spacetoaster posted:

https://twitter.com/stevebenen/status/1783550155137933388

comedyblissoption posted:

aocia
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1783927367238340834

VoicesCanBe posted:

Glenn's right

VoicesCanBe posted:

Glenn's right

Phone posted:

https://twitter.com/joementumvt/status/1783918678242664663

the SA to radical centrist pipeline must be stopped

Phone posted:

https://twitter.com/joementumvt/status/1783918678242664663

the SA to radical centrist pipeline must be stopped

Halloween Jack posted:

We're definitely not sending our best.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Do MA's make you a professional academic?

Rubellavator posted:

In school you learn about the good civil rights guy, MLK and the bad civil rights guy, Malcolm X and the Black Panthers.

quote:

Biden shared other colorful accounts with Stern, saying that he “never had been to bed with” his first wife, Neilia Hunter, when he told her, “I think I’m gonna marry you.” Biden and Hunter did wed in 1966, only for her to be killed in a 1972 car accident.

The president also mixed up basic facts in the interview, which ran for more than one hour. On two occasions, Biden told Stern he was preparing to address the Gridiron Club’s annual dinner in DC on Saturday night.

In fact, Biden already appeared at the Gridiron dinner last month, but meant to refer to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“I’m going to the Gridiron dinner on Saturday … and the serious thing I’m going to say at the Gridiron dinner … is the free press isn’t speaking up as much as it used to,” Biden told Stern

“I think some of them are worried about attacking [former President Donald Trump].”

Biden claimed at another point he “got arrested standing on the porch with a black family” during civil rights protests — calling it a “true story.”

The president previously has claimed he was involved in the civil rights movement and that he had been arrested — but at other points has admitted he was uninvolved and there’s no evidence he was arrested.

The president also said that as a young lawyer, he had worked on “a couple murder cases” and saved lives “half a dozen times” while a swimming pool lifeguard in Delaware, adding sheepishly, “it’s not like it’s so heroic.”

“What a crazy career you’ve had!” Stern exclaimed, without directly questioning the veracity of any of Biden’s claims.

Biden mixed up President Richard Nixon and Trump at another point in the interview — calling it a “Freudian slip.”

“Trump makes fun of me,” Biden also told Stern, likening him to a neighborhood bully he’d like to get “head to head” with — recalling Biden’s years-old claim that he’d like to take Trump behind a building for a physical fight.

The president then launched into a story about how he had been “smacked” by a bully when he was young, leading his mother to tell him to “go back out there,” bribing him with a quarter to do so.

“You gotta hit him right in the nose, Joey,” his mother allegedly said, so Biden recalled: “I hit him right in his nose and his nose started bleeding and he went, ‘Ohhh!'”

“It’s a very cinematic life you’ve had!” replied Stern, apparently unironically.

Biden also claimed his mother had once gotten aggressive with a Roman Catholic nun who allegedly mocked his childhood stutter.

“You ever speak to my son like that again,” he quoted his mom as saying, “I’ll come back and rip that drat bonnet off your head, you understand me?”

Later, Biden retold one of his lesser-known stories, saying that he briefly considered killing himself after his first wife died.

“You don’t have to be nuts to commit suicide,” Biden said.

“I was going to just drink [scotch] and get drunk,” the lifelong teetotaler continued. “[For] just a brief moment, I thought maybe I’d go to [the] Delaware Memorial Bridge and jump, but I had two kids.”

HallelujahLee posted:

it was discussed in the protest thread

liberals wont to be able to co-opt this movement like others they already shed their skin and simply will not accept anything pro-palestine on top of the freak doing it being a dem

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

you learned about the Black Panthers in school?

The Oldest Man posted:

give it a few dead organizers and some kind of anodyne "reconciliation first" bullshit grifters ready to prop up normalizing relations between us client states as a solution for all of them conducting their own local genocides and it'll be fully co-opted

VoicesCanBe posted:

Glenn's right

Trabisnikof posted:

I didn't learn about the Black Panthers, but I did learn about the Gray Panthers lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Panthers

quote:

Margaret Eliza "Maggie" Kuhn (August 3, 1905 – April 22, 1995)[1] was an American activist known for founding the Gray Panthers movement, after she was forced to retire from her job at the then-mandatory retirement age of 65. The Gray Panthers became known for advocating nursing home reform and fighting ageism, claiming that "old people and women constitute America's biggest untapped and undervalued human energy source."

HallelujahLee posted:

i guess we will see but im not seeing it yet at least

heres to it not happening

The Oldest Man posted:

it will probably just fizzle out entirely but if it doesn't, it'll first be brutally suppressed with unlimited cop violence and then the grifters will descend to feast on the bones of the movement

it'll take years for them to strip the carcass clean though

Willa Rogers posted:

lol, biden's interview with stern:

Trabisnikof posted:

also still loling that discriminating based on age in the workplace is completely legal if you're discriminating because the person is young.

VoicesCanBe posted:

Glenn's right

Nothus posted:

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1783920019619123407

lmao

Nothus posted:

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1783920019619123407

lmao

PhilippAchtel posted:

Lmao, they know this poo poo is already over

Nothus posted:

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1783920019619123407

lmao

The Onion posted:

WASHINGTON—In a shocking breach of White House security, President Joe Biden was reportedly carried away by ants Friday. According to witnesses, the 81-year-old commander-in-chief remained quite calm during his apparent abduction by the insects, showing no signs of resistance as the swarm of approximately 2,500 black carpenter ants hoisted him over their bodies using their powerful mandibles and began marching slowly but steadily toward the White House Rose Garden. Secret Service officials confirmed that snipers stationed on the roof of the executive mansion fired upon the swarm to no avail, reportedly because the ants’ 6-millimeter-long bodies were simply too small to target. At press time, sources said the FBI was negotiating with the ant colony’s queen for Biden’s release.

Turpitude posted:

Nothus posted:

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1783920019619123407

lmao

Willa Rogers posted:

now if they'd only get hopping on banning genocide instead.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

Remember that incredibly stupid and potentially politically suicidial thing we were going to do? Yeah, we won't do it after all.

Joementum posted:

https://twitter.com/CarlBeijer/status/1783917718720147785

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/aaronnarraph/status/1783915642292228482?t=Tzc5iiJrWJyh9t0Nuw5bAg&s=19

HallelujahLee posted:

they already did tiktok

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/aaronnarraph/status/1783915642292228482?t=Tzc5iiJrWJyh9t0Nuw5bAg&s=19