30 July—Congratulations to Joe Biden for finally accepting reality and admitting he has seven grandchildren, including the one begotten out of wedlock by his middle-age delinquent son. It’s not unlikely, though, that the self-described family-oriented president has admitted that little Navy Roberts is his granddaughter (rather than Chief Justice John Roberts’ illegitimate daughter) only for self-serving defensive political reasons.

Yesterday, I rescued from one of the post orifice recycling bins the latest issue of The New Yorker, which I hadn’t read for a long, long time. I couldn’t believe the current $8.99 cover price for a 70-page magazine. When I read it regularly, the cover price was a quarter. The subscription price is considerably lower, to be sure, but none the less beyond the means of a poor scribbler. But there’s awfully good stuff in it, stories as well as cartoons.

The bin also produced an unopened envelope from “President Joe Biden” addressed to a formerly local card-carrying Democrat who had the sense to move out of Connecticut several years ago. It wasn’t marked confidential, but I opened it anyway.

The letter inside, on President Joe Biden’s non-White House letterhead with the same address as the DCCC confidential crap, started, “Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they have to defend democracy.” It went on, “Kamala and I are ready to win the White House once again,” blah, blah, and blah, and closed, “Thank you so much for your support. With gratitude, Joe Biden President of the United States.” Joe is so civil. He signed it, of course. It amazes me that the old guy has the strength to sign all those letters.

It’s worrisome that Joe includes Kamala in everything he does. As POTUS, anyway. But not for the reason you’re thinking. Of course, the VPOTUS has to be in the loop, even though Roosevelt kept Truman out. So, per Article II of the Constitution (nothing to do with Amendment II, by the way), “In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President.”

If that should happen before next summer, Kamala will, of course, become POTUS and as the incumbent will be the likely Democratic candidate in the 2024 election. And she’ll very likely run against Donald Trump because a plurality of Republican voters won’t have the intelligence and virtually all Republican pols won’t have the scrotal content to dump the scumbag con man while they have the chance.

That’ll mean Kamala v. Trump in 2024, a replay of Hillary v. Trump in 2016. Thus, people won’t be voting for Trump, just against Kamala. But Trump gets into the White House again. And that’s a travesty. And a tragedy.

“Dave,” a most enjoyable flick from 1993, deals with the Article II issue in a novel way. It’s a comedy, but might well be taken seriously. For the good of the country, of course . . .