Posted on 09/09/2024 5:21:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A confused but also encouraged world of enemies watches the listless United States and wonders whether to try something stupid.
Somehow the United States ended up this summer with no engaged president and an absent vice president who avoids the missing president and is frantically repudiating everything she co-owned the last three years.
The world was already confused over how President Joe Biden was apparently declared by unnamed Democratic insiders and donors unfit and unable to continue as their presidential candidate—as if he were a dethroned Third-World usurper.
It further wondered how those who staged his removal had no problem allowing him, in his debilitated state, to continue as America’s commander-in-chief until January 20, 2025. They demonstrated their priorities that focus on retaining power, not the welfare of the nation or the will of over 14 million Biden primary voters.
Vice President Kamala Harris, until Biden’s forced abdication, was judged by these same backroom fixers as too incompetent to ever be commander-in-chief and thus for three years a good reason why Biden apparently was not forced out earlier.
Now nominal Vice President Harris is on the campaign trail nonstop, while Biden has taken the most vacation time off and worked the shortest workweek in presidential memory.
The world again wonders who is in charge, what they believe, who is a friend, and who is an enemy. Harris is busy trying to get elected on three premises: disowning her prior co-ownership of what was mostly a disastrous Biden term and certainly no recommendation for reelection; reinventing her affluent radical past and present as moderate and working-class; and keeping absolutely silent about any detailed agenda or policy plan for governance as president.
Our rivals and opponents abroad cannot decide which is better for their own anti-American agendas—a derelict and absent Biden-Harris or...
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
What is the Harris plan? Salad?
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Kamala is not abandoning her far-left, socialist ideals but is simply pretending to be moderate to win the election. ~Bernie Sanders .
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Botom line is we have no engaged president and an absent vice president......
Numerous times in my career someone was in charge of a department, or a VP of several departments and that individual was (Pick one) incompetent, stupid, outright sabotaging the company or any number of other bad issues. It was obvious to people below, above and beside this guy that he was damaging or impeding the company. Yet nothing was ever done to rectify the problem. To understand why, you need to understand politics. If that person stayed in his position, he served a purpose for someone above him. Sometimes a position must be occupied because if it were vacant, it might be filled with someone who was not beholden to, or dangerous to the person above. The person above, who is protected by golden parachutes, blackmail info, or whatever, does not care about the health and wellbeing of the corporation. All he cares about is Number One.
Back to why Joe Biden is still president. I have to wonder WHO is more powerful that he can keep the incompetent, criminal boob in office just to protect himself. If we could answer that, then we know who controls us. Frankly, I have no clue.
Great article from VDH. Thanks for posting. Comments BUMP! Perilous times indeed.
A very depressing but real assessment of where we are as a nation.
Mainly, this is further proof that the DIMocRATs and the rino repubs really don’t care about the United States and its Citizens. Apparently, they see US Citizens as a form of milk cow that they can milk to fight their worthless wars and who are milked incessantly for more money for them to grift or directly steal. How pathetic is this picture? So many compromised criminals...so little time.
Who
The committee
The law of succession dictates that if the president and VP are disabled, the speaker of the house assumes the presidency. Pecker puss Pelosi is the acting president.
“I have to wonder WHO is more powerful that he can keep the incompetent, criminal boob in office just to protect himself.”
Good analysis. I think the “WHO is more powerful” is not an individual but those institutions that pay politicians and the media.
Joy.
Not.
” I think the “WHO is more powerful” is not an individual but those institutions that pay politicians and the media.”
I partially agree with you, but institutions don’t make decisions. Institutions create and then follow guidelines and rules. Its individuals who make the political butt-covering decisions. The question becomes which guy, running which institution is making those decisions? I suppose to find out who rules us we should start criticizing people and institutions at random to find out which one sends the cops after us. When that happens, we’ve found out who rules us.
No, that would be Republican Johnson who is third in line.
I completely understand the frustration over the situation.
Way back in My younger days I had been selling Foreign Auto Parts since I was 12 years old and was an 18 year veteran of the business. I was damned good at it. One day We were informed that there was a new general manager joining the company. I and My colleagues were wondering who this person was and why the company had not offered the position to any of Us.
A few days later in comes this guy and I just happened to know of him as he was working for a Printing and Copy Service in town as My wife worked there. He was a salesman for the company and knew absolutely nothing about cars !!! He didn’t know a spark plug from a spare tyre and suddenly he was in charge of 3 Stores that were specifically selling Foreign Auto Parts !!!
Needless to say everyone was dumbfounded at how he got the job...
7 of 15 veteran employees at the stores began looking for other jobs elsewhere.
That was when We realized that baffling people with Bull$}{!T was a career advancement tool.
So, again, who or what now governs America?
Is it Biden again at the beach or closing up shop at noon for his nap and early bedtime?
Or is it Vice President Harris, far from the White House, out campaigning and confused over who she really is or wants to be, what, if anything, she plans on doing if elected president, and how to avoid any unscripted moment?
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Harris’ plan for getting elected is based on several far-fetched premises:
<><>disowning her partnership in Biden’s abysmal stolen presidency;
<><>reinventing her radical past of indulgent affluence;
<><>suppressing her political climb using her oral sex skills;
<><>presenting herself as a moderate, working-class candidate;
<><>keeping quiet about her plans for Americans as president.
The people occupying the two highest offices in the Executive Branch are unfit to be in office. Both should have had the 25th Amemdmemt applied to them long ago.
Victor Davis Hanson is correctly sensing a major extinction event devastating the deep state without directly saying so. Just returned from DC and the place is a ghost town.
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