"He never talked about this. We would have those wonderful debates. He would never talk about this. We didn’t know what the hell he was talking about actually. His campaign was all lies. Talked about energy, I thought I said, 'This guy actually, he’s okay with energy' He wasn’t okay with energy. He wants to put you all out of business.... Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history.... The Biden administration is actually bragging about the classroom education they are providing to migrant children on the border. While at the same time, millions of American children are having their futures destroyed by Joe Biden’s anti-science school closures.... He is cruelly keeping our children locked in their homes, no reason for it whatsoever. They want to get out... Joe Biden is only implementing [a vaccine] plan that we put in place.... Yet Biden said just a few days ago that when he got here, meaning The White House, there was no vaccine. He said, there’s no vaccine. Oh, good. Say it again, Joe. Now I don’t think he said that, frankly, in a malicious way. I really don’t. I actually believe he said that because he didn’t really know what the hell was happening."
From Donald Trump's CPAC speech.
That's a clear demonstration of an approach to attacking Biden: He's not malicious. He just doesn't know what the hell he's talking about or what the hell is happening. That gives room for people who think Joe's a likeable good guy to feel okay about the criticism. Joe's not malicious. He's just very confused. When you get to the confusion part of the attack, be sure to include the words "what the hell."
Oh! That reminds me. It's March 1st. You know what that means. I lost my big bet. I told you back on January 27th about the bet I have here at Meadhouse: "Biden will oust himself from the presidency by March 1st." When did I make the bet? I'm not sure but I alluded to this bet on December 15th, when Biden gave an overlong speech: "There was no reason to make him go this long... not unless the idea was to make us get comfortable with the idea of phasing him out and swapping in Kamala at the earliest possible moment — say, around March 1st."
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I still think it will be by July. For a while I thought that it would be earlier, by April or so, but I think they'll want him to hang on and take the heat when some of the big progressive proposals end up failing (such as the minimum wage hike).
Biden can still be malicious and not know what's going on.
It wasn't a bad guess but so long as they cam keep him alive the corrupt deep state is okay with a figurehead that covers for the shot they're pulling. Foreign heads of state are so far playing along, hoping some of the largesse flows their way...
I disagree with the people saying it's all about power. Power is the thing they need to get to the money.
It's good for the Porsche dealerships when the grade school teachers start rolling in.
After 1/20/23, so Harris can be elected to two full terms pursuant to the 22nd Amendment.
It was wonderful watching a President who knows where he is and why he is there!!!
Intent and personal character are irrelevant to the quality and outcome of action. Biden does not have to be malicious or evil to be wrong. If he did then you could conceivably prove that he is neither malicious nor evil and so his actions right rather than wrong. Trump gets this and so focuses on the actions and results. Simple but brilliant.
Personally I've not made a specific prediction, date, for when Biden is pushed out. They may be hoping he dies - the Democrat leadership are capable of thinking that way. They might be considering the 25th Amendment approach given his increasing inability to function in public. Like others I've been thinking about a date that is after Biden's first 100 days. We'll see.
Given Biden’s speaking trouble when in Texas, I think it will be in the next six months, by the end of summer. I think that timeframe aligns to all the early EOs as well. If Joe signs them then Harris won’t have to do so.
As long as they can keep Sloppy Joe from holding a press conference (Re: questions from Peter Doocy), he can remain in office until he assumes room temperature.
The ways to remove Joe Biden from office are expiration of his term, death, impeachment, and the 25th Amendment. To impeach the Democrats would need to impeach their own president, which is not a good look for the party no matter how you spin it, and would require almost 20 Republican senators to go along with it. The 25th Amendment is even tougher, ultimately requiring 2/3rds of the House and 2/3rds of the Senate. Why would the Republicans help pull the Democrats out of the hole they dug for themselves?
At least you acknowledge having drunk the Kool aid.
I am surprised at how many aging Boomers are advancing this argument given that the younger generations are about to start thinking these same thoughts about all of you.
I am thankful we now get to make public predictions about your mental decline without stigma. Enjoy!
Joe's wife should be charged with elder abuse for forcing him to go out and act like a President when he is CLEARLY not with it. I hope the power and the money is worth it, because once they throw him under the bus...ALL of the BIDEN secrets will be let loose...and Hunter will go to prison.
The Dems will never use the 25th amendment against Biden. It would reflect poorly on them. The 25th amendment is reserved for R's. It says so in the (new and improved) constitution.
A venal dotard is the perfect figurehead for whoever is running the country. When you have piles of money, you wan’t to fortify your access to power by putting in a corrupt man. Trump was the honest cop, and we all know from the movies that the only way to deal with an honest cop is to “put him down.”
