It is now official: America has a president who is so far mentally gone that he could not stand trial if he were to be charged with a crime.
Yes, that’s right. The United States, the world’s leading nuclear superpower, has a commander-in-chief with access to those nuclear codes, who is mentally incapable of doing his job.
On February 8th, National Public Radio reported:
President Biden willfully held onto and disclosed classified materials after leaving the Obama administration [as Vice President] and becoming a private citizen, but his actions warrant no criminal charges, according to a Justice Department special counsel report
What the NPR did not tell its readers is that the same special counsel report characterized Biden as having “poor memory” as well as “diminished faculties.”
Yes, poor memory and diminished faculties. In plain English, the man has gone gaga.
Not only is Biden the president of the United States, but he is also running for re-election. He shouldn’t be, of course; as Dan McLaughlin explained in an op-ed with the New York Post on February 13th:
If Joe Biden is unfit to stand trial, he is unfit to be president.
Plain, simple, and common sense.
The findings of the special counsel are reasons enough for President Biden to not be in office. He should have resigned already, but he is of course not going to do that. It would take a man of incredible moral stature to admit that he is no longer fit to be president, and that man is not Joe Biden.
Besides, if he is as far gone mentally as the special counsel report suggests, then he may very well be incapable of understanding that he should leave office.
Fortunately, there is a way out: the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, Section 4 of the amendment lays out a pathway for Congress, the vice president, and the members of the president’s cabinet to remove the president from office. It is not done easily: at the very least, the process is 23 days long and includes, among other things, a two-thirds majority vote in both chambers of Congress in favor of removing the president.
The vice president as well as a majority of the president’s cabinet members also have to agree that their boss is unfit for the office.
Republican members of Congress have already called on Biden’s cabinet members to start the 25th Amendment process. It is unlikely that anything will happen; the president is surrounded by party loyalists who are more concerned about preserving Democrat political power than they are about having a competent person in the White House.
But why would they let Biden stay in office? And more importantly: does anyone, even a strong Biden supporter, really want him re-elected?
The answer to these two questions is simple: the report from the special counsel that mentions Biden’s mental ability is part of a well-orchestrated transition from Biden to another presidential candidate. The people at the Department of Justice who were responsible for the report knew very well that the statements about “poor memory” and “diminished faculties” would inevitably be used—legitimately so—to claim that Biden is unfit for office.
Put simply, they knew it would likely sink his ability to get re-elected. But that is not a problem: since Biden’s mental state is deteriorating right in front of our eyes, by the time we get to November he may be unable to function outside a hospital bed.
The clue to the real purpose behind the timing of the special report is found in its references to Biden as a well-meaning old man. This formulation is entirely redundant, especially given the fact that the real purpose of the special counsel’s report was to evaluate Biden’s possibly illegal handling of classified documents. But by mentioning him in nice terms, the report lays out the carpet for Biden to end his re-election campaign on terms that make him look sympathetic to his voters.
At that point, when he has announced his decision not to seek a second term after all, his party can launch another candidate. The special counsel’s report was released at such a point in time that the Democratic Party has plenty of time to give Biden a laudatory exit from the campaign trail, and to introduce a new candidate before their convention in Chicago on August 19th-22nd.
That is the politics behind all this. It is not a matter of removing a president from office because he is unfit, even if it is now publicly known that he is. It is a matter of putting a new candidate up against Donald Trump. Democratic Party strategists firmly believe that while Trump edges out Biden in most opinion polls, and while Trump has a fair chance to win the electoral college vote, he does not stand nearly as strong against a younger, more energetic, more future-oriented Democrat.
Again, the timing of the special counsel report is perfect. Trump is now locked in as the presumptive Republican candidate. He is likely going to win a landslide victory in the South Carolina Republican primary in a few days, and then he will move on to March 5th, also known as Super Tuesday. On that day, 15 states and American Samoa hold their primaries; if Nikki Haley, Trump’s remaining competitor, does not make a remarkable comeback by then, she will be out of the picture.
With Super Tuesday less than three weeks away, Trump’s inevitability will soon be sealed. Once Republicans have locked themselves in with him as their candidate, the strategists of the Democratic Party can go to work replacing Biden as their candidate in November.
