And so it ended. Not with a bang, and hardly even a whimper. After the triumphant, overwhelming election of Biden as the Presidential nominee of his party earlier this year, polling showed Team Biden that they could not win in November under any circumstances, after the catastrophic debate revealed his cognitive problems for all to see. From 90% support of his party to doing an LBJ in only two months is some kind of record. It’s as if Democrats were the biggest victims of the massive gaslighting that has been done, on their behalf, by the MSM over the last few years, and not their target audience, which is everyone else.
Biden differed from LBJ in that his version of “I will not serve” was not delivered by a televised speech from the Oval Office but instead a text on X. Over the last three weeks, the political news had been followed avidly on X, as well as other social media platforms, to the detriment of all other media. If you want breaking news or interesting comment or even whacko conspiracy-mongering, it’s all there. And its the fastest way to get the attention of the whole world, as even Team Biden understands. Lefties regard this as a weird and bad thing. One suspects the criticism comes more from the fact that it is a popular platform where Lefties don’t control the narrative.
Biden has not been seen for several days, which is unheard of in a modern Presidency. But then again, many other unheard of things have happened in the last few days. First up is Biden himself. He flew back unexpectedly from campaigning in Las Vegas as he reportedly had contracted Covid. Reports now suggest, however, that he also had a medical emergency in Vegas, such as a mini-stroke, and hot-footed it back on Air Force One (AF1) to the East Coast for treatment. Emily Goodin (Daily Mail) was on that flight and posted after AF1 landed, “AF1 flew so fast the plane shook.” Is there anything at this point that will not be covered up by the most deceitful White House in history?
Even weirder was the immediate reaction from Democrats and MSM folks (I repeat myself) on what a wonderful, selfless decision to quit the campaign had been made by a great, nay, the best President. Lefty rags such as the Orlando Sentinel were all in on the tongue bath: “Joe Biden has been as good a President as any and better than most… Yet he stood down from his re-election campaign to allow someone younger and more the picture of vigorous health to finish the work of keeping the nation, and the world, safe from Donald Trump.” One believes that the Sentinel got the last phrase the wrong way round. Trump would rightly feel that he has to be kept safe from the world, especially one that has a Secret Service that is increasingly looking like deliberately incompetent, as opposed to just incompetent.
And then came the politicians. My favourite was from the appalling Jerry Nadler, congressman from New York City: “Joe Biden, like FDR and LBJ before him, will go down as one of the most consequential Presidents in American history having led our nation’s recovery through one of its darkest chapters.” Sorry, Jimmy Carter, Democrat pols have used up all the superlatives appropriate for really bad Presidents and there will be none left for you when the time comes. At least we know now how ‘Top Democrats’ got ‘President Get-Off-My-Lawn’ to step down. He has been promised his legacy and his place in history is secured – well, at least when history is written by the Left.
Missing from the cringe-fest was any mention of the fact that Biden has another six months to go as the bestest President ever. He cannot be a candidate due to his serious mental issues, but he can be President. After all, for some, being the most powerful guy in the world is just a part-time hustle akin to working as a customer greeter at Home Depot. And that was, and still is, the weirdest thing of all about Biden this week.
The Top Democrats’ election strategy also included their ‘chosen one’ for the nomination. A second tweet on X appeared after the campaign resignation tweet and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the choice of whoever was behind the resignation strategy. Biden’s resignation had the usual synchronised messaging, as can be seen by the same words being used over and over, as if quoting from a script – “selfless”, “patriotic”, “putting the country first”. But this had to be delayed with Harris, as presumably she was not that popular a choice within her party, and initially, folks were slow to get onboard. But the next day, normal service had been resumed. Harris was now showered with praise. The script this time had no specificity, due to her stunning lack of any notable accomplishments, so there was now a lot of “smart”, “strong”, “skills”, “strength” and “character.”
Harris is the worst candidate the Democrats could anoint, other than Biden of course, judging by opinion polls. But it is easy to see why the Democrat big brains put their money on Harris. Her name is on the campaign already as VP, so she is able to use the Biden campaign money for her candidacy. This does not apply to anyone else. In addition, they have been quietly working for the last week to provide momentum to ensure Biden’s delegates will now vote for her at the convention and so avoid an open convention. No-one wants to show the chaos that always lurks under the surface in American politics on TV. This happened back in 1968 after LBJ dropped out, and the results were disastrous for the Democrats (although not for the country), as they lost the Presidential election.
