When they go low, we go high.

Michelle Obama

About a week ago, we did a report on an interview with Eric Swalwell, in which he explained to the guys that if we ran into any of these prominent Republican people like Jim Jordan or Ted Cruz out away from Washington, we would all change our opinion of them and think they are nice normal guys. Swalwell says these people belong in a pro-wrestling league because everything about their fight is faked to please their Fox watching audience.

If they throw a chair over your head on Hannity, it’s no big deal because it’s faked. And, Swalwell says that the Republicans believe that Democrats are doing the same thing to them. Evidently, Republicans don’t watch much liberal television because there is nothing comparable, nothing. Lindsey Graham – an old friend of Joe’s, even attack Joe’s family, Hunter.

And yet Lindsey must have realized that the family insults went well beyond the pale of pro-wrestling because he called Joe to patch things up… after Joe Biden won and would be president.

According to The New York Times, Graham called Biden shortly after the election to try and repair their fractured friendship, allegedly telling the president-elect that he only attacked Hunter to satisfy Trump supporters—even as he called for a special prosecutor to look into the younger Biden’s business dealings.

Biden, however, was reportedly not interested in patching up the relationship, telling Graham he was trying to play both sides, sources close to the president said. Days after the phone call, the Times noted, Biden remarked to Stephen Colbert that Graham was “a personal disappointment because I was a personal friend of his.”

It is good that Joe didn’t let go of the personal stuff because that is unforgivable and if the Democrats keep forgiving them. He did concentrate on patching up a professional relationship that has some utility, it got Lindsey to vote for the infrastructure bill.

Still, Republicans play by disgusting rules and when they’re that low there’s no reason to go down with them to fight. As Michelle said, they go [that] low, one has to stay high, while not forgiving.

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