Joe Biden 2024 thread - Dark Brandon Where Art Thou?

[Js1 85527]

The two house districts in Michigan were Dems overperformed were not overly highly educated districts.

HD-25 - 23.1% bachelor's degree.  65% white, 31% black
HD-13 - 15.2% bachelor's degree, 49% white, 41% black

Hard to say "only highly educated suburban voters come out for specials" when both these districts were well below the level of 2020 Michigan voters with a bachelor's degree (36%) and the Dem overperformed in both a majority-white district and a 40% black district.

[mchookem 16367]

15 hours ago, Zonahorn said:

https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/i-know-joe-biden-rabbi-michael-beals-29efe01d81e1

 

i'm not crying you're crying

[StassneyHorn 6627]

Chattanooga UAW union vote at Volkswagen plant beginning today. Affects 4000 workers at plant while possibly putting upwards pressure on wages at other southern, non union, facilities.

[StassneyHorn 6627]

Holy shit this article is too funny. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/16/republican-governors-uaw/

Spoiler

Governors of six Southern states warn workers against joining UAW union

Joint statement comes a day before Volkswagen factory in Tennessee votes on unionization — the first of more than a dozen factories the UAW is targeting
 

In a high-profile attempt to head off unionization of their states’ auto factories, the governors of six Southern states warned their residents that joining the United Auto Workers would threaten jobs and “the values we live by.”

The joint statement from the Republican governors comes just a day before a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tenn., is set to vote on joining the UAW — the first of more than a dozen factories the union is targeting in the South as it attempts to break out of its Midwestern stronghold.

 

“The reality is companies have choices when it comes to where to invest and bring jobs and opportunity,” the governors of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas wrote. “Unionization would certainly put our states’ jobs in jeopardy.”

The remarkable intervention follows signs of optimism among pro-union workers at the VW plant, who in recent days have expressed hope that the vote will pass. It begins Wednesday and lasts three days, with results expected late Friday.

 

“They’re so scared,” UAW strategist Chris Brooks wrote on social media as he reposted Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s comment about the statement. The union didn’t otherwise provide a comment.

An economist who has closely studied unionization in the South called the statement “unprecedented and shocking” and said it discouraged workers from exercising their legal right to organize.

“It implies that the governors fear that the UAW will prevail in the upcoming union recognition election and that UAW success could upend their economic models built on relatively low pay and minimal worker voice,” Stephen Silvia, a professor at American University, said by email.

Tennessee Republicans have helped thwart two UAW attempts to unionize the VW factory, in 2014 and 2019, and have ramped up their opposition in recent weeks with news conferences and public statements. During a visit to Chattanooga this month, Gov. Bill Lee said joining the union would be “a big mistake.”

Some of the messages have stressed that the UAW endorsed President Biden and has long ties to the Democratic Party.

“We have serious reservations that the UAW leadership can represent our values. They proudly call themselves democratic socialists and seem more focused on helping President Biden get reelected than on the autoworker jobs being cut at plants they already represent,” the governors wrote.

Some VW workers told The Washington Post this month that they wished politicians would stay out of the matter and leave it up to employees.

Democratic politicians have voiced support for the UAW. Democratic state senators in Tennessee on Tuesday criticized the Republican governors on social media. “Autoworkers in the South are ready to make history this week. #StandUp, Chattanooga!” Sen. London Lamar posted.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, whose state faces a UAW organizing effort at a Toyota factory in Georgetown, said on social medialast week that unions have raised workers’ standard of living and that he was “proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder” with the UAW.

 

[sheeeit 129]

I can not stop laughing.  I saw a tiktok about this and just assumed it was a joke or some instance where Biden just slurred his words a little bit and they guessed about what he said.  Now, quite high, I decided to check it out.  Holy shit.  The POTUS, figuratively the most powerful person in the world, just said, with a straight face, that he believes his uncle was a pilot eaten by Aboriginal cannibals when his plane went down during WW2.  Its impossible but it isnt.

