Latinos were not a monolithic voting bloc, but they leaned to Bernie, not Biden. At the end of the day, Blacks sticking with Biden and eventually supporting him in overwhelming numbers is what allowed him to stay in the race and outlast all the other candidates who would have been acceptable to the DNC (i.e. everyone but Bernie, Tulsi and Yang).

if you wanted to make a compilation of Trump's flubs u could, same with Biden, or mayo pete, or HRC, or anyone who has 100+ hours of camera time to draw from.

yeah biden has said some weird ass shit, but he hasn't really been malicious as much as awkward. i can only speak personally, but when he goes full aggro against protesters its the most ive ever liked him. it makes me understand why trump voters love mean trump from a personal standpoint. but the "cornpop was a bad dude" moments, idk. just awkwardness. i dont see that as mental decline as much as him just trying and failing to connect with a younger generation or two.



the blacks love joe, sadly they arent a big enough voting pool so he has to appeal to what whites think is good for blacks, in hindsight, 40 years later.... lol

This post was edited by thesnipa on Apr 24 2020 09:14am

To be fair, Bernie was making inroads with younger blacks. Just not enough. It was the older blacks who overwhelmingly backed Biden.
So the same age split that we saw among whites between Bernie/Biden supporters was also there with blacks. Not as big, but it was there.
Hence, it's not like blacks are all totally unreceptive to more leftist policies or messaging. Older blacks just have a huge degree of loyalty to the Democratic party and its mainstream/establishment. Younger blacks... not so much.

loyalty to the DNC, that's one way to see it. i think older blacks understand every decade or so a massive panderer comes along and promises to fix your neighborhood, lives, jobs, etc. then it fails, because they can't convince the mainstream to pay what it will cost. so they tend to just side with mainstream because they know platforms like Bernie's are a pipe dream bordering on outright lies.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Apr 24 2020 10:35am

Andrew Yang just emailed me asking to give money to Joe Biden.

Wtf.

Btw, never give money to the DNC guys, they will bother you for it forever. They've been asking for money since i donated like 20 bucks in 2008. I dodge them like i do my alumni association.

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/24/new-evidence-tara-reade-joe-biden/

new actual contemporary evidence emerges in the Tara Reade case

A transcript and hopefully soon audio have been recovered from an episode of the Larry King Live show on CNN from 1993 in which Tara Reade's mother called in and discussed anonymously and ambiguously about her daughter fearing retaliation from a prominent senator and being unwilling to go to the press. It match's Reade's account of talking to her mother about it, her mother urging her to go to the police, and telling her about calling into the Larry King show. Larry introduces her as calling from the same county Reade's mother lived in and the story matches Reades, and when the audio is available any doubt could be dispelled by analyzing the voice.



This also sends a shot across the bow of Biden's total denial:



So was she making up that she filed a complaint in 1993, and got her mother to believe it and call Larry King about it, and waited until 2016 to spring this elaborate trap?
Or did Joe Biden decide to take a strategic line in the sand with a lie and just got it exposed?

But the other guys does it too.

Rape nullification.

I once heard good comrades empty their wallets, or something along those lines

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This post was edited by Djunior on Apr 24 2020 01:26pm

and you are lynching negros!

I like the fact that enough someones somewhere were so buttblasted by their TDS they made a whole Donald Trump section in the Whataboutism wikipedia article. Its pretty normal for the site of course, but its the conspicuous stuff like that which gives me a chuckle.
Also, Biden's odds of surviving 2020 just dropped lower on this news cycle than if he had contracted Covid-19


Pretty rare for one of these he-said-she-said-30-years-ago rape accusations to have contemporary physical/verifiable evidence.

This post was edited by Goomshill on Apr 24 2020 01:28pm

So where does the Biden defense train go from here? I am ~75% confident that Biden's campaign was literally paying the Krassenstein brothers to spam Reddit with astroturfed smears against Tara Reade for the past week. It was so conspicuous and direct that it made me think Biden's campaign is jumping into overdrive to fight this because they know he's vulnerable, because ya know, he probably did it exactly like she said. This Larry King Live archive is going to change the game, he can't just outright deny it now, can he?

How many middle aged women in San Luis Obispo had daughters working for 'prominent senators' in august 1993, let alone those who accused them of sexual assault? And if both the Larry King audio is available and a sample of her mother's voice found for matching, that's going to be pretty hard to deny.

If Biden had hedged his bets and decided to downplay the event and say it was only something like his normal 'handsy' groping like he does to everyone, and try to match it to what Tara Reade had said in public before this year, that would be a defensible position. But instead after she came out, he denied it in full and said nothing ever happened and no complaint was ever filed. Presumably they checked to make sure records were either never filed or destroyed before taking that position and felt confident they could get away with the lie. And now the 2020 election might hinge upon a call-in to a Larry King show