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

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.

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Sunday, 30 August 2020 bookmarkflaglink

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.

My first language is actually Latin. That’s what I was thinking of.

arbornavis

Biden: "I am not banning fracking. let me say that again. I am not banning fracking."

We're not in the primary any more...

— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) August 31, 2020

Biden recruited Ocasio-Cortez to chair the climate task force, alongside former Secretary of State John Kerry. Members included Varshini Prakash, of the Sunrise Movement, which during the primary had graded Biden’s climate plan an F. At the first meeting, Kerry asked Prakash to speak first. The Sanders contingent wanted all-clean electricity by 2030; they were happy to settle for 2035. The biggest unresolved point of contention was fracking. “It’s not like I walked out of there with Bernie’s Green New Deal in hand, and I did not expect to,” Prakash said. “But it was a lot more collaborative, actually, than I was anticipating.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/31/can-bidens-center-hold

here's an idea: don't ban fracking. just put a proper cost on carbon and methane emissions that accounts for even a small portion of the damages they cause, and it won't be profitable to frack

At $2.64 per MMBtu, fracking isn't profitable for anyone now, with perhaps the exception of LNG exporters. Break even is typically $5-6 / MMBtu for the main shale plays. Last rig count of all rigs looking for NG was 79, the lowest its been for 35 years.

DEAD @ “don’t jump” 💀 pic.twitter.com/A5v0NsNVDc

— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) August 31, 2020

i loled

That was funny and then I made the mistake of reading the thread and watching people squeeze the life out of it.

You'd think a senile old coot would suffer from staircase wit.

Biden should promise a Nationwide Pizza Party if he wins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNcZHDopFb8

Man that has been stuck in my head for 34 years.

yup

joe bidens silence on low flow toilets is deafening

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) August 31, 2020

Barely a quiet burble

Well it's that low flow
T-oi-l-e-t
Flush these other fools, but you can't flush me?

Who am Iiiii?

If a utility that pretty much sits on top of a mature fracked gasfield can’t see a way to making gas work - it’s dead without subsidy.

https://ieefa.org/ieefa-u-s-abrupt-shift-to-renewables-at-indiana-utility-underscores-a-broader-trend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ieefa-u-s-abrupt-shift-to-renewables-at-indiana-utility-underscores-a-broader-trend&utm_source=Weekly+IEEFA+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a724de0fd6-IEEFA_WeeklyDigest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_30c2b8506b-a724de0fd6-128747689

And right now Asian gas prices are well below break even for US exports.

https://ieefa.org/ieefa-report-china-unlikely-to-come-to-rescue-of-overbuilt-u-s-lng-industry/

None of which is to say you should fight like fuck against legislative capture but the fossil fuel industry. They’ll try every trick in the book to get the subsidies they need to make gas cheap again.

party
pizza parrrrrty

fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck pic.twitter.com/jnPhvE2MAz

— Bes🌹 (@besf0rt) August 31, 2020

I too like to make fun of people that have a stutter.

— Political Platform Cannot Be Blank (@naughtaut) August 31, 2020

This isn't funny.

Man that has been stuck in my head for 34 years.

― DJI, Monday, August 31, 2020 6:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yup

― Doctor Casino, Monday, August 31, 2020 7:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

The onions are reminiscent of poop emojis.