SOLUTION FOR BIDEN: START ARRESTING TRUMP TERRORISTS - 7.9.24

and there would be no more debates. And in fact, if he wants to communicate only by written notes, he'd get applause every time he did it. As someone who was worried that President Biden correctly perceived the threat posed by Trump and his fascists and their plan for a form of Nazi Germany in this country, worried about that long before I was worried that he correctly perceived that threat. I have this suggestion, no more talk about Trump or

anything else, just action. Start, mister president by recognizing that this is a terrorist threat posed by Trump and his cult and his allies. Literally declare them terrorists if need be, or now that you have been immunized by the Supreme Court.

Invoke the Insurrection Act as Trump plans to do. Invoke it, invoke it for an hour, and arrest and detain people like Trump and the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson, and the head of this bloodthirsty gang in suits called the Federalist Society and creator of Project twenty twenty five, Kevin Roberts.

Hungary and the reprehensible British racist Suella Broberman. This Roberts may have phrased his threat of revolution against the government of the United States in a passive aggressive form. But eighteen US Code two three eighty five is still on the books, and mister Roberts just urinated on it and all but dared you, mister President, to put him in prison for twenty years, which is what a violation of

the statute can cost you. So you have your Attorney general do it by whatever legal means are required to do it. And remember the Supreme Court said you, mister President, you can do anything you want as long as you can prove it's official. And putting that asshole in jail is as official as anything could be. Just at the moment, he's called it a revolution, and he has implied that he will make it violent. One eight US Code two

three eight five. And when you are done with Kevin Roberts, mister President, go and get this psychopath Mark Robinson, who is a the Lieutenant governor of the state of North Carolina, b the Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina. And see who is at best trailing the Democrat by one point in polling there and at worst is four points ahead of the Democrats.

not after the election, now, not after somebody gets killed. Now, and if Trump objects, arrest him too. Supreme Court says, you can, if you can find him, if nobody has noticed. He hasn't been seen in public since June twenty eighth, hadn't even appeared on video since the fourth of July didn't make a phone appearance until going on Hannity last night. He's supposed to show up today after an arduous journey of just under two hours from mary Lago to one

of his golf courses. If he makes it, arrest him too, mister President, since the Supreme Court, which he appointed, says there is no chance anybody in the world can stop you. And do it. Not just because he and Roberts and Robinson and the Federalist Society and the nat Cons and the other Nazis represent a clear and present danger to the safety of every person of every political stripe in

this country. Don't do it just for that. Do it also because, since the night of the start of the debate, the only thing I have heard you say, mister President, that filled me with dread. It was not any mumble or stumble, or inaccuracy or imperceptibility or confusion. But what filled me with dread was when you said what you said. After Stephanopoulos asked how you would feel if you lost, and you said, as long as you felt you had done your best, That's what it was all about. No,

I don't want to hear about your best. I don't want to hear the chance that your best will be insufficient. If you are allowing for the chance that your best, mister President, will be insufficient, get somebody else in the goddamn chair. If you say, as you reportedly did privately to donors yesterday, we're done talking about the debate. It's time to put Trump in the bullseye. Let's do it. I want to hear you say that Trump and the fascists will not win, that you will not let it

happen no matter what period. Enough talk enough, I beat him before, and I'll beat him again. Enough the elites are trying to keep me out. Enough, we'll start defeating them today. The nation is under threat, as surely as if there were armies at the border. You are going to stop Trump. You are going to put him in

the bulls eye. Do it now. Arrest Mark Robinson, then arrest Kevin Roberts, and I guarantee you, if you take only those two steps, you won't even need to act against Trump or any of the other leaders, or any of the psychopaths out there who support him. They will all flee. This election is existential for the future freedom of everybody in this country, and potentially for the survival of everybody in the world. But it only has to

be existential. Mister President, if you do not now use the defenses provided to you as commander in chief, and by this assenine a moral but ultimately unimaginative Trump Supreme Court, on whom it never dawned, you might use the weapons they tried to give to him. They have immunized you. Now you can immunize all of the rest of us from Trump's immortal threat to the United States of America. Enough I regret to share with you that I do not expect that President Biden will do any of this.

I'm sure if he heard what I'm suggesting, he might recoil from it, not realizing that the one time this nation truly faced an internal threat akin to that posed now by Trump, President Lincoln did exactly these things to the insurrectionist scum of the Confederacy. The history books, in fact, might have judged him far more harshly, but there seems little doubt that if he had been able to round up the Confederate leaders from Jefferson Davis to Robert E.

