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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RRyniZG0Jo

I agree with the thesis, hence my endorsement of Sanders and Warren. But the publication date is...September. So this statement:

Nevertheless, Biden’s popularity among Republicans has grown consistently in recent months.

is uh naive given what's happened since Election Day.

Also: I didn't know that by voting for Joseph Robinette Biden I'd get a president who'd nominate center-right SCOTUS candidates.

I remain agnostic on what his SCOTUS candidates would be like, but is there a reason to expect that they wouldn't be center-right?

Pub date aside, the sentence is just broad waffle anyway - dividing voters ideologically into Republican and Democrat camps is a kludge at the best of times in a two-party system, and pretty useless this year. Trump's swollen popularity is a cult of personality & marketing, not a considered commitment to either the real or stated aims of the R party, and Biden is the most profound "lesser of two evils" candidate in living memory, from a party whose wins primarily come from lesser-of-two-evils voters.

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/10/biden-audio-meeting-civil-rights-leaders/

Aggressively punching himself in the dick for Vilsack.

can't wait for Biden to get into office and enact his bold vision of bipartisan compromise with these guys

More than 100 House Republicans on Thursday signed onto an amicus brief in support of the Texas lawsuit aimed at overturning the election results in four swing states - Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - that handed Democrat Joe Biden the White House.

lol

For decades, nobody was harder on Joe Biden than the political left.

Then something unexpected happened: In one swoop, Biden became president and the left gained a significant foothold in Congress. And suddenly, to progressives, he doesn’t look so badhttps://t.co/YjRTA07iEc

— POLITICO (@politico) December 11, 2020

Austin got named.

Biden and Austin got to know each other during the Obama administration’s Iraq drawdown, when the former vice president led Iraq policy and Austin served as the last commanding general of U.S. forces in Iraq. In that position, Austin played a key role in the surge of forces that began in 2007.

Austin’s nomination may run into trouble on Capitol Hill. Austin has not been out of the military for the required seven years and would need a waiver from Congress to become secretary of Defense.

the Biden team saw Austin as the safe choice, said one former defense official close to the transition, adding that the retired general is believed to be a good soldier who would carry out the president-elect’s agenda.

He retired after 41 years in 2016 and joined the board of directors of Raytheon Technologies, one of the largest Pentagon contractors and a potential sticking point among progressive lawmakers, who have raised concerns over appointing a Defense secretary who has ties with industry. He is also on the board of Nucor, the largest American steel producer, as well as health care company Tenet.

it's like Politico doesn't even read this thread

A snippet of audio from that meeting a few posts back: Biden shouting at the head of the NAACP.

great news though!

Today, I'm announcing key COVID-19 priorities for the first 100 days of my administration:

- Everyone wears a mask
- 100 million vaccinations
- Reopen the majority of schools

With these steps, we can change the course of the disease and change life in America for the better.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 8, 2020

His poor reaction to criticism seems familiar. Like recently familiar. I wonder...

Shouting incoherent boasts about how he's the only president who's ever achieved various imaginary but absurdly specific electoral statistics? That's just presidentiality, jack.

we can have one good thing, or at least not-another-bad-thing

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-new-york-rahm-emanuel-cabinets-transportation-5cc94fa1075512b719bbff4a25e6b6a2

can't wait for Biden to get into office and enact his bold vision of bipartisan compromise with these guys

More than 100 House Republicans on Thursday signed onto an amicus brief in support of the Texas lawsuit aimed at overturning the election results in four swing states

This is now 126 elected members of Congress requesting that the election be overturned and Biden not be allowed to become president. He's gonna have to come up with some really big concessions to their agenda in order to achieve that unity and bipartisanship he keeps promising, like, say, seppuku.

But that would mean putting a Black woman named Kamala Harris in the White House.

A murder-suicide could be the bipartisan solution the GOP can get behind!

