11 July—As each day passes, more and more Democrats in elective office are crawling onto the “Joe must go” bandwagon. It’s pretty obvious they’re calling on Joe to go for their own self-serving motives. Some have even admitted as much by publicly voicing the fear that if the incumbent president loses the election he’ll take down the under-ticket with him. So much for their meal tickets.

We love, respect, and appreciate all you’ve done for us, Joe, but for the good of the Democratic party and American democracy, Joe must go, the self-interested political whores insist. What they mean is, we wanna keep our jobs and anyone else on top of the ticket is better than you, so screw you, Joe.

Politics as usual.

On the other hand, Gov. Ned Lamont wants President Biden’s campaign to go on the offensive. Of course Ned has it right because the Bidenites have spent an inordinate amount of media defending their guy rather than attacking his unusually vulnerable opponent. To be sure, Biden’s campaign has been on the offensive all along, as all political campaigns must be, and a little more so after Joe’s disastrous performance in the farcical debate travesty a fortnight ago.

But it’s been such a puny, anemic, ineffective offense that even a lousy general like Douglas MacArthur would be ashamed of it.

And then there’s George Clooney, one of Joe Biden’s most celebrated and ardent supporters, who just yesterday threw his lot in with the “Joe must go” faction for all the standard reasons. But George is really different from all the others.

Because the primary and imperative goal of Democrats, good Republicans, and all other intelligent Americans is to make sure that Donald Trump doesn’t get his fat, crooked ass back in the White House; and it’s commonly—and with more than a little plausibility—accepted that Joe Biden is the only pol with even the slightest chance of keeping Trump out of the White House.

But what about George Clooney? He’s not a pol—as the smear is commonly accepted, anyway—and is demonstrably more popular than Biden or Trump. Most entertainers of all sorts are, simply because everybody knows their names and they’re not politicians and haven’t had to lie too often.

So a sure way to keep Trump out of a second term is for Clooney to run against him. And it’s not unlikely that Biden would be relieved (to say the least) to cede his candidacy to his young(ish) friend and acolyte. It’s also not unlikely that Clooney as Biden’s running mate would virtually guarantee the Democratic ticket’s victory, as George is immensely more popular than Kamala. (Don’t even worry about what she’d do.)

Vote for George Clooney? Can’t lose.

Yes, Taylor Swift could also slay Donald Trump in any election. She’s too young to be president on Election Day, of course, but will be old enough—35—by Inauguration Day, next January 20^th. So a Clooney-Swift ticket may be worth considering . . .