Lee and all the others and imprison them. In May eighteen sixty one, the Civil war would have been a lot shorter and the death count a lot lower. And I do not believe anybody ever got to ask him, but I get the feeling that if you had said to Abraham Lincoln in retrospect, should you have simply ailed Davis and Lee and Bedford, Forrest and all the others,

he would have said yes. I mean, this was the president who ultimately resorted to ignoring the Supreme Court and contemplating the arrest of the Chief Justice of the United States. I mean, mister President, if you want to change the topic from the debate, change it, change it from talk to action, and change the election from the sum of all fears to Biden versus the last leader of the Republican Party who is not in communicado somewhere in a brig that would be Check's notes here. It is the

election between you, sir, and Republican candidate Asa Hutchinson. As I said at the start of this episode, the worst option facing Joe Biden and this nation is staying where we are right now. Leading congressman calling for him to leave the ticket, the Congressional Black Caucus calling for him to stay on the ticket, Chuck Schumer voicing support, The Washington Post anonymously quoting two Democratic senators who say the consensus among Democratic senators is that he needs to step down.

Mark Warner scheduling an urgent meeting among Democratic senators and then deciding it's not that urgent can wait till today, and then issuing a statement backing away from Mark Warner. I believe it is incumbent upon the President to more aggressively make his case to the American people. That's not exactly in the name of God go the President's people uniformly insisting they have nothing to hide and have hidden nothing, while the White House visitors logs show one Parkinson's expert

visited eight times between last July and this March. The bigger story confusing that even more, being that that parkin since expert has been a White House regular and a consultant since twenty twelve. The Vice President behaving in an exemplary manner, while there is at least one Biden veteran quoted anonymously from inside the White House in The New York Times, trying to get him out and her in.

The President trying to prove he is cogent and clear minded by phoning in to Joe Scarborough, as if Joe Scarborough were cogent or clear minded and not an opportunistic leech who has taken every side of every issue just since twenty sixteen, when the man wrote the center cannot hold.

This is what he meant. The problem, ultimately is this, even if the President will not withdraw from the ticket, and those urging him to suddenly all relax on the subject, if the New York Times suddenly realizes that it could, you know, flood the opinion and reporting space against Trump in exactly the same way it has against Biden for the last week and a half, if other events we haven't experienced yet crowd the issue off the page, if he has a good week or a good month, or

they say, hell, what do we need Scarborough for? Will just put the president on every morning on MSNBC. Even if all that happens, What makes anybody think that this will neutralize this issue? Even if every Democrat and liberal and pro democracy person in this country woke up tomorrow committed to never mentioning this again, what will stop Trump from doing so? His campaign announced the sixty one million dollar ad buy last night surrounding the Olympics, guess what

that's going to be about? Are there not? Ultimately, no matter what else happens. Two questions that cannot be erased. One do you want him on the debate stage on September tenth? And two do you think not that he is going to hold steady in term of his mental alacrity, but that it and the perception of it and of him, that these things will improve between here and election day? Because to beat Trump, the perception of Joe Biden is

going to have to improve. The thing is the consensus on this story seemed to be that the dams would all break yesterday. They did not. There were leaks from the Congressional conference call Sunday, Jerry Nadler Adam Smith to others get out the warners. Senate meeting postponed. The president railed against the elites trying to get him out, blamed the millionaires, said, rank and file Democrats want him in. But reality to this point appears to be the exact opposite.

It's now forty six percent of Democratic voters who want him to drop out. It was thirty six percent. The other headlines, one of the marquee names from the Democrats have a deep bench crowd just withdrew her candidacy for a job that has not yet open. Governor Gretchen whit MURV Michigan said if Biden drops out, she would not

seek to replace him on the ticket. Also, the White House leaked yesterday that besides his letter to all of them, Biden has personally called twenty Democratic members of the House since the debate, which sounds impressive except that's less than two a day. This is a head scratcher. The president says, the twenty twenty polls underestimated him, so why should we

pay attention to the polls now? Except they didn't. He was up by nine points this month in twenty twenty, and he was never less than four points ahead of Trump. As CNN pointed out, he is the first Democrat to trail in the national polls in July since al Gore. It is possible that he meant the polls in the primaries in twenty twenty. But if anything is obviously bothering the president, it is this exact thing, lack of specificity. Trump has been like this since about nineteen sixty six,

