Joe Biden is (currently) President of the United States

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure people will talk about how much Joe Biden sucks wherever they like, but in that other thread, if I pushed back on "Joe Biden sucks" posts, I would be told "Hey, this is the 'Joe Biden sucks' thread, there are a bunch of other Joe Biden threads you can post on." Just want to get a sense of what's appropriate here.

just to clarify: this thread is intended solely for discussion of the long term viability and survival statistic rates for the north island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli)

Hold on now, Trump still has another 10 minutes of so.

Celebrity inauguration just another reminder of exactly how good policy should be, and strive to be, performed in as boring a way as is possible bg the least glamorous people in the room

Inaugurations /= policy

good duck usa

tbc it wasn’t pushing back on, or genuinely engaging with, “joe biden sucks” posts that got that response, it was complaints that there were “joe biden sucks” posts in the decade-and-a-half-long joe biden sucking thread, and wishes that people making individual posts about joe biden doing & saying new, specific things that sucked would instead make posts about joe biden smelling of vanilla and puppies.

Keen to learn about the migratory habits and camouflage patterns of various species of African moths in this new thread.

xpost: aw dammit

APAB

tbc it wasn’t pushing back on, or genuinely engaging with, “joe biden sucks” posts that got that response, it was complaints that there were “joe biden sucks” posts in the decade-and-a-half-long joe biden sucking thread, and wishes that people making individual posts about joe biden doing & saying new, specific things that sucked would instead make posts about joe biden smelling of vanilla and puppies.

I don't feel like relitigating, but I'm hoping that this new thread can be a good all-purpose President Joe Biden thread and not be viewed as a "Joe Biden sucks" thread. Feel free, of course, to post about how Joe Biden sucks.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/11/08/what-biden-s-win-means-for-the-future-of-criminal-justice

Why the need at all for a joe biden, prez, thread when there is tbf a us politics thread which he presumably now somewhat comes under the remit of

#∞thread

I made that point several times but idk you know how they are

Murrah and i do

BoJo thread should get routinely updated in retaliation.

Would say we need a betting pool thread for the first coup but they already made it clear that Venezuela is top of the list.

also the fourth or fifth thread about joey joe joe junior shabadoo

inshallah

Feel free, of course, to post about how Joe Biden sucks.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:43 (fourteen minutes ago) link

We've got this.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/
we got new website

Please let us just enjoy this for a day for a month.

Joe Biden sucks, what has he done for me so far it’s been an hour

Nobody is allowed to enjoy anything fyi, this cannot be news at this stage surely

everyone is allowed to enjoy trump's humiliation

Now we can get back to business as usual: smart, responsible, and technically legal war crimes as well as a robust package of corporate kickbacks coupled with targeted (and likely temporary) social programs

— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) January 20, 2021

Gurramahagutt cinnte

xxp there just shouldn't be a "and trump lite is great" clause attached to the celebration of it

Lots of "Liberals howled when Trump ________________. But when Biden _____________ there wasn't a peep" madlib columns are itching to be filled out.

well tbf I haven't heard much liberal condemnation of biden's concentration camps yet

can we still call them that when a good guy is in charge

I still kinda can’t believe we made it.

atm feeling mostly like we've been helplessly standing by as someone hacked their way through the dam that keeps us all from drowning, and Biden is the dude who is currently blocking that crude hole with his wizened body. I am thankful to have him plugging up the hole while we do something about the water that's currently up to our noses, and we'll see if he's able to do anything beyond that.

countdown to Biden reversing some Trumpian atrocity of an Executive Order later today and the Republicans immediately co-opting #Resist hashtag... 3... 2...

i'm preparing to endure an enormous amount of bullshit from the left and the right for the rest of my life

congratulations to america on their new rapist president

— abolish the police (@infinite_scream) January 20, 2021

from the center it's all coming up roses tho

there is no center, and if there is, it's the genesis of bullshit

oh what a beautiful inaugur WAIT I'M NOT IN THE POLITICS THREAD I'M IN THE BIDEN THREAD OOPS MODS PLZ DELETE

Joe Biden is Q imo

i mean, think about it - it makes perfect sense.

