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

predictable take otm tbf

does anyone disagree that she's the most difficult pick from the POV of the trump campaign?

there was a private flight from south bend to biden's nearest airport this week iiuc

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 5:25 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

pete might be getting a different cabinet post

pete for secretary of state

does anyone disagree that she's the most difficult pick from the POV of the trump campaign?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 5:34 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

in the sense that they can't say the democrats support "lawlessness" now? they'll still say it

does anyone disagree that she's the most difficult pick from the POV of the trump campaign?

secretary of sick Dave jams

fox news seemed legitimately scared by harris if vitriolic comments about her from my fox news viewing father are anything to go by

least bad option for buttigieg is he's being picked to do some build-an-app deloitte vaccine rollout contact tracing nonsense

no one will care about the donations

caek OTM. Every "she's a COP" take can potentially undercut at least some of the TrumpGOP law-and-order "BIDEN WANTS TO ABOLISH COPS" takes.

treeship is right of course - they'll say it anyway. But possibly fewer people will believe it? (he said hopefully)

CLAIM: Senator Kamala Harris is the aunt of actor Jussie Smollett.

guilty lol at the sheer laziness of this one

Actually/ironically, one of Asshole's most prevalent bullshit claims is that he's done prison reform or sentencing reform or some other shit he probably had no hand in - this is the root of his claim he's done more for black people (black people=crime) than anyone since Lincoln (maybe) - so he will criticize her for being *too* tough on crime. And in the next breath do his law and order thing, because of course he will.

does anyone disagree that she's the most difficult pick from the POV of the trump campaign?

She'll demolish Pence in a VP debate, but then he might just not bother doing the debates (or the entire GOP might not). I still reckon Warren would have made a better 17hrs/7days campaigner.

Here's what they've got so far. It's kind of marvelous in its incoherence.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfKsXZ6WkAEHjHy.jpg

in the sense that they can't say the democrats support "lawlessness" now? they'll still say it

― treeship., Tuesday, August 11, 2020 5:40 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

true but there's not a pick where they would say "ok, she's pretty good" and not say something.

that's the attack, but coming from them, for the audience it's intended to reach, it's just not an effective line of attack. i think they probably know this: they and their surrogates have for months been simultaneously/incoherently arguing that she is too tough on crime too.

his communications people have done a good job capturing his "voice," or at least what it would sound like if he communicated in full sentences

"political living will" is brutal

"phony Kamala"

Oof. He went nuclear. It's over, RIP Biden/Harris campaign.

I think the idea is that the conventional wisdom about a VP pick helping to deliver a swing state is vastly overstated.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 4:08 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Correct. It might have been a thing in an era when politics was more regional, and voters in a particular state lined up to vote for "favorite sons" whom they trusted to look out for their constituents, regardless of party. But in a nationalized and polarized political environment, those effects are much more negligible.

Katrina Pierson is DEFINITELY not writing from the Love Shack

But in a nationalized and polarized political environment, those effects are much more negligible.

― jaymc, Tuesday, August 11, 2020 5:51 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's true. we all just live on the internet now.

Trump gunning for that crucial Catcher in the Rye vote

Katie Porter for Senate ASAP imo

Fwiw Chuck Todd said a half hour ago that his WH sources said Harris was the one who most terrified them.

Katie Porter for Senate ASAP imo

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 5:59 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

discussed here SB 51: the California politics thread

Joe Biden is like your ex’s hoodie. America has a very toxic boyfriend right now that came to us in a very awful time. Joe reminds us of a time when everything was better. He might not be “the one,” but putting him on might remind us of love that we once had. Let’s cuddle up.

— Cam Kasky #BidenHarris2020 (@cameron_kasky) August 11, 2020

at least it's not Harry Potter I guess

cheeee-rist

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2019-09/29/15/asset/40507f2c7146/sub-buzz-255-1569771555-1.png?downsize=600:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto

Jesus that tweet

Viscerally depressing

xxp re what advantage there is in picking Harris, California is a state with a lot of rich donors, so maybe the advantage is in getting money for the campaign

"Joe Biden is like your ex's hoodie" reminds me - in uncomfortable ways - of the 2008 "Barack Obama is your new bicycle" website and its counterpart "Hillary is Mom Jeans."

Whenever you pressed refresh, you got a new metaphor about why Obama was THE NEW HOTNESS and HRC was OLD AND BUSTED. I've mercifully forgotten most of them but it was the most trivializing infantilized bullshit imaginable. And it probably worked, as history shows.

Biden is like your ex boyfriend who is older than your great-grandfather

xxp re what advantage there is in picking Harris, California is a state with a lot of rich donors, so maybe the advantage is in getting money for the campaign

― Dan S, Tuesday, August 11, 2020 6:18 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

these people would donate with or without kamala on the ticket.

And it probably worked, as history shows.

barackobamaisyournewbicycle.net is the only website with more electoral influence than ilxor.com's "Joe Biden sucks" thread

The calf cramp Beto tweet is so much better than anything else in this genre. That woman was brave enough to be as horny as possible on main.

The Federalist doing their part to assuage fears about a Biden/Harris ticket among swing voters concerned about the Democrats leftward lurch on law and order/looting/statues. pic.twitter.com/6dfvR5wn9O

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) August 11, 2020

i guess this is how they fund the federalist

Will kick in Patreon bucks to anyone who makes a video of "WAP" set to Biden footage.

lol godDAMN what a bunch of dorks

xpost

It's been obvious it was going to be Kamala for a couple of months, though lol at the accelerationist view re Buttigieg. Season 3 of Mindhunter should be Ford and Tench interviewing Buttigieg for 10 episodes.

The "ex's hoodie" guy is one of the Parkland survivors.

jesus fucking christ

very dark

I have to say it was baller of Harris to drive all the way to South Bend to get on that plane

xp I follow him. he's just a 19 yo college student. he doesn't post too much and is doing fine on twitter

two words: RUH-ROH

I mean call me a purist but

I don't like the choice either. It doesn't matter. She could literally be Hitler and the Biden/Hitler combo would still be a better choice than Trump.

— Eric D. Snider (@EricDSnider) August 11, 2020