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

Everyone: “Defund the police!”

Joe Biden: I hear you. I will put more money in de fund for the police

— Ahmaud Arbery (@thecoolliterati) June 10, 2020

When life imitates art

"I want to get police more money in order to deal with the things they badly need, from making sure they have access to community policing, that they have also in the departments social workers, psychologists, people who in fact can handle those god-awful problems that a cop has to have four degrees to handle."

Seattle City Council today managed to have the Seattle Police Department's executive salaries cut for 2020.

Nine of the 13 executives will, under these cuts, be paid more then 49 states' governors.

Where does Joe Biden stand on ACAB?

He thinks it's one of the better Genesis albums

lol

that they have also in the departments social workers, psychologists, people who in fact can handle those god-awful problems that a cop has to have four degrees to handle."

Oh, yes, Joe! The very best public system to oversee the work of social workers and psychologists is to make them a subsidiary interest of police departments. Good thinking there.

"put down your books, shrink. pick up this taser. you'll need it"

I’m not saying people should not vote for him but I wonder if any of the...principals (or “will of the voter”, pick your euphemism) have a bit of buyer’s remorse that this is the line the handpicked challenger to trump takes, given...this particular moment

especially since trump's line of attack is "radical left-wing anarchist" like I wish man

tbh it just shows the craven centrism of the Dems and the absolutely batshit religious ethnofascism of the Repubs even more...like blah blah overton window blah, but it really *has* moved so far to the right that even policies that are popular with the voting public are shot down because they're supposedly too radical.

Biden’s core message really is “c’mon man! Geez” which I think @ByYourLogic pointed out pic.twitter.com/qBd3ffQlcw

— sai (@TrashBoySai) August 5, 2020

that bit in the car video where he goes "God could my dad drive a car. Oof" had me in stitches yesterday

Where does Joe Biden stand on ACAB?

He thinks it's one of the better Genesis albums

― chasing rimbauds (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, August 6, 2020 3:08 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Come on now, Joe Biden is much too sensible to listen to that sort of trendy longhair hippy music.

Biden knows all the words to Bad Company's "Feel Like Makin' Love," though.

christ almighty that clip. i feel bad for him :/

I feel bad for the populace

plz god let the VP pick be under the age of 60

If (most of us) survived a full bowl of shit for 4 years, half a bowl of shit should be a... well...

Yeah but the shit is going to be radioactive instead of just shit so lol us

Big reason why I hope they don't pick Warren, as much as I like her

The monkey's paw curls... VP Pete Buttigieg

be careful what u joke about

Might be entertaining to watch Buttigieg suffer for four years if Biden's brains don't melt out of his ears and Pete is Dan Quayle-d forever.

don't worry pete will be attracting insufferable, like-minded sycophants at notre dame

.@JoeBiden: “Unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community" pic.twitter.com/CFO4Q40jEI

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 6, 2020

He should not be allowed to speak in public. Just post a photo every so often to prove he's still alive.

"One word from Clyburn and a certain demo snapped to it!"

I can see where Biden may have had a reasonable thought hidden inside that poorly expressed, to the point of idiocy, statement. Maybe what he was thinking, but washed all sense out of, is the idea that the overwhelming majority of African-Americans in the USA are descendants of slaves brought the USA prior to 1850, which makes them very long-term multi-generational Americans. as opposed to recent immigrants. The Latino community, otoh, contains members from every Latin American nation, which represents a really wide diversity of cultures as different as Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, or Chile.

There's a lot of scrabble pieces rattling around in his skull

It's legit the sort of thing someone his age would say and then if you were like ' excuse Me' he'd be like 'you know what I mean!' and get all flustered

God we're so fucked

Biden trying to express the fact that there was a specific African-American ethnogenesis that occurred due to the slave trade:

"Unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community"

All those classified briefings on all those critical subjects over all those years and most of what comes out of his brain looks like so many lint-covered peppermint candies fished out of an old suit coat pocket.

You're all missing it. What he was saying is "blacks are a reliable Democratic constituency, except for a few whack jobs like Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson, unlike Latinos, who vote Republican in significant numbers in ways that often correlate to national origin."

I can see where Biden may have had a reasonable thought hidden inside that poorly expressed, to the point of idiocy, statement. Maybe what he was thinking, but washed all sense out of

He expanded on his thoughts at another teleconference this afternoon.

This is the hill Biden's apparently going to die on. This afternoon he appeared in a virtual roundtable and doubled down on his “Latinos have a more diverse culture than blacks” take pic.twitter.com/j8azhzL5YJ

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 6, 2020

lmao

One thing I learned knocking doors during the primaries was that if the house had this font, they were voting for Warren. pic.twitter.com/8J0CSL96Vr

— Cory (@Substituted_) August 6, 2020

it's tim kaine

wait til Biden finds out Toni Morrison didn't like Hamilton

wait til he realizes Hamilton isn't about George Hamilton

i mean, he's saying "latino" doesn't denote just one ethnicity or national origin. mexican-americans and cuban-americans trace their heritage from different countries and also have had different immigrant experiences. in contrast, african-americans have a shared history in america that can be traced back before independence.

it kind of makes sense i just don't understand the relevance of the point.

and of course, it falls apart once you consider the true diversity of people in america. there are afro-latinos, there are people who immigrated here from various parts of africa, etc.

re Biden's video on taking a cognitive test:

It's amusing that his instant comparison is that the TV reporter should take a test for cocaine use before coming on air.

His best position is in the basement and he's done really well there over the last 10 weeks. Changing formation and playing him out of position just behind the microphone and camera is unfathomable

Imagine Biden talking our way into a second Trump term. (I mean, I think it's unlikely but imagine)

Not that we shouldn't all be completely terrified even if Biden does go back to his hole since he's clearly not competent to handle the challenges we're going to face over the next 24 months.

It's amusing that his instant comparison is that the TV reporter should take a test for cocaine use before coming on air.

It's very amusing that, hours before insisting that black Americans have no culture, his first thought to attack a black American with was that people should assume he does cocaine, and even more amusing that Biden doesn't know the difference between a heroin addict and a cocaine user.

Y'know, I'm getting the feeling that this Biden guy might be racist.

god, could my dad drive a car. oof

Biden sits mute as Democrats & Republicans savage Karen Bass for a few bland remarks she made about Cuba and Fidel Castro, then hires a rightwing, viciously anti-Cuba Republican hack to "rev up" Latinx for his campaign...https://t.co/5dcf9GAKVs

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) August 7, 2020

Ana Navarro is the pits.

If he picks Kamala it will just confirm what everyone thinks—that he is just a mannequin being propped up by the party who isn’t in control of his own campaign. If I was Biden, I would pick someone who I at least knew and liked, just to remind people I am alive.

"everyone"