Having Trump at the helm is sort of like a real-life version of Gordon Gekko on a coke binge. Stocks might be up, but everyone’s nerves are shot and they’re on eggshells constantly, waiting for his next 2am rage-tweet that might destroy the global economy or start a recession with just a few words. After a couple of years of this, I think most investors would cheerfully trade a bull market for a wee bit of stability and a steady hand on the wheel.
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Fuck, Joe, I knew that was going to be a problem for you and I am neither from the US or paying attention to US politics while you opposed black kids getting an education, white kids learning that other people are human, and you were palling around with white supremacists. If you couldn’t see this coming, I suggest getting to an optometrist, stat, because that’s one hell of a blindspot.
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So good and nice it deserves saying twice!
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Not you, Uncle Joe. You’ve been trying to run for president for the past 32 years, and failing for all of that. Take the hint. Nobody wants you as president. Nobody wants “mainstream Democrats” for any office.
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I think Biden is way off on AOC. Heck I think Biden is way off on the reasons why Biden is being perceived the way he has by the younger gens in general. There’s no love lost between him and gens y/z. It will be a very steep uphill climb to the candidacy for him without the youth vote.
“The younger generation now tells me how tough things are—give me a break,” said Biden, while speaking to Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times to promote his new book. “No, no, I have no empathy for it, give me a break.”
Biden stuck with the “entitled millennial” characterization while speaking on Wednesday, calling on young people to get involved in politics rather than complain.
“There’s an old expression my philosophy professor would always use from Plato,” said Biden. “‘The penalty people face for not being involved in politics is being governed by people worse than themselves.’ It’s wide open. Go out and change it.”
(Also, I think that LA Times video is going to get played alot leading into the primaries)
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There’s no love lost between him and most people under 60.
Not to mention between him and anyone who thinks the political policies of literally the rest of the developed world are not ridiculous pie in the sky pie dreams and we should be realistic and pragmatic and elect the 77 year old adult in the room 
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Hey babe, wanna go out and do some razzle dazzle?
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Step one of his plan should be to stop groping and ogling every woman who asks him what his plan is
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John Scalzi recently posted his thoughts about the Democratic candidates: Hey Scalzi, Who Would You Vote For as the Democratic Candidate If You Had To Vote Right Now? | Whatever. Spoilers: Harris, Warren are at the top. Surprised at how sick he was of Bernie,
but I want to be absolutely clear that if the final choice is Sanders vs. Trump, I’ll press the button for Sanders so hard the plastic shell of the button might crack beneath my fingertip.
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Scalzi’s centre-right; he always has been. He was strongly opposed to Sanders in the last election as well.
As opposed to the sweetness and light that the Dem centrists have been pumping out for the last few years…
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If this weren’t attributed to Biden, would you have bought it as a Trump quote?
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I suspect it could be a slight paraphrase of an actual Trump quote.
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That’s the obvious retort.
Charitably, what Biden was trying to say was that she won the nomination in a pretty safe seat (so the general wasn’t a big issue), but (a) it would be nice to have a presidential candidate who can correctly say what s/he means, and (b) in any event a new-ideas young candidate beating an old tired established guy in that Bronx primary should strike Biden as holding an object lesson for his current candidacy.
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That just affirms my decision not to be on Twitter. I agree that she sounds like a horrible person, but I have no desire to read Adam Johnson, either.
P.S. Scalzi may be center-right in an international sense, but in 2019 I’d put him center-left/medium left 
on the artificially binary US spectrum.
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