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

yeah Boston is wild!

par for the course in Boston tbf

aiui in Boston you get on the ballot not by collecting signatures but by beating students

he has the Frederick Wiseman seal of approval (I think?)

basically, yes

I was impressed by Biden's speech last night, notably the part about unequal justice.

how's this one looking now

― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, January 8, 2021 5:37 AM (two days ago)

answer: Joe Biden thinks it is his mission as President to strengthen the Republican Party. The good Republican lurkers support him in email. Any elected Republican who colluded in Wednesday's incursion should not resign, but remain in office for four years so that they can suffer the indignity of being voted out.

I really wish way too online leftists go a day without falling for clickbait from The Hill

Biden hasn't appointed a single Republican to his cabinet, Nancy Pelosi calls Trump deranged on TV every other day, and Chuck Schumer called the Republican mob that stormed the Capitol domestic terrorists. I don't think they're the ones who love the Republican Party https://t.co/AYWkJQ9Mof

— Sean Kelley (@borderlinesmart) January 9, 2021

The absolute nerve of the Hill to, uh, share a video of him with a pullquote of what he said.

Uhh yeah but he also said they should all be voted out. Which part made the headline? Plus we know it would be better if the opposition party wasn’t insane so it definitely feels like we’re falling for bullshit framing here.

Lol abd I saw it earlier and wondered “will Sic share this headline in rage mode like these other bozos?”’and it’s like clockwork. I’m just asking you guys to show discernment

Why can’t we destroy the Republicans and have a progressive/left-liberal opposition party

Ideally yeah but all available data from the American electorate makes that sound impossible.

Tbf The Hill has put out really misleading anti-Bernie headlines too which succeeds in riling up the other side of that intercine conflict.

Y/N do you agree that this country needs a strong Republican party?

It’s definitely important for big dem donors that we’re all afraid of a strong Republican Party

Looking forward to a “Big” Don tutorial in knowing which words coming out of the next president’s mouth are “clickbait” so as not to fall for them

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/9mauh7/are_you_going_to_marry_a_carrot_lisa_yes_im_going/

nice linking

“Big” Dung, aka the Bozo-slayer

It’s a “bring the better person” line that condemns the party for not being better and it’s a GOP + 1 electorate probably but I get frustration in a vacuum that he doesn’t just say “put em all in the trash can”. I’d applaud that.

**being the better person” line

sorry “B”D I’m drunk pls ignore and fp

It does suck that before making that statement he was given two slips of paper reading “we need a strong Republican Party” and “put them all in a trash can” and was forced to choose

Will I will never FP you it’s fine. You’re alright

🥰

give us some more free advice about how to post

Ideally yeah but all available data from the American electorate makes that sound impossible.

― “Big” Don Abernathy, Saturday, January 9, 2021 2:19 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Point me to this data.

People want medicare for all, a higher minimum wage, better funding for schools, legalized marijuana,a more robust unionization of the workforce, and at least some sort of police reform.

Nobody wants what the Republicans are offering, EXCEPT the sanctimonious/aggressive religious nationalism and white supremacy that they promote.

This is how they win elections, and this is how they will keep winning elections, because this country is a racist shithole that will never confront its dual original sins.

Y/N do you agree that this country needs a strong Republican party?

― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, January 9, 2021 5:30 PM bookmarkflaglink

I think this country needs an underwater Republican party

Well it looks like the country narrowly voted for all of those things you list in 2020 because Biden and down ballot Dems explicitly ran on all of those things except for M4A. But that one is trickier since support for that seems to depend on what elements of it you ask people about but mostly agreed upon by Dems as a long term goal.

David Shor’s postmortem seems mostly correct on point imo

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2020/11/12/2020-election-analysis-democrats-future-david-shor-interview-436334

Ok so then what are these liberal policies that people disagree with that you're talking about? Those policies I listed are all the big Mainstays of mainstream liberalism in this country, at least in terms of domestic policy.

If you're talking about actual left policy, then yeah, I don't think we'll be seeing that anytime soon because people are fucking morons.

I don’t know why people disagree with those policies and generally I think it’s good to challenge from the left but a scary amount of people turned out to vote for republicans.

Reactionary parties develop naturally.

It's not our job to encourage them.

GOP request to squash the impeachment trading explicitly on Biden’s request for unity.

One of the House members calling for "unity and healing" is the newly elected CO rep who vowed to bring her Glock onto the floor of the House.

Fuck...I guess he has to do what they want then.

The only Kamala Harris thread is on ILM.

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/kamala-harris-vogue-cover/index.html

Republicans in the House are countering with their own set of impeachment articles today.

Kamala Harris is (currently) the Vice-President of the United States

xp Impeachment of ... what?

Of being black and female...I was of course kidding. But it probably is a good preview of what's in store for Harris.

Man was that ever unclear

We are entering or to be honest have already entered a phase in which no "I'm obviously clowning here" po-faced assertion about an action taken by House Republicans is, in fact, obvious clowning

I'm lost. I'm that slacker in the Simpsons "Homerpalooza" episode who doesn't know anymore if he's being ironic or not. I must have misunderstood your post, eephus.

Republicans in the House are moving to impeach ILX unless mods move the Kamala Harris thread to I Love Hoops

Kamala Harris can't jump

I'm going to lock this thread while Biden is taking the oath of office, unless I lock it earlier.

why

oh right lol

let's make some more Black jokes, they're landing really well in the current environment