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Episode 136 has been uploaded.

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• SPECIAL COMMENT: What President Biden should say in The State of the Union tonight is, to declare, simply and directly, that of all the threats to the United States of America the greatest of these is Donald John Trump and thus tonight I am declaring The Biden Doctrine. And in sum, my fellow Americans, the Biden Doctrine is this: We must save our country from madness and vengeance and hate and racism and dictatorship, and to save our country from these evils, we must metaphorically kick the ever-loving shit out of Donald Trump.
• Instead, the White House expects Biden to deliver a traditional speech that will re-set the campaign. The problem is, it’ll be designed for a major event in the life of the nation called The State of the Union that … doesn’t exist any more. 53 million people watched Bill Clinton’s tension-filled post-Lewinsky State of the Union in 1998. That was 20 percent of the population. Last year? Biden had 27 million viewers and not a whole lot of streamers.
• The other problem is, 538 researched Presidential Approval before and after each SOTU since 1978 and the average change in approval is a microscopic 1.9%. The all-time highest was Clinton’s 10% gain after he stared down the Republicans post-Lewinsky. If you really do think this is your last chance to fundamentally re-set the race, then gimme The Biden Doctrine. What IS the Biden Doctrine about? The Biden Doctrine is about the greatest threat facing this nation. And what IS the greatest threat to the nation? It’s Trump. It’s Trump’s Cult. It’s Trump’s madness. It’s Trump’s racism. It’s Trump’s desire to be a dictator. It’s Trump’s next coup.

And remember … approximately 31% of voters have never heard Trump say all the nasty things that he did.

• Do it. If they build statues to President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior it will be for saving this nation from Donald Trump. Twice. There is no reason to back away from the easiest to understand accomplishment. There is no reason to hide from what even HE says is the reason he IS running again: to stop Trump and save representative government. Pound the son of a bitch in the ground, like you did at Independence Hall in September ’22. You’ll get ten percent approval growth just for THAT.

• And don’t forget to join me live on YouTube and Twitch right after the speech for the Countdown With Keith Olbermann State of the Union Post-Game Show. Biden starts about 9 ET, I should start around 10. Be there. Aloha.

I can’t seem to find his Twitch account … anyone know about it?

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• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Bill Hemmer says because they cut away from Trump’s “victory” speeches CNN and MSNBC should drop “news” from their names. Hilariously, last month Fox News … cut away from Trump’s “victory” speeches.

Even more hilarious, the N in MSNBC stands for “National”, not “News.”

(There was a joke that we used to tell about Nebraska football players … behind their backs, of course … that they thought the “N” on Memorial Stadium stood for “Nowledge.”)

• Politico and 60,000 other news organizations devoted space to Jason Palmer, a Democratic presidential candidate who got exactly 51 votes on Tuesday.

Yeah, well he did win the American Samoa caucus … 51- 40. Yes, 91 people showed up. Biden and Palmer each get 3 delegates.

And now for the headline that I’ll see tomorrow: “BIDEN LOST A CAUCUS! HOW THIS HURTS HIS REELECTION CHANCES.”

• And Elon Musk (a) lied about Biden bringing in foreigners to vote, (b) lied when he called it “treason,” (c) probably lied about not helping Trump with financing, and (d) on the other hand, Jose Garza, a candidate he opposed this week, won by 2 to 1.

C-Block

• THURSDAYS WITH THURBER: They’re all brilliantly written. But “The Car We Had To Push” is brilliantly written to be read aloud. One I’ve never read you before, from his classic book about his childhood in Columbus, Ohio: “My Life And Hard Times”

And while googling various things, I found a recent tweet by “Tom Jumbo Grumbo”:

Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck!