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

Sic, beware that I am forgiving, but many Philadelphians are not.

As in, the events and outrage of the past week have occurred in Philadelphia, not Pittsburgh.

mea culpa, it was late and I haven't slept in a few years - obv I cited the case properly the other day

All good! I just wanted to point it out, because I was confused at first, and then I was like, "oh sic means Philly."

TBH I wouldn't be surprised to hear the cops pulled an identical stunt in Pittsburgh

They did in 2018 with Antwon Rose.

congrats, asshole

lol

15 years and 7000 posts later

that's the most posts a democratic candidate has ever received

hate this guy

wb

Fingers crossed that he's forced to leave office by April.

Went to bed at 3:00 feeling like the closeness itself, regardless of the winner, was a sobering loss--I wanted the blowout that was dangled before me--and even though it is disturbing, I'm feeling happier than I thought I would eking one out. (Maybe a bit better.) Not to over-dramatize, but I genuinely wondered how your country would get through a second Trump term. Not violence or anything, just the emotional toll. I think I would have tuned out completely myself.

I'm glad his victory is imminent so that I'll have the opportunity to absolutely loathe every president I've ever been conscious and alive for.

And I mean, I'm a pretty loving guy.

presidents of this country: they suck ass generally

even though it is disturbing, I'm feeling happier than I thought I would eking one out

😏

Are you still thinking Biden will take PA?

— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) November 5, 2020

Sry

Joe, you used images of me getting beaten up in Charlottesville over and over and I have to tell you that those people beating me up were in fact my enemies. https://t.co/qtEz8iXxA8

— Emily of the State (@EmilyGorcenski) November 4, 2020

Btw I will call Joe Biden good if he somehow secures 900 billion dollars or so for Amtrak

we have to stop treating our opponents as emilies

That Biden tweet is exactly why I can't stand the guy. Someone who wants to kill me and my partner is my enemy, white supremacists are my enemy, the police are my enemy. Enough with this namby-pamby "I can work with Strom Thurmond" crap.

Btw I will call Joe Biden good if he somehow secures 900 billion dollars or so for Amtrak

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, November 4, 2020 9:03 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

the fact that he likes trains is cool.

PLUR for white supremacists and active fascists, cabinet positions for billionaires, shoot protestors against police brutality, concoct fake charges to permanently imprison people who create a fun and inclusive environment for dancing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF1FrKkRRek

yes Joe's earnest and abiding love of trains is his only redeeming quality AFAICT (not counting "not being trump")

but offset by his sinister love of ice cream

I hope he doesn't make raves a priority on Day 1.

the desert is the only safe place to dance in 2021

I've danced through the desert on a horse with no name

https://edm.com/.image/ar_16:9%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cg_faces:center%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MTUyOTI5Mzg4NjgwMTkzNjU2/57352465a69ec8665674a571-l.jpg

Festivals with Steve Aoki headlining aren't raves, Keyes.

Like if that guy showed up to a rave in Philly, he'd have his ass beaten to a pulp

Our city has a councillor who’s one of those guys. “I love progress so much I will vote against every progressive policy unless it costs $0”

Accurately describes my mother's slight brain worms, which have dissipated slowly as my father has gotten her on the side of labor over the years.

why not just a t shirt that says "MY DAD'S A VP AT AT&T"

HATE THE POOR LOVE WEED MARGINALLY LESS RACIST THAN MY PARENTS

biden finally becomes important enough to warrant his own thread, 15 years after this thread began

7,047 Previous Biden Posts Can’t Be Wrong

Joe Biden: I will fight coronavirus by shoveling money at private health insurance companies.https://t.co/8mKr0fnNcW pic.twitter.com/CqlKttxf2O

— Medicare for All (@AllOnMedicare) November 8, 2020

Who would thunk it

I'm feeling a little....infuriated at reading this tonight as I learn in the last hour that a good friend, an employee of Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, declared he was HIV+ and alive thanks to the "many, many problems" with the Affordable Care Act.

(Alfred, if you want to expand, please do, but I'm not pressing you - that quote isn't from either version of the NPR story or from this thread, so it seems like you might be quoting your friend? but it doesn't seem to jibe with the rhetoric I'm inferring in your post.)

((That aside, it remains frustrating that Biden sees the pandemic as an opportunity to necessarily end-run around many bureaucratic and $-wasteful elements of the ACA, while insisting on preserving those elements. The ACA/Romneycare was a sincere improvement on the system as it stood, but was shaped by "bipartisan compromise," and indeed remains compromised. Biden sees that effective response to a public health crisis is impeded by the ACA, and therefore its rules must be bent. Universal healthcare is already preferred by the people of the US, and the pandemic would provide an opportunity to at least make the case for it. Maybe the Georgia runoff and McConnell will end up making it impossible to take steps toward a better system, but two months of explaining how it will save lives for less money - while thousands of people continue to die - would go a long way toward encouraging voters to call their local reps and write to their senators.))

as fun as it is for me to utilize ACA subsidies as a tax planning strategy for myself, most people really don't like dealing with the stress of "what if I have to pay back the subsidy" and getting the 1095-A form and then some people do have to pay back thousands of dollars in subsidy if they are on an ACA plan where they have to pay some of it, however, people who end up on state equivalents of Medicaid don't have to repay anything, even if they "shouldn't have been on Medicaid" because their income increased, but people who "shouldn't have been on" the plans with a partial subsidy have to repay the amount of subsidy it turns out months later they made too much to receive and it's just ... the system needs to be simpler.

Asked how he can work with Republicans if they won’t even acknowledge he won, Biden says, “They will. They will.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 10, 2020

the system needs to be simpler.

simplest would be single-payer, but we don't have the right Congress for that, yet. god knows what they'll do when Biden tries to implement Medicare at age 60.

Joe Biden: there's nothing wrong with the police, an institution I have described as entirely rotten and poisonous throughout, that more money can't fix!

Louisville Metro Police: concealed at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of Explorer Scouts by two officers — then lied that the FBI had the records in order to keep the files from the public, then deleted them.

Joe Biden, soon: these children who spoke out about being sexually abused by an official police grooming program should be shot in the leg.

just so relieved to have an actual president again.

Biden's transition team includes executives from Lyft, Airbnb, Amazon, Capital One, Booz Allen, Uber, Visa, JPMorgan, Google/Sidewalk Labs, and a mutant sea of former spies, extra-judicial murder advocates and lobbyists.

a Sidewalk Labs guy turning up in the Biden transition team is hilarious and perfect