According to Newsmax, Biden will drop out this weekend in a deal brokered by Nancy Pelosi. The WSJ reports “Top Democrats Prepare for Campaign Without Biden”
Biden Exit From WH Race Likely This Weekend
Newsmax reports Biden Exit From WH Race Likely This Weekend
“According to multiple Democratic sources, this is happening all of a sudden,” Halperin told “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE” from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “Everyone said it would happen gradually and then all at once. And that’s what’s happening. According to my sources, President Biden has agreed to step down as the Democratic nominee. It will happen as early as this weekend.
“A speech has been drafted for him. He will continue on as president. He also will not, I’m told, endorse Vice President [Kamala] Harris as his successor. They’re hoping that he will endorse an open process in which the convention will be open to Vice President Harris and a few other candidates in Chicago to pick the Democratic nominee for president.”
Open Convention
Mark Halperin: “Everyone told me in Bidenworld this would happen gradually, then all at of a sudden. The expectation is Joe Biden will withdraw from the presidential race this weekend as early as Saturday. Most of my sources believe Sunday is more likely. The agreement has been brokered by Nancy Pelosi and others, not endorsing vice president Harris although he is expected to praise her but support an open convention avoiding Kamala coronation.”
Top Democrats Prepare for Campaign Without Biden
The Wall Street Journal reports Top Democrats Prepare for Campaign Without Biden
People close to top Democrats said Thursday that it now appeared it was a matter of when—not if—Biden bows out of the presidential race. In the past day or so, former President Barack Obama has told friends who have called him that Biden’s path to victory is narrow, according to people familiar with the calls.
Senior Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.), have indicated to some major donors that they are actively planning next steps should Biden decide to leave the ticket, people familiar with the discussions said. A Schumer spokesperson said that many people have come to the leader with their ideas but that he hasn’t taken action on them.
A detailed report compiled by Democrats showing the president forecast to lose in an Electoral College landslide has sent alarm bells through the party’s leadership and led to renewed calls publicly and privately for the president to drop out.
The data, which was based on voter surveys compiled by Democratic firm Blue Rose Research and viewed by The Wall Street Journal, shows Biden losing not only all the swing states, but also behind or even in New Hampshire, Minnesota, New Mexico, Virginia and Maine. It shows the president leading by only 2.9 percentage points in New Jersey.
A major concern for Democrats up and down the ballot is the fact that half of voters, including 28% of those who backed Biden in 2020 and 52% of swing voters, believe that Democrats in office have been lying about the president’s mental fitness. The report says voters are likely to view Democrats’ defense of Biden as dishonest by a two-to-one margin.
On Wednesday, prominent Wall Street financiers and donors met in Manhattan and discussed not giving more money to any Democratic efforts until Biden ends his candidacy, people familiar with the meeting said.
Donors for the past two weeks, including in recent days, have been telling Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) that they won’t give or that they won’t raise money for the presidential or for congressional races until Biden drops out, the people said, emphasizing that people are demoralized.
End of the Line for Biden
I never expected Biden had any chance of lasting until the election.
Also, I repeatedly stated the Democratic National Committee (DNC) wanted Biden to hang on long enough for for it to hold an official vote ahead on the live convention starting August 19.
That appears to be the right call, except Biden could not hang on long enough.
The DNC was scheduled to meet July 21, with voting on July 22.
However, Democrat leaders went into open revolt against the early vote and the DNC backed down.
Yesterday, CBS reported DNC says virtual roll call to nominate Biden will happen in August
“No matter what may be reported, our goal is not to fast-track. Our goals are to uphold our tradition of transparency, our commitment to an effective nominating process that delivers a nominee on all state ballots, and ultimately to set our nominees on a path to victory in November,” Daughtry and Walz write.
The letter says the convention rules committee will hold a second meeting next week to adopt rules of a virtual roll call.
If Biden releases his delegates, as rumors now suggest, there will be an open convention, something the DNC was desperate to avoid.
The Black Caucus will howl if Kamala is not the presidential candidate. That’s also something the DNC wants to avoid.
So, here we are. Let’s see what rules the DNC concocts to avoid an open convention and force Kamala onto the ticket.
Biden Seeks Supreme Court Term Limits, Medical Debt Cancellation, Rent Controls
Yesterday, I commented Biden Seeks Supreme Court Term Limits, Medical Debt Cancellation, Rent Controls
Whoever is behind Biden’s campaign has gone completely mad. Is the goal to make Vance and Trump look like centrists?
OK, Biden will be gone. But Democrats are still stuck with Progressive madness.
