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journalism. Can we book the trend of podcasts somewhat? And instead of lauding Joe Biden for this

magisterial decision, can we slag him off a bit? First of all, I think he should have stood down as, or rather made clear he wasn't going

to seek re-election last year at the latest, and allowed a proper democratic primary to

proceed from which, who knows who would have emerged as the nominee.

But the fact that he took his time after the debate disaster and then you know

compounded the problem in a series of car crash interviews press conferences and so on

I think speaks to the worst of his character actually which is as it is when the kind of determination that he's shown

throughout his career, which is admirable, turns into mere stubbornness which then becomes

actually sort of Trump-esque narcissism. I totally agree, totally agree. And somebody tweeted the other day a video of Biden in 2016

giving a rallying speech. And, you know, if you were in any doubt, the absolute cliff face

of decline that that man has gone. You can go back to 2020. Yeah. I mean, what if,

I mean, he was a force, an oratorical force. He was a, he was a, you know, very, very vigorous

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