The Fall of Biden Portends Real Danger
The Fight to Save Biden
On Friday, amid a full-on mutiny among the pundit class on the Democrat side after Joe Biden had validated the critique of half the country who already knew he was mentally unfit to serve as President of these united states, Barack Obama stepped up and all but proved that he’s really the man in charge of both the Democrat Party and probably the federal government as well.
Obama sent out a tweet. And when he did, all of the caterwauling about Biden’s debate performance was turned down to almost nothing.
Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the …
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 28, 2024
And just like that, the Democrats’ calls to dump Biden largely went away.
By Sunday, there were the makings of a plan, and the “inside men” at Axios were dispatched to provide the contours of it:
A massive political, PR and personal campaign is underway to reject calls for President Biden to drop his re-election race — and rally Democrats to move on from public debate about age and his future, top officials tell us.
Why it matters: Biden has zero interest in stepping aside — and First Lady Jill Biden and key family members and friends agree, according to people who talk regularly with them.
The intrigue: Biden, who has ducked tough interviews and avoided no-holds-barred press conferences, is now considering both. Look for a town hall or big one-on-one interview this month.
The latest: During a family gathering at Camp David on Sunday, Biden family members, including Hunter, went through with a long-scheduled session with celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz. The Bidens insisted the president stay in the race, we’re told by people close to them.
According to Axios, Team Biden is going to come down hard on “bedwetters” who came off Dirty Joe after his somnambulant performance on Thursday, they’re going to push poll results that show he wasn’t hurt too badly by that debate (which means from now on, you might want to check out the poll sample of all the surveys you see in order that you might identify just how badly they over-represent Democrats), they’ll spread panic about an “open” convention and raise the specter of a Kamala Harris as their nominee — which is amazing given that they still intend to carry Harris as the VP candidate; how’s that going to work out? — and they’re gong to romance their donors and the party’s leadership in Congress and the states as hard as they can.
The lengths this crowd has gone to in an effort to hold power … don’t recommend them too highly as selfless patriots.
To boil this down, what Axios reported is that Team Biden, having exposed themselves as gaslighting the American people for the past four years about Biden’s fitness for the job he now holds and having frightened the entire country who since Thursday night is now bubbling over with concern about who is actually running the country, has made a measured, conscious decision to … continue gaslighting the public.
For them, it is inconceivable to give up political power, even if that power is wielded through a non compos mentis octogenarian who can’t make complete sentences or walk off a debate stage without help.
So you get this…
Genius video here. Joe Biden is sharp as a tack.pic.twitter.com/VomEEVVduR
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 1, 2024
It’s shocking. But not surprising.
One of the things which I knew but didn’t fully formulate in my head until I’d done the research for Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama, my book on the man who has dominated American politics for the last 16 years or more, was how utterly hostile to the concept of graceful defeat our ruling cabal truly is.
They don’t lose. They escalate.
Tucker Carlson sent out a tweet on Monday which was interesting, though I don’t know if I believe it.
From an unusually good source: Obama’s tweet supporting Joe Biden was disingenuous. In private, Obama is telling people Biden can’t win, and he is therefore in favor of an open convention. Obama will not say whom he supports, nor as of yesterday afternoon had he met personally…
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 1, 2024
You can square this circle by thinking of it this way: Obama is leaving himself an out.
Because he’s just using Biden, at the end of the day. And he knows Biden is, cognitively, a dead man walking. If and when Biden becomes useless, he then becomes disposable.
But the judgment, particularly coming out of that Sunday meeting is that Biden isn’t disposable yet.
And perhaps it’s a question of making a deal with one of the other semi-plausible candidates to replace him who might agree to serve as an Obama puppet like Biden has. Without such a deal, the big heavy lifting it’ll require to convince Biden and his equally delusional wife, Jill “Lady MacBeth” Biden, that it’s time to go simply isn’t feasible.
All of this you can write down as semi-informed speculation. But in light of what we’ve seen since Thursday night, it’s what everybody is doing. (READ MORE from Scott McKay: That Debate Might Be the End of the Road for … Barack Obama)
Because it’s very obvious that these people have been shamelessly perpetrating a fraud on the American people since 2020, and now that Biden exposed this fraud on that debate stage they’ve decided to continue it.
David Catron was absolutely right yesterday in noting that the entire apparatus of the Democrat Party bears responsibility for this cavalcade of suck, and that it’s long past time that party be consigned to the political wilderness so the country might heal.
The polls indicate things are beginning to turn. Trump is now ahead in New Hampshire, and, according to one poll, one point up in New Jersey, Senate races like the one in Montana are beginning to turn. Issue polling is catastrophic for the Democrats, meaning that Republicans can hit home runs with late-game issue ads in House and Senate races.
A Harvard-Harris poll (linked in the previous paragraph) conducted over the weekend put Trump now ahead by seven points in a five-way race. It’s too early to say a wave election is building. The GOP proved in 2022 that it isn’t good enough to generate a wave. Either that or the American people just hadn’t suffered enough.
Maybe they’re suffering enough now. Maybe there might be some very ugly things happening around the world and even here at home between now and the election which might accentuate and clarify that suffering. I’d be awfully nervous if I lived in Taiwan after Biden’s rather provocative performance on Thursday, for example.
How Far Will They Go?
But if it looks like that wave is beginning to build, something which would likely come in tandem with Biden’s continued obvious cognitive collapse, what happens a couple of months from now?
What happens when Team Biden/Team Obama is presented with obvious signs that this election cycle is unwinnable, that it really is too late to replace Biden with a more plausible puppet, and that Obama’s maxim that “elections have consequences” is about to come back in their faces?
What if they’re presented with a couple of clear choices: either accept the loss and all the baggage it will carry, meaning the end of the Obama era and a very different America rebounding to replace this fundamentally transformed one, or torch the republic to hold power?
Until now, that latter possibility had never really been the stuff of anything other than spy novels. But it doesn’t feel so fanciful anymore. The lengths this crowd has gone to in an effort to hold power and resist any reform to the system of “Our Democracy” they so jealously defend as they trash all the basic tenets of constitutional democracy our republic was founded on don’t recommend them too highly as selfless patriots. (READ MORE: Five Quick Things: Dirty Joe’s Chinese Laundry)
These guys never heard of Cincinnatus. And they would sooner kill or be killed than return to the plow.
Let’s hope the Obama crowd’s audacity has limits. Our national time of danger is descending, and rapidly.
Editor’s Note: In tomorrow’s column, the potential role of the 25th Amendment in shaping our immediate political future.
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