uncelestial

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Oct 25, 2017
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San Francisco, CA, USA
Tired: Corn Pop
Wired: Porn Cop

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OtherWorldly

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Dec 3, 2018
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politics twitter and left really have a hate hard-on for Biden. OP Twitter is the same one who called Omar a blatant antisemite and considers himself a left leaning politico for reference
 

Ziltoidia 9

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Oct 25, 2017
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Does anyone really want this person campaigning against trump. Media does. They win eitherway. Corperate Dem in office? Things go on as usual. Trump in office? Ratings continue.
 

Deleted member 31817

Nov 7, 2017
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Oh it was apparently the nickname of a gang leader.

Makes sense, a bit rambly and confusing for the kids behind him but not that bad tbh
 

OtherWorldly

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Dec 3, 2018
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They loved pranking Biden. The cost to enter the pool was 10 cents, but a tiny, smack-talking teenager known as Corn Pop wanted to try a way to get his friends in free: distract the white lifeguard.
Corn Pop got Biden's attention by talking about his mother, Smith recalled. Biden blew his whistle and demanded Corn Pop show him some respect. Meanwhile, Corn Pop's friends jumped the fence, hopped into the water and laughed over their declared victory.
"They were testing him," recalled Maurice Pritchett, known as Marty, who served as a lifeguard on the shift with Biden. "He had to earn their respect."
Biden has said he was the only white lifeguard there at the time, but his friends from the pool recall that there were a handful of other white lifeguards on staff. Most had stopped working at the pool as more black kids began using it. The construction of Interstate 95 and other urban renewal programs in the late '50s led to displaced black families moving east and settling in a nearby housing project known as the Bucket.

*runs out of thread before crow is served*
 

Kitten Mittens

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Dec 11, 2018
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I actually followed that story. I just don't know why he was telling it.
 

CrabDust

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Nov 16, 2017
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This is just like reporting on what Trump says literally. How about, I dunno talking about his policies vs other candidates?
 

fick

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Nov 24, 2018
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It was around the time that he mentioned the housing projects and his car that I remembered this guy was a rich kid and may, just may, be out of touch with society at large.
 

Hydrus

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Oct 27, 2017
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For the love of God, please people, dont let him be the democratic candidate!!! I'm begging you!
 

BoboBrazil

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Oct 25, 2017
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I watched like a minute and a half and I have no idea what he was talking about
 

Zamorro

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Oct 25, 2017
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It's in his autobiography, so this is not some crazy story that he made up on the spot or something.

This is just some journalist from the website theroot.com not doing his research, and blindly reacting to a youtube video that he found.

Here is a link to a critical, but more balanced story about this from 2010, from the same website:

https://www.theroot.com/joe-bidens-black-pass-1790879439

And again, the clip is from 2017. Not that it matters a lot, but I hate this new trend of digging up old footage and presenting it as if it just happened.
 

Ether_Snake

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Oct 29, 2017
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Are you guys for real?

Even with only this clip I understood.

When he became lifeguard at that pool, some local "though kids", one named Corn Pop, wouldn't listen to him and wanted to fight him. Corn pop waited for him at the parking lot after his shift. Biden asked the mechanic who worked there what to do, the guy gave him a chain to fight with. When Biden got to Corn Pop, he didn't back down but apologized to him for how he talked to him, so he got Corn Pop's respect who put away the folding razor blade he had (which, Biden says, they used to contaminate with rust to make cuts more dangerous). This was a story about the importance of apologies.

Eat some crow. No wonder ERA is always flabbergasted at him polling well if this is the kind of lens you're seeing reality through.
 

lmcfigs

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Oct 25, 2017
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Are you guys for real?

Even with only this clip I understood.

When he became lifeguard at that pool, some local "though kids", one named Corn Pop, wouldn't listen to him and wanted to fight him. Corn pop waited for him at the parking lot after his shift. Biden asked the mechanic who worked there what to do, the guy gave him a chain to fight with. When Biden got to Corn Pop, he didn't back down but apologized to him for how he talked to him, so he got Corn Pop's respect who put away the folding razor blade he had (which, Biden says, they used to contaminate with rust to make cuts more dangerous).

Eat some crow.
does corn pop sound like a real person's street name?