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

It's just a burst blood vessel - I used to look after this kid who had that happen all the time (was a compulsive cougher). Terrifying the first time, but no big deal.

talk about bad optics tho

If it happened to bernie he'd be answering for it for weeks

No-one votes for the guy crying blood...

so he was on Colbert last night along with the Pixies

Colbert Questions Frank Black About Being a "Gaffe Machine"

Your gaffe's got a little machine, etc

Sure no big deal, but remember Hillary’s fatal illness because she stumbled one time

talk about bad optics tho

― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, September 5, 2019 11:14 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think this was intentional, in which case A+ lol.

.@Eyesgack of @sunrisemvmtChi asks: How can we expect @JoeBiden to hold fossil fuel executives accountable when he's going to a fundraiser hosted by one tomorrow?

If the climate crisis is serious to Joe, he should stop holding fundraisers w/ oil profiteers #NoFossilFuelMoney pic.twitter.com/Rfq0u3NITj

— Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) September 5, 2019

there's a little coopadoop zinger bonus in the last 1/3 of a second of the clip

A new fundraising pitch from the Biden campaign under West Wing actor @Richard_Schiff’s name: “Sadly, President Bartlett is just a TV character. But luckily, Joe Biden is real and he is running for president.” pic.twitter.com/DhaN0F7Eg8

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 8, 2019

I know the dirtbag left has run West Wing hatred into the ground, but maybe not far enough

what the fuckhead actor means by "President Bartlett" is Obama

I saw maybe one episode of that show, but Biden seems closer to Sorkin's literary hero Atticus Finch: paternalistic, friends with segregationists, etc.

another revealing brainfart

Joe Biden calling Angela Merkel "Margaret Thatcher": pic.twitter.com/0uWBCggHHc

— Florian (@BetaODork) September 10, 2019

1) is there a ceiling on the number of women Biden can think are Thatcher

2) wait if he starts calling Trump "Thatcher" and showing posters of their hairdos side-by-side maybe he'll win me over

the only way to stop a bad guy with dementia is a good guy with dementia

— [crying in spanish] (@SortaBad) September 10, 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.

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, August 23, 2019 11:32 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

🤦🏻‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/0ernwQ3tKz

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) September 11, 2019

really hoping he brings this gem back soon

why has nobody told me about this before pic.twitter.com/UdHxm4ykb2

— jacob (@JacobRForster) September 13, 2019

that is some great recall of verbatim dialogue

Joe Biden looks like the kind of dude who goes fucking nuts when Sweet Caroline comes on at a wedding

— Tamara Yajia (@DancesWithTamis) September 13, 2019

he will lose to trump

Corn Pop for VP

xpost not if he comes to the debate with a chain wrapped around his arm

What a headline:

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/joe-biden-is-a-doddering-old-mummy-with-a-skull-full-of-1838094396

https://theweek.com/articles/864766

I think it would be great if we just call him Record Player going forward

(I mean I know you guys still use your record players, but the youngsters and I don't)

the youngsters play cassette tapes

The anecdote about a black guy called corn pop who had a razor dates Biden accurately to the era of wax cylinders

(DJ Khaled voice) another one

Biden To Immigrant From Guyana In South America, “I’ve Been To Ghana, I’ve Been All Through Africa” pic.twitter.com/JMCBTPCcdC

— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) September 13, 2019

Him mentioning Ghana means it's just mishearing. Would have been more fun if he thought Guyana was in Africa. Though I'd guess most candidates probably think Guyana is in Africa. He probably thinks Guyana is in Africa. He really dodged a bullet there.

Lol sure yeah...a mishearing. But I just hate the way Westerners keep going about the year off they spent back-packing somewhere in the global south like 30 years later and then just use it like this.

He even worked for a black man!

Who is friends with him iirc.

you mean Corn Pop?

Maybe his post-presidency Patterson novel can tell the whole story of those wild days with Corn Pop.

Sounds like he needs Pelecanos

Corn Pop, Earl Warren, and Me.

Just watched Corn pop thing now I can die happy.

And here I thought "corn pop" referred to stuff like Bobby Goldsboro singing "Honey" or J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers singing "Last Kiss".

https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_c8c3e5fb-d579-4ce1-95bf-9b4652555fbd?wid=488&hei=488&fmt=pjpeg

Daniel Dale and others have confirmed the Corn Pop story, making it less fun to joke about

the polling's the polling but i swear the only people who want joe biden for president are on television

If anything it sounds like Biden is downgrading his (genial, non-virulent) racism in telling the story more recently, calling CornPop “Esther Williams” instead of using swear words & making fun of his conk

has anybody itt ever been polled???

I’m the one who does the polling

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wMEq1mGpP5A/hqdefault.jpg

The only time I've answered the phone and taken a poll turned out to be a ridiculous local political push poll

I'm guessing I'm one of those unheard Iowans who keeps not picking up, leading to grandmas who like Joe Biden being the primary polling group

they adjust hard for stuff like that

I remember during the '16 cycle there was one poll that was really high on Trump b/c there was one 19 year old black guy in the sample who planned to vote Trump and their algorithm weighted him like 10,000x anyone else