'Shut Up Man' I Believe Harris Will Win for the Exact Same Reason Biden Did [View all]

'I Believe Harris Will Win for the Exact Same Reason Biden Did,' Daily Kos, Sept. 17, 2024.
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I remember the moment Joe Biden won the presidency. It wasn’t Election Day in November, nor was it January 6, when momentarily abashed Republicans decided to complete their largely ceremonial duty after Trump’s failed coup.

No, Biden won that election on September 29, when, in the first debate, he became exasperated by Trump’s continued interruptions and blurted out, “Will you shut up, man?”

In my neighborhood, you don’t have to watch the game to know how the Saints are doing, just open the windows. You’ll hear the cheers on every score or great play. When Joe Biden sputtered out that sentence, the hood sounded just like Kamara had bulldozed one over the goal line.

We all cheered, because, in that moment, Biden literally spoke for all of us. “Will you shut up, man?

As we approach this November, the nonstop, abject lunacy of the former Republican party has doubled, trebled its usual volume. Haitians make chat l’orange. The girl with the pearl radio transmitter earring (don’t forget the mysteriously-dead whistleblower). Schools that can’t fix the air conditioning are fixing your cisgender kids. It’s exhausting just trying to shovel your way through the crap. And I get the sense my fellow Americans are exhausted, too...
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