YES. Is it too late even to try to understand Joe Biden’s calling a woman a “lying dog-faced pony soldier,” or is this nothing but an absurd epitaph on a dead political campaign? “I think Biden believes he’s lovable, and he can kid in a silly way and people will know it’s all in good fun. I don’t know why he thinks he can swing around so freely when he’s trying to gain the deep trust needed to be President, but I don’t know why anyone pushing 80 thinks he can be President or why a grown man in politics thinks he can nuzzle and sniff at the hair of young girls other than to think he thinks he’s Joe and everybody knows Joe. Joe is Joe.”

Plus: “The only thing I’ll add to that is I have and will have a special problem with ‘dog-faced’ until Roseanne Barr is uncanceled. The greatest female comedian of all time was banished from her #1 TV show — had it snatched away and her brilliant character killed even after the actress was booted out — for the sin of comparing a woman to an animal. I was just looking at Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscar speech, where he said, ‘I think that’s when we’re at our best: when we support each other. Not when we cancel each other out for our past mistakes.'” That’s different because reasons.