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

Or maybe one senator for 3 or 4 states, so they feel included.

Hunter Biden content:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaign

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/is-joe-bidens-campaign-imperiled-by-hunter-bidens-struggles.html

That NYer article was kind of moving as a portrait of a father-son relationship.

That is to say it’s blowing up, because everybody who works for Biden came on thinking keeping his mouth shut was his only hope. https://t.co/3bRFcFvLNe

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 26, 2019

There's no one but Obama to blame for the rehabilitation of Biden's reputation. But left out on his own, Biden can't disguise who is really is (and always has been)... https://t.co/dzCjjU1UWY

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) August 11, 2019

jill biden: sure, the other candidates are better, but

.@DrBiden: "..So yes your candidate might be better on, I don’t know, healthcare than Joe is, but you’ve got to look at who’s going to win this election and maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say ok I personally like so and so better but your bottom line has to be that...

— Amanda Golden (@amandawgolden) August 19, 2019

i believe this prez campaign is now officially worse than Giuliani's

lmao, joe ethered by his own wife

This media-coronation strategy Biden has been trying out isn't likely to work very well for him when there are more than a dozen candidates and the primaries are still months away.

BIDEN’S BRAIN SURGEON: Dr. Neal Kassell, who performed surgery on @JoeBiden after 2 aneurysms in 1988 says the former VP “is every bit as sharp as he was 31 years ago...he had no brain damage, either from the hemorrhage or from the operations.” https://t.co/3Tqp3vprrT

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) August 20, 2019

more extremely good politics from the biden campaign, making a special effort to remind everyone he had double aneurysms in the year the median american was 6 years old https://t.co/8kRKtTIB1e

— the norms misser (@cd_hooks) August 20, 2019

"One medical expert says Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump are part of the population known as 'superagers.'"

Medical expert has been living in a cave for a decade and missed out on Trump sundowning in every public speech made after 4PM.

"Medical expert John Barron said Donald Trump was part of a small segment of men whose tree-trunk-like reproductive organ absorbs age-causing oxidants and ejaculates them harmlessly"

"One medical expert says Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump are part of the population known as 'superagers' who need to be brought to heel."

have Sanders or Warren ever had "a moment" in public like Trump and Biden routinely have?

"One medical expert says Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump are part of the population known as 'super-ragers' who can throw down with the best of them"

JOE BIDEN speaking now in Urbande, IA: “When Bobby Kennedy and Dr King were assassinated, in the 70s—in the late 70s.”

— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan) August 20, 2019

biden is god of gaffes

The actual clip is somehow worse!

Not only does Joe Biden falsely say that Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were “assassinated in the ‘70s, late 70” when both men were assassinated in 1968, he says “none of you women would know” about activism in the 1960s. pic.twitter.com/7sshfFGwqV

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 21, 2019

wait why did he isolate the women and say they wouldn't know or remember that?
aside from being a jackass

I thought he would go for something about men avoiding the draft but...

That's pretty bad--the whole clip.

He is living in a different era, on camera

do we know if Biden is actually from an alternate universe where Bobby Kennedy was killed in the late 70s? Keep an open mind!

is it the same universe in which Ted Cruz's dad shot J.R.?

I thought maybe he just misspoke and meant "late 60s" but, no, he did get engaged in the late 70s. I also wonder about LL's question: that's bizarre.

well he got married in 66 and 77 so it could have been either engagement

I thought he said it was the engagement to Jill?

Oh, I was wrong about that.

i don't understand why any 76 year old would want this job tbh

i believe his official platform is

1) only joe biden can get mitch mcconnell to sit at the table and not be a total dick

2) joe biden stood near obama for 8 years

I think its this

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EthicalGentleJuliabutterfly-size_restricted.gif

He is living in a different era, on camera

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, August 21, 2019 9:00 AM (one hour ago)

OTM

I also don't know how anyone can continue to call this boobery a series of "gaffes"
my mom is trying desperately to persuade herself that he is ok so that she can prepare if he's the nominee and it's so hard to hear her come up with one thing after another, none of them persuasive at all, to justify why he should be president. we have had many conversations about it.

what the actual fuck would he be talking about that women wouldn't remember -- women know about stuff that doesn't happen to them, there is no reason they would not "remember" something. dafuq is this guy doing?!

my guess is that there will be a "he was using 'remember' in xyz way, it's not what you think, stop overreacting" type backpedal which is right up there with "he was joking! have a sense of humor"

Biden is such a waste of everyone's time. He needs to drop out for the collective good of thanksgiving dinners.