but Joe Biden is becoming like this. Primary polls, residential race polls, they just become polls, and one with this assumes that the listener knows which one I meant. This is not fatal, nor necessarily an indicator of anything. Hell I do it in conversation on rare occasion, well, on occasion, Okay, every day, but it leads to statements that seem like lies. There also have been some pleasant surprises in polls, particularly

in battleground polls. Best members yet overall, and in Michigan and in Wisconsin, and the forest not seen for the trees in this is He's still losing in five of the seven consensus battleground states. There are advantages through a crisis like this, as Trump long ago proved stories that would ordinarily be disqualifying scandals go buy almost unnoticed. The Biden campaign arranged two quick interviews with obscure local radio station to prove he could do them, and supplied the

interviewers with questions. One of the interviewers said, they gave me the exact questions to ask. There was no back and forth. The other interviewer is no longer with her station, and I'm hoping whoever dreamed this up is no longer with the Biden campaign. It is a Trump trick. It is deeply offensive and most importantly, Oh on God's green Earth, thought it would not come out the stupid people are

supposed to be running the Trump campaign. One other headline shows that no matter how grave or unprecedented the news may be, there are always people who can come up with something so stupid that it becomes laugh out loud funny. First of all, no, if Biden with draws, you do not want a mini primary or some sort of huge debate. The vice president becomes the nominee, even if you have to blackmail everybody else mentioned for the job to pretend

they've all come to this unanimous decision. Even may I say this if the president has to resign or step aside under the twenty fifth Amendment in a leave of absence and make her acting president, Because if the vice president doesn't become the nominee and you have a mini primary, guess what you will automatically have five or six or seven losers, and they will be disappointed, and more importantly, their supporters, who cannot grasp that their candidate is not

more important than the future of the country, will all be disappointed and maybe even disaffected. And this doesn't even address the fact that you would be bypassing the vice president of the United States. Just as importantly, to create an ad hoc nominating system, you open the door to crackpot ideas. Semaphore News reported that a former Obama and Clinton staffer and a Democratic donor have a plan, and they wrote a memo. Oh Biden and Vice President Harris.

According to their plan, would announce the Blitz Primary one month voting by the convention delegates a pledge of a positive only campaign or you can't run a ranked choice vote before the convention, the winner of which is announced on day three of the convention, with the nominee unveiled on stage by Biden, Bill Clinton, and Obama, presumably the nominee standing there with a bag over his or her head and you just pull it off, you go whoo.

The memo insists the nation would be captivated by the Blitz Primary and donations to the Democratic Cofference would flow like water, and Biden would be compared to George Washington retiring for the good of his country. And best of all. Best of all, there would be lively live weekly Blitz Primary candidate forums, one with each candidate moderated by Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey and Taylor Swift. And you know why they chose the name the Blitz Primary, because you

would have to have been Blitz to have dreamed this crap. Uh. Also of interest here, Yes, Marjorie Taylor Green is the dumbest woman on the planet. But what special is just when you think you know how dumb, it turns out she has new, previously undiscovered supplies of dumbness. Marge explains how Paul Revere signed the Declaration of Independence, not the Raiders, just Paul Revere. She lists eight signers of the Declaration of Independence and six of them didn't sign. And there's

one true silver lining to all this. It gives me a chance to really go out there and attack the morons on the left. And God knows we have them too, and God knows some of them are in the Biden campaign. Because apart from that whole idea about writing the interviews for the radio reporters, they are soliciting applications for a key campaign job right now. And you will not believe what the job is. That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman Stella ahead of us on

this edition of Countdown. I have told it before, but it seems like it is the absolutely correct time to tell it again. And if normally you hit stop after worse persons in the world, you may want to stick around for things I promised not to tell. As I recount again the day I was taken to lunch and asked for advice on public speaking, especially on how to sound righteously indignant instead of crazy, by a then senator named Joe Biden. But first, there are still more new

idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruegerffet specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world, the bronze worse. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. Why yes, Mareen Daud still is with the New York Times, and she's finally done it. She has finally written the column we have always wanted to read from her, not her retirement column that still looms on the horizon like I don't know the promise of

eternal life. No, no, this is a column by Maureen Dowd about the incompetence of Maureen Dowd. Let me quote a paragraph or two in my Saturday column, I quoted Biden's line to ABC's George Stephanopoulos about how he would feel if Trump were sworn in as president because he refused to step aside, I'll feel as long as I gave it my all and did the goodest job as