Even if we give him him the most gigantic benefit of the doubt in human history that this was some family story passed down through the years and so he just repeated it, it is still unbelievable.  How do you ever say that to the press?  Ubder any circumstances?   A 10 year old can google it and see that his uncle was not the pilot and that the plane went down over the ocean.  There was an actual fucking survivor that told the story.  It is impossible that Biden did not know the true story at one time.  He is ful blown senile.  No person in any way still cognizant would ever say or do that.  I kind of feel bad for him and Jill must be one tough woman. 

I guess maybe I am really high because if I am presented a situation where the only options for POTUS next year are Biden, Tump or RFK, I actually think RFK might be the best option.  And he is a terrible option.

This POTUS election should make us change the rules of the game going forward regarding politics.  The system is great but the current rules allowed it to be gamed.  There is no other rational explanation.  We have some of the very best and brightest and capable people in the world in the US.  Hundreds of thousands of them.  But our POTUS will be one of 3 of the worst choices we could make.  That is only possible in a rigged game.

[Js1 85527]

[TwiceHorn 31529]

2 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

I can not stop laughing.  I saw a tiktok about this and just assumed it was a joke or some instance where Biden just slurred his words a little bit and they guessed about what he said.  Now, quite high, I decided to check it out.  Holy shit.  The POTUS, figuratively the most powerful person in the world, just said, with a straight face, that he believes his uncle was a pilot eaten by Aboriginal cannibals when his plane went down during WW2.  Its impossible but it isnt.

Even if we give him him the most gigantic benefit of the doubt in human history that this was some family story passed down through the years and so he just repeated it, it is still unbelievable.  How do you ever say that to the press?  Ubder any circumstances?   A 10 year old can google it and see that his uncle was not the pilot and that the plane went down over the ocean.  There was an actual fucking survivor that told the story.  It is impossible that Biden did not know the true story at one time.  He is ful blown senile.  No person in any way still cognizant would ever say or do that.  I kind of feel bad for him and Jill must be one tough woman. 

I guess maybe I am really high because if I am presented a situation where the only options for POTUS next year are Biden, Tump or RFK, I actually think RFK might be the best option.  And he is a terrible option.

This POTUS election should make us change the rules of the game going forward regarding politics.  The system is great but the current rules allowed it to be gamed.  There is no other rational explanation.  We have some of the very best and brightest and capable people in the world in the US.  Hundreds of thousands of them.  But our POTUS will be one of 3 of the worst choices we could make.  That is only possible in a rigged game.

Yeah, you're high and you have fucked up news sources.

Yeah, it appears that it probably wasn't cannibals, but that's far from an impossibility.  New Guinea has had cannibals forever.  https://www.livescience.com/51191-cannibalism-prions-brain-disease.html

[Zepol87 9191]

Wtf

[UpperWestside 6186]

1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

Yeah, you're high and you have fucked up news sources.

Yeah, it appears that it probably wasn't cannibals, but that's far from an impossibility.  New Guinea has had cannibals forever.  https://www.livescience.com/51191-cannibalism-prions-brain-disease.html

New Guinea had some horribly awful things happen there before, during and after the conclusion of WWII. The mountains and jungles of the Owen Stanley Range are some of the harshest places on earth to survive. I want to traverse the Kokoda Track at some point. 

[Sawbonz 27584]

What is this dipshit on about? I made it to TikTok and I was done

[The Original Greaser Bob 2845]

His momma call him "corn pop" finnegon.

[David Dennison 18945]

Meanwhile . . . 

 

[C-Man 27254]

https://apnews.com/article/biden-uncle-world-war-ii-cannibals-trump-4f3b7d1c988e041fbc07f60f952ca95f
 

This is what OP is talking about. Shocker but he’s being disingenuous.

[TwiceHorn 31529]

He was also wrong, apparently, about his uncles' enlistment dates:  it wasn't after D-Day, it was after Pearl Harbor.

Big fucking deal. 

[C-Man 27254]

4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

He was also wrong, apparently, about his uncles' enlistment dates:  it wasn't after D-Day, it was after Pearl Harbor.

Big fucking deal. 

