Joe Biden 2024 thread - Dark Brandon Where Art Thou?

[Js1 85223]

Also Trump only calling for them to be extended when he would be in office was predictable so he’s not POTUS when they go up. As predictable as them sunsetting in 2025 when it would have been his successor’s problem after his second term 

[StassneyHorn 6575]

Oh shit am I stuck in a simulation?

S&P 500, Nasdaq post closing record highs after CPI, Fed

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/futures-tread-water-ahead-inflation-data-fed-outlook-2024-06-12/

Allow me to be the first to offer President Joseph Biden a heartfelt congratulations on building the greatest economy ever molded by humans.

 

[Hornius Emeritus 12447]

9 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

CPI at 3.3, lower than expectations. Markets will party and an ice cream party may be in the works.

New York Times: CPI lower than expectations, job market like "WOW!" ... Will it be enough for Biden?

[Fudge Nuggets 19169]

6 hours ago, Red Five said:

If Obama did that they would probably call him the n word on Fox.

They would at least be surprised he didn’t serve Popeye’s or Church’s. 

[jimmyjazz 45827]

5 hours ago, softlynow said:

I'm guessing the WSJ is using some wild contortions to show how "61% of Americans" would be affected by tax increases on the folks in the top tax bracket.

That's not possible, everybody knows the WSJ is a librul rag.

[Irwin F Fletcher 3550]

Enjoying a cup of Democracy.

[StassneyHorn 6575]

For the “sanctions don’t work” crowd, Moscow is taking one on the chin right now

[StassneyHorn 6575]

On 6/10/2024 at 1:56 PM, StassneyHorn said:

S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite both finish the day at all time highs, again. Job report on Friday showed unemployment at 4.0, tying the longest period of time at or below 4% since it has been tracked.

So please, allow me to be the first, to congratulate Joe Biden on building the greatest economy the developed world has ever seen.

4x

[TheStoicPaisano 9919]

 

[DigglerontheHoof 21142]

I love dogs but if all these stories about Commander biting folks are true, he needs to be kept at home or put down. 

Edited June 17 by DigglerontheHoof

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19100]

13 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

I love dogs but if all these stories about Commander biting folks are true, he needs to be kept at home or put down. 

Seriously?  He is already at home.  This is old news.  Also, I have less of a problem with Commander given the bullshit that has come out about super Trumpy secret service agents.  

[DigglerontheHoof 21142]

1 minute ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Seriously?  He is already at home.  This is old news.  Also, I have less of a problem with Commander given the bullshit that has come out about super Trumpy secret service agents.  

Just keep him in Delaware.  A quick google search says he's bitten folk over 20 times.  That's a dangerous dog who doesn't need to be close to anyone but family.  

[Pancho 44654]

New ad this morning:

 

 

[Red Five 40777]

"They're going there"

Um yeah no shit. It would be malpractice to not. 

[jimmyjazz 45827]

14 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Also, I have less of a problem with Commander given the bullshit that has come out about super Trumpy secret service agents.  

Did I miss this?  Link?

[Biff Tannen 45647]

4 minutes ago, Pancho said:

New ad this morning:

 

 

Going where?  The truth?

I know in this stupid world, truth is a weird thing to run into, but this is what they should be doing.   I don't understand how this is controversial AT ALL.

[Js1 85223]

4 minutes ago, Pancho said:

New ad this morning:

 

 

They’re dropping $50m to air this one, with a bunch earmarked specifically for minority voters.  Swing states and cable news

[Pancho 44654]

Just now, Biff Tannen said:

Going where?  The truth?

I know in this stupid world, truth is a weird thing to run into, but this is what they should be doing.   I don't understand how this is controversial AT ALL.

I don’t think he meant “going there” to be controversial in tone. 

Is that what you got?

[Biff Tannen 45647]

Just now, Pancho said:

I don’t think he meant “going there” to be controversial in tone. 

Is that what you got?

Yes.  I'm not sure how else it could be taken.  

[Doc Sam Beckett 5791]

8 minutes ago, Pancho said:

New ad this morning:

 

 

This is a good ad. Show Donald for being the scumbag that he is, and contrasts it with the good work Biden is doing. 

[Red Five 40777]

2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

I don’t think he meant “going there” to be controversial in tone. 

Is that what you got?

The implication is that maybe they wouldn't, or maybe they shouldn't. Which are both insane. 

But I'm sure this will be the new question for the panel on CNN. "Is it unfair for the Biden campaign to refer to Trump as a convicted criminal?" 

[Pancho 44654]

2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Yes.  I'm not sure how else it could be taken.  

