Long ago intelligence was deemed less important than the POTUS being an avatar of our country’s emotions. This whole idea that someone would rather have a beer with someone rather than have a competent leader has been an issue for a while now.

Man. I agree soooooo hard with all of this.

I feel that these rejections were rather measured, as if with coffeespoons.

VAR’s not so bad now, is it?

This is the issue, though. Those people want to see a reflection of themselves in the office. That’s why Biden is polling so high with older voters. They don’t want “young” people (Harris, Pete) or ideas (Sanders and Warren).

America wants Trump’s “fire” without... all the other Trump stuff. Biden is the “tough guy” Chuck Connors of the Boomer youth. Any bounce, etc. from the debate will be interesting to see because Biden is actually falling back to the pack. Feels very Howard Deanish right now.

Biden’s WARREN’S time to run was 2016 when EVERY democrat wanted him to. The only reason we had Bernie v Hillary is because Joe decided to take some time off.

Biden/Klobuchar would be the absolute worst, most triangulated, old-school DNC absolute loser of a ticket we could get.

Here’s a good rule of thumb: If Claire McCaskill or Chris Matthews say it, it’s fucking wrong and you should do the opposite.

I refer you yesterday’s post on Sorkin. PSA is for people who think The West Wing is real life and aspire to nothing more.

It wasn’t meant as a compliment, so maybe our reasons are close than you think.

Not so much a hatred as just that it’s the natural evolution of The West Wing-raised generation that became Pod Save Americaites who seamlessly blend snark and Kennedy-level optimism.

A Few Good Men was his Good Will Hunting. Everything after that was a parody of itself. I don’t particularly like The American President.

To Kill A Mockingbird on Broadway.

Holy shit, no. From the opening monologue from Atticus Jeff in the VERY FIRST MINUTES OF THE SERIES this show was hot, overwrought garbage. It only got worse from there. Crashing the relevant breaking news stories of.... three to five years previous... and acting like it was insightful.

I mean... is that a bad thing?

And if you say “Thanos Land Rover” three times into that mirror, Dwight Howard’s bloody ghost appears.

Purple stuff is the Thanos to Sunny D’s Avengers.

How many paintings of dogs playing poker before it becomes a similar problem.

The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s troubles.