People have been underestimating Joe Biden for a long time. Last night was just more proof.
As columnist Rex Huppke observed in USA Today: "I’ve never seen anything like it in a State of the Union speech — [Republicans] ran at [Biden] like a pack of lemmings and, with a wink and a grin, he politely directed them to the cliff."
There were so many instances of "There's the cliff, guys," but of course the leading one was Dark Brandon's deft rope-a-dope (emphasis on "dope") in which he got 222 House Republicans to swear they wouldn't cut Social Security and Medicare. Those MAGAts! — outfoxed by an 80-year-old happy warrior they keep calling senile. You love to see it.
(What you don't love to see is a big SOTU fashion "don't." Kyrsten Sinema and Marjorie Taylor Greene were both guilty of that, and a lot of tweeps have been invoking Big Bird and Cruella de Vil.)
Adding to the fun: As Biden looked incredibly strong last night, "Kev" McCarthy never looked weaker — except maybe during the 15 votes it took for the House to elect him Speaker. Nervously glancing over at his caucus to see how he should react, impotently shushing his braying banshees like the hapless parent of an out-of-control toddler at Toys "R" Us, McCarthy's lack of control was there for all to see. And he couldn't even stand and clap for democracy. What a tool. We cats HISS at him (and PURR at Dark Brandon).
UPDATE: Forget Cruella. The more apt comparison appears to be Tonya Harding. We cats PURR.
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