Posted on 07/07/2024 8:45:25 PM PDT by lightman
It’s horrible when bad things happen to good people. This isn’t a story about that, this is a story about bad things happening to Democrats – think of it as evidence that karma may, in fact, exist. Or at least that God has a sense of humor. Because the corner that Democrats have painted themselves into has no good or easy way out, and the only have themselves to blame.
This doesn’t mean that Democrats are going to lose – never underestimate the Republican skill of being able to blow an election – it just means it will take extraordinary events in order to just get them back to even.
Does Joe Biden survive the week is not a crack about his age, it’s a question about his will. Sooner or later, the time will come where enough Democrats look at a shrinking calendar and poll numbers and realize there is likely not enough of the former to make up for the latter. But all of their alternatives are just as tainted by Joe Biden as Joe Biden is.
It’s a glorious mess they’ve created for themselves. That they’ve taken so much of the media with them is the icing on top. How can they get out of it?
There is no good way.
1) Biden stays. They can’t get rid of him, legally, anyway. I suppose the delegates could simply refuse to vote for him in defiance of their party’s rules. Not sure what would happen there, or what would happen if they walked out without voting for enough rounds that they got to the point where the Super Delegates get a say and they’re all free to vote how they like, but it would be fun to watch.
The problem is some state’s laws obligate delegates to vote how the primary commanded them to. It’s unlikely that the party of letting violent criminals go is going to charge hard after delegates not voting for a slightly animated corpse, but if their Attorney General is a Biden loyalist, you never know.
2) Someone who matters speaks out. It’s always funny when a few backbench Members of the House put together a letter complaining about this or that, trying to “pressure” leadership into the action they want. Unless it is all of them, or at least damn near most, these letter are political junk mail – quickly tossed out. Those who signed it might brag to their constituents about it, but it never matters. That’s all there is about Biden, so far.
There are very few people who could speak out and make it matter. Nancy Pelosi is one. I’d say Hakeem Jeffries, but he’s Pelosi’s puppet. Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. If they call for Joe to go, he won’t really have much choice.
But you have to remember that Joe has always been a nasty, vindictive person. He would go, but he could do a lot of damage on the way out the door. A decent portion of Democrats do like Joe, and would be angry at his ouster. There’s no reason to think they’d vote for the party after that.
3) Whoever comes next. Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom, were one of them to come out against Joe, could do serious damage, but it would be a suicide mission. They don’t like each other, so they’re both fighting to be seen as the most loyal Biden supporter right now. If Joe leaves on his own, they could lay claim, with varying degrees of success, to the mantle of heir apparent. But if one cracks too early and calls for Joe to go, it would likely lead to a flood of people doing the same right behind them, but they would be denounced as disloyal and opportunistic. They all are, but being labels as such would be damaging with the voters they’d need the support of.
Of these two – the obvious and only real options for replacing Biden – whoever breaks first, comes in last.
Will Democrats break? Will they bypass a black woman for a rich white man? Can they reanimate Joe to the point that he limps across the finish line? If they go convince him to withdraw as a candidate, will they force him to resign as president too? If not, how will they justify saying he’s unfit for a second term but somehow fine to be President now?
There are more questions than there are answers and they know it. And there are no good answers to the questions we do know about.
I would like nothing more than to have them keep Joe Biden on the ticket, not because I think he’d be easier to beat – though, I do – but because I want him to lose. I want one of his last memories as he drifts off into full dementia to be that American people rejected him and everything he did; that he will go down as the worst President in history. I want that to be the last thing that blends into the fog.
Joe Biden has been such a destructive force to the country, and a divisive force to Americans, that I desire he unambiguously know his presidency was the inflection point where the country recoiled in horror from his politics, his policies, his family and him.
Perhaps that’s cruel, but a man who made his name lying about his own life and his opponents, while making his fortune off exploiting the public trust, deserves nothing less. And the American Public, who’ve suffered under him, deserve at least that small measure of satisfaction.
The “Mental Health Crisis” among Democrats is worsening heck I dare everyone to look at this mockup of President Trump and it ain’t nice...
https://x.com/newrepublic/status/1810009748697448541
We know what their way forward is. Cheat and steal and lie.
Sounds like they need a good old fashioned global war so they can declare martial law.
As directed by Meathead, “To the pain.”
Jimmy Carter, the current ‘worst President ever’ titleholder is likely the only Democrat dude in the country that is cheering at this point.
It took a while, and there were contenders like Clinton (scum of the earth, but still better than Jimmy) and Obama... The ‘Being There’ President who just happened to get elected despite his complete lack of knowledge and experience, which likened him to Chauncey Gardiner, the bewildered character of Jerzy Kosiński’s aptly named novel,... His only god saving attribute... He wasn’t Hillary Clinton.
Now Jimmy has a real chance at being the second worst President ever... After all, a demented President who brought the entire Democrat party down with him sure sounds like a title winning contender.
Amen.
Bushclintonbushobama was the worst president ever
Amen.
Holy crap! They are totally unhinged.
That comprises the bulk of the DNC, incidentally, who will be controlling the convention. They can simply refuse to seat the delegates - it's more than 1800, enough to guarantee Dementia Joe the nomination - refuse to seat them at all. There are no other pledged delegates. That would be a monumental double-cross, but if they want an open convention that's what they're going to have to do. They don't have the authority to release those delegates if Joe doesn't pull out, only the states have that.
We're going to hear some world-class howling in the upcoming week. Think of the dinosaurs trapped in the La Brea tarpits and try to keep a straight face.
There is only one winning path for Joetato or any Democrat.
Massive fraud.
Whoa!
Woodrow Wilson, James Buchanan and LBJ are in the top three.
I'm not even sure if Jimmy Carter is in top five now thanks to Joe Biden.
Yup, the sky is falling!
The Dems should have held a primary to select a good candidate.
Oh, wait.
That is so over the top that it will repel more people than it appeals to, What has Trump said or done to make these morons into pathological lunatics?
“There is only one winning path for Joetato or any Democrat.”
If Trump is up 10, that will not work because they can’t deny it.
I think the Dem will try to do three things.
1. They are going to try and put Trump in prison. If they can do this, they might somehow disqualify or beat him.
2. If Trump does manage to take office they will follow a three-part plan.
a. Riots and civil unrest
b. lawfare/lawsuits and legal or legislative delaying.
tactics
c. They’ll use the same tactics they are using against Brandon and try and have him removed by the 25th amendment.
The sum of this is to try to cause so much destruction that Trump cannot effectively govern. They then hope to ride to the rescue starting in 2026 and sweep in 2028
U.S. Grant was pretty bad too
Not be a democrat, not support their causes, and wanting to put America first.
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