I can't believe Joe Biden swore. This is a big fucking deal.
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) March 10, 2020
#Biden to a man who falsely accused him of trying to end the 2nd amendment:
“You’re full of shit…I support the 2nd Amendment.”
"Don't be such a horse's ass," added Biden.
Damn, good for Joe ??????#SuperTuesday2 #MichiganPrimarypic.twitter.com/OWwxK30t0e
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) March 10, 2020
.@JoeBiden to #MichiganPrimary voter:
???? You're full of shit!
??????? This is not OK, alright?
???? Don't tell me that, pal, or I'm going to go out & slap you in the face
??????? You're working for me, man!
???? I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass https://t.co/XKWc5Xw58Q
— Woobie??A Bizarro FDR (@WoobieTuesday) March 10, 2020
The look on this brother’s face when Biden tells the redneck he’s full of shit ???? pic.twitter.com/kZbjg7bdM6
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) March 11, 2020
CNN's Anderson Cooper asked Biden: "To gun owners out there who say, well, a Biden Administration means they're going to come for my guns…"
Biden replied, "Bingo, you're right, if you have an assault weapon." pic.twitter.com/fvo66HCQ1O
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 10, 2020
Unironically this: https://t.co/UEgDbgJge4
— Autophagic for the People (@davidabenner) March 10, 2020
?? SHADE @JoeBiden asked if he has any regrets about his testy exchange with the voter this morning, notes that both the Sanders and Trump campaigns are targeting him about it.
“I’m surprised that Sanders is joining Trump. It’s surprising,” Biden replied. pic.twitter.com/bU7xUFZMlD
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) March 10, 2020
They’re going to invite that guy Biden yelled out to every talk show and it’s going to be the fastest milkshake duck in history.
— Malarkey Delenda Est (@agraybee) March 10, 2020
(Nah, I think even Fox News has figured out the Milkshake Duck problem by now… )
It's ironic that the Sanders campaign decided to announce their true colors in the winter of their campaign by siding with a GOP attack on gun policy. It's not lonely at the bottom. https://t.co/VCpgSFOadZ
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewBatesNC) March 10, 2020
"Hello, rust belt voters! We all love high-powered automatic weapons and possess a low-level dislike of increased immigration, isn't that correct, my fellow proletarians?"
— Autophagic for the People (@davidabenner) March 10, 2020
I don't think "Joe Biden is rude to gun nuts" is a winning argument in the Democratic primary race, but have at it. https://t.co/lVJjwBappk
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 10, 2020
Trump encouraged his supporters to beat people up and promised to cover their legal fees. https://t.co/P43RAAUJKj
— Peter Wolf (@peterawolf) March 10, 2020
Don't get mad at Bernie supporters for circulating misleading video clips of Biden… it's not like they only lie about what Biden has said and done… they also lie about what Bernie has said and done.
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) March 10, 2020
"We want a candidate who speaks the language of the working class and tells right wing nuts they're full of shit"
*Finger on cursed monkeys paw curls*
— hand washing stan account (@Convolutedname) March 10, 2020
NotMax
Must be Alzheimer’s. He can no longer remember the word “malarkey.”
/RWNJ
// & :)
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
BWHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA
Bernie won Whitedaho with 78% of the vote in 2016 and tonight he LOST
HumboldtBlue
We have Trump.
Ireland gets this.
Archon
Biden as a old, white male is allowed to get away with outburst like that, shit he might even GAIN votes with this exchange.
There aren’t enough beer summits in the world that would have allowed Obama or Hillary Clinton to get away with publicly chastising a white man like that.
FlipYrWhig
Hey, so it turns out white working class and rural Democrats think Biden > Sanders > H. Clinton > Obama. Whoever could have predicted this? :D :D :D
westyny
Unleash the Biden!
piratedan
its amazing to watch the media at work, Joe tells a guy who confronted him on the campaign trail that the bs he was spouting was just that… bs. and people are spinning wildly while we have an admitted sexual assaulter in office who’s caught colloquially speaking about his harassment tactics and they’re still trying to normalize that fat bastard.
