That's just how old 81 years old looks!

TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2024

But also, Stormy Daniels Tonight: Friend, are you possibly being "gaslit" about what happened last week?

Are you being handed explanation which don't quite seem to make sense? 

We're speaking about President Biden's performance at last Thursday's debate. Do you believe that what you saw was the result of his having a cold? Do you think it was just his stutter? 

Do those explanations actually seem to make sense?

Last night, we heard the best one yet. It came from Rachel Maddow, at 9:06 p.m. It was her one fleeting reference to what happened last Thursday night.

As her weekly program began, she was talking—and talking and talking—about the July 11 court date in which Donald J. Trump will be sentenced for his 34 felonies. Along the way, fleetingly, she managed to offer this:

MADDOW (7/1/24): ...[Trump] himself might be sentenced to Rikers [Island], or to New York state prison, depending on what sentence he's about to get after his own conviction on nearly three dozen felony charges. 

Excellent job, Republican Party! Great choice!

I love how Democrats are, like, "Ohhh! How did we get into this mess?" 

[CHUCKLES]

It's true that not understanding how old 81 years old looks sometimes is maybe a Democratic Party mistake.  But Democrats are not the party that picked the guy whose charity was shut down as a fraud, whose fake university was shut down as a fraud, whose business was convicted of multiple felony fraud counts, whose CFO is quite literally in jail...

And so on. Then on and on.

It's true! Democrats aren't the party which nominated Donald J. Trump! At present, Democrats are the party which stands to lose the White House this year in a race against Donald J. Trump.

In our view, you're being gaslit when Maddow tells you what she told you in that highlighted passage. When she tells you that you just don't understand "how old 81 years old looks sometimes"—when she tells you that that explains what you thought you saw on your TV screen last Thursday night.

For ourselves, we'd like to see further reporting about what we all saw that night. On CNN, Carl Bernstein has said that meltdowns of the type we saw have been taking place for some time, though we ourselves don't know if that's true.

Also this:

For ourselves, we have no idea what the Democratic Party should do at this point. Unfortunately, our guess would be that the party is so sunk in sin—and perhaps in deception—that there's no good way forward from here.

(Though the party, of course, could still win.)

For ourselves, we don't know what the Democratic Party should do. We will say this:

We'll say that the party, and its acolytes, should stop with all the gaslighting. They should stop calling people "bedwetters." They should even stop saying things as blatantly stupid as the one thing Maddow deigned to say about this matter last night.

Moments later, Maddow reported tonight's really big event. She's going to stage a two-hour special broadcast tonight—a two-hour special devoted to her interview with Stormy Daniels!

Due to our moral and intellectual greatness, we're prepared to imagine the possibility that something of value might result from special this two-hour event. Or it may be what the Rolling Stones said:

Some people know what you need. But salespeople know what you want.

It could just be that! At any rate, you may want to keep hearing about the claim that Donald J. Trump engaged in consensual sex on one occasion in 2006. Tonight, you'll be allowed to keep on dreaming, as sacred Nietzsche once said.

We don't know what the Democratic Party should do at this point. We do think that people like Maddow should stop selling product like this.