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I had thought that Biden would either duck the SOTU, mail in a taped performance, or go full-senile mid-speech. Instead, he was so drugged up and "fiery" (the official MSM word of the day) that I thought he might punch somebody on his way out of the chamber.
(BTW, the scientific literature says giving speed to senile oldsters is a go.)
Barring a stroke or cardiac arrest from too many poppers or too much whiffle dust, any plans to install Newsom, Whitmer, or some other non-Kamala replacement have been permanently shelved. It will be back to the basement for another stealth campaign but with a really bad record to run on this time.
The good news is that with the Delaware Disgrace on the ballot, the Democrats will have to continue to try to tell people that the economy is fine, that the border is secure, that crime is dropping, and that Biden is not impaired. On his best day, Josef Goebbels (and maybe even Baghdad Bob) would likely refuse that task as impossible.
This means that the one candidate Trump can probably beat is staying in the race. Biden's natural mean streak and gracelessness will be more obvious than ever and when Democrats are afraid, they need to scream "Hitler!" louder and more often so months of ugly noise are ahead. Ugly noise is usually bad for incumbents.
Anyway, for the moment, thanks Big Pharma for letting the circus roll on.
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Primary voters seem to want more ugly noise. They can't get enough of it.
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A major part of the strategy to beat Trump was to keep screaming until people could not stand it anymore and would vote to make Trump to go away to make the ugliness stop. That worked at the margins back when Biden was the (fictitious) Return to Normal candidate. Now that Normal is a trans military, rogue FBI, 20 million aliens, unaffordable groceries, no electricity for AC this summer, and looted Walmarts, yelling "Hitler" is unlikely to be as effective.
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Dear lord, that is an accurate "sit rep." :) :)
Wow.
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I have this mental image of Hunter and Dad doing lines of cocaine in the limo all the way over to the capital.
For those that have seen the comedy movie: "Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story", its a spoof of that Johnny Cash movie, but there's a scene where he's singing his country-like ballad "Walk Hard" after doing cocaine and he's singing it like a punk rock/mosh-pit winder in the 1950's, yelling at his band to "play faster! Again, faster!"
Dewey Cox invents Punk Rock by accident in Walk Hard (youtube.com)
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I generally really try not to make diagnoses over a TV set. But gosh - I swear he was on something. A whole lot of something.
Hard to say. Maybe he just thought his only hope was to look manic and bang his shoe on the table. But my goodness. He looked like he was on way, WAY too much amphetamine.
The good news is, he just passed a cardiac stress test. I'll bet his pulse rate was 175 for two hours. I'll bet they gave him 10mg of lorazepam as soon as he got in the limo after the speech, and then transported him to a cardiac care unit for monitoring.
I'm trying to imagine what would've happened if he had died of a cardiac arrhythmia on national television 45 minutes after his own doctor jacked him up on speed.
His doctor is playing with fire, here.
Of course, so are we, by electing him, I suppose...
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