Since it was written during the primary process, it may well have been written to convince people not to vote for Biden in the primaries, which seems more than fair. Beyond that, if what you’re saying is the article was written to keep people from voting for Biden in the general election (well before he was the…

Uh huh. Do you actually have substantive issues with Jezebel’s criticism of VAWA, or does it just bother you that it turns out it’s not an unambiguously positive, praiseworthy aspect of Biden’s record?

Both of those things seem like fair statements to me.

Okay, but the response to the substance of this particular speech was positive. Like, the reaction here, by Ashley Reese, is that Biden did a good job.

So the difference you see in it is whether Ashley was sufficiently appreciative of Biden’s ability to competently deliver prepared remarks? Gotta say, I still do not so how that matters in the slightest. In any event, to close the loop on this, can you cite a single instance, prior to this article in which Ashley…

It sounds like what it says, he cleared a low bar. I read it as a reference to the Trump campaign’s constant attempt to portray Biden as incompetent, but who cares?  What difference does it make?

I didn’t quote Biden at all, so I’m not sure what you’re complaining about. What I said is he indicated he would veto a Medicare-for-All bill if it got to his desk which is...true. That’s what happened. He was asked if he would, and he indicated he would. Yes, he said that he would veto it if it cost a lot, and if it…

I mean, I don’t know what to tell you. Trump has been trying to paint Biden as clearly unfit for months now, that is the low bar he cleared. Speaking for myself, since you appear to be lumping me in with people whose “whiny asses have established for a candidate for whom you feel you’re being begrudgingly forced to…

No? I don’t see how it’s unfair to say the bar was low. That is something plenty of commenters who, like Reese, offered positive reviews of Biden’s speech, have pointed out. In fact, that’s the hook of many of the reactions—how Biden’s good speech demolished one of the main talking points of the Trump campaign, and…

No? I don’t see how it’s unfair to say the bar was low. That is something plenty of commenters who, like Reese, offered positive reviews of Biden’s speech, have pointed out. In fact, that’s the hook of many of the reactions—how Biden’s good speech demolished one of the main talking points of the Trump campaign, and…

Are you really drawing an equivalency between, on the one hand, politicians advocating for government-provided universal health care, a thing that many of America’s peer countries have figured out, and on the other hand politicians promising that coal, which is being pushed out not by clean renewable technologies but…

What is unfair about the article? This article is the author’s own assessment of the speech. How can that possibly be unfair? Unless you think she is, like, lying about how the speech struck her, then I’m not sure what it is you want. Or, to be more specific, I think it’s clear that while you claim to want a “fairly…

Well, Biden has indicated he would veto Medicare for All if it were to pass, so yes, in the sense that the would-be next Democratic president is already working to throw cold water, for no good reason, on an idea that polls generally well, especially among Democrats, and in the middle of a pandemic, and…

It’s not “endless pouting” to not trip over yourself to offer unconditional praise for everything Biden does. You liked the speech. Okay, good for you. Not everyone has to just be bursting at the seams with gushing love for Joe Biden, particularly when on some key areas he is really not that good.  Do you want Jezebel…

I love this attitude so many Democrats seem to have adopted. “Republicans who don’t stand up to Trump are spineless cowards. Faux News is just a Trumpaganda outlet, not real news. How do idiot Republicans not see what a disaster Trump is? Also, if you say a single bad word about Joe Biden, if your comments about him…

If someone thinks their “core problem” is they are not getting laid, then they haven’t gotten to the root of their core problem. PUA “techniques” are a mix of anodyne shit anyone who just wants to get laid could figure out (dress nicely, try to be interesting, approach a lot of women to increase your odds), and toxic…

wow, you really poked all the former hall monitors in the eye with this comment

So you want Jezebel to essentially act as a Biden campaign website? You want all of the media to? You want a media landscape where no media outlet criticizes Joe Biden or Democrats for any reason?

“Nancy Pelosi is endorsing Joe Kennedy III in the Massachusettes primary. Will there ever be a generation that doesn’t have to endure a Kennedy in office?”

What Trump did and is doing isn’t all that difficult, though. He took over the Republican Party by just building on a foundation that had already been well-laid by Republicans—he made their bigoted subtext (already thinly veiled at best) explicit text. That is it. I agree there’s a certain shamelessness that not…