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

"Joe Biden is like your ex's hoodie" reminds me - in uncomfortable ways - of the 2008 "Barack Obama is your new bicycle" website and its counterpart "Hillary is Mom Jeans."

Whenever you pressed refresh, you got a new metaphor about why Obama was THE NEW HOTNESS and HRC was OLD AND BUSTED. I've mercifully forgotten most of them but it was the most trivializing infantilized bullshit imaginable. And it probably worked, as history shows.

Biden is like your ex boyfriend who is older than your great-grandfather

xxp re what advantage there is in picking Harris, California is a state with a lot of rich donors, so maybe the advantage is in getting money for the campaign

― Dan S, Tuesday, August 11, 2020 6:18 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

these people would donate with or without kamala on the ticket.

And it probably worked, as history shows.

barackobamaisyournewbicycle.net is the only website with more electoral influence than ilxor.com's "Joe Biden sucks" thread

The calf cramp Beto tweet is so much better than anything else in this genre. That woman was brave enough to be as horny as possible on main.

The Federalist doing their part to assuage fears about a Biden/Harris ticket among swing voters concerned about the Democrats leftward lurch on law and order/looting/statues. pic.twitter.com/6dfvR5wn9O

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) August 11, 2020

i guess this is how they fund the federalist

Will kick in Patreon bucks to anyone who makes a video of "WAP" set to Biden footage.

lol godDAMN what a bunch of dorks

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It's been obvious it was going to be Kamala for a couple of months, though lol at the accelerationist view re Buttigieg. Season 3 of Mindhunter should be Ford and Tench interviewing Buttigieg for 10 episodes.

The "ex's hoodie" guy is one of the Parkland survivors.

jesus fucking christ

very dark

I have to say it was baller of Harris to drive all the way to South Bend to get on that plane

xp I follow him. he's just a 19 yo college student. he doesn't post too much and is doing fine on twitter

two words: RUH-ROH

I mean call me a purist but

I don't like the choice either. It doesn't matter. She could literally be Hitler and the Biden/Hitler combo would still be a better choice than Trump.

— Eric D. Snider (@EricDSnider) August 11, 2020

twitter was a bad idea

Hitler was at least interested in governing

Feels like we're due for a lecture on how the left is exaggerating the insanity of centrist libs.

I stopped following him (Cam) a few weeks ago just because he's extremely 19 and would often run a gag into the ground past the point of good sense.

I dealt with uber-centrist "libs" throughout my 20s cos that's pretty much all theatre kids are. in fact, kinda surprised so many of em in O-Town are ACABers

At least Hitler was a socialist amirite.

Congratulations to @KamalaHarris, who will make history as our next Vice President. She understands what it takes to stand up for working people, fight for health care for all, and take down the most corrupt administration in history. Let’s get to work and win.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) August 11, 2020

I've made my position on this pretty clear, so I'm not going to reiterate it, but I would like to say that the representational politics of it are fucking irritating me already because it's all such blatant pandering.

Bernie doing his old liberal chugalug.

Don’t get caught with a dime bag near the Naval Observatory.

"A dime bag, that is!"

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JbcW7ewATGo/TT4KkBQP7PI/AAAAAAAADMw/c3PCcruoRRM/s1600/Foghorn_Leghorn2.jpg

it may be blatant pandering all the way down

wow so is Bernie a cop-loving bootlicker centrist squish melt traitor now or what

Don't get caught doing sex work anywhere in this country! Or being homeless and poor! Or protesting Nazis who are in cahoots with the local cops and getting stabbed while doing so!

a vice president has that statutory authority?

if you get caught doing sex work between the moon and new york ciiiiiiiity

Klobuchar would have had him killed in the first year, does Kamala have that kind of will?

YMP, Bernie is the best option we had. That doesn't mean that he isn't actually what used to be called a "Liberal Democrat" in the US.

so much hyperbole

The big difference in Bernie and pretty much every other national politician is less ideology than that he obviously gives a shit about people, their lives and struggles.

Which, yeah, makes it more of a bummer when he extols the virtues of someone whose career is founded on ruining peoples' lives. But politicians gonna politic.

Sanders just understand, like any smart progressive, he can do better work for the people if Biden//Harris get elected than if they don’t.

Kinda tempted to run an 'Are you an accelerationist, y/n' poll rn.

There is literally no difference between a leftish pol with enough dignity to support the best available opposition to the fascists and a centrist dick who'd do anything rather than challenge the status quo tbf

first time since 1968 that a Harvard or Yale graduate will not be on a major-party presidential ticket

first time since 1984 that the Dems won’t have someone with an Ivy League degree on it

a reason to applaud

the amount of deranged ultraprogressive bullshit I read on twitter today makes me despair but I have to remind myself that this is a very small, loudmouthed contingent (I hope). I mean, they're pissed at Bernie now for not coming out against this, like he would do that, and like that would be helpful.

lol @ at the thought that he'd oppose the pick. Have they read a book? Don't they know he wants a seat at the table?

That should definitely be the point of despair and not the thought of Joe Biden leading us out of the Greater Depression.

We're in despair now, sugar.

See above posts about venting. No one actually thinks Bernie could or would oppose Biden or Harris or both - it's venting about the shit sandwich being forced down our throats.

how to we killfile people again?

I get the disappointment, but it's not relevant now. I just don't understand the point of bristling at that in the face of something so much worse