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

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

Dan you keep forgetting that milo only thinks Trump is a little tiny bit worse

and I can't see a single finalist better or worse than harris.

xxp - Because two things can be bad at once. That a second Trump term would be worse doesn't make the prospect of a first Biden term better - we're facing a crisis unprecedented in any of our lives and getting likely leadership unfit to face it.

Removing bookmark from thread now vp selection is done but let me know if this issue gets figured out.

I feel like this is a win win for progressives, if Biden and Harris win it gives the progressive a better seat at the table and set up the next generation to truly take over and if they lose it confirms the progressive view that they should be the representative of the Democratic party. No matter what I believe they’ll be taking over sooner rather than later. If your main disappointment is that it isn’t fast enough, I get it, but democracy is slow moving for good reasons.

I’m probably wrong as usual but don’t you think Biden would pick someone more fascinating DUCKWORTH

. That a second Trump term would be worse doesn't make the prospect of a first Biden term better

This is such a stupendously dumb thing to post that I'm...speechless.

I mean, you're a smart guy.

oh idk it moves pretty fast if you’re intention is to privatize every function of the state so your donors can wring it dry, leave a husk, and point and say “lol look govt can’t stop failing lol”

The ability to gauge the relative value of things is not as easy as some might think.

Raising your grade from a 0 to a 60 isn't going to help you graduate.

"democracy is slow moving for good reasons."

Explain.

Like that legit just sounds like a talking point that a Times columnist would use to justify the racist oligarchy that we live in.