little less comfortable drinking somebody else's purified urine than my own. Is that just me?

Well, we don't want to talk about this because this is icky. It's disgusting. It's the last thing you want in your mind. But speaking of drinking your own urine, let's talk about President Biden and his press conference. That's called a segue, people. It's called a segue. Yeah, I did plan that. Well, thank goodness.

We used to have this dishonest president called Trump. Oh my God, the lies that man told. He would sometimes tell you that the crowd size was not exactly what it was, and I don't know how the country recovered from that. Sometimes he would make claims about what he did for the economy that some people thought were exaggerated. And yet we survived, people. We survived that terrible deception and lying from the man who wants to be a dictator for a day.

But thank goodness we finally got an honest president. He promised us he would be a bridge to the next generation. Okay, he's not going to be a bridge to the next generation. He's going to selfishly run for reelection. But that's just one thing. I mean, nobody's perfect, right? They're human beings running for president. They're not gods. They're just normal human beings. They're going to make some mistakes. So sure, maybe the main campaign promise was a lie, and maybe it will be a lie that will destroy the Democratic Party for a generation. But it's just one thing.

If you compare that to the hundreds and hundreds of things that Trump has said that are slight exaggerations, I think you can see there's no comparison. It's not comparable. It's just that one thing for Biden. Well, technically it's two things, because he actually put his campaign in 2020 around the fine people hoax. But really that's just two things, and you can't really compare two things to that blizzard of exaggerations from Trump. That wouldn't even be comparable. That'd be like an apple to an orange.

Well, okay, okay. Biden did spread the drinking bleach hoax, the Central Park Five hoax. He tried that on a radio station. He did say that Trump is in it for himself while Biden is clinging to power for reasons that even his own party says must be only for himself. He tells us that the polls say that he's winning, but in fact no poll says that. He told us he has no cognitive problems while he decomposed right in front of us. He said on a radio station that his staff asked him to delete that he had more Black members in his administration than all other administrations added up, which is not even close to being true.

But that's just a handful. That's just a handful of lies. Now, I think you saw on CNN, if you watched it directly after the debate, CNN brought their fact-checker in to fact-check Biden on what? Well, they didn't. What do you mean? Oh, really? They didn't. So CNN didn't bring their fact-checker in to fact-check Biden. Why wouldn't they do that? That's what he's for. Shouldn't he be there, really featured? You think that would be like an obvious... Was he on vacation? Summer vacation? It's probably summer vacation. People, do not be suspicious. Do not start thinking that the news is not completely objective and fair just because the fact-checker happened to be on vacation. It's not like anybody could replace them. I mean, that's a special skill. Nobody else knows facts. Just that one guy, and he's on vacation, I guess. Because I can't think of any other reason he wouldn't be prominently featured after the presser. Can you? Can you think of any reason? No, there's no reason.

Well, I have a hypothesis. It goes like this. Maybe there's a big political difference of opinion in the world. Maybe that's what's going on. It would look like that. I mean, that would fit observations. But I've got another provocative suggestion about what's going on. I feel like, is it just me, or does it seem like Democrats are not good at reading people? Have you noticed that?

So Democrats looked at Biden and they said, "He looks fine to me." Did any of you have that opinion? They look at Adam Schiff and they say, well, he looks honest, so I think whatever he said he saw in that SCIF, that must be true. Look at him. Would that face lie to you? They thought that Brennan and Clapper seemed credible. Were they listening to them on the radio? Have you seen their faces? How can you look at Brennan and Clapper and think they're credible? Just look at them. Seriously, you can't pick up anything just by looking at them.

How about Hakeem Jeffries? Now, I don't know anything about Hakeem Jeffries except that he looks like the most evil human being I've ever seen in my life. Now, I could be wrong, but I feel like I'm pretty good at reading people. So do you think that that could be part of it? When I turn on MSNBC and I see Joy Reid and I see Rachel Maddow, I see massive mental illness. What do you see? Do Democrats turn that on and say, well, these are some smart and capable people talking to me? No, you don't see it. You're watching Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and you're thinking to yourself, well, they look okay.

