Just another perfectly normal day in our perfectly normal times.

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Another dispatch from our OUT OF CONTROL times

I swear, this past week was a decade.

As everyone on the planet knows, President Joe Biden announced he was, in fact, dropping out of the 2024 Presidential election and endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris.

 

 
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The party seems to be coalescing around Kamala Harris, but it’s not a given that she will be the nominee. So what happens next? From The New York Times:

There appears to be two ways this can go, based on interviews with Democratic Party leaders and strategists.

First, the party could rally around Kamala Harris, the vice president, as a unifying force during a time of crisis. That would be the easiest road to take. She has been vetted and is well-known among Democrats. She has run a national campaign before. And she could take over the Biden-Harris campaign apparatus and bank account.

Some Democrats have argued that anointing a candidate is risky, and say that the party would be better off with a competition and a more democratic selection process. That would require another candidate to get in the race. If that happens, there could be party-sanctioned forums across the country, with candidates questioned by a moderator in front of a national television audience. Short of that, the candidates could embark on a monthlong national campaign, jetting across the country to solicit support from state delegates and delegations.

As I write this, less than 24 hours since the announcement was made, it looks like Kamala’s most likely competition — including Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, and Pete Buttigieg — are getting out of the way and endorsing her. As of right now, 206 Democrats currently in office have thrown their support behind Kamala. But interestingly, some of the party heads, including Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Cory Booker, and Nancy Pelosi have released statements without endorsing her, suggesting that some leadership doesn’t want to just anoint her, but go through some sort of nominating process. So we’ll see.

Considering the Democrats raised $50 million yesterday when the news broke, I have a hard time seeing anyone else successfully challenging Kamala Harris. Furthermore, after the three weeks the party has been through, the last thing we need right now is more division.

But on the flip side of that, there is some advantage in not immediately announcing the candidate, if only to keep the Republicans guessing who, exactly, they’ll be running against. In fact, it is HILARIOUS that President Biden sat on this decision until after the Republican National Convention ended, forcing their party to spend an entire week on the national stage campaigning against the wrong person.

As for how I feel about the whole situation? I respect and feel a great deal of affection for Joe Biden and believe he has been an amazing, successful, even transformative president. And had he stayed on the ticket, I would be one of the first people in that early voting line to cast my vote for him.

That said, I’d be lying if I said I haven’t been filled with anxiety reading the polls coming out of the swing states. And then the debate happened, a debate I literally turned off after 10 minutes because it was so upsetting and disappointing. I understood the calls from the party demanding that he step down. And the simple truth is that those calls were not going anywhere, no matter how well President Biden performed in other speeches and interviews and on the world stage. As long as those calls kept coming in, as long as the conversation was about President Biden, it wasn’t about the man who has been convicted of 34 felonies, who is an adjudicated sexual offender, who is not endorsed by the majority of people who worked in his previous administration, the man who attempted to violently topple our democracy.

By stepping aside, President Biden showed his true character: he is a man who loves his country more than power. He understands that by relinquishing the presidency, he ensures it survives. He is the diametrical opposite of Former President Dictator on Day One.

 

 
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Let’s end the circular firing squad and get to work. Because it is our job now to make sure President Biden’s gracious act for our democracy was worth it. We have to do it for Joe.

Oh, and Aaron Sorkin can take ALL seats. (I’m pretty sure you meant that the Republicans should replace their nominee with Mitt Romney, right? RIGHT?)

Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Before we get started on real TV stuff, have you given me a show to consider recapping in the comments yet? If not, WHY NOT?

Fake And Just Like That … filming notices are popping up all over New York City, and they’re pretty funny:

Also fake: news that Kim Cattrall is returning to And Just Like That …

Give me more Valerie Cherish. GIMME.

Viggo Mortensen is big mad that Amazon dumped his Ron Howard movie, Thirteen Lives, on Prime Video instead of releasing it wide in theaters. Sorry, babies, but this is the business y’all in now.

There are undoubtedly a number of true underappreciated gems in this list of “Underrated Shows on Max” — Los Espookys, Getting On, Search Party, The Other Two — can not recommend enough. But I think we can all recognize that The Leftovers is one of the highest-rated shows from the past couple of decades, at least by critics if not audiences.

Richard Simmon’s team released his final planned tweet:

 

 

In Development

Casting News

  • Thom Brennaman has been hired as The CW’s lead play-by-play broadcaster for college football games.

Mark Your Calendar

  • Emily in Paris returns on Netflix on August 15.
  • Chastity High will debut on Netflix on August 29.

R.I.P.

Esta TerBlanche, Actress who played Gillian Andrassy Lavery on All My Children and host of TV shows in South Africa

Sheila Jackson Lee, Houston congresswoman who served for 29 years and longtime member of the Congressional Black Caucus

Donna Berwick, Costume designer who worked on Game of Thrones, Da 5 Bloods, and Hemlock Grove

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Founder of the women’s a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock and civil rights activist

Jerry Miller, Lead guitarist in Moby Grape

Happy Traum, Folk singer

WATCH THIS

Bob Newhart: A Legacy of Laughter: A look back at the life and work of the brilliant comedian and beloved TV icon, Bob Newhart. 7 p.m., CBS

61st Street: Franklin launches a campaign to expose police brutality. Season premiere. 8 p.m., The CW

The Commandant’s Shadow: Jürgen Höss, the son of Rudolf Höss, confronts his father’s role in the Nazis’ atrocities in this documentary.  7 p.m., HBO2

Late Night:

  • Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Ryan Reynolds, Tony Hale, Jimin
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Keanu Reeves, Charles Wesley Godwin
  • After Midnight: Joe Mantegna, Zach Gilford, Laci Mosley
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live: Sebastian Maniscalco, Gillian Jacobs, Big Sean, guest host Lamorne Morris
  • Watch What Happens Live: Dave Bautista, Ken Jeong

MON. 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30
ABC The Bachelorette
(new)		 Claim to Fame
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CBS The Neighborhood
(repeat)		 The Neighborhood
(repeat)		 NCIS
(repeat)		 NCIS: Hawai’i
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CW All American: Homecoming
(new)		 61st Street
(new)		 Local
FOX Name That Tune
(new)		 The 1% Club
(new)		 News/Local
NBC American Ninja Warrior
(new)		 The Wall
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3 thoughts on “Just another perfectly normal day in our perfectly normal times.”

  1. I’m not quite sure this fits into the correct category for reader nominations, but if appropriate could you add “Fallout,” to the list?

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