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Biden
President Biden was forced, unceremoniously and unwillingly, to abdicate from his impending reelection nomination. Since then, we have neither seen nor heard much from our sitting President. He has vanished, poof, gone.
This is quite unusual if not alarming. Unlike prior to the June 27 debate, the left now makes no effort to hide Biden’s debility. Indeed, it accepts the reality that an infirm Biden might not be able to finish out his remaining six months. Yet it still cannot decide whether the nation’s exposure to a President Harris prior to November 5 would lend her the advantage of incumbency or (more likely) ensure her defeat given global exposure to her puerility.
In the past, when a vice president took over the party nomination from his sitting president boss, the lame duck president was nonetheless evident and in charge until the duration of his tenure.
When Lyndon Johnson belatedly decided not to run for reelection in 1968, he claimed that he needed to devote his full attention and remaining months to finding a solution to the then-raging Vietnam War. Indeed, Johnson sought to steal interest away from his often-underappreciated vice president, Hubert Humphrey, and the latter’s ongoing (and failed) bid as the Democratic nominee to replace Johnson.
Ronald Reagan was still very busy in 1980 in his last six months as president—even as his sitting “a thousand points of light” vice president, George H.W. Bush, became the Republican nominee and was fixated on campaigning to replace Reagan.
At times in late 2000, during the waning days of Bill Clinton’s administration, a restless, lame duck Clinton seemed almost to compete for the spotlight with his then vice president, party nominee, and would-be Democratic presidential replacement Al Gore.
The vanishing Biden caught another case of COVID in mid-July shortly after his disastrous and historically early presidential debate with Trump. And in the subsequent month, Biden simply disappeared.
He is rarely seen, more rarely heard, even as Iran has promised a theater-wide war against Israel, Putin has more frequently threatened to escalate Russian attacks to existential levels, and the economy has witnessed dramatic stock shocks, dismal job news, and increasing talk of an impending recession.
Americans have wondered what happened to their president. Apparently, Biden was deemed unfit by his party bosses and donors to remain its nominee but still considered hale enough to continue for half a year as America’s president.
Rumors swirled that a depressed, embittered, and unwell Biden was in seclusion licking his wounds, acidic over being betrayed by his erstwhile allies—the Obamas, former speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, the left-wing squad, a traditionally obsequious and in-the-tank left-wing media, and perhaps his replacement, the machinating Vice President Kamala Harris.
Biden gave a so-so endorsement of Harris. After that pro forma act, he has somehow evaporated in a fashion that has left the White House even more vacant than during the octogenarian Biden’s prior three years of customary three-day workweeks.
Will or can Biden campaign this summer and autumn for Harris?
And if he were mentally and physically able to do so, would it help or hurt her?
Are his policies—especially those toward Israel at the brink of a war with Iran—unchanged, or will he shift somewhat to help the Harris cause with pro-Hamas/anti-Israel voters in Michigan?
Or perhaps in his sullenness, will Biden remain indifferent to Harris, or at some point, reassert his lost authority even if, or perhaps because, it might prove injurious to her candidacy?
So, for the present, no one knows who is in charge of the United States.
Is it the three-year consortium headed by the omnipresent Obama tandem that had heretofore used Biden as a convenient waxen effigy?
Or is Jill Biden still playing the Edith Wilson role for a non compos mentis and invalid presidential husband?
Or is our de facto Commander-in-Chief the new presidential candidate Kamala Harris? She seems ebullient in welcoming to her team both Obama old-hands and Biden defectors eager for new jobs and billets, in “The king is dead; long live the king!” fashion.
The next six months may be the most dangerous in our modern history. Key geostrategic decisions concerning an opportunistic world eager to fill the widening American void will be made by whom, if anyone, and in what manner?
Harris
But stranger still is the month-long vaporization of Vice President and the now de facto Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. How weird that she sought to hog airtime and attention as vice president (although not via interviews or impromptu remarks), but once she gained an even wider portfolio as the Democratic presidential nominee, she recoiled from interviews and went into hibernation.
In the last month amid the frenzy of the Biden collapse, her coronation, and the selection of her running mate Tim Walz, a mute Harris has made up all the ground Biden lost as the prior nominee.
She is flooded with hundreds of millions of dollars in left-wing tech and Wall Street cash. All are eager to donate given their money will no longer be wasted on a sore loser but might now earn something in return from a future president.
