"I m Actually Doing You A Big Favor!"
Little signs are beginning to emerge that Joe is at least aware of his potential electoral plight. According to the New York Post , President Biden said Tuesday that he might have retired after a single term of office if former President Donald Trump wasn’t running in next year’s election. “If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running,” the 81-year-old president told a group of Democratic donors in Boston. “But we cannot let him win.” Well, certain kinds of people, if you suggest they've screwed something up in an unhelpful way, will try to turn things around and insist that "I'm actually doing you a big favor!" by, say, suggesting you didn't want that person as a friend anyhow. In the vignette above, I think Joe's subtext is that you may think he's screwing things up by insisting on running in 2024, but he's actually doing the country a big favor by keeping Trump out of the Oval Office, which by implication nobody else can do. If Joe is ...