Punchy De Niro comes on TV, talks about Trump. Do you say to yourself, uh-huh, uh-huh, I'm with that guy because he's so normal and sane? Does that really happen? So quite seriously, I ask this question: How much of our problem is from people who can't read other people?

If you look at Trump and you can't tell that he's got a twinkle in his eye and that he's just bullshitting you when he's lying and he's just a salesman, if you can't tell that that's all he's doing and it looks to you like he's become a dictator, you might not be good at reading people. You might be really, really bad at reading people. If you take what Trump says as literal truths, like he wants to be a dictator for a day, you're really bad at reading people. Really bad.

All right, there's a poll from ABC Washington Post. It showed that 31% of the Biden supporters aren't so much Biden supporters. They are people who mainly dislike Trump, so they would support Biden because they mainly dislike Trump. I have a hypothesis about that group. If you could isolate just the group who doesn't really love Biden but they dislike Trump a lot, I think that they would believe every hoax. Would you take the other side of that bet? I'll bet that if you said, all right, if your main thing is you hate Trump, can you give me three reasons why, I'll bet you the three reasons would be three hoaxes. Bet. And you wouldn't want to take that bet. I almost guarantee that that group is just completely brainwashed. And what that gives you is the ability to determine how powerful brainwashing is. It kind of stands out. And I would say that maybe a third of Democrats can be literally just their brains just erased and replaced with whatever the mainstream media wanted them to think. Some of them just prefer Democrat policies and that's it. They would be normal people, maybe with a little bias from their media, but they're not completely erased. There's 31% of Democrats, or at least people who are going to support Biden, their brains have been erased and just replaced with the opinion of the mainstream media. You can see it in the poll.

Anyway, so Biden did his big boy presser, and I was watching it, and of course I was just blown away by how geezer he is. And it was obvious that he could not be the president for four years. And to me it just reinforced everything I saw in the debate. And at the same time, he was about 90 minutes late. He might have been a little worried because his friendly press on CNN and MSNBC were saying that if he got one word wrong, it would end his presidency and his legacy and his family would never make money again. One word. Yep. You get one word wrong, we're going to take you out. How would you like to go for a speech when you're not all there and you know that the media said if you have one word wrong, your entire legacy will be erased? A little bit of pressure.

But he went out there, and first thing he did is he called his vice president Trump. That's right. He confused his own vice president with his opponent. At least the words he confused. And then he had some mumbling and confusion, and he did his "anyway" thing when he can't answer a question. Well, yeah, well, anyway, yeah, well, anyway.

And what did the Democrat supporters say when they saw his halting and terrible performance? Well, over on MSNBC they concluded that he looks just fine. Yeah, he's just fine. But way better than Trump. He's just fine. CNN a little bit more mixed, but there seemed to be a general opinion that the worst-case scenario had been accomplished. Do you know what the worst-case scenario is for Democrats? The worst-case scenario is that he went to the presser and just did okay. That's the worst thing that could happen. If he had completely died on stage—you know, not literally but figuratively—they would have been able to say, yes, we can replace him. There's no way he can resist because now he's died twice in two public things. But what if he didn't? What if he just did sort of a Biden—is mumbling, shuffling through, which is what he did? Then they don't have the strong argument to replace him because too many of their own people are saying, well, I watched it. He looks fine.

In other words, the people in the Democrat Party who were bad at judging people watched that and said, you know, I'm looking for problems but I'm not seeing anything. I'm not even sure why they say he's got some mental problems. I mean, he's just killing this presser. I think a third of the people, a third of the Democrats watching it, actually had that opinion that, oh my God, he's looking strong.

Then CNN did a focus group right after. It was six women who all look batshit crazy to me, who said, yeah, yeah, you did a good job. Good job there. Now, I looked at those women and I said to myself, there's something wrong with that group of people. You can tell by just looking at them. There's something wrong with them. But maybe I'm just bad at reading faces.

