Today’s top story: Joe Biden turned one day older yesterday, continuing his troubling tendency to age. Worse, he refuses to do anything about it, despite the throngs demanding he step aside so Jane or Johnny Unbeatable could run in his place.
That hit job report slagging his memory is being kept alive not by MAGAts, who already “knew” all that, but by the supposedly left-leaning media, especially the New York Times, fretting endlessly about it. Columnist Paul Krugman all but called out his colleagues over it:
Again, I wish this election weren’t a contest between two elderly men and worry in general about American gerontocracy. But like it or not, this is going to be a race between Biden and Trump — and somehow the lucid, well-informed candidate is getting more heat over his age than his ranting, factually challenged opponent.
I generally ignore the breathless day-by-day reports on what’s happening in Trump’s various trials, because the only one I’m interested in is his theft of classified documents. That’s the one with the incompetent pro-Trump judge in charge, and there’s speculation that her latest fuckup will get her removed from the case. Don’t count on it.
The evidence that AG Merrick Garland is a bumbling incompetent has become overwhelming and he needs to be shitcanned, says Charlie Pierce. Better late than never.
Talking Points Memo launched a three-part series today based on a trove of documents that lays bare the conspiracy to cause chaos on and after Jan. 6 in an effort to usher in martial law and a continued Trump presidency. All involved should be hung. It’s in the Constitution, which of course Democrats won’t follow because they’re eunuchs.
The floor’s yours.