Meanwhile, the political ads are beginning to drop:

Nikki Haley Voters: Trump doesn't want your vote.

That’s obvious:

One couldn’t tell from the broadcast but I bet she was barefoot under the table the entire time…as though she accepts her station in life…like a good Christian wife.

Also, although she may not know it just yet — women so often don’t— she must be newly pregnant as well.

You’re welcome :D

Yeppers, not sure how Joe could have done better. I suspect that we’ll get agreement from Chris tonight…if he lives long enough to post it — after all Chris keeps having birthdays and is getting pretty old…

Biden did fine. He had a few gaffes (check) and stuttered a couple of times (check) but was plenty feisty and and orders of magnitude more coherent than Trump. The Republican Twitter Caucus heckled him from time to time, especially MTG but he mostly merely sailed through it.

(Full disclosure: his policy proposals were a basket full of Progressive goodies, everything short of legalizing weed, so I may be biased. Legalization can be his October surprise, I guess).

As always the party holding the Presidency got a lot more exercise with all the standing ovations and clapping and chanting. “Four more years! Four more years!” Bernie doesn’t move very quick but even he got up to applaud reducing the deficit, for example. The Republicans mostly sat quietly, not burning many calories.

I’ve long felt that Trump’s plain spokenness (even if he’s lying) would make American politicians drop some of the politician-speak and that’s what I saw this evening.

The Republican response featured Senator Katie Britt (R — State of Tuberville) who clearly graduated from the William Shatner School of Overacting. She sold fear,period, and I’m thinking the Biden campaign will appreciate the great contrast to their upbeat approach.

Guys remember that Biden’s poll numbers always sucked — that happens when your opponent doesn’t concede they lost. Yet election after election people are voting blue! This is an example of voter action talks and bullsh — er, voter complaining walks.

I think not only the rate of inflation but the nominal prices themselves would have to both revert back to pre-Covid levels for that to change. Think of it as an eternal protest vote against inflation and Biden’s stubborn refusal stop celebrating birthdays.