He needs to drop out and chill somewhere nice with his wife, who clearly is tying herself in knots trying to come up with reasons he should be POTUS (and failing)
Can he can be a doofy old man and just let someone else be POTUS!?

IT'S HIS CALLING, OK? HE'S THE CHOSEN ONE.

idk -- i think he still needs the weirding module

Trying to explain Biden's popularity among African American voters to a friend last weekend, I said that you have no idea of the symbolic power to a POC of an older white man happily serving as a younger black president's #2.

IT'S HIS CALLING, OK? HE'S THE CHOSEN ONE.

Mr. O'Rourke would like a word, on a table.

Biden's benefiting from not too many ppl paying attention, I don't think it's any more complicated than that.

xpost any white man thinks it's his calling. Beto can be the chosen one too.

Elie Mystal was trying to address this xpost Alfred (segments from an article and from a response of his):

I understand that Joe Biden’s magic whiteness has a grip on older black voters. Black folks know exactly how dangerous Donald Trump is, AND exactly how racist America is. Biden’s support among older black voters is their indictment of white folks.

I have yet to hear a Democrat, white black brown or other, make a *policy* argument for Biden, versus the other contenders. All I hear, all anybody hears, is this bullcrap "electability" which at its very core supposes only a white male can defeat Trump.
Harris is a moderate. Klobuchar is even more moderate than her, and has actually won elections in the midwest. Booker is peacemaker. Warren is a policy maven.
What does Biden have? What makes him special? What makes people think he can win, when he's actually lost two presidential elections before? He's a white guy. He worked in the Obama administration. That's it. That's the entire argument. Even Biden's own ads advance no agenda other that "remember when when the President wasn't Trump? Boy, that was nice."
I am offended, that Biden has waltzed into this race like the unfrozen caveman candidate, and is being treated like the leading man despite having done nothing to earn that status, despite running what has, so far, been exactly the kind of passionless, gaffe filled campaign that he's always been known for.

a lot of talk about biden's gaffes has been about senility and brain degeneration but he came out with some crazy ones back in 07/08.

from a nyt article from back then:

This is the fellow who nearly derailed his nascent presidential campaign last year by calling Mr. Obama ''articulate and bright and clean,'' and who noted that a person needed a slight Indian accent to walk into a Dunkin' Donuts or 7-Eleven in Delaware, his home state.

The man who, reading his vice-presidential acceptance speech from a teleprompter, bungled Mr. McCain's name and called him ''George.'' (''Freudian slip, folks, Freudian slip,'' he explained.)

The man who, on the day Mr. Obama announced him as his running mate, referred to his party's presidential nominee as ''Barack America'' and noted that his wife, Jill Biden, a college professor, was ''drop-dead gorgeous'' but, problematically, possessed a doctorate.

The man who has said he is running for president (not vice president) and who confused Army brigades with battalions. Who referred to Ms. Palin as the lieutenant governor of Alaska.

Aides to Mr. Obama said that Mr. Biden's propensity to misspeak could pose problems, particularly in the vice-presidential debate on Oct. 2. They are watching his performance but have not tried to rein him in. They have assigned two veteran minders to travel with him -- David Wilhelm, a former Democratic National Committee chairman, and David Wade, a former spokesman for Senator John Kerry.

is being treated like the leading man despite having done nothing to earn that status

tbf Being a former vice-president has earned a lot of other people leading man status in the past

not going to delve too deeply into it on the public board, but I know the event coordinator for the venue Biden was at yesterday and the first text I got about the event was “Joe Biden would not stop holding my hand”, followed by “He put his arm around me for the picture, then went back to holding my hand.”

blargh

lol wut?

I'm guessing this friend is a woman

brb windexing my eyes after reading that

handholder is either a woman, a coal miner, or a Republican

I’d say she was more of a handhold-ee than hold-er

or is on the board of MBNA