No Country For Old Men
It isn’t too late for Joe Biden to leave office as a hero.
Most people in Washington — even Mr. Biden’s enemies — seem to respect him (at least, so far). He should be taking a clue from “Seinfeld” or “Cheers” and consider going out while he’s still on top, but he seems to be trying to “Jump the Shark” instead, grasping and clawing for more mileage. His party is hoping out loud: “Let it go, Joe.” They remember Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who wouldn’t step down for her country, either. It cost us Roe vs Wade.
Americans who love our democracy are asking Joe to retire and step aside — but prying the car keys away from grandpa seems problematic. Apparently, Mr. Biden needs a hearing aid, as well.
It’s heartbreaking for the nation to watch a decent, honorable man of driven devotion to his country and a history of distinguished service try to deny what is obvious to everyone else. The American people have watched his foreign policy supply the weapons of genocide to Israel for what seems like an eternity now. They have watched his promises of spit-wad weapons for Ukraine — weapons Ukraine cannot even use inside their enemy’s territory — drag on forever. We want to see Israel stop murdering Palestinian children, and we want you to force Russia to knock it the fuck off. Your administration has provided a slow, steady drip of disappointment, and your constant bragging about these “acheivements” is starting to wear thin.
While Mr. Biden’s foreign policy has been stone deaf, he has also failed to see that the American people really, really, really don’t want to risk living in Donald Trump’s Hitlerian dictatorship. Sorry about your vanity, sir, but risk analyis suggests that we don’t take another chance on Joe Biden-Bader-Ginsberg just because he insists he can pass the eye test at the MVD. He can’t. Everyone else can plainly see that he is tone-deaf and blind.
Grandpa Biden will be heartbroken, but it looks like hubris is fast-walking that event for him, like it or not.
The bottom line is that the evil that lurks in an anatomical cavity in Trump’s chest appears to be pumping something resembling blood through his system (except when he stands in front of mirrors) isn’t “lurking” anymore: Now it’s full-blown and foaming at the mouth. It’s raving and literally shouting obscenities. Beating Mr. Trump should be a cake-walk, but an emperor with no clothes can’t do it.
Let it go, Joe. If someone has to pry your cold, dead fingers off the Presidency, please don’t let it be your constituents.