Well, there we are. President Biden announced on X/Twitter he won’t be seeking reelection, and we’re done.
The question for us dumb-bunnies is: is this a strategic move by our exalted ruling class to “preserve our democracy,” or is it just a panicked response to Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance on June 27, 2024. Or is it something else?
How about a battle of the crime families? We all know that Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House, is a scion of the world famous d’Alesandro political machine in Baltimore.
And it seems that our noble regime media regards the political machines of the Clintons and Obama as also influencing events. And we can’t discount the Biden political machine, Hunter Biden, chief enforcer.
It’s pretty obvious that we, the voters, aren’t invited. No, we are witnessing a ruling-class catfight about who gets to set the rules. It looks like Biden is going down the tubes and with it the chances to win the 2024 election. But winning is everything, because the whole Democratic tribute system depends on Our Guys dishing out the loot.
But my overall judgement is that the Dems are desperately hanging on to power. Their problem is that their main supporters and intellectual avant-garde have gone crazy woke and can’t get elected without shenanigans.
So let’s rewind history.
In 2020, it looked like Bernie Sanders might win the nomination, so the powers-that-be intervened and fixed the nomination for Joe Biden.
In 2016, it was Vice-President Biden’s turn, but the Obama machine didn’t think he was a winner, so it backed the First Woman President, Hillary Clinton, from the Clinton political machine. Alas, she was beaten by Russia, Russia, Russia.
In 2008 all good people were backing Barack Obama the First Black President. He ran as a moderate but ruled to the left, with Obamacare, and lost the House in 2010 and then the Senate in 2014.
In 1992 Bill Clinton ran as a New Democrat but when elected raised taxes and launched HillaryCare and lost Congress in 1994 to Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America.
Do you see the point? Democrats have, for decades, been running at the national level as moderates but immediately go full left and the voters don’t like it.
And by 2016 the Dem primary voters were so out of sync with ordinary America that the political bosses had to intervene. I think it was the Obama political machine that did the dirty and got Biden nominated. But Biden, unlike Miss Jean Brodie, was past his prime. And it took a bunch of shenanigans to get Biden over the finish line in November. And the rulers and the regime media “conspired” to present Biden as up to snuff when he wasn’t.
So now the whole fraud has gone bankrupt: first slowly, then all at once.
And now the rumors are that Joseph Robinette Biden is in terminal decline.
But the reason that the Democratic party machine put up Biden in the first place was because they knew they would go down 60-40 with Bernie Sanders at the head of the ticket. OK, that worked. But now they have Made Things Worse. Unless they can present Kamala Harris to the voters as a competent leader and political moderate. Hey, they got Joe Biden over the line four years ago.
My judgement is that all this is typical Keystone Kops stuff that you get in the autumn of a political dynasty. The Dems have been the ruling class since President Wilson and the income tax and the Fed. That was a hundred years ago, and now the times they are a changing.