Well I guess we won’t be hearing Democrats talking about the threats to Democracy and the sancity of the vote now that the only person who the left allowed Democrat voters to choose in the primary has now been forced out.
To paraphrase Archie Bunker, I’m sure that Kamala will do a hell of a job for a person no primary voter voted for.
It didn’t even take a full day for the left to start attacking Trump over his age now that Biden is gone.
Of course that likely would have been a much stronger attack if Trump hadn’t survived an assassin’s bullet in a manor that screams testosterone.
Another thing that came instantly to mind was that the steal is on.
I had argued that if Democrats were resigned to losing this election you might as well leave Biden on the ticket as you don’t want to tag an up and comer with defeat.
But on Twitter a few days ago I saw the best Democrat case for getting rid of old Joe:
*THIS* is why we're seeing an internal feud in the Democratic Party about removing Joe Biden.
I guess the steal is on, but does Kamala have the polling numbers they need for this?
At least one positive thing for Democrats, it’s being reported that now that Biden is not running donors have opened their spigots wide.
They might have one of their best fundraising days in a while and yet we still don’t know for sure if Harris is the nominee.
Hey the consultants will be happy anyways.
One thing that the GOP should do is fight fight fight.
If there are laws in various states, particularly ones that the left want to steal, that might prohibit Biden from being taken off the ballot or keeping Kamala or another Democrat from getting on the GOP should go full lawfare on all of this.
Before the Obama presidency the Secret Service was nonpolitical and the class of the world when it comes to protection. The Secret Service was one of the victims of Obama’s fundamental transformation of the United States. Like the FBI, CIA, and so many other federal agencies, Obama turned the Secret Service into a wing of the Democrat Party and the Deep State.
It seems obvious from the disastrous response to the assignation attempt on President Trump, the Biden regime turned the Secret Service into an incompetent woke clown troop:
The director of the Secret Service is refusing to step down after one of the worst agency failures since President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981. On Saturday, former President Donald Trump had part of his ear blown off as a result of federal officials’ refusal to secure the rooftop of a building just 450 feet from a Pennsylvania rally platform.
The agency chief went on to blame local law enforcement in Pennsylvania for the cascade of security lapses that ultimately culminated in the Republican presidential nominee taking a gunshot to the ear and only surviving by a miracle. Two rallygoers were injured in the assassination attempt and a third was killed.
The screw ups perpetrated by the director of the Secret Service, who is a DEI hire, are truly mind boggling.
During her interview with ABC News, the Secret Service chief emphasized security of the building from where a gunman shot Trump was the responsibility of local police.
“In this particular instance, we did share support for that particular site and that the Secret Service was responsible for the inner perimeter,” she said. “And then we sought assistance from our local counterparts for the outer perimeter. There was local police in that building — there was local police in the area that were responsible for the outer perimeter of the building.”
With that statement the director proved to be absolutely clueless.
The Secret Service, however, is ultimately in charge of the overall security plan, and according to The Washington Post, “also has primary responsibility for addressing the risk of a long-range shooter and blocking lines of sight, including by instructing local police to secure or stand guard at buildings that could provide an opportunity for an attacker.”
Three counter-snipers were positioned in the building underneath the roof from which Saturday’s gunman fired multiple shots. According to Channel 11 News, a local Pennsylvania outlet, law enforcement had spotted the shooter nearly a half hour before Trump was hit. NBC News reported the Secret Service was even made aware of the unique threat presented by the building at the rally “days” before the event, and yet the Secret Service chief said the reason law enforcement did not secure the rooftop was because it was “sloped.”
They kept the rooftop open, watched the shooter, kept Trump on the stage, and didn’t do a damn thing until after he had been shot. And we’re supposed to believe it was an innocent oopsie?
Nobody wants to hear this because of the implications, but oh well, because it needs to be said: Joe Biden’s security regime deliberately and with malice aforethought created the conditions that led to an attempted assassin shooting Donald Trump in the head. It is by the grace of God that he lived and our nation is not currently in the midst of a violent civil war.
They deliberately starved Trump’s security team of the resources it needed. And they did it repeatedly, over many weeks and months.
