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Unburdened by What Has-Been?
Steyn Online ^ | 23 July 2024 | Mark STeyn

Posted on 07/27/2024 5:06:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Now that Kamala is unburdened by that has-been and before whoever's holding Joe Biden releases another not-quite-proof-of-life audio recording, let's go back less than a month to when this started - the June 27th debate and the formerly loyal press corps' amazing synchronised-shivving routine. As I wrote back then about the sudden outbreak of "third-rate dinner theatre":

So why weren't they able, after a week-and-a-half of dosage experimentation, to shoot the stiff enough of the juice to pass him off as being back in his State of the Union top-of-the-game mode?

As my former GB News colleague Neil Oliver observed long ago on The Mark Steyn Show, formulating a useful rule of contemporary politics:

This is happening because they want it to happen.

Just so. Over at Powerline, Steven Hayward wonders:

Was Biden set up? For more than a year, quite a lot of observers have confidently predicted that Biden would not be the nominee, and that the Democratic establishment would swap him out at an opportune moment...

But the scheme needed a catalyst to work. That catalyst was obviously the June 27 debate. It was the earliest presidential debate ever, before either candidate was formally nominated... If that debate hadn't happened until late September, as is typical, it would have been too late.

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


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KEYWORDS: biden; bidensmentaldecline; cackles; coup; kamala; marksteyn; replacingjoe; shamala; thecackler; unburdened
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1 posted on 07/27/2024 5:06:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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I think “unburdened by what has been” may be referring to ignoring the past failures of marxism.


2 posted on 07/27/2024 5:10:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

I think it is airhead word salad.


3 posted on 07/27/2024 5:17:49 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: Rummyfan

In other words, down the memory hole and forget it happened.
It’s a slogan of a sociopath.


4 posted on 07/27/2024 5:17:49 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Trump beat Hilary in 2016. He ended her kill streak in 2024.)
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To: Rummyfan
Speaking of Harris, for anyone who hasnt seen it...

Musk posted this on X yesterday. It's had over 56 million views so far.

Elon Musk posted this 3 minutes ago. A total burn of Kamala Harris. Musk is all in because if she wins they will ruin his businesses. All of them. So this is a good thing.

Watch the entire two minutes. The ending is perfect.

5 posted on 07/27/2024 5:20:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Rummyfan
"Unburdened by what has been" seems to be a code word/phrase used by Kamala to convey the impression that she isn't bound to our form of government and might be a Marxist.

One has to wonder (given Kamala's general stupidity), if someone in the DNC didn't create this phrase for her.

6 posted on 07/27/2024 5:21:14 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Take Trump off ballots. Fail. Take his money. Fail. Put Him in jail. Fail. Assassinate him. Fail.)
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To: Rummyfan

The key thing to recognize in a Harris replacement of Biden, is that the same people get to stay in charge - both within and outside of America.


7 posted on 07/27/2024 5:28:56 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MtnClimber

I take her meaning to be unburdened by that pesky old Constitution.


8 posted on 07/27/2024 5:37:45 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: Rummyfan

She is burdened by her stupidity and horrible personality. She’s the ultimate “suck up (giggity), punch down” kind of leader. With all the people who have quit her staff we should be able to find a few that would like to say on camera what a witch she is. Plus 4 years of her inane ramblings during various appearances. There is more than enough to burden her with.

CC


9 posted on 07/27/2024 5:40:36 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: MtnClimber
"I think “unburdened by what has been” may be referring to ignoring the past failures of marxism."

I took it to mean our constitutuinal republic. Several leftists, including oBama have said that the constitution was standing in the way of progress (paraphrasing here).

And "what can be" is obviously the left's socialist utopia.

10 posted on 07/27/2024 5:44:32 AM PDT by LIConFem (Feels like April 19th, 1775...)
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To: mewzilla

The monologue bits between her sound bytes are totally manufactured, presumably by AI. The actual sound bytes are bad enough and should be run 24x7.


11 posted on 07/27/2024 5:45:54 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

59.6 million views now...


12 posted on 07/27/2024 5:48:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Rummyfan
I still do not think Harris will be the candidate. She is a place-holder and trial balloon to see what works (and what doesn't).

Meanwhile, in the background, potential candidates will be quietly introduced, to see who gets favorability.

Something will happen at the convention, causing the real candidate to step forward as a savior "to the Democratic Party (and the nation)".

13 posted on 07/27/2024 5:48:46 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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Her chances aren’t good — unless she picks Kennedy, that would worry me somewhat. Foot in mouth + frog in throat. On second thought that isn’t scary either.
Trump’s security, however, is to worry about.


14 posted on 07/27/2024 5:49:25 AM PDT by Buttons12 (Should, should, should. Fighting words. )
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Something won’t be allowed to happen at the convention.

Deep State likely intends for this to be fait accompli by then.


15 posted on 07/27/2024 5:50:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

mike drop - boom! Loved it!


16 posted on 07/27/2024 5:58:19 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

60.4 M views!!!!

Wahooo!!!!


17 posted on 07/27/2024 5:59:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Shady

Text book ‘word’salad’... It’s the way uneducated people (and people who don’t read) think they need to speak so they can sound intelligent.

It’s the cue that they are FOS-and it’s where you write them off!


18 posted on 07/27/2024 6:00:22 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: RoosterRedux

“what has been” IMO is all of it. Historical failure, economics, basic biology, all human civilization and its lessons, out.

Instead “what could be” pure fantasy imposed by fiat and of course implemented at the point of a gun, no matter the hellish earth created.

We must always keep in mind the craziest lefty scenario we’ve seen from farms ruined because of a snail darter to riots and political J6 prisoners exists because down the line a large number of people willingly did their part for pay, right down to the regular guy with a gun enforcing the harm.

If people wouldn’t participate, these ravings would be just some crazy old ditz on a street corner.


19 posted on 07/27/2024 6:01:46 AM PDT by No.6
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To: Rummyfan

The American people need to be unburdened from what has been, TRUMP/VANCE 2024


20 posted on 07/27/2024 6:22:05 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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