Bye Joe
Why Joe Biden's last act of great leadership is quitting
He’s gotta go. Good ol’ Uncle Joe Biden, the man who told us how much of a big f’ing deal the Affordable Care Act was and saved us from autocracy in 2020, while doing a decent job governing since, needs to step down.
Much has been said following President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump. Not enough has been said, however, about the torrent of lies spewed all night by Donald Trump.
The biggest reason that torrent went unimpeded was because Biden was incapable of responding to almost everything. He was slow. Stumbled. Slurred. Stuttered. And performed every other verb in between when trying to communicate.
Almost nothing was coherent. Even when he wasn’t responding to Donald Trump’s lies, his own canned sections, like his opening and closing statements, were dull and incomprehensible.
Donald Trump should be the easiest candidate to take down
He’s a convicted felon. An adjudicated sexual abuser. Fraudster. Numerous times bankrupted. And he has 3 major felony cases pending that could lead to numerous other convictions.
That’s before even getting to Trump’s record while he was President. How he added more to the national debt than any sitting president in history (not very fiscally conservative!).
And that’s before even getting to Trump’s shadow presidency since 2020. How he’s basically controlled the Republican Party despite the fact they’ve lost almost every election (or underperformed) when pushing his candidates since 2016.
On abortion alone the Democrats should sweep any general election. No suburban woman who feels even a little strongly about that issue is likely to vote for Trump.
But Biden could not even respond to Trump’s outlandish abortion claims. Trump accused Democrats of murdering babies for God’s sake and Biden basically sat there looking incredulous like the rest of us. He was too slow to pounce on the disgusting lie and explain how that would never have been permitted even under Roe v. Wade.
Instead, many Americans may believe Trump on abortion.
And this is why we need to say “Bye Joe.”
I’m not a doctor so I cannot conclude whether Joe is incompetent
Whether we’re in 25th amendment territory. But I do have eyes and 36 years of experience on this planet dealing with all sorts of people, including the elderly, and let me tell you something.
It’s never easy getting your grandparent to give up their car keys.
They usually bump into a pole or two before they finally realize - themselves - that they need to stop driving. If they’re lucky, it’s only a pole.
Joe Biden basically ran over the neighborhood cat during this first debate with Trump. He wasn’t so reckless that he killed a small child, but the cat was beloved by the neighborhood. Nobody will forget. And nobody will care that Biden allegedly had the sniffles.
No cold causes someone to operate that slowly. To appear so frail and weak. To act so unsure of the next word to come out of their mouth.
And here I had so much hope. Biden’s recent State of the Union was strong! I even said Dark Brandon showed up. But that was in March and now we’re in June with a very different Joe Biden.
Unscripted. No teleprompter. Responding to a narcissistic and unpredictable liar.
This was a big test and Joe Biden failed.
Bye Joe.
The stakes for America are simply too high not to say “bye” to Joe Biden
We are talking about a candidate in Donald Trump who has plans to lay waste to democratic institutions, government agencies like the Department of Education, humane immigration policies, allies around the world, and any political enemy at home.
This is the stuff of dictators, folks. It’s the recipe not only for instability at home in America, but massive instability globally.
And even if Joe Biden does win against Trump, how can he be trusted to represent America well? How can we be confident that he can stand his own in a room with Xi, Putin, or Kim Jung Un? How can we be sure that Joe Biden (and not Joe Biden’s team) can make tough calls and keep America and her allies safe?
It’s not easy taking the car keys from grandpa. It’s symbolic in many ways - the finiteness of life, the end of the road, the passing of the torch.
But that’s what real leaders do. They know when to quit. They know when to say to the next generation - “It’s your turn to drive me. I can help show you the way.”
I hope Joe Biden does help the next generation of leaders. But before it’s too late, he needs to step down. Before it’s too late.
Bye Joe. And thank you for your service.
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