So of course everybody saw what they wanted to see, and that's typical. The debate was special in that it's one of the rare times that people saw the same thing. But it didn't take long for cognitive dissonance to set in and self-interest until we went back to two different worlds, where one of them is obviously accurate that Biden's gone, and the other one is just cruising along like, I don't see a problem. We picked him. He's great. Better than that monster Trump.

So that was a perfect situation for Trump. The best thing that could have happened is Biden would just do okay, and that's what happened.

All right. Biden was of course asked about Vice President Harris and if she was ready to take over, and he praised her with a double negative because he's got this balance. He's got to say that he made a good choice for his vice president, of course, but he can't say he made a great choice because if he says he made a great choice, then people are going to say, okay, but you know, you're failing a little bit. You said you were just going to be a bridge. You say she's a great choice. It's time for the great choice to step in. So he couldn't really say she's the greatest thing. He had to give her something that sounded like he didn't make a mistake but it also wasn't quite a compliment. So he went for the double negative.

See if you could figure out any way to say this in a weaker way than he said it. He said that he wouldn't have picked her as his running mate if she wasn't qualified to be president. He wouldn't have picked her if she wasn't qualified. How about saying this: I picked her because she's the most qualified person I've ever seen. The reason I picked her is for her qualifications. The whole reason I picked her is because she's amazing and she could step in right away. That would be called a real endorsement. Here's what's not a real endorsement: Well, I wouldn't have picked her if I didn't think she wasn't—if I thought she wasn't qualified. Yeah, I think his words reveal where he's going with that.

All right. My favorite part of this whole debacle of watching Biden decompose while the Democrats pretend—at least half of them pretend—it's not happening is watching the poor bastard David Axelrod. Now, he of course is a storied and successful and very smart strategist for the Democrats, but he's also older and white and male, which means he's been completely shut out from the Biden campaign because he's older and white and male, and they don't have a lot of that in the campaign, so they're not taking his advice. So he finds himself to be one of the leading strategists for a party that doesn't want him in the party, or at least doesn't want him anywhere near power.

Now, how do you handle the fact that you're a member of a group that doesn't want you in the group or doesn't want you to have any influence in the group, and your whole job is influencing the group? Well, Axelrod has apparently decided that he'll go on TV as often as possible and just stick a shiv into the Biden campaign without making a big deal about it being a DEI problem. Obviously it's a DEI problem, which is deliciously ironic and awesome because it's happening right in front of us. And I love the fact that the press won't say it. The Biden campaign is failing because of DEI. There's no question about that.

Now, when I say that, if anybody's new to me, it has nothing to do with Black or LGBTQ or Hispanic or gender. It has nothing to do with anybody's genes. That's never the argument. The argument is if you limit who you can hire to an artificially constrained group for which there's not too many, you're going to end up with unqualified people mucking up the works. It's predictable. It's guaranteed by the design of the system because the supply and demand is out of whack. And so the people who pushed that—the Axelrods—they ended up getting screwed by their own thing.

Now, if you were an older white man and you were pushing DEI, you know, you probably thought you were just saying the right things and keeping your head down. But I suspect some of them thought there would be no downside. It would just make the world more diverse and everybody would get an equal shot, and that sounds pretty good. But if you lived in the real world, you know exactly what's going to happen. The old white guys are going to be pushed out to pasture in favor of the new and exciting young LGBTQ and Black people who've got some skills and women. And it's obvious. There's no other way that anything like that could go. The DEI is destiny.

So here's poor Axelrod trying to navigate the fact that he's a prominent member of a group that would not have anything to do with him if they had a choice. And he just sticks the shiv in every time he gets on CNN. And I'm here for it. So, Axelrod, I'd like to make a public invitation. You might want to join the other side because the other side actually likes you. Might not like your politics, but nothing against you. I like you fine. You're smart. Seems like a smart guy who cares about the country. In my opinion, I think he's got the right instincts.

Then there's Brian Stelter. My God, that man is funny. So what he said was millions of Democratic voters watched Biden's press conference, and now some of them are wondering why are the chattering classes trying to force this man out of office? Why? I mean, he looked fine to me. Why are you trying to force him out of office? I thought the Democrats were the party of saving our democracy. But why are they trying to force this man