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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jun 2019

      1. The Biden comments about Eastland & Talmadge weren't really a gaffe, but a window into a worldview. Friendship between politicians is pretty much the core of Biden's worldview. He's Pal Joey: Buddy Biden.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jun 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Joe Biden

      2. Remember this?https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1137521124793823232 …

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      Happy #BestFriendsDay to my friend, @BarackObama. pic.twitter.com/JTd1t7NtyL
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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jun 2019

      3. Biden's 2003 eulogy for Strom Thurmond deserves to be read carefully: it's a very clear articulation of Biden's view that politics is all about leaders of different ideologies coming together in friendship to solve problems. That's what Biden believes.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jun 2019

      4. Biden's philosophy -- which shouldn't be dismissed lightly -- is that America is a divided country (by race, class, region etc) & politicians represent these division but when they form friendship they can find areas of commonality & solve problems.

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jun 2019

          5. Of course there are many objections that could be raised to Biden's worldview, some of which I explore here (with a shoutout to my daughter Bella's favorite show, My Little Pony). https://www.thenation.com/article/joe-biden-strom-thurmond-eastland/ …

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        1. Duni‏ @duni34 24 Jun 2019
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          Obama’s philosophy too, and both are conservative.

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        1. blank‏ @baga_mi_as 24 Jun 2019
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          this seems like a thing that's extremely easy to exploit

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        2. Ciggy - Bringer of Smoke‏ @mtreyens 24 Jun 2019
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          This philosophy crumbles under the input of a white ethnostate.

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        3. Jay Lender‏ @JayLender1 24 Jun 2019
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          By working with people whose worldview is antithetical to our own... you make those people politically effective. We did exactly that throughout Joe Biden's political life, so here we are. They do NOT extend us the same courtesy. See: Merrick Garland.

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        1. Show Your Work‏ @showusyourwork 24 Jun 2019
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          Comity for comity's sake, compromise for compromise's sake, oligarchy for oligarchy's sake

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        1. John Stodder Jr.‏ @johnstodder 24 Jun 2019
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          This — and not name ID or ideology — is why the polls show Biden leading. Many Americans believe in a place called Compromise.

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        1. Jeremy Ray Jenkins‏ @JeremyRJenkins 24 Jun 2019
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          I don't think it should be dismissed but I think it is something he would be better able to pursue in this moment as an eminence grise, not as POTUS.

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        1. Dog Profile Pic‏ @HowlinFantods 24 Jun 2019
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          I think the biggest red flag is what he has considered the problems to be. Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid budgets (where he agreed with Paul Ryan, crime sentencing not being harsh enough, the lack of bipartisanship as if republicans aren’t obstructionists, and... raves?

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        1. trico‏ @toyarico 24 Jun 2019
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          As a body, members of the Senate have considerably more in common with each other than the people they represent and their voting record reflects that. Moreover, Senators vote, consistent with the voters who elected them NOT all of the constituents in their state.

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