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

Hadn't seen that general election thread before - the typo jokes are funny and good-spirited imo, not clowning on Dan. It probably died more because it's functionally redundant with the monthly US politics thread?

If all 2020 campaign discussion happened in the monthly US politics thread, that would be fine, I suppose. But enough also happens in this thread that it would seem to argue for a dedicated thread. Especially now that the conventions are approaching.

Lol come on pic.twitter.com/Lkrz7heh0S

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) August 11, 2020

...i'm announcing that i really need you to give me $5

A friend who styles himself a Russiagate investigator/blogger is constantly reposting the terrible fundraising emails from the Trump campaign, I don't have the heart to tell him that all campaign e-mails are awful in the exact same way.

they're all awful, but i think in different ways. biden is the pathetic flavor of awful, but trump's are creepy white nationalist awful

but yeah, they end up in roughly the same place

- give this pathetic biden guy $5, for crying out loud, or give him $30 if you have a heart people, ya gotta be kidding me give him a shot

- the enemies of america are at the gate, and it's everyone. your children are pledging allegiance to satan and what have you done about it? give trump $50 and you will become a special member of his annihilation advisory group. we will send you information about everyone that deserves to be fed to alligators and you will tell us how good we are doing on a scale of "great" to "perfect again". send us money right now or you are the enemy too

I dunno, the Trump one he's posting are the exact same HISTORIC PLAN (to raise $400k by tonight!). He saves the white nationalism for his press conferences

Trump does seem more reliant on the "do you think the Donald is doing a a)great b)terrific c)incredible d)stupendous job" poll format.

i doubt anyone bothers to check the results of those polls, but it would be really hilarious to see a debrief meeting where they try to take it seriously

"terrific" scores are up 15% over last quarter, boss, and "perfect" is up 5% as well. i'm afraid we've lost nearly 20% of our "still doing great" segment

Getting official-looking (government or bills) mail from Democratic campaigns after ActBlue or someone sold my information a couple of years ago was a nadir.

biden offering the herlihy white house sitting service

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/2020-election-biden-vp-pick/index.html

*gets a drink*

please be pete

yeah uh I may pretend it's 5 o'clock.

fondly remembering when i had this kid in a history class and the day after trump moved the embassy to jerusalem he stood up and gave a whole speech abt our duty to spread freedom in the middle east https://t.co/6Ij8tIPJPD

— stephanie (@isosteph) August 11, 2020

pete pete pete

Marianne Williamson was a surprising but brave choice, thank u Uncle Joe

No actual VP event today, per a Biden official.

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) August 11, 2020

but several fake ones

boo

iirc Clinton picked me llamo Tim Kaine about July 25th? quite slacking Joe

Why won't he just put us out of our misery with his terrible VP choice?

Taking a while to figure out how to sell Buttigieg as a POC.

“You promised that your VP would be a woman of color.”

“Aw, man, I shouldn’t have said that...”

I said a lot of stuff

a Person Of management Consulting

Taking a while to figure out how to sell Buttigieg as a POC.

Easy. The name Buttigieg is derived from Sicilian Arabic.

أبو الدجاج Abu-d-dajāj(i), meaning 'chicken owner, poulterer' (literally 'father of chickens')

I’m getting word that the PAC 12 has been informed that it will not be Biden’s VP.

Taking a while to figure out how to sell Buttigieg as a POC.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 12:48 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Biden talking about haplogroups off the cuff

I personally would very much like to see that

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/2020-election-biden-vp-pick/index.html

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 2:25 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

See, this is the kind of thing we could use a 2020 general election thread for, rather than the "Biden sucks" thread.

Some haplogroups are more diverse than others.

2xp

_أبو الدجاج Abu-d-dajāj(i), meaning 'chicken owner, poulterer' (literally 'father of chickens')_

I promise you if I'm elected, I won't waste any time getting this virus under control.

I'll call Dr. Fauci and ask him to stay on. I'll bring together top experts and leaders from both parties to chart a path forward.

We'll get it done, together.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 11, 2020

yes lets give the Republicans another crack at it

Rep. Karen Bass of California was told by Joe Biden himself that she was not the pick, a source familiar tells CNN.

leakleakleakleakleak

it's probably just still kamala but a boy can dream

Bass dropped

Biden began the conversation, "Let me be clear..."

it's Kamala!

I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 11, 2020

Yep! Breathing a sigh of relief it isn't Susan Rice.

I'm down with that.

This.

booooo

So shocked that he would run with the safest option.

Thing is, nobody is stopping anyone from posting posi vibes about Biden itt, nor are they shouting at ppl who do post posi vibes about Biden for posting posi things.

As a person who likes Biden and posts positive things about him on here a lot, I would agree with this.

this isn't funny at all. shame

Oops didn't mean to step on breaking news.