It does not bother Top Democrats that they have branded themselves as the party that will save “democracy” from the “fascism” that is Trump. Folks like Randi Weingarten, head of the biggest teachers’ union in the country and committed Left-wing activist, rant 24/7 about how Trump will become a fascist in the future and so destroy democracy. Democrats prefer to trash democracy in the present. The party members that voted for Biden in the Democratic primaries, all 14 million of them, have now had their votes ignored and given to someone else entirely, whom they may or may not support.
Cover for these kinds of contradictions with Harris’s candidacy will be provided, as always, by our MSM. In this case, it will be by ignoring them. A more sinister approach is evident in how they wish to address other criticisms of her. CNN has already launched a salvo this week against folks calling Harris a “DEI hire”. Republicans have labelled her this because, well, she is. Biden said before he was elected that he would pick a woman as VP and then further specified his choice by narrowing it down to four black women. Nothing was said about their capabilities – gender and colour of skin were enough. Two months ago Biden was all ‘DEI VP’ again: “To me the values of diversity, equality and inclusion are literally… the core strengths of America… And it starts at the top with the Vice President.”
CNN’s response to this criticism of Harris was to park the bus in front of the goal by flat out calling it “racist”. Their reasoning was surprisingly not based on pointing out that Biden does not know what he is saying these days, but rather based on calling someone a “DEI hire” would be grounds for dismissal in corporate America. It has not occurred to the crack journalists at CNN that DEI is gradually being kicked to the curb in corporate America. Even very Left-wing media like Axios have picked up on this.
For regular folks this is the least of all criticisms against Harris. As a candidate, she has two much more serious weaknesses. America just does not like her, due mostly to her word salad manner of speaking, and the fact that we all twigged several years ago, when she was running to be the Presidential nominee for the Democrats, that she has no principles but just articulates whatever is the mantra of her party at any time. Her party shares America’s opinion. Similar to today, she won no delegates on her own merits four years ago after running a disastrous campaign.
Her biggest issue, however, is her policies. Her lack of any foundational principles has led her to attach herself to all of the far-Left nonsense that Democrats have been hawking for the last twenty years. Her support of any and all illegal immigration and the deliberate evisceration of the forces of law and order are the two biggest examples. The consequences for us have been dire. And, as in so many cases with Democrat policies, women are the hardest hit. By coincidence, an investigation into the explosion of rape in NYC was published by the NY Post early this week. The existence of over a hundred thousand illegal immigrants has contributed to this issue, with these folk being both offenders and victims. The NYPD is down significantly in terms of manpower, while soft-on-crime prosecutors such as Alvin Bragg in Midtown Manhattan deliberately do not prosecute many offences, such as murder and rape. Defending these policies will be a tough road.
The last two weeks have been among the craziest ever in American politics. It started with a Presidential candidate being shot and ended with his opponent stepping out of the race. And yet, nothing much has changed. Talk of unity and turning down the temperature evaporated very quickly, and our MSM is back doing what it does best: acting as a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party and their policies, while also muting any possible sympathy for Trump from the assassination attempt by ignoring it. Trump is back to in court as the Democrat lawfare agenda seeks to both bankrupt him and stop him from campaigning. And the Democrats have, as a candidate for the Presidency, a vapid, unlikeable puppet who will defend whatever nonsense they want to push down the throats of the American people.
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Seriously, the woman cannot say words for 10 seconds without her chronic ‘foot in mouth disease’ ( otherwise known as terminal ineptitude ) kicking in. Watch this mini clip and tell me why you wouldn’t want to endorse this woman…<FFS!>
https://x.com/Fynnderella1/status/1816441257205412018
It seems Biden is still alive and..erm, just alive, anyway, as he gave his much anticipated speech yesterday;
”Joe Biden’s speech from the Oval Office was so chock-full of outrageous lies and slurred gaffes it’s hard to know where to start when fact-checking and dissecting it. But one thing is certain: when NBC called it a speech “for the history books,” they were spreading even faker news than usual.
