🪩 Dancing The Goalposts Away 💃🏾🕺

The widespread anxieties about Biden’s age-related impairment have increased over time, only to be shushed by his allies.*

"Widespread anxiety" is carrying a lot of baggage 🧳, especially since it’s unattributed (“some people say”) and unattributable. Those anxieties aren’t expressed by the primary voters who chose Biden, or by the contributors even after the debate. If anything, this is a replay of the anxiety of November 2016, et seq. It’s the anxiety of the interregnum between the days before the convention, and Election Day. The period when anything seems possible, and what is all but set in stone might still be rewritten, and what if…?

And now the solution is to get Biden to resign, and if he won’t, invoke every portion of the 25th Amendment until he finally does. And do it in two weeks, so Harris can accept the party’s nomination and somehow convince some states that a vote for Biden counts as a vote for Harris and some other VP candidate.

That’ll keep the lawyers busy.

This is not, in other words, a serious proposal. These are not serious people. But they want desperately to be taken seriously. Especially when there’s a chance to seize the moment and influence the choice of Presidential nominee. It’s their chance to be important. Two weeks before the convention. Last chance to change the dance.

And if they’re wrong? It’s Biden’s fault for being old; and creating so much anxiety.

But if it’s going to be Biden’s fault either way, why should he step aside? He might as well stick to it and go down swinging. Or win. Much more likely he wins.

If you want assurances about the future, go back to believing in Santa Claus. If you don’t want Trump to be President, quit wringing your hands and fucking around. Nobody’s really listening to you, anyway. Biden’s not going anywhere, and nobody else is listening to the whingers.

*Latest opinion piece in The New Yorker.