#287 Why Wealth Matters

Biden appears unfit for office. Whether he's actually senile, I don't know. But he simply can't communicate the way the President needs to. You watch these speeches and interviews and press conferences, insofar as they even take place—every sentence is a death-defying feat. It's like watching your mom do parkour. You're just waiting for the worst thing that has ever happened every fucking second. And he is totally unfit to run again in 2024.

Kamala Harris is probably worse ... She still manages to speak in word salad in an apparent effort to talk down to people ... Many of the things she says are completely mystifying. It's like someone trained an AI on woke Twitter and had it talk to itself for the equivalent of 1,000 years, and it went properly insane.

Trump and Trumpism is not just a symptom of a deeper problem. They are that, too, but they are also a cancer that has been actively destroying our politics. You have to cut out the cancer.

Trump has always been and remains a litmus test. The real Trump derangement syndrome is to not see how abnormal he is as a person and to not see or to not care how abnormal it is that such a person could have ever become the president of the United States.

This administration is doomed and has been doomed almost since the very beginning. But Biden and Harris saved our democracy by beating Trump. And as odious and incompetent as the Democrats have become, there is simply no comparison between them and what the Republicans have become under Trump.

For instance, I'll concede that almost anything bad that is said about the Democrats now is probably true.

If you haven't been following the hearings for whatever reason, you're missing something. The window they have opened on to the last days of the Trump Administration is beyond unflattering, and the prospect that we may one day see the orange man in an orange jumpsuit seems to have grown a little.

Making Trump president was like making Alex Jones the lead anchor on the nightly news.

I think repealing Roe is going to be unambiguously bad for women. In particular, poor women in red states.

At a certain stage in pregnancy, you have to treat a fetus as a being who can suffer. But over 90% of abortions happen in the first trimester, and given what we know, that should be a legal practice available to all women, especially given what we know about the effects on a society that outlaws that practice.

There are many things happening in the world. Of course, there were the January 6th hearings, which are not at all the partisan witch hunt that Republicans are claiming.

The writing was always on the wall for Roe. It has always seemed like a dubious judicial decision and just the wrong way to enshrine abortion rights at the federal level.

Most people recognize that a clump of cells is not a person, while a 30-week-old fetus is so close to being a bouncing baby that it is a person.