They had to do the same thing to Sarah Palin, who also wouldn’t be bought.
I didn't think Biden would get through the first debate. Shows you how much I know.
"it is what it is, deal with it." - every person that actually gets things done.
As long as they don't have to put Joe Biden in front of the national cameras for a well viewed press conference or speech, he can remain in office. But they're getting Kamala ready. And when Joe does have his first press conference, and he gets through all the pre-sorted and pre-approved questions fairly well, then get's asked a non-approved question and fumbles in his jacket for his notes while mumbling, "Where the hell am I?"...when that happens in front of the nation and world, his term is done.
Joe stays until the establishment media (EM) decides he is hurting the agenda. Cuomo is a template the EM is testing for efficacy.
President Trump will bring it up on every interview, techies will censure the mention. Foreign media has already pulled the curtain back. When will some US scribes go after the story?
Since Republican are finally back in the safety of the minority, they have no desire to expose the scam. They could be demanding in person meetings with the President, but, like I said, they are all comfortably burrowed into their warm fuzzy environment of minority.
Joe can simply resign for health reasons.
Dr Jill will never let him resign/be removed. As long as he can sign the executive orders put in front of him there will be no need.
We need a National, “What the fuck are we going to do about grandpa?!” conversation.
Only, in this case, Grandpa Biden is the pawn of people who wish to control the most powerful office on the planet.
It’s Weekend at Bernie’s if Bernie had the nuke codes and could issue executive orders.
I love my sister-in-law, but on Saturday she was talking about how Biden knows exactly what he's doing and he has a stutter.
Seriously, whoever came up with that stutter excuse for him deserves some sort of award. It is amazing that someone can be in the public eye his entire adult life, and only in his late 70s does his "stutter" become apparent.
I didn't put a date on it because Joe's resignation will come at the end of a fight between his inner circle and Harris' inner circle. Harris' ultimate victory is not in doubt, but timing is.
I'm not looking forward to being subjected to more of this kind of speech--"I thought I said, 'This guy actually, he’s okay with energy" No, you didn't. "He had the worst 1st month in presidential history" I highly doubt you can rate first months. "He said, there’s no vaccine." You bet he did! "he didn’t really know what the hell was happening." That's true too!
The killer lines are there, but so much crap along the way!
Mikey NTH at 6:13 AM
The ways to remove Joe Biden from office are expiration of his term, death, impeachment, and the 25th Amendment.
... and persuade him to resign.
I give Joe 100 days.
His first 100 days will be his last.
My second prediction is that after a second hundred days we will be asking ourselves which is worse; a president with dementia or one who is simply dumb as a rock.
If one posits that 2024 will be a fair election (whatever one thinks about 2020), the Dems have a lot to think about before they commit to putting Harris at the top of the ticket. Her performance with voters in the 2020 primaries was terrible, especially considering the early support she was getting from NYT, BezosPost, etc. Joe Biden ended up beating her handily. Why would the Dems swap in Harris before they have reason to conclude that she is likely to outperform Biden against the GOP nominee in 2024? Is it about anything else? Of course, if one posits that the fix is in for 2024, then the Dem pooh-bas may do as they please, and there is plenty of evidence that they have preferred Harris all along.
Mike Sylwester said...
Mikey NTH at 6:13 AM
The ways to remove Joe Biden from office are expiration of his term, death, impeachment, and the 25th Amendment.
... and persuade him to resign.
3/1/21, 6:58 AM
He had been running for president for over 30 years, I doubt he can be persuaded to resign. That kind of ambition is not easily thwarted.
My bet has always been that Biden would be given the option to resign due to health reasons in lieu of being forced out by explicit proof of the Biden family's extensive corruption. All this would require would be for the FBI or CIA to use their mouth pieces at the NYT or Wapoo to publish the dirt and Carlos Slim and/or Jeff Bezos to decide there was more money to be made by having Harris in charge. I've never accepted that the major media only sat on the Hunter story to just get rid of Trump. I believe they always thought it would be better to have a president who could be blackmailed. The question is how many foreign governments besides just China feel the same way.
The question is moot. If we couldn't build up enough collective judicial outrage at a fraudulent election it seems impossible to overcome the inertia to oust a babbling President with the correct party affiliation.
The Dems may go with Harris because they simply don't have anyone else. Cuomo is being removed from the board, and I wouldn't be surprised if Newsom is removed as well. Warren is a non starter. The rest are too unknown.
How many factions are actually fighting to control joe/White House?
