1. There are a few criticisms to be made about President Joe Biden’s speech in Philadelphia last night. For instance, when he said, “Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology,” he’s really talking the difference between someone who comes to your house and murders everyone and someone who comes to your house, murders everyone, fucks the corpses, and sets the place on fire. Sure, the latter is way worse, but, you know, in the former, you’re still murdered.
Yeah, one way to look at that is Biden offering the supposedly “mainstream Republicans” a lifeboat from the Trumptanic before it smashes into the iceberg of reality and sinks into the depths of the brutal ocean of history. That lets Republicans off the hook for a whole lot of fuckery. While the “MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people,” it’s not like pre-Trump Republicans were handing out daisies across the aisle. What was the Republican Senate’s use of the formerly rare filibuster as a regular tool to block legislation starting with Barack Obama’s administration but another way to thwart the will of the people when they voted in Democratic majorities in Congress? Yeah, it’s not the same as overturning an election because the results make you feel sad. But it’s not that fucking far off.
