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Posted on 07/26/2024 3:04:21 PM PDT by george76
The Democratic Party ruling class's bloodless coup of their own democratically elected presidential nominee, who also happens to be the nominal sitting president of the United States, is one of the most astonishing political developments of my lifetime. Joe Biden, though clearly physically and mentally impaired, has sought the presidency for quite literally longer than I have been alive. Biden had been defiant ever since the June 27 presidential debate debacle that he was not going anywhere, despite overwhelming pressure from party elites and sycophantic media lapdogs demanding he do precisely that. He has a Lady Macbeth-like wife who craves power and a felonious son in desperate need of a presidential pardon.
Yet the coup succeeded. Biden became the first incumbent president to not seek reelection after his first term since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. Biden made the much-anticipated announcement not with a solemn Oval Office address -- that came three days later, and he didn't even explain his decision. Instead, he issued a bedridden tweet -- from a personal, not even official, account. It's the equivalent of divorcing your wife over text messages. As if that weren't crazy enough, the announcement came smack in the middle of a five-day period in which Biden was not publicly seen and during which he apparently experienced an unspecified medical emergency. Suspicious much?
The Democrats' decision to coup their own president is a curious one on political merits.
Hold aside the galling hypocrisy of the purported party of "democracy" trying to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot under an outlandish constitutional theory while simultaneously attempting to bankrupt, prosecute, and incarcerate him on equally spurious grounds. Hold aside the self-proclaimed party of "democracy" feigning ignorance over how its overheated rhetoric laid the seeds for their political opponent's recent near-assassination and it's continuing to depict that opponent as an existential threat to the American constitutional order. And hold aside that purportedly "democratic" party deposing its own presumptive elected nominee -- a stark reversal from its presidential primary, when party poobahs worked hard to shut out all viable competition. Somewhere in Minnesota, Dean Phillips would like a word.
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Hold all that aside. Because even on its own terms, the coup of Biden for cackler-in-chief Kamala Harris is going to spectacularly backfire on the Democrats.
Already, Democrats and the corporate media have been working hard to "define" Harris for the American people. At times, this has included some rather dubious retconning, such as magically pretending she wasn't the Biden administration's appointed "border czar." (She was.) However, the even bigger problem for Democrats is that Harris is not an unknown commodity. On the contrary, she is a very well-known commodity -- one who just happens to be about as popular with the American public as venereal disease.
Harris's current average approval rating is under 38%, and an NBC News poll last June found her to be the single least popular vice president in American history -- only 32% of Americans had a positive view of her, putting her 17 points underwater. Harris' 2020 presidential campaign was an absolute dud, self-imploding well before the first primary votes were cast. And as recently as a month or two ago, Democratic elites were openly discussing whether she could still be dropped as Biden's 2024 running mate. It's funny how quickly one can go from the weakest link to the great savior of "Our Democracy."
The path to winning 270 Electoral College votes still runs through the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. It is frankly bizarre for Democrats to swap out the man who talks ceaselessly about his hardscrabble Scranton upbringing for a Californian who boasts the most left-wing voting record of any presidential nominee in modern history. Do Democrats really think Harris' support for the Green New Deal and a national fracking ban will play well in the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania or in the auto factories of Detroit? Will white working- and middle-class voters concerned about skyrocketing crime look favorably upon Harris' enthusiastic support for the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, which racked up $2 billion worth of property damage?
It's not that Uncle Joe, seemingly about to keel over and die at any moment, found himself in much better political shape. But in addition to the gross hypocrisy of their coup that has dealt yet another fatal blow to their specious claim to "defend democracy," Democrats have also set themselves up for political failure. They would have been better off trying to limp across the finish line with their grievously wounded incumbent of a nominee rather than changing horses mid-race.
The 14 million people who voted for Biden in the Democratic primaries ought to be livid. Rust Belt voters ought to be bemused. But Trump and running mate J.D. Vance ought to be ecstatic.
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Joe was installed in a bloodless coup. He was removed in a bloodless coup.
Love the meme of Kamala pushing Joe’s wheelchair over a cliff.
No democrats will be outraged..they just do what they are told to do.
Second, Democrats are developing a bad reputation for cheating and rigging elections--cheating Sanders, Brazille as DNC head cheating in the debates, sidelining RFK Jr, and now coronating Harris without a single vote. It is a party of the bosses and not the people.
Harris is tied in the left wing Fox Poll in PA. President Trump is about to open upon her. Feelin good.
“The 14 million people who voted for Biden in the Democratic primaries ought to be livid.”
Clearly, Democratic Primary voters are livid and most of the 14 million will stay home or Vote for Trump-Vance.
Harris came out of the gate swinging trying to be tough and sassy......which was her mistake.
I have to truly laugh at her as she looks and sounds so often like she’s trying to pick up a lover....or prances around like a high school cheer leader.
“I’m melting! Melting! Oh, what a world, what a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness!”
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think we should push too hard on the “anti-Biden coup” angle. Conservatives have spent the last year, at least, rightly pointing out that Biden is unfit for office. To fight to keep him as the Democratic nominee now is bad optics. It makes conservatives look like they’re willing to sacrifice the good of the country for political gain. It also makes it seem like Trump is afraid of Kamala Harris as a candidate, which he surely is not.
The bedwetters should slink away in shame and never post here again, after the steele balls that President Trump showed today.
Tulsi destroyed Kamala is less than a minute a few years back.
This was the moment:
https://rumble.com/v583sal-viralvideothatcrushedkamalaharrisfirstpresidentialcampaignresurfaces.html
Biden doesn’t wet the bed. His babysitters have his bottom wrapped tight in rubber pants.
None of this matters. All they need is to create the illusion of a close race to make the steal plausible. These people are not going to give up power.
Actually I only saw two or three excerpts from George Washington’s, er, I mean Joe Biden’s talk.
I saw enough to question whether he will survive in good enough shape to make it through even a sheltered few months left in 2024.
Could barely read a few lines. What kind of response would he give to quickly emerging threats of war in the next few weeks?
Will Kamala try to look composed and poised and nod to the Generals but not have the faintest idea of what the geopolitical and military situations are.
Reassuring the American people.
“A war is not the same as peace. With war the peace ends until the war ends. Some Russian wrote a book once called War and Peace. A friend of mine heard the Cliff’s Notes audio of a portion of it. He was on the way to the beach.”
This whole event tells the world that everyone surrounding/working with & for/related to/reporting on, etc. Joe Biden as Pres. has been lying for years. Every single one of them.
Every single one!!!
They removed him only because he could not win and they did not hold any elections. This is not democracy. Funny that it’s the Republicans that see the lack of Democracy in the Democratic party. The media are the oligarchs lap dogs.
Kamala is their worst possible candidate.
If you don’t believe it now you will in a few weeks.
She is really stupid.
Amazingly stupid.
Off the charts stupid.
Hopefully by the time the Democrats finally figure it out it will be too late.
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