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

One thing you have to give credit to Biden for - and is a strangely underutilized argument for him, in the event he is able to win he's the one that will bring out the biggest popcornest meltdown from Trump.

Trump oddly respects Bernie on a personal level, he'd still have a meltdown losing to him but he recognizes game. Losing to a woman would be tough for him to take and there'd be a meltdown but "history wanted a woman, but thats ok, in some ways I paved the way". Losing to guy that falls asleep on live tv and has almost completely checked out? Thats the biggest blow to ego by far, can you imagine losing to Joe Biden? Its hilarious, the ensuing meltdown definitely the most grandiose

So what? The purpose of winning the election is to dismantle and erase the shame and embarrassment of the Trump administration. I wouldn't care if he turned out to be a magnanimous loser and stepped aside quietly. Won't ever happen, but it would be better than acting as a rallying point for the whining, narcissist, white-privilege base who elected him.

"She could count on President Obama to campaign for her, as Biden also can, and she would also have ever-popular husband Bill helping out."

and to think trump got himself impeached over this guy

The purpose of winning the election is to dismantle and erase the shame and embarrassment of the Trump administration

You would think so, but there are some questions to be asked about the suitability of the weapon chosen for the battle

puerto rico statehood, DC statehood, expand the supreme court to outflank dubious trumputin appointees, medicare for all, social security for all, rebuild america, joe, bernie, liz, amy, andrew, peter, senator harris, governor inslee, governor whitmer, and/or stacey abrams 2020

Thread is for Biden, Joe not Billy Joel

we didn't start the mire

it starts with an earthquake. miles standish proud. congratulate me

the twin excruciations of the biden situation and covid19 may actually destroy me this year

Felling this hard but I'd add my own third excruciation of being trapped in Shitigan while it transforms into Asshat Central :( I'm 100% over this country.

*Feeling

It’s fine. I’m sure Trump won’t attack Biden with this 2007 clip where’s he’s indistinguishable from Donald Trump. 🤦🏻

Hope Biden is prepared. Preventing another four years of Trump is on him now. pic.twitter.com/RNfVYqhlPy

— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) May 2, 2020

Trump would never attack Biden with that clip. First, the audio quality is awful. Next, there's no short pithy sound bite to grab out of it. Last, it would be ridiculous of Trump to attack someone for sharing ideas that are similar to his. But if you are Vic Berger and want to attack Joe Biden, it makes a certain sense to circulate that clip. But not if you actually think that "preventing another four years of Trump" is a worthwhile ambition. That goal doesn't seem to be on Vic's mind atm.

I didn't post it for Vic Berger's commentary. Is that your takeaway?

First, the audio quality is awful.

lol

Last, it would be ridiculous of Trump to attack someone for sharing ideas that are similar to his.

He wouldn't need to attack him though. It'd be more like "Isn't it interesting to hear that Sleepy Joe agrees with me 100%--maybe I should put him in charge of the fence after the election!" (You might be right about the audio quality, although I'm sure that'd easy to fix.)

so yes there are these things but also the issue that the presumptive Dem nominee wants to build a wall and is chill w/ disparaging Mexicans

interesting to hear that Sleepy Joe agrees with me 100%

Yeah. That would needle Democrats, but it's not really that effective, except to dismay people who fiercely loathe Trump. The only way to use it to attack Biden would be to do exactly what Vic did and Hadrian is doing by spreading Vic's tweet. Trying to frame it as a 'concern' is the definition of concern trolling.

who is Vic Berger

An off the menu item at In'n'Out.

that mullet can't be from 2007 right

Vic Berger is a national treasure for this video alone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DmtpkJJXJw

Tara Reade says a Senate report she filed against Joe Biden didn’t refer to sexual harassment or assault. https://t.co/J3B4PIIUdp

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 2, 2020

She canceled her FOX News interview with Chris Wallace too.

