Biden proves that corporate Dems are incapable of learning

Even an inbred domesticated pet can learn simple tricks, but corporate Democrats...Let's just say that they are further down the evolutionary ladder.
Joe Biden proved that today.

"Despite losing in the courts, and in the court of opinion, these forces of intolerance remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress you all have made," he said. "This time they — not you — have an ally in the White House. This time they have an ally. They're a small percentage of the American people — virulent people, some of them the dregs of society."

At least he didn't say "deplorables."
Why do establishment Dems think that insulting a third of the electorate is a good idea?
And why are establishment Dems incapable of learning from 2016? Why do they think Biden is the "solution"?

Amid discussion of resistance to Trump, he surprised me with talk of 2020, when he’ll turn 78. “I’ll run,” the vice president deadpanned, “if I can walk.” Three days later, he informed the Washington press corps that he wasn’t joking.

Biden isn’t likely to run, but keeping the door ajar gives him a bigger voice in Democratic Party debates. The one that worries him most is over repositioning to win back Trump voters. He has little patience with Democrats who want to move either left or right. “ ‘We gotta move to the center,’ ‘We gotta move to those white guys,’ ‘We gotta move to those working-class people’ or ‘We gotta double down on the social agenda.’ ” It’s a false choice, he said: “They are totally compatible. I have never said anything to the A.C.L.U. that I wouldn’t say to the Chamber of Commerce.”

A 75-year old insider that dropped out of the race in 2008, after capturing less than 1% of the vote in the Iowa caucus, and who "occupies the sensible center of the Democratic Party."

That just screams excitement, does it not? /s

And yet the establishment continues to try to force Joe Biden down our throats, but their recent effort is more laughable than most.

Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 7 percentage points in a head-to-head match-up, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.

A plurality of registered voters, 44 percent, said they’d choose Biden in the 2020 presidential election, while 37 percent of voters said they would vote for Trump.

The percentage of Democrats who would choose Biden — 80 percent — was slightly higher than the 78 percent of Republicans who would vote for the president‘s reelection. The former vice president, who ran for the White House in 1988 and 2008, has been floated as a 2020 contender, and Biden himself has said he’s not ruling out a third try.

OK. You following this so far?
Creepy Joe is the overwhelming favorite, especially amoung Democrats, right?
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No. In fact, they are counting on you to not read the very next paragraph, which destroys the entire narrative.

Biden holds a less-than-commanding position within his own party: Among Democrats, an unnamed generic Democrat runs 9 points better than Biden in a match-up with Trump. "Notably, 89 percent of Democrats say they would vote for a generic Democrat over Trump, but only 80 percent of Democrats say they prefer Biden over Trump,” said Morning Consult Managing Director Tyler Sinclair.

In other words, Democrats would prefer almost ANY other Democrat over Biden.
It turns out that Biden was the only Democratic choice given in this poll, which makes it a push-poll.

Because Biden and whoever his supporters may be right now have apparently missed the memo, let's break this situation down.
First, American voters on each side of the traditional partisan aisle are shouting loudly and clearly that they're tired of establishment politicians.
...And now along comes Biden, with his decades in Congress and eight years as vice president portraying himself as a possible great hope?

Please

Let's take a moment to remember who Joe really is.

He voted for the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994, enabling commercial banks to do business across state lines, and the Gramm-Leach-Blilely Act of 1999, overturning Glass-Steagall, which separated commercial and investment banks....
Biden also demonstrated his fealty to finance in 2005 when he, like Hillary Clinton, backed the innocuously named Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, heavily pushed by MBNA, which weakened bankruptcy protections for consumers.
....Biden voted “yea” on the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 referred to as “welfare reform”.
...As Matt Ferner and Nick Wing of Huffington Post reported back in September of 2015, he co-sponsored the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 which expanded civil asset forfeitures in which law enforcement seize property suspected of being involved in a crime, without Due Process. Ferner and Wing continue on to explain that “Biden authored portions of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which created a 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.”
...Biden was for the 1994 crime bill which, among other things, allocated $10 billion for the construction of new prisons and incentivised states to pass “truth-in-sentencing” laws.