Dr J
KH
Obama
Are there more? Do Dr. J and KH have any real power? President Trump held the power of the Office, but without the power to direct others to do your will, it is largely ceremonial.
I say Obama is the Power, or Power Broker. Not sure the mechanics behind Obama actually moving an agenda. He has little leverage, unless its skeletons.
There is no plan to swap Biden out. The people running Biden are totally different from the people running Harris, and if Biden goes, they will lose their jobs and their power.
My bug out prediction has always bee 1 April for obvious reasons.
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Harris was chosen as the VP because she's a lightweight with little independent power base in the party. In other words, precisely because she isn't backed by people powerful enough to dislodge Biden's people. Cuomo and Newsom are being damaged in the media in order to stop them from developing into significant rival power centers.
Why would the Dems swap in Harris before they have reason to conclude that she is likely to outperform Biden against the GOP nominee in 2024?
Because they already know how he performed in 2020.
He's just very confusion.
Not just confused, the man is confusion itself. He's a superspreader, making us all confused by him.
If Harris and her people have any significance, why weren't they informed about the Syria bombing?.
Needs to be soon enough to not be an issue in 2022 election
Biden is a useful idiot to the left. He’ll sign whatever they put in front of him. He’s not making ANY decisions. They can’t even put the guy up front for a SOTU address.
This is what voter fraud gets you. I find it even worse for people who know the fraud was real and overturned the results, but didn’t want to rock the boat for self-preservation.
Everyone enjoying our new gas prices? Madison, WI probably has the money set aside in pensions, but minority Milwaukee doesn’t. Typical.
Mary Beth said...If Harris and her people have any significance, why weren't they informed about the Syria bombing?
Are we sure Biden knew he bombed Syria???
What's the over under on self assisnation and subsequent martyrdom when it's blamed on President Trump?
What were the stakes in THE BIG BET? $1,000? $100?
It is no bet, unless something of value is on the line.
Trump makes a great point. We had no idea what Biden would do if he won. There were two worthless debates, but never any tough questioning of China Joe.
We are fucked.
"Biden is a useful idiot to the left."
Idiot: It was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot guard themself against common physical dangers. (Wiki)
Not just confused, the man is confusion itself.
Politicians say more taxes will solve everything
And the band played on
So, round and around and around we go
Where the world's headed, nobody knows
Oh, great googa-looga, can't you hear me talking to you
Just a ball of confusion
Oh yeah, that's what the world is today
Woo, hey
didn't Presidents USED TO give an address to Congress? In February?
a "State of the Union", or something?
Will Biden just Continue to ignore this?
[that's NOT a serious question, it's a Rhetorical Question]
He'll be gone by Easter.
Wrong.
They're going to try (they might not succeed) to keep Biden upright until the day after the point (22 election or the new congress day in 23? can't remember which) where the term is shortened enough that Kamala can run twice, to ensure 12 years of democrat destruction.
That's the plan, and that's been the plan.
It'll be even better when Kamala takes over, and they actually kill Joe a few months before the 24 elections in order to gin up a wave of sympathy and votes for the Ho.
I’m not buying the “Joe will go” argument. For one thing, what dummy would the cabal’s hand fit more nicely into than Joe with his giant hole in the back? Further, the cabal doesn’t really like Kamala. She was the least woke offering they could dupe the woke crowd with but she’s still more woke than they like. Besides, they are worried she can’t win re-election.
The only question for me is, Who leads the cabal? Obama? Bill Gates? Jeff Bezos? A cabal within the cabal? Whoever it is, they like making Old Joe’s mouth move, head turn, and eyes blink as they move their oily fingers. And I can barely see their lips move.
as tony badran pointed out, the strike was a signal to iran, it was business as usual,
Biden will be President as long as he can.
His backers would be side lined under Kamala.
what's the practical difference, both have shown contempt for israel and it's partners in the gulf and the levant, both oppose taiwan and hong kong, both hate fossil fuels, both are in favor of criminals, but oppose clean elections,
both support the terrorist black bloc and want to disarm law abiding citizens,
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/02/28/trump-eviscerates-bidens-record-in-blistering-cpac-speech-n1429022
Tom T. said...
There is no plan to swap Biden out. The people running Biden are totally different from the people running Harris, and if Biden goes, they will lose their jobs and their power.
Yup. I think you nailed it.
furtermore,
https://humanevents.com/2021/02/26/the-oligarchical-revolution/
Let’s see Biden will be gone by Easter and Trump will be in jail by Christmas, all the usual BS narratives from the right and left, meanwhile as more teachers get vaccinated, schools open, the economy picks up with the help of the relief Bill, the country will climb out of the hole left by the previous administration. And Joe, I say let nature take its course.
