spacemang_spliff posted:

What would one serve at a democrat party?

Jeni's ice cream for sure but what else

puve posted:

Crazypoops posted:

Please gentlemen post only the Democrats being extremely good there will be a mod inspection coming soon

Crazypoops posted:

It is very good that Biden sniffs women's hair like an untrained dog and rubs his hands all over them in public view humiliating them

Breakfast All Day posted:

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1358967693366468609

i really appreciate how compassionate he is here, in noting that suicides are up, then being very careful to say "things are getting better" and not talking about the 4,000 people that are dying a day from covid. its a very nuanced and tender way to care for our mental health. i cant believe he managed to record this speech in only 19 days! lincoln went his whole term without recording a speech

Judakel posted:

GIVE ME MY loving MONEY

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/MichelleObama/status/1359140024575545362?s=20

Chris James 2 posted:

https://twitter.com/socialistmma/status/1359173231123521536?s=21

Flavius Aetass posted:

god she's even more awful than I thought. what a ghoul

Taintrunner posted:

https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1359937351212888064?s=20

Taintrunner posted:

also isnt there a mask mandate for federal property???? tsk tsk

quote:

Ducklo is the national press secretary and a top spokesperson for Joe Biden. If Biden becomes the 46th President, there’s a decent chance Ducklo will figure in the White House press shop, occupying one of the most powerful perches in Washington. Thirty-two years old and trim, he wears tortoiseshell glasses and is partial to blazers with dress shirts, no tie. If you ran into him at happy hour, he’d blend right into the sea of young media operatives populating the city, a disciplined press aide who aims never to become the story himself. But for one significant difference: A month before the Iowa debate, Ducklo was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. By the time doctors discovered it, the disease had spread to his liver, his gallbladder, and his bones.
...
Biden-Harris is Ducklo’s first campaign. In undergrad at George Washington University, he worked as a personal assistant to Mary Matalin and James Carville. After school, he flacked for a series of media companies, including NBC News. When the campaign was staffing up last year, Bedingfield, an alum of Biden’s VP office who had previously overseen Ducklo in the communications office at the Motion Picture Association, thought his relentlessness would be an asset. Running press has always been one of the more grueling roles in a presidential race, but in the age of Trump—and Twitter attacks at all hours—a skilled press secretary has to be on at all times. Ducklo is up before Morning Joe and still up after Brian Williams finishes his show. “He’s the person on our Signal chains at 12:15 at night, saying, ‘I just saw so-and-so say this on CNN,’ ” says Bedingfield. “ ‘Should we think about how we respond?’ ”

Among reporters, Ducklo is considered an assertive defender of his boss as well as an honest broker. He’ll do what he can to spin a story in Biden’s direction, but he won’t feed you complete BS. While he isn’t a hotheaded screamer, he’s aggressive at arguing his points—as Politico’s Marc Caputo puts it, he’s “certainly not shy about telling you that he thinks your story is poo poo.”
...
Ducklo’s timing was either terrible or maybe the very plucked-from-a-Sorkin-plot development that the campaign needed. In the days after the loss, the mood at headquarters was dark. Sensing they needed a jolt, Symone Sanders marched into the office, gathered the staff, and pleaded with everyone to snap out of it. Look at Ducklo! He’d been pulling all-nighters in Iowa despite his cancer. “If TJ can get up every single day and continue to go to work and continue to give it 110 percent,” she said, “that’s the least the rest of you could do.” The room broke into applause.

Taintrunner posted:

how many dead teachers is an acceptable number for the dumbocraps

Fleetwood posted:

I don't know what happened but I think Republicans have been mispronouncing Kamala's name so they gotta circle the wagons to protect aunty

Maya Fey posted:

https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1360697191698898945

Herstory Begins Now posted:

other than you? no i don't believe people are getting week probes over it

imo we should be yeeting people into the sun if they post horrible poo poo about reade, to answer your second question

Flavius Aetass posted:

I still don't understand why he had so much black support in the primaries, but I guess most people see things wildly different than we do.

