You really have to give it to the GOP and conservative pundits; they’re increasingly subtle with their sexism and racism. These days it’s all about Joe Biden’s age – and by age they mean, Y’ALL DON’T WANT NO BLACK BITCH IN THE WHITE HOUSE, DO YOU?!! Because the specter of a President Kamala Harris is driving these brother fuckers craaaaazy, just crazy! It’s fabulous – or, it would be if it weren’t so racist and sexist. With every dig at his age, they’re dog whistling the GOP base with the terrifying specter of President Harris. Goddess forbid an intelligent, capable, independent, unapologetic black woman should ascend to the highest office in the land if Joe Biden were to die while in office during a second term. Now, they won’t, don’t, and can’t YET come out and say that directly, but, they have a thousand other ways to say it without saying it and by the way if I hear one more fucking GOP or GOP adjacent (including the ‘NeverTrump’ set) political pundit say ‘I don’t know, there’s just something I don’t like about her. She’s inauthentic, too ambitious, something. I’m not quite sure’, I may run screaming, naked through the hills.
YOU DON’T LIKE HER BECAUSE SHE IS A SHE, AND SHE IS A WOMAN OF COLOR. At least be AUTHENTIC enough to admit your biases, brother fuckers. JHFC. For the same reason many of the right-wingers can’t quite put their finger on why Nikki Haley is just not the right fit to be their nominee for POTUS, even as she has the credentials and experience (don’t get the wrong, her politics and policies SUCK and I wouldn’t vote for her for a million bucks). Sigh. Haley ‘doesn’t look or feel presidential’, nor does Harris because they are women, women of color, and every single President except Barack Obama has been a white dude, which – speaking of getting old – is a really fucking old and prejudicial standard that needs to die, already. Discomfort with ambitious women is also really fucking old. To be in politics is to be publicly ambitious. To run for office, any office, is to announce your desire to serve and your sense of self-worth to the wider world, and those are not exclusively male desires, or characteristics.
Joe Biden is old, and he looks old. I also happen to believe he’s a helluvalot healthier than Orange Menace, who looks like the bloviated fast food addict he is, but I guess to some viewers his fake tan look better than Joe’s old man skin. We’re all getting older, every single day, and what matters is competence, skill, and the team you have around you while you make decisions affecting Americans, decisions that must and should be made with insight, experience, empathy, and grace. Do I wish Joe were seventy instead of eighty? Fuck yeah. I also wish I was ten years younger, but I ain’t. Making this about his age is fair game, but, let’s be honest: Joe Biden chose Kamala and Kamala has been with him for the ride – and all racist and sexist nonsense aside – he knew who he was picking and why. Let’s stop already with all the malarky, and admit that old guy is whip-smart, and a damn good judge of character. Moreover, Biden knows what he’s doing and he has – along with VP Harris – delivered for the American people. Competency, competency, competency, along with policies I can (mostly) agree with, that’s what matters to me. As Rebecca Solnit so wisely put it, ‘I think of voting as a chess move, not a Valentine.’
More women running for office, more women in office, MORE, is what we need. The next President of Mexico – whose Supreme Court just legalized abortion throughout that traditionally Catholic country – is going to be a woman. Yup. Mexico will get there first. Suck on that one, y’all. I am. They have universal healthcare too. If it weren’t for my aversion to heat, I’d already be living there, maybe. Anything is possible.
Viva Mexico!!
