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

I see his talent for sparkling wordplay remains.

rebloodlican isn't too bad

Ventura will always rule for suing Chris Kyle's widow and winning

rebloodlican isn't too bad

Good enough for Kendrick!

he's recycling his material from 2012 I see:

https://www.amazon.ca/DemoCRIPS-ReBLOODlicans-More-Gangs-Government/dp/1616084480

NEWS: Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is advising the Biden campaign on the economy, among others. Many progressives have made clear they are not fans of his. https://t.co/oBeda5cQ8G

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) April 23, 2020

many progressives otm

larry summers? really?

really summers, larry

it’s ok. I’m sure he has some great ideas this time!

the biden cabinet is going to be a lot of c-listers and Obama second-admin retreads, and that’s going to be a billion times better than kush and mnuchin

I’d maybe spot you a million times better but a billion seems doubtful

Let’s meet in the middle then, like pragmatism

i'll raise you both 2 million

We should simply calculate the precise expected utility of each presidential candidate and vote that way

i will get right on that!

VORLC value over replacement level cabinet

has anyone made up an advanced sports stat called WinRAR

Uncle Joe TGZ

an M4A joke goes here

Obama hacks are only 6.4x better I think

but enough for a 4-year liberal nap

Here is an interview with Briahna Joy Gray. I'm not sure which parts I like best — the Baghdad Bob-esque "The primary's not over! Something could still happen to knock Biden out!" stuff, or the "I'm not saying (the thing I just said)" stuff. The whole thing is a joy, really. Sanders was so wise to pick her to represent him. She seems like a real coalition-builder.

ah yes former campaign press secretaries, famous for their coalition building (???)

If Biden is relying on Gray he may well run into problems with coalition building.

Biden deputy director Rob Flaherty with the useless tweet he thinks is clever:

this election is a choice between two competing visions for america: one that says "you should drink bleach to cure viruses" and another that says "do not drink bleach"

Rob Flaherty otm about bleach

not everyone can be a “coalition builder”

Lawrence Summers, currently advising the Biden campaign, at Jeffrey Epstein's residence in 2011, 3 years after Epstein was convicted of raping children. pic.twitter.com/KfkcColmFl

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) April 23, 2020

lol fuck this guy and fuck anyone making excuses

shhhhhh don't say it out loud!

I wonder if the Biden advisers and media stans who quietly removed the #metoo from their bios when Biden got the nom and thought they could maybe put it back when he returned the Louis CK money saw this photo and were like nah guess not

i still need to know more about this epstein thing. i don't trust anyone's story about why they were spending time with him.

it's not like he had access to money bill gates needed. and even for money, even for charity, i don't think i would want to be paling around with a sex trafficking pedophile in his home.

afaict billionaires are bored, hollow people whose moral compass has been obliterated. and well, they like to fuck children. and ppl who stan for billionaires want to be the guys (and gals apparently) who can also fuck children, or they’re so craven and obsequious that they just don’t care.

i think it's just that they realize they're above the law. look at epstein - look at all of the fucked up things he did, more or less openly, over many years, before he suffered any consequences. he demonstrates the lengths that they can go to without facing accountability.

gotta get your kicks where you can I guess

I don’t think Gray says anything particularly unreasonable in that interview.

Yeah she explained her position well imo

I'm undecided as to who is the champion DNC cherry picker, unperson or iatee. It will probably come down to the talent competition.

Yes Summers lied in this memo, unequivocally, and even fought against reforming bankruptcy, which was part of the promise. https://t.co/S9wLE4YTK4

— David Dayen (@ddayen) April 23, 2020

Imagine reading this and thinking Gray came off poorly

I personally don’t think it is politically beneficial or, frankly, ethically appropriate for me to endorse Joe Biden, particularly at this stage, not that anyone is clamoring for my endorsement. The point of my tweet was to say that it is frustrating for a lot of supporters of progressive politics to see leaders in our movement seemingly fall in line with establishment politics without extracting any concessions on issues like a wealth tax, free child care, and Medicare for All. If these are in fact existential issues, then we need to behave that way, and not stop fighting.

^ That does not come off poorly. The fact that the tweet came off so poorly that she needed to explain it later in different language, with a different emphasis, in order to establish it as much more reasonable than could be derived from what she chose to tweet out, is what made her come off poorly.

Who gives a fuck if she comes off poorly anyway?

This whole notion—that she or anyone else needs to comport themsleves better, be more polite, whatever, is missing the fucking point in the first place.

She's not answerable to you.

Like just move on from it, the party has.

the tweet was fine

none of this matters

So apparently Tara Reade’s mother called in to Larry King Live about her daughter and a Senator back in 1993

what about a weeklong reprieve for Fred so we can get some exercise in

So apparently Tara Reade’s mother called in to Larry King Live about her daughter and a Senator back in 1993

Wow, this Ruskie scheme goes way back!

She's not answerable to you.

No. But she is (and acts like) a public figure through her tweeting, and she should expect people who read her tweets to exercise their judgment regarding her pronouncements. So should you.

So should I?

Being a public figure doesn’t oblige you to make nice with people who don’t care about you.

"be civil" is the rule demanded of the left that the mainstream pols never observe a fuckdoodle themselves

u know the Pelosi-to-McConnell spectrum

I'm undecided as to who is the champion DNC cherry picker, unperson or iatee. It will probably come down to the talent competition.