Christ what it must be like to be a Republican and just be treated like nobility all the fucking time…
Kent
Biden is growing on me.
His speech tonight was excellent.
And telling dipshit MAGA wingers they are full of shit? I want me some more of that.
Vixen Strangely
I call it anti-malarkism, and it is good.
Chetan Murthy
@Kent:
Heh. Remember when it was big news that Beto said “we’re comin’ for your assault rifles, bro” and boy the media got all in a bother, furrowed brows and all. And now Biden’s saying it. There really is something to this “the head of the ticket is the leader of a coalition, and when that coalition decisively goes in a certain direction, the leader has to go also.” Not complaining at all.
MisterForkbeard
@piratedan: I think this thing actually plays pretty well.
Biden is doing dominant politics AND he’s doing it to irrational gun nuts, which are a segment that nearly everybody hates. From a policy point of view most people agree with him. And from a politics point of view this kind of bravura usually pays off.
@Kent: I’ve got the same opinion. I never disliked Biden as much as others, but he’s saying and doing the right things and can give a good speech – it sounded like he was having a conversation with the audience. I’ll take it.
Kent
If he wins he’ll be a transition president. He doesn’t have nearly the ego of a Trump, or even a Sanders. I can see him delegating vast power and responsibilities to his VP who will most likely be the next president in waiting. I’ll be voting for his VP as much as for him. Fingers crossed that he’ll make a good choice. I have much more confidence he will than I would Bernie.
Al Z.
At the very least telling a constituent that he or she is full of shit is much better than saying they are a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.
Sebastian
@MisterForkbeard:
Yes, the media is trying their tried and true pearlclutching and fainting couch, see how they use the term “voter” when it was clear that this was a group of gun nuts and Trumpers (there is another video where they marched and chanted Trump Trump).
They are not “voters”, they are partisans and good on him for telling this guy to his face that he is a jackass.
dm
The Republicans and the Sanderistas are just throwing things at the wall, hoping something will stick. The Republicans, because that’s what they do. The Sanderistas because they’re seriously bad at this game (I bet you won’t catch AOC anywhere near this — she is good at this game), and they’re desperate.
John McCain fans should swoon for this like they were back on the tire swing (but I bet they won’t). But Archon is right that only an old white guy can get away with this.
mrmoshpotato
“Art Jones is a Nazi” ad – woo hoo! I hope the IL Russthuglican party is happy they didn’t run a challenger to Lipinski in ’18! Idiots.
Go Marie Newman!
dogwood
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
2016 was a caucus in Idaho. Today was an actual primary. Bernie has trouble winning primaries.
HumboldtBlue
There is always music.
Dmbeaster
Luv it. Gives me hope Biden is ready for the fight, which has been one of my biggest worries about him.
smike
It occurred to me tonight how much fun it would be to read headlines that tRump was defeated in November by
Kenyansblacks and women.Eolirin
Honestly, some of this stuff really turns me off, but I’m not naive enough to think it isn’t an advantage with white males in swing states, so he should really keep doing it.
I wish we were ready as a country to move past this kind of bullshit dominance posturing. But we’re not, and right now whatever wins.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: All we need is music, sweet music
SectionH
@Eolirin:
“Just win!”
— Nancy Pelosi
sanjeevs
Bernie’s Press Secretary retweeting DemExit. Please do, and take your boss too.
https://twitter.com/AdotSad/status/1237584145636716544
Morzer
The Dude aBidens…
cain
This virus pandemic is going to change all perceptions. Prior, conservatives have always managed to fuck things up and then get bailed out by Democrats so they can fuck it up in 8 years again once everything was back on track.
This is going to be an epic fail across the board. It will be very hard for the media to make the same kind of shit in the face of people dying, the economy in shambles and other nations responding so much better and faster. We are about to hit shit show territory.
Chyron HR
@Al Z.:
Don’t lose hope, Bro. Just keep telling yourself that Bernie will have this all wrapped up in ten days.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Biden, Joe
81.04%
Sanders, Bernie
14.89%
Mississippi Berning.