Addendum – Democrats Prepare for the Biden Coup
The Wall Street Journal reports Democrats Prepare for the Biden Coup
One thing we’ve learned over the years is that Washington Democrats are ruthless when threatened by a loss of power. You almost have to admire their cold-blooded calculation. President Biden is now learning this harsh lesson as the Democratic-media complex organizes to, er, persuade him to withdraw from the presidential race.
So the backstage coup accelerates. First the press learns, somehow, that Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have visited Mr. Biden to deliver the news that he could cost Democrats control of Congress. Neither man denies it when asked.
The press also learns that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a master of political martial arts, delivered the same message to Mr. Biden. On Thursday came word, again leaked to the press, that Barack Obama is likewise concerned about Mr. Biden’s ability to defeat Donald Trump. Et tu, Barack?
Axios now reports that Mr. Biden could make the decision to withdraw as early as this weekend. Mark that story down as another form of pressure on Mr. Biden to stop being so stubborn. If this keeps up, the furniture moving vans might show up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the Bidens still living there.
As for the Republicans, a Biden withdrawal will mean a harder race. Democrats will rally around Ms. Harris or some other nominee, and so will the press. Mr. Trump won’t be able to win almost by default. Democrats will get a better standard bearer for their record in office, and if they still lose they won’t have Mr. Biden’s infirmity as an excuse.
Axios
Democrats See “aura of inevitability” around Biden withdrawal
What we’re hearing: “I think it’s over,” said one senior House Democrat, who, like others quoted in this story, was granted anonymity to speak candidly about internal party dynamics.
Between the lines: Several lawmakers said they expect more members of Congress to call for Biden to drop out – at least two as soon as Friday – if he does not step aside.
Driving the news: Biden’s private talks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have all become public in the last 24 hours.
The intrigue: Even some Biden loyalists appear to be losing heart. “I don’t believe President Biden should step aside, but it appears that opinion is being overruled,” Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) told Axios.
WSJ: Democrats Prepare for the Biden Coup
Axios: Democrats see “aura of inevitability” around Biden withdrawal
I added snips to this post
Biden coup: Hunter bumps off the old man and strides to the stage dressed like Fidel. “I yam your new president. All children under sixteen years old… are now sixteen years old”.
To my African American brothers and sisters. If Biden does step aside and then does not back Kamala(granted I would not either, but she would have never been my running mate) what does this say about what Democrats really think about your voting base?
All they do is use you!!!!!WTFU
What we are fighting is that unfortunately there are a significant number of people out that want all the gimme-gimme ‘free’ handouts – that’s why they vote democrat. You will never win them over if it means they have to get to work and pay their own way. They always want someone else to pay for them.
The pressure on President Biden has definitely ratcheted up the last 24 hours. The DNC probably wants to get Joe out of the race before the REALLY ugly polls are released to the public. The biggest delay is figuring out how much of a buyout Jill and Hunter will agree to.
I see three possibilities, all of them bad for the Ds
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Something to keep in mind. Ever since entering politics, Trump has outperformed his polls. In ’16 by 2.5%, in ’20 by 2.9%. To be analytically conservative, add 2.5% to the Real Clear Politics average, which is now Trump +3 and moving higher. The latest polls all come from D leaning pollsters per Nate Silver, and they are ugly. Keep an eye on that. If Trump breaks above 48% there, it’s off to the races.
Another factor is unemployment. It rose 0.3% from March through June, a bad omen given that only one incumbent resident has been re-elected when UE rose in the second quarter. It was Eisenhower in 1956, and it was because the increase was slight (0.1%) and all other indicators were rocking and rolling. This time, the economy is weakening and might even be in recession, and UE looks like it will keep rising.
The R convention was above average as those go, and Trump’s VP choice was more astute than I gave him credit for. His acceptance speech was better than I expected, and his badass reaction to the bullet was, in colloquial terms, a real gift from God. I would be a deist, thinking that God does not intervene in daily affairs, but I can readily understand the reaction of evangelicals, who are a big chunk of Americans. And even the MSM is (justifiably) giving the Secret Service one hell of a reaming, which will only get worse.
No wonder that the Dem brain trust, such as it is, is in a panic. They ought to be. They are cruising for a crushing defeat, and most likely a R president and a R Congress. The Democratic Party is going to be in a world of hurt, and will commence to internal civil war after November. The only wild card I can see would be if the NYC judge puts Trump in prison, which would utterly tear this country apart. I hope the man isn’t completely irresponsible, and understands that if he does it, his name will go down in history, and not kindly.
