[***] Joe Biden

Watched the first half of us idiotic speech at Independence Hall. 

Lying sonofabitch should have been struck by lightning.

Astonishing that a president can be so very much worse than Trump.

[I still think that's all pretty much right, but I wrote in anger. I'm beyond putting up with this bullshit. Trump isn't helping, of course. But this speech was beyond the pale. This wasn't a serious attempt to condemn the fringe, nor to unite the country. This was a political speech that ought not to have been made. The blood-red backdrop with Marines standing ominously at attention in the background was...oh, hell, I don't even know what to say about that.

   You want to unite the country? Stop with the radical leftist push to re-engineer American society.]