election thinking, currently (again)

I'm at a loss as to why – when saying that Biden's visibly aged in the last several months – no one brings up the toll that Hunter's conviction has to have taken on him. One son dead, the other in a heap of trouble that he can't do a thing about? That would be enough to make anyone age – and the guy’s already in his eighties for fuck’s sake. Congressional Republicans have been trying to break the guy since before he was sworn in – or at least break his spirit. We saw the results of their chicanery in the debate.

As for what I think the next month looks like? While I'm still in the "time to move aside" camp, Biden is, at present, doing what he's good at: being a canny (if glacially-moving) politician and a scrapper. He's using this crisis as a way to reinvigorate his campaign, show he's still got more of that underdog fighter (who happens to be the incumbent president) left in him; if this doesn't move the needle, I anticipate he'll drop out before the convention (if he's planning an exit, he's waiting for Tumor to announce his VP and then use his own exit as a way to take attention away from the Tumor and his successive toady, and the RNC) and pass the torch to Kamala – but I hope it does work: Everyone loves a good underdog tale – but everyone also loves a graceful exit – which, in all likelihood, would push him back into the lead and then make everyone want him to come back...

Were anyone on the Biden campaign to ask me – and they haven’t – how they should answer the “are you doing better now than four years ago” question, I’d proselytize building a site or daily newsletter that lays out exactly what was happening on this day four years ago every day until the election. Would be a far more beneficial use of my monthly campaign contribution than emails and texts from Joe and Jill and Kamala and Bill and Barack asking me for more money. Hell, I’ll buy them the site to do it. Hit me up.