Could They Actually Leap Over Biden And Dunk Him? | Political Gabfest

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Ezra Klein for The New York Times Ezra Klein Show podcast: Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden
Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times: It’s Not as Easy as Just Getting Biden to Drop Out
Yasmeen Abutaleb and Marianne LeVine for The Washington Post: Biden wins Michigan primary but faces notable showing by ‘uncommitted’
Thomas L. Friedman for The New York Times: Israel Is Losing Its Greatest Asset: Acceptance
Karl Rove for The Wall Street Journal: Trump Goes on Fox and Shows His Weakness
Amy Howe for SCOTUSblog: Supreme Court skeptical of Texas, Florida regulation of social media moderation
G.S. Hans for Balls and Strikes: How the Supreme Court’s Latest Big Tech Case Pits Cancel Culture Hysteria Against Corporate Power
Michael C. Dorf for Dorf on Law: The Partial Facial Challenge Option in the Netchoice Cases
Alan Feuer for The New York Times: In Taking Up Trump’s Immunity Claim, Supreme Court Bolstered His Delay Strategy
John Dickerson for CBS News: Examining Mitch McConnell’s legacy as Senate Republican leader
The Long Game: A Memoir by Mitch McConnell
Mariana Alfaro for The Washington Post: Here’s who could replace Mitch McConnell as Senate’s top Republican
Mark Sumner for the Daily Kos: Watch Tim Scott utterly humiliate himself for Trump
Katelyn Caralle and Sarah Ewall-Wice for the Daily Mail: Lindsey Graham is mercilessly BOOED at Trump’s South Carolina victory party: Ex-president brings Senator on stage after introducing him as a ‘little further to the left’
Saturday Night Live: Trump Victory Party Cold Open

Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Molly Ryan for WRKF 89.3 Baton Rouge Public Radio: House lawmakers advance bills targeting early release from prison – and more
John: Aliza Chasan for CBS News: Cardboard box filled with unopened hockey cards sells for more than $3.7 million at auction and Joshua Rapp Learn for Discover: Schrődinger’s Cat Experiment and the Conundrum That Rules Modern Physics
David: Plainsong by Kent Haruf and City Cast: Work with us.
Listener chatter from Jacob in Chicago, Illinois: citiesbydiana on TikTok: Top 6 Best Stroads in America

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily discuss the Republican obsession with Hunter Biden and the possibility of impeaching President Joe Biden. See Matthew Yglesias for Slow Boring: Republicans can’t stop swallowing Russian propaganda. See also Ken Tran for USA Today: Hunter Biden denies Joe Biden involved in family business: ‘Destructive political charade’; Amy Taxin and Alanna Durkin Richer for AP: Ex-FBI informant charged with lying about Bidens to remain jailed while he awaits trial, judge rules; and Philip Bump for The Washington Post: Evaluating the anti-Biden case House Republicans offered on social media.

In the latest Gabfest Reads, David talks with Kiley Reid about her book, Come and Get It.

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[cleroyster]

Biden just spilled the beans on Directed Energy Weapons. Wow what a mistake.

[kicsms_science]

I watched the whole show w Seth Meyers and Biden, and despite the hand-wringing over Biden talking about a cease-fire while eating ice cream (what do you expect? They were already eating ice cream!), I thought it was a good appearance. Biden was coherent & together, and most importantly, wasn’t talking to Christian nationalists or white supremacists.

[Sheba]

Ezra Klein is a typical “pundit intellectual”: clever but dumb. Clever in his use of words and ideas but dumb in understanding the political implications of “leaping over Biden” as the title provokes. The only option would have to be Kamala Harris and she would lose miserably to Trump. The far left has been a problem for democrats for years, giving us Nixon twice, Reagan (thank you Ted Kennedy), Bush ( thank you Ralph Nader) and Trump (thank you Jill Stein). And they may give us Trump again.
Clever but dumb in understanding the American political system.