Biden’s hubris coupled with the cabinet’s refusal to invoke the 25th ensuring that democrats cannot win the 2024 election.
Biden rolling like a soulsborne character as the physical embodiment of Medicare tries to crush him with a big hammer.
I was going to say that Biden maybe wouldn’t have come off too bad if he hadn’t looked confused and sounded like he was dying, but his incoherent closing statement was maybe not the best look. I mean, in the rest of the debate he mostly lauded a series of largely meaningless and unimpressive policy achievements.
I liked it when he called Trump a whiner though, that was funny.
As for Trump, it was funny that the only thing he had to talk about for any given issue was the 18 million strong migrant horde come to destroy America. Which is basically Trump’s MO since 2015.
On the whole I can’t believe Biden’s camp agreed to do the debates. While it wasn’t the debacle of 2020, there was never any chance Biden walked out of this looking good.
THEY’RE ARGUING ABOUT THEIR GOLF GAMES!
Won’t someone think of the children?
It's so funny that they're going ahead with the 2024 presidential debates after the clusterfuck of the 2020 debate, where IIRC they cancelled two of the debates after Trump spent the first debate running roughshod over Biden. No concerns over this making Trump, who is literally a felon and an insurrectionist (even if it was a half-assed insurrection and also the actual half-assed insurrection Trump did was when he tried to stop the states counting votes and not the Jan. 6th riot), seem more legitimate. Though I guess he was already President so maybe he can't be made to be seen as an illegitimate candidate, I don't know how the electoral wonks feel about that.
But mostly it's funny because Biden is so obviously in decline. It was a pretty bad showing in 2020, they're really gonna have to pump him full of adrenochrome to make him even seem present in the moment. Not that Trump isn't very old also, but from what little I've seen of the both of them recently Trump mentally seems to be more or less where he was in 2015, whereas Biden seems mostly out-of-it if he isn't reading from a teleprompter.
Hmm… I’ve got a pretty mild illness right now. Must be the first stages of fatal bird flu. Oh well.
I feel like if you're wealthy enough to make a mistake this costly and foolish then you should have to go in front of a jury of your peers and they should decide to revoke your drivers license for five years.
I'm starting to think the brilliant minds at the Navy built this $320,000,000 pier out of bondo, plywood, cardboard, and duct tape.
How could the terrible might of the sea break our beautiful pier, which was constructed entirely of thrifted porcelain and sugar glass?
I think I've posted about this before, but the Knives Out movies fit within this paradigm of movies that I think exists where the movies are decently fun on the first watch but are largely insubstantial and there's nothing to really think about, movies that if they'd been made 15 or 20 years ago would've been entirely forgotten about after the end of their theatrical run, even if you'd seen them you wouldn't chance to think about them again unless you happened to catch them on cable, but now, because movies seem to be on the whole worse and unhealthy somehow compared to where we were (I assume because of streaming or the slow decline of movie theaters) these sorts of little-to-offer films sit at the center of a permanent discourse as if they are the great films of our time.
Then again, maybe if we'd had Twitter in 2005 we'd still be talking about fucking Wedding Crashers.
The fuck? I've been holding down a finger and trying to scroll to the right spot (which usually fucks up when I release the hold) for years.
Never thought I'd see The Black Company referenced on this site. I don't have high hopes that we will, Cook is very old, but I'd love it if we get A Pitiless Rain someday as a capstone to the series. I mean, Soldiers Live is a pretty good capstone to the series, but now we've got Port of Shadows sitting there kind of awkwardly as the last Black Company book (I like Port, but it is an odd book and quite stylistically different from any other Company book, imo).