mumbling

His campaign message was a shambolic tapestry of fearmongering, race-baiting, transphobia, dishonesty, and increasingly irrelevant mumbling.

“You’ve got to know your stuff before you can have fun. She was incredibly disciplined in work, always knew her words backwards, knew the cues. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone with such imagination on how to read a line. At same time she was impatient with modern ways, the mumbling or ‘I’ll just do that again.’

She takes refuge on a bench near the fountain in the lot’s famed circular courtyard as she considers how the trio will be immortalized by Hollywood: Oliver as someone we all want to strangle and cuddle at the same time; Charles as everyone’s un-fun uncle with a grouchy turtle face; and Mabel as a traumatized, homeless and jobless mumbling millennial.

She paused for a few seconds, getting up from the chair and slowly walking toward the library before mumbling: “But I don’t want no record.”

His delivery was more reminiscent of the Biden who won in 2020 than the mumbling and sometimes incoherent one-time candidate whose debate performance against Trump in June sparked the downfall of his reelection campaign.