The news that President Joe Biden would not run for re-election caused a stir not only in America, but also in Russia, where pro-Kremlin propagandists are kicking up a fuss about what it would mean for their beloved Donald Trump.
Appearing on Monday’s broadcast of a state TV show 60 Minutes, State Duma member Oleg Matveychev complained that Biden’s move is a disaster for Trump’s election chances. “He is left without any trump cards!” Matveychev said. “Previously, he could easily attack Biden’s health, now he has nothing left to attack. More than that, attacking Biden at this point would be seen as inappropriate and rude.”
“Now they’re switching to [Vice President Kamala Harris] and are trying to attack her, but nothing new will stick to her,” Matveychev added. “Bringing up the fact she is not quite white will only activate her electorate.”
Russian state TV’s coverage of Harris—which is a carbon copy of what is playing on Fox News—was largely limited Monday to attempts at mocking her laughter.
Matveychev said that Biden’s departure from the race rendered the previous agenda obsolete. Discussing the age of the U.S. president or an assassination attempt against Trump is now yesterday’s news, he argued.
Only true assholes mock someone for how they sound when filled with joy. To take something as innocuous as a laugh and assign value to it only serves to make people self conscious of their own laughter and seek to change it to some imaginary perfect laugh. Let people feel joy for fucks sake. These arguments are so gossamer thin at this point that if a competent human got up and gave an actually rousing speech, all of politics would fucking collapse.
Either way, I'm voting Kamala or whoever ends up blue, but Prosecutor Kamala vs 34 time Convicted Felon Donald Trump is as good as any other we could conjure in the next 107 days.