This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.

If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on?

Who in God's name

knows what it's all about. Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. And I'm Mark Dyson. Welcome to our podcast. What

The Hell is going on? Mark, what the hell?

Well, we're continuing our experiment with a what the hell extra, which is that we're going to continue doing our normal pods where we bring you an amazing guest who tell us what the hell is going on.

But every once in a while, Danny and I write something to tell you what the hell is going on from our perspective.

And we thought what we would do is we'd occasionally share some of these articles with you and then talk about them a little bit. And so Danny has a

piece in her substack entitled, Danny. Joe won't go. It has a certain ring. Why don't you

share the piece with us and then we'll talk about it? So the piece is on our substack, which is called What the Hell is Going On? And you can find it wherever you find subsdacks, which is, you know, what the hell is going on. That substack.com. The piece is called hashtag what the hell, Joe won't go. And here's why. So let's go. Let's be honest. We love the drama.

How many of you have been watching the reactions to Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance,

reading the innumerable Joe must go editorials and op-eds, engulping at the firehose-like stream

of Democrats' panic stories? Yeah, me too. So I'm sorry to tell you. Joe won't go. I won't be the first to tell you. Eric Erickson actually has a really fine piece on this as well. And I might be making a terrible mistake. It does happen. Or so Mark always says. But here we go. Number one, he doesn't want to.

And in our political system, when a person has all the delegates necessary to secure his party's

nomination, only he can make the call. Biden likes being president. This is what he feels is the

apotheosis of his brilliant career,

and he's not going to let a bunch of scared cat winers steal his glory.

He actually used the term bedwetters, by the way, which I thought was gross.

That is his character, and barring severe mental illness,

most people's characters don't change as they age. Number two, Mrs. Dr. Biden

doesn't want him to. Not to be a witch or anything, but she likes being Mrs. Dr. President.

She gets nice clothes, people pay attention to her, she gets free flights, she makes decisions that

...