The Democracy Gang Attempts a Coup

Democratic Party leaders are not happy with the results of their primary elections

Who can forget the iconic scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in which the cart master collecting dead bodies during the Black Plague runs into a man trying to rush off an elderly relative before his time?

Bring out your dead!

Bring out your dead! 

Here's one. 

I'm not dead yet! 

What? 

Nothing. Here's your nine pence. 

I'm not dead! 

'Ere. He says he's not dead! 

Yes, he is. 

I'm not! 

He isn't? 

Well, he will be soon. He's very ill. 

I'm getting better! 

No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.

Oh, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations. 

Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long. 

Well, do us a favor. 

I can't. 

Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long. 

No, I've got to go to the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today. 

Look. Isn't there something you can do? 

[whop – the cart master hits the poor old relative over the head]

Ah, thanks very much. 

Not at all. 

View the clip here.

The Democrats held a free and fair set of elections called primaries.  Joe Biden won.  Only now, the party elders have decided that they do not want to respect the results of the election and are working overtime to try to force President Biden out of the race. And these are the people lecturing the country about saving democracy.

You can almost see Joe Biden crying, “But, I’m not dead yet.”

I’m not saying the Democrats do not have a problem.  They do.  But it is their own fault.  The June debate between former President Trump and current President Biden revealed a weak and mentally confused person to the entire country.  But the Democratic party elders and, at the risk of being redundant, the mainstream media have known for a long time that Joe Biden was no longer capable of being President. 

Yet Biden has served very effectively as a figurehead for whoever is running the government. Whether it was a team of close advisors, Barack Obama, or his wife Jill, someone other than Joe Biden has been running the country for some time now. The nation and the world are too big, with too many daily crises, to be running the country from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. 

And those running the government were happy to continue in their behind-the-scenes roles so long as Joe Biden could be their frontman. The problem is that the President broke down in public, and now the whole country sees that the King is indeed naked.

I expect the coup will be complete sometime this weekend.  The only question is how the people involved in forcing Biden out of the race will decide to divide up the spoils.

Crazy Times

“I am exhausted from being exhausted” - Madeline Brame

The anti-crime advocate Madeline Brame, lamenting the loss of her son to violent street gangs in New York, spoke for most Americans. This presidential election has been exhausting.

The weekend before the June Presidential debate, my friend Michal Rachon of Poland’s TV Republika asked me to write an article on the U.S. presidential election for his Polish audience. As I started to put it together, it became apparent that the race had changed dramatically after President Biden’s performance.  Would Biden be forced out? 

Who would replace Biden as the party’s nominee?  Vice-President Harris?  She has a lower approval rating than Biden – who has the lowest approval rating of any President seeking reelection.  What about California Governor Gavin Newsom, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, or Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro?  And how would they go about making the switch, since all of the delegates attending the Convention will be hand-picked Biden loyalists (well, at least on the first ballot).

Then came the assassination attempt against President Trump.  The nation was shocked as the former President was shot on live television, and they were even more horrified as accounts of the security failure by the Secret Service began to leak out.  The Secret Service’s refusal to be transparent made things worse, as it always does because unanswered questions lead to conspiracy theories.  Of course, the answer to the question of their failed security can only be that they were corrupt or inept.  Inept would be better, but unanswered questions only encourage people to think something is being covered up.

What a difference an inch makes!  Obviously, the President was exceptionally fortunate and perhaps divinely protected.  Had the bullet killed the President, there is no telling how severe the fallout would have been.  Assassinations have launched wars before – World War I is a major example.  With the anger and polarization in the United States, it is not far-fetched to think the bullet that wounded Donald Trump might have been the first shot of a civil war had it killed the former President. Fortunately for the nation, Trump was only slightly wounded physically – although there is no telling the psychological wounds from so close a brush with death. 

One of the effects of the assassination attempt was to unify the Republican Party behind Trump dramatically. Former opponents from 2016 and earlier this year all took the stage to make their endorsements.  Trump has his documents case dismissed.  Polls showed Trump’s lead increasing and Republican hopes for taking over the Presidency and the Senate while retaining the House seemed increasingly realistic.

As the Democratic leaders sharpened their knives and began to assemble in the Roman Senate, waiting for Julius Biden to join them, Biden discovered a whole lot of Brutus-like characters. Barack Obama, whom Biden served for eight years as Vice President, began leaking, in a very public way, that he thought it was time for Biden to go, as did Nancy Pelosi, Hakim Jeffries, and Chuck Schumer.  Fundraising is drying up, and Trump’s lead in the key battleground states remains small but consistent. 

Can Biden still win? While it looks doubtful, most people’s crystal balls have grown cloudy. But if the next four months are anything like last month, who knows what might happen?

I think I will wait until next week to write that article.