I mean it was only 75-80 years ago

[ChiTownDoc 21154]

50 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

I can not stop laughing.  I saw a tiktok about this and just assumed it was a joke or some instance where Biden just slurred his words a little bit and they guessed about what he said.  Now, quite high, I decided to check it out.  Holy shit.  The POTUS, figuratively the most powerful person in the world, just said, with a straight face, that he believes his uncle was a pilot eaten by Aboriginal cannibals when his plane went down during WW2.  Its impossible but it isnt.

Even if we give him him the most gigantic benefit of the doubt in human history that this was some family story passed down through the years and so he just repeated it, it is still unbelievable.  How do you ever say that to the press?  Ubder any circumstances?   A 10 year old can google it and see that his uncle was not the pilot and that the plane went down over the ocean.  There was an actual fucking survivor that told the story.  It is impossible that Biden did not know the true story at one time.  He is ful blown senile.  No person in any way still cognizant would ever say or do that.  I kind of feel bad for him and Jill must be one tough woman. 

I guess maybe I am really high because if I am presented a situation where the only options for POTUS next year are Biden, Tump or RFK, I actually think RFK might be the best option.  And he is a terrible option.

This POTUS election should make us change the rules of the game going forward regarding politics.  The system is great but the current rules allowed it to be gamed.  There is no other rational explanation.  We have some of the very best and brightest and capable people in the world in the US.  Hundreds of thousands of them.  But our POTUS will be one of 3 of the worst choices we could make.  That is only possible in a rigged game.

You can’t stop laughing?  At that?   How fucking high are you?  

[sheeeit 129]

14 minutes ago, C-Man said:

https://apnews.com/article/biden-uncle-world-war-ii-cannibals-trump-4f3b7d1c988e041fbc07f60f952ca95f
 

This is what OP is talking about. Shocker but he’s being disingenuous.

I watched your clip and now I am laughing more.  He said cannibals.  Of course the usual of you miss the point entirely.  I am sure some people are aware that there were cannibals in that area but most would have no idea.  Just saying cannibal was going to get tons of people googling to fact check the story.  It is seemingly so outrageous.  Hell I am high and mostly checked out politically anymore and I fact checked it.   The guys plane went down in the ocean.  There was a lone survivor who gave the account.  They were not near land at all.  For fucks sake neither his uncle or his dead body were eaten by cannibals.  Poor guy  never got out of the plane. 

The point is that no even relatively unimpaired person would ever tell a whopper like this in public in front of the press.  And he is currently the POTUS and all that entails.   Cannibals.

[sheeeit 129]

10 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

You can’t stop laughing?  At that?   How fucking high are you?  

LOL  Pretty high.  Did you watch the clip? 

How can you not laugh at that and all of the implications.

[achooloco 1076]

9 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

I watched your clip and now I am laughing more.  He said cannibals.  Of course the usual of you miss the point entirely.  I am sure some people are aware that there were cannibals in that area but most would have no idea.  Just saying cannibal was going to get tons of people googling to fact check the story.  It is seemingly so outrageous.  Hell I am high and mostly checked out politically anymore and I fact checked it.   The guys plane went down in the ocean.  There was a lone survivor who gave the account.  They were not near land at all.  For fucks sake neither his uncle or his dead body were eaten by cannibals.  Poor guy  never got out of the plane. 

The point is that no even relatively unimpaired person would ever tell a whopper like this in public in front of the press.  And he is currently the POTUS and all that entails.   Cannibals.

Did…. You never see a hurricane path drawn by a sharpie? 

[achooloco 1076]

11 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

The point is that no even relatively unimpaired person would ever tell a whopper like this in public in front of the press.  

Oh wait here are 25 more

[UpperWestside 6186]

29 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

He was also wrong, apparently, about his uncles' enlistment dates:  it wasn't after D-Day, it was after Pearl Harbor.

Big fucking deal. 

I would have guessed that was wrong pretty quickly as well because the amount of time it took from enlistment to entering the war in the Pacific was lengthy due to training. These details do not bother me because I doubt Biden spends much time reading about such details from that war. I enjoy reading about them, but I have much more free time than the leader of the free world does. 

