When You're Ripe, It's Time for You to Go.

The President Needs to Face Reality.

The debate was beyond painful.

Watching Trump makes my physically sick. He exudes slime and what’s with his new hair color and flat top?

And Biden? Well, he had a senior evening.

Trump took lying and ego mania to new heights, high enough, perhaps, to produce his Joe McCarthy moment even among the most ardent MAGA faithful. U.S. Army counsel, Joe Welch, took McCarthy down in seconds with these simple words: At long last, have you left no sense of decency? Maybe Trump’s blaming Pelosi for January 6th, denying his calling our heroic fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers,” and claiming he never said the Charlottesville Nazis included “very fine people.”

As for Biden? His most animated moment was his exchange with Trump about his golf handicap. First it was 6 and then 8. With no clock, it might have risen to 17.

Trump claimed he had just won 2 championships. But he was surely being modest. The other 530 were stolen, because, well, they wouldn’t let him keep score.

You have to hand it to Trump, though. This time he got the name right of the sycophantic doctor who ruled him hyper mentally fit. Given that Trump’s obviously crazy, that doctor — let’s see, Ronny Johnson, no Ronny Jackson — needs his own cognition test.

At the end, everyone still watching was worried that Biden would fall getting off the stage. Fortunately, Jill was there to help. Melania didn’t show. Not her thing. Maybe she didn’t hear hubby honestly say he didn’t have sex with Stormy. Then, again, she might have pushed the “real” President down the stairs.

CNN had its own angry Melania though — an entire crew of commentators who collectively chanted, well screamed, Go Joe or Joe Go, take your pick. They did something truly remarkable. They decided, without a moment’s hesitation, to throw Joe under the bus, insisting that Joe needed to step aside and open the Democratic convention to other presidential aspirants.

As much as I admire and appreciate President Biden, when you’re ripe it’s time for you to go. Biden is ripe. If his poll numbers drop through the floor, he’ll see and the entire Democratic party will insist it’s time he work on his swing.

Who will fill his shoes. My guess is Michelle Obama would be pushed by many. But Michigan Governor, Gretchen Whitmer, or Kentucky Governor, Andy Beshear, may be far better bets.

I have an actual platform, not tired slogans, for any presidential candidate — at the ready. It’s from my 2016 Presidential write-in campaign. My purpose in running was to convey economists’ radical, but practical solutions to our nation’s terrible problems, including taxes, healthcare, Social Security, education, inequality, financial fragility, and more.

After the election, I turned the platform into a book for President Trump to read, optimistically assuming he could read. It’s call You’re Hired.

A new Democratic Presidential candidate and this platform is just what the country ordered.

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