The happy warrior

 What's not to laugh?  Since President Biden announced the end of his candidacy on Sunday, Kamala Harris's campaign has reported donations of more than a hundred million dollars and she has secured the pledges of enough delegates to assure her the nomination and avoid the chaos of an "open convention."  (The DNC is meeting in Chicago and the media are slavering over the chance to air their grainy video of 1968, with police rioting and Mayor Daley yelling at Senator Ribicoff.)  Sorry, but the Democrats are very much not in disarray.  The Republicans, on the other hand...

For someone who doesn't recognize Seth Moulton and can't remember where he parked Marine One, Joe Biden pulled off the greatest political move in memory, strengthening his party in the most crucial election since 1940 and earning his place in history as someone who put country ahead of ego.  He also left MAGA fumbling and fuming, deprived of their central issue, his age.  Nobody is going to demand that Harris take a drug test before the debate (if it happens) or pass a cognitive exam or release her medical records, you know, the real ones.  Everything the right hates about her must be dog-whistled because they can't afford to alienate the gals, already unhappy about Roe, or what Gorka calls the "colored."  

She's an unhappy "cat lady" because she never gave birth.  

She's disqualified because she was born in California before her parents were naturalized.

She has a name that Sean Hannity can't pronounce.

She's "a little bit uppity," according to Candace Owens.  

She's a secret Hindu.  (I just made that up but wait and see.)

She's married to a globalist.  Oh my stars, he nailed a mezuzah to the doorpost of the Vice President's official residence.  What if he does that to the White House?  Jesus will never return!!

She has an infectious laugh and she knows how to use it.  Has Trump ever laughed?  He likes to mock the disabled, the obese, the powerless, the poor, but if he tried to laugh it would sound like Lt. Cdr. Data.  Not part of his program.

Of course, he's not alone.  A fake letter circulated today announcing the death of Jimmy Carter.  It was an obvious hoax, attacking Carter for relinquishing the Canal Zone and the failed hostage rescue attempt in Iran, with some sniping at his wife and Nancy Reagan.  Typical Rightzi attempt at humor, but it fooled the New York Post, Sen. Mike Lee, the Blaze and Laura Loomer, among others.  The best you can say is, they don't read well.  (Mr. Carter abides.  Periodically his grandson announces that the end is near but he must have brilliant hospice care.  I won't be surprised if he achieves his hundredth birthday in October.)

And what did Trump, master of the mean nickname, come up with at his first post-Biden rally?  "Laughing Kamala."  Lotta thought there, Donnie.  You could have recycled "pencil neck" or "crooked" or "crazy" or even "sanctimonious," since you don't know what it means -- what was hypocritically pious about Ron DeSantis? -- but you just made her sound lovely, like the woman in the Sinatra song:  "No angel could replace Kamala with the laughing face."  

I don't want to get carried away.  There's a lot of campaign to be endured and anything is possible.  Still, this is intriguing:  The vice president will not preside when Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress tomorrow at Mike Johnson's invitation.  Change is in the air.