This next set of coincidences are quite a damning indictment of the Secret Service in particular, and the Biden Regime in general.
With Trump’s security detail understaffed, under-resourced, and stretched to its limits, Biden’s security regime reportedly diverted even more resources to a hastily planned Jill Biden event that just happened to be in the area.
Furthermore, Biden’s Secret Service director ordered law enforcement and counter-snipers OFF the roof the assassin used.
If that weren’t enough, Biden’s security regime also refused to block the line of sight from the assassin’s perch to Trump’s location. When law enforcement radioed in a suspicious person using a laser range finder at the building and even took photos of him, nothing was done to detain the assassin.
Sir Guy of Gisbourne:Now that you’ve robbed us and had your fill of insulting us, we wish to leave. Come, Lady Marian. Robin Hood:My own men will escort my Lady. But before you take leave of her, it might be as well if you thanked her for saving your life. Sir Guy of Gisbourne:My life? Robin Hood:Do you think you would’ve left this forest alive if it hadn’t been for her presence here
Adventures of Robin Hood 1938
A lot of media at the location and elsewhere are complaining about people blaming them for the attempt to kill Trump simply because they ‘ve been portraying him as Hitler and a threat to democracy who must be stopped at all costs to save us all.
The media in general and the press at the location in particular need to thank God almighty for their lives.
Because nothing would have turned the country in general and that crowd in particular into a mob seeking revenge like that shot hitting home.
I’ve been saying since after June 27th that if the press couldn’t force Joe Biden off the ticket it was likely the left would kill him.
But apparently when God saved Trump’s life he also saved Joe’s.
Not only has the subject been changed from his physical condition but the but the odds of the margin of a Trump victory going beyond the margin of fraud has become high enough that there is now little point in pushing Joe off the ballot, might as well let him take the fall.
Biden might not be the best of Catholics but all of those masses must have paid off.
Another life potentially saved by this is Robert F Kennedy.
Despite being an even more obvious target for assassination than Trump he has for months he has been denied secret service protection.
I presume this is because being a threat to pull vote from Biden voters who just can’t pull the lever for him, the Biden Administration and the folks giving orders wanted to make things easy for a potential killer so they’ve denied him protection right along.
Now a few days after Trump survives an attempt to kill him and a few hours after Trump publicly called on the Biden Administration to give him protection, the protection is given.
Like Biden there is no percentage in knocking off Kennedy anymore.
You might remember a few weeks ago I mentioned a Hispanic co-worker who had voted for Joe Biden last time who, sick of the economy and not willing to vote Trump told me in no uncertain terms that this time he is voting Robert F. Kennedy.
I took a Vacation day Sunday for my son’s birthday so I didn’t see him till yesterday. He came up to me again and said: “Now I vote Trump.”
That missed shot and raised fist changed everything, although in fairness I think the most critical voters to Joe Biden, those whose ballots magically appear after 1 AM on election day, are still as far as I know solidly in his camp. The question becomes will Trump margin be so beyond the margin of fraud that they won’t bother.
Finally let’s not forget the man who was murdered on Saturday. Corey Comperatore.
As a man who realizes everybody, no matter how rich or healthy eventually dies let me say this.
Corey Comperatore will be remembered in history as the man who responded in a moment of crises to successfully save his family and died doing so.
I’d wager that most men given their choice would choose to die peacefully in their bed, surrounded by loving family, children and grandchildren who he can say a final goodbye to before going. That in my opinion would be any man’s first choice and I’m sure his heartbroken family right now wishes that were the case.
But if a man had to pick a 2nd choice for a way to die, dying while saving the lives of your wife and kids has to be right up there and being remembered for doing so by the whole world is a pretty good way to go.
It brings to mind an old poem about men dying well that finishes:
But once in a while we can finish with style, and I ‘ope it don’t ‘appen to me.
