show our dear leader and the best possible light. here you have joe biden going right there to the border to see what is going on, so i give them a lot of credit for that. visiting the border making sure the conservatives in that area know that he really is listening to their concerns about border security. he does seem to be working directly on this issue. he is very aware of what is going on in the border, coming down and seeing it has really made a big difference. laura: made a big difference, who needs comedy with these clowns? but he did do a heck of chatting up salvation army volunteers, or were they from the secret service? same difference. here we have so happy to see you, so happy to see you. laura: okay, now if you are a democrat, you re still waving off concerns about joe s age and declining cognition, then you are just in denial, or maybe you know that although biden is one fall away from the senior center lunchroom, he is still the sharpest kni
We have increasingly expected spectacle from our presidents. president obama hao had a hip-hop kind of connection, et cetera. he is the culmination of that trend in american politics in the worst way. this is spectacle, reality tv. he s a reality tv star still even as a former president, and this is both a pathetic and sort of sad moment for the country. it is, i think, a good moment for the idea that justice is equal, we re equal under law, even a former president. i think it is his comeuppance, but it also to me says something really terrifying about our politics that i don t think we can fix. you know, this is spectacle. this is gross. it s interesting, though, because all the i think it s a really good point that you re making. i am sort of seeing a subtlety in it than i didn t see before you said it. all those things you described in the ways different presidents have portrayed themselves, have gone out of their way to
laura, this was bromides over brainpower, linguistics over laptops, rhyme over reason, when i heard this, i thought somebody has been watching too many youtube clips of that youth poet laureate amanda gorman, remember her? the depths of death, despair, and disparity, atrocities across cities, towns, and countries, lives lost. climactic costs. laura: i never , no, he was trying to do kind of, it was a hip-hop kind of ode to reverend wright, but it was not that spiteful, it was an odd, any kind of hopped when he said it, there was a hop every now and then. at least she keeps in a meter, he kind of breaks it up, but this was syntax without