21 Comments

This is blatant use of discrimination tactics by a supposedly educated "journalist." ALL LAME-STREAM MEDIA IS CORRUPT.

Expand full comment

She is so good, I canceled my WAPO subscription with thousands of others!

Expand full comment

Maybe "criminal codger and codger" at least it shows a true equivalency. But even that isn't true! Better "twice impeached, indicted, criminal, former president and current President". Also my MIL's wonderful oncologist is 80 something and he is smart as a tack.

Expand full comment

YES!!!!!!

Expand full comment

I would bet the gold bars I have in my locked closet that my husband doesn't know about that Joe Biden would much rather be retired, hanging out with his grandkids, writing a bit or maybe doing a speaking engagement here or there. I think although being President might be kind of cool on some level, the reason he ran was because he could ..and did..beat Trump.

Expand full comment

I mean, the first point circles the 180-degree “she’s so wrong she’s right.” Biden wasn’t my first choice in 2020. But you know what? His administration has been GREAT. Antitrust enforcement, infrastructure deal, medical costs down, unemployment at record lows, student loan forgiveness, a huge uptick in union activity and formation - and that’s with the counter-party doing its level best to avoid governing at all. So aside from getting TFG away from the White House, Biden has my vote because I want four more years of this.

I also want someone in the presidency that’s younger and more in touch. But Biden has been great, soooooo 🤷🤷🤷🤷

Expand full comment

Agree completely, Chuck. It's also very nice not going to sleep and wondering if we are going to wake up dead because of some stupid thing TFG said.

Expand full comment

First, Kathleen Parker should have been dumped by the WaPo after her ridiculous column claiming Kavanaugh must have had a doppelganger during his hearings.

Secondly, Parker herself is 73 and has been phoning it in for ten years. If anyone is too old for the job, it's her.

Last, Bezos bought the Post to destroy it. And that's what he's done.

Expand full comment

She's sucked for a long time. What pisses me off is that her and her ilk are treated like deities by the MSM.

Expand full comment

A couple of weeks ago she spent over 500 words defending Harrison Butker’s odious and misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ+ bullshit . Fuck that guy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/17/harrison-butker-commencement-marriage/

Expand full comment

Keep it coming bro. You’re on fire

Expand full comment

When I hear people griping about Biden’s age, I wonder if they were deprived the wonder and joy of having grandparents. I lived in awe of the experiences my 4 grandparents had lived through. Listening to them tell their stories, was like living through our country’s past. My two grandmothers lived long full lives filled with hard work and joy.

My dad’s mother lived and I do mean lived a full life until she was 105. Her memory was better than mine. She could remember every detail including the postman’s name when she was five. She grew up near the Canadian border on a dairy farm in Minnesota listening to the very first radio broadcasts. Her stories of our country’s history were better than reading any history book. She was very excited about politics and she hated Bush Jr. When he won, she was pissed. She said, if she’d had a better walker she be going to Canada. And I never doubted her.

But my favorite thing was her long stories about former Presidents like my favorite FDR during the depression, his fireside chats, the Japanese internment camps and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The things she said about Hitler are burned in my memory. She was a child of German immigrants so it was personal. Authors documenting the wars and the news events from around the world could never really match how it felt to live through it.

Well, this rambling is my way of telling voters that putting their trust in Biden is far less frightening than reelecting the worst president in history. The experience Joe has gives him such depth in dealing with the potential horrors awaiting us. I only wish Grandma was still here she’d set you straight. But it is better that she never knows how her beloved country has fallen into despair and the evil events she lived through have reared up again. She’d be watching the election night returns with the TV up loud. And if need be, she’d help me cope with history repeating itself.

Expand full comment

My aunt in Newfoundland is 102. Extraordinary memory. I can imagine how much you miss your grandmother! If you listen to Trump's rallies, he is so far gone in dementia, I am not sure he’ll make it to November. Biden is doing an amazing job considering the morons he has to deal with.

Expand full comment

"Ain’t she clever? - NOT." JFC, Geoff... you never disappoint me! Kathleen Parker and I parted ways long ago...I have not read her recent crap, but I will....I still get WaPo...cancelled NYT. You and Jessica Alba, though? Hell....why not. As long as Mrs. Geoff is cool. 👍

Expand full comment

😂😂

Expand full comment

“Jesus titty fucking Christ” has a nice ring to it Geoff.

Expand full comment

My local had a column by Parker yesterday or today. I didn’t pay much attention to it. Pretty sure it was the same one. Life is short, tho.

Believe I’ve heard of a few Republican pols opining that women shouldn’t even have the right to vote. Assuming that would preclude them from having columns in the Washington Post.

Maybe Kathleen should choose a side and choose well. Not to mention, at what age is someone too doddering to put their thoughts in a national newspaper? She may be there.

Expand full comment

Maybe she should just stop writing. She always has crap opinions.

Expand full comment

I do wonder what her readership looks like. I can’t imagine a lot of MAGAs, assuming some can read, read her.

She’s just got people like Geoff that want to crap all over her. 🤣

Expand full comment

Crap all over her in a constructively critiquey sort of way.

Expand full comment

"The first shots of the 2024 battle for the presidency have been fired by the two oldest humans ever to suffer self-delusion at the country’s expense."

Oh honey. You really need to get out more.

Expand full comment