So, a silent Harris is rising in the polls, once the Biden albatross was cut away and relieved Hollywood/Wall Street/Silicon Valley grandees poured in their riches.
Harris has been instructed to xerox the successful tripartite model of the 2020 Biden victory:
One, keep the incoherent and cackling Harris away from the public and journalists, and ration even her teleprompted and staged speeches.
Two, erase 30 years of left-wing demagoguery and socialist activism. Replace her radical chic with faux-centralism of the ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton sort.
In shameless fashion, Harris is now running ads bragging she will hire more border guards, and secure and stop illegal immigration—this from someone who called for ICE to disappear, championed illegal immigration and an open border, and demonized any who sought to secure it. In some sense, she is even appropriating much of the Trump agenda for the next three months.
So, her message to the public is simply, “Before June 27, I was for what you, the public, hated and never gave a damn about the consequences. And now I am going to fool you for 90 days into thinking I am your real border czar— on the expectation that I can delude you a third time once you naifs elect me and I destroy the border again.”
Three, count on 70 percent of the electorate not voting on Election Day without serious audit.
When will Harris give an unscripted interview? In a month as promised, two months, or after Election Day? When will she dare to speak to a neutral audience? Or mix it up with Donald Trump in no-holds-barred debates? When will she be asked, as incumbent vice president, why she doesn’t begin her promised agenda right now during the last six months of the Biden-Harris tenure?
No such candor will follow until she falls 5 points in the polls behind Trump and is thus forced to speak.
So far now, why would Harris confirm to the electorate that she indeed quickly exhausts her five-hundred-word vocabulary, turns off listeners with adolescent cackling, and is a puerile left-wing ideologue mouthing stale platitudes?
The Trump challenge then is to keep hammering her extremist record, her dangerous agenda for 2025 and beyond, and her weird, indeed historic refusal to mix it up with journalists and to speak ex tempore.
Harris knows that Biden thrived by remaining mute and when he could not, he crashed in the polls. So, she accepts that she too would rather be attacked as evasive, afraid, and cowardly than lose when confirmed as childishly incompetent—given the state media can far more successfully reconstruct her silence as incidental to her mellifluous oratory.
As for the objection that surely Harris cannot pull off such a surreptitious candidacy for 80 more days, Harris would surely answer, “If Biden pulled it off for over three years, I certainly can manage it for 10 weeks.”
Walz
Ostensibly, Tim Walz is a boon to the Trump campaign. His home state Minnesota will likely not be in play in 2024. His strange selection only confirms that Harris is proudly “woke” and a far-left “woke” “radical”—as she herself once put it.
Otherwise, we are learning very quickly that Walz is as erratic, error-prone, and dishonest as Harris. He too is already heading for seclusion from the media. The man of the people from the countryside has scoffed, in self-incriminating Mike Bloomberg fashion, that rural Minnesota is little more than “rocks and cows.”
In mere hours after his nomination, he has grown mute about his past and politics except for teleprompted rah-rah speeches—avoiding reporters, interviews, and unscripted moments.
Why?
Because, in less than a week, the nation learned that Walz lied about his military rank, lied that he had deployed to Iraq, and lied that he had carried a weapon in war. The more we learn about Walz’s record as governor in Minnesota, the more it trumps even the disastrous tenure of Gavin Newsom in his imploding doom-loop state that Walz apparently saw as a model for a once can-do stable Minnesota.
The Insurrectionary Radical Mind
Add it all up, and the president, the vice president, the Democratic presidential candidate, and the vice presidential nominee all either cannot or will not speak casually and publicly to elected representatives, reporters, or the people themselves.
Worse still, they retire from their responsibilities of public engagement because these selected officials accept that the alternative of transparency is nearly suicidal to their own agendas. No one is now in charge of America—neither the ghosted president nor the campaigning vice president candidate who both act as if they hold no office.
It gets far worse still. Joe Biden was created by a soft coup of sorts in March 2000 when all his unpalatable left-wing radical rivals mysteriously vanished in unison at a time when an inert “centrist” Biden had not yet won a single primary.
Then Biden was dethroned abruptly 38 months later by the same inside plotters who deemed his sock puppet role was no longer viable—but only after their sure loser in November had become more a liability to the left than any longer a useful, empty vessel of governance. But as for his fitness as a man of the left to continue ruling us, he was just fine.
It continues to get even worse.
