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Of course, but usually not when I’m asking someone to be my running mate.
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I am sure to a degree running for President feels like punishment…
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The end of So Long and Thanks for All the Fish had another answer to the same question
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We deserve all this shit, apparently.
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That’s bullshit.
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It is just possible he thought it was funny or thought-provoking and had it framed at some point in the past 36 years, and its presence in this picture was not a deep subtextual callout to some crucial swing constituency of funny-pages-reading nihilists.
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The iPhone in the photo is clearly in a telephone call with the speakerphone enabled.
It’s possible he’s using it for the audio portion of the conversation.
But he’s holding the iPhone with its mic and speaker facing the computer and away from him, so I suspect he’s using the phone to allow a third party to hear the conversation.
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Poseidon
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The iPhone features a bottom speaker and a bottom microphone, both are facing Biden. This is now a very common way for holding your phone, especially for people who have no fucking clue that not using a headset tremendously fucks up the audio quality for the other party and thus makes the call needlessly exhausting.
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To be fair, I think this was from the plot where Snoopy was fantasizing about standing in the rain to hustle rich little old ladies who drive by in limos and take in stray dogs from the cold. Unlike Hagar, this wasn’t existential, unless you consider Snoopy questioning his life with Charlie Brown to be that. I mean, a week later he was daydreaming about being a vulture. He’s a weird dog!
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Look closer at the photo. He’s holding the phone upside down with the bottom speaker and mic facing the computer, not facing himself.
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Right, now I see it. So it makes total sense he’s sharing the conversation with a third party.
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Came here to say exactly that–this is the same sentiment I’ve heard Stephen Colbert express when he talks about his experience losing his father and brothers. He describes a conversation he had with his mother, trying to make sense of something senseless and horrible, and he asked his mother (parapharasing from my memory of the anecdote) “why did this happen to us?” and his mother responded “why not us? why should we be the ones spared any grief?”
Who knows, maybe we’re all reading way too much into it, but I’m betting that someone who has experienced the kind of devastating trauma Biden experienced and didn’t come out the other side a bitter misanthrope has to have embraced that to some level.
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I’m atheist and my explanation tends to be simple - sh*t happens to everyone, deal with it.
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That’s cool and all, but why can’t he make his Dock disappear and save some screen space? And delete unwanted apps from his Dock? Jeesh… I never understand people who use computers just “as is”. 
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Oh, next thing you’ll be recommending he install iTerm2 and use Oh My Zsh as well?
Whaddya mean, that’s silly?
I would. Recommend, that is.
EDIT: in all seriousness, though, showing people how to remove stuff from the Dock used to be more fun, with the cartoony puff of smoke. I kinda miss that sort of fun, as it helped to get people to clean up.
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I’ve got to grade him a D on his personal desk/workspace and what it says about Biden’s mind and values. Personal choices like these strip away pretenses and give you a glimpse of a person’s real self.
That brass desk lamp, and big heavy oak desk speaks of conservative values - I’ll bet there is a painting of a fox hunt on the wall somewhere. I can’t see his chair but I’d wager its covered in leather with brass tacks.
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And in the bottom drawer a bottle of J&B and the October issue of Swank.
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Edit: oop, micah already mentioned this a little ways up. All good.
If you enlarge the image, he’s got a phone call going on the iPhone, with the bottom speaker pointed away from him at the laptop, likely for Kamala to hear. Based on what’s in the picture, it seems likely that he got a phone call from someone on the national or world stage, and he’s having the caller congratulate Kamala.
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