They might find similar irregularities re the votes for Harris as they have in the ones for Biden.

yeesh

i mean like. everyone who got mad about how bernie yells... bernie yells because he's mad about poverty. biden's here yelling at activists because he thinks he's the only guy who had the courage to "run on charlottesville"? https://t.co/45hSiRZa4s

— libby watson (@libbycwatson) December 11, 2020

That's yelling?

uh yeah I would consider this getting yelled at if I were the questioner...

regardless 1) wtf is he talking about w/r/t Charlottesville, and 2) is it just the case that all presidents are now going to run w/ Trump's "nobody's ever done this much before!" bullshit?

I don't consider that yelling but maybe it's cultural. Never heard Sanders yell either.

He used to front Government Issue iirc

is it just the case that all presidents are now going to run w/ Trump's "nobody's ever done this much before!" bullshit?

Nah, that’s just Biden’s personality. If not for the theatrical requirements of American politics he and Trump would be bros.

I don't consider that yelling but maybe it's cultural. Never heard Sanders yell either.

Also seems mild to me fwiw.

Every clip I hear of Biden now sounds like he’s yelling

it's just a super weird way to respond to that question...like he could have just urged patience, or pointed up some progressive bona fides of the existing nominees. But just getting all pissed off at the question, and singling out "progressives" as a group is truly bizarre.

what in god's name is that clips jesus christ lol

That's yelling?

― Van Horn Street, Friday, December 11, 2020 5:32 PM (one hour ago)

hahahahahaha

is it like a Howard Dean yell or is it like a SAm Kinison yell

Here's how that sounded to me.

A Younger Civil Rights Activist from Georgia, calmly: People here are a little wary that our issues and worries aren't being addressed in a substantive way, and won't be a priority in the future.

Old White Guy Who Loves Racist Stuff, raising his voice: You are an uppity little SOB, and I want to restore the soul of this nation, no one ran on a platform of stopping a racial event that happened 3 years ago, STFU.

Don't really understand how it could come across as anything but an old white asshole telling a young person that their concerns don't mean shit.

Oh yeah it’s super condescending.

The Head Of The NAACP, calmly: People here are a little wary that our issues and worries aren't being addressed in a substantive way, and won't be a priority in the future.

A 77-Year-Old White Guy Running For President, Six Months Ago, raising his voice when asked to not cut an interview with Black media short:

“You’ve got more questions?” Biden asked. “Well, I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.”

Charlamagne replied “It don’t have nothing to do with Trump, it has to do with the fact I want something for my community.”

Biden then added, “Take a look at my record, man! I extended the Voting Rights 25 years. I have a record that is second-to-none. The NAACP’s endorsed me every time I’ve run. I mean, come on. Take a look at the record.”

God what a garbage can

Oh yeah it’s super condescending.

Mos def, it just doesn't strike me as 'yelling' per se, or at least not by Biden standards ('you're full of shit', 'lying dog-faced pony soldier', etc.).

Yeah yeah I long forgot about that. “You ain’t black” didn’t sink him like we had desperately hoped all those months ago did it?

I love that we’ve even been reduced to parroting the leftist twitter dialogue exchange format itt

Hush gabbneb

don't say a word

The most interesting (apparently forgotten) aspect about the “you ain’t black thing” is he ended up getting vindicated like a week later. Trump tear gasses protestors while Biden meets with them and George Floyd’s family etc.

You’re such a chode

That is neither grammatically parseable, accurate, or making internal point-to-point sense in any way. Perhaps it's because of that leftist twitter dialogue exchange format that you've adopted, whatever that means?

Do the “Joe loves fracking” bit again.

Tell us about the millennial mores again.

Debasing yourself like this when we know you’re not even getting paid is beneath even the gabbneb we once knew. Maybe you’re the Hoarse Whisperer.

Huh?

gabbneb is a state of mind.

what goes in to millennial smores?

Looks around me: well, I have some three day old takeout avocado toast, a bit of weed I found on the floor, and a drawerful of unusable cellphone cables.

lmao, I can't remember the name of the current excelsior thread but congrats

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-white-house-not-if-you-need-an-m-d-11607727380

while this article is obviously stupid and sexist, my ire is somewhat tempered by my longstanding disdain for people who insist on being called “dr” in non-academic settings (and yeah, especially non-physicians *ducks*)