Then the same donors, the same politicos, and the same obsequious media grandees pivoted yet a third time. On the morning of June 27, a fit-as-a-fiddle Biden needed not to step down both because of his brilliance and dynamism—and the unthinkable succession of the Harris mediocrity.
By late night June 27, it was decided that a now suddenly enfeebled and unelectable Biden could be forcibly removed. Harris was Phoenix-like just as quickly reborn as the second coming of Obama—glib, in control, cool, and competent.
We are now witnessing yet a fourth coup from the party that warns us that democracy dies in darkness.
They have removed their once robust now demented nominee, nullified 14 million primary voters, repackaged and selected Harris in his place who has never won a single primary—and now plan to continue in power for another four years by silencing the outgoing president, secluding the vice president and muting the Democratic ticket itself.
In sum, leftists endlessly conspire not only because they have little confidence in the people, but because they have absolutely none in themselves.
You’re describing the absence of representative government among Democrat voters. Those voters have not previously seemed bothered by vote fraud but have now themselves been defrauded. I am not sure they know or care as their hatred turns outward toward Republicans, toward Trump and now toward Jews.
But the rest of us are concerned at. so many coups, If we do not have a Trump return to the White House, we need to admit that we are left with a fake union that needs to be dissolved.
Can the rest of us somehow start over.? Or will we continue this charade, with a cackling figure head and Obama and his team continuing to pull strings? Let’s not pretend, here among friends, that this is The United States, a nation of and for the people.
Trump Vance 24 or literally bust.
Supposedly near 20 states are considering and/or preparing legislation to secede from the US should another election theft happen. That number would likely grow to represent the Red/Blue map the DNC leaked after the Trump/Biden debate. That would be 40 Red vs 10 solid Blue states.
If that were the case secession would be the best alternative. I would hope for that.
The timing would be ideal also. The Russians are keeping NATO paralyzed in Ukraine preventing them from enacting the Kigali Treaty and sending forces to the US to counter a secession.
I am all in for a New Republic at any cost.
I ani’t gonna debate that racist Trump fella, ol’ Joe did that for me before I was crowned, now I’m kinda like an angel from heaven, have you not seen the pictures of me? Jeez what a dumb lot you are.
If the D-Bags steal the election this time, we’re in for a world of shit.
They already did, and we already are.
“…but once she gained an even wider portfolio as the Democratic presidential nominee, she recoiled from interviews and went into hibernation.”
In Kamal’s case, imposter syndrome is real. Deep down she knows it.
More importantly, the DEMS know it too!
Hibernation? I’m thinking she went further into Sedition.
BE WARNED! 2020 is COMING BACK! Our feckless Congress is hard at work. Any one claiming the election was
stolen will be crucified by lefty HACKS, 10m illegals are getting their citizenship papers.
Please elect Trump!!!
I think it’s more like 20+ illegal alien invaders. And the D-Bags are definitely hard at work cheating the election process. Along with lying, that’s the only thing they work hard at.
That’s 20+ MILLION illegal aliens invaders raping and murdering women and boys.
The soft loser Americans have the government that they deserve. Just look at how many wore a mask like a bitch. Almost everyone. Look how many they killed with their bio weapon and not one retailated that is still living. And not one man who’s mother or child was harmed or murdered has sought justice. Americans are a pathetic weak people. A paper tiger. See all of you losers on the battlefield.
“Who is in charge of the United States?” Nobody. That is, with the one exception; only the nominal president has access to the nuclear launch codes.
We might better ask “Where is the nuclear football?”
Get ready for a Hail Mary pass when the SHTF.
Don’t believe for a moment the GOP is any different.
IF Trump wins, and I hope he does, how much real support from the GOP do you believe he will really get?
Trump will be on his own, again, working against two parties that hate, absolutely hate, US citizens.
That is my fear too, that the GOP is full of moral cowards and are cuckolds subservient to the Demonrat agenda.
I just want to see Trump fire half the executive branch, and the one’s he can’t fire safely counting beans in a basement somewhere, maybe Nome or Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, for their exorbitant salaries.. If anybody ever had a mandate for that, it’s Trump. Musk says he’ll be happy to help make the executive branch more efficient. Probably won’t even charge for it.
We all ready see the bands of useful Idiots for Harris and Walz just about all Liberal Demon-Rats have their bands of Useful Idiots
I just wanted to alert you of a type-O mistake in the article, where it states, “Ronald Reagan was still very busy in 1980 in his last six months as president…” – that year should be 1988 not 1980.
