About Last Week...
Please - Say It Is So, Joe
Saturday, I wrote a piece arguing that President Biden will announce that he was very very recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and can therefore not run for re-election.
To be blunt, I think this scenario – or something eerily similar – will occur in the next couple of weeks. Biden told ABC News that only the “Lord almighty” will keep him from running and – depending upon your specific theological bent – would seem to cover that.
But in case I’m wrong, there may be another option for Joe: the “I Double Dog Dare Ya’!”
In this scenario, Biden releases his delegates but does not drop out of the race. Instead he launches a 2.0 campaign to re-convince the public he’s up for the job.
The top hopefuls would be in a weird spot – what do Kamala and Gavin do,? for example. The folks who have been less sucky-uppy to Joe would most likely jump in, though – nothing to lose.
Quickie debates across the country, a newer nastiness, and piles of cocaine borrowed from Hunter and it could work.
It would show confidence and moxie and if it failed at least he would go out swinging, not slinking.
Of course, the entire campaign would have to occur between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time so that could be a rather obvious admission that Joe is not up to it, but it still might be worth the shot.
Not that it would be appreciated by his handlers and deep state minions and thugs. Their position on staying or going is clear – where do you think the leaks are coming from?
And if that wasn’t enough, the official deep state scribe Anne Applebaum of Atlantic magazine (and practically every globalist/status quo/evil think tank and group) has spoken:
November’s election has very high stakes: the nature and, indeed, the continued existence of the American republic, at least in the form that we’ve known it for the past century. Around the world, the United States under a second Trump presidency would cease to be seen as a leading democracy, or as a leader of anything at all. What kind of country elects a criminal and an insurrectionist as its president?
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The delegates to the Democratic National Convention don’t need to sleepwalk into catastrophe. They can demand that Biden release them from their pledge to support him. They can tear up the rule book, just like political parties do in other countries, and carry out a cold-blooded analysis.
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Whoever wins—Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Vice President Harris, or anyone else—would be more coherent and more persuasive than Trump. He or she would emerge from the convention with energy, attention, hope, and money. The American republic, and the democratic world, might survive. Isn’t that worth the gamble?
Read the whole thing if you want, but know that Applebaum, the belly button of the beast, speaks for the corridors of power and even if the process is a bit different, the result – for them – needs to be the same: Joe has to go.
Unlike when asked by The Clash, the answer has already been determined:
Speaking of music, Gerard Baker of the Wall Street Journal had a wonderful line in a recent column that focused on Biden’s, say we say, political malleability:
After 9/11 the party fell in for a while behind George W. Bush, and of course Mr. Biden was right there too, leading from the middle, backing the war on terror and the invasion of Iraq—until it started to go wrong, when, as his party quickly deserted, so did our man of constant borrow.
I don’t think Joe can sing, but neither could George Clooney…
The ending epigram is, yet again, not an epigram but a note on the song. Noted musician Dan Tyminski (he has 14 Grammies and works with Alison Krauss’ Union Station ensemble amongst other notables) reportedly had a chat with his wife about his voice coming out of Clooney’s mouth.
Her response?
"Honey, that's my dream!”
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