Victor Davis Hanson: Coup Upon Coup Upon Coup

In 2020, covert actors manipulated the Democratic primary to ensure Joe Biden's nomination and later controlled his presidential agenda, ultimately forcing him to step down in favor of Kamala Harris.

In March 2020, all the major Democratic primary candidates abruptly, mysteriously, and in near unison withdrew from the presidential race, ceding the nomination to Joe Biden.

Yet Biden had lost the first three races in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada—and only won his first victory in South Carolina.

Suddenly, on the eve of the Super Tuesday mega-primaries, the candidacies of front-runner Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, and others simply evaporated.

The fear of a front-runner Sanders’ socialist victory and nomination—and thus an enviable landslide loss to incumbent Donald Trump in the general election—had prompted the donor class and shadowy political insiders to act.

And they did so by choosing a perceived moderate, old Joe Biden from Scranton. That required the coerced departures of all his far-left rivals, who had hitherto performed much better than Biden in the primaries.

Now front-runner Biden still displayed obvious symptoms of serious cognitive decline that had only seemed to mount through the 2020 campaign. And his dementia continued to accelerate during his first three years as president.

Biden had deceitfully promised to conduct a healing campaign and a unifying presidency. But once in the White House, his extreme agendas proved the most divisive and far-left in nearly a century.

Rumors of that prior March 2020 Faustian bargain emerged. The Bidens got to serve as useful moderate veneers. So, they enjoyed the ceremonial functions of the presidency while outsourcing the real operations to former Obama officials, consultants, and advisors.

Indeed, Obama did not, as most ex-presidents do, exit Washington upon leaving the White House. Instead, he bought a mansion and stayed close by.

The Trump campaign filed a complaint on Tuesday with the FEC accusing Biden and Harris of violating campaign finance laws by rolling over Biden’s campaign funds to Harris. The complaint came after Biden’s team had illegally amended the name of its campaign committee Sunday to “Harris for President.”

What happens to the $240M Biden raised for reelection,
when he was selected in the primary by 14 million voters?
<><>It’s a complicated FEC issue.
<><>Biden’s reelection efforts raised a total of $240 million at the end of June 2024.
<><>Those funds are split across the DNC, allied committees and Biden’s campaign committee, itself.
<><>The Biden campaign committee, alone, holds $95.9 million as of the end of last month.
<><>Biden has now transferred $91 million to Kamala
<><>The FEC chair intimated that Harris might not actually be eligible to access the funds.
<><>He pointed to this regulation: 11 C.F.R. § 110.1(b)(3): “If the candidate is not a candidate in the general election, all contributions made for the general election shall be either returned or refunded to the contributors or redesignated ..., or reattributed ..., as appropriate.”

Dems Seem Nervous About Kamala Maybe Losing Her $100M War Chest
Biden/Harris illegally altered an official document submitted to a federal agency

By Katie Pavlich, July 24, 2024, townhall.com

Within hours of President Joe Biden announcing he was suspending his 2024 campaign for the White House, which he did through a letter posted on X, his campaign quickly moved to change from the “Biden for President” to the “Harris for President” on official Federal Election Commission forms. They did this so Harris can access nearly $100 million in already raised campaign funds.

But according to FEC Commissioner Sean Cooksey, a transfer of funds to Harris isn’t that simple. Election law attorney Charlie Spies agrees. The Trump campaign filed a complaint with the FEC Monday over the move, which could force the commission to at least consider whether the change is in compliance with the law and make a ruling.

“Kamala Harris is in the process of committing the largest campaign finance violation in American history and she is using the Commission’s own forms to do it,” the complaint states. “The Commission must not and cannot sit idly by while one candidate takes nearly one hundred million dollars from the authorized committee of another, in violation of the Act and the will of the donors who gave the money in the first place.”

“If Kamala Harris were a candidate for something in 2024, federal law requires her to have filed a Statement of Candidacy and for her name to have appeared in the name of her authorized committee. But Kamala Harris’s name does not appear in the name of her purported authorized committee, ‘Biden for President,’ and, until Sunday, no Statement of Candidacy existed for her. Then Sunday, rather than filing her own Statement of Candidacy, she merely altered Joe Biden’s to replace his name with hers. There is no mechanism under the Act for one individual to end another’s federal candidacy by simply amending the other’s Form 2.

Moreover, in that purported amended Form 2 Harris designated ‘Biden for President’ as her principal campaign committee and then renamed it. Altering a document submitted to a federal agency is a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1519.3,” it continues, arguing the transfer is, “a brazen money grab that would constitute the single largest excessive contribution and biggest violation in the history of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended.”

In the meantime, Democrats seem very nervous about Cooksey’s skepticism and are doing their best to intimidate the FEC into silence.

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We have now witnessed three left-wing veritable coups.

In 2020, covert actors decided to ossify the Democratic primary races. Next, they conferred the nomination on a clearly cognitively challenged Joe Biden. He was now tasked with serving as a useful moderate vessel for a virtual, even more radical, Obama third term.