The thing that gets me is why should anyone trust the Democrats when the person who is nominated, be it Harris or whoever, was entirely on board with covering up the clear incompetence of Biden for years. It’s not like he’s just suddenly lost his mental capacity; it was clear 4 years ago and these people covered it up and lied to the American people. There’s no reason whatsoever to trust them, not that there was much to go on beforehand, but this level of mendacity is just too much.
It’s all Malarkey.
Joe sharp as a tack Biden says so.
I also saw a news article says Obama offered J.B a paddle board expedition to talk things over.
Sounds like a legitimate effort to make amends to me.
So it looks like they were finally able to negotiate a suitable “parting gift” for old Joe.
Nobody has mentioned Hillary yet? She has been in the news more recently, but then again it is political season. She would do nothing to allay the concerns about the age of political candidates. Whenever she appears in public she wears a hefty bag outfit that is clearly covering up something health-related on her person. She checks the neocon box and comes from New York, which has Wall Street money and a dependably corrupt court system. Plus ties to big money from Hollywood. Bill and the Clinton Foundation corruption are just two of many big downers that the corporate media would be instructed to avoid. But she has one thing that no other potential Dem candidate has: she got more popular votes than Trump in a Presidential election.
the entire world sees “aura of inevitability” around a Trump landslide victory in Nov.
IT’S OVER.
this election is NOT a horserace.
Trump will be de facto shadow-governing by Sept.
More rumors. Coup? Hmm. Paid off, Biden resigns, pardoning everyone including Kamala; Paid off, President Kamala pardons Biden. The supremes speedily practice inherent standing and find Kamala ineligible to be president and Speaker Mike Johnson becomes C and C. with Mitt Romney as vice president. The beat goes on. So much for rumor control. A trillion here a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.
I don’t see how anyone can beat Trump after his fist stoic move. Even Zuckerbeg admitted in an interview it was bad ass. I’m going with whoever replaces Biden will get trounced and also lose the popular vote.
Too feeble and addled to run for re-election, too feeble and addled to remain as chief executive! Somebody in the stupid party needs to go public saying that any executive order promulgated between now and next January (and probably most that were issued before will be be undone by Trump (assuming Willies pincushion doesn’t prevail in November) on day one of the next Trump Administration.
You can’t have underlings executing policy through puppetry……
Biden will not step down this weekend.
He will not step down until all the checks have cleared the banks and he has wired the money out of the country.
You forgot 1 important thing. He needs a guarantee that the new Administration will not go after him for the treasonous acts he has committed, and using his son and brother as well, with Ukraine & China.
And I am not joking.
Watergate was like squirting a water gun at your baby sister compared to what this man has done.
“According to Newsmax, Biden will drop out this weekend in a deal brokered by Nancy Pelosi.”
So, Pelosi didn’t accept Biden’s decision. After that, who can say we live in a democracy? Turley mentioned the other day, that Georgia had joined states that were trying to keep people from voting for third party candidates, which is particularly directed at RFK Jr., who Biden refused to provide Secret Service protection to, until after Trump was shot. Plus all the Democrat lawfare against Trump, the main opposition candidate. It is all, so rotten corrupt.
All of which begs the question: what sort of deal was Pelosi offering Biden? If he does resign, that should be the front and center and repeated question on offer: what sort of deal? What sort of terms? What can Pelosi offer to Biden that would be considered a “deal” such that he would accept? A simple appeal to the good of the party? It certainly can’t have anything to do with the good of the country as she was one of the persons responsible for covering up his mental deficiencies for the last four years. Why should she be trusted as an honest broker now?
This is a nightmare-come-true Situation for the Trump Team. With Biden in the race, it was a cake walk. NO ONE wants a demented leader in place. But, now, there is a “promise” of someone a bit like Vance who is younger, energetic and a true believer in the Democratic Ideals (Transgender, Woke, Hand-outs, War Mongering, DEI, etc. – – all of the Toilet Scum of the Party).
It cannot be Kamala because she has a natural ability to make people feel like she is FINGER-SCRATCHING A CHALKBOARD.
She has an innate ability to cause people to tingle with a puke urge.
Who do you see young and vigorous that they can put on the ticket? AOC?
More than almost anyone else I can think of, she personifies all that is wrong in Wash. DC. (and the Republik of Californika).
The main thing in Kamala’s favor: she gets the money. A new candidate doesn’t and they have to start over from scratch.
I am surprised that Michael Bloomberg’s name has not popped up. I don’t care for him and his policies, but at least he speaks coherently and walks without falling down. I think he would be a better choice than Kamala for the Democrats.
