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Aug 5, 2020Liked by Katherine Krueger

President C'mon Man

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Aug 5, 2020Liked by Katherine Krueger

My guess is that the reason why the vetting program for Veep is taking so long is because everyone understands that Sen. Har--um, the Veep is going to basically become the face of the administration from day 1 (assuming the Flying Spaghetti Monster graces us with a Trump lost). So the DNC is doing their damnedest to make sure that Kamal--er, the person that they pick agrees to following the official moderate/crappy script.

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I was thinking about this earlier today. Biden is both literally and figuratively the representation of how antiquated the DNC and its strategies are; it’s the same old out-of-touch garbage. Watching and listening to Biden and all the rhetoric of his ads is like watching obsolescence in real time.

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All Biden has to do is bring in smart honest people who actually want to help their cabinet organization and not destroy it, mask mandate, kill fillibuster, and help immigrants and it'll be an success.

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Ehh I've resigned myself to the fact that a Biden presidency won't meaningfully move the needle on a number of things this nation desperately needs, but at the very least (and in the time of covid and climate change and border atrocities etc) he'll hire competent people as cabinet members--former governors and experts and respected longtime bureaucrats, as opposed to the Tom Prices and Ben Carsons and Betsy Devoses of the current dipshit brigade that Trump put in office.

I'm trying to find minor solace in the idea that at least the person in charge of public education will maybe have ever set foot in a public school and isn't hell-bent on destroying public education in favor of private Christian schools for the wealthy and fuck-all for the poor.

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I really liked Osita Nwanevu's 'modest proposal,' that if elected, he should immediately resign.

https://newrepublic.com/article/155943/elected-joe-biden-president-five-minutes

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still of the opinion that a bonsai tree would and should be the best choice to lead us

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If Biden wins we can all go to brunch, right?

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I mean apparently everyone loves when Joe yells at people. I say let him challenge everyone to a push up contest and say "c'mon man" every five seconds.

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Biden was already the least worst choice in a lot of people's minds and everyone already knows who he is so the strategy of 'let others around me implode' seems about right. The most confusing part about the primary to me is I felt like so many people I know were surprised or just couldn't believe the moderates consolidated like that. That was always the play, and it wasn't collusion (a term that is basically rendered meaningless at this point), just American politics. I was looking for something in some old messages a couple months before Super Tuesday recently and was literally making a bet with a policy friend in DC about when the consolidation was going to go down. It did go down a bit more dramatically than I thought, but doesn't everything these days?

Realistically though, [president] Biden has an ego just like every single other politician currently serving, and I would bet money he cares far more about his legacy and racking up congressional wins than he does about progressive policies. He's not going to stand in the way of progressive reforms that come up the chain. As usual, people are putting far too much stock in the presidency, it's a distraction, congress and public opinion matter more in this battle.

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A Biden Presidency will bring down America into a Socialist paradise that billionaires like Soros, Gates, Bloomberg so they can run a puppet regime with him at the figure head President in name only.

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You are insane much like Groper.

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That last paragraph is absolutely perfect.

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The problem with Biden, is that his tool kit only contains a hammer, and all the problems need a screw driver.

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