So, okay — things are really bad at the White House. Benedict Donald is paving over the Rose Garden and erecting car-dealership-sized flags on the North and South Lawns. (Will inflatable tube men be far behind?) And he's threatening to build a ballroom. (Where?) We can't even. So we've decided to ignore it all until a Democratic — or, even, a sane — President can come in and set things right. (Please, God.)
During these dark days, we need to grasp for all the decency we can. Since Trump decided to pointedly ignore Juneteenth yesterday, let's note that former President Joe Biden traveled to Galveston to observe it. (Flying commercial, by the way. How Jimmy Carter-esque.)
Biden, of course, was the American President who first officially recognized Juneteenth as a national holiday. And Galveston was the city to which Union General Gordon Granger traveled in 1865 to inform enslaved people there that the Emancipation Proclamation had set them free. (Communications were slower, then. No social media. If there had been, though, Black Twitter would have been lit.)
Maybe the media you consume chose not to cover Biden's trip to Texas, so in case it didn't, here it is. We have a few thoughts. First, that Joe looks pretty good for someone with Jake-Tapper-level cancer. Second, that the base of the Democratic Party has always loved him — with good reason — and always will. We're with them. We cats PURR.
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