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come and very soon. in that column, friedman calls for joe biden to skip the fall presidential debate. for cover, friedman adds a couple silly caveats. biden should only consider debating, he writes, if donald trump releases years of his personal tax returns and then agrees to have a panel of journalists set on stage to call him a liar in real-time. otherwise, no debating. turns out tom friedman is not really a genius with pretty habits what s going on here. this is the most cynical election strategy ever lysed or ever perpetrated on american voters. hide the candidates until election day. the country can find out what the administration after it s in power but until then no appearing in public and my god, don t ever tell the truth. so what if the biden campaign would take tom friedman s advice? of course they will take it because they have no choice. biden is up in the polls will be can t let them talk. that could wreck everything. people might discover that joe biden ....
to get strained. biden s words take on a kind of psychedelic quality, the sentences that seem to be connected yet at the same time they are strange and disjointed. newspaper taxis appear on the shore, rocking horse people eat marshmallow pie, it s mesmerizing to watch, you can almost make out the tangerine trees and the marmalade sky. we saw it in our administration, lower the taxes, to 28%. lower to 21. i m going to raise it back up to 28. not sufficient to build back, we have to build back better. that s what my plan is, to build back better. these on somebody else s children, their all our children, the children, those children are the kite strings that hold our national ambitions. the only entity, the only thing that can tear america apart is america itself period. tucker: why does any of that mean? we don t know, joe biden doesn t either. it s all good, man. this is not a candidate who could soon be president of the united states. don t tell him that, i ....
but in the age of plm, our leaders don t have to answer for this. they just give speeches about social justice. they are insulated from all criticism. if you bother them but their incompetence, they will have you arrested for hate crimes. revolution is the best thing that happened to our political class. you see it with perfect clarity in new york city. a few months ago bill de blasio was a national joke, not anymore. now de blasio is his generation s al sharpton. he is a protest leader fighting in the streets for civil rights. he no longer has to pretend to run new york city. he s not. his public schools for example are failing. in new york which is the biggest school system in the country, fewer than half students are proficient in english and math. that is a disaster most of all for the students themselves. why is that happening? why are the schools failing? city officials don t want to have that conversation. acknowledging that there is a massive problem might requi ....
social justice. they are insulated from all criticism. if you persist in bothering them about their incompetence, they will have you arrested for hate crimes. so revolution is the best thing that ever happened to our political class. you see that with perfect clarity in new york city. a few months ago, bill de blasio was a national joke, not anymore. is hisblasio generation s al sharpton. he is a protest leader fighting in the streets for civil rights. the good news is, de blasio no longer has even to pretend to run new york city. and he s not. his public schools, for example, are failing. in new york, which is the biggest school system in the country, fewer than half the students are proficient in english and math. that is a disaster, most of all for the students themselves. why is that happening? why are the schools failing? city officials don t want to have that conversation. acknowledging that there is a icmassive problem might require them to do something to fix it ....
to get strange. his words take on a kind of psychedelic quality. of the sentences seem to be connected get the same time they are strangely disjointed. newspaper taxis appear on the shore, rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies. it s mesmerizing to watch. you can almost make out the tangerine trees and marmalade skies. we thought in our administration we should lower the tax in the high 30s to 28%, lower to 21. going to raise it back up to 28. it s not sufficient to build back, we have to build back better. that s what my plan is, to build back better. it s not somebody else s children, their all our children. the children those children of thehe kite strings that hold our national ambitions. the only entity, the only thing that can tearit america apart as america itself. period. tucker: what does any of that mean? honestly, we don t know. joe biden doesn t either. it s all good, man. this is the candidate who couldt soon be president of the united states. don ....