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

Deeper questions about the person we see and the person we're told we see (for anyone, not just Biden). And which is the version we hold in our minds

A worthwhile read from @pareene. When "getting things done" is the brand, and what the "things" are is irrelevant.https://t.co/1YeXEuHEjV

— Mass for Shut-ins (is a podcast) (@edburmila) March 9, 2020

I put a FB post up the other day saying that Biden's capacity was a legitimate concern that needed to be acknowledged and addressed. My cousin Andy pushed back--not aggressively, but let's say adamantly: three comments and two messages in the next 24 hours, with an intimation that Biden concerns might be a conspiracy engineered by Trump. So Biden Bros do evidently exist--they're in Canada. My cousin's in his early '80s, I think.

No doubt he’s lost a step, but I think by now most people have seen him in action and come to their own conclusions about whether it’s disqualifying or not. My contrarian take is that he had a tendency to be loquacious to show off his grasp of policy especially foreign policy in a way that could seem a bit overbearing to the average person and he doesn’t do that anymore which is probably a win for likability.

Maybe we have the brainworms and he's functioning just fine!

do these brainworms make me Look, Fat

A+ doddering, can't imagine why this dude's time in the public eye is being limited

so we're all going to have to vote for this guy and try to motivate people who don't normally vote to vote for him too, aren't we

i just hope he will nominate a VP who speaks Spanish, like Tim Kaine. could lead to president beto o'rourke in 2021

from June

https://www.essence.com/op-ed/joe-biden-james-o-eastland-mississippi/

the worst possible biden vp choice would be like, romney, so that's what i'm going to expect

joe lieberman is still alive

the worst possible biden vp choice would be like, romney, so that's what i'm going to expect

Biden was literally talking about selecting a Republican as his running mate a couple of weeks ago

I think someone whose brain is functioning will beat him into accepting a woman of color or at least a woman. I doubt they'll worry about giving a sop to the left.

My Twitter suggestion was Jay Inslee + play up the idea that he might die in office.

Mike Pence?

lol

Abrams or Inslee are the only semi-plausible options I can see getting any sort of more-than-luke-warm enthusiasm from the kind of soft-left centrists on this board, but both of them would likely embarrass Biden in their ability to, and energy for, campaigning and communicating. When the dude most visibly responsible for his surge last week openly says the best hope of victory is to hide Biden from the voters, what plan can they have for the running mate?

Possible scenario where he picks a woman then sucks on her fingers during her speech at the convention.

and try to motivate people who don't normally vote to vote for him too, aren't we

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, March 10, 2020 11:17 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

good luck with that

Is it too early to start the “Post here when Joe Biden decides to leave in place some shitty Trump policy?” thread?

I mean on the off chance Biden doesn’t trip on his dick and wins the election.

which Trump cabinet members will Biden keep?

you remember who's in the cabinet this month?

Ben Carson

Should keep Kushner as a whipping boy

Bidenism predated Clintonism and remains, in many respects, an even more regressive political ideology.

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) March 11, 2020

The question is whether Biden will remember the difference between his cabinet members and his family members. Maybe he can give Hunter the job of drug czar, perhaps the only job for which he is actually qualified.

Is Joe going to take Amtrak back to Delaware every night or is he going to actually live in the WH?

Could Biden appoint Warren as VP candidate, and pick up support that way?

Bernie people would view that as a slap in face

Also Warren wouldn't take the job?

too much self care to catch up on

Dunno. Probably 50/50 she'd be the first progressive president? Problem is she doesn't help enough electorally, iirc?

the first progressive president

don't you pretty much only have to pick a VP that's gonna win you Wisconsin

https://i.imgur.com/Xr8vTi5.jpg

But after Pete and Bloomberg, I think Democrats are about done with these guys for awhile.

the first progressive president was George W Bush. I heard this on the radio.

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/306096/content/arcmedia/media/images/50/1/a0161.gif

lolz

Joe Biden says he is “desperately” looking to be in regular contact with the American public, perhaps with regular press conferences in Wilmington, Del., or using technology. "They tell me there’s ways we can do teleconferencing via us all being in different locations,” he says.

— Matt Viser (@mviser) March 20, 2020

oh my lord

Zoom hard at work on sniff-o-vision tech

.@JoeBiden popped into @djdnice Instagram party tonight to show a little love. The party is now over 100k strong 💪🏾🙌🏾 Congrats D! pic.twitter.com/PnIszQPrOV

— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) March 22, 2020

Bernie had PE but I knew Biden was more of a BDP guy

reading Jill Lepore's These Truths on these long, home-bound days. this passage on William Henry Harrison jumped out at me:

Harrison exerted himself, delivering, at a hotel in Ohio, the first-ever presidential campaign speech, but his campaign urged him not to say too much. "Let him then rely entirely on the past," they advised. "Let him say not one single word about his principles, or his creed -- let him say nothing -- promise nothing." Critics dubbed him "General Mum."

and we all know how things went for Old Tippecanoe. and presumably Biden will have a less-shit Veep than John Tyler.

can you do a front porch campaign in 2020? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_porch_campaign

Please stop voting for this man. Please. Dear God. PLEASE. pic.twitter.com/b2q0ro5BKO

— The Other Beth, who hates all of you (@BethLynch2020) March 24, 2020

In the history of live television interviews there has never been one this awkward, not ever. 🥴 pic.twitter.com/8S6bChlaTO

— Amy (@MaybeAmes) March 24, 2020

oh cool a pandemic counter jesus fucking christ

BIDEN 2020: NO MALARKEY

BIDEN 2020: NO, NO, PROBABLY BEST I DON'T

I saw it live. He sounded awful the first two minutes, after which he hit the right notes of pathos *shrug*