Regardless of who wins in November, the machinery of the federal government will remain the same which votes like DC, suburban MD and northern Virginia.
It’s very good news for world peace. Biden stumbles along, probably with restrictions on his nuclear football use (“Now Joe, we talked about this. Please put that down”)
Meanwhile, Ukraine falls apart, leading towards cessation with maybe less dangerous escalation until Trump gets in. Vance was reported to have refused a phone call from Zelensky. Maybe some Ukr. men actually get to live and one day, play with their grandkids instead of dying for nothing. Politics as if people mattered.
He will still be the president. His handlers can still cause a lot of damage.
I noticed that you were hands off of the Middle East quandary, which of course I agree is a problem that will never go away.
The Ukrainians have been dying, but the Russians have been doing a much better job of doing the dying. This war has tanked Russia and I think Trump simply laying it out to Putin that he’s not going to win – the Ukrainians are not going to surrender and the Russians will not have an easy time of occupying Ukrainian territory – and telling him that sacrificing more and more of a dwindling supply of Russian youth is not a good long term strategy. Trump can offer Putin a way out that he desperately needs.
Wow, where are you getting your narrative from, the evening news?
The Presidential election has been the Democrats to lose for close to 30 years. Democrats have the national voter registration advantage. This can be seen in the popular vote that Republicans have only won once since 1988. This year it is again a race for the Democrats to lose, not for Republicans to win.
Dems still have this Land mass problem no matter who they choose.
Obama Illinois
Pelosi Cal.
Shumer NY
Jeffries NY
J D Vance looked really young and strong, fully in charge of his own faculties. The new face of GOP with a True populist message aimed right at the Mid western work ethic.
Th Bi coastal political establishment which demonstratively hates the rest of the country is old, feeble and out of touch with working class people.
Young people remain to a large part wanting to get a chance at building their own lives.
There is no depth to the Dem bench. Nothing there but a rehash of their old party line approach.
There is truth in what you say, the problem is that this populist message is coming from a party and a candidate at the top of the ticket that is very much out of touch with the policy issues that are extremely important to the majority of voters under 45 years old. They are climate change and female reproductive rights and those issues are priorities for the Democratic Party.
This is why indoctrination is so critical to the democratic party. They are convinced of the climate hoax and would prefer to be drafted into WWIII rather than give up their right to an abortion.
There is no “climate hoax.” Nearly every country in the world with the exception of Yemen and Libya are signed onto the Paris Climate Accord. Over 90% of the world’s climate scientist agree that carbon emissions are warming our atmosphere and that this excess heat is increasing the temperatures of our oceans which will lead to ice melt, higher sea levels, more violent weather conditions, and this will have dire consequences for the world if we do not take action. Regarding a woman’s right to make reproductive healthcare decisions regarding her own body and health risks in consultation with her medical professional without government interference, this is a matter of individual rights, privacy, and self defense.
“increasing the temperatures of our oceans which will lead to ice melt…”
Like, five years in the future…all gone…zip! I think that I’ve heard all of this before.
Research “Little Ice Age” just for kicks and giggles. You know, when the Norsemen had discovered Greenland and then North America? The ocean level was three feet higherthen than it is now.
Absent meteor strikes or massive volcanic activity, the globe’s climate is always changing, but the degree of change that we have witnessed and documented over the last 100 would normal occur over 1000’s of years. So, you go ahead and bet the earth’s climate on what, some pundit’s opinion? Or you could simply follow the science and data.
I’m on the lookout today for polar bears swimming onto my front porch in Flyover.
It is agreed by all that the Earth is the center of the Universe and the planets and stars circle around the Earth. The Catholic Church understands that this is the way that it was created by God many thousands of years ago.
Idiotic sarcasm! By that logic, mankind should stop scientific advancement; nothing can ever be trusted. No one says that science is perfect at any time or that models are gospel, but science operates with evidence and theories built upon what is known at the time and what can be measured. Mankind ignores science at its peril. By the way, who would be idiotic enough in modern times to give credibility to “church-generated science.”
JD Vance made comment in his speech about how small town America was getting trashed by Globalists but then expected to send their sons and daughters to fight Wars overseas.
That is laser focused on those under 45.
His whole speech targeted those young people who are being used as Pawns by Washington political elites.
Climate change is for those who are stuck in academia.
Working woman want families. Not aspiring to be a delivery driver for Amazon forced to have abortions for financial reason as much as any other.