[sheeeit 129]

5 minutes ago, achooloco said:

Did…. You never see a hurricane path drawn by a sharpie? 

Which is why I said RFK is probably the best choice.  He may be the one eyed man in the land of the blind.

Seriously.  If someone on Texags told you today that the current POTUS, the most powerful position in the world,  who is in an intense campain for relection and where his mental acuity is a huge issue in that campain said publicly, on more than one occasion, that his uncle or his uncle's remains were eaten by cannibals in WW2, you would rightfully think that Texags poster was a lunatic.  But somehow its true.

[Goredho 17413]

1 hour ago, sheeeit said:

I can not stop laughing.  I saw a tiktok about this and just assumed it was a joke or some instance where Biden just slurred his words a little bit and they guessed about what he said.  Now, quite high, I decided to check it out.  Holy shit.  The POTUS, figuratively the most powerful person in the world, just said, with a straight face, that he believes his uncle was a pilot eaten by Aboriginal cannibals when his plane went down during WW2.  Its impossible but it isnt.

Even if we give him him the most gigantic benefit of the doubt in human history that this was some family story passed down through the years and so he just repeated it, it is still unbelievable.  How do you ever say that to the press?  Ubder any circumstances?   A 10 year old can google it and see that his uncle was not the pilot and that the plane went down over the ocean.  There was an actual fucking survivor that told the story.  It is impossible that Biden did not know the true story at one time.  He is ful blown senile.  No person in any way still cognizant would ever say or do that.  I kind of feel bad for him and Jill must be one tough woman. 

I guess maybe I am really high because if I am presented a situation where the only options for POTUS next year are Biden, Tump or RFK, I actually think RFK might be the best option.  And he is a terrible option.

This POTUS election should make us change the rules of the game going forward regarding politics.  The system is great but the current rules allowed it to be gamed.  There is no other rational explanation.  We have some of the very best and brightest and capable people in the world in the US.  Hundreds of thousands of them.  But our POTUS will be one of 3 of the worst choices we could make.  That is only possible in a rigged game.

He drives you crazy

OOOH!  OOOH!

[achooloco 1076]

 

4 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

Which is why I said RFK is probably the best choice.  He may be the one eyed man in the land of the blind.

Seriously.  If someone on Texags told you today that the current POTUS, the most powerful position in the world,  who is in an intense campain for relection and where his mental acuity is a huge issue in that campain said publicly, on more than one occasion, that his uncle or his uncle's remains were eaten by cannibals in WW2, you would rightfully think that Texags poster was a lunatic.  But somehow its true.

No, I would think even a senile old coot is better than a treasonous shit heel rapist that is twice as dumb but just has the benefit of not constantly battling his tendency to speak with a lisp.
 

Biden is in cognitive decline but he at least is a patriotic American. Trump is just a traitor and that is currently twice as stupid as Biden but is also nearing the cliff of dementia ever day. 

Edited April 18 by achooloco

[Sawbonz 27584]

4 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

campain said publicly, on more than one occasion, that his uncle or his uncle's remains were eaten by cannibals in WW2

That’s not what he said you moron

[Willfully Horn 8046]

@sheeeit sounds like a sucker and a loser.

4 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

Which is why I said RFK is probably the best choice.  He may be the one eyed man in the land of the blind.

Seriously.  If someone on Texags told you today that the current POTUS, the most powerful position in the world,  who is in an intense campain for relection and where his mental acuity is a huge issue in that campain said publicly, on more than one occasion, that his uncle or his uncle's remains were eaten by cannibals in WW2, you would rightfully think that Texags poster was a lunatic.  But somehow its true.

He didn’t say his uncle was eaten by cannibals, dumb ass. He said his uncle went down in an area inhabited by cannibals.

[sheeeit 129]

1 minute ago, achooloco said:

 

No, I would think even a senile old coot is better than a treasonous shit heel rapist that is just as dumb but just has the benefit of not constantly battling his tendency to speak with a lisp.
 