Meaning “finally, they are going there”

 

[jimmyjazz 45827]

1 minute ago, Red Five said:

But I'm sure this will be the new question for the panel on CNN. "Is it unfair for the Biden campaign to refer to Trump as a convicted criminal?" 

Oh, you know they will.  Surely one of them will have the temerity to respond "is it OK to refer to Trump as an elderly white man?"

[Js1 85223]

6 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Oh, you know they will.  Surely one of them will have the temerity to respond "is it OK to refer to Trump as an elderly white man?"

“Is Biden out of bounds by referencing Trump’s mental decline?”

You know it’s coming. For fuck sakes, Maureen Dowd said something about how Biden needs to run a more low key campaign like Reagan 84 instead of a high energy campaign trying to “look” energetic. 

Edited June 17 by Js1

[wildcat09 29323]

Has Maureen Dowd had a good political take in her entire life?

[Pancho 44654]

CNN: “Did Biden go too far in saying Trump’s name today? Kaitlin Collins will have that report coming up at 10.”

 

[softlynow 1811]

15 minutes ago, Pancho said:

CNN: “Did Biden go too far in saying Trump’s name today? Kaitlin Collins will have that report coming up at 10.”

 

CNN: "Everyone got richer, healthier and laid today. How can Joe Biden's reelection bid possibly recover?"

[Longhorn_Fan68 33857]

Everyone?

[yoladu 4089]

58 minutes ago, Pancho said:

New ad this morning:

 

 

I think that is a very effective ad. Run it.. a lot.

[softlynow 1811]

1 minute ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Everyone?

[Red Five 40777]

There's just SO MUCH material to work with. I guess the concern would be flooding the zone to the point where the "undecideds" just start checking out.

Like, Trump is the only president to be impeached twice. That may not even make it into an ad.

[softlynow 1811]

6 minutes ago, Red Five said:

There's just SO MUCH material to work with. I guess the concern would be flooding the zone to the point where the "undecideds" just start checking out.

Like, Trump is the only president to be impeached twice. That may not even make it into an ad.

I like operation Let Him Speak. Run ads that look like a Trump ad. It's just him talking, but highlight / replay the truly unhinged bits and the parts where his dementia is on display. Then close the ad with Biden doing the Jim Halpert camera look.

 

[jimmyjazz 45827]

The "new" CNN pearl-clutching is infuriating.  I'm under no delusion that they were particularly unbiased over the last couple of decades, but now they're avoiding truth to try to appeal to everyone.

The reality is that right wing media twists facts and often outright lies.  I don't advocate any media source do either, but soft-peddling bad behavior is infuriating.  I saw a clip this weekend of Biden engaging with some paratroopers, and FOX or whatever had managed to use a camera angle and cut the frame to make it look like he was wandering off from the main group that was there for the event.  Nothing could be further from the truth, but here we are, and the base eats it up.

Ultimately, we have two old dudes running for POTUS, and one is evil.  He isn't the guy currently in the Oval Office.

[Incredulity 11619]

I think thats Rawls voicing the new ad.

[jimmyjazz 45827]

Well, it ain't Lou Rawls.

[TheStoicPaisano 9919]

Was he speaking Mandarin with a cocksucker’s lisp?

[Chuckie Finster 22688]

31 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

The "new" CNN pearl-clutching is infuriating.  I'm under no delusion that they were particularly unbiased over the last couple of decades, but now they're avoiding truth to try to appeal to everyone.

The reality is that right wing media twists facts and often outright lies.  I don't advocate any media source do either, but soft-peddling bad behavior is infuriating.  I saw a clip this weekend of Biden engaging with some paratroopers, and FOX or whatever had managed to use a camera angle and cut the frame to make it look like he was wandering off from the main group that was there for the event.  Nothing could be further from the truth, but here we are, and the base eats it up.

Ultimately, we have two old dudes running for POTUS, and one is evil.  He isn't the guy currently in the Oval Office.

Look at the "Trump bump" for every network between 2015 and 2017.  You are kidding yourself if this isn't the #1 topic of conversation in every single network leadership meeting leading up to this election.

[Js1 85223]

34 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

The "new" CNN pearl-clutching is infuriating.  I'm under no delusion that they were particularly unbiased over the last couple of decades, but now they're avoiding truth to try to appeal to everyone.

 

New leadership trying to grab some of the Fox viewership.

[Red Five 40777]

4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

New leadership trying to grab some of the Fox viewership.

