Why Troubling News:

It's hard to find any US news in recent days that's not about the supposed (un)viability of President Biden to continue in his current capacity; but articles like these exemplify the worst tendencies of the discourse- ravenous speculation that seems to wish the President would crash and burn.How else to read quotes like these?"Watching President Biden’s press conference last night, I thought: Joe Biden knows. He knows at some level that he shouldn’t be running again.That level is still subterranean. He’s still in denial. He can’t really even acknowledge to himself yet that he should step aside, let alone say it, or act on it.But he knows. He knows that he’s very unlikely to win, and he knows, I think, that he’s not up to governing for four more years."It's distasteful, if nothing else.