Does the fact that the Supreme Court came out with
a blockbuster ruling in a sense Monday morning mean that
means that this story about Bidens debate performance now falls
from
the headlines a little bit?
Or does it make it all the more urgent for
Democrats who were already mid freak out because of what
this means for whether the,
you know, January 6th case will go to trial before
Election Day and what a,
you know, Trump 2.0. Presidency could look like Nathaniel.
So I think probably more the former than the latter.
But I don't really think that stories intersect all that
much.
And I think the reason for that primarily is that
the SCOTUS decision is not,
despite appearances, is not and probably was never going to
be really an electoral story.
And that's because the odds of a trial happening before
the election.
Were already quite low and so now we know basically
for sure that that's not going to happen given that
the lower courts are going to have to weigh in
but it wasn't it's not like that we're really going
to change things on that front and therefore it was
more of a kind of legal jurisprudence story and if
they had given him total blanket immunity that would have
been a huge story kind of legally and constitutionally,
but again wouldn't have really changed the reality that the
trial isn't going to happen before the election so I
think on kind of the.
Track, you're still going to hear a lot of stuff
about Biden's age,
just in terms of the fact that there are only
so many minutes that can be filled on cable news
and in newspaper columns,
and maybe it takes a little bit.
Wait, wait, wait. Listen. The Internet is not a thing,
Galen. It's not a thing.
Nobody reads news on the Internet.
No. Are you disregarding concerns about Biden's age as just
cable news chatter?
No, no, no. Oh, no.
That's not what I'm saying at all.
I'm saying that like there is a finite amount of
news.
Like consumption, like there is a finite amount of news
stories that like the Washington Post can print in their
print edition,
right? There's a finite amount of talking that cable news
can do on television.
And it'll go from being like 100%
about Biden's age. But obviously it's an exaggeration.
But like a lot of stuff about Biden's age too,
like they're going to have to fit in some stuff
about the Supreme Court ruling.
But I think that the on the electoral track,
Biden's age and his debate performance remains the top story
and the Supreme Court.
Isn't really playing in that same arena.
And so I basically I think that the headlines on
Tuesday in the quote UN quote election section of like
your favorite local newspapers website are still gonna be about
the debate.
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