The animatronic skeleton in the white house is planning to announce his intentions to run for president again this week. If it were me, I’d simply take my millions and retire quietly to a nice villa where I could fall off my bike and ramble incoherently in peace. But sometimes the desire to cling to power is too strong to resist, just ask Mitch McConnell, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or Dianne Feinstein (the list goes on).
The problem with campaigning as a senile old man is that a presidential campaign is no joke. It’s widely expected to be a punishing 19-month effort for Biden to try and convince the general public of his accomplishments and his ability to serve well into his eighties. Speaking of his ‘accomplishments’, it may prove difficult to illustrate how successful he’s been when the economy is currently in the toilet, trains are falling off their tracks on a weekly basis, and absolutely nothing has been done to prevent more mass shootings.
An NBC News poll released yesterday found that just 26% of Americans think Joey B should run for a second term as president, while an overwhelming 70% say he should not. Among polled democrats, 51% say Biden should not run for a second term, with many citing his age as the reason. Personally, if the majority of people within my own political party thought I was too old to run for president, I might take that information into consideration. But what do I know, maybe I’m just an ageist hater.
Side Items
Bed, Bath, and Broke Boys: The company made famous by Adam Sandler’s hit film “Click”, a store that somehow sold everything and nothing at once, has filed for bankruptcy and asked the courts for permission to auction off their assets. It would surely be a sad story if not for the fact that the idiot executives blew one billion dollars on stock buybacks, a direct cash transfer to shareholders, in 2021. Now they’re bankrupt, in no small part because of that $1B hole, and that means no severance for workers who've been there for 20 years. The true American dream, screwing workers out of their hard-earned money because executives can’t control their greed
Murderer Set Free: Kim Potter, the she-pig charged with shooting and murdering Daunte Wright, will reside in Wisconsin just two years after fatally shooting unarmed 20-year old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop. Potter, as you may recall, was a 26-year police veteran, and claimed she confused her gun for a Taser during the lethal traffic stop. Potter's release at 4 a.m. ended her brief 16-month stint in prison as part of her incredibly brief two-year sentence. Potter will now serve the balance of her term on supervised release. Lesson learned kids, if you ever want to literally get away with murder, just throw on a badge and gun
Arab Spring Dead: Rached Ghannouchi has been a voice for democracy in Tunisia as well as across the Muslim world for decades. This week, the police finally came for Mr. Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia’s largest political party and the Arab world’s most influential thinker about the potential synthesis of liberal democracy and Islamic governance. According to Rached, a true Islamic state must be founded on “freedom of conscience” for Muslim and non-Muslim citizens alike. Quoting a revered twelfth-century scholar, Ghannouchi urged Islamists to learn from Western democracy—to benefit “from the best of human experiments regardless of their religious origins”. Autocrats generally don’t like that kind of talk, so it’s not surprising Ghannouchi has been arrested, but disappointing nonetheless