our 80-year product projections for climate change. What is one of the base assumptions of the assumption that climate change will be devastating in the future? Well, the problem is that things that are working now will break, such as people who have access to water might have droughts in the future and other people might have floods. And I've been saying forever that you can't do that kind of an 80-year projection because there would be too many inventions and surprises along the way. You can't predict that stuff.

Well, here's one. In what part of the 80-year projection of water needs and climate change and all that, where did they calculate that Israel would pioneer or improve three major uses of water and actually create it in the sky more efficiently? So that's all good news. I'll put that out there.

I noticed today that one of the trending things on Twitter most of the morning was the phrase "dementia Joe." So of course I clicked on it to see what that was all about. And one of the things I noticed is that I guess a number of conservatives are using it to refer to Joe in his speech, etc. But Democrats really don't like this hashtag, which is partly why it was trending, because they were fighting against it so much it just made it trend.

But that's an interesting thing, isn't it? Why is it that of all the things that anybody can say about Biden, this one—you could tell by the comments—it sort of hit a nerve somehow, whereas normal political speech doesn't always hit a nerve. It's just more routine.

And I feel as if there's a thing happening now, and it's happening in slow motion, and it's hilarious because we can't really talk about it exactly. And it goes like this: all the people who supported Biden for president had to mentally do something to be okay with the fact that quite obviously he wasn't as sharp as he used to be. Now I imagine that the way they dealt with it is either to just not think about it because all they cared about was getting rid of Trump, or they minimized it in their minds to the point of, well, yeah, okay, he's older but it's not that big a deal.

But the predictable arc of things is that it's just going to get more and more obvious. Fifty-one days without a press conference. Fifty-one days without a press conference. It's kind of obvious now. And then you see all the gaffe clips, etc.

So I feel as if the Democrats are feeling exposed, meaning that it's going to look like everything that conservatives said about Joe Biden's mental capacity is not just true but it's really, really obviously true. And it matters. How are they going to deal with that? How does anybody deal with being wrong? Well, most of us do it the same way. We get triggered into cognitive dissonance and then we somehow explain it like it wasn't wrong even if it was.

So I'll just note that "dementia Joe" seems to really get under their skin, in case you want to use that.

Now the Democrats are trying to respond with their own hashtag, which is getting a lot of use: "damn straight." And a number of tweets to say stuff like, "We finally got a real president. Damn straight."

So I don't know. I think "damn straight" is in the category of "no malarkey." It's like people coming up with slogans who are not good at coming up with slogans. "Damn straight." How does that hit you? It just feels a little cringy, doesn't it? Yeah. Okay, if somebody was actually typing "cringe" as I said it, it's a little bit cringy.

Compare that to "Make America Great Again." Now I know people had their problems with it, thinking it was some kind of a racial thing, but in terms of coming up with a slogan or a branding, when you start to see people who are not good at it do it directly after you've watched Trump be really, really good at it—like as good maybe better than anybody's ever been, right? If you count all his nicknames, you know, everything from "low energy" to "Lyin' Ted," if you count all of that, Trump was basically hitting home runs every time he got up to bat. Drain the swamp. Almost everything that Trump tried to turn into a saying or a logo or a statement worked. Everything from "fake news." You name it. He turned everything he wanted to turn into a thing. He turned it into a thing.

But then you watch people who are not good at it.