And, of course, Biden voted for the Patriot Act and the Iraq War.

I've enjoyed watching the progressive grassroots give the establishment fits the past couple years, but it needs to win a LOT more battles in the next couple years, because the Democratic Party establishment lacks the slightest clue.
Only a full-scale overthrow of the neoliberals, like what happened with Corbyn in the UK Labour Party, will be enough. The leaders in the Democratic Party are hopeless.

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speaks volumes about the depth of the Democratic Party establishment. They have NO competent bench warmers. They’re running on fumes.

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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes

k9disc's picture

Only a few more states to lose and the corporate sponsors can ghost write the New™ Constitution.

Not joking. If Q goes bust, that's our immediate future. They'll fix this broken political system...

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“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu

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@k9disc I agree about the convention,
and trump could be our last prez
whatever the case D's simply aren't/
wont be needed for much longer

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/17/cyrus-sanai-federal-court-employees-...

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

I hope they do run Biden and he falls flat on his face. This will hasten the demise of the Democratic Party and make room in the political spectrum for a truly progressive Party.

Regarding retreads, I see that Bill Daley has thrown his hat into the ring for Boss of All Bosses Mayor of Chicago. Another retread but possibly a baby step up from the odious Rahm Emanuel.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

Maybe it's 4 times. The 1st time didn't go so well after he was accused of plagiarizing from Neil Kinnock. The second time didn't go so well either until Obama made him the VP candidate. I remember watching a 60 minutes program on him years ago, I think in the late 70's when I was a kid, and he related how convinced he was that he would be President some day. Not my favorite at all, but I would vote for him over Trump in a second.

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Beware the bullshit factories.

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@Timmethy2.0
The ole lessor of two evils vote.
I would chose neither.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

@Pricknick
I'll vote for Dick Cheney over Adolph Hitler.

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Beware the bullshit factories.

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@Timmethy2.0
Lessor of two evils?
Astounding.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

@Pricknick

Landlords are lessors and they can be pretty f**king evil. Just look at Trump and Jared and his dad.

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@Timmethy2.0
could you tell the difference?

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@Timmethy2.0
He's a good example of everything that is wrong with the Dems.
I'd vote 3rd party in a heartbeat.

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@gjohnsit He understands shit about international relations and democracy that Trump can't get past his narcissism to even try to understand. Trump is completely over his head and the bad effect on world history could be huge, since we're facing huge problems that Trump pretends don't even exist, like climate change. Biden would know how to drive the bus. It's a f**king no-brainer for me. Respect for the traditions and institutions of democracy, like listening to experts and debating the pros and cons of problems that we're trying to solve, instead of praising fascist dictators and trying to emulate them makes it a no-brainer for me.

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@Timmethy2.0 about international relations' you got me looking for the snark tag.

AFAIK Biden is a warmonger extraordinaire, and a committed neoliberal to boot.

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

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Good post gj. Biden is Mr. Establishement, the epitome of what is wrong with the Dem party. Like Clinton, Bush, Trump, Obama, a master at pretending he is there for you. But not really. He's there for corporate America. You are right they haven't learned a thing. Look at the Hillary Atlantic piece (have barf bag handy). They are self-righteous at a level the precludes objective reflection or introspection. They are a psychopathic mix of ego, greed, power and war monger. They are meeting Einstein's definition of insanity very well, doing the same thing and expecting a different result. I guess a thousand seat loss is no cause for concern. Its those low-info dregs, and Russia, and Jill Stein, and promises of ponies. Same people running the ship into the same ground. The same 30% of blind followers will always follow their leaders, no matter what, be it Trumpsters or DemBots. The independents can decide the election, if they decide to.

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Joe Biden did not handle the attacks on Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearings very well and he looks even weaker when viewed through the lens of the #MeToo era. Biden cannot change history, no matter what he says today.

