The State of Disunion
Biden's WH team hoping he can get through tonight's SOTU speech him or us nodding off.
It’s too bad Seth Meyers’ Closer Look monologue couldn’t be injected into Joe Biden’s speech tonight.
Meyers starts his takedown of Trump like this:
"Well, here you are guys. Donald Trump is now the presumptive GOP nominee for president again, for a third time, despite the fact that he's a twice-impeached, four-time criminal indictee and racist, who has been found liable for fraud and sexual abuse, banned from doing business in the state of New York for three years, owes over half a billion dollars in fines, took millions from foreign governments while he was President, tried to extort a foreign country to interfere in an election in 2020 and encouraged another to help him win in 2016."
Meyers takes a breath and continues.
"Actively undermined the nation's response to a once in a lifetime pandemic and let a deadly disease spiral out of control, is about to go on trial for breaking campaign finance laws by paying hush money to cover up an affair during the 2016 campaign."
And that’s only the start.
But even after watching Meyers’ rollicking stomp on DT, the question remains. How can a Democrat with a 10-million vote advantage, running on a relatively strong economy with low unemployment, be getting clobbered in the polls by this international criminal, rapist, and disgusting bigot?
No sitting president with a similar approval rating — 38% according to Gallup — has ever gotten reelected.
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If Biden stumbles and bumbles his way through tonight’s State of the Union Speech, Democratic leaders might as well through in the towel. I’m sure there will be lots of moments when the teleprompter reminds him to make angry face, yell and holler, pound fist on podium, and spice it up with a little mild profanity to show he’s still with it.
His supporters are begging him to show some spunk. But I’m just thinking, it’s cruel and unusual punishment to make him go through this again. Not that he doesn’t deserve it.
Biden aides inside the White House and on his campaign are hoping for some fresh viral moments — like when he tussled last year with heckling Republicans and chided them for past efforts to cut Medicare and Social Security.
But none of that will matter or save the Dems faltering campaign without out a dramatic policy shift on Gaza and genocide, the forbidden G-words on liberal late-night talk show, but the ones that will cost them dearly in the battleground states, especially with young voters. And a foreign policy shift away from underwriting the unrelenting war on the Palestinians is not about to happen with Biden running at the top of the ticket.
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I’m anxious to hear Biden unveil his new plan for building a pier on Gaza’s coast for the delivery of aid to starving Gazans. This hair-brained scheme can only once again reveal him as a weak, hapless president, afraid to pressure Netanyahu into allowing the free flow of food, water, and medicine across the Egyptian border.
I also want to hear why the planned ceasefire and prisoner swap that Biden said would happen last Monday or at least by Ramadan, is stalled again.
What’s a Doolally?
I’m hooked on recently elected radical British MP, George Galloway. But I had to look up the word Doolally to know what the hell he was talking to Max Blumenthal about.
Max tells George: If the genocide continues into the summer, it’s going to make what happened in Chicago in 1968 look like a gentle coffee klatch.
George responds: It’s a sad commentary on the state of the American political system that a doolally and a doofus are vying to become president.
HITTING LEFT, ICYMI —
Brother Fred and I discussed Gaza and Biden’s prospects on Hitting Left, Friday with old friend and veteran activist Steve Goldsmith. Steve currently serves as president of the Steve currently serves as president of the Torrance California Refinery Action Alliance. You can learn more about TCRAA here. (FF over the first 2 minutes of music from previous show on WLPN).