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

xps The situation of African Americans in US society is so precarious that it engenders a justified conservatism about making bold or sudden political moves. The chance that any decisive change will bring negative consequences instead of positive developments is so high that extreme caution is reasonable. I presume Biden's mild and clunky racism seems familiar and mostly unthreatening, the kind of white man the black community can feel they understand well and can live with.

and still, no one knows what "electable" is

It doesn't exist in Spanish.

The closest synonym I could find was comemierda.

jajajajaja o pendejado

elegible surely?

hillario mal campagno

it's a very awkward and bad joke made for no reason whatsoever besides to show what a doofus you are. A lot of south asians own Dunkin' Donuts franchises. What an observant boy you are.

Yeah, wasn't really saying it showed great political acumen, just that I wasn't especially offended by it. It was a weirdly patronizing way for him to try to bond with a South Asian supporter.

the paradox of joe Biden is that he’s a weirdo whose brand is built on normalcy

I'd say his brand is actually empathy, and that can make you a bit of a weirdo

and if his brand is empathy, his utter lack of it in his personal interactions makes me wonder if he has an angle at all aside from being agreeable

his brand is being an out of touch but forcibly touching dipshit.

That's a fairly normal (in the sense of "common") way for a white person to try to bond with a South Asian tbh. xps

I was across from a south asian guy on the subway yesterday and caught myself assuming he must be a software developer, but after a second I thought “wait, about that...”

He did look a little like one of my coworkers, though

I've been asked if I was in software by a stranger on a subway before. Your second thought was probably OTM.

it’s easy to fall into stereotyping based on personal experience but you don’t have to say it out loud!!

also, question your goddamn stereotypes, people

Imagine saying stuff like "This is the most important election of our lives" and trying to shoehorn this clearly unwell man in there https://t.co/uOPGoAsZBj

— Opinion Leader (@InternetHippo) August 23, 2019

From the comments to the above tweet:

The only way to stop a bad guy with dementia is with a good guy with dementia.

if only there was a good guy with dementia in the race

the plot thickens

Spotted at a Biden event in the Hamptons: Fmr. Trump WH Comms Director Anthony @Scaramucci pic.twitter.com/PWVTZ8Qm15

— Ben Mitchell (@bfmitchell) August 24, 2019

Remember the episode where Miranda goes on a date with Mooch and ends up walking out and drunk dialing Steve in the rain?

Joe Biden in Keene, New Hampshire: "I’ve been here a number of times...I love this place. Look, what’s not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it?” pic.twitter.com/YZBP4ybQ3z

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 24, 2019

in terms of

kant defines beauty as that other thing over there

Joe Biden was whipping through his stump speech at a rustic lakeside campground here when he stumbled over the location of where exactly he spoke a few hours earlier at nearby Dartmouth College.

“I want to be clear, I’m not going nuts,” Biden told supporters perched on camp chairs on the shore of Loon Lake as the sun sank behind him, turning the sky sherbet shades of purple and pink. “I’m not sure whether it was the medical school or where the hell I spoke. But it was on the campus.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-25/the-promise-and-peril-of-joe-bidens-frontrunner-campaign

perched on camp chairs on the shore of Loon Lake as the sun sank behind him

p good

Loon Lake.

Tomorrow's headline: BIDEN GOES NUTS

how is this not an Onion article

Joe Biden: It Would Be an Insult to My Dead Son for Everyone to Have Healthcare https://t.co/omOnLTuYbq

— Tim Marchman (@timmarchman) August 27, 2019

Stupid article

stupid ad

“This is the God’s truth,” Biden had said as he told the story. “My word as a Biden.”

Except almost every detail in the story appears to be incorrect. Based on interviews with more than a dozen U.S. troops, their commanders and Biden campaign officials, it appears as though the former vice president has jumbled elements of at least three actual events into one story of bravery, compassion and regret that never happened.

Biden visited Kunar province in 2008 as a U.S. senator, not as vice president. The service member who performed the celebrated rescue that Biden described was a 20-year-old Army specialist, not a much older Navy captain. And that soldier, Kyle J. White, never had a Silver Star, or any other medal, pinned on him by Biden. At a White House ceremony six years after Biden’s visit, White stood at attention as President Barack Obama placed a Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for valor, around his neck.

The upshot: In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.

He's even got the soldier calling him Sir. This is truly the man who can beat Trump...at his own game.

how many pinnochios is that

look, folks, here's the deal about Pinnochios

That Biden story could have applied to nine-tenths of Reagan's anecdotes and the voters loved him for it.

reagan's anecdotes did actually happen, though -- in movies

Biden was changing and refining that anecdote over the course of a decade. It’s like a stand up comic working out a bit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2019-trump-or-biden-quotes-quiz/

I got 11/15

same. dang this is hard.

lol I also got 11/15

I got 12/15, but I knew a lot of the quotes. The language (and, sadly, the "logic") is often extremely similar.

it's been abundantly clear that Biden is the Democrats equivalent of Trump for some time now. His purported qualities are always framed in the same terms - he appeals to poor/uneducated whites, he's well known, he has no filter/"speaks his mind" etc.

reminds me of when the Taibbi-Pareene radio show asked who said it, Kim Jong-Il or David Mamet?

12/15 but the deal one was a gimme.

11/15 and I got lucky on a few. not to be That Guy but it bears repeating that while they may be rhetorically similar in certain ways, and while Biden may be far and away the shittiest of the Dem front-runners, he is just absolutely fucking light years beyond Trump as a politician and human being.

I only got 8/15 lmao

what i mean is, right now i'm more than OK with shitting on Uncle Joe because I don't want him to win the nomination, but if he does I hope everybody's prepared to immediately start selling the shit out of his old dumb ass.

xxp Trump is a better politician than Biden

trump is more charismatic than biden