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I would add this unsolicited advice: For heaven's sake, Joe, bring in the young with athletes and celebs so you can remind the young of what you have done and are trying to do for them. Tell them how you pray for them along with your own kids and grandkids and that prayer has helped your own family get through some tough times. Tell folks that unlike Trump, you're not taken in by a KGB trained Putin or an inheritor of NK cruelty in Kim, or the clever, sweeping, and aggressive machinations of Xi or any dictators who control their people with lies, force, and distractions because you know the history of these guys and things don't end well for ordinary citizens. Remind folks that a good fighter knows that to protect the country you have to keep your guard up and not be suckered into big trouble by idolizing dictators whose people fear them. Tell them who your heroes are, Joe., the workaday people who are the glue that holds the nation together and that you have faith that they can and will all 'come home' to once again be the United States because that, and that alone is what makes America great, people pulling together to solve problems and to make a better future. Acknowledge that you've had a lifelong stuttering problem just like James Earl Jones, Tiger Woods, and Churchill (an older guy who shepherded Britain through WWII, for god's sake, but that doesn't signal any slippage, only passionate regard for what you have to say. It also makes it harder to lie. Tell them that unlike your presumed opponent, instead of banging away on social media, you workout everyday so you can be in shape to get the job done because you know you owe it to the people. Say you read the intel reports every day rather than waving them away in favor of watching what was said about you on TV each morning. Tell them you're asking for their votes, not their pity because you don't plan to lose.

And if Taylor Swift wants to show up, that's okay, right?

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