Everyone in the world knows that President Biden had a bad night two weeks ago. Since then, we've heard a steady drumbeat of calls for him to withdraw from the race. But did anyone watch last night's press conference? Here it is; I'll wait:
The convicted-felon rapist XPOTUS could not have done that press conference, because he lacks the knowledge, the focus, the sanity, and frankly the IQ to answer questions for that long.
And still, what did most press outlets report? That he bobbled the name of the Vice President.
Meanwhile, the convicted-felon rapist XPOTUS can't find a coherent thought with two hands and a flashlight on his best days.
Yes, the President is an old man, and he could drop dead before January 2029. But as he said, "I wouldn't have picked Kamala if she weren't qualified to be President."
Until something actually changes in the race, I'm done with the "will he drop out" bullshit. He's the President, and he's crushing it.
Other things happened in the last 24 hours that were more interesting than George Clooney's whining:
- I haven't yet gotten drunk enough to read the Republican Party platform, but Timothy Noah did, and he says it's worse than you thought.
- A Federal judge dismissed Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy petition, citing a "lack of transparency" and other malfeasance by the deranged, disbarred former mayor of New York.
- Andrew Sullivan, a British expatriate who voted Tory when he lived in the UK, wants an American Kier Starmer.
- Want to send your kid to one of the best public high schools in Chicago? I hope you started working on it before your kid's 5th birthday.
- The alleged Foxconn plant in Wisconsin, which got juicy concessions from the Republican legislature and the Republican governor, Scott Walker, will cost Wisconsin taxpayers millions and bring almost nothing to the state.
- RedBox is dead as a parrot.
- Just ahead of its 15th anniversary as one of the best comics on the Internet, The Oatmeal has a new cartoon on Netflix: Exploding Kittens!
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