I know I can do. That's what this is about. Now, goodest isn't a word, but my researcher, Andrew Trunsky, and I listened to the video our ears up against the computer ten times, and that's what it sounded like. Unquote. Okay, there's a lot to unpack here. Firstly, Maureen Dowd actually has written a column about writing her previous column. This goes on for paragraph after paragraph about how the White House asked her, harassed her, interfered with her to make

the correction after she misquoted President Biden. I mean, he mumbled through the answer, and maybe you do need to listen to it a second time to be sure, but he obviously says I did as good a job as I know I can do. The issue of how clear he was is the whole point of this. That's the story. Also, I have mentioned previously that this answer is the only

thing he's done. That's really terrified me because the correct answer is I will let Trump take power only over my dead body or his dead body or something similar. But that's not what Doubt is complaining about. She heard goodest, and her researcher heard goodest, so it was goodest, and damn you all the hell for correcting her white House, which brings me to point number two. She has a research assistant. Maureen Daoud has a research assistant, and the

columns still suck that much dairy air. Seriously, it takes two of you to produce this thirdly quote. My researcher and I listened to the video our ears up against the computer ten times. So you have a researcher, but you don't have headphones. I mean, I'm not even asking that you and your researcher both have headphones, just maybe a shared pair of headphones perhaps, or he has one. Am I being too demanding? I mean? Has the Times

been lying about its fulsome profits? Can the Times not afford a pair of headphones for Marine Doud or some beats or buds? Are you guys spending too much money sending me email after email after email dozen a day trying to get me to start paying to play wordle again. I'm not going to I'm wordled out. Stop it. Save the money, Buy Marene some cans. We listened to the computer ten times God the runner up worser Marjorie Taylor, Barney Rubble. The way to reassure people about Biden is

to compare his acuity to hers Taylor Green. If somehow you miss this, I'll just read it from Twitter x. The average age of the signers of the Declaration of Independence on July fourth, seventeen seventy six, she wrote, was forty four years old, but more than a dozen worth thirty five or younger. Thomas Jefferson thirty three, John Hancock thirty nine, James Madison twenty five, Alexander Hamilton twenty one, James Monroe eighteen, Aaron Burr twenty, Paul Revere forty one,

George Washington forty four. Wait a minute, First of all, Marge says more than a dozen worth thirty five or younger, and then her list of a dozen or more only

has eight names on it. And of course, out of her list of the dozen signers of the decl of Independence, all eight of them, six of them did not sign the declaration of Independence, like James Monroe, who had just dropped out of college to join the Continental Army, and Alexander Hamilton, who had just dropped out of school to join the Continental Army, and Aaron Burr who had just quit law school to join the Continental Army. But I will never get over the idea that Marjorie Taylor Green

thinks Paul Revere signed the Declaration of Independence. I mean Paul Whiteman, the jazz band leader of the thirties, would have been a better guess. It's like she asked AI to give her a list of eight people who were alive in America in seventeen seventy six, and she was just lucky it didn't pick Andrew Jackson, who in seventeen seventy six was nine years old. Paul Revere signed the Declaration of Independence same year he invented Revere Wear sauce

pans nineteen thirty nine. Holy crap, is this woman a moron? And she might be the brightest Republican from Georgia. But our winners, the Joe Biden for President twenty twenty four campaign, I know what you're thinking. No, not for that, it is for their new ad or listing in Daybook, which is a website for job postings, mostly political ones, some educational,

some nonprofits. This one is next to one from the Democratic Party of Illinois, which is looking to hire a new head of its direct mail campaigns Rapid Response Communications Manager Wilmington, Delaware. The Biden for President campaign is seeking and rapid response communications manager. Well, there's your problem right there. And rapids Response Communications manager to support the Rapid Response team communications teams in Wilmington, including drafting and sending press materials,

maintaining press lists, and other duties as assigned. We're looking for folks with a variety of backgrounds and experience and are dedicated to building a team that looks like America doesn't know that it's a rapid response communications manager. Well, there's Marjorie tail Key. Responsibilities draft press materials including statements, press releases, advisories and talking points. You bet your ass draft briefing memos, presentations, and other internal facing documents like

the one reading. He correspond and coordinate with reporters as appropriate. Hello Marine DOWD. Help manage the flow of communications material internally to key stakeholders and externally to surrogates, allies, and press. Well, this would be the thing about setting up that interview with the radio places, and the guy doesn't work there anymore when you gave him the questions in advance. Collaborate with communications team, senior staff and other team members on

additional projects as needed. How do you draft a resignation track, approvals and strategy meetings? Well, you need approvals, Coordinate with state teams and rapid response bracketing. I don't even know what that is. HU provides and manage communications department interns. Oh No. Preferred skills and qualifications. Strong written and verbal communication skills, strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with employees at all levels. Ability to organize and

manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a detail oriented manner. Hello, Mareen Dowd. Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a detail oriented manner. No, that's my fault. I read that twice. Ability to handle projects with the appropriate level of discretion and confidentiality. This was sort of an actor thought until the last week or so. Ability to work well under pressure with humor and grace. Yeah,