Mnemosyne
@Archon:
Yeah, but I’m enjoying the hell out of it anyway. That guy in the photo who is absolutely gleeful that someone is finally calling his asshole gun nut co-worker on his shit speaks for me.
Mnemosyne
@Al Z.:
Come to the centrist side, Al. We have cookies!
opiejeanne
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Oho! So it really was below 15%. I had to quit watching before he got under that number.
I’m not sure what that means, if Bernie will get a delegate or not.
Patricia Kayden
I’m sorry but I’m glad that this is the last time that Sanders can run for President given his advanced age. His supporters are horrible and I have no doubt that the majority of them will vote for Trump in November.
sanjeevs
Trump, tweeting out his gameplan
TS (the original)
@sanjeevs:
Never has a prior president decided to take part in the other party’s primary. This guy is not only incompetent, he is an absolute disgrace to what was once a political party.
opiejeanne
@TS (the original): He’s a grammatical ninny.
HalfAssedHomesteader
@Patricia Kayden: Actually, the majority of them sobered up and voted Hilliary last time and I expect most will come around this time too. There’s always those petulant snots who will vote for Jill Stein 2.0 (aka Gabbard?) because perpetuating Trump’s crimes against humanity somehow gives them a clear conscience.
terry chay
@Patricia Kayden: The majority of them won’t vote for Trump or Biden so no worries. In fact, the majority of them probably didn’t vote for Sanders in the primary.
If you mean his supporters on SOCIAL MEDIA, the majority of them can’t even vote when you count the Russian bots, etc.
Who cares what these people say? Do you actually believe any of these choads ranting voted for HRC in 2016? Lol!
They were never D votes to count do they aren’t D votes to lose. These people say out the blue ? of 2018 thinking it would empower the republicans and make us come running to their savior in 2020. Look how that turned out.
Calouste
@Patricia Kayden: Jane Sanders will be there in 2024 to take over the
griftcause.opiejeanne
@Calouste: Or prop up his embalmed corpse at a podium.
terry chay
@HalfAssedHomesteader: You are confusing the majority of his VOTERS with the majority of his supporters on social media (who didn’t vote at all).
Even his huge “youth turnout” of 2016 is looking like him cannibalizing the people Obama brought into the party. Their terribly low numbers in these record primary contests are because that cohort is aging out (and into a larger older cohort).
(Youth voting numbers are not necessarily going down, just youth numbers for Bernie in the primary. Their larger turnout in 2018 implies the missing voters are in it for booting out Republicans, but not for anointing Bernie.)
Shalimar
@sanjeevs: So Scavino doesn’t know how to spell rout. That’s what happens when you give your social media to your golf caddy.
Sab
I am so old that I remember the Parkland kids and the Newtown kids. Also remember my neighborhood kids. Also my granddaughters do active shooting training in school.
I have a nut job nephew who has a suicidal wife ( who I really really like) and two toddlers and a gun at home. What could possibly go wrong?
Currants
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Really does speak to the misogyny, doesn’t it.
Baud
@Currants: Agree. Last night was bittersweet.
Morzer
One thing that people haven’t been thinking about enough – Bernie isn’t beating Biden among the blue-collar white men. That doesn’t bode well for the revolution.
Baud
@Morzer:
Yep. It’s Biden who’s winning both white and black working class voters.
Chyron HR
@Morzer:
“When I said the proletariat loves me I meant ‘4chan nazis’.” – Bernard Sanders, Burlington VT
Morzer
@Mnemosyne: To be precise, we have the preliminary report of the sub-committee tentatively suggesting that a debate on cookie procurement might be placed on the agenda at some point in the future.
Morzer
@Baud: Right, but you know that a big part of HeartBern’s electability argument was his supposedly irresistible allure to the economically distressed manly blue collar workers of the Midwest….
Uncle Cosmo
And the GOP will be running against his VP if it’s a POC &/or woman:
Followed by every unflattering out-of-context image, quote & clip the mofos can dig up.
