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

I can guarantee you fauci has delivered a baby. I’ve delivered a baby, and docs in training back in his day were allowed to do all sorts of wild shit unsupervised

Sic: this guy

https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/p/n/m/e/f/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.710x400.1pnm7o.png/1525222409852.jpg

As you can see, because he's an MD
he's totally more admirable and worthy of respectful titles than, say, the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. or whoever

I 1000% agree with you about doctors being people who do jobs btw, that is more or less the reason for my post initially

crazy-hair guy probably refers to Trump's personal physician who signed a fawning letter in 2016 saying Trump, if elected, would be the healthiest president in the history of the world. He later said Trump wrote the letter and asked him to sign it.

^ was xp'ed

Again I am cool with leveling all the PhDs in art history or whatever, but I don't see why we should stop there.

If someone with a doctorate in medieval poetry is only "Dr. So-and-so" when in a classroom or on campus, ok.

But then a gastroenterologist is ALSO "Dr. So-and-so" only when in an examining room or a hospital. Deal?

(Crud, just realized this would be better in the poll thread on this topic; I can relocate further discussion there.)

I was jokesing because there have been a few other distinctive-looking Trump doctors float in and out of the story since Bornstein

congrats to Joseph Epstein for making me remember who he is, when I haven't thought about him since ~2003

Someone’s gotta rep for the Epsteins these days

While reminding myself of who this dude is, I did learn about this Joseph Epstein who sounds much more redeeming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Epstein

“Faith in our institutions held. The integrity of our elections remains intact. And now it is time to turn the page, as we’ve done throughout our history. To unite. To heal.”

oh good

And now it is time to turn the page

*saxophonist steps into spotlight*

Epic sax guy ten hours

Our institutions held after buckling a little. maybe let's look to avoid the logical progression next time

Our entire system of democracy nearly collapsed and 3,000 people a day are dying. Let's behave exactly the same way as before.

reach across the aisle

tell yr neighbor it's ok that he called for the beheading of ballot counters; we're all in the same gang

AMERICA
- get busy Humpty

Our institutions are garbage.

It's okay, milo. Joe Biden has enough faith to make up the difference for your loss.

institution ale is pr good

Biden says that 7 Senate Republicans, “mostly senior,” have called him tonight. He spoke to “one of the most senior members” who expressed a willingness to work on China and infrastructure. It’s going to take 6-8 months but GOP will work w him, “you’re going to be surprised.”

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) December 15, 2020

what a mark

WW3 will be bipartisan.

what a mark

hey, if it does turn out that they stall him for eight months, at least that takes him up to the summer recess. the senators will all come back super-refreshed a month later, ready to start afresh from scratch and get some solid legislating done!

That summer recess, unfortunately, marks the beginning of the 2022 midterms race

That can't be right. Joe Biden has been in the Senate since 1972, and then had two terms as vice-president of the country. He'd know if September was when legislatin' shuts down in favour of fundraisin'.

deb haaland for interior seems really good

my kind of historic representation move. i don't know much about her record but she cooked for protesters at standing rock in 2016.

torn between "don't give up incumbents in vulnerable House seats when the majority is so small" and "what does it matter, all Dems in vulnerable seats are going to be wiped out in the 2022 "Biden didn't fix everything" midterm backlash so why not give good people important jobs"

I don't think the seat is that vulnerable. It's been held by Dems since 2008. Haaland won it by 22 in 2018 and by 16 in 2020.

nm isn't going back to red anytime soon imo (based on nothing but gut feeling lol)

also i'm kind of invested in secint after despising zinke so much. idk, i think it's really cool. gives me the feels. hope it happens.

OK I should have looked it up, sorry, in that case I'm 100% behind this

what a mark

― is right unfortunately (silby), Thursday, December 17, 2020 4:14 PM (yesterday)

Joe Biden, 14th May 2019:

"The thing that will fundamentally change things is with Donald Trump out of the White House. Not a joke. You will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends."

