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

our dads are cops and we are truuucks

this is solid, from FB:

Joe Biden

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Earlier today, I spoke with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. I am grateful that she and her family are safe, and I commend the FBI and other law enforcement officers for their work to prevent this deranged act by emboldened domestic terrorists.
As a nation, we are at a crossroads. We have come to a point where, despite our shock, we are not surprised that such a heinous plot was even conceived — a plot by Americans to blow up a bridge on American soil, threaten the lives of police officers and other law enforcement officials, and kidnap an American leader, take her hostage, and stage a mock trial for treason. It’s the kind of twisted plot we expect from ISIS, but now it’s here at home.

The words of a president matter. They can move markets. They can bring peace. They can bring war. They can heal divisions or incite violence.

When Governor Whitmer worked to protect the people of her state from a deadly pandemic, and saved countless lives, President Trump issued a call to “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” That call was heard. When protesters with Swastikas and Confederate flags, nooses, and assault rifles descended on Michigan’s capitol echoing the President’s own refrain to “lock her up,” President Trump called them “very good people.” He was heard, just as he was heard by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville three years ago, and again last week, when he told the extremist Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by."

There is a throughline from President Trump’s dog whistles and tolerance of hate, vengeance, and lawlessness to plots such as this one. He is giving oxygen to the bigotry and hate we see on the march in our country.
We have to stop it.

I just spoke a few days ago in Gettysburg about the cost of division in this country and the need to stand up and shut down violence and hate. The moment has come. We need to come together for the country I know, for the country you know. We need to make our voice heard.

Vote.

“You’ll know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over,” Biden said.

I assume this is a dig at the imaginary Trump/Pence healthcare plan which they'll share when they win.

This is also solid from big Joe.

Honestly I'm kinda struggling with how Biden can be so kind to his drug-using son while knowingly enacting policy that's so violently callous to all other people who use drugs

— Hilary Agro 🎃 (@hilaryagro) October 17, 2020

To avoid hypocrisy he should have acted like Marvin Gayes dad I guess

That's some disingenuous BS right there and you know it.

Like the point couldn't be more clear: when it's black and poor people selling or using drugs, the state and private corporations can use them as slave labor, at least according to Biden's record. When it's Hunter Biden, it's okay.

Oh god

Similar pattern happened with the opioid epidemic: suddenly, white middle-class people were dying at alarming rates, and it got tons of coverage and there was some money thrown at the issue.

Yet the government manufactured the crack epidemic and threw Black people in jail, and when people were dying due to the manufactured epidemic, they were moralized to

The tweet made a pertinent point, and dismissing that point shows how far people are willing to go to deny drug users their humanity if to serves their political ends.

I want to go back to when the government could still manufacture things

Ha ha ha, funny jokes at the expense of the continued enslavement of large portions of the US population.

"enslavement is good" -- Marvin Gayes dad/President Keyes

Table is good a improv partner

Chuck Hegel—who assures you he knows Joe Biden very well, has traveled all over the world with him—just explained on TV that we should expect the man to effectively create a "coalition government."

NICE!

Aren't we supposed to be watching Clayton Kershaw instead of Anderson Cooper?

It still hurst a little much.

hurts

It would be completely in character for the Democrats to win by double digits and take 375 EVs and form a Government of National Unity that criminalizes being gay.

wtf

"criminalizes" are you fucking serious

No, that would be the joke of establishing a Government of National Unity (ie Hegel's "coalition government") with the modern Republican Party.

Realistically, they'd just let you hunt homeless people in the street.

As we saw in Manhattan, the place where rich liberals and rich conservatives can agree is that the impoverished are subhuman.

it would be cool if straight White dudes could refrain from posting their latent fantasies about my torture

Yeah I mean

milo loves this kind of misery porn

other-people's-misery porn, you mean

he consistently gets wrong the people he claims to speak for. I've stopped reading his posts unless they egregiously offend me like today's.

I'm not Joe Biden auditioning Republicans for my Cabinet and bragging about bipartisanship. You should take it up with him if you'd like the monsters in the GOP to not have a voice in our governance.

one of the hallmarks of Peak White Guy is insisting upon speaking for people you don't actually understand and getting most of it wrong

I'm not Joe Biden auditioning Republicans for my Cabinet and bragging about bipartisanship. You should take it up with him if you'd like the monsters in the GOP to not have a voice in our governance.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z),

you should just shut the fuck up and not claim to speak for us or implicitly undervalue what the stakes are

seriously, shut the fuck up

I haven't claimed to speak for anyone?

As usual, Alfred and DJP otm.

You're not doing very well at this whole shutting the fuck up thing

Tell me who I was speaking for?

Like, I know it's easier to just try to play some kind of privilege bingo to try to shut someone up, but fuck off. Yes, I'm a straight white guy, that gives me all sorts of privilege. I have not once suggested otherwise. I'm also someone who's had a negative net worth from the day I turned 18, no 401k, no health insurance, one remaining family member about to turn 70 without a dime in retirement savings. Pretend that there are no stakes for me in any of this, go ahead, I know that's bullshit.

I'm not going to stop making jokes about the absolute worthlessness of Joe Biden and the Democrats, sorry. The fact that they're showing all signs of governing from the center tells me that they're "undervaluing what the stakes are."

Please don't stop, milo. I mean, your "jokes" are so funny, we all can't get enough.

Actually, I'm going to genuinely wish I didn't say that and wish you the best.

I understand loathing the Democratic Party for selling itself to Wall Street bread in the Reagan era. I renounced my membership for more than a decade after that blow and the eagerness with which it caved to George W. Bush in the early '00s. But the party's left-er now thanks to activists more active than I've been, and thanks to them I've joined in my small way. We're never going to agree that the bumbling, garrulous, dumbfuck, and often unconsciously evil Joe Biden doesn't head a different party than the one in which he hung Anita Hill out to dry, pushed the crime bill, and supported a smart Iraq War.

What I won't tolerate is a straight white guy cracking moronic gallows humor jokes about what the Dems might do to the minorities who support them.

That the gallows humor is even possible is... kinda the point. This is a party that didn't support same-sex marriage until after the Supreme Court forced it upon them, because its political calculation was that it wasn't a winner. This is a party that wants to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters in the leg. The zip code donating the second most money to Joe Biden in 2020 rose up as one... to kick unhoused people out of their shelter in the midst of a deadly pandemic.

The jokes are only possible because of the Democratic Party's record.

Good thing there is another entity with national reach, significant popular support, demonstrable institutional power, and thousands of elected officials at every level of government that isn't as tarnished as the Democrats.

o wait

No idea what you're arguing there. I voted for Joe Biden two days ago, like every other ILXor who'll speak up is going to do. Doesn't make his desire to spit in our eyes by making John Kasich Secretary of the Interior any less vile.

No idea what you're trying to accomplish by pointing this out for the forty-seven-thousandth time, so.

"this is a party that didn't support same-sex marriage until after the Supreme Court forced it upon them"

that is not true at all, and makes me question all of your other arguments

Look at Congressional Democrats right up until Obergefell - something like a quarter of each body's Democrats remained opposed to same-sex marriage into 2014 and 2015.

I wonder why the rest of the party scrambled to keep up with Joe Biden in 2012.

Biden announced he was in favor of same-sex marriage in May of 2012, a day before Obama also came out for it, 3 years before Obergefell

No idea what you're trying to accomplish by pointing this out for the forty-seven-thousandth time, so.

which leads to my main point about civil war 2, which is what the

*guy with wheelbarrow*

"And I'M the guy with the wheelbarrow!*

*boinginginginging