All this dropping out. Trump was expected by some to drop out at the speech in PA … So Cheatle was on … Dick Cheney’s security detail? Dick, neocon, deep state Cheney. Daughter Liz, a Republican picked by Nancy (my Dad was a corrupt Baltimore pol so I moved to San Fran to take advantage of that) Pelosi, to Kabuki impeach Trump? The brooms furiously sweeping this all under the rug … Move along, nothing to see here, listen to Kammy cackle.
Cost to Democrat donors and the DNC will be well over $100 million
to “Make Joe Go”.
True Biden style will be to hold out and get the Biggest payout.
Biden said it would take an act of God for him to resign. Well they made it rain!!!
Congrats to Hunter and Jill on the big pay day.
Is Kamala the Dylan Mulvaney of DNC marketing? Discuss amongst yourselves …
THAT is funny!
Does Kamala drink Bud Light too? If so, people oughta further divest from BUD asap.
In the old days, before the wheel, SNL would have Kammy drinking bud light in a bath tub with both bubbles and Dylan Mulvaney, cackling away.
Trump looked old. He could hardly move. The Trump I liked the most was the kid who kicked balloons.
A few sets every day of glute bridges help maintain lower body flexibility. If you are in a corporate office, be prepared for a chorus of Karen REEEEEES!
Eileen Kopsaftis can improve Trump’s movements.
You have half a dozen Secret Service guards slam you to the ground, then pick you up, tackle you but leave you standing, then stuff you into car. Then you can report how limber you feel the next day or two.
Crowdstrike CRWD brain fog and vertigo messed the whole world.
Ray McGovern covered here –
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cOyKXbhzU-8&pp=ygUMUmF5IG1jZ292ZXJu
Ray covers Trump cauldron, but utube 1hr commercial was too long.
Trump & JD will not chick out. They are united to purge the swamp after
the Butler PA massacre.
Does it really matter who is in charge? Endless money printing….endless wars….curency devaluation…high taxes and poor services…AIPAC…it’s all minor shades of grey
As one Neal to another I agree
One of you spells their name wrong but which one?
I want to hear from Kneal.
Leaving out Nial?
What’s both amazing and a bit concerning to me is the difference in the number of comments on the political posts vs the purely economic (no mention of a politician in the headline) posts here. Shows that people are flipping opposed with the politics.
Politics is the new religion for most.
“Politics is the new religion for most.”
The inevitable result of life in a 100% totalitarian society.
When even permission to have breakfast, and whom you eat it with, needs permission by some government facilitated, illiterate trashbag in some dystopian hellhole city: Those trashbags do take on an aura of importance over people’s lives.
If you were writing this whole election story as a novel, what would you have the democrats do to get out of the jam they are in?
Let me pitch this story line:
Make it “known” that the White House cocaine was not Hunter’s. It was Joe’s! What a fun curve ball. Joe could even be a sympathetic character in this story arc. Started cocaine because blah, blah, you would have done it, too, given the circumstances, blah, blah. But this cocaine-Joe story takes him out of play for good.
Oh. Yeah. Kamala was his dealer!
Viola. Clean electoral slate.
And “the press had no idea”. No pesky video recordings of the press vehemently assuring the public Joe wasn’t, as many suggested, taking cocaine.
Then purge a gob of too-old members. Bye bye Biden, Pelosi, etc. etc. Put young unknowns on the ballot. “We are the new Democrat party! Focused on tomorrow.Transparency, honesty, and a new deal. We fight for you, and all other hard-working Americans.” …….. Well, maybe not phrased exactly that way, but you get the idea.
So, what do you think? Have we got a killer movie-book?
Grade B movie.
Whoa. We have a winner!
So Biden does win then, at least, the cocaine vote?
84-year old Pelosi telling 81-year old Biden he’s too old.
But she’s a “young” 84.
It’s not that Bide is “too old”. It is that he doesn’t have a working brain, any longer!
Listening to Pelosi I’d have to say she lost her mind years ago
If the Democrat Convention is thrown open then there will be winners and loosers and will the loosers rally behind the winners? This convention is going to be very interesting.
Nominate George Clooney as Biden replacement as he is widely know to all American
This is the right decision, but it also makes a great distraction from scrutiny over the security failures that very nearly got Trump killed. More information will be coming on that in the coming weeks, so this move not only was necessary given how things are going for Biden, but it will also provide a good excuse to reduce media coverage of the July 13th investigation. There is every reason to believe we still don’t know the half of what happened on July 13th, and nor should we have expected to at this point. But the information will be coming out starting in a couple weeks, because they have to get on top of all the layman analysis being done of the copious audio and video available of the event.
