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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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He’s going back to Butler.
It will only be different this time if the American people insist on it being different this time.
There’s certainly a lot more people who are awake now. It took them several years to wake up. Different people woke up over different things at all different junctures.
For some people it was a realization of the COVID overkill in hindsight. For some people it was the runaway inflation. For some people it was the illegal immigration. For some people it was seeing that Biden was not this great uniter who’s going to keep all the good stuff that Trump did in place, only without all the “chaos and divisiveness”.
The percentage of people who think the 2020 election was stolen has steadily increased over the last four years.
So while the prospect of them trying to steal it again is still high, things are much different this time around in many ways.
“Et tu, Bronco?”
I hope you're right.
The PA General Assembly (state version of Congress) and the PA governorship is controlled by democrats. I just received a newsletter from my PA (state) representative, who happens to be a republican, bemoaning that the democrats in the PA General Assembly once again blocked a common sense voter-id bill. Even if the General Assembly would have passed the bill, our democrat governor would have vetoed it.
Polls show that 3/4 of Pennsylvanians want voter-id. The problem we have is that the politicians and courts are not swayed by the will of the people while their party holds the levers of power. A republican party that's playing flag football while the democrats play smash-mouth doesn't help.
Yes, Americans who want a working republic are more aware of fraud and corruption in our government and institutions but that alone does not translate into draining the swamp(s).
It will take installing true and faithful representatives who place the people above party to change things. The catch-22 is that the corrupt people in power control who gets elected.
When I say it will only be different this time if the people make it different, I’m thinking more along the lines of something like this.
https://youtu.be/Mq2NiCHGSeE?si=3czILLk0efpiYegq
Let me think about what you said.....Nope, he is unfit to run he is unfit to be POTUS.
Don’t forget the weird cackle.
Dem state officials will probably count ballots that still say Harris Vice President as “Harris President.”
Philly & Pittsburgh precincts will count ballot marked Trump for Harris. It's what democrats do. It's what PA state RINOs allow.
I like it, but if she takes Kelly, it’s on like Donkey Kong. If she takes Shapiro, we ridin’, they hatin’. If she takes that NC stooge Cooper, we win in a blowout.
He that lives by counting coup on horseback and thereby earning an extra feather, dies by the Abrams tank. They’re playing cowboys and Indians out of season.
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