Biden is in cognitive decline but he at least is a patriotic American. Trump is just a traitor and that is currently twice as stupid as Biden but is also nearing the cliff of dementia ever day. 

Wait, you are not a Trump supporter?  How did I miss that?

 

6 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

That’s not what he said you moron

LOL.  Maybe you are the high one.  Watch the first clip.  That is exactly what he said. 

[mchookem 16367]

[Sawbonz 27584]

37 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

LOL  Pretty high.  Did you watch the clip? 

How can you not laugh at that and all of the implications.

He absolutely does not say cannibals ate his uncle. You’re an idiot

[sheeeit 129]

8 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

@sheeeit sounds like a sucker and a loser.

He didn’t say his uncle was eaten by cannibals, dumb ass. He said his uncle went down in an area inhabited by cannibals.

Watch the clip.  His almost exact words were "he was shot down in new guinea and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals for real in that part of new guinea"

Hell I wasnt even wanting to comment on the fact that in that little clip he said his uncle was 1) a pilot-he wasn't 2) that he volunteered for this mission because soomeone else couldnt go- he was simply a courier/passenger on the flight 3) that he was shot down- his plane had engine failure over the ocean and no shots were fired 4) he said that later on he had people down there that found some of the airplane- the plane is at the bottom of the ocean.  If that is all he said, I would have never even thought to fact check it.  But he claimed cannibalism.  Everyone is going to fact check it.

I assume his team at least sort of went over this story with him beforehand.  I can not believe that the word cannibal came up in the briefing.  How could it?  They all knew the story was wildly innacurate from the get go but it seemed harmless enough so they just assumed they could spin it.  I mean its just as tragic to go down over engine failure in a war as a passenger.  But when he said cannibal every wingnut, myself included, was going to look up the story.  And, of course, fox news and Trump and the GOP will have an absolute field day with it and there is no defense. 

[fattyflattie 4638]

How high have you been for the last 3 years that this surprises you?

[Foosters 17882]

I'll take the cannibal guy over the "vaccines cause autism" and "the Holocaust was actually better than covid restrictions" candidate, but that's just me

[Your Mom 4843]

8 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

Watch the clip.  His almost exact words were "he was shot down in new guinea and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals for real in that part of new guinea

 Quoting what someone ALMOST said…   that’s an interesting take. 

[Blotto 23568]

The only thing I picked from this thread is that Sheeeit is a fucking idiot. Oh wait, I already knew that. I want my money back. 

[sheeeit 129]

1 minute ago, Your Mom said:

 Quoting what someone ALMOST said…   that’s an interesting take. 

Jesus.  Don't be that guy.  I'm high.  I was typing as I listened to the clip.  Its 99% his exact words minus a huh.  Or watch for yourself and have an actual interesting take.

[Your Mom 4843]

I watched. He never said his uncle got eaten by cannibals.  

[InkaUtexas 26072]

In before classics.

 

[sheeeit 129]

13 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

I watched. He never said his uncle got eaten by cannibals.  

You watched this clip?  What do you think he said? https://apnews.com/article/biden-uncle-world-war-ii-cannibals-trump-4f3b7d1c988e041fbc07f60f952ca95f

[jimmyjazz 46095]

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit

[Willfully Horn 8046]

Hopefully, @sheeeit, you’re sober enough to evaluate Joe’s exact quote:

”And Ambrose Finnegan — we called him “Uncle Bosie” — he — he was shot down.  He was Army Air Corps before there was an Air Force.  He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea.  He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it.  He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time. 

They never recovered his body.  But the government went back, when I went down there, and they checked and found some parts of the plane and the like.

And what I was thinking about when I was standing there was when Trump refused to go up to the memorial for veterans in Paris, and he said they were a bunch of “suckers” and “losers.””

The WH is spinnng the story to say cannibals were a reason Joe’s uncle’s body was never recovered, but the only source suggesting cannibals ate Ambrose was the flower blooming in your mind.

[Underdog 28767]

The good ol’ Surly fallback of, I’m high AF or I’m drunk AF. It’s never, I’m stupid AF and fall for stupid shit. 

