So… apparently a lot of people in the press are convinced “it” is happening. Sooner rather than later.
“It” in this case, referring to President Biden ceasing his campaign for re-election, and handing off that responsibility to… ???? It is very unclear exactly who is suitable to the vultures flying overhead. This is either no problem, or a really big one. No one really knows.
Now, I am what you would call an “agnostic.” I’m not particularly invested in President Biden going forward. I was wary of his campaign four years ago for exactly the reason we are seeing now. He’s an 81-year-old man, and he wasn’t exactly spry and fiery to begin with. Why this apparently has surprised anyone speaks ill to the basic math skills of the average American voter.
I have never particularly hidden my contempt for the average American citizen. They deserve the government they are asking for, and they deserve to get it good and hard. But there’s also a lot of people who don’t deserve that, and find all of this drama on the threshold of a major election to be extremely nonconstructive.
They are absolutely correct. And so I’m here to put the backstabbers and pants-wetters on blast.
Grow up and buckle up; you whiny, miserable children. You are all part of the problem, and are not promising to ever be part of the solution. Sit down, shut up, and listen to everyone else for once rather than huff your own farts.
There are two distinct camps among the “Fuck Democracy, We Need to Save Democracy” movement. The first are the usual suspects; the rich, well-off donor class that took a look at President Biden’s last three and a half years as President, the promises he’s making in the next four, and go, “We don’t like this whole, ‘pay your taxes’ and ‘let’s make a better country for everyone‘ shit. Why can’t you be the middling friend of the banker-class centrist we wanted you to be?”
They can fuck off. Then they can keep fucking off. Fuck off until they see a fence with a sign that says, “You cannot fuck off past here.” Then they can dream the impossible dream, jump over that fence, and fuck off forever.
These jackasses would be Republicans if they didn’t find the naked bigotry distasteful. To the George Clooneys and Warren Buffetts out there; eat a massive bag of dicks. Somehow, someway, you’ll be able to cope with three yachts on your personal dock in the Bahamas rather than five.
The second group of people is one I have a glimmer of sympathy for, if only because their anxiety comes from a position of good faith. These are the people panicking because the polls and the projections have what amounts to a coin-flip race (every poll at this moment is largely within every polls margin for error). They see how odious Donald Trump is, and cannot comprehend how any reasonable candidate isn’t far, far ahead right now. Therefore the problem must be President Biden; he must be too old or too frail or is conspiring to hide cognitive disorders from the American people.
And while I can sympathize with them to a small degree, they are still idiots. They are clinging desperately to the idea that the average American is a good, well-meaning sort, and if they were only properly inspired and motivated, this election would be a cake walk!
Harsh, bitter truth time. About a third of this country are boorish, vile, odious, deplorable pieces of human garbage, and another tenth will gladly anchor to that first group if they think they can get lower taxes out of the deal.
There is no candidate that will give you a restful election night free from worry. Every election for the foreseeable future is going to be a nervous, anxious wait until the wee hours of the night. No one is going to be polling terribly much better than the current President is. Not your undefined Johnny or Jane Unbeatable, not Kamala Harris, or Gavin Newsome, or Gretchen Whitmer, or J.B. Pritzker, or anybody. You’re wringing your hands and clutching your pearls and shitting your pants over 1 or 2 percentage points in polls and projections that have been often laughably wrong in recent history.
(Fun fact time, kids: All the names I have mentioned? None of them have expressed any interest whatsoever in stepping in.)
So, with all that in mind, I’d strongly suggest sticking with the 81-year-old man who won a free and fair primary election that all your favorite unbeatable candidates could have run in, but apparently chose not to do so. Seems like any other path is wrought with peril and no discernible upside.
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