Biden’s economy is an utter catastrophe, with still-rising inflation and dropping real wages. His supporters continue to riot and celebrate Islamic terrorists, soon after someone took a shot at Donald Trump, Biden’s GOP opponent. And no one believes Biden is actually the functioning leader of the free world.
Then, Biden, who has prolonged the war in Ukraine and funded the Palestinian jihadis fighting the war with Israel, asserted, “I’m the first president in this century to report to the American people that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world. We’ll keep rallying a coalition of proud nations to stop Putin from taking over Ukraine and doing more damage.” Without once denouncing pro-Hamas leftists currently destroying monuments and burning flags in D.C., he called for a choice between “hope and hate, between unity and division,” and for “honesty, decency, respect, freedom, justice and democracy.”
I think we’re all doubting at this point if he has a heart and soul, but when Biden, the trampler of liberties, again claimed the People control America instead of dictators, it seemed particularly laughable. “You just have to keep faith,” Biden muttered. “Keep the faith and remember who we are, we’re the United States of America and there’s simply nothing, nothing beyond our capacity when we do it together. So let’s act together. Preserve our democracy. May God bless you all and may God protect our troops. Thank you.”
One can only wonder how the parents of Hamas’s hostages and the American troops killed in Kabul during Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, or the family of Americans murdered by illegal aliens, felt about that speech. Joe Biden, dementia-ridden as he is, remains a serial and heartless liar.”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/07/24/joe-bidens-speech-n4931045
Biden, with a gesture that suggested that he was holding an imaginary bowling ball, said several times, with as much gravity as the old vegetable could muster, and summing up the Zeitgeist perfectly, “America…is an IDEA.”
No, Jojo, it’s not an idea, it’s a country. It’s very concrete. It’s a distinct area of land with borders, a form of government, laws, a culture, and people whose families have been living here since the 18th century.
“An IDEA,” though, implies that, as effortlessly and quickly as a passing thought, TPTB can violate the borders, ignore the laws, subvert the government, destroy the culture, and replace everyone whose roots are here with tens of millions of dodgy illegal aliens. Because THAT’S WHO WE ARE.
Unburdened by what has been, I can’t even recall the quote age delivers it that poorly. She’s an effing idiot!
“What can be, unburdened by what has been” is a quote popularized and primarily used by Kamala Harris, the current vice president of the United States and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate.”
I don’t have a source but read a comment saying the perp is a Nigerian immigrant;
”Magistrates have remanded a man in custody following the serious assault of a soldier in Gillingham.
Anthony Esan, 24, of Mooring Road, Rochester, appeared at Medway Magistrates’ Court today (Thursday 25 July 2024) charged with attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.
He will remain in custody ahead of his next appearance at Maidstone Crown Court on Thursday 22 August.
The charges relate to an incident in Sally Port Gardens at around 5.55pm on Tuesday 23 July where a soldier in uniform suffered injuries consistent with stab wounds.
The victim, a man in his 40s, remains in a serious but stable condition in hospital.”
https://www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/latest/policing-news/suspect-charged-with-attempted-murder-of-soldier-in-gillingham/
Fancy that, I’m shocked.
Presumably he is a prince and the poor soldier didn’t buy into his amazing money-making offer.
The guy came from Italy initially where he was on Italian Police radar. It seems as if he was on a mission and it was worse than just stealing benefits.
Yep, I’m the one who shared that titbit yesterday.
See, I never miss your posts Mogs.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/25/anthony-esan-charged-attempted-murder-soldier-stabbed/
It’s amazing how so much previously unknown mental illness is now realised to have been caused by the sudden realisation that one’s ancestors’ country had been colonized by evil white supremacist slave traders, and that the best treatment is available in the traders’ descendants’ country. Perhaps this goes back to Blair’s “Rivers of Reparations” speeches around 2007 (perhaps even Bristol 1997-ish?).
The British Empire was so awful that the colonised, realising what shit holes their countries had become without us decided to up sticks and put up with any amount of hardship in order to travel across the globe just to sample the real deal. Unfortunately, they forgot to leave their barbarism behind and so we must do the decent thing and return them whence they came.
And promptly.
Translation – I make it up as I go along, don’t expect consistency.
Yes.
….unburdened by brains.
And another gem… today is what yesterday was tomorrow, and tomorrow will be today, tomorrow.
Is she right in the head? Oh no it does not matter she is only standing to be President of America.