Flavius Aetass posted:

kamala of all people called him out pretty solidly and publicly at the time for his bussing poo poo. it's not like people didn't know

Atrocious Joe posted:

shocked that people need to be told who Ron Fournier is

frankenfreak posted:

It was "embed Ducklo or Bates" and Bates can still be embedded. So don't worry, the Dems are still good, strong, united, courageous, and compassionate!

Atrocious Joe posted:

wasn't this person part of the bappin crew

also,
https://twitter.com/SailorHaumea/status/1360312413715857409?s=20

spacemang_spliff posted:

pinned tweet:

https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1108336200157413376

loquacius posted:

https://twitter.com/Queerty/status/1311160351782625285

loquacius posted:

https://twitter.com/Queerty/status/1311160351782625285

quote:

Why Joe Biden's broken foot reveals how different his White House will be from Donald Trump's
Chris Cillizza

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

Updated 1:11 PM ET, Mon November 30, 2020

(CNN)Days before Thanksgiving last year, President Donald Trump made an unannounced and previously unscheduled trip to Walter Reed medical center. The White House said the trip was for a "quick exam and labs." We still don't know why he actually went -- or what the outcome of his visit was.

On Sunday, three days after Thanksgiving this year, President-elect Joe Biden slipped and hurt his foot while playing with his dog, Major. We were quickly told -- via the traveling press pool -- that Biden was going to see his orthopedist out of an abundance of caution. Within two hours, there was a statement from Dr. Kevin O'Connor noting that Biden's foot had been X-rayed and it appeared as though he had a sprain. A CT scan was going to be conducted just to confirm the diagnosis, however.

Then, 90 minutes after that, came this, again from O'Connor: "Initial x-rays did not show any obvious fracture, but his clinical exam warranted more detailed imaging. Follow-up CT scan confirmed hairline (small) fractures of President-elect Biden's lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones, which are in the mid-foot. It is anticipated that he will likely require a walking boot for several weeks."

Notice the difference?

Now, I -- and probably you -- don't know or care all that much about Joe Biden's "lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones." But that isn't really the point.

The point is this: Transparency in matters of health and, well, everything else, is fundamental to a functioning democracy. And we have had the opposite of that for these last four years.
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Biden, who at 78 is the oldest person ever elected to a first term in the White House (he broke the record Trump set), released a summary of his medical records in late 2019. At the time, O'Connor wrote that Biden was "a healthy, vigorous, 77-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency."

(Worth noting: Biden occasionally bristled when questioned about his health on the campaign trail; "If you want to check my shape, let's do push-ups together man," Biden told a man in Iowa in the fall of 2019. "Let's run, let's do whatever you want to do. Let's take an IQ test.")

The transparency coming from Biden's transition team about hairline fractures in the President-elect's foot suggests that the effort by the Trump White House to actively obfuscate when asked basic questions about the President's health is over.

It's a good start. But only a start. Let's see if the President-elect and his team can stay committed to full transparency about his health in the coming years.

quote:

Joe Biden says he broke foot tripping after shower when he pulled dog’s tail

By Steven Nelson

December 3, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday revealed that he broke his foot tripping on a rug after a shower as he chased one of his dogs and grabbed its tail.

Biden’s campaign previously explained the hairline fracture by saying Biden fell while playing with the dog, but did not mention the shower or tugging the animal’s tail.

The injury requires Biden, who turned 78 last month, to wear a boot for weeks.

“What happened was I got out of the shower. I got a dog and anybody who’s been around my house knows — dropped, little pup dropped a ball in front of me. And for me to grab the ball,” Biden told CNN journalist Jake Tapper in his first post-election joint interview with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

“And I’m walking through this little alleyway to get to the bedroom. And I grabbed the ball like this and he ran. And I’m joking, running after him and grab his tail. And what happened was that he slid on a throw rug. And I tripped on the rug he slid on. That’s what happened. Oh man, not a very exciting story.”

Cerebral Bore posted:

no, the gop is trump.


there are all kinds of plausible explanations for this thing, except for the glaringly obvious one which has to be false. i am very smart.

spacemang_spliff posted:

https://twitter.com/PattyArquette/status/1361372788435652611

lots of chatter

we got hungry critters

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1361733638052859909?s=20