It was always political suicide running a geriatric with neurological problems, as was obvious from keeping him secluded from the public when he ran in 2020. Using the guise of Covid to keep joe’s campaign closed was a very flimsy ruse, but one the mainstream media was more than happy to foister on the public.
Hi Mish. Remember John Kass?
https://johnkassnews.com/the-silky-knife-two-deep-state-coups-of-barack-obama/
I used to read him regularly but got out of the habit. Interesting article but I would add that Hunter is going to be sacrificed along with his father.
Joe can make his last official act a presidential pardon for all his relatives. It will be part of his payoff for agreeing to not seek re-election.
Do you think the Republicans will follow orders from the Democrats? I don’t. Presidential pardons work for federal crimes only and Hunter violated numerous state laws in many different states. He is toast.
It’s something he could do without a payoff. There’s no incentive for a promise of allowing him to pardon his son and family when he can already do it. Whatever the deal is on offer, it doesn’t involve Hunter or the rest of the Biden crime family.
This will look like complete and total mendacity and incompetetence to independents. They can repudiate Biden but not his policies. Only those who are blue no matter who are relieved. It’s a wash for democrats. Who’s going to save their party? Newsome? Kamala?
Also, trying to kill Trump was a little desperate.
perhaps a smidge..
So true about a wash, but there’s still “some” cause for concern. Independents are a pretty wishy-washy, low attention-paying bunch by definition. They’ll probably forget all about Joe Biden by mid-September, once the new face is seared into their brains by the media. So we can only hope they are still able to link Biden’s policies to the “new” candidate, because they’ll be exactly the same. I’m sure Republican ads will be very forceful about that link, but sometimes they can drop the ball right before the first down line.
Independents are not wishy-washy. They are just people who don’t buy into the respective party’s propaganda and bullshit. The core of each party is made up of people who are joiners by nature and who suspend logic for belief. Independents are called that because they really are independent. The core of each party hates them with vengeance because it is the independents who decide elections and they have to be convinced and not just ordered.
I don’t know, the parties are diametrically opposed now, and if someone can still be convinced to go one way or another, that means they don’t stand for much in my view. AKA wishy-washy.
Joe becomes the fall guy for inflation, immigration, wokeness. They get crushed in the election per your comment. The puppeteers are now preparing to sabotage another Trump Admin, laying the groundwork for 2028, preserving the image of magic Barry by scapegoating Joe. Vance has them in a panic. In a way, Vance is the anti Barry. At this point, Joe would probably rather pee in the pool than have Barry pulling strings over him. Convention scheming will be interesting.
Whitmer. At least she brings one swing state. Whitmer/Shapiro could carry Michigan and Pennsylvania. That gets them close to the margin of fraud.
Not hardly. Woman/Jew against MAGA nation? Not going to work.
What you going on about now
So, Biden ends his campaign, open convention nominates a Darkhorse. Biden dies of natural causes before the election & Kamala is now president.
What if President Harris now wants to be the top of the ticket?
She can’t. Her name will not be on the ballot.
Then they lose the Black vote.
People say that but we have no precedent to prove it would happen.
There’s no path to Kamala being on the ticket unless she can win an open convention. Black people may sit out if she’s not on it, but a whole lot more people will sit out the election if she’s just handed the nomination without earning it.
Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.
There’s a good Farside cartoon on that theme!
https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/far-side-damned-if-you-do.jpg
That’s bullcrap. Blacks total 13% of the USA population. They are a small percentage of the total population. The Dems need to stop kowtowing to them.
They HAVE to support whatever Dem candidate is finally anointed. To do anything else is a vote for Trump, whether they actually vote for him or not.
WTH does Newsmax know?
It’s about as FAR away from knowing what’s happening in the Democratic Party as any commentary show could be.
If this was “news” from some Moderate or Moderate Liberal Democrat then maybe. This is just Newsmax huffing their own supply.
I’m an independent so I rarely believe the extremes of either party, because they’re not News…they’re cheerleaders for their own political agenda.
While I certainly think it’s possible that Biden could back out eventually. It’s NOT being whispered to Newsmax. Nor the WSJ. Corporate Interests drive both of those companies.
If you’re wrong, what will you do as compense?
Here’s where the democrats will rig another election, thrusting the final nail in Americas’s coffin, which is Newsom. You watch and see. God help us all and may God bless America with President Trump.
