About Biden and Bernie…

Peter Van Buren
2 min readMar 4, 2020

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After three years of diversity-o-rama, year of the woman, BLM, blah blah the Democrats now dump on us the Battle of the Old White Men.

And Trump will be the youngest contender on the ballot.

“So what’s Biden’s strength?”

“He’s not Trump. We’ll vote for anyone not Trump to beat Trump.”

“Aren’t they all ‘Not Trump’?”

“Yes, but Biden’s, um, the most Not Trump. And we can pretend Obama is president again. We’ll say he just slipped out of the White House for a pack of cigarettes* and we know he’ll be back one day.”

*And Obama actually does smoke!

“So, look at this. We have candidates with new ideas, candidates representing the demographic groups growing in the US, women, a gay guy, 2020 is going to be — ”

“Sorry, we’re going with an old white party hack guy.”

“No, really, Trump was the last of his kind, mutated yes, but the last of the dinosaurs…”

“Sorry, we’re running the candidate from 1958. Pass the word.”

“Seriously, we need to talk.”

“Shut up and get back into the kitchen.”

So is Warren still in the race because:

a) she is there to sop up votes and weaken Bernie, she’s in on the whole rigged deal.

b) she wants to go full medieval on Biden for awhile and at the next debate, she’s on Team Bernie.

c) she is proving her independence after Obama or Hillary or whomever called her, Pete, and Amy and ordered them to quit.

d) she’s still thinking VP.

e) just didn’t get the memo, needs to check email more often.

First they came for Tulsi, and I said nothing.

Then they allowed not one, two but three super-wealthy men buy their way onto the debate stage to advocate for their views with little support from the people, and I said nothing.

Then they changed the debate rules to kick Tulsi out, and let Bloomberg in, then again to kick Tulsi out a second time, and I said nothing.

Then they engineered Bernie off center stage, and I said nothing.

Then they said they hadn’t done all this before, in 2016, and crashed the election, and I said nothing.

Then they demanded my vote and said otherwise *I’d* be the one responsible for re-electing Trump and I…

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Peter Van Buren
Peter Van Buren

Written by Peter Van Buren

Author of Hooper’s War: A Novel of WWII Japan and WE MEANT WELL: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts + Minds of the Iraqi People

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