In one decision to drop Biden from the ticket, the only decision that matters for the Dems is to win the next election. Prof Hanson goes there.

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There’s no way they can prop her up. Democrat voters don’t like her. If the media tries to force feed her then the D’s will just lose more voters. The idiocy is just too transparent. The gaslighting is many steps too far to go unnoticed.

This is the arrogance of the left - they really think that the country will vote for her because she’s a ‘woman of color’. That’s it. The only reason. The problem being, they won’t vote for her, they actively and openly declare they don’t want her. It’s one thing to manufacture votes, it’s another to lose a huge chunk of your base.

Michelle isn’t an option. The Obama’s don’t have the shine they once did, black people know they did nothing for them. Plus, Michelle doesn’t want it. She doesn’t have the work ethic, desire, or courage to - she hated the spotlight as First Lady, let alone POTUS.

That leaves the likes of Newsome or Whitmer. Then comes the real problem - do either of them think they can win? PDJT is riding a huge popularity wave that is crossing boundaries. If they have POTUS aspirations they’d probably want to sit this cycle out, not try and lose.

Clever, but the cabal running the show is not crazy.

They are methodical, motivated and now, thanks to xiden/zero, have an army at their disposal to sew chaos upon command.

Until we adopt their tactics, this is doomed to get worse, and which under the current scenario I’d challenge any assertion that the USA remains a free Republic (irony).

I’m going to stick my neck out and make a suggestion:

All Constitution-believing FReepers ought be making a ‘list’ with corresponding surveillance, to include far more than just local neighbors etc.

Our biggest fear was averted by a stroke of luck (or divine intervention); they will now get desperate.

James Clyburn Instructs Joe Biden to Pressure Joe Manchin, Eliminate Senate Filibuster
and Get Federal Control of Elections Done Quickly Before Voters Can Kick Them Out

July 10, 2021 | Sundance

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Right before the 2020 SC Primary (Super Tuesday) the DNC Club (Tom Perez) and the Obama people knew they had a problem with the Bernie Sanders momentum. An urgent assembly of all party control officers was called. The DNC and Obama designed a plan around using James Clyburn as the spark for Joe Biden to take back control of the primary outcome.
Bernie the socialist was a threat to remove DNC leadership power the same way Trump removed RNC party power in 2016. Worse still, Bernie Sanders had no allegiance to the intelligence operations that Obama and Biden triggered to target Trump. Now we see why it was critical for Team Obama (BLM) and the AME church network team to unite quickly that Super-Tuesday weekend; which is exactly what they did.
Clyburn uses the old-fashioned racial playbook through the AME church network. The AME network includes Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Meanwhile Obama historically used the modern race-based network: the Nation of Islam, the New Black Panther Party and Black Lives Matter. The NoI, NBPP and BLM were also allied with DNC Chairman Tom Perez.
While James Clyburn quickly notified the AME network, former President Barack Obama activated his control over the DNC operations and signaled to all other primary candidates they needed to drop out in a designed sequence. The DNC Club made offers they could not refuse. Remember, club rules.
Barack Obama initiated the contact and inform them when and how they would quit the race and fall-in-line behind Joe Biden.
Clyburn was then triggered to initiate his endorsement and begin the rapid-fire process.
Within 48 hours all members of the club and candidates had their instructions and proceeded to follow-through on the plan. They had no choice. If they did not comply they would suffer the consequences of a fully aligned club hierarchy who would target them personally and financially.
The plan worked flawlessly. James Clyburn delivered on his end (AME), and Obama delivered on his (DNC/BLM). The rest is history.
However, as part of the coordinated 2020 deal, Democrat Rep James Clyburn was also put in charge of the Biden campaign. Clyburn brazenly admitted this immediately after the strategy went public. James Clyburn then worked with Barack Obama to select/appoint the vice-presidential nominee, Kamala Harris. Biden had no say in the matter and he wasn’t even in the consultations.
The Biden’s are in this for family prestige, indulgences and affluence; not much more. The Biden’s are nothing more than angry and entitled grifters who have lived on taxpayer funded indulgences for decades (Clinton 3.0). It is the Obama and Clyburn people behind Biden who are running the show.
Joe Biden has dementia, he’s clueless. Everyone knows this to be true. The Biden “presidency” is a front; a ruse, a manipulative scheme that needs a face to go with the asterisk beside the title… That’s Joe Biden.

“Don’t worry about the big words; just shut up, follow the rules, read the words in Philly,
and we’ll get you a few little girls to play with on the way home.”…

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James Clyburn Instructs Joe Biden to Pressure Joe Manchin, Eliminate Senate Filibuster and Get Federal Control of Elections Done Quickly Before Voters Can Kick Them Out

July 10, 2021 | Sundance

James Clyburn Instructs Joe Biden to Pressure Joe Manchin, Eliminate Senate Filibuster
and Get Federal Control of Elections Done Quickly Before Voters Can Kick Them Out