Monday, July 22, 2024

Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining

Politics is so much like high school, it's embarrassing. I finally understand why some people, like my brother Brian who is among the smartest people on the planet and certainly the funniest, choose to avoid it and do not vote. Am I brave enough to join them this year? It's looking that way.

Since yesterday's written announcement that he will not run again, Joe Biden has ascended from being seen as a calamitous albatross to Jesus-like status among the Democrats, who are all so relieved to be rid of him they can't contain their joy. 

Since then, a tsunami of accolades has inundated the Internet citing Joe's "transformative" presidency, possibly "the most transformative in all of history" according to some groveling pundits who just days ago begged him to disappear and never darken their doorway again.

"Word salad is defined as a jumble of extremely incoherent speech as sometimes observed in schizophrenia."

A similarly miraculous transformation has happened to Kamala Harris, who until yesterday and for the last four years has been the butt of jokes, the subject of memes and a true failure at her job. The only things she is really known for are an annoying cackle and her inscrutable "word salad" responses to any and all questions lobbed in her direction. Yet overnight, as the heir apparent to the Oval Office, she's morphed into a brilliant goddess: The first female to occupy that esteemed position, and Holy moly, she's black-ish! (Born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother.) 

Oh well -- at least if Kamala wins there will finally be a Jew in the White House with First Husband Doug Emhoff hopefully imparting some wisdom over bagels and lox at breakfast. (There's the silver lining.)




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