Joe Biden — and all of us! — has had a fuck of a week.
We at Wonkette, and just about all of you, are Joe Biden lovers to the end. He was handed a world on fire and invested in America from the bottom up, so that today we’re making our own shit again, fighting climate change, investing first in the places that always get left behind. He’s done things — for instance, making Big Pharma negotiate drug prices with Medicare — that have been on the progressive wishlist for decades. He’s been a president I did not know he could be.
Tonight’s interview George Stephanopoulos is — not to be melodramatic about it, BUT — maybe his last fight to remain on the ticket he leads. The Washington Post reports Virginia Senator Mark Warner is attempting to assemble a strike force to convince the president it’s time to stand down.
Here he is today in Milwaukee (starts 1 hour 18 in), saying fuck all y’all, he is absolutely staying in this race. I’m getting a tiny weepy just watching him hug people. And he’s good, and he’s passionate! And he’s funny, and he’s mocking Trump like a fuckin champ. And he’s on teleprompter, and I am honestly going to need to see him on Not That with Stephanopoulos. I am.
Decent people — us! — can disagree in these comments on whether he should stay or go, without being bullies, without yelling or namecalling, without LOUD NOISES!
Get a glass of something — club soda if you’ve had all your drinks already — or a spliff, and settle in.
If I can find a better youtube embed, I’ll replace this one, which is just ABC News’s livestreaming.
Interview starts at 8 p.m. Eastern. UPDATE: Now 8:30 p.m. ABC knows how to milk an audience.
I’ll be following up over the weekend, if up needs following.
Hang on, did it just end altogether during what looked like a commercial break? no "thank you, Mr. President/Fuck you, George." just a toss to the control room and the stream ended?
So this is where we are. The President of the United States, being challenged by dissenters who want him to step down, due to a weak performance on a tv show, now being tested by a guy who works on a morning show that features shark attack stories, cooking demos, and hawking Deals and Steals. Get over yourselves, tv fuckers. This is not a reality show, it's our democracy.