I hope DNC is prepared to poll the shit out of the electorate to suss out the risks involved in each potential running mate so as to minimize them. And I expect that when the smoke clears & dust settles, somewhere around July 4 Uncle Joe announces a running mate who is white, male, hetero, 39-59, and a solid Democrat.
I know the Jackaltariat will scream & curse. Don’t shoot the messenger. I take no pleasure in that prediction. I wish it were otherwise. But we have to win this one, as big as possible.
Morzer
https://twitter.com/Shoq/status/1237578038646157312
germy
germy
Steeplejack (phone)
@HumboldtBlue:
Excellent!
Mr. Mack
Was waiting for an open thread, but I’ll go ahead and ask this now. I really don’t want to be re-thinking my support for Warren. But I am. Where is her endorsement? It’s nearly meaningless now. What is the political calculus here? What am I missing?
Chyron HR
@germy:
[T]he Democrat candidate for president will be running on a big government socialist agenda regardless of the name on the ballot.
I’ll just sit here and patiently wait for Nina Turner to retweet this reassurance to the Bros.
Bruce K
One, I don’t think Parscale would know a genuine socialist if one walked up to him and bit him on the nose.
Two, I’m really not a fan of canceling elections based on assumptions of a foregone conclusion. Let everyone vote, tally all the votes, and then deal with the outcome.
JPL
Bernie will stay in as long as there are debates to be had.
OzarkHillbilly
Why cancel future debates? If they are worried about covid, just cancel the audience.
WereBear
@Mr. Mack: It is a no-win for Warren, whose actual policies are closer to Sanders’ and is a good progressive leader.
And does Biden need her? No. Why open herself to false charges of hypocrisy? When we need her pushing the envelope?
OzarkHillbilly
@Mr. Mack: As a long time EW fan and supporter who voted for Biden yesterday, why is this important to you?
JPL
@Mr. Mack: Warren will support the nominee.
Brachiator
@sanjeevs:
Trump is clearly delusional. But Sweet Jesus, I hope he keeps believing this and forces his campaign to work according to his deranged fantasies.
germy
@OzarkHillbilly: If the primaries are cancelled, there’s no more debates.
rikyrah
Mr. Mack
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s a fair question, and I’m not completely sure why it bothers me…but it does. I guess it’s not knowing why. Werebear made the point that Biden doesn’t need her, but I think the Party does. Now. I know she’ll help shepherd through progressive legislation, so I’m not worried about that. I voted for her too, but I really expected her to look at the field (which was down to Biden/Sanders) and endorse the Democrat. Who would she have alienated?
Perhaps she did not want to lend credence to the idea that she got in to siphon votes away from Bernie. That’s somewhat plausible.
HeartlandLiberal
I saw this exchange as Joe Biden saying what needs to be said. Only made more eager than ever to vote for him. The hypocrisy of the GOP ruling class and pundits in their reaction to this, while ignoring the incompetent, dementia riddled moron Trump, just is the icing on the cake.
Brachiator
@Uncle Cosmo:
I know you keep harping on this point as though it must be so, but we will see what happens.
Baud
You can’t actually cancel the primaries. Those states need delegates too.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Audience for this coming Sunday’s debate has been axed. No boos for Bern this time around.
rikyrah
Morzer
@Brachiator: If anyone out there believes Trump knows (much less can spell!) the word “conjunction”, I have a bespoke line of luxury, personalized bridges to sell them.
OzarkHillbilly
@germy: If the primaries are canceled how is there a candidate?
Morzer
@Mr. Mack: Why would Warren feel any need to endorse? Why can’t she simply take some time, recover from the stress of ending her campaign and quietly work to bring the various strands of the Democratic party back together?
germy
@Brachiator:
OzarkHillbilly
OK.
NotMax
@Baud
Yes, plus in many cases there are offices (federal, state and local) besides president on the ballots. Depressed turnout due to a mindset that the ball game is over contains potential to affect those significantly.
Morzer
@OzarkHillbilly: Well, you raise the candidate on a shield, the legions acclaim the candidate and then the candidate goes off to thrash some barbarian tribe and all is well with the world.
germy
@OzarkHillbilly: To answer that question I’d have to listen to more James Carville, and my breakfast might come back up.
