Okay so there have been a lot of commentaries upon this Biden speech. Here I'm going to post Glenn Greenwald's speech. Greenwald gets to the heart of Biden's adornment of a simple argument: Trump bad, me good.

Generally I like Greenwald's solid tone and tendency not to let the Joe Biden clips go on for too long. Here are a couple of responses, though, to Greenwald's response.

1) It would be a great exaggeration to say that the economy is "in shambles." The economy, it would seem, is protected by an amazing alibi -- the economic statistics look good. The problem with the economy, as I've said repeatedly, is that the share of the surplus going to the working class is not a good one.

2) I have to say that the people I read who don't like Joe Biden tend to minimize the case against Donald Trump. Some of them, perhaps, would like to see Trump back in the White House. (Paul Street is not one of those.) Perhaps Glenn Greenwald doesn't do that; I don't know. It nonetheless seems likely that Trump is (also) doomed. This video is from three months ago:

Meanwhile the pseudo-conservative media have made a big to-do about Jill Biden helping Joe offstage after the speech.

At any rate, it should prompt everyone to ask why Joe Biden's speech was directed at Trump to the exclusion of the rest of the Republican Party. Patrick Martin has an answer for this question: Joe Biden's allegiance is to the whole of the ruling class, not just the Democratic Party part of it.

Supposedly it is big news that Biden wasn’t aware for days that Defense Secretary Austin was hospitalized. I do not know why. Simplicius the Thinker wants to speculate on what is really going on. Here are Simplicius' words:

The United States of America, at a time of historic international upheaval and danger to ‘American interests’ abroad, was functionally without a Secretary of Defense for almost a week without the commander-in-chief’s knowledge. Some assumed Austen’s deputy Kathleen Hicks would take over—except she was on ‘vacation’ in Puerto Rico at the time. How convenient!

It ties into the Israeli situation because rumors have it disgruntled White House staffers were responsible for hiding the information from Biden over his contentious stance on Palestine—another case of open rebellion, if true. It once more highlights the deepening rifts within the Biden administration.

Or so the rumors have it.

The Governor of Massachusetts is in New Hampshire stumping for Joe Biden, who is not on the ballot in New Hampshire. Will Joe Biden try to win as a write-in candidate? I thought the DNC was going to de-platform the NH delegates.

At the event, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said the president's accomplishments over the past four years speak for themselves.

Biden's accomplishments speak for themselves. But what do they say?

And I guess Jim Clyburn is concerned about the re-election campaign. And Obama is worried. It doesn't look surprising.

EXTRA: There's a "human interest story" in The Guardian, posted yesterday, titled "Young voters helped Biden to victory. They may abandon him this year." They interviewed "climate activists" for this article. I can't really say, myself, that comparing Establishment candidates for President has anything to do with mitigating climate change. You need a revolution to mitigate climate change.