Newsom is their weakest candidate. Most of America doesn’t want sidewalk-shitting, $949 shoplifting, banning gas stoves and transitioning kids without their parents’ knowledge. Plus the guy looks like a F’ing vampire.
now that you mentioned his positive traits, tell us the bad side of electing Newsom President…
After four years of Biden selling out the country and governing against the will of large majorities, particular with regard to the unpopular wars, the wide open border and all the illegal loan “relief”, I think there are entire States that will NOT recognize a Newsom presidency. How that plays out, who knows?
The country is out of ideas. Wasn’t around when the British empire collapsed but feels similar. Reaching back for Trump feels like what an ailing empire at its end does.
I think you are delusional, I was born as the british empire was failing. I saw the USSR coillapse. I saw east & west germany reunify. This is nothing like the collapse of an Empire. Stop clutching your pearls and grow a pair.
Trump is a strong man who can lead. Who can stand wounded with more strength than Joe Biden can muster against an invisible virus.
What you are feeling is the death of your own illusions, now open your eyes and try to understand the world, not the one you’ve been fed by you phone and tv.
If you ever get the chance to stop and people watch, you’ll see this nation as we’ve known it is so over. Elderly, obese people who look defeated. Younger, obese, tatted freaks who look dazed when not peering at their phones. And the answer is to replace them with millions of impoverished third worlders? How do you maintain world hegemony with a population like that? We can’t even maintain our own infrastructure.
The only thing saving us is that it’s also happening to our potential rivals.
I expect this post to be strongly down voted since Trump Is apparently the new messiah. I’m waiting for someone to see his image in a slice of toast. And I’m voting for Trump just to slow down the madness.
Schleprock …
“The country is out of ideas.”
A side effect being out any grey matter for ideas to form in.
Having “ideas”(1) will always be incompatible with uncritical belief that aging shacks somehow create wealth as they sit there decaying(2); as well as that printing dead guys heads on paper somehow does so(3). Any society using 3 to transfer all wealth to 2, will always remain unable to 1. That’s entirely inevitable.
Laughing Hyena Kamala / Crybaby Kinzinger ticket
Thalia / Melpomene
Combined IQ of about 114.
Kamala was the poison pill to ensure that Biden would not fall to an investigation of his family business. She has served her purpose and will likely be discarded
Will she go quietly into the night though? Methinks not.
she will go cackling like a duck on nitrous oxide.
Lol
Was the refusal to withdraw just Jill holding out for a payout?
Of course. After years of shaking down foreign leaders the Bidens finally received a legitimate payoff. Congrats to Hunter and Jill.
Feels like too much of the country is looking backwards. This is how both parties end up with candidates like Trump and Biden. Neither one of these guys deserves a second term. Here’s hoping the Dems come up with a credible nominee.
Maybe you should have had a real primary
They tried that in 2016, but found it was a lot of effort to get the ‘correct” result.
We had a choice, a primary. You didn’t. You’re the real threats to democracy.
Who is we and who is you ? I’m an independent . The we/you stuff is the exact problem.
no we and you are not the problem, we are the republic.YOU feel like the country is moving backwards. Politics is a pendulum it must move backward to move forward, and move forward to move backward.
You seek equilibrium, which is actually a death of ideas. I am an independent. I’ve voted libertarian,Democrat, Republican and write in. I voted for Ron Paul. I voted for McGovern, I voted for Trump. I’ve never voted for a Clinton of any gender or a Bush of any dynasty.
The beauty of America is you don’t have to vote for any candidate, but at least every now and again you get lucky enough to have someone worth voting for.
I watched a man with a bandage on his ear talk for an hour and a half and was never bored or distracted. That doesn’t happen with very many politicians. Bill Clinton could give a good speech, but he was as trustworthy as drunken used car salesman, which was his other career choice if politics didn’t work out.
Trump was a joy to watch and listen to, and I’m no longer easy to persuade as in my McGovern days…
Is he perfect? no, but neither am I…
Yeah, The Reps still made a crappy decision with about 150 candidates. The US is unfortunately (mostly) choosing between an Old, Very Corrupt deranged, Liar and and EVEN Older slightly corrupt and probably confused incumbent.
Both parties should be FIRED, they have both massively failed to provide competent and honest / morally driven candidates to lead the country.
Trump’s really more of a bullshitter than a liar.
if you want to grow a garden you fertilize it. If you want to inspire and lead people you must fertilize them with a bit of bullshit.
I’d rather be bullshited into being a better nation, than pissed on and made piss poor by the deep state.
