“Get them for the things that they deserve to be gotten for.”

by Maria Bustillos

Jonathan M. Katz wandered onto the internet and started noticing things again, so I phoned him up for a chat.

Maria Bustillos: Hey. Well, I think it’s appropriate that we start by saying that everything is incredibly fucked.

Jonathan M. Katz: Yeah, things aren’t great, honestly, in the world. For me personally, I think they’re all right. But for the world, it’s not a great world right now.

It is so not.

[long pause.]

But one great thing happened, which is I noticed you saying, again, what everyone else should have obviously seen, which is: Biden said something like, “When I was handling the pandemic, when I was vice president” and all these lunatics started shrieking, “He’s senile!” And you’re like,

Right. Although today I was just looking, and now they’ve edited the transcript to say that he meant to say, “recession.”

Yeah, the original draft said “pandemic,” but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if someone had read that and thought, Oh boy they’re going to think he means Covid, we better change that.

It’s a little unclear. This is the thing about Biden. His reputation for his entire career was as, a “gaffe machine.” That was how people referred to him.

For decades.