Just bumping channels the other day, and within about two seconds of landing on CNN I heard them asking if it's maybe a good thing for team Dotard that he was convicted on 34 felony charges.

[Biff Tannen 45647]

2 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Look at the "Trump bump" for every network between 2015 and 2017.  You are kidding yourself if this isn't the #1 topic of conversation in every single network leadership meeting leading up to this election.

Well, 2020 had several important things going on that contributed to that bump, but yes, the overall point is correct.

[mdmost 42993]

4 hours ago, Pancho said:

New ad this morning:

 

 

I feel like that is voiced by the actor who plays Rawls from the Wire. I'd rather he just have an ad that is doing this to Trump

 

[StassneyHorn 6575]

So I know a week ago I made a comment about there being an echo chamber in the CR librul cabal, in regards to the S&P 500 and Nasdaq being at all time highs.

Well, it turns out Echo is actually the name of the Reuters reporter. I shit you not

S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record closing highs ahead of data, Fed comments

By Echo Wang

 

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/futures-pull-back-investors-await-data-fed-comments-2024-06-17/

 

 

[Biff Tannen 45647]

3 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

So I know a week ago I made a comment about there being an echo chamber in the CR librul cabal, in regards to the S&P 500 and Nasdaq being at all time highs.

Well, it turns out Echo is actually the name of the Reuters reporter. I shit you not

 

S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record closing highs ahead of data, Fed comments

By Echo Wang

 

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/futures-pull-back-investors-await-data-fed-comments-2024-06-17/

 

 

Because it’s a simulation

[Willfully Horn 7984]

10 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Just keep him in Delaware.  A quick google search says he's bitten folk over 20 times.  That's a dangerous dog who doesn't need to be close to anyone but family.  

Checked your search, and not only SS agents, but also staff and Navy personnel. At least 11 bites required medical attention. So, I agree Commander is a threat to others.

Which sucks. But it could be a national teaching moment. I was really hoping that lesson would be instructions in how to not trigger a protective dog. And, to be clear, there has always been, and I think there still should be, a place in our society for protective dogs. A protective dog owner bears full responsibility to manage both dog and reasonable interaction between the dog and others. So, the Bidens should make their responsibility to others crystal, and keep Commander away from normal interaction with other people. Should have happened long ago.

[jimmyjazz 45827]

The distinction in the case of this dog is that it's not particularly feasible to isolate the dog to family only when Secret Service is constantly present.  We have a dog who (fortunately) is the size of a shoe but she has been fiercely protective of our family from hour one.  It doesn't matter much who comes and goes, maybe she'll calm down a few days after a visitor arrives, but it's hit or miss.  Commander is probably a victim of instinct and there might not be much that can be done without drastic measures.

[Fudge Nuggets 19169]

8 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Checked your search, and not only SS agents, but also staff and Navy personnel. At least 11 bites required medical attention. So, I agree Commander is a threat to others.

Which sucks. But it could be a national teaching moment. I was really hoping that lesson would be instructions in how to not trigger a protective dog. And, to be clear, there has always been, and I think there still should be, a place in our society for protective dogs. A protective dog owner bears full responsibility to manage both dog and reasonable interaction between the dog and others. So, the Bidens should make their responsibility to others crystal, and keep Commander away from normal interaction with other people. Should have happened long ago.

Biden should bring Commander on stage for the first debate. 

[StassneyHorn 6575]

Well instead of just throwing their fat sausage fingers in a dog’s face or doing some dumbass sniff test with your palm up or down, show some positive body language, get on their level and show yourself talking to the handler.

 

[Willfully Horn 7984]

1 hour ago, StassneyHorn said:

Well instead of just throwing their fat sausage fingers in a dog’s face or doing some dumbass sniff test with your palm up or down, show some positive body language, get on their level and show yourself talking to the handler.

 

 

If that’s what happened, then I would change my opinion.

Edited to say that I think they added Commander to the family soon after taking office, and I doubt Joe had the time to socialize and train. If there is a handler, they are piss poor at doing the job. Still, it could be the dog. It happens.

 

Edited June 18 by Willfully Horn

[Biff Tannen 45647]

Is this really what we are doing in the Biden appreciation thread?  I mean, if this is what people are really concerned about, a dog behaving badly and somehow that’s a reflection on the president, I guess it could be worse. 
 

To be honest, this ranks behind Hunter Biden for me and I could give two flying fucks about  what Hunter Biden does. 
 

It’s a dog. 

Edited June 18 by Biff Tannen

[atomheartbevo 89589]

14 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

I love dogs but if all these stories about Commander biting folks are true, he needs to be kept at home or put down.