I noticed that error too, but GHWB began dismantling everything Ronaldus Magnus did as quickly as Joey Sniff the Chicom agent did after he was sworn into the office.
“Joe Biden was created by a soft coup of sorts in March 2000 when all his unpalatable left-wing radical rivals mysteriously vanished in unison…”
That is another typo. It was March 2020. These minor errors do not detract from Victor Davis Hanson’s eloquent and well written article.
Maybe Prof. Hanson could get a grad student to proofread his articles?
Hope for American’s future rests in the removal of Cabinet department management staff by newly elected President Trump and replacement by MAGA personnel, by impounding funds of rogue executive branch actors, and by Executive Order deregulation of our economy and restoration of economic freedom. It is not to late to restore productive businesses in America and to return authority to parents and voters to restrain the worst strains of “progressive” sickness in our schools and local governments. It is possible to expel invaders and to make life to unbearable for other freeloaders that they will choose to go back home.
But none of this will happen if we do not overwhelm the upcoming cheat by turning out a massive and early vote for the Trump-Vance ticket, and ensure that MAGA congress candidates win overwhelming victories. It would be salutary for down-ballot RINOs to be elected with a much smaller vote total than the President, but we must guard against letting any Democrat win a contestable seat. So we can only withhold votes from RINOs who have zero chance of defeat.
It is sheer joy to hear Senator Vance on the stump. Let us pray earnestly that he and the president survive to take office next January.
I vaguely recall that JFK, when confronted and told by someone (I forget who–a Cabinet Member, a Presidential Advisor? the CIA Director? Somebody or other) that such-and-such South American “strongman” (who was on friendly terms with the U.S.) was a “sonofabitch.”
Jack smiled, and reportedly replied, “Sure. But he’s OUR sonofabitch!”
Today’s equivalent would be (or until a month ago, before he withdrew, would have been) somebody in the DNC warning the Deep State Oligarchs and hard-Left media Establishment that Biden is a “corrupt, bribe-taking, treasonous, little-girls’-hairsniffing sock puppet!” and getting the reply, “Sure. But he’s OUR corrupt, bribe-taking, treasonous, little-girls’-hairsniffing sock puppet!”
So here we have a real shit show and it will continually deteriorate into beta males and feminists.the least valuable people in America. I don’t think the election will solve any problems especially if Trump is elected (the candidate I am voting for). The Dems will refuse to certify the election and then express their tantrums by rioting.
The only alternative is to stand strong as patriotic Americans. Alpha males and patriotic women must lead the charge. The libs are rarely held accountable but that can change by pressure from the people who own this nation.
Dr. Hanson, you neglected to mention the biggest coup of all — the one that the Democrats executed in Nov 2020, nullifying the votes of more than 71 million Trump voters. It wasn’t the first time the Democrats executed a presidential election coup. Anyone who has studied how JFK was elected in 1960 will know the real story behind that “election.” Investigations have also revealed some major “irregularities” in the 2012 election as well as Democrat vote fraud efforts in 2016, which were insufficiently scaled to overcome the size of the Trump wave that crashed their coup plan that year.
To get a full understanding of how the Dems will have the 2024 election stolen at least 60 days before election day, you need to read the articles at Jay Valentine’s substack — https://omega4america.substack.com/ — and view the videos on his web site at https://www.omega4america.com/. Jay is a data analysis and tech superstar with numerous patents and deep experience in detecting/preventing fraud of various types (including identity and transaction fraud) in the insurance industry, transportation security, and other domains. He understands in detail how the Dems and their fellow conspirators in the NGO arena have manipulated election results and are actively doing so again today to deliver the 2024 election to the Democrat Party. Do NOT assume that all the rally turnout, polls, etc indicating Trump leading in all the key states has anything to do with how the election results will turn out in November. Read and be informed of what is coming.
To me this is nothing short of a massive Chinese Communist takeover of our govt. People are poised and have been working for years together for this. The entire thing started in our academia, so many weak spots, chiefly as I saw it Berkeley and Chicago, all tentacles reaching further and further until — finally — we will see. So much money support for them and so many people in powerful positions. Scary.
“Ronald Regan was still busy in 1980 in his last six months as president…”
Regan was president from 1981-1989.
I believe it can be fairly said that Donald Trump, who never served in the military, has dodged more bullets that Walz and Harris put together.