Wow. Just…wow.
Nicholas Cage’s “you don’t say!” meme face is my r
only physical reaction to that
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Putter emails!
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no - this is his home office, he’s not thinking about it for messaging. Rather his choices, of something we would not ordinarily see, are revealing, and perhaps contrary to the way he likes to present himself.
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Oak… the truly middlebrow of wood working…
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Nah, he’s in with Mr. Wolf.
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Myrtlewood or GTFO! 
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If you’re pining for something a little more upscale, you can always spruce it up with some tasteful desk accessories.
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Can’t believe no one has commented on the torpedo level he keeps on his desk (right behind the sharpie) says so much about him…
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My office has a big oak desk with a leather top and a brass lamp on it, mate, and I don’t give two shakes about “old money” or impressing anyone who sees it. (My office also has a cheap papasan chair and a bunch of Star Wars figures in it.) I got it because I like the feeling of stability and solidity and because I like the idea of working on something with a history. (It’s probably 100 years old, and I got it cheap.) Armchair psychology does nobody any favors.
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No, no, this is office desk psychology! A very different and far more respectable field! 
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He is always searching for the middle ground?
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That would be a nice theory except that (to apply your theory correctly) you’d have to note that this is a senior career politican.
His home office is where he would see the ‘important’ people (such as for example his potential vice president or his local political backers). By being let in there rather than being seen in one of his other offices, you’re almost literally being admitted into the inner circle.
It is precisely the place where (under your theory) any image messaging would be most carefully calculated and definitely not where you’d see ‘the real man’ or whatever.
About the only place more likely to be carefully massaged for image might be a hunting lodge or similar but I don’t know whether Biden is that sort of politician.
As to your general point - he’s a senior fairly right wing politician in a fairly right wing political party in a rabidly right wing country. Of course he’s going to appeal to ‘conservatism’, ‘tradition’ and so on.
He’s also a lawyer. Desks and lamps like that come with the territory. If you don’t buy yourself a set, some bastard wellmeaning family member will make you a present of one.
Clients expect them (they really do - even the ones who think they want a ‘modern’ lawyer secretly feel a little bit less happy if they can’t see a nice wooden desk and a fancy lamp somewhere - you don’t actually have to use them but they need to be there).
Plus you can pick them up cheap whenever another poor sod goes bust or decides to jack it in and go join a circus/make bad pottery/become a gardener.
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The rain it raineth on the just
And on the unjust fella
But chiefly on the just because
The unjust hath the just’s umbrella.
Charles Bowen
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His choice to frame that comic on his desk may have nothing to do with his political career, let alone his candidacy. I’m willing to give the man the benefit of the doubt that he chose this for personal reasons.
I will judge Biden on what he says and what he does, not on my ill-informed assumptions about the meaning of his decor.
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Very likely the case. It bears repeating that he has suffered great losses, such as when his wife and baby daughter were killed in a car crash. Or when his son Beau died of brain cancer. Guy has had to put away some hard gut punches.
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Has Joe got the VP Selection App running?
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biden doesn’t use a laptop. he uses a 1979 IBM Z/OS punch card machine. And his cartoon isn’t framed more than its stuck in a wad of dotmatrix paper.
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ETA:
I would much rather see a clipping of “Hagar the Horrible” on Biden’s desk than “Family Circus” or “Mark Trail” or “Beetle Bailey” or “Lil Abner” or “Blondie” or even “Peanuts” thank you.
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Have long been a fan of William Morris.
A real mensch. Love his work. Some of it is pretty trippy. Morris was tapping in to something big and deep. A quick image search of his name + “botanical” will reward the curious. And there’s a few articles I like:
(wow those woodblocks are… intense)
and
With a natural eye for pattern, Morris produced papers that not only balanced figuration and order, but which were (unusually for the time) distinctive.
Ok, yeah, distinctive would definitely apply…
I can’t possibly imagine living in a house with an interior covered in his wallpaper. What did such living space do to the minds of its occupants? Did they achieve a level of an enlightenment? Did they become aware of the immanantizing of the eschaton?
Sigh.
Thanks for reminding me of a really cool Happy Mutant from another era. I believe his influence lives on in the works of creative folks like
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