2020 Democratic presidential primary thread, pt 3: life is very long

I know! I was too

don’t think trevor phillips is on the mark

lol ok I'm dumber than usual today

well, you don't write two paragraphs of white lib posturing

🤐

biden had a bad position on something, he came under intense pressure from the democratic base, so he...changed his position? i don't like biden any more than anyone else here does, but he's clearly a political weathervane, not an ideologue.

As an excuse for shitty beliefs and politics, this is particularly weak - Biden was never a backbencher going with the flow, he was a prominent and powerful Senator (and VP) for decades and took the lead on his shitty positions. He's an ideologue as much as anyone in the party, it's just that his ideology is garbage.

He supported the Hyde Amendment for 43 years. This wasn't a "oops, I didn't read the bill and understand the consequences" situation, his beliefs are shit.

I just don’t think any of that matters now

He doesnt have beliefs

biden has not run a "good campaign" by any perceptible metric

Apart from getting votes

I just don’t think any of that matters now

so uh what does matter?

Beating Trump I guess lol

What Trump executive orders and policies would Biden actually reverse, has he said

Which cabinet members will he hold over

it feels like we’re in a completely different world all of a sudden, not sure what matters

Probably Elaine Chao and whatever dingdong is secdef 9 months from now. (I had to look it up: Currently it’s a guy named Mark!)

None of this will matter if Joe dies of the vid, that’s true

it feels like we’re in a completely different world all of a sudden, not sure what matters

I mean... maybe in an economic and social meltdown having good ideas and beliefs matters more?

Do you think targeted tax breaks are the solution to the economic crisis? Do you think the current healthcare system is up to the challenge of a pandemic?

Political nihilism seems like a bad call in the current moment.

Which cabinet members will he hold over

There's still a chance at VP Romney

VP Nikki Haley

No better way to make the WaPo cum so hard its calves cramp.

WaPo editorial page, damn it

xxxp no!

Fred Hiatt and Colbert King, both still unaccountably not retired

Presumably it’d be way too obvious for Bezos to fire them and replace them with one of the clones budding off of his back

Worst backne ever

This thread is some of the grossest most nihilistic fanfic ever

I don’t see a downside in being nihilistic, we all know I’ll whine for six more months and then most likely fill in the bubble for Handsy Joe out of terror, which as we all know is the best way to rule.

Anyway when he loses I’ll have the consolation of being right

I thought Clinton would win and I can’t go through that again!

Better Things Aren’t Possible is a good slogan actually

my greatest political hope for America at this point is that I'm shot in a pogrom instead of starving to death

how's that for fanfic, fucko

brb getting a tattoo of Saint-Just

https://media.giphy.com/media/LPtp3yR0EiVc4/source.gif

It's as if I'm reading rejected Madonna lyrics for "Justify My Love"

:)

I do not get that reference, I don't know if that makes me more or less owned.

Madonna's a neolib coming after your Social Security

lol my social security that's a laugh, as if young people will exist in 40 years

Madonna Ciccone, children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet

For those who haven't yet noticed, the odds of Biden being the Democratic nominee against Donald J. Trump currently are calculated at 99% by fivethirtyeight. Meanwhile, the poll of ilxors at the head of this thread favored Sanders over Biden by 110 to 21.

If there is a point to all this anguish over how awful Joe Biden is, other than the emotional emesis of people in denial, who wish-wish-WISH Sanders was winning the nomination, then I'm hoping someone will explain the practical import of all this outpouring of stomach acids and partly digested facts and nonsense - in terms of who will be living in the White House come January 25, 2021. Cuz it won't be anyone but Biden or Trump, unless one of them dies.

of course there's no point, we don't post for reasons

I have been inside for a month and I'm on a fucking hairtrigger there's no point to any of this I'm just addicted to being furious

why should there be a goddamn point, you yourself said it doesn't matter, I'm entitled to do things that don't fucking matter

for the record I hope Joe Biden and Donald Trump die, ideally tomorrow

xp - then would you please discover that it is just as possible to drink raw sewage or hit yourself on the head with a hammer for no reason at all? thanks.

Which of those will let me die sooner

For fuck’s sake, you clod

I know I want to die but you don’t have to want me to die, posting is harmless by comparison