Who would the replacement be? If Biden steps down before his current term is over, then Vice President Kamala Harris automatically becomes president. The problem is that Harris is not much better than Biden. Her ability to speak coherently surpasses that of Biden, but only when Biden is speaking extemporaneously. Harris has no record of policy accomplishments from her time in Congress, and she has not made a name for herself in any other way. The only reason why she is known is because she is the vice president.
In other words, the Democrats must avoid ending up with Kamala Harris on the ballot in November. They can do this by keeping Biden in office at least to the day after the election.
Whoever replaces Biden on the ballot in November must be elected by the Democratic convention in August. Since the Democrats are treating their primary elections as annoying formalities, the replacement candidate will pop up sometime right before the convention. The political machine will be ready to raise this candidate to the skies, but that same machine also knows that it will have to be a candidate that can garner enough votes from independents, i.e., voters who do not identify with any party, to keep Trump from winning.
Is Michelle Obama that candidate? Her name has been thrown around quite a bit, but according to Republican political strategist Karl Rove, the former First Lady is absolutely not interested. Rove claims that Mrs. Obama hates politics and saw what it did to her husband.
There might also be another reason why she is not interested: the persistent rumors that she is really a transgender woman. Regardless of the veracity of such rumors (I see no reason to believe them), the mere fact that her very public appearances can spark waves of ‘Big Mike’ comments around social media is likely discouraging enough for her to stay away from the political scene. Once she made her candidacy official, these rumors would also become official, and the entire campaign would be centered around them.
Another name that has floated around recently is that of California Governor Gavin Newsom. He is likable, and he has probed the campaign waters by, e.g., appearing on Fox News with conservative commentator Sean Hannity.
Newsom has two things going for him as a candidate. He is young and comes across as energetic, in other words has the shallow positive appeal that can stir up positive emotions among voters. He is also very well connected with the Democratic party establishment, in part through their shared background in California’s elite political circles. That means easy access to an endless stream of campaign contributions from the big tech companies in Silicon Valley.
The problem for Gavin Newsom is that he is one of America’s most radical politicians. He has worked hard to turn California into an even more leftist state than it already was: from criminal justice and ‘environmental’ policy to taxes and education, Newsom has pulled his state further out on the fringe.
It would be easy for a Trump campaign to pick outrageous examples of the consequences of Newsom’s policies, such as the rampant rise of crime and deterioration of public order in California’s big cities. Regardless of how far Newsom’s responsibility actually stretches when it comes to homeless defecating and shooting up drugs in the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco, the images of the filth and human suffering will be pinned on Newsom’s chest from the day he accepts the Democratic party’s nomination for president.
A wild-card option is to put Colorado’s governor Jared Polis on the ticket. Polis is politically almost as radical as Newsom, but his state does not suffer from the same sordid reputation that has befallen California. The Denver metropolitan area is about neck-and-neck with Los Angeles and San Francisco in terms of crime, drugs, homelessness, and public disorder, but Colorado also has well-working cities where these problems are much more subdued. This shields Polis, at least to some degree, from the same criticism that would be lethal to a Newsom campaign.
In 2022, Governor Polis championed an early payout of tax refunds from Colorado’s so-called TABOR law. This tax law, which is unique among the 50 states, restricts the options for the state to raise taxes, and it specifies circumstances under which the state is forced to compensate taxpayers for a rising tax burden. Although Polis’s idea is two years old, it exemplifies how he can come across as a more moderate candidate than Gavin Newsom.
One of the reasons Democrats may balk at Polis is that he is homosexual. The question that would linger over the party convention in August would be: is America ready for a homosexual couple in the White House?
Whatever they decide, the Democrats will throw everything they have behind whoever Biden’s replacement will be. That may not be enough, but it is also possible—as I have predicted in the past—that Trump will not be the Republican nominee after all. Although he is steaming toward a victory in the primaries, his legal battles may prove enough to capsize his campaign. At that point, the Republicans may end up in a situation similar to what the Democrats will face once they have convinced Joe Biden to end his re-election campaign.
The special counsel report on Biden’s degenerated mental condition marked the beginning of an entirely new phase in the presidential race. It will be a while before we know where the chips fall and who will actually run against whom in November, but we know one thing already: 2024 is going to go down in history as the strangest presidential race in recent memory.
