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

after Trump, what status quo?

Biden supporting a public option is not the status quo

"a buttigieg or a kamala, even with a super-bernie platform, just wouldn't mean the same thing"

it wouldn't mean the same thing but it a Buttigieg win would mean something. I know he's centrist by today's standards based on the policies he's articulated. That said, I think it would be incredibly meaningful to gay youth of the US to have a gay man in office. It would be as important a win as Obama was for the african american community.

i don't give a fuck about Imperial Mgr being a role model

they'll stil lall drown in 50 years

lol I saw that Alyssa Milano stuff retweeted, what a load of shit

That said, I think it would be incredibly meaningful to gay youth of the US to have a gay man in office.

a gay man in office who wasn't a former mckinsey ghoul who signed up for military service in the year of our lord two thousand and nine would be preferable

Yeah, and a socialist who isn't a massive pain in the ass narcissist would be nice as well, but you take what you can

narcissist = every motherfucker who ran for prez ever

As I said: You take what you can get

So wasn’t the handsy stuff and the Anita Hill stuff supposed to deep six Biden? Still waiting for that.

Glad you're excited Fred xp

NORMAL PEOPLE ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION TIL AFTER CHRISTMAS

x-post: I'm really not...

BECAUSE THEY WOULD KILL THEMSELVES RATHER THAN DEAL WITH THIS SEWAGE FOR 18 MONTHS

(that was for Instant Gratification Keyes)

Ok but pols typically suffer damage when the media is reporting on their negative shit, not 8 months later

Fred I think that "x-post:" was unnecessary

time for my refrain of every four years:

all these people are in my area constantly, please use your freedom to ignore the primary race if you can

Biden's going to be a few miles away from me this evening, looks like

Morbius otm

So wasn’t the handsy stuff and the Anita Hill stuff supposed to deep six Biden? Still waiting for that.

― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes),

I don't think any of the major candidates are going to torpedoed this early in the game. Biden has major backing, he isn't going to fall at the first hurdle. We're in that period of cycling through the establishment candidates and see what sticks, He's off to a good start but they're all getting a soft soap start. Still think Kamala is the main danger,

I mean none of them are even really running "against" each other yet, which I think could shake a lot of this out for better or worse.

Joe Biden Wednesday bragged about time he spent in the "hood," a place where he said he found "women of color" he helped train to do computer coding.

Speaking at a rally, the former vice president elaborated on how U.S. workers need to receive better education to prepare themselves for a changing economy, and used a visit to Detroit, Mich., to describe how businesses went to local organizations that help train minorities various coding and technical abilities.

“Through a program we had through community colleges, we can teach people how to code," Biden said. "We went out, literally into the hood, and they found, turns out, 54 (people), they happened to be all women, the vast majority were women of color, no more than a high school degree, aged 25-54, and a third of them only had GEDs.”

The use of “hood” drew nervous laughter from some Democrats in the audience. One person let out a “yikes,” but later cheered for Biden at the end of his anecdote.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-brags-about-his-time-in-the-hood

"When asked whether Mr. Biden would pay a political price for his grilling of Anita F. Hill during the 1991 confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas, Ms. Pelosi shook her head in the negative and waved a hand dismissively."

— Tim Barker (@_TimBarker) May 4, 2019

Pelosi also said it is best to pursue a centrist path, otherwise Trump may possibly dispute the results

"These results are indisputable, since the opposing party is so darn centrist" is what he will plausibly say

Pelosi also said it is best to pursue a centrist path, otherwise Trump may possibly dispute the results

― anvil,

To be fair, she said center-left in the story, the headline says "center." Thrush has carried water, wittingly or not, for the GOP in the past.

Worth reading:

If Pelosi makes an argument that the Democrats need to become more centrist, such that they need to start adopting policies that are closer to GOP policies, I will be the first to call her out. But that's not the argument she's making.

— Mangy Jay (@magi_jay) May 5, 2019

I was in a funk most of yesterday afternoon after reading the story until I realized it was 92 degrees and the pool looked awesome.

I'm just glad she found the magic ticket that will prevent Trump from contesting the 2020 result

more seriously, I take the use of terms 'center' and 'centre-left' with a pinch of salt, given that terms are used not necessarily honestly (who was it that recently from the right of the party that said they were the real progressive? maybe it was Pelosi?)

But even outside of that, things have changed so much that there are new centers. I may be wrong but don't a majority of Republican voters now support M4A? does this kind of make Bernie a de facto centrist? I think it sorta does! raising taxes on corporations, legalization, wars - not unpopular with Republican voters. Not a traditionalist centrism, but one that reflects todays realities and, for me, makes Bernie the safest choice to beat Trump

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5zwGVuW0AAnFvL.jpg:large

^ i am curious about what the x axis on this graph is supposed to represent exactly. is america really more conservative than it was in 19fucking60?

Bernie has always been centrist, American news media is just fucked in the brain

i like when they call him "ultra-liberal", like he's a seasteader

I'm just glad she found the magic ticket that will prevent Trump from contesting the 2020 result

yeah, really.

^ i am curious about what the x axis on this graph is supposed to represent exactly. is america really more conservative than it was in 19fucking60?

― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Sunday, May 5, 2019 5:51 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, but republicans are. the x-axis represents how partisan the votes are of each member of congress. centrists will no doubt point to this as a problem, but it's kind of a regression to the mean historically.

what's interesting about that graph is that the median democrat hasn't really shifted much, although the right tail has obv crept left, while reps have uniformly shifted right.

It's also April 2019 when most primary voters don't give a shit.

when biden becomes president and just does whatever his friends the republicans tell him to, it'd be funny for them to eliminate the wilmington amtrak station as part of their first round of austerity.

When I was at The Onion, it seemed like harmless fun to make Joe Biden a slightly gross and comical uncle, but now I see that’s been sort of weaponized and I regret my complicity.

— Joe Garden (@joegarden) May 6, 2019

aiming SCUD at him for using "weaponized"

"Sleepy Joe" Garden

I bet Trump really regrets wasting "Sloppy" on Bannon

Oh oh I see [insert all the cuss words] https://t.co/PyKzqIrJhE

— The Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) May 7, 2019

there was a radio interview with Jill Biden regarding her book this week and I quickly switched it off when they asked her about that

the literal last person who should opine on the topic

“You can fuckin kiss me anytime,” a woman in the crowd yells st Biden. “That’s very nice, thank you ... wow,” he says. pic.twitter.com/Gi6gGRSlbU

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) May 7, 2019

that's very nice, thank you

...

wow

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzGOAnhWgAAGhzV.jpg

one of the most cursed images in recent memory

same energy for sure

Nice how this time there are like four Deans, all of whom are better than Dean actually was, on the way to our somehow much worse Kerry. https://t.co/jU9xgMFEV2

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) May 14, 2019