[Neonmoon 38130]

2 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

“He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time”. 

 

7 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

 New Guinea has had cannibals forever.  https://www.livescience.com/51191-cannibalism-prions-brain-disease.html

Quote

According to the Pentagon’s Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Biden’s uncle, known by the family as “Bosie,” died on May 14, 1944, while a passenger on an Army Air Forces plane that, “for unknown reasons,” was forced to ditch in the Pacific Ocean off the northern coast of New Guinea. “Both engines failed at low altitude, and the aircraft’s nose hit the water hard,” the agency states in its listing of Finnegan. “Three men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in the crash.”

Biden didn’t say anything untrue. 

The internet has weaponized stupidity. 

 

[Fudge Nuggets 19211]

5 hours ago, Your Mom said:

 Quoting what someone ALMOST said…   that’s an interesting take. 

Isn’t that how SCOTUS decides cases these days?

[Js1 85527]

7 hours ago, sheeeit said:

The point is that no even relatively unimpaired person would ever tell a whopper like this in public in front of the press.  And he is currently the POTUS and all that entails.   Cannibals.

Tell me how unfamiliar you are with Joe Biden, who has been prone to silly gaffes and whoppers on the campaign trail since, idk, 1988 or so?

[TwiceHorn 31529]

7 hours ago, sheeeit said:

Which is why I said RFK is probably the best choice.  He may be the one eyed man in the land of the blind.

Seriously.  If someone on Texags told you today that the current POTUS, the most powerful position in the world,  who is in an intense campain for relection and where his mental acuity is a huge issue in that campain said publicly, on more than one occasion, that his uncle or his uncle's remains were eaten by cannibals in WW2, you would rightfully think that Texags poster was a lunatic.  But somehow its true.

Well, actually no.  I may be an above-average student of WWII history, but he did not say he was eaten by cannibals.  He said he was shot down on NG, which is a slight miss, and that there were cannibals on NG, which is 100% true.

Compared to some of the shit Trump has said, about current events, on a near daily basis, it's kind of a gaffe.

There were and are cannibals on the island of New Guinea.  They even caused a variant of CJD because of it.  Mad cannibal disease.

[HornOnTheBayou 8945]

6 hours ago, Your Mom said:

 Quoting what someone ALMOST said…   that’s an interesting take. 

The other day I saw video of Emily Blunt almost exactly saying, "I want to have sex with HornOnTheBayou." Of course, so-called "fact checkers" will try to point out that she was playing a character in a movie and that she said her co-star's name, and not HornOnTheBayou. But we all really know what she meant. And for some reason, the lamestream media still won't report on it!

[956 Worldwide 34746]

My grandad was a machine gunner on Higgins Boats for the Navy during the New Guinea campaign. He said that the troops had been warned not to try and wander off alone in the jungle because of cannibal locals. Probably a mix of true and war stories and shit you’d tell 19 year olds to make sure they didn’t do dumb stuff in New Guinea. 

[locodos 5390]

Island Nations sometimes developed tribal cannibalism...  Even jolly ole' England probably had cannibals back in the day.

The cannibals of Gough's Cave

Scholars have deduced that cannibalism had deleterious effects.  Skin tightening, growth inhibition, increased facial symmetry, and boost to sexual pheromone production.  Explorers who encountered these tribes have noted that the populations looked young for their age and are strangely attractive.

 

This guy is 62!

Spoiler

Modern Cannibals used drum machines though

 

Edited April 18 by locodos
linky

[LTbear 4171]

8 hours ago, sheeeit said:

Which is why I said RFK is probably the best choice.  He may be the one eyed man in the land of the blind.

 

Are you under the impression that RFK isn't a moron, or that he doesn't tell "whoppers" every time he speaks? If so you're either a moron yourself or you're really not paying attention. You'll claim the latter but your actions thus far suggest the former. But you do you.

 

Please, be a better troll. We have standards here. 

[Chuckie Finster 22725]

I saw a tiktok about this

The six words that always precede the dumbest shit you’ve ever heard.