Is the Biden Campaign in Touch With Reality?

[Splinter]( May 24, 2024 [Is the Biden Campaign in Touch With Reality?]( [Is the Biden Campaign in Touch With Reality?]( I used to believe this election is a pure toss-up, and that it will likely be decided by stuff we don’t factor into our political calculations that still has a measurable impact, like rain patterns on election day. But after reading every sad and desperate line of this interview with a presidential campaign strategist, I’m convinced that Joe Biden is actually down by 50 points. [Every Hurricane Season is \'Above-Normal\' If One Hits You]( [Every Hurricane Season is 'Above-Normal' If One Hits You]( They peg the likelihood of the above average season at 85 percent. Hurricanes, though, are sort of an either-or proposition: we could get those 25 named storms and all of them just happen to swing out to sea, or five of them could hit major population centers on the Gulf Coast. In both cases the predictions were right. [Remembering a Play: Derek Fisher and the Closest Buzzer Beater Ever]( [Remembering a Play: Derek Fisher and the Closest Buzzer Beater Ever]( Even as a certified Laker hater I have to admire Derek Fisher’s shot. That is bonkers. I remember watching it at the time and feeling like the Lakers genuinely had some sort of magic powers, and this was as inevitable as they ever felt to me throughout that dynasty. [QAnon Is Dead. What Replaced It Is Worse]( [QAnon Is Dead. What Replaced It Is Worse]( The QAnon conspiracy theory raged online during the 2020 election, but those "Anons" have now found more dangerous friends. [Is the Economy Actually Bad or Are We All Just Stupid?]( [Is the Economy Actually Bad or Are We All Just Stupid?]( The seemingly contradictory dynamic at the base of all these polls that the economy is good, but people feel like they’re doing poorly, is actually underpinned by the reality of the last half-century of economics. [Rich Countries Were Never Going to Make This Easy]( [Rich Countries Were Never Going to Make This Easy]( Here's some money to address climate change, now pump it back into our economy instead of yours, and also pay us back with interest. You're welcome. [Big Oil, Somehow Claiming Victimhood, Aims to Deliver on Trump\'s Quid Pro Quo]( [Big Oil, Somehow Claiming Victimhood, Aims to Deliver on Trump's Quid Pro Quo]( It has been only a couple of weeks since news broke of a bizarre-but-entirely-predictable meeting between Trump and a cadre of oil industry executives, in which the former president apparently said the fossil fuel set should give him $1 billion in exchange for, well, a bunch of very dirty stuff he would likely do anyway. And whoa hey look, the quid has found its quo already. [Scarlett Johansson Exposes OpenAI’s Rotten Business]( [Scarlett Johansson Exposes OpenAI’s Rotten Business]( This provides a window into the mindset of Silicon Valley leeches like Sam Altman, as these overgrown manchildren have their heads shoved so far up their own asses they’ve lost all contact with objective reality, as demonstrated by the fact that they believed they could just steal from one of the most famous people alive and get away with it. [View this email in your browser]( Copyright © 2024 Splinter/Paste Media (7525 Colbert Drive, Suite 106, Reno NV 89511) [unsubscribe](