PRIDE COMETH BEFORE THIS FALL
BECAUSE HE IS A GOOD MAN, I’M INCLINED TO BELIEVE HE WILL STEP DOWN
As the old saying goes: what is once seen, we can never unsee. And what we all saw last night was a profoundly well-meaning but doddering old man getting dribbled around the arena by the lyingest motherfucker ever to set foot upon a Presidential stage.
It was, without a doubt, horrifying. And I totally understand the urge to panic.
Panic, however, is how you lose.
So how do you win? You win by stepping up when all seems lost.
So the question is: who will step up? Step up for the right reasons? Step up because this is a fight that needs to be won: not as a debate, but as a decisive trouncing of a crook so transparently crooked that even his defenders see what a total piece of shit he is?
Because this is the thing. This guy needs his ass kicked bad. Moreover, the world needs to WATCH this guy get his ass kicked bad, in front of everybody. He richly deserves it. He’s practically begging for it. And between his crimes and his craziness, it doesn’t look that hard to do.
But last night, our guy couldn’t. He had every opportunity. He had the facts. He had the statistics. He had the hopes of every human who yearns for truth, justice, honor, and anything remotely resembling decency on this Earth.
But he didn’t deliver. He got dribbled around the room. And the gutless drones of CNN didn’t even blow the referee’s whistle. They just stood there, blank-eyed, and stuck to their script, as if their bullshit script were the only thing that mattered. As if sticking to the script wasn’t everything wrong with this entire nightmare scenario.
What we’ve got is a situation where the world’s biggest asshole is waving his balls in our face. And last night, he was having the time of his life, because once again they were letting him get away with it. In two weeks, his dumb ass might be in jail. But last night, he was in Heaven.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
I think Joe knows this. If he doesn’t, there are only about fifteen trillion people who would be more than happy to clarify that for him.
From my perspective, he has been a mostly excellent president. The policies he’s put in place – to pull NATO back together, rebuild the foundations of the nation both structurally and morally, wrest some ill-gotten gains away from the kleptocracy and back into the hands that actually do the fucking work (i.e. the working class) – are policies that should be taken further by the next administration. Whoever winds up in charge of it.
But the clear message we all got last night is that Joe could not go toe-to-toe with that smirking sociopathic scumbag and actually take him down. Mean Dry-Drunk Daddy got to walk out of Atlanta like the winner of a strip club parking lot brawl.
Because he is a good man, I am inclined to believe that Joe Biden will have to take a deep breath. Swallow his pride. Realize that one really great term as President is all that he gets.
And that his real legacy will be to – having accomplished this – step aside and let some substantially younger powerhouse dribble Trump all over the fucking stadium this time.
Because if someone doesn’t, there will be no next time.
Pick wisely, baby. That’s all I’m sayin’.
Yes! Thank you. “One term is all you get.” Can you imagine how one of our younger, passionate, and brilliant stars on deck would re-energize us all? We need THAT!