8.7.24

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR.

You'd think five cuts in a fourteen second video challenging Donald Trump to a debate might tell you something about how with it Dementia Joe was.
I've had a little practice editing videos, but if you see a jump cut it wasn't a presidential brain short circuiting or a president's train of thought jumping the tracks.  Oh, and pro tip for layout builders: have enough of the scenery roughed in that when a train leaves the tracks it doesn't go to the next level down or to the floor.

Then came the presidential debate, and Power Line's John Hinderaker found a truly inspired riposte to it.
Mr Hinderaker correctly notes, "To be fair, though, Miss Teen South Carolina was far more coherent, and certainly more lively and likable, than President Joe Biden."

It's not that we weren't warned, as Pajamas Media's Stephen Kruiser noted.  "As recently as last Wednesday, anyone who pointed out that he's a train wreck was accused of making it up."  An editorial comment from Pravda-on-the-Hudson caught by Heather MacDonald also didn't age well.  "People are going to see actual footage [during the debate] that contradicts that [cognitive decline narrative]."  Oops, indeed.

We did not run a Friday short takes on Freedom Week Friday.  That post likely would have had a prelude entirely on the debate fallout, and that prelude continues below the jump.

Live not by lies.  "Biden is no longer fit to be president. Last night’s debate exposed the lies we’ve been told."  I have to wonder, though, why if Donald Trump is such a threat to Our Democracy(TM) the Democrats installed Dementia Joe four years ago and have mostly ruled by decree since.  But if you're ancient socialist Robert Kuttner, none of it matters.  "With Biden heading the ticket, Democrats will likely lose the House, Senate, state legislatures and governorships, and down-ballot races all the way to school board, as well as the presidency. Chuck Schumer cares more about losing his post as majority leader than he cares about the awkwardness of having to tell his president he needs to go."  Although Ralph Nader concurs, he's in the there-isn't-a-dime's-worth crowd otherwise.

Meanwhile, I wonder if the editorialists of Chicago's Tribune even understood what they wrote.  "The Insta-pundits are now just an echo chamber. Americans don’t need partisan analyses of something they saw with their own eyes."  It's been the Blogfather and the Pajamas Media calling attention to Dementia Joe's, well, dementia, from the beginning.  They focused more on the process trickery that installed Old Joe than on the conjuring trick by which he sold himself as a not-crazy Democrat, but the electorate will not be so easily fooled a second time, not after four years of money printing, open borders, and Weimar America.  That's probably not what Nation contributor Chris Lehmann has in mind with "Biden’s Record Won’t Win Him the Election if He Can’t Make Sense for 2 Minutes at a Time."  Red State's Bonchie sheds no tears.  "Democrats need to be made to face the consequences of what they've done. There are no easy outs, and that's a good thing."

Not necessarily, though.  Federalist editor Mark Hemingway suggests that the Credentialed Elite have opened an even larger credibility gap.  "It’s tempting for Trump supporters to revel in schadenfreude over this mess because Trump, who’s been leading in the polls since September, just saw his odds of winning jump even more, and the downballot effects for Dems of a lopsided victory could be devastating. But the reality is that there’s no good outcome for the country.  Democrats have spent years insisting Trump and the Republican Party were a threat to Democracy because of Jan. 6, 2021. But that threat may pale in comparison to having a non compos mentis man in the White House with two separate wars raging involving nuclear powers. If distrust between voters and our leadership class was already a problem, it’s about to get a lot worse."  All our elite had to do was be competent, and they've botched it.  Perhaps New Yorker contributor Susan Glasser is right to have the sads.  "At the end of a grim night, this might have been the comic relief we all needed. But it did not seem funny so much as very, very sad. Is this how democracy dies, in a shouting match between two seniors about their golf game?"

I don't know, maybe that new birth of freedom requires the failure of the old order, and the clog on freedom it has become.  Go long on popcorn futures.  "So the civil war on the left just got real. On the one side is the vanity of the Bidens alongside the self-interest of executive staff, and on the other is the interest of the congressional wing in not getting wiped out in November."
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