Close call

[aadler]

I listened to Joe Biden’s speech last night with mounting horror. Talk of ‘passing the torch’, ‘new generation’, ‘good of the nation’, and dwelling on his accomplishments (i.e., he hasn’t yet succeeded in destroying the U.S.) … I just knew he was about to announce his resignation from office.

Which would be good. He never belonged in the White House in the first place.

On the other hand, he’s already there, and — however much damage he’s done — his power is fading by the moment.

Mainly, though, I was viscerally repelled at the prospect of Cackling Kamala actually making it into the history books, without any achievements of her own, as “our first female President”.

She didn’t. Joe didn’t resign. It may well be the first thing he’s ever done that meets with my approval. Not wholehearted — he never should have been President, and with the possible exception of James Buchanan has been the worst ever — but I’d prefer he stay where he is, till he can be carted out to long-term elder care, rather than give the office over to that vacuous idiot.

We live in uncomfortably interesting times.