I am still very angry indeed at the NY Times, CNN, and --- surprisingly --- MSNBC including Rachel Maddow.
I am still very angry at the Dems who did Biden this way. Why do we have so much trouble recognizing and celebrating success?
I am furious with Jon Stewart. (I guess Biden was still in possession of all his faculties when he signed that Bill and spent over two minutes honoring Stewart?)
But. I am confused and worried about the Dems who obviously were behind the scheming to get the best President in my lifetime to step aside and haven't endorsed Harris yet. (It's Sunday night.) What is up with that? Nothing from Jefferies, Sanders, Pelosi. Schumer spent all day posting about his accomplishments alongside Joe Biden, and did not mention Harris once in any of his self-aggrandizing stories. (Well, in fairness, maybe we CAN recognize and celebrate success when it's all about us, right Senator?) And Obama. Come on, man. Who are these guys keeping their options open for?
So, yeah. All in for Harris. And no time for grieving, apparently, because as Nick Lowe once wrote:
"Where are the strong, and who are the trusted?"
I still feel like my head needs to be on a swivel.
And I'm so sad.
Thank you, President Biden. Thank you. You deserve so much better than this. Please spend your remaining days in office packing the Supreme Court, forgiving all the loans, releasing the full unredacted Mueller Report, and pardoning your son unconditionally. Because f these guys, that immunity thing is going to come in handy.
I agree. My list of the strong and trusted has gotten a lot shorter. Et tu, Rob Reiner? I see Pelosi has publicly backed Harris. Time will tell what the others are thinking. I love your wish list for Biden’s final months in office.
Yeah, Biden had some enemies in his camp. I think, including “nice guy,” Obama. I am very sad about Biden, and will never watch MSNBC (except O’Donnell) again. CNN long dead to me. 💙
Same. The only reason I haven't just abandoned this godforesaken experiment of a country is that Biden seems to have stepped down voluntarily, did so with masterful timing, and named a preferred successor, whom the party seems to have miraculously coalesced around. Harris wasn't my first choice in 2020, but she was ahead of Biden. So, yeah, damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead, Harris 2024! (I suppose Harris/Porter or Harris/Booker would be too much to hope for, sigh.)
That being said, because I have the ability to hold more than one idea and/or emotion simultaneously, I am still SO damn angry at Colbert, Stewart, Tapper, the NYT, the WaPo... Rachel Maddow in particular disgusted me. Seriously, Lawrence O'Donnell is all standing between me and a career as the scary old witch in the house up yonder. I grew up revering reporters. Elizabeth Cochrane was one of my very first heroes. TEN DAYS IN A MADHOUSE was the first long-form investigative journalism I ever read.
And do NOT get me started on the undisciplined idiots who got us here by airing every single piece of dirty laundry in front of--LITERALLY!--Dog and the world.. F*ck, if Joe had stayed in, the RNC wouldn't have had to hire a single ad copywriter. Schiff et al had done a fine job already. I want to see canceled checks from everybody, starting with at least EIGHT digits before the decimal from Clooney and Reiner. EACH. You got what you wanted. Pony the hell up.
And if ONE MORE F*CKING "WELL-MEANING" person tries to tell me that this all for the best, I will not be kind. I am DONE with Hanlon's razor. Stupid and malicious now get the exact same treatment from me. There's not enough of a difference anymore to merit anything else. I am too angry, and I will be for a very long time.
I am all in for Harris.
I am still very angry indeed at the NY Times, CNN, and --- surprisingly --- MSNBC including Rachel Maddow.
I am still very angry at the Dems who did Biden this way. Why do we have so much trouble recognizing and celebrating success?
I am furious with Jon Stewart. (I guess Biden was still in possession of all his faculties when he signed that Bill and spent over two minutes honoring Stewart?)
But. I am confused and worried about the Dems who obviously were behind the scheming to get the best President in my lifetime to step aside and haven't endorsed Harris yet. (It's Sunday night.) What is up with that? Nothing from Jefferies, Sanders, Pelosi. Schumer spent all day posting about his accomplishments alongside Joe Biden, and did not mention Harris once in any of his self-aggrandizing stories. (Well, in fairness, maybe we CAN recognize and celebrate success when it's all about us, right Senator?) And Obama. Come on, man. Who are these guys keeping their options open for?
So, yeah. All in for Harris. And no time for grieving, apparently, because as Nick Lowe once wrote:
"Where are the strong, and who are the trusted?"
I still feel like my head needs to be on a swivel.
And I'm so sad.
Thank you, President Biden. Thank you. You deserve so much better than this. Please spend your remaining days in office packing the Supreme Court, forgiving all the loans, releasing the full unredacted Mueller Report, and pardoning your son unconditionally. Because f these guys, that immunity thing is going to come in handy.
I agree. My list of the strong and trusted has gotten a lot shorter. Et tu, Rob Reiner? I see Pelosi has publicly backed Harris. Time will tell what the others are thinking. I love your wish list for Biden’s final months in office.
Yeah, Biden had some enemies in his camp. I think, including “nice guy,” Obama. I am very sad about Biden, and will never watch MSNBC (except O’Donnell) again. CNN long dead to me. 💙
You said it best. Thank you.
Thank you. You are very kind.
Same. The only reason I haven't just abandoned this godforesaken experiment of a country is that Biden seems to have stepped down voluntarily, did so with masterful timing, and named a preferred successor, whom the party seems to have miraculously coalesced around. Harris wasn't my first choice in 2020, but she was ahead of Biden. So, yeah, damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead, Harris 2024! (I suppose Harris/Porter or Harris/Booker would be too much to hope for, sigh.)
That being said, because I have the ability to hold more than one idea and/or emotion simultaneously, I am still SO damn angry at Colbert, Stewart, Tapper, the NYT, the WaPo... Rachel Maddow in particular disgusted me. Seriously, Lawrence O'Donnell is all standing between me and a career as the scary old witch in the house up yonder. I grew up revering reporters. Elizabeth Cochrane was one of my very first heroes. TEN DAYS IN A MADHOUSE was the first long-form investigative journalism I ever read.
And do NOT get me started on the undisciplined idiots who got us here by airing every single piece of dirty laundry in front of--LITERALLY!--Dog and the world.. F*ck, if Joe had stayed in, the RNC wouldn't have had to hire a single ad copywriter. Schiff et al had done a fine job already. I want to see canceled checks from everybody, starting with at least EIGHT digits before the decimal from Clooney and Reiner. EACH. You got what you wanted. Pony the hell up.
And if ONE MORE F*CKING "WELL-MEANING" person tries to tell me that this all for the best, I will not be kind. I am DONE with Hanlon's razor. Stupid and malicious now get the exact same treatment from me. There's not enough of a difference anymore to merit anything else. I am too angry, and I will be for a very long time.