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

He’ll campaign via an iPad being carried around in public on a stick if necessary to keep him isolated from any carriers/anyone he could sniff on camera.

"There's a lot of road between now and the general, especially with the covid situation"

We'll see how many people are either killed or are able enough to vote (whatever way they choose) by November.

It may only matter if it's close.

Biden has seven grandchildren https://t.co/ndaPcPFevI

— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) April 2, 2020

this is one of the most unique stutters I've ever heard

Listen Jack, it doesn't matter how many grandkids I've got.

lol

the fact of the matter is

lookit. lookit all my grandchildren, scattered across this beautiful country. i love them all so much. and that's why i'm going to be the next president of the usa

that's number one. number two-

Two of his grandkids were, tragically, named Malarkey, and he refuses contact.

Look, he's got at least five grandchildren. I don't know how many lamps, but he must have five of those as well.

Biden family members die so often—it’s hard to keep track of numbers

oof

(raymond j. barry voice) wrong biden died!

lol (sadly)

I think if you asked Joe, he'd sadly agree. It's easy to see how much he loved and admired his son who died.

Joe Biden’s greatest moments as an orator have been when he speaks about the terrible pain he’s been through as a widower and as a father who’s outlived his children

Mostly because he doesn’t talk about any of it from a woe-is-me perspective

Joe Biden’s greatest moments as an orator have been when he speaks about the terrible pain he’s been through as a widower and as a father who’s outlived his children

I'd give somewhat more of a shit and would be significanly less inclined to crack jokes if he extended his sense of pain to encompass the uninsured and underinsured. or y'know advocated for sweeping change given the demonstrably shrinkable crisis that's about to kill god knows how many americans. (mostly preaching to the choir, I know.)

Your evidence that he doesn’t support any path to universal coverage is that he doesn’t support M4A, which is electoral failure

Need a more convincing citation than bernie not being the nominee pls

Biden also on record saying M4A wouldn't have helped attenuate this crisis which is horseshit.

Warren and many of the even earlier dropouts also endorsed M4A. They all lagged back and failed to catch any noteworthy electoral wave of M4A fervor. Biden's current strength is probably not built on a firm foundation of anti-M4A backlash, but otoh strong identification with M4A has not been a big vote-getter overall.

Warren was not a convincing M4A proponent.

(not saying at all that's why she flamed out even faster, but she flaked on it pretty hardcore, very publicly.)

To say it one more time: give me some hard or believable evidence M4A is what sunk any of those people or that not backing it is buoying Joe.

As opposed to say, idk, 8 years of O proximity glow.

“Universal coverage” is also meaningless when a significant percentage of that coverage is useless because of cost/deductible and does nothing to rein in the cost of healthcare.

your political opinions are meaningless because you live in a red state. qed

Most of our political opinions are meaningless because we live in the United States and none of us are rich enough to own politicians, duh.

This was good: https://www.salon.com/2020/03/31/a-woman-accuses-joe-biden-of-sexual-assault-and-all-hell-breaks-loose-online-heres-what-we-know/

Yeah, why replace any idea of what justice would look like when being a wannabe online Sherlock is easier.

One wonders if liberals' Russia brain damage will ever heal or if this shit is permanent.

That's the lesson you take from leftist media absolutely botching this story?

this, from a comment on the salon story, seems like a good point:

One place that journalists should look to see if Reade's story is credible is whether there is any record of Reade's having filed a written complaint in 1993 with a department on Capitol Hill that was supposed to handle sexual harassment claims. Reade has claimed that she did file such a complaint. If it could be found, it would establish that at least parts of her account are accurate. Members of the media also should do interviews with the people who worked in Biden’s office in 1993 who Reade claims to have told that Biden sexually harassed her.

That's the lesson you take from leftist media absolutely botching this story?

That's the lesson I take from several million dipshits using "she praised PUTIN" to impeach a sexual assault allegation.

You need to unfollow a lot of twitter profiles

“several million” in fact

find it really, really hard to give a shit about this, one way or another, in the middle of a pandemic tbh. if her story is true I hope she is doing okay

simon is correct that biden’s “single-payer didn’t work for italy” comment is disqualifying. most other countries are mounting the sort of concerted response that we are most certainly not, and in light of that, this mealy-mouthed bullshit about ways people can sign up for a shitty plan that includes premiums and deductibles, or enroll in medicaid if they are fortunate to live in a state that expanded access, or any other number of labyrinthine maneuvers to secure coverage that is certain to be precarious and inadequate, rather than saying “cover everyone now, waive all coinsurance now” is putting politics above advocating the needs of real human beings who have been left behind by our current bullshit patchwork healthcare system and will continue to be left behind, the kinds of people I see in my hospital or clinic on a daily basis. state the fucking problem.

I’m sorry that was all one sentence but I am really angry and scared!!!! our hospital is already nearing capacity and the peak in boston is several weeks away. we are already burying people in their twenties and thirties. my friends and colleagues who are trying to fight this thing are falling ill. many of my staff have been furloughed. it’s a fucking crisis, treat it like one

"that's a little too harsh" says nominee

give me some hard or believable evidence

I cited actual votes cast by voters and you think this is not hard or believable evidence concerning the most prominent policy issue through the entire campaign. OK. I give up.

alert the Save A Dem caucus, Jeeves

p4reene:

An electoral strategy of declining to attack your opponent for failing to contain a crisis that has already taken thousands of lives may seem counterintuitive, but it is very much intentional. As my colleague Osita Nwanevu has written, the Biden campaign seems to be worried that Americans will “rally round the flag,” juicing Trump’s approval ratings and making it politically dangerous to criticize him. (As usual, Democratic strategists are treating “public opinion” as a natural phenomenon, not something campaigns could affect if they tried.)

But that sense of paralysis—of not knowing how or whether to criticize the president for not taking the warning signs seriously enough back when he could have limited the spread of the coronavirus—is also the inevitable result of decades of capitulation and learned helplessness. A generation of Democrats have ceded ground to the other side at every crisis point, somehow coming to believe it would be either gauche or counterproductive to try to take advantage of one....

https://newrepublic.com/article/157119/joe-biden-wasting-crisis

Inspiring.

JOE BIDEN: “We cannot let this, we’ve never allowed any crisis from the Civil War straight through to the pandemic of 17, all the way around, 16, we have never, never let our democracy sakes second fiddle, way they, we can both have a democracy and ... correct the public health.” pic.twitter.com/ufXFh5cAtY

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) April 7, 2020

Remember when we all spent six years making fun of the now seemingly innocuous "is our children learning"?

Potatoe.

This is literally the opposite of leadership.

If he cared, he should've joined Bernie BEFORE the election in calling for it to be postponed. https://t.co/B0QVGA8ZgA

— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) April 8, 2020

Rly hate this guy, hope he dies soon

but by all accounts Cuomo will recover

🐦[This is literally the opposite of leadership.

If he cared, he should’ve joined Bernie BEFORE the election in calling for it to be postponed. https://t.co/B0QVGA8ZgA🕸
— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) April 8, 2020🕸]🐦

There's was still an election for a state supreme court seat iirc