4th Doctor:The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common – they don’t change their views to fit the facts. They change the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs changing
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil part 4 1977
You might recall about four months ago (was it really that recent?) the absolute outcry when NBC signed former RNC chair Rona McDaniel as a commentator. McDaniel as you might remember had a success rate electing GOP candidates and promoting the conservative cause comparable with Luigi Vercotti attempts to get Ron Obvious to jump the English Channel or eat Chichester Cathedral and her popularity with the GOP base corresponded to that success making her seemingly the perfect choice as the GOP voice on NBC. But alas the NBC/MSNBC faithful were having none of it:
She’s no Douglas Murray but the slightest possibility that she might threaten the bubble of silence surrounding MSNBC viewers was simply too much for leftists to bear.
You see the MSM decided a while back that they were going to choose as their niche market the far democrat left and a problem with choosing a group of people who primary pushes are for abortion, homosexuality and transgenderism is such a group tend to shrink.
Furthermore when the loudest members of said group are the most radical you find yourself hitting demands to exclude anything that might contradict said groups thus moving farther and farther into a direction to satisfy them and becoming more and more niche till you find yourself locked in an every shrinking bubble unable to to deal with or even unable to acknowledge any reality outside of said bubble.
And when powerful people with a lot of money and influence you know the ones who decide who is welcome at the beautiful parties with the beautiful people who might give you advancement and on whose word your salary is based it becomes easy to rationalize life in the bubble let it harden around you to keep all that unwanted information out.
At least until June 27th 2024 at 9:05 PM EST when reality takes a sledgehammer to the bubble and the walls come crumbling down.
We’ve been writing about the sheer panic among those who saw, particularly among the media who have guarded the bubble diligently (Drew Holden has a detailed post showing HOW diligently) and are now trying to convince people that they were duped idiots rather than collaborators.
This has been punctuated by people suddenly coming out with a whole plethora of evidence of Joe Biden’s decline that they previous withheld.
All of this has become a problem, because now the niche is split and the media doesn’t know which way to go.
Now let me clarify one thing. The niche isn’t split about Joe Biden’s mental acuity all but the most fanatical or ignorant leftists know he is no longer fit to lead, that’s not in question but as I’ve noted that consideration which would be the primary one if they actually cared about American Democracy doesn’t matter. As Alex Berenson put it:
Put politics aside, ask the right question:
If @joebiden weren't already President, would ANYONE think the husk of a man we saw tonight is the best choice for the job? Any of the governors would be a better choice.
Whatever happens next, the Democrats failed themselves. And us.
But that’s not the debate among the media trying desperately trying to retain credibility while serving their niche a niche which is now split between those who think the Democrat party’s chances of winning in November are better with Joe Biden on the ticket and those who think keeping him on the ticket will destroy their chances of winning.
THAT is the only thing that matters and the media is desperate to be on the “right” side of that argument, that being the side of the argument which will prevail.
This brings us to yesterday’s news conference.
Right now the media is trying to figure out which side (boot Biden, keep Biden) is going to win so they can jump on board it
What the Democrat left and the media really needed was either a commanding Biden demonstrating strength or a slobbering Biden unable to function which would give them a clear direction and reunite their niche. As Frank Fleming put it:
The absolute worst thing for the Democrats is if Biden does just well enough to stay in the race.
It was a lot like the debate, Biden started weak but got stronger and one of his answers on China and chips was actually not bad, however starting on a teleprompter didn’t help and had questioners pre-selected suggests he knew what was coming.
But there were two defining moments that everyone will remember. The first being this:
Biden: "Look, I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president if I didn't think she's not qualified to be president, so we'll start there." pic.twitter.com/ib4WwC27pR
Make no mistake about it: this was not a great press conference, but it was better than his performance at the debate and his interview with George Stephanopoulos. And that’s a problem for the Democrats. From the perspective of Biden’s campaign, that’s good enough for him to stay in the race.
Joe Biden’s campaign is cratering, and this press conference won’t convince the naysayers that everything is fine — and it won’t convince the holdouts that Biden should go. The situation remains at a stalemate, which means the Democratic Party will continue to be divided over what to do about Joe Biden.
In short it’s the worst of all worlds for the media as every day this isn’t resolved is a day when they have to pick a side which is the worst possible situation for the democrats because as long as this election is about Joe Biden, Trump wins.
Prediction: As soon as one side or the other wins the media will pivot to that side and within a day or two of that moment and by end of whatever week it happens you will never know they thought otherwise.
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