Surprise, Surprise!
Bill Totten
Joe Biden is the walking embodiment of the exhausted American Establishment. More and more people have simply lost their faith in our Ruling Class. You could scarcely have a more potent symbol of its impotence.
- Rod Dreher
by James Howard Kunstler
https://kunstler.com (July 01 2024)
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Just before the weekend, a political prairie fire raced across a nation buffaloed, blind-sided, and buried deeply in bullshit, and the little critters who inhabit the landscape are still running around with their fur smoldering. What a surprise that "Joe Biden", the mentally-disabled pretend-president, fell apart in the debate spotlight for all to see, like Captain Queeg in his fateful witness chair, or William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes trial (1925), or the Wizard of Oz (1939) when little Toto drew the curtain back - a brutal revelation of stark truth about how things actually are.
Since his hiding-in-the-basement campaign in 2020, "Joe Biden's" Party of Chaos has pretended that he is fit and alert for the job, and now, all of a sudden, they pretend to be shocked to see how far gone in the head he really is. The bullshit shovelers of the mainstream news media were especially rocked, not by the truth of the situation per se, but at being unmasked as the contemptible, confabulating tools that they've become. The New York Times wheeled around on a dime from their servile lionizing of the presidential hologram they helped create to its editorial board abjectly yelling for him to drop out and get gone. They were joined instantly by a long list of other opinion-shapers, campaign donors, political celebs, and Beltway players.
Right after the debate, First lady Dr Jill led a cheerleading session before a roomful of partisans that went beyond cringeworthy into uncharted territory of mortification. ("You were great, Joe! You answered all the questions!"). By the time the entourage moved to a pre-planned event at a nearby Atlanta Waffle House, "JB" had gone full-on zombie. If all that was intended to be reassuring, the effect was the opposite. Someone handed the blank-faced old grifter a milkshake and they beat it out of there.
Dr Jill roaring in support of President "Joe Biden".
The Bidens flew off to the Hamptons Saturday to milk the showbiz cows and hedge-funders for a campaign that might not still exist. "Everyone paid in advance ... so it could be an opportunity to encourage him to drop out", an invited guest told a New York Post reporter. "I wanted to go and see the train wreck", another donor said. "I'd rather choose someone from a phone book than have Biden". That was generally the tone among the woke-gay-communist echelons all over the land - surprisingly vehement, considering that just forty-eight hours before they were all in on re-election. Some could probably see their lucrative hustles whirling around the drain, and others might fret about just how far and wide prosecutions under a Trump Attorney General might loom.
"JB" and his family circle attempted to regroup over the weekend at Camp David where first son, Hunter ("the smartest man I know", the president often says), led the buoying-up session, perhaps mindful of the many bank accounts set up by his lawyers in the name of Biden family members (including little grandchildren) for receipt of influence-peddling revenue gathered sedulously from entities abroad during "Joe Biden's" post Vice-President high-earning years. The family emerged from that meet-up triumphantly, ready to forget the one bad evening and jump back into the election game.
Next, the biggest Democrat dawgs - Obama, Schumer, Pelosi - stepped up with fulsome support for "Joe Biden" continuing to steer the party's war canoe straight over Niagara Falls on November 5th. What possesses them? Misguided love for the monster they created? Fear of being called out as traitorous liars? Desperation to preserve the gigantic racketeering operation of the party they lead, with consideration for their big cuts of the action? Or are they just determined to complete the job of wrecking our country?
And where was She-Whose-Turn-It-Is, HRC [Hillary Clinton], the only possible replacement candidate with name-recognition and no ruined state hanging over her as is the case with Newsom, Pritzker, and Whitmer (California, Illinois, Michigan)? Mrs Clinton has so far stayed out of it, laying low, probably thinking that the party poohbahs will eventually have to come around to seeing she's the obvious viable alternative. Since the Clinton Foundation bought and paid for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) some time ago, she might be able to get the nominating machinery lined up in her direction. There are myriad problems, for sure, with many state election laws that discourage switching-out a nominee who has already captured a winning share of party convention delegates - but Norm Eisen, Marc Elias, and the Lawfare gang are already tasked to that set of problems now that their work is done cobbling together all those janky court cases to hamstring Mr Trump.
We enter high summer with countless consequential things afoot. A grand new momentum is expressing itself throughout Western Civilization against the Globalist insanity. Sunday, Marine LePen's National Rally (RN) thrashed President Macron's Renaissance Party, a shock equal to the "Joe Biden" debate fiasco here. British elections follow Thursday July 4, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sucking wind and Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party ascending rapidly. Sunday July 7 France's runoff election happens. A widened war threatens the Middle East as Iran and Turkey line up with Hezbollah in Lebanon against Israel. Ukraine cries for a negotiated settlement with no help from our own State Department. ISIS terrorists (among many other dangerous cadres) circulate on-the-loose around the USA, ready and able to perpetuate atrocities.
Still hanging over the "Joe Biden" crisis - and it is a crisis - is the question as to how somebody no longer capable of leading a party in an election can also be capable of leading the executive branch of the USA as Commander-in-Chief. That quandary has been shoved aside for the moment but it still lurks ominously in the background.
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