From this morning:

I'm sure she's basking in Trump's humiliating exit, but yeah, watching someone being inaugurated who was such a non-starter in 2015 he had to step aside for her run, that can't be much fun.
― clemenza, Wednesday, January 20, 2021 10:14 AM

He didn’t run because his eldest son had just died.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 10:39 AM

Not that it matters now, but I believe it was more likely a combination of the two.
― clemenza, Wednesday, January 20, 2021 10:42 AM

have no idea if biden would have beaten Clinton in 2016 and no interest in having that conversation but the idea that she was such a strong candidate that she drove out the Vice President is pretty obviously not true. She demonstrably wasn’t a strong candidate!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 10:43 AM

I disagree, caek. I think there was very much momentum at the time for that nomination to go to her (and then Sanders changed things). But like you, not a lot of interest in revisiting that.
― clemenza, Wednesday, January 20, 2021 10:46 AM

And I don’t, mostly because someone will tell me to go fuck myself, and someone else will post “WHO CARES,” and someone else will ask a rhetorical question I take literally and stupidly try to answer. But if we can keep it polite, I think it’s an interesting example of how perceptions can change over time.

I started looking around--one of the luxuries or curses of semi-retirement, take your pick--and skimmed these five accounts of Biden dropping out, published in the immediate aftermath.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-biden-didnt-run

https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/politics/joe-biden-not-running-2016-election/index.html

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/run-2016/2015/10/21/joe-biden-didnt-run-because-he-couldnt-win

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/joe-biden-running-president/story?id=34338816

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/us/joe-biden-concludes-theres-no-time-for-a-2016-run.html

The New Yorker link doesn’t mention Beau Biden. The other four do, but they put more emphasis on Biden having run out of time to mount a challenge against Clinton.

CNN: Implicit in Biden’s remarks was a realization that Clinton’s position and organizational muscle in early voting states are just too strong for him to mount a credible challenge at such a late stage – just three-and-a-half months before first votes are cast.

U.S. News: In the end, Biden's decision wasn't solely about timing. It was about lacking a conceivable pathway to victory.

ABC: Though Biden said his family is far enough into their grief to handle the rigors of a presidential campaign, there’s too little time to make the prospect viable. “Unfortunately, I believe we're out of time; the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination," Biden said.

NYT: In a hurriedly arranged speech in the White House Rose Garden with President Obama at his side, Mr. Biden said that he and his family had overcome their grief at the death of his elder son enough to commit themselves to the rigors of a campaign. But with just days until the first filing deadlines, he said he had concluded that it was simply too late.

Honestly, when I initially posted, I had forgotten about the proximity of his son’s death--obviously, that was a big factor in his decision. But five months later, I think it was more that he didn’t think he could win, and that Hillary was a strong candidate at that point. Biden has run for president three times, and almost ran a fourth. (My guess is it crossed his mind in 1992, too, but the plagiarism incident was still way too close; no recollection if his name surfaced in 2004.) Presidential ambition is obviously part of his DNA--which is fine, you don’t become president without that. But absent Clinton, I think he most definitely would have run in 2016; he may even have mentioned his son’s death as one of the reasons he was running, like he did this time, rather than as a reason not to.

uh didn't the biden camp allege that Beau had explicitly asked Joe to run?

but october 2015 is way too late to announce and organize...bernie and hilary both announced their campaign in April 2015, the month before Beau died. Trump announced in June. And Biden started this campaign in April 2019.

anyway he got in there eventually, no harm done

Totally agree, and I definitely don't want to come across as insensitive to what he went through re his son's death. My own memory of the timeline was just kind of nagging at me.

congrats joe, hope you keep pissing off all the right people for the next four years

All Presidents Are Biden

scum

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsLy4xwVgAAHccq?format=jpg&name=small

did I say four years? nah — eight years

Holy fuck I think I need to watch that

Ahahaha is that Gina Carano

lol

Biden spending 90% of his job mumbling and checked out then 10% of it hilariously shit talking while tearing through six months of goals in three weeks kind of makes him the most relatable president of all time

— Josh Raby (@JoshRaby) August 27, 2022

Robert Davi is an award-winning actor, screenwriter, director, producer and jazz vocalist.

apparently Davi has a longer history with the conservative media sphere, kind of a bummer, really enjoy him as a character actor in all his big hammy parts. looks like he is playing Brezhnev in an upcoming hagiographic Reagan biopic.

he did sing in The Goonies.