I'm sure. A team player that recognizes the importance of working collaboratively additional useful skills and qualifications prior experience on a political campaign seventy five thousand dollars to eighty thousand a year. So you're telling me you're just hiring somebody to do this now the Biden campaign, Well, hell, I suppose if they're still reconsidering the position of president in the campaign, I guess it's not too late to hire

an rapid response director. Two days worst Persons, somebody's been taking this listing down in the world. Early in two thousand and seven, my phone rang at MSNBC headquarters in New Jersey. The Senator would like to take you to lunch the next time he's in New York. He needs your advice. Would you be willing to do that? It was Joe Biden's press chief. My first reaction was to

ask if they had called the wrong number. My next reaction was to make sure this was not some policy question, because as a news anchor and commentator for MSNBC, it did not seem appropriate for me to offer advice to a candidate for his party's presidential nomination. And doesn't that seem quaint now, Sean Hannity, No. I was told it

was more technical, more about communications, less about content. My antique news standards satisfied, I said sure, and they gave me a couple of dates, and they suggested, given his schedule, the best place for us to eat would be a restaurant in Manhattan. And I laughed and I said, yeah, that's great. It happens to be about forty five seconds from my apartment. The day and the hour arrived. It was March twenty seventh, two thousand and seven, and I made it to the restaurant and I sat down, and

moments later in came the Senator from Delaware. He had that big welcoming smile and equally big welcoming handshake that you may have seen from back when candidates could still go greet the people in a crowd. He reminded me that we had met briefly when he was in Los Angeles for the two thousand Democratic Convention, and he happened to be staying in the hotel there in which I

lived at the time. Senator Biden then said some nice things about my days in sports, and particularly about the commentaries I had begun to do the previous summer on MSNBC. Those special commentaries. He said, with first a smile, then a whistle. There was, then and there remains now almost no space between the public Joe Biden of the campaign or the presidency, and the guy who talks informally to some knucklehead off the streets, which in this story would

be me. There might be a few more swear words words. The word malarkey was used during our lunch, and I remember that particularly because, as I told him, I went to grammar school in Hastings on Hudson, New York with a kid named Billy Mallarkey. He was delighted by that, and he said, he assumed we gave the fellow a hard time, And I said, yeah, but not because of the name. None of us third graders knew what malarkey meant. Then why did you give him a hard time? Senator

Biden asked, it was the third grade. I deadpanned. Everybody gave everybody a hard time. You liked that answer. But back to the point of the lunch, your language, he said, in these special comments, now people often brought up the language I used to do things like, you know, telling President Bush to you know, shut the hell up, because I had to say hell rather than the word I wanted to say, and some of the events of that presidency so infuriated me that I would Redden on camera,

and I don't Redden in a sauna. Once my high school history teacher, a distinguished and elegant man whose nine older siblings had been born in Vienna and who had the courtliness with which that would be implied, mentioned to me the language of the special comments, and I thought, oh boy, here it happens. I'm in for it now.

He Walter Schneller, had told me on the day I graduated that my plans to become a sportscaster were very nice, and he was sure i'd go and do that, but that he was also sure that I would wind up in politics someday, either as a reporter or as a combatant. And I told him I was flattered, and I will always like you, mister Schneller, and you're out of your mind. Mister Schneller was also the one who, years later, was put in charge of the school's surprisingly generous fund for

bringing in speakers to address the student body. He was very in by the fact that for decades, and he got there in I believe nineteen sixty, all of the speakers at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York had either looked like, as he put it, Hugh Side, the columnist of Time magazine, or they had actually been Hugh Saide,

the columnist for Time Magazine. Mister Schneller began scouring the Northeast for anybody smart who might have a diverse background, and that is how he happened to be driving to the railroad station at Tarrytown, New York, one morning in the year nineteen ninety one, to meet the train that carried that day's guest speaker at the Hackley School. He was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and his

name was Barack Obama. Anyway, mister Schneller and I were talking about the commentaries, and he said about the language Keith, and I braced myself and preemptively apologized, No, no, He said, urgently, you missed my point entirely. I'm amazed that your language is so restrained. If I was speaking, I'd have called mister Bush a whereupon mister Schneller made reference to somebody's mother.