"Given Biden’s speaking trouble when in Texas,"
-- Whoa now, that's no way to talk about someone who is bravely overcoming their childhood stuttering.
Blogger roesch/voltaire said...
meanwhile as more teachers get vaccinated, schools open, the economy picks up
So by Christmas your wife will agree to once again teach on-site and risk being around those little disease carrying petri dishes?
Tell her liberals appreciate her efforts in support of tanking the economy for political gain to the suffering and detriment of inner city minority kids everywhere. Everyone appreciates being held hostage by Teachers Unions and false fear.
"Seriously, whoever came up with that stutter excuse for him deserves some sort of award."
-- It really was genius.
"didn't Presidents USED TO give an address to Congress? In February?
a "State of the Union", or something?"
-- Honestly, if Biden's "stutter" causes us to go back to a written address instead of a speech, it will be for the good of the country.
Biden doesn't want to go on the cart.
Heartless Aztec said...
"What's the over under on self assisnation and subsequent martyrdom when it's blamed on President Trump?"
Why waste a bullet? Or a bomb? There isn't anything there. More importantly than his longevity in office is; who's running him? Who's making policy? Those are the people our attention should be focused on. Biden and his wife are literally NPCs.
Ron Klain and Jill Biden will hold on to power as long as they can.
That's what this is all about.
There is no plan to swap Biden out. The people running Biden are totally different from the people running Harris, and if Biden goes, they will lose their jobs and their power.
There's no way to keep Biden in office without a massive conspiracy by all involved to hide any mental decline. If Harris wants to move up, her people will find friendly journalists to start pushing the story. Once it's established, there will be pressure for Joe to make increasing public appearances, which increases the probability that he'll have an "incident."
If Harris and her people have any significance, why weren't they informed about the Syria bombing?.
There are multiple factions vying for power right now. My guess is that the ones who ordered the Syria strike deliberately withheld the info from Harris as a way to embarrass her after all the stories about how involved she was in foreign policy for the new administration.
I think Biden'll slip up before a national audience in an embarrassing, unmistakable way and leave office the next day. But just exactly when that will happen is unpredictable. His minders cancelled SOTU. They seem to have restorative cocktails of drugs and vitamins which can get him through softball interviews and short, scripted occasions. But drugs wear you out and, when you're old, they make you age more quickly. It's like giving steroids to athletes; it works in terms of winning a game but it's really abusive. Damage accumulates. The consequence is just a matter of time.
PS. Will Hillary be appointed VP?
Don't we have wonderful leaders in our capital city?
After 1/20/23, so Harris can be elected to two full terms pursuant to the 22nd Amendment.
Nope. If true that Biden is debilitated, the facade can't be maintained that long. Allow me some length to explain. For all of the below assume Biden has some debilitation of some sort that is known by at least senior staff in the White House and notably the Vice President.
The thing to remember about the Presidency is that there are no easy decisions that reach the President's desk. The easy decisions are already made by lower officials. This means, by definition, that any decision that reaches the president has competing interests within the administration. If Biden is not the one actually making the decisions, it provides for leverage on the part of the losing interest. They have a secret that nobody knows and they can use it to negotiate.
One of the reasons the first "100 days" exists as a thing is because most of the decisions made in that time period are the easy decisions. Reversing Trump's executive orders? There are no competing interests in the administration for things like that. But as you move further away, things slow down. $15 minimum wage? College debt relief? Competing interests. Those decisions end up getting pushed further down the calendar.
The first 100 days ends on May 1. No action will be taken prior to that. The cabinet may not be fully solidified by then, and they certainly won't be fully settled into their jobs by then. It takes time to build up a staff and ensure that everybody in your department is on your side. After that however, pressure will continue to build inside the White House. The plan will start to come together.
My bet is that the date will be July 4th, 2021. The date will be chosen specifically. One of the issues Kamala will have is that the 25th amendment process is extremely messy. By design, if contested, it requires 2/3rds of Congress. So they will want Biden to step down voluntarily. The stick will be the 25th amendment, the carrot will be Biden peacefully transferring power like George Washington. He will be present at the swearing in of Kamala, the first Black Woman President on the Birthday of the founding of the Republic on the steps of the Capitol. The site of their successful victory against the armies of Trump. There will be back room deals for the Biden family as well, to ensure their acquiescence, but that will not be for public consumption.
