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

Because his target market is people too confused by modern life to install adblockers?

ooh

sic burn

my ad blocker is breaking lately, the starts of the ads are getting through—and it's wall-to-wall trump or biden ads

the Underworld poll would have definitely killed me if I was getting ads on youtube

Joe Biden: "You ought to marry into a family of 5 or more sisters... You know why that's the reason? One of them always loves you." pic.twitter.com/6ZIoG4t2Oj

— The Hill (@thehill) June 18, 2020

More evidence of VP Mitt

For the record I agree 100 percent with Senator Klobuchar. Angela Davis is the only logical choice.

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) June 19, 2020

or Clair Huxtable.

i think biden's suits are kind of cool. he often reaches for a much brighter blue than the dark navy that politicians usually wear.

he's really taking the empty-suit thing to its logical extreme, i agree

has joe biden considered maybe offering a plan to provide healthcare to all people

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) June 19, 2020

no, it's better to have healthcare tied to employment. that way, when 25% of the country gets laid off during a pandemic, we can set up some modest unemployment benefits to tide everyone over. so must simpler and better that way for everyone!!

it's also important to withhold medical coverage from unemployed people, to make them try harder

Another view of Biden's career.

Joe Biden’s record can be summed up as 4 decades of betrayal, calamity and failure — he NEVER did ANYTHING! pic.twitter.com/y7f9FoDtl4

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2020

Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicolas Maduro.

As President, I will stand with the Venezuelan people and for democracy. https://t.co/eUt28UxyXS

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 22, 2020

great

Maduro is awful and anti-democratic, also authentically popular, like Erdogan in Turkey, and I am on board with the United States holding both at extreme arms-length.

I mean if you believe that any statement of arms-lengthness towards Maduro is tantamount to support for a coup by anti-democratic but NOT authentically popular actors, as in Bolivia, then I see why this would piss you off, but I don't believe that (about Venezuela or Turkey)

What do you think "stand with the Venezuelan people and for democracy" would mean?

There's no recent history of Democrats getting coup-y in the region, I guess, if you completely ignore Honduras and Obama's 2015 sanctions on Venezuela.

both Biden and Trump want regime change in Venezuela, stupid thing for them to be taking shots at each other about. Trump has turned on Guaido because it's became apparent he can't achieve his goals, and Trump doesn't want to be associated with a "loser"

Maduro's authentically popular?

yup. there is still a lot of support for his government despite how much of a fucking disaster it is

there is still a lot of support for his government despite how much of a fucking disaster it is

As an American, I cannot imagine such a thing being possible

I seem to remember even sanders called Chavez a communist dictator. so weird for anyone to pretend Venezuela is a partisan political issue in the states

Well, since the US created Chavez and got Venezuela into the mess it is in, one could see how it could be a partisan issue.

Sanders was the only candidate who refused to recognize Guaidó IIRC.

former ted cruz VP candidate carly fiorina says she's voting for biden. or rather, that she will not vote for trump, and since biden is the other name she is voting for him.

They really need a 3rd party candidate to line up behind.

Jim Webb!!

sorry, i'm like the only person on earth that remembers jim webb

Thought experiment, if Romney/Webb ran, would it draw votes away from people who might otherwise vote for Trump, or only from the tiny rump of lifelong Republicans who were going to hold their nose and vote Biden or stay home?

it's a thought experiment i don't want to entertain

boe jiden

What do you think "stand with the Venezuelan people and for democracy" would mean?

I would guess it means standing back warily and making encouraging noises.

Not clear to me that's the wrong approach

in the context of the quote it seems clear that Biden is signaling that he is more of a hawk on Venezuela than Trump (which I don't think is true, but it may be). So, I'm not sure that necessarily signals that he would pursue a hands-off approach

Biden is more of a hawk in the sense that Trump just doesn't have the patience to follow through on imperialist campaigns.

What would make anyone think, given Democratic administrations' foreign policies for the last... 60 years that "standing back and making encouraging noises" is a likely outcome?

Well I don’t think a drone war in South America would uh. Fly.

Have to say he hasn't sounded this on point in a long time

Biden on Trump: "He's like a child. He can't believe this has happened to him. All his whining and self-pity. This pandemic didn't happen to him. It happened to all of us. And his job isn't to whine about it, his job is to do something about it. To lead." pic.twitter.com/nCJZmPV0TM

— The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) June 25, 2020

Trump doesn’t know how to pursue any foreign policy other than what Putin tells him to, including playing tough with China.

The left’s allergy to pursuing any form of foreign policy at all means that the Bernie contingent is unlikely to get a seat at the national security table in a Biden admin, which is unfortunate.

Be adults, do some right-wing coups.

Romney / Gabbard is the spoiler ticket

🚨 FOX NEWS POLL 🚨
FL: Biden 49, Trump 40
GA: Biden 47, Trump 45
NC: Biden 47, Trump 45
TX: Biden 45, Trump 44

— Ashley Moir (@ashleymoirDC) June 25, 2020

p implausible

I hope the Trump campaign finds them plausible and starts spending money in NC and TX

Didn’t we learn last time that many trump voters don’t take part in polls?

the final national polls were within the margin of error and so were most of the state polls. it's just that most of them broke in the same direction, towards Trump, so they probably undersampled Trump voters, yes. I assume most pollsters have adjusted their methodology since then.

who will be our Comey

i don't know why i first thought of neil patrick harris, but i'm sticking with it

Trump was crying on Hannity’s shoulder tonight; it was so pathetic, I seriously think one more week of polls like this and he’ll resign via 3 AM tweet.