Joe Biden, 6th November 2019:

“With Donald Trump out of the way, you’re going to see a number of my Republican colleagues have an epiphany. Mark my words. Mark my words.”

Joe Biden, 17th July, 2020:

"With Donald Trump gone, the fear of retribution has been taken away. If we win as big as we possibly can, there’s going to be a great, great epiphany that’s going to take place, as we Catholics say. And they’re going to begin to wonder about whether or not if they take me on and lose by just being obstructionist, whether they’re going to lose the rest of that blue-collar vote out there in the nation. It’s going to be a different time. Doesn’t mean it’s going to be, as they used to say when I was a kid, kumbaya and everyone’s happy, but it will — they know things have to be done and I think we can get a lot done."

Joe Biden, 14th Dec 2020, after 127 Republican elected reps had signed an appeal to the Suprme Court to literally overturn the election and bar his presidency:

“I may eat these words, but I predict to you: As Donald Trump’s shadow fades away, you’re going to see an awful lot change... You’re going to be surprised. We’re going to have a lot of people wanting to work with us.”

Joe Biden, 4th November, 2012:

Biden seemed optimistic that both parties would work together if Obama is re-elected, arguing the “fever will have broken” and lawmakers could focus more on passing legislation than politics.

“There are still some solid Republican conservatives who understand what principled compromise means and are not wrapped up in ideological purity,” said Biden insisting he knew a dozen Republican senators and up to three dozen House members that want to work with the Democrats.

After the election is over, Biden said members will say “'Hey man I no longer have an obligation to stick with the right of the party’…I really believe you’ll see movement. Real movement.”

You don’t see the political value in the way he’s consistently framing it there? At one point he basically gives himself the out of “now folks at the end of the day they may not be reasonable like I am but-“

Although it’s fair to say that Biden and the Obama administration shouldn’t have depended on republicans crazying themselves into unelectability without doing more to fix things like voter suppression for example.

Although it’s fair to say that Biden and the Obama admin as a whole shouldn’t have calculatedly depended on Republicans crazying themselves into unelectability without doing more to fix or even mitigate against things like voter suppression for example.

Biden was probably banking on a 'repudiation' type of election to turn things around. From his POV, getting 80 million votes, he may have convinced himself this happened and the political climate will favor moving ahead. From the congressional Republican's POV, Trump drove a massive, frenzied wave of voting among their base in favor of Trumpism. They're now pinned down by the crazies even more than before and any cooperation with Dems will earn them instant white hot wrath.

You don’t see the political value in the way he’s consistently framing it there?

otm.

also, i'm not sure what else he's supposed to do or say about that. i suppose when asked how he will pass legislation, he could just state flat-out that he expects to get absolutely zero support from the GOP on anything, and that the best case scenario is something that isn't extreme, active opposition from the GOP on absolutely everything, but that the most likely scenario is in fact extreme, active opposition from the GOP on absolutely everything. maybe that's what he should do, i don't know. a taste of the truth, or something. but the far more predictable thing is that he, as the figurehead of an institution, will say and do things that suggest that the institution and rules still exist and are relevant

but yeah, let's hope that the 'Extend the olive branch' phase of the Biden presidency ends before the end of January 2021

otm.

If it had value, would that not have been realised at some point in the eight years he's been saying it, instead of them becoming even more intractable and obstructive and petitioning the Supreme Court to cancel democracy specifically as it applies to him, Joe Biden?

I mean, this is a guy who loved Strom Thurmond. Don't really think anything can get through his thick skull. Being "moldable" and moving with the tide of the party, as so many say he's done, is actually just evidence that he's dumber than a bag of rocks.

We rejected a very stable genius in favor of a bag of rocks!

Intelligence as privilege?

Joe Biden is a sack of crap and I can’t imagine “liking” him, what a feeble creep

What a dingdong

In one month, we begin to heal.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 20, 2020

he's got healing hands

An aural transcription of Biden's upcoming presidency:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWLVBP3VrO4

Also, wtf is 'DNA Repair'?

In one month, get ready to bend the fucking knee.