I'll go further, I expect that this will also signify the marker of the end of the pandemic. By then, if trends continue, the virus will have waned through vaccinations and herd immunity. Outdoor masks will not be required at the inauguration. Social distancing will not be enforced. Risks will certainly be lower. They will want to kick-start the economy as fast as possible. Biden will have successfully transitioned the country from the depths of the pandemic to the new ascendant administration.
Trump can already see this. His statements to CPAC are to set the narrative and throw a wrench into the timeline.
The best thing that Kamala can have Biden do is to pardon Trump on his way out.
"My guess is that the ones who ordered the Syria strike deliberately withheld the info from Harris as a way to embarrass her after all the stories about how involved she was in foreign policy for the new administration."
-- Or it was the Feyd Rautha gambit; get Biden to do all the stuff people won't like (kill jobs with the pipeline, bomb Syria, etc.), so that replacing him with a better, more loved leader who hadn't had to dirty their hands is more accepted.
Or -- the most likely reason? Incompetence at communication.
wildswan said...
I think Biden'll slip up before a national audience in an embarrassing, unmistakable way and leave office the next day. But just exactly when that will happen is unpredictable
I agree with this.
The president of our former company had a slide into dementia. He could still be incredibly charming, went to work every day. He knew my family well but met me for the first time day after day, sometimes several times in the same evening. But always always in the most charming way.
He held a breakfast meeting to introduce a new manager, and read through his witty and heartfelt speech about his history with the new manager. When he got to the last page, he flipped it over and started again. 3 times he read it from beginning to end, with great and warm delivery every time.
When my husband had a big moment, our president called to break the good news to him. Then he called again about 10 minutes later. He called 5 times before my husband just stopped answering the phone.
This is Joe Biden now. He can read a speech and remember a few lines. But you don't want anybody to do anything more than scratch the surface. His stutter will come out.
The 25th Amendment is even tougher, ultimately requiring 2/3rds of the House and 2/3rds of the Senate. Why would the Republicans help pull the Democrats out of the hole they dug for themselves?
The votes can take place up to 21 days after receipt however. That's plenty of time to provide testimony. Do you think there are republicans that will vote no after "expert" testimony about Biden's decline? That they would play with the nation's security just to stick it to democrats? No that won't fly. If it gets to Congress the votes will be there. It's an easier vote than impeachment. That's why the Dems wanted to use it on Trump. It's all about the person, not the office. It requires the Vice President though, which is why it wasn't used on Trump.
Biden's family knows they would lose the vote, they will go along, and Biden will peacefully transfer power.
Isn't it cute how R/V keeps peddling this "teachers need to be vaccinated" pretext when there is no plausible evidence that they are at any more risk than in the general community.
Seems like they two comedies, Dave and Weekend at Bernies, have been combined into a real life horror flick
"Where the hell am I?"...when that happens in front of the nation and world, his term is done.
That's why we haven't seen him much. I don't think they will do that on purpose though. It's too messy. Better for him to have a routine checkup, and Biden learns some terrible news. It's fine right now, nothing to terrible, but it's going to get worse. I'm going to use the remaining days to train Kamala and peacefully transfer power. Just a question of date.
Biden will get a medal of freedom and a ticker tape parade.
Didn't everyone know that Biden wouldn't make it to 2024? But I guess the D's don't care. They're perfectly happy with Kam harris, even though she got 2% in the primaries. But that's the thing about D's, they're complete sheep. They don't care who leads them. They care what they do. As long as they hate those GODDAMN REPUBLICANS, they're happy as hogs in shit.
The idea that the Republicans would oppose getting rid of Biden is absurd. McConnell and McCarthy are willing to do ANYTHING that Schumer/Pelosi want as long they get some payback. And by payback I mean $$$ for Big Agriculture, DoD, their big donors, and the Chamber of Commerce. That's all they care about.
Notice how the "Bernie Bros" have completely disappeared? was there anything more fake then the idea of "The Bernie Bros"? The token opposition to the Democrat Establishment, that mysteriously disappears the moment the primaries are over. Are the "Bernie Bros" upset that we're not getting $15/hour minimum wage? No. Are they upset at no national health care? No. Are they upset at not getting $2000 for CV-19 relief? No.
Like I said. Total FAKES.
The votes can take place up to 21 days after receipt however. That's plenty of time to provide testimony. Do you think there are republicans that will vote no after "expert" testimony about Biden's decline? That they would play with the nation's security just to stick it to democrats? No that won't fly. If it gets to Congress the votes will be there. It's an easier vote than impeachment. That's why the Dems wanted to use it on Trump. It's all about the person, not the office. It requires the Vice President though, which is why it wasn't used on Trump.