I have to keep reminding myself she’s a trained lawyer and did that as a career for a number of years whenever I hear her speak, therefore she can’t not be intelligent. It’s not the sort of profession you can just blag your way through training then wing it. You’d get called out as a fraud and incompetent pretty damn sharpish. So the only thing I’m left with, especially when I hear her talk, is that she appears drugged, like highly medicated. She definitely seems to slur her words sometimes too, but not in an alcohol-induced type of way because her eyes are still clear. The rest of the time she talks gobbledegook and appears to not have understood the question she was asked in an interview. Just my impression of her though.
I am not sure about that as a few women are described as hot shot lawyers who turn out to be duds, Mrs Clooney, the Italian woman with the England football manager and now the diversity hire.
She is also too lazy to read her briefing notes concerning world events and geography so I would place her in the Megan Markle range and a similar operator.
I have over the years worked with lawyers and intelligence is decidedly NOT a common attribute. They are however universally badly organised and have such high opinions of themselves that they believe they can wing any brief after a two minute chat. Very similar to doctors.
Two nieces are lawyers.
“I have to keep reminding myself she’s a trained lawyer“
Same as David Lammy. I yield to my learned friend Mogwai, I rest my case.
Haha, yes. I didn’t know that actually. And then there’s Sadiq Khan and Keir Starmer, of course, and they’ve got quite the chequered history, as I recall. Defending some decidedly dodgy people and preventing scumbags from being deported..
I just always presumed training and becoming a successful lawyer was incredibly difficult and only the brightest of the bright would ever achieve success in that profession. I suppose, much like the doctors during the whole scamdemic debacle, they’ve definitely come down significantly in my estimation, to put it politely. Although not everybody’s downfall can be put down to their level of intelligence though, as many are just plain corrupt and/or cowards, the latter particularly with the doctors.
IME of lawyers I think they need to have good memories (at least as far as case law and precedent go in the UK) and be good with words so that they can make connections that not everyone would make in support of their case. I don’t think they need to be objectively clever but they do need to be able to think quickly and make the aforementioned connections in a confident manner so that the audience believes them to be true even though the truth may have been embroidered somewhat.
Too much Colombian Marching Powder.
Based on her behavior, I think edibles or benzos is more likely, although I couldn’t possibly speculate.
Sounds like a David Brent quote…
The Democracy they want to bring to USA is Rule by the Democrats, not Rule by the People.
I got the impression, watching his speech, that he was strapped to the back of the chair to keep him upright, that his head was similarly fixed in a set position and that someone else was working his arms from behind, but I am an old cynic.
However his speech was absolutely genuine Biden.
He does remind me of a wax work when I look at his picture and a ventriloquist’s dummy when I see him speak. Yes people talking about body doubles and whatnot is a step too far down ‘Conspiracy Avenue’ for me.
Sounds like the Soviet leaders of old….
“But it is easy to see why the Democrat big brains put their money on Harris. Her name is on the campaign already as VP, so she is able to use the Biden campaign money for her candidacy.”
Not according to this short video. Court has decided she cannot have Sleepy’s campaign funds.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz1IXIw651k
Her campaign will get the money somehow
Her name was on the campaign and in all the filings sent to the FEC. She was a “candidate for election” as specified by the FEC regulation. But even if Trump would be successful in his claim to the FEC, it would not matter as the FEC takes an age to determine the worth of any complaint. She’s got the $91M or so and she’ll use it. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the update Tony. Much appreciated.
Since it seems most likely Trump will win, and because it has become more about the dire state of the US economy, society, the very real increased prices, and US standing abroad all on the Democrat’s watch, no candidate is likely to tip the balance away from Trump.
So a sacrificial lamb is needed, and probably other possible candidates don’t want to be it. Harris however is stupid enough to go willingly to the slaughter.
It’s a shrewd move by the Democrats as they lay the foundations for another steal. They’re busy expanding their arsenal of weapons to avoid investigation. Harris is black(ish) and, critically, a woman. Want to question how such an obvious Trump victory turned into a defeat? Well, that’s because you’re misogynist or a racist… or a misogynistic racist. Then there’s the many women who will vote for her for no other reason than to show sisterly solidarity. That’s the thing with the left – they’ve always got a plan.