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

To be clear once and for all, because I despise neolibs, I supported Gaido with the notion that he was obviously going to get Venezuela closer to a social democracy than having Maduro for the next 25 years. That's my calculation. It seemed to me, and it stills seems to me, than getting rid of Gaido was going to be easier than Maduro, that it is easier to recuperate from a neolib half-democracy than the complete human rights disaster that Maduro has created in Venezuela.

So you believe that say Australia and the Polish People's Republic are roughly the same in terms of democratic practice?

Given so-called Australia's treatment of its Aboriginal population, any claims that the country has on being a democracy are null and void.

It's been about *checks watch* three weeks since confirmation came out that the Queen approved her minion firing the elected prime minister who had drafted the Aboriginal Land (rights) Bill before it could pass parliament, in 1975

Looks like state capture by the gas industry is p much 100% now, though

100% is a bit much. Got to leave some room for capture by coal miners, iron ore and industrial agriculture.

look, there are plenty of reasons to support biden for president. remember those concentration camps for children the trump administration set up? he's committed to putting a ball pit in every. single. one. that's a joe biden promise!

Got to leave some room for capture by coal miners, iron ore and industrial agriculture.

I was gonna say just "fossil fuels" but it looks like coal and iron are happy to let the gas folks make the decisions on the behalf of the greater good.

Who is the secret person who made the decision?

Deep Rote?

xp- hopefully Joe doesn’t get confused and give cops ball pits and teach ICE to shoot kids in the leg.

I think it's a little weird that he picked the one person who called him a racist during the primaries

maybe it is a sign of magnanimity

i believe that is a real possibility

but also, it might suggest he is not really calling the shots for his campaign

She also said she believes Tara Reade.

had to google that to verify

😬

also, it might suggest he is not really calling the shots for his campaign

Or it’s all theater for our political class?

I don't think it's weird. Obama picked Hillary to be secretary of state.

Two days before the biggest round of Democratic primaries and caucuses this year, Senator John Edwards repeatedly challenged the party's front-runner, Senator John Kerry, on a variety of fronts yesterday in the most contentious Democratic debate in months.

Mr. Edwards, scrambling to keep his candidacy alive, tried to draw a stark contrast between his record and Mr. Kerry's. He described Mr. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, as a Washington insider who had supported bad trade agreements, made too many promises and was unlikely to bring about the change Americans wanted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/us/2004-campaign-debate-edwards-attacks-kerry-sharply-debate-crucial-votes-near.html

obama was in a position to be magnanimous. he had won the general, inspiring the world. biden, right now, is a punchline on the left and the right

man, Kerry Edwards, there was a real fucking electric duo for ya

Washington insider and racist/rapist don’t seem like the same level of rancor IMO

harris said that she believed the women who accused biden of inappropriate touching in 2019, she didn't say she believed tara reade

You’re right.

And she didn't call Biden a racist:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/11/no-kamala-harris-didnt-call-joe-biden-racist/

But my point was just that it's not unusual for political opponents who have attacked each other in the primary to team up in the name of party unity. It's not evidence of a conspiracy.

not evidence of conspiracy. just lameness.

Evidence of Lameness

the defense rests its case

excited to do some door-to-door canvassing for kamala!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/TncywtHnG0

— p.e. moskowitz (@_pem_pem) August 11, 2020

she didn't call him a racist just laid into him on his history of defending racist policy positions got it

Reagan chose as vice president the guy who came up with the best description of the economic policies Reagan and this vice president would push.

Yeah Bush Sr was the origin of 'voodoo economics' wasn't he?

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_wHBlouFSc

Yeah, that's probably the best example of this.

Best joke of the morning trophy goes to Politico in a walk:

DOES THE CHOICE OF HARRIS force TEAM TRUMP to take a more serious look at removing PENCE from the ticket to have it better reflect the gender and ethnic diversity of America?

They may have to remove Trump as well

Unfortunately Herman Cain isn't available.

Does the Constitution allow Diamond and Silk to be co-VPs, y/n

It’s gonna be Ben Carson

lol this was Biden "enforcing Sharia law" (according to AHA)

Biden said, "'If you see something wrong' -- and he quotes the Prophet Muhammad -- 'use your hand. If you can't use your hand, use your tongue and if you can't use your tongue, use your heart.'"

she didn't call him a racist just laid into him on his history of defending racist policy positions got it

I feel like you're snarking here but this is an important distinction that people make a lot, I think correctly. There is nothing wrong with raising consciousness among liberal white people that there are things they take as obvious/necessary or don't even notice which are in fact lied up with lots of racist history, and "there's stuff you could productively learn and to be honest ideally already should have about the origins of your ideas about zoning and policing and etc. and what assumptions are baked into them" but that is truly a different thing from being idk Tucker Carlson!

no it isn't. congrats on being fooled by hypocrisy i guess

ffs there was a major motion picture called "get out" literally about this, what, two years ago? and the last three months .................. what kind of reality are you living in exactly?

it's only important to draw that extinction so that liberal white people can continue to feel good about themselves.

All white people are racists. The sooner people get this, the better.

while giving more money to law enforcement and protect their das who are literally racist exonerating murder every day. like, i can't imagine anything more damaging to the situation in america right now than people who keep wanting to make this "important distinction" xp

"you're one of the good ones"

also i feel like one really obvious thing that people do not want to get is that white supremacy-in-action has a lot of room for token representation and in fact draws major power from it

we somehow keep thinking diversity is the goal. it ain’t. pic.twitter.com/7uYc5N4giO

— #PettyPendergrass (@ashoncrawley) August 12, 2020

I think there's a non-trivial difference between saying "white people are racists" and "whiteness itself is racist," and I think that it is especially important for white liberals to understand this.

Otherwise, white liberals whose mechanism for racial oppression is aversive (as opposed to a more conservative model of explicit discrimination) tend to excuse themselves from culpability w/an 'I'm not racist' statement.

absolutely.