Hunter movie subset of this:

maga getting so mad at dark brandon they make him look badass pic.twitter.com/OlfceStjtA

— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 26, 2022

"And this popped into my hands. And I was frustrated, like all of America watching that Biden story: the laptop story being buried, continually buried — except for people like [host Jesse Watters] that brought it forward. So when it came into my hands, I was like Peter Finch in ‘Network’ — I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore, as the American people are."

Davi said the film, like many other projects from the Irish-American documentarians behind it, was funded through crowd-sourcing.

So obviously the story they wanna tell is that the scandalous laptop “ruins everything” and that Joe loses as a result, which obviously didn’t happen, so they’re gonna have to lean into the whole voter fraud angle and I’m legitimately curious how hard they’re gonna do it

just wait for the GOP to take the house. they'll let everyone know, as, unfortunately, they are going to have to impeach biden for what he did

and, if they steal things competently enough, they are unfortunately going to have to have the DOJ prosecute biden. he'll probably die before that gets sorted out though

sorry, i just read an important op-ed titled "No, MAGA Republicans do not support ‘semi-fascism'", by Henry Olsen in the Washington Post. i am awash in a turd that has melted and i'm beginning to get used to the smells

Without reading further, I agree with Olsen's thesis!

I'm mad that the Hunter trailer made me feel begrudging respect for Adam McKay

add Network to the long list of artworks conservatives apparently did not watch or read in full lmao

"I can't seem to find anything but positive stuff on the Bidens."

Such a good line.

They 100% wanted to use "Bad Guy" in this trailer.

Bjork's "Hunter" would be surprisingly apt

Good week for right wing media accidentally making Biden cool.

The Hunter movie could have been great if Oliver Stone directed it while coked out of his gourd.

Without reading further, I agree with Olsen's thesis!

Right, no half measures for them.

The ironic thing is the perfect casting choice for Hunter would’ve been…Don Jr.

"I wanna know everything on that laptop that can ruin my erection."

"Erection, that is!"

https://i.imgur.com/YKDH4dP.jpg

"You're a chicken! And I'm a chicken hawk!"

The ironic thing is the perfect casting choice for Hunter would’ve been…Don Jr.

Holy shit that Hunter Biden movie looks awesome. I hope it begets a whole bunch of increasingly insane sequels, like the "Universal Soldier" franchise.

As a proud pro-labor President, I am reluctant to override the ratification procedures and the views of those who voted against the agreement. BUT!

I share workers’ concern about the inability to take leave to recover from illness or care for a sick family member. No one should have to choose between their job and their health – or the health of their children. I have pressed legislation and proposals to advance the cause of paid leave in my two years in office, and will continue to do so. Every other developed country in the world has such protections for its workers. 

BUT!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/11/28/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-averting-a-rail-shutdown/

Did Biden have relative freedom (or the benefit of the doubt) in his appointments and executive actions, and did he use that power well? Was he influenced (via his inner circle appointments) by his experience as VP? Or does it say more about his character? That it is better not to have too strong convictions (at the expense of the present or the problem at hand)?

In Dundalk, Joe Biden pays tribute to his cousin Rob Kearney, and his particular role on the memorable day at Soldier Field in Chicago where the Irish rugby team beat “the hell out of the Black and Tans” 👀

— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) April 12, 2023

Joe Biden, talking about his distant cousin Rob Kearney being in an Irish rugby team that beat the All Blacks, just said they “beat the hell out of the Black and Tans”.

Irish Twitter is going to have a field day. pic.twitter.com/QOohYaJ9TY

— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) April 12, 2023

Funny how he never mentions that the Bidens were originally from Sussex.

Can you blame him?

He's not really Irish then I guess.

I do like the way his loudly demonstrative ancestery.com tendencies wind up DUP politicians to the point some of them sounded on the verge of a stroke earlier

That’s very funny for sure

He's not really Irish then I guess

I think he's American.

I've had that suspicion, too.

Erin Go Braghndon