That’s exactly it, we all KNOW he is full of poop. He lies and exaggerates about everything, and he self-aggrandizes himself to an absolutely cartoonish/childish extent. It’s totally obnoxious…until you realize and accept that he is a salesman, he is a “brand”. The Trump brand is perfect, it never loses! lol. But once you get over that used-car salesman “ickiness”, you realize that, compared to the average politician, there aren’t too many instances of him flat out lying about the things that actually matter to the COUNTRY. An example would be him claiming he didn’t start any new wars when he actually did. We know that he did not. He has an actual track record now, and that’s why people are willing and able to overlook his obvious bullshitter personality.
Yes, looking backward is generally the safer option. It often promises stagnation. However, looking forward can sometimes harbor danger- “lebensraum” comes to mind.
Drive your car forward, while looking backwards…
Yes, it’s JUST as bad an idea as trying to drive your country forward while looking backward.
And get these Geriatric Fossils out of control of the country.
Term limits on ALL Government Positions. We don’t need 80 and 90 year olds losing their minds running the country.
Yes. The perpetuation of the dinosaur age is certainly unnatural. End it.
better to have young fools, than old fools? I’m pretty sure the cure is worse than the disease.
Again, an age limit on the top end would make some sense. Term limits sound great, but they are called “elections”.
Like in Gaza?
Good riddance Joe. Worst President in my lifetime.
I must concur.
You’re giving him way too much credit.
New Dem ticket: Harris/Obama. And Biden for secretary of state.
Finally, he’s stepping down
I would not have run with this on Halperin alone. It may be wrong. It could also be a lucky guess that is correct.
But a huge # of points in WSJ article makes this look at least plausible.
the writing has been on the wall since the debate. Biden can’t continue, the only question is whether he steps down or is brought down by his own party.
I watched the Republican Convention tonight, not something I’m prone to usually do. I marvelled at the energy and the hope. I think the Democratic Convention will more closely resemble the 9 rings of Hell of Dante’s Inferno.
Which brings us to the contrast between the illusions of the left and the illusions of the right. A dream is needed to build a vision to sculpt a superior nation. A nightmare is needed to destroy the hope and sow despair to destroy a nation. I see the wailing of the left and their despair as they are certain the world is ending with every new imagined slight from their fellow citizens as they carry the burden’s of their guilt heaped upon them by their media.
I certainly know which world I’d rather live in…
If Biden doesn’t endorse Kamala Trump, he’s a racist.
You are calling the leader of the party that awarded ZERO delegates to its black presidential candidates in 2020 a racists? How dare you!
Looking forward to watching the democrats explain why it’s not racists to step over/on a black woman to nominate a white candidate.
Isn’t this defeatist? Some blow with Hunter, a shower with Haley, Jill breaks out the dominatrix uni and he’s as right as rain again.
Uncle Joe wants to leave Barrack a present. A convention which goes boom.
Trouble is Barrack is half black and all CIA, which can be a troubling opponent, unless CornPop shows up for a last minute save, I’m afraid our Hero may find himself in the ultimate comfy chair as the Grand Inquistion searches for his replacement.
I forgot to mention that Joe is wearing the boom boom vest. At this point, he can pardon Biden and give the finger to the puppeteers. Nothing to lose, he’s a short timer on the blue marble. He would rather see Trump win than Kamala Globablist Barry ticket.
Expected by whom? Don’t be silly. Dementia Joe makes no decisions. Joe had dementia as far back as 2019. He was never clever. Jill must keep Joe in the race to keep her criminal son out of prison. The one hundred million dollar campaign fund is not transferable. The first vote at the Democrat convention is obligatory and democratically designated 90% for Joe. The outcome is written in stone.
he was showing it in 2019. its a progressive disease (sorry for the pun) so it likely begin months or years before. I’m sure his Mrna injections have not helped. Spike proteins can pass the blood/brain barrier and we have no idea what havoc they will wreck upon the tissues. we are in the bonus rounds of the grand experiment.
Correctly speaking Hunter is Jill’s stepson. Now her biological daughter Ashley is nearly as screwed up as Hunter and Jill is in part responsible by letting the pedo shower with her.
As for keeping Hunter out of prison then Joe can issue a presidential pardon for all the federal crimes. Are there any state level crimes involved and if they are in blue cities or states then will charges ever be laid?
Uh oh. Hunter’s next hookers and blow crime spree may have consequences….
naw, they keep him around for blackmail purposes. The bidens have quite the offshore bank account that the 3 letter agencies would like to drain into their own IRA’s and “retirement Plans”. He is the keys to the kingdom, the combination to the safe, the baby laxative in the cocaine.
They call him Hunter, but he is actually prey…
Nice pun!