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

is it a doozy

For whatever reasons, his voice is very ill-suited to oratory.

When he says the USA is the most powerful idea in the history of the world, that must mean he thinks it's more powerful than Christianity.

Can a Christian say that?

not sure that "following the teachings of a charismatic, self-appointed guru" is an idea that was original to the disciples

In the first minute it hits "Trump can't walk down a ramp," cribs from Obama and from "Tubthumping."

"Doozy" is one way to put it.

When he says the USA is the most powerful idea in the history of the world, that must mean he thinks it's more powerful than Christianity.

Can a Christian say that?

America brought Christianity to fruition, so yes, obviously.

In the first minute it hits "Trump can't walk down a ramp," cribs from Obama and from "Tubthumping."

Christianity is "revealed", not an idea, innit

Trumptrumping

He drinks a cola drink, he drinks a cola drink

this is a great ad. presidents should aim to be uncontroversial and inclusive in their messaging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikgh4JbAWUU

this is the best presidential campaign ad ever though. i can't believe bernie didn't get through.

Admittedly kind of surprised by that ad in that it obliquely references the original sins of this country's founding. Sure, it kind of brushes them aside quickly, and I know such mentions don't mean shit for policy, but I'm still kind of surprised!

It was made by some kid on youtube, not an actual paid-for-and-aired ad

The Markey ad that set Pelosi off ('time to ask what your country can do for you') is the shit that Biden should be running (and doing) but lol

Biden pre-butting Trump's infomercial:

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"Is Donald Trump even aware he's president?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK_3X4u8Ybo

That's actually a really good pre-buttal, imo. Sticks the landing.

The Markey ad that set Pelosi off ('time to ask what your country can do for you') is the shit that Biden should be running (and doing) but lol

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Thursday, 27 August 2020 22:38 (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm thinking there will be no M(al)arkey in Biden's ads.

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(the inevitable Markie post)

KEEP AMERICA GREAT 🇺🇸https://t.co/eTsNBgI1bf

— Team Joe (Text JOE to 30330) (@TeamJoe) August 28, 2020

I like that they snagged the domain, but tweeting it without context makes for a muddled message.

Team joe’s digital team doesn’t know how to properly link a website. Five letters could have avoided this entire mess

httpshttps://t.co/aqsUZkMML5

— congressman mister j dot com (@niceboydotcom) August 28, 2020

Just gonna leave this here as a piñata. Have at it if you like.

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Seems like he's saying Donald Trump is creating conditions under which violence in the streets is massively more likely if not inevitable and I would tend to agree. It's "why can't we all just get along" politics, which is really popular, and he's answering the usually-rhetorical question by saying "Donald Trump," and you don't have to tell me that a lot of people would say "no, the answer to that question is hundreds of years of racism of which Donald Trump is just the current manifestation," and fewer but still plenty of people would say "no, the answer to that question is the basic capitalist structure that either has taken over or always was the essence of the way American society works, and which itself constitutes a slow, grinding street violence that destroys more lives every day than all the Proud Boy riots put together" -- I get that!

Good thing he condemns violence on the left and the right. I was worried about those danged antifas out there stirring up RAHOWA

The shooting death in Portland is being reported as if it were committed by the left, so it would be political stupidity for Biden not to condemn violence coming from the left in a press release addressing that death.

Yes, but without the ILX vote his chances in November are slim to none.

definitely an important point

The shooting death in Portland is being reported as if it were committed by the left, so it would be political stupidity for Biden not to condemn violence coming from the left in a press release addressing that death.

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When you don't read theory.

President Althusser does have a rather nice ring to it, minus the whole spouse murdering part... Let's go with President Adorno instead.

lol I think of that Auden bit where he says a society which ran like a good poem, embodying the aesthetic virtues of beauty, order, economy etc would be a nightmare because for this society to emerge you'd have exterminate the physically and mentally unfit and demand absolute fealty to its leader

Then again, I'm not sure I trust Auden's conception of a 'good poem'.

I'd trust Auden with most things except a boyfriend and my liquor collection.

Good thing he condemns violence

He says he condemns all violence, so if Trump was any way compos mentis and debates actually go ahead, he could be demolished on questions about the Iraq invasion and drone-bombing weddings

His fans want those people died too tho

barely, in the abstract, yes, but they want to see Trump's enemies owned even more

haven’t drone bombings actually gone up under trump?

it’s just covered up by the rest of the shit he shovels every day. oh, and he ended the Obama-era policy of reporting civilian drone deaths

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207

trump supported the iraq invasion and yes his drone policy is significantly worse than obama's, he could only "demolish" biden on these issues inasmuch as he has an uncritical cult following that would cheer on literally anything he said about an opponent

Yes, the hypocrisy is a big part of the point

In life, there is only the pwner and the pwned.

fair and the fact that it hasn’t really been reported upon would help trump in that scenario

That's the success of "flood the zone with shit" - it's too easy to focus on the hundreds of tiny, merely outrageous or annoying things he does, that there's no room left in the information economy for the larger-scale, longer-term damages

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop

lol I'm trying to imagine a debate scenario where Trump goes after Biden for too much drone bombing

If drones get mentioned at all it will be Trump bragging about killing Soleimani

Seems like he's saying Donald Trump is creating conditions under which violence in the streets is massively more likely if not inevitable and I would tend to agree.

Me too. A lot of what we are seeing is due to the climate of mutual hatred that Trump has helped create.

"create"

He poured gasoline on it

Interestingly, the Latin creo (I create) and cresco (I grow) stem from the same root. So in that highly specialized, pedantic sense that I'm bringing up almost out of nowhere, treesh is correct: Trump has helped hatred grow.

My new standard is I want a president who doesn’t try to make things as bad as possible at every opportunity.