So back to lunch. When Senator Biden asked about the language I used, I was wary, but he followed it up by saying that it was kind of why he had asked me to lunch. I watch the commentary as you do. I don't have a choice. Everybody sends me the videos, and my staffers tell me about them. And every time I think the same thing, you express anger. But as close as you come to the line, you never go across it. I say to my staff folks, is he too angry for you? And they all say no,

just right. So here's my question, and then we can enjoy this great lunch. When I'm passionate about something and I speak on the Senate floor, or on the campaign or anywhere else, I get told by my friends and by my enemies, you're too angry. And when I really am angry, they all say, you're really too angry. And here Joe Biden laughed. Now you you go on TV, far larger audience, far longer speeches, and people say that Alderman,

he's righteously indignant. With a mixture of laughter, astonishment and curiosity, he said me, I'm angry. You you are righteously indignant. How do you do it? How do you do it? Man? Can you tell me without thinking? I replied, you've been in the Senate for how long now, Senator thirty thirty four years? He nodded. And you're only just asking this question now. The words were barely out of my mouth

when I froze. This was a friend, or a colleague, or even an athlete who would take the little joking jab I had just thrown. This was a politician. They may have senses of humor, but very few have senses of humor about themselves. In that split second, I was confident Joe Biden would get up and leave. And he was silent for a moment, and then the corners of his mouth turned up, and to my great relief, he burst into laughter. He rocked back into his chair. He

slapped the table with a palm. My god, that's funny. More laughter, My God, that's true, louder laughter. I do not apologize when I say I have loved him ever since. I didn't think I actually would have had much advice for him, and was prepared to just go through the lunch having lunch. But as we talked about this topic, he asked me follow up questions that made me analyze for the the first time some of the processes I

used unknowingly when writing and reading on television. I had never thought of them before because I had never had had lunch with Joe Biden before. I will not bore you with the full results of the dissection of the process or how to turn anger into righteous indignation, if that's really what I was doing. The most valuable conclusion was simply the oldest one in the book. I always wrote late at night while fully angry, and then in the morning I would take a lot of things out,

usually adjectives. Whatever anger was left was only the most intense and the most justifiable. And if you present it twenty four hours after you have written it, you will be in control of the anger and not have the anger be in control of you in short sleep on it.

That was in March two thousand and seven. I saw the Senator next in August of five, two thousand and seven, a Democratic primary debate officially called the afl CIO Candidates Forum, Soldier Field, Chicago, outdoors ninety five degrees, threat of thunderstorms, Obama, Clinton, Biden, Dodd Richardson, Kusinich, Edwards, and the moderator me. There are photos of this, Joe Biden and I walking towards each other,

hands extended for a greeting. He is literally asking me if I have noticed that he has been trying to turn his anger into righteous indignation, and Senator Biden asking if I thought he had succeeded. They are great photos,

largely because my back is to the camera. He did not really succeed in doing this in the debate, though, and he actually came over to me during the commercial and told me what he was going to do, that he didn't think he'd actually gotten the chance to answer a previous question sufficiently, and he was going to go back to it the next time. I called on him, and I told him, don't, don't, don't, don't do that, and he did it anyway, and later he let me

know he should have listened to me. Since then, I cannot recall him being angry, not even in those debates with that goddamned madman. The words were harsh, cutting, destructive, fatal. The tone, no, the tone was dismissive, disappointed, slept upon rage perfect a plus no notes. But it occurs to me in all of the analysis of all of the changes in Joe Biden since day one in nineteen seventy three,

nobody touches on this one thing. As late as two thousand and seven, he seemed to be his reputaieation was as a hothead. When was the last time he was accused of that. I'm not saying I had anything to do with that, But in the years now, since January sixth, particularly, it has been a comforting change, and not a change

within Joe Biden, but within our presidency. And yet now twenty twenty four may make President Biden have to change back, because the comforting Joe Biden is great and the sardonic Joe Biden is greater. But the one who beat Trump and the one we need right now is the Joe Biden of the righteous anger. I've done all the damage I can do here, and now he's going to Joe

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Let's countdown for this the one hundred and twentieth day until the twenty twenty four presidential election, the one two hundred and eighty first day since convicted felon Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing. Use the mental health system. You have this now, mister president, use presidential immunity, arrest him, stop him from doing it again

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