Man! What a difference a bitter internecine war among former besties can make, even in the face of an impending horrific event.

David went into detail this morning about how Kamala's off-the-cuff and, frankly, really bizarre-o attack on DeSantis phone protocol during natural disaster prep left people scratching their heads. 

As Hurricane Milton barrels towards the Florida coast, Kamala Harris did one of the weirdest things I have seen a politician do during a crisis: attack the state governor for not taking a phone call. 

First, let's be clear about the context: there has been a lot of criticism of the Biden/Harris administration over the response to Helene, although little of it has to do with FEMA's performance in Florida as far as I can tell. Ron DeSantis had things so under control that he told the federal government to send its help to North Carolina and Tennessee, where conditions were so much worse. DeSantis even sent Florida National Guard units to help in North Carolina well before the administration activated the military to join in search and rescue.

Here in the land of Categoried Storms, none of us have ever recalled a governor worrying about some vice-president jingling at him, to begin with. They're always talking straight to the big guy, so we had no clue where she was coming from. Not to mention, after a major storm only two weeks ago, we know DeSantis is too damn busy to stop for a campaign photo-op, cameras rolling as she larps "concerned and informed." 

GIRLFRIEND, I BEEN BUSY DOING A GROWN-UP JOB

Which is basically what DeSantis said yesterday during a press conference after she lit off. He didn't have time for the political crap, none of his staff had gotten a call from her that anyone was aware of, and on to important prep subjects because HURRICANE MILTON.

It was about as dismissive an answer as you could get.

It only got worse when POTATUS chimed in, and everyone in our FL circles was pretty tickled to see the man finally get it together with a classy, CORRECT, and exceedingly presidential answer.

Biden, responding to screaming reporters trying to get him to attack Florida Governor Ron DeSantis with false claims he’s being political about #Milton and not chatting with Vice President Harris:

“The Governor of Florida has been cooperative. He’s said he's gotten all that he… pic.twitter.com/0q5tUxZptQ

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 8, 2024

...“The Governor of Florida has been cooperative. He’s said he's gotten all that he needs. I talked to him again yesterday and I said — a — boy — I said I know you're doing a great job. It’s being all — being done well, we thank you for it and I literally gave him my personal phone number to call, so I don't know — there was a rough start in some places, but every governor — every governor — from Florida to North Carolina, has been fully cooperative and supportive and acknowledged what this team is doing and they're doing an incredible job. But we got a lot more work to do.”

I mean, there you go.

My heart was glad for everyone fixin' to get smacked yet again that there is no daylight between D.C. and Tallahassee for these folks.

My cynical side was delighted with the shiv Biden just effortlessly slid into the Harris campaign's ribcage.

Shiv, shiv, and shiv again.

😁 https://t.co/eBSUprO8zF

— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) October 8, 2024

As I was heading to an appointment earlier, I heard Kayleigh McEnany on Fox exclaim, "Jill and Joe Biden are sabotaging this woman!" It's as plain as the nose on your face, and it's hilarious.

At least this time, the shiv was good for the country and my state and totally the appropriate action in a dire time of need.

Another surprising thing came out of that press conference, which was also amazingly heartening.

There we go https://t.co/CaioeXQfcW

— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) October 8, 2024

He's put off taking DOCTOR Jill on safari.

Maybe he really does want to act like a president who knows the country wants its titular head home when things are going desperately wrong. 

Maybe he's pissed about all the questions he got after spending Helene on the beach and explaining he was on the phone - he was pretty snippy about it.

Maybe he's trying to burnish what he knows is a pretty crappy reputation going out the door. Put a little lipstick on that pig so the last thing people see besides his asterisk is his winsom smile.

For whatever reason, and despite the possible life-threatening ire of his wife - he made the right choice.

He's staying home. The lovely First Couple can go watch wildebeasts on the Serengeti after he pardons Hunter in December - I know they'll want to leave town then.

With all these Xweets about his press conference, etc., and Kamala's implosion over the past couple of days, something caught my eye. I wanted you guys to take a good look at POTATUS again in one of the videos above. This is probably the most lucid and animated he's been in a while, right?

Now watch this from 3 years ago. Do you see it the way I did?

By the way, besides how wrong, look how lucid he was just a few short years ago.

And his skin is a healthy color, not the cadaverous pallor it is now.

Dude's waay gone. https://t.co/mXxBLwxWwc

— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) October 8, 2024

Damn.

I know presidents "age" while in office, but Biden has withered and desiccated from an already rusty start.

Harris and DOCTOR Jill have so much to answer for - they all do. Every last person who participated in this fraud and foisted clomp clomp clomp on us, KNOWING what we all suspected.

And now they want to dump Cackles in his place.

I'm glad the old grifter's still cantankerous enough to find ways to stick it to her hopes of that Oval Office make-over.

God willing, he can go on safari after Nov 5. 

He can enjoy watching Jill speak Swahili to the natives as charmingly as she speaks to the Hispanics here. Think of the threads she's gonna pick up.

Yeah. 

His work will be done.

Maybe he'll have some of that schnitzel in Germany. 

The bug-free version.