Joe Biden 2020 campaign megathread v3 (pg 45 - mass-dropout aftermath)

[Beet]

Biden's yelling jag the other day was an embarrassment. It'd have been one thing if he'd said, "You're a damned liar," followed by a convincing explanation of why his son was on the board of a company he had no qualifications for. But getting mad without backing it up just proves it's a criticism that hurts... likely because it's true. The same with the pushup nonsense about his age. Biden is a walking disaster.

[Beet]

Biden's yelling jag the other day was an embarrassment. It'd have been one thing if he'd said, "You're a damned liar," followed by a convincing explanation of why his son was on the board of a company he had no qualifications for. But getting mad without backing it up just proves it's a criticism that hurts... likely because it's true. The same with the pushup nonsense about his age. Biden is a walking disaster.

How many times does it need to be explained to you people that his son was qualified to be on the board?

How many times are Biden and his supporters expected to explain and re-explain and re-explain it before we're allowed to just say "shut up you Fox News zombie"

He qualified by being Hunter Biden, just as he qualified as a senior executive at Delaware based MBNA making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, as his first job out of law school. People know how the system works, and it stinks. Biden didn't show genuine emotion because he was being unfairly attacked. He showed genuine emotion because he knows the criticism is true and therefore it worries him that it'll be an effective liability against him. Biden's nepotism represents everything wrong with the system today and why people have long lost faith in the system.

[Beet]

It's depressing how after an entire year of primaries (which is already too long), all we've proven is that it's virtually impossible for any candidate who did not start out with massive name recognition / a polling lead to win the nomination.

[Beet]

This is such a bad faith attack on Biden. Even if he supported Social Security cuts in the past, he isn't going to now. The neoliberal era is over. Also, if Social Security is your issue, Warren has the most progressive plan, that expands benefits by $200 a month. This is a play for older voters and is a completely political attack.

[Beet]

This is such a bad faith attack on Biden. Even if he supported Social Security cuts in the past, he isn't going to now. The neoliberal era is over. Also, if Social Security is your issue, Warren has the most progressive plan, that expands benefits by $200 a month. This is a play for older voters and is a completely political attack.

...It literally is not! This is so deluded. The people who've staffed the Clinton and Obama presidencies are not suddenly going to go away or change their tune under a Biden Administration. If/when there's a recession under a Biden Administration there is a 100% chance that he'll try to cut a grand bargain deal with the Congressional GOP to gut Social Security and you'd have to totally clueless to think that the ideological blank slates that lead the Democratic Caucuses won't happily go along with it.

"If/when there's a recession"

Yes. There have been ~10 years of economic expansion, but you have to think carefully who you'd like to see in WH when the good days are over.

If there is a recession when Bernie is president, progressive politics are finished anyway. If there's a recession when Trump or Biden are president, progressives can always distance themselves. In either case, recession will be poison for the incumbent's politics.

[Beet]

I am endorsing Joe Biden. Ridin' with Biden.