This is false. https://t.co/w4yXGI1DQm

— taratweets ( Alexandra Tara Reade) (@ReadeAlexandra) May 2, 2020

The one thing this needed was to get murkier.

here's the full Twitter feed with the reporter:

New: Tara Reade told me the report she says she filed regarding her issues with Joe Biden did not explicitly accuse him of sexual assault or harassment. https://t.co/IZclrvqZif

— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) May 2, 2020

The only way to use it to attack Biden would be to do exactly what Vic did and Hadrian is doing by spreading Vic's tweet. Trying to frame it as a 'concern' is the definition of concern trolling.

― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, May 2, 2020 3:18 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok I'm sorry but is this the Joe Biden booster thread or something? Posting things that don't cast Biden in a positive light is now "concern trolling"? Attacking?

You do know how absurd this sounds, right?

"spreading tweets" mon dieu!

It's just a weird mission to be on (especially on May 2!) rushing in to tamp down negative comments about joe fucking biden

Fine. You want Joe Biden to lose. You think he's a shit. I get that. There's evidence to back you up. So, beyond that animus, what is the rest of the political outcome you are seeking? Because there's going to be an election this year to decide who will run the executive branch for another four years and that seems important, too.

is reade saying that the AP misquoted her?

That's how I interpret it, but, man, I have no idea

xxp

1. I don't want Joe Biden to lose, please point out anywhere in these threads where I've expressed that.

2. 44 active users here rn. Stop fretting that posting things that don't praise joe biden on ilx is somehow going to get Donald Trump elected. It's stupid.

I sort of liked it better when joe biden was just a shitty politician who probably did sex crimes who I was absolutely not going to vote for, as opposed to the recent turn of being a shitty politician who probably did sex crimes that will be endlessly litigated by men with blue check marks, who I am absolutely not going to vote for

it is kind of funny to open this thread and immediately see posts about biden from 2005, like this one:

name a national democrat with a greater toughness/competence (i.e. will keep you safe) aura
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, June 19, 2005 9:36 PM (fourteen years ago)

lol

live dumb or die

A Biden delegate pic.twitter.com/15jLVhw11j

— Leftward Swing - #Green2020🌹🌻 (@LeftwardSwing) May 2, 2020

Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of Biden is the new Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of Obama

xp you can't keep your job after posting that, right?

Like this guy will have to resign, right?

I long for the kind of influence Aimless apparently ascribes to me

yer one step away from a R______ troll

I'll try to do better

it's definitely out of character for Vic Berger to be spreading clips of politicians (with lo-fi audio quality) to mock them for their fecklessness, using a flip tone to mask Berger's deep frustration or disgust

someone must have gotten to him

that's why he makes the big rubles

Reporters' irresistible impulse to bothsides everything is not gonna be as helpful to Team Trump as usual. Last night, an NBC reporter (not MSNBC, but the regular evening news) was talking about the case and when he got to Trump, said, "President Trump, who has been credibly accused of sexual assault by more than two dozen women, weighed in on the accusations, saying..."

Weird way to tell everyone that he’s never touched one

— lindsey ok (@lindseyyok) May 1, 2020

You knew this was coming: Tara Reade, not Tara Reid

Ever since Reade, a former staffer to Joe Biden, publicly accused the presidential candidate of sexual assault, Reid — as in the “Sharknado” and “American Pie” star — has seen her Twitter timeline inundated with threats, nastiness and snarky comments from people mixing them up.

“It’s so crazy. I looked at my Twitter and people were telling me ‘You’re a wrong, bad person!’” Reid told The Post. “I was like, ‘Who did what to who? You’ve lost your mind.’”

...

“I was like, no way — it’s not me! You’ve got the wrong Tara!” said Reid, who is waiting out the coronavirus lockdown in her Hollywood, California, home. “Are people that stupid? I mean, c’mon … I’ve done a lot over the years, but not this.”

Overnight, the niece of former Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell (the one who had to take out a campaign ad assuring voters that she was not a witch) claimed that Joe Biden complimented her breasts at a dinner in 2008, when she was 14.

Biden was not at the dinner.

re the video of Biden on Mexico:

He sounds so much more forceful there in 2007 than he does in recent years. Forceful and also nasty.