The great thing about huge declarations is that the most times you’re ever going to have to deliver on them is ONCE. And even that is vanishingly unlikely. The dishes happen every day. My feet hurt now. The kids need a lift to piano lessons every week. The grenade is hypothetical.
You’d die for me? I’d prefer someone who’d live for me, thanks.
i know most people following me dont care about the weather, but i really need to share this because im genuinely gonna throw the fuck up dying of laughter over whoever runs this national weather service account on twitter fighting for their lives
life becomes so beautiful when you start cooking rice in liquids other than water
put that basmati rice in the cooker with coconut cream and chicken stock and an entire onion that you’ve diced and sauteed with garlic until transparent. and some salt and pepper. Trust me
“Uncle Benadryl’s one minute rice” one minute what? awake? left to live?
New Tumblr is now such that I cannot just go to the post with the recipe but must reblog the gatorade and uncle benadryl if I ever hope to make rice with coconut cream.
I didn’t watch the debate tonight because I had more pressing matters to attend and I figured nothing of real importance would happen. Two horrible old men would yell at each other, the unaccountable fandoms of each would say their guy clearly won, and the result would be status quo ante.
Boy was I fucking wrong.
Biden’s performance wasn’t simply bad, it was historically bad. Unprecedentedly terrible. There’s nothing to say about it that the clip of him speaking in tongues and then saying “we finally beat medicare” can’t give you.
Bad debates happen. Obama had one, Bush had one. Reagan had one particularly awful one that some Dem party hacks are vainly trying to compare this to in order to say “see, he bounced back!” But those bad debates have something in common that Biden’s outing tonight doesn’t share: the loser lost because the other guy beat them.
Trump didn’t beat Biden. He didn’t need to. His own performance was hardly stellar, something the most hopeless Democrat deadenders will screech ad nauseam, but which could not possibly matter less.
But what’s truly telling of how singularly historical this loss was is the response. Here’s the front page of Politico rn:
When Obama had a bad night against Mitt Romney no Democratic operative or donor, deep background or no, would have been caught dead suggesting maybe he should drop out of the race. A significant part of the higher echelons of the party responded to tonight’s disaster by immediately texting a reporter and going full rat mode on the dissected husk in the Oval Office. That is not something those people do lightly, although I suspect a certain amount of pent up frustration with what was already self-evident to many observes with far less access played a role in their decision to speak out. Asked for comment Govenors Newsom of California and Pritzker of Illinois, two front runners for the nomination in 2028, both reiterated their support for the President. Which is honestly almost worse than if they’d made a non committal response, because no one who publicly ratfucks the incumbent is going to get called out of the bullpen to replace him on the ticket, and both of them saw the same debate you did. One anonymous Democratic donor suggested a ticket composed of the governors of Maryland and Michigan though for the life of me I can’t imagine why you would give Gov. Whitmer second billing (Whitmer would be my first choice for a pinch hitter but that’s beside the point).
The Democrats are going to spend the next news cycle or six trying to make you believe what we all saw, either live or later in dribs and drabs, wasn’t as bad as it obviously was. The Republicans are going to move in for the kill like a pack of jackals surrounding a wounded gazelle (do those even live in the same ecosystem? doesn’t matter, any more than it matters that Trump spent the whole debate lying capriciously and talking about his golf game). Regardless of whether or not the Democrats manage to put down the full on mutiny currently underway at the highest levels of the party, the damage is done. A poll before the debate put Trump up 4 points among likely voters. If the spread stays in single digits in the next few days that will be a small miracle.
The Democrats are beyond fucked, but they can’t say they weren’t warned.
I think you vastly underestimate the impact of a candidate getting on stage, saying literal complete gibberish and finishing with “we beat Medicare!” There’s no precedent for that at this level of politics. Best case scenario, most of Biden’s bleeding goes into the undecided column, but with him already down by four against Trump him losing another 6+ over this is extremely likely, and anything less will be miraculous.
I must reiterate in the strongest terms that any candidate but especially a presidential getting on stage and screaming gibberish will kill a campaign dead and the only reason Biden isn’t going to be down 50 points in the next poll is because he still is running against Trump, but that’s still not enough to stop the bleeding.