The Biden Replacement Process Has Begun
It is now official: America has a president who is so far mentally gone that he could not stand trial if he were to be charged with a crime.
Yes, that’s right. The United States, the world’s leading nuclear superpower, has a commander-in-chief with access to those nuclear codes, who is mentally incapable of doing his job.
On February 8th, National Public Radio reported:
What the NPR did not tell its readers is that the same special counsel report characterized Biden as having “poor memory” as well as “diminished faculties.”
Yes, poor memory and diminished faculties. In plain English, the man has gone gaga.
Not only is Biden the president of the United States, but he is also running for re-election. He shouldn’t be, of course; as Dan McLaughlin explained in an op-ed with the New York Post on February 13th:
Plain, simple, and common sense.
The findings of the special counsel are reasons enough for President Biden to not be in office. He should have resigned already, but he is of course not going to do that. It would take a man of incredible moral stature to admit that he is no longer fit to be president, and that man is not Joe Biden.
Besides, if he is as far gone mentally as the special counsel report suggests, then he may very well be incapable of understanding that he should leave office.
Fortunately, there is a way out: the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, Section 4 of the amendment lays out a pathway for Congress, the vice president, and the members of the president’s cabinet to remove the president from office. It is not done easily: at the very least, the process is 23 days long and includes, among other things, a two-thirds majority vote in both chambers of Congress in favor of removing the president.
The vice president as well as a majority of the president’s cabinet members also have to agree that their boss is unfit for the office.
Republican members of Congress have already called on Biden’s cabinet members to start the 25th Amendment process. It is unlikely that anything will happen; the president is surrounded by party loyalists who are more concerned about preserving Democrat political power than they are about having a competent person in the White House.
But why would they let Biden stay in office? And more importantly: does anyone, even a strong Biden supporter, really want him re-elected?
The answer to these two questions is simple: the report from the special counsel that mentions Biden’s mental ability is part of a well-orchestrated transition from Biden to another presidential candidate. The people at the Department of Justice who were responsible for the report knew very well that the statements about “poor memory” and “diminished faculties” would inevitably be used—legitimately so—to claim that Biden is unfit for office.
Put simply, they knew it would likely sink his ability to get re-elected. But that is not a problem: since Biden’s mental state is deteriorating right in front of our eyes, by the time we get to November he may be unable to function outside a hospital bed.
The clue to the real purpose behind the timing of the special report is found in its references to Biden as a well-meaning old man. This formulation is entirely redundant, especially given the fact that the real purpose of the special counsel’s report was to evaluate Biden’s possibly illegal handling of classified documents. But by mentioning him in nice terms, the report lays out the carpet for Biden to end his re-election campaign on terms that make him look sympathetic to his voters.
At that point, when he has announced his decision not to seek a second term after all, his party can launch another candidate. The special counsel’s report was released at such a point in time that the Democratic Party has plenty of time to give Biden a laudatory exit from the campaign trail, and to introduce a new candidate before their convention in Chicago on August 19th-22nd.
That is the politics behind all this. It is not a matter of removing a president from office because he is unfit, even if it is now publicly known that he is. It is a matter of putting a new candidate up against Donald Trump. Democratic Party strategists firmly believe that while Trump edges out Biden in most opinion polls, and while Trump has a fair chance to win the electoral college vote, he does not stand nearly as strong against a younger, more energetic, more future-oriented Democrat.
Again, the timing of the special counsel report is perfect. Trump is now locked in as the presumptive Republican candidate. He is likely going to win a landslide victory in the South Carolina Republican primary in a few days, and then he will move on to March 5th, also known as Super Tuesday. On that day, 15 states and American Samoa hold their primaries; if Nikki Haley, Trump’s remaining competitor, does not make a remarkable comeback by then, she will be out of the picture.
With Super Tuesday less than three weeks away, Trump’s inevitability will soon be sealed. Once Republicans have locked themselves in with him as their candidate, the strategists of the Democratic Party can go to work replacing Biden as their candidate in November.
