 The first debate is coming up between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and even though I hate both of these individuals, I am thoroughly excited to watch this debate because it is going to be a beautiful disaster. Like you have two demented, perverted old men going up against each other, probably insulting each other, and even if there's not going to be much policy substance, at least it's probably going to be super entertaining. So I am really, really looking forward to these debates. The first one in September is interesting already because Donald Trump is suggesting that him and Joe Biden both undergo drug tests before they debate each other. Now, the reason why Donald Trump is suggesting this is because he observed what a lot of people observed during Joe Biden's one-on-one debate with Bernie Sanders. So as Tell Axelrod of the Hill explains, President Trump is calling for drug tests to be administered before the presidential debate between him and Democratic nominee Joe Biden next month. Trump made the demand in an oval office interview with the Washington Examiner Wednesday, saying he noted a sudden improvement in Biden's primary debate performance against Senator Bernie Sanders in March. He offered no evidence to support his suggestion that the improvement could have been the result of a drug. Biden participated in 11 primary debates, most of which were against the crowded field of other contenders, but the last of which was on March 15th against just Sanders. Nobody thought that he was even going to win, Trump said, because his debate performances were so bad. Frankly, his best performance was against Bernie. We're going to call for a drug test, by the way, because his best performance was against Bernie. He always repeats himself. It wasn't that he was winced in Churchill, but because he wasn't. But it was a normal, boring debate. You know, nothing amazing happened. And we are going to call for a drug test because there's no way you can't do that. I don't know how he could be so incompetent in his debate performances. And then all of a sudden be okay against Bernie. He added one press to clarify. My point is, if you go back and watch some of those numerous debates, he was so bad. He wasn't even coherent and against Bernie he was and were calling for a drug test. The president said he was going solely based off of his own observations and not any inside knowledge into Biden's campaign. All I can tell you is that I'm pretty good at this stuff, he said. Now, that last line there was really hilarious to me because we know why he thinks he's good at this stuff. Mexico. I don't know why I'm so captivated by the story, but look, the article is written in kind of a smug way where, you know, there's this undertone that is really dismissive of what Donald Trump is saying. And I get it, Trump is a buffoon like I dismiss most of what he says, but is what Donald Trump saying completely preposterous? Would I be surprised if we found out ever that Joe Biden took maybe some cocaine or Adderall, maybe just a little bit? No, I wouldn't. In fact, that was the same observation that I made because Trump is right about this. Joe Biden was face planting and all of these debates go to Joe 303, like he literally cut himself off multiple times throughout the course of the primary debates and said, my time is up. Like you never do that if you're a candidate, you go until the moderators cut you off. So his debate performances were atrocious, but all of a sudden in a one-on-one debate setting against Bernie Sanders, he has energy and focus. Like to me, when I see that, I think sums up. Now, I don't necessarily think that that's a bad thing. Like if he theoretically started a line of coke before debate, I'm not judging him. I don't care. Like if we found out, like assuming Trump were able to get this approved, which I don't think he will, but if they both were drug tested and Biden came up positive for cocaine, like this would just make him look cooler. Like he would be more relatable to other everyday people because I mean, this isn't something that many people care about. And here's the thing. Like what are you going to do? Let's say you get your drug test and Joe Biden tests positive for Adderall or cocaine or whatever. Let's say that that happens. Then what? Like, does that really hurt him? Is that going to be controversial? Do you think he's going to be arrested because it's not illegal to be high? It's illegal to possess cocaine, but assuming he like snorted something, took some drugs, and then didn't have it on his person any longer, but it was in his system, it's not illegal to be high. So I mean, do you arrest him? Like what do you want? Like I think that what Donald Trump is hoping for here is like to dissuade Biden's team from giving him anything if that were the case, which, you know, I'm not saying it's certainly what happened, but it's possible. But like maybe he wants to get them to not give him drugs so he does face plan because I think that the debates could be a deciding factor in the election if Joe Biden does in fact perform poorly. Who knows, right? But part of it is that, you know, it could have been the case that Joe Biden also just wasn't paying attention during those other debates when there were a lot of people because the attention wasn't on him. And so since he was polling ahead in most of the primary election, he didn't feel the need to like interject. So maybe just like on that one on one setting, he like felt the need to participate more and pay attention. I don't know. But like even if Joe Biden tested positive, who cares? Like we all know that Donald Trump himself partakes. He's an expert. He knows about this stuff. That's what he said. Like this isn't going to lead to anyone changing their minds. It's not going to even lead to people really thinking that Joe Biden is worse. Like I think most people who are decided they're already decided like finding out that the candidate they support, you know, did cocaine. I mean, does anyone really care? Like the only thing that would irritate me is that this is a schedule to drug. And we need to decriminalize all drugs at a minimum. Like I am a proponent of legalization of all drugs, because that's the way you undercut the black markets. But I mean, that's a different story for a different day. But that'd be like the only thing that would irritate me, right? Is that the architect of the crime bill, who is the one who got lots of people locked up for drugs is doing it himself. Like that's hypocritical. But the hypocrisy is what would outrage me, but it wouldn't change my opinion of Joe Biden. Like I think a lot of people in DC probably do drugs, right? We know almost all of them probably have smoked pot, if not currently. Like this isn't something that is new. Like it's not the 1990s anymore, right? But Trump is trying to really engage in the culture war more so than anything else. And you know, anything he can do to demonize Democrats. I mean, even Tucker Carlson, he did a segment about Cardi B and the fact that Joe Biden did an interview with Cardi B. And he called himself Joey B. And you know, you don't have to be a Puritan to be outraged by Cardi B. And why do the Democrats want to associate with someone like this? I mean, who cares? It's not the 1990s anymore. Nobody gives a shit about this kind of stuff. Get over it. End the drug war. That's what we should be pushing for. Like if Joe Biden snorted cocaine and said, yeah, I snorted cocaine, now let's legalize all drugs. That'd be awesome. People would think he's cool. Like he'd never do that because he isn't cool and he's lame. But like, this is just, it's just funny more than anything. Like the story is entertaining and the fact that Trump wants to have Biden and himself to be fair drug tested. Like it's not necessarily anything that's going to lead to substantive information about the candidates, but I do find it thoroughly entertaining. I will say that because I actually kind of see what Trump sees. Like, I think it's very likely that Joe Biden took something. I don't know what, but he had a much better performance in that debate. So I don't necessarily think that it's unreasonable, you know, for Trump to suggest that Biden did take something. But I mean, you think that to yourself, you don't say that out loud. You don't literally say, let's do a drug test. Like what? Like we all knew, no, that you probably snorted coke in 2016 in your debate against Hillary Clinton. So shut the fuck up, you goddamn hypocrite. Like all these politicians are so hypocritical and insufferable. And you know, they are clutching their pearls whenever it's convenient to them. But then when it's inconvenient, they'll accuse everyone else of being too PC and hypersensitive. Like I hate everyone. But this is just, you know, this is a funny story to me.