Biden's family knows they would lose the vote, they will go along, and Biden will peacefully transfer power.
The GOP will vote, but they may try to leverage it for political concessions, perhaps even the VP slot. Actually, that wouldn't be all that surprising: Harris and the cabinet submit the memo to Congress, and quietly tells McConnell that she'll nominate a liberal Republican to the VP position. The only wrench in that plan would be Schumer, since he'd have to give up the Majority Leader position.
But I guess the D's don't care. They're perfectly happy with Kam harris, even though she got 2% in the primaries.
Nobody wanted Biden either. He was just the last one left besides Bernie. They stole it from Bernie and gave it to Biden.
Have you noticed that DOCTOR Jill never leaves his side in interviews?
She is there to give him cover in case he messes up or gets the blank-faced look in his eyes.
Did you ever see Melania sitting next to Trump for interviews that clearly weren't about them as a couple?
No, you did not.
Trump, for good or ill, could answer his own questions and didn't need anyone sitting next to him for clarification, or to say what he 'really' meant.
We have a potted-plant president...
No one will need to give up anything to get rid of Biden. Republicans would not keep Biden if he turns out to be as out of it as people accuse him of. Harris will appoint someone fairly closely aligned to her own politics who won't risk a governorship or Senate seat.
The GOP will vote, but they may try to leverage it for political concessions
Which is why the vote won't happen if it can be avoided. Biden will resign. Just a question of a date.
Brian's thoughts track with my own. Regarding the factionalism, it's not just that the losing side of a debate can run to the press. Competing sides without a strong figure to make a decision is a recipe for half-assed policies, constant changes, and ultimately disaster. The example I think of would be a scenario where the Chinese close off the Taiwan Strait. One faction in the WH wants to send a carrier battle group through there, a strong response. The other side wants to avoid confrontation and work through the UN, etc. The result? Send a few ships, which ends up achieving neither objective and instead makes the US look weak. Or worse, causes the situation to spiral out of control...
PS. Will Hillary be appointed VP?
No way. She's the past, and frankly would overshadow Harris and be a threat to her re-election. I'd bet on Romney. Looks conciliatory, accomplishes nothing, and give Schumer a chance to take control of the Senate.
Which is why the vote won't happen if it can be avoided. Biden will resign. Just a question of a date.
Agreed. It will be a threat that they can use to convince wavering Dems to push him to resign rather than get blamed for it later.
"PS. Will Hillary be appointed VP?"
-- No. Hillary is both too old and too much of a danger. It's the same reason Obama basically neutered her by shoving her into the Secretary of State position while trying to limit what she could do. VP Hillary will be doing what VP Harris did, reaching out to foreign leaders, making decisions, and then you'd have the same issue Biden/Harris has, where Biden's team is trying to freeze out Harris's team, while Harris's team is trying to make decisions before Biden gets to it. Harris wants a yes-man as her VP, and will get one, if it comes to that.
The Clintons are done, and Hillary brings nothing to the admin.
My wild bet would be Pete Buttigieg. An openly gay Vice President would give them a nice boost with suburban women, but he wouldn't be a threat to a Kamala run in 2024.
Or worse, causes the situation to spiral out of control...
Yep, which is why the process will accelerate. Our enemies know the truth as well. If he is debilitated the only one in the dark will be the public.
Did Trump provide any specifics as to how Biden is “ so bad” and “so far left?”
Not that I think Biden is a good choice to be President or that that he won’t be a bad president—I just wonder what specifics Trump is going on about at this time.
As for “far left”—it is to laugh!
as bane put it 'it doesn't matter who I am' we've taken a high dose of blowfish toxin, all the checks and balances to this camarilla are nil
The First (calens) of March has come, but not yet gone, Caesar.
"The GOP will vote, but they may try to leverage it for political concessions..."
You're giving them too much credit...they're not that smart.
Matt Sablan said...
"PS. Will Hillary be appointed VP?"
-- No. Hillary is both too old and too much of a danger.
And we don't need her being one tragic suicide away from the Presidency.
yes that's moderate,
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/01/bidens-doj-appointees-plan-to-persecute-nuns-police-and-female-athletes/
Well our host lost on the over under bet as to when Shufflin Senescent Joe would oust himself form the Presidency. He's lasted until and beyond March 1st. As for me I think his term will end by Christmas. After all when you go down to Texas, stumble part way through a speech and then ask, plaintively, "What am I doing here?"--you've lost the plot. Or as a Napoleonic era Royal Navy would say, "Joe's lost the number of his mess." Dr. Jill can run things for a while, but when you've got a piranha like Kamala swimming nearby, Ol Joe will be napping and eating tapioca sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I think Joe will make it through four years and Harris will fade like other unremarkable VP’s.