Who would the replacement be? If Biden steps down before his current term is over, then Vice President Kamala Harris automatically becomes president. The problem is that Harris is not much better than Biden. Her ability to speak coherently surpasses that of Biden, but only when Biden is speaking extemporaneously. Harris has no record of policy accomplishments from her time in Congress, and she has not made a name for herself in any other way. The only reason why she is known is because she is the vice president.
In other words, the Democrats must avoid ending up with Kamala Harris on the ballot in November. They can do this by keeping Biden in office at least to the day after the election.
Whoever replaces Biden on the ballot in November must be elected by the Democratic convention in August. Since the Democrats are treating their primary elections as annoying formalities, the replacement candidate will pop up sometime right before the convention. The political machine will be ready to raise this candidate to the skies, but that same machine also knows that it will have to be a candidate that can garner enough votes from independents, i.e., voters who do not identify with any party, to keep Trump from winning.
Is Michelle Obama that candidate? Her name has been thrown around quite a bit, but according to Republican political strategist Karl Rove, the former First Lady is absolutely not interested. Rove claims that Mrs. Obama hates politics and saw what it did to her husband.
There might also be another reason why she is not interested: the persistent rumors that she is really a transgender woman. Regardless of the veracity of such rumors (I see no reason to believe them), the mere fact that her very public appearances can spark waves of ‘Big Mike’ comments around social media is likely discouraging enough for her to stay away from the political scene. Once she made her candidacy official, these rumors would also become official, and the entire campaign would be centered around them.
Another name that has floated around recently is that of California Governor Gavin Newsom. He is likable, and he has probed the campaign waters by, e.g., appearing on Fox News with conservative commentator Sean Hannity.
Newsom has two things going for him as a candidate. He is young and comes across as energetic, in other words has the shallow positive appeal that can stir up positive emotions among voters. He is also very well connected with the Democratic party establishment, in part through their shared background in California’s elite political circles. That means easy access to an endless stream of campaign contributions from the big tech companies in Silicon Valley.
The problem for Gavin Newsom is that he is one of America’s most radical politicians. He has worked hard to turn California into an even more leftist state than it already was: from criminal justice and ‘environmental’ policy to taxes and education, Newsom has pulled his state further out on the fringe.
It would be easy for a Trump campaign to pick outrageous examples of the consequences of Newsom’s policies, such as the rampant rise of crime and deterioration of public order in California’s big cities. Regardless of how far Newsom’s responsibility actually stretches when it comes to homeless defecating and shooting up drugs in the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco, the images of the filth and human suffering will be pinned on Newsom’s chest from the day he accepts the Democratic party’s nomination for president.
A wild-card option is to put Colorado’s governor Jared Polis on the ticket. Polis is politically almost as radical as Newsom, but his state does not suffer from the same sordid reputation that has befallen California. The Denver metropolitan area is about neck-and-neck with Los Angeles and San Francisco in terms of crime, drugs, homelessness, and public disorder, but Colorado also has well-working cities where these problems are much more subdued. This shields Polis, at least to some degree, from the same criticism that would be lethal to a Newsom campaign.
In 2022, Governor Polis championed an early payout of tax refunds from Colorado’s so-called TABOR law. This tax law, which is unique among the 50 states, restricts the options for the state to raise taxes, and it specifies circumstances under which the state is forced to compensate taxpayers for a rising tax burden. Although Polis’s idea is two years old, it exemplifies how he can come across as a more moderate candidate than Gavin Newsom.
One of the reasons Democrats may balk at Polis is that he is homosexual. The question that would linger over the party convention in August would be: is America ready for a homosexual couple in the White House?
Whatever they decide, the Democrats will throw everything they have behind whoever Biden’s replacement will be. That may not be enough, but it is also possible—as I have predicted in the past—that Trump will not be the Republican nominee after all. Although he is steaming toward a victory in the primaries, his legal battles may prove enough to capsize his campaign. At that point, the Republicans may end up in a situation similar to what the Democrats will face once they have convinced Joe Biden to end his re-election campaign.
The special counsel report on Biden’s degenerated mental condition marked the beginning of an entirely new phase in the presidential race. It will be a while before we know where the chips fall and who will actually run against whom in November, but we know one thing already: 2024 is going to go down in history as the strangest presidential race in recent memory.
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