing on a scale of "great" to "perfect again". send us money right now or you are the enemy too

I dunno, the Trump one he's posting are the exact same HISTORIC PLAN (to raise $400k by tonight!). He saves the white nationalism for his press conferences

Trump does seem more reliant on the "do you think the Donald is doing a a)great b)terrific c)incredible d)stupendous job" poll format.

i doubt anyone bothers to check the results of those polls, but it would be really hilarious to see a debrief meeting where they try to take it seriously

"terrific" scores are up 15% over last quarter, boss, and "perfect" is up 5% as well. i'm afraid we've lost nearly 20% of our "still doing great" segment

Getting official-looking (government or bills) mail from Democratic campaigns after ActBlue or someone sold my information a couple of years ago was a nadir.

biden offering the herlihy white house sitting service

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/2020-election-biden-vp-pick/index.html

*gets a drink*

please be pete

yeah uh I may pretend it's 5 o'clock.

fondly remembering when i had this kid in a history class and the day after trump moved the embassy to jerusalem he stood up and gave a whole speech abt our duty to spread freedom in the middle east https://t.co/6Ij8tIPJPD

— stephanie (@isosteph) August 11, 2020

pete pete pete

Marianne Williamson was a surprising but brave choice, thank u Uncle Joe

No actual VP event today, per a Biden official.

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) August 11, 2020

but several fake ones

boo

iirc Clinton picked me llamo Tim Kaine about July 25th? quite slacking Joe

Why won't he just put us out of our misery with his terrible VP choice?

Taking a while to figure out how to sell Buttigieg as a POC.

“You promised that your VP would be a woman of color.”

“Aw, man, I shouldn’t have said that...”

I said a lot of stuff

a Person Of management Consulting

Taking a while to figure out how to sell Buttigieg as a POC.

Easy. The name Buttigieg is derived from Sicilian Arabic.

أبو الدجاج Abu-d-dajāj(i), meaning 'chicken owner, poulterer' (literally 'father of chickens')

I’m getting word that the PAC 12 has been informed that it will not be Biden’s VP.

Taking a while to figure out how to sell Buttigieg as a POC.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 12:48 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Biden talking about haplogroups off the cuff

I personally would very much like to see that

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/2020-election-biden-vp-pick/index.html

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 2:25 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

See, this is the kind of thing we could use a 2020 general election thread for, rather than the "Biden sucks" thread.

Some haplogroups are more diverse than others.

2xp

_أبو الدجاج Abu-d-dajāj(i), meaning 'chicken owner, poulterer' (literally 'father of chickens')_