The Republicans would be mad to acquiesce to the 25th Amendment. There's no political gain in retaining Biden as an incapacitated President. Their price would almost certainly be the resignation of Harris, and her replacement with a moderate Democrat, probably someone like Joe Manchin. That's the only way Democrats are getting out of this. Harris will only be President if Biden voluntarily resigns. That's looking unlikely too.
rcocean: "The idea that the Republicans would oppose getting rid of Biden is absurd. McConnell and McCarthy are willing to do ANYTHING that Schumer/Pelosi want as long they get some payback. And by payback I mean $$$ for Big Agriculture, DoD, their big donors, and the Chamber of Commerce. That's all they care about."
Cant be repeated enough.
I lost the same bet, Professor. I never thought Biden would be President at all, much less hold office for longer than a month. Makes me wonder how much influence Jill Biden wields in the DNC.
Firing the 25th Amendment should be happening soon. Harris is already handling foreign policy, so it's just a matter of time before Biden is forced out.
It'll probably look like Andrew Cuomo's ouster -- suddenly, the press will be full of stories about dementia, and how sad it is that Biden suffers from it.
No one is in a hurry to install Harris. She makes Hillary look like Doris Day. Mean, abrasive, and utterly stupid.
There is no reason to get rid of Joe. He doesn't do anything.
Check Joe's White House daily schedule.
The White House won’t post Biden’s daily schedule, won’t release details on virtual meetings, and can’t explain why Biden hasn’t held a press conference in WH briefing room..
The president hadn’t been seen in public since Friday night. No weekend work schedule and unclear what he’s doing today.
-Julie Kelly
Perhaps they will invent the endless lid.
@rcocean, you are looking at why conservatives continually lose. Lefty extremists have learned to settle for what they can get when they don’t get everything they want, and they just keep coming. Conservatives are more apt to snarl and pick up their marbles and go home when they don’t get absolutely 100% of everything they want, and they keep searching for a final victory that is never going to come. They’re inured to losing, because they cannot grasp the notion that if you can’t get a whole turkey with all the trimmings you should still make sure you leave the table with a nice slice of breast meat and some stuffing, and try for more later. Right now, if they can’t get the whole turkey they’d rather starve. So they starve.
PJ wrote: “If one posits that 2024 will be a fair election (whatever one thinks about 2020), the Dems have a lot to think about before they commit to putting Harris at the top of the ticket.”
It is evident that in the absence of an unlikely national voter fraud housecleaning it doesn’t matter who the Democrats run. Look at this ticket: a senile old grifter and a leftist bimbo who dropped out of the primary with no votes and who has screwed up every office she has held.
Also, the Facebook schmuck and his bride have given new meaning to “money talks” in elections with their $400 million in Georgia. $400 mil openly, how much behind closed doors? Moreover, every action taken by Democrats, motor voter, mail order ballots, opposing voter ID, etc., is designed to facilitate cheating. Add in the cowardly, but predictable, refusal of the SCOTUS to enforce Article 2, Sec. 1, paragraph 2 of the Constitution and you have game, set, match. There will be no fair federal elections - ever.
SNL did this bit President Reagan, Mastermind showing that Reagan feigned being out of it, but really was the only one who really knew what was what. So we can probably expect them to do the same for Uncle Joe.
Mikey NTH said...
The ways to remove Joe Biden from office are expiration of his term, death, impeachment, and the 25th Amendment.
don't forget Suicide!
Also, resignation due to the THREAT of suicide
There's no way to keep Biden in office without a massive conspiracy by all involved to hide any mental decline
2020 shows they are very good at pulling off massive conspiracies.
Their price would almost certainly be the resignation of Harris, and her replacement with a moderate Democrat, probably someone like Joe Manchin. That's the only way Democrats are getting out of this. Harris will only be President if Biden voluntarily resigns. That's looking unlikely too.
It doesn't work that way. If they submit the paperwork, Harris is immediately President. It's up to Congress then to vote. If they get 2/3 majority, Harris remains President. If they don't Biden resumes. Harris resigning isn't going to be part of any "deal". It will never get to Congress. Republicans have no power in this.
It's easier to get Biden to resign than to work out the deal you detail. And if he's truly incompetent, they'll get him to resign. If Obama goes to "his friend", Joe and tells him to resign, it's over and Joe will know it. He got what he came for, being the 46th President and the hero that put his country in front of his politics.
