I hadn’t planned on writing anything tonight. My original plan was to spend the evening comforting a terrified dog. I love fireworks so, of course, I adopted a shelter dog who, it turns out, is terrified of fireworks. The ThunderShirt is helping, but he still wants to be comforted.
It was the news coming out of Biden’s meeting with Democratic governors that drove me to the keyboard. First it was his hubris in telling them that he is not stepping aside and demanding their support.
Apparently, the governors went into the meeting thinking that he wanted their advice on whether or not he should continue running. Nope. Biden is the typical old white man who makes selfish decisions and expects everyone else to just fall into line.
Then it was the New York Times reporting that another decision he has made is that he needs more sleep so he will stop doing evening events … nothing after 8 pm … so that he can get to bed early.
What the actual fuck?
Does he actually think that the entire country and the world comes to a screeching halt every night at 8 pm Eastern time?
Next thing you know, he’ll be holding State Dinners at 4 pm.
For God’s sake, if you are too old to go to bed at a normal time because a solid 8 hours of sleep isn’t enough, then you are too goddamn old to be president.
Why is no one staging an intervention?
Why is no one invoking the 25th amendment?
We very clearly have a president who is not fit to be president. I’m willing to be generous and allow him to continue as president until the next one is sworn in, but under no circumstances should this guy be allowed to run for or serve a second term.
He can barely walk, barely talk, and now he needs inordinate amounts of sleep to be able to barely walk and talk.
What’s next? Naptime?
Russia just invaded Poland? China invaded Taiwan? Iran is nuking the Middle East? Sorry, it’s Biden’s naptime. We’ll talk about this later. After his 4 pm dinner. But before his 8 pm bedtime.
Oh my God, you guys. Am I the only one who sees that this is all so very, very inappropriate?
Come on, where are all those presidential historians who write books about this shit? Why aren’t they lined up at the front door of the White House to school Biden in what it takes to be president?
We need a bloodless coup. The kind where Biden is politely removed from the Democratic ticket. No press. No input from family (I’m lookin’ at you, Jilly) or friends. Just an announcement that Biden is no longer running and the race is now open to interested Democrats.
The sad part is that Biden wouldn’t make any public objections because since the debate debacle, he only speaks with the aid of teleprompters. As long as there is nothing about the race on his teleprompters, he wouldn’t be speaking about it.
Which is another reason why this guy shouldn’t be president. He can only speak in public if he has a speech to read? He can no longer speak off the cuff?
You know what we need? A job description for the presidency. A list of required skills. Ya know, like the job applications that the rest of us have to fill out before we can get an interview.
And a physical and cognitive exam, with the results made public.
If you don’t have the required skills and/or can’t pass a physical and cognitive exam, don’t even waste your time trying to run. We’re not interested.
Joey, do the right thing and drop out of the race.
Now, change into your pjs and brush your teeth. It’s past your bedtime.