I need to keep my breakfast down.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne:
WeekendPrimary Season at Bernie’s.OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: It’s the common sense move. So I still don’t understand why the debates should be cancelled, but then I have never been one to fret about the eventual nominee being “damaged” by disagreements with or attacks from other candidates. The Repubs are going to say it all anyway.
Morzer
Note the identity of the person tweeting this:
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1237560894457929728
Jeffro
Ding ding ding, you are correct! My TCNJ dad has already started in on how Biden will pick a ‘weak woman’ as his Veep.
When I pointed out that for him (my dad), that’s kind of a redundant comment, he had no response.
Brachiator
@Mr. Mack:
I don’t know. But a number of her supporters here seem to want her to remain “pure” by not endorsing anyone.
It’s funny. Some folk keep insisting that her policies are closer to Bernie’s and so this means … something. But I think that she has real policies and some backup to her plans, while Bernie is simply full of empty posturing.
The sad thing is that by refusing to endorse, Warren is becoming politically irrelevant, at least for now. She had less support than anyone thought (which is a shame), and I don’t see Sanders’ supporters moving to her, because they are too stubbornly attached to their avatar, Saint Bernie.
Still, it is not over yet. It will be interesting to see what Warren does.
Mr. Mack
@Morzer: Please bear with me as I am still sipping my first cup and I do not want to come off as flippant or sarcastic. But, this is the NBA. You shake off the loss, and craft a unifying endorsement. If Warren did indeed peel away some Bernie votes, it let’s her more ardent supporters know that regardless of policy differences, she believes Biden is a thousand times the man that Trump is, and she offers her full throated support.
So, I’ll ask again, why wouldn’t she? What is the downside?
OzarkHillbilly
@germy: HA! Thanx, that made me laugh.
Jeffro
@Morzer: I think Warren will endorse, once the Biden-Harris ticket has been officially named.
@germy: also this
Morzer
@Mr. Mack: There’s a lot to be said for just quietly letting the process play out without endorsing either candidate. Any endorsement is going to anger some of the supporters of the non-endorsed candidate, which won’t help party unity much. I think Warren is sensibly not rushing in where angels fear to tread.
Brachiator
@Morzer:
Ha! Good point. Putin may be taking direct control of the Trump campaign.
Mr. Mack
That is my fear. I can’t be the only one wondering about this. My daughter and I discussed this last night, and she is crazy about her, but she was asking me why she hadn’t done it when all the other Dem candidates had.
debbie
Ironically, the GOP-dominated state of Ohio is now encouraging early voting, absentee, and mail-in voting. There’s always battles over the number of hours for early voting; suddenly, the hours are being extended. I’m hoping that’s good news for us.
debbie
@Brachiator:
Elizabeth Warren will never be irrelevant. Has PBO endorsed? No. Is he irrelevant????
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Morzer: I’m sure we have some folk here who might be interested, cause every troll needs a bridge.
Mr. Mack
@Morzer: Alright. I do not understand this, but I respect your viewpoint.
Mr. Mack
@debbie: Irrelevant probably isn’t the right word. As to PBO, it is obvious where his support is, he picked him as his VP. I think it weakens her, but I get that it may not matter.
debbie
@sanjeevs:
Tweeted out by the Street Fighter in Chief. //
Brachiator
@debbie:
Kinda apples and oranges, don’t you think? Warren and Obama are not remotely on the same level.
I think that Warren endorsing Biden may be important to her political future. Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, former presidents don’t have to worry about their legacies.
debbie
@Brachiator:
Relevance isn’t a matter of levels.
Malraux
@Mr. Mack: My take for a while has been that Warren’s non-endorsement of Sanders was an implicit endorsement of Biden. For a number of reasons, I can see her not wanting to explicitly endorse while the primary was still going on. But to Biden, a non-endorsement from Warren was worth most of what an explicit one would be.
Now that the primary is (effectively) over, I could see her endorsing at any point between now and the convention. Honestly I’d be happiest with her and Sanders doing a joint endorsement while reminding everyone of the importance of their issues.