And let's just posit that if he's incompetent, others in the party know it. And they chose Harris for Joe. She's been pre-approved. It's only a question of the date.
If Biden is competent, and his verbal stumbles are just verbal stumbles, then he'll serve out his term for as long as his health allows.
2020 shows they are very good at pulling off massive conspiracies.
Only if they have a common goal. There will be too many factions fighting for power for the facade to maintain.
No way he ever delivers a State of the Union live.
f Obama goes to "his friend", Joe and tells him to resign, it's over and Joe will know it.
Didn't Barry tell him in 2015 "You don't have to do this, Joe". And did he listen?
tcrosse- yeah, it's the fact that they don't have skits like that about Biden which makes me know they know he's not ok.
Her performance with voters in the 2020 primaries was terrible
How do we know? She dropped out before the first ballot was cast in Iowa.
Brian said...
After 1/20/23, so Harris can be elected to two full terms pursuant to the 22nd Amendment.
Nope. If true that Biden is debilitated, the facade can't be maintained that long.
3/1/21, 9:22 AM
It's all a pretty good theory. I don't think the country can muddle through another three months with Biden observably not at the helm. The longer it persists, the longer the Democrats take major damage among actual socialists, and the longer the NeverTrump crowd is totally discredited. And the problem with putting Kamala Harris up as an incumbent is that she's hot garbage. Donald Trump would annihilate her. Ron DeSantis, Elizabeth Warren, and the afterbirth of a Ben Shapiro/ Jen Rubin baby could beat Harris. But if you try to replace a black woman as President, never mind the one that got EIGHTY HOJILLION VOTES, people are going to whisper: who really won the 2020 election, if the incumbent ticket has been completely replaced by 2024? Could it be that it was fraud after all?
Here's my big bet: Biden serves a full term as POTUS and declines to run for re-election, there is a brutal Dem primary for the nomination and someone other than Harris that most of us do not have on the political radar right now becomes the Dem nominee.
Check back with me on 1/21/2024.
Didn't Barry tell him in 2015 "You don't have to do this, Joe". And did he listen?
Hunter needed money and to stay out of jail. We had a whole impeachment trial about Hunter's prosecutor getting fired. If Biden isn't in the campaign, then Trump's just doing his job.
No, Biden needed to run (win or lose). He had too much at stake.
Biden can't stay in office if he's incapacitated. They will have the votes necessary. Biden is a good legislator. He'll know when he's on the wrong side of the vote ledger, and he'll be the good boy. In exchange Hunter will be pardoned, the family will get some $$$ and he'll be a hero for defeating Trump.
When Joe takes his first press conference in which the Press actually asks him questions that he is expected to answer -- then you can start counting down to his retirement. I don't see that happening any time soon.
Two bikers were stranded with a woman on a desert island.
At the end of the first month she was so ashamed of what she was doing she killed herself.
At the end of the second month the bikers were so ashamed of what they were doing that they buried her.
At the end of the 3rd month they were so ashamed of what they were doing they dug her up.
John Henry
Hope much shame are the demmies and their fascist shock troopers feeling these days.
Probably not enough yet.
Perhaps eventually kamala will feel enough to resign.
Perhaps enough other demmies will feel enough shame over what they are doing to put pedjt in as vp.
Then they can 25 Joe and bob's your uncle. PEDJT becomes PDJT once again.
John Henry
Great analysis!
Other than for the fact that the guy saying it lost > 60 court cases lying about the election he lost.
If that's what it means to know what one's talking about, then his followers must know even less than he does. Standards that low really are hard to come by.
Have you ever considered going into practice with Sidney Powell?
I'm calling it now: the most likely scenario is that Biden, one way or another, will serve the full four years of his term. (And 50/50 he gets re-elected.)
RMc said...I'm calling it now: the most likely scenario is that Biden, one way or another, will serve the full four years of his term. (And 50/50 he gets re-elected.)
I'll add that O'Biden will do this without ever having a press conference or being asked any hardball questions. The Press is breathiing a sigh of relief. They can go back to sleep like they did for 8 years under Obama.
They've elected a man who wrongly threw millions of blacks in prison for 26 years, and a pot-smoking U.S. prosecutor (of pot-smokers) who's so corrupt - or clueless - she's best known for sleeping with a San Francisco Mayor (who described playing politics as the same as being pimp, making her his,...) and a TV talking-to-the-dead con man (which is disqualifying in my book) but you claim you DIDN'T KNOW how bad it would get?
Do I have to become President before somebody in this place says "Uh-Oh,..."?
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