Biden also told the Post on Monday that his "one regret" is how he wishes he could have controlled the questions asked to Hill.
"My one regret is that I wasn't able to tone down the attacks on her by some of my Republican friends," Biden told Teen Vogue in December 2017. "I mean, they really went after her. As much as I tried to intervene, I did not have the power to gavel them out of order."
Biden told the magazine that he wishes he had "been able to do more for Anita Hill."
"I owe her an apology," he said.

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@karl pearson
letting women willing to give similar testimony, well within the power of the chair, would have given her a significant burst of support. But his "Republican friends" might not have rushed over to compliment him on how nonpartisan he'd been.

Heck of a job, Joe.

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@karl pearson
to reach through the television and slap that bastid up one side and down the other. Him and his smarmy ass talking down to her like she was the reason for the hearings. She didn’t file a complaint, she wasn’t suing anyone. It started because of an FBI check into Clarence’s background:

There had been little organized opposition to Thomas's nomination, and his confirmation seemed assured[12] until a report of a private interview of Hill by the FBI was leaked to the press.[11][13] The hearings were then reopened, and Hill was called to publicly testify.[11][13]

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Four female witnesses reportedly waited in the wings to support Hill's credibility, but they were not called,[13][15] due to what the Los Angeles Times described as a private, compromise deal between Republicans and the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair, Democrat Joe Biden.[16] According to Time magazine, one of the witnesses, Angela Wright, may not have been considered credible on the issue of sexual harassment because she had been fired from the EEOC by Thomas.[15]

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The manner in which the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee challenged and dismissed Hill's accusations of sexual harassment angered women politicians and lawyers.[35] According to D.C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also said to be a contributing factor to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, "women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress," she said.[2] In their anthology, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave, editors Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith described black feminists mobilizing "a remarkable national response to the Anita Hill–Clarence Thomas controversy.[36]

[ 2]. Krissah Thompson (October 6, 2011). "For Anita Hill, the Clarence Thomas hearings haven't really ended". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 26, 2011

[11]. Joel Siegel (October 24, 2011). "Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing 'Empowered Women' and Panel Member Arlen Specter Still Amazed by Reactions". ABC News.

[12]. Jeffrey Toobin (September 18, 2007). The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. Doubleday. pp. 30–32. ISBN 978-0-385-51640-2.

[13]. Cynthia Gordy (October 18, 2011). "Anita Hill Defends Her Legacy". The Root. Archived from the original on November 1, 2011. Retrieved October 20, 2011.

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[15] Richard Lacayo (November 14, 1994). "Strange Justice: A Book on Clarence Thomas". Time. Archived from the original on November 4, 2010. Retrieved January 8, 2018.

[16]. Douglas Frantz; Sam Fulwood III (October 17, 1991). "Senators' Private Deal Kept '2nd Woman' Off TV: Thomas: Democrats feared Republican attacks on Angela Wright's public testimony. Biden's handling of the hearing is criticized". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 27, 2011.

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[35]. Maureen Dowd (October 8, 1991). "The Thomas Nomination: The Senate and Sexism; Panel's Handling of Harassment Allegation Renews Questions About an All-Male Club". The New York Times. Retrieved October 28, 2011.

[36]. Gloria T. Hull (Ed.), Patricia Bell Scott (Ed.), Barbara Smith (Ed.) (2000). But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies. Feminist Press at CUNY. p. xvi.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill

Even when she could provide a defense against the panel’s unspoken but loudly transmitted misogyny (which she should NOT have had to do), she already been cut off at the pass by happy hands Unca Joe Biden. He left her there to hang there at the mercy of those other assholes, particularly that SOB Arlen Spector.

Everyone, especially women who believe the hype about this horrible old loser, should watch those hearings. Because no woman who says she supports equal treatment and a safe world for women could possibly support this guy. Just stop and think about it. IF someone else was leading that panel, and IF Anita Hill had been treated like a witness not a defendant, and IF there had been at least one or two women on that panel, would women still get half the bad rap we do? Those hearings REINFORCED every negative stereotype that women have had to put up with since we dropped out of the trees.

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Dealbreakers for me? Joe Biden’s many favors to the banks. And his role in getting Clarence Thomas onto the Supreme Court.

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