Brachiator
@debbie:
In politics, it often is. If Warren fails to endorse Biden, life will go on. Let’s say that Obama never endorses Biden, even if he presumably becomes the nominee. The media would be obsessed with the apparent snub and the meaning behind it. Biden might even lose some support.
I also think that Warren would make an excellent VP for Biden (and yes I acknowledge that she could also do very well by staying in the Senate). But even just for the sake of party unity, I would bet that she will say something about Joe fairly soon.
On the other hand, there is no upside in even hinting that she supports Sanders.
Bobby Thomson
I agree that the Biden clip is today’s political ink blot test.
I think it was solid gold earned media.
JPL
@Morzer: Mediaite has a video of Hannity’s rant. Did you know that Joe uses a teleprompter? whoa Pretty soon we’ll find out he plays golf also.
Brachiator
@Morzer:
Anger who? The natural choice is to endorse Biden. Many of Sanders’ supporters are outside of the party. And it is up to Bernie to reel these people in, not Warren.
Warren could even make the case that her endorsement of Biden means that there is a place for Sanders supporting progressives in the Democratic Party.
Anne Laurie
She wasn’t gonna do it before Biden took the lead last night. Now, or so I’m told, she’ll have more leverage to trade her support (& delegates) for input into the final Dem platform in November.
(Suspect she was/is also waiting to see who Biden taps as his VP candidate, because Warren will almost certainly have worked with whomever that turns out to be, and can tailor her appeal to the individual.)
Mr. Mack
@Malraux: Good point. I really wanted to see an endorsement right away, but later is better than never.
Mr. Mack
@Anne Laurie: That’s what I was looking for. Thank you.
Anne Laurie
Trump doesn’t actually believe this bullshit, but he (or his handlers) hope enough of the RoseBros will to tip some states.
Morzer
@Brachiator: Some people in the Sanders camp think of Warren as their natural ally. If she endorses Biden now, they’ll feel betrayed by one of their own. I really think her endorsement now would change nothing about the outcome of the primary, but might alienate some people unnecessarily. There’s no need for her to hurry and she won’t gain anything by doing so.
Dupe1970
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Bernie is still below 15% in Mississippi. He might not get any delegates there!
Dupe1970
@Archon: This very true and it is unfair that society works this way. But I cannot get too upset as I dunk on all the pearl clutching from Trumpites and Sandernistas.
Uncle Cosmo
@Brachiator: Yes, we will see.
Sorry to sound like a broken record. I’m only hoping to inoculate those Jackals who are fastening conditions on Joe’s running mate against the shock of what seems to me the smart, the desirable, the necessary outcome.
Dream big. Fight hard. But above all, WIN YOOGE! Only if we win as big as possible – if we gather every halfway-decent American together with us – can we ensure The End Of An Error, not just politically but culturally. Americans – hell, all people – need to agree and assert in great numbers that bigoted neo-Naziism should get no hearing and be given no quarter in our world. Send them slithering back under their rocks for good.
Otherwise we’re going to have to do this again & again, every election, & if we slip even once (which is only too likely, eternal vigilance not being one of our strong suits) we might not get another chance. /rant
Dupe1970
@opiejeanne: If Bernie cannot hit exactly 15.0% he gets zero delegates. 14.9% won’t cut it.
Dupe1970
@sanjeevs: Wait? Did he really misspell “rout”?
Uncle Cosmo
Those who rely on Autofill risque** sounding like Autofools.
** SWIDT? ;^D
Brachiator
@Anne Laurie:
RE: Trump is clearly delusional. But Sweet Jesus, I hope he keeps believing this and forces his campaign to work according to his deranged fantasies.
Neither Trump nor his handlers nor his supporters are deep enough to hatch diabolical plans. From the beginning Trump has depended on what an old boss of mine would call “the brute force method.”
And Trump is a simple man. He has always shown every sign that, yes, he believes the bullshit put in front of him.
J R in WV
@opiejeanne:
NOT, because you can’t earn delegates with below 15% of the vote, according to the rules that Bernie helped implement. So sweet!