A recent column by Conrad Black describes Joe Biden as "a waxwork dummy hiding in his basement."
In the absence of a feasible presidential nominee, the Democratic campaign is being conducted by the national political media with almost the sole exception of Fox News and its affiliates, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post. The New York Times has at least declared that its objective is not simply to report even-handedly but to oppose the Trump Administration. All the others do the same without acknowledging it.
This is the general and entirely voluntary immolation of the professional integrity of the American news media. The majority of Americans recognize and respond in polls that they think the media is untrustworthy. The unofficial opposition to Trump is an informal alliance between hooligans, terrorists, Democratic urban machine crooks, mudslinging media, and a pernicious virus.
With less than four months before the election, this is the campaign: a constant media carpet-bombing of defamatory lies about the president on behalf of a comatose candidate, propagation of unfounded hysteria over a fading pandemic, self-induced and redundant economic depression, open borders to admit and give free medical care to the unskilled peasantry of the world, and national self-abasement before militant African Americans demanding minority rule and the renunciation and degradation of those who founded the United States and led it to a pinnacle of influence in the world unequaled in all history. And this ludicrous, almost unimaginable, mockery of a quest for the world’s highest office is, in the perversity of these times, apparently leading in the polls.
The very apt title to Mr. Black's column is A Nightmare Campaign of Outright Idiocy, and in it Black predicts that it simply cannot last. Says Black, "It is impossible and it will blow up." I can't disagree. Forget about those polls showing Biden in the lead over Trump. July opinion polls rarely endure, and with Trump supporters disinclined to talk to pollsters, polling accuracy is almost inconceivable. The networks and the cable outlets have dutifully filled the breach, propping up Biden and promoting the perception that there is actually a race in progress. While it never pays to underestimate the absurdities of the Democratic voter, I remain confident that Trump will win, and quite possibly in an epic blowout.
But how on earth did Joe Biden get to be the Democratic party's presidential candidate? I suspect it was by accident. A series of unfortunate accidents with the catalytic event, perhaps, being the election of Volodymyr Zelensky in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.
Prior to his election Volodymyr Zelensky was an actor who played the role of Ukraine's president in a popular Ukrainian television comedy. You wouldn't make this stuff up, but there it is. On April 21, 2019 Zelensky, the reform candidate, defeated the incumbent Petro Poroshenko, a prominent Ukrainian oligarch, in a landslide victory. A few days later Joe Biden officially entered the race for the Democratic nomination. This was after months of deliberation. Why right then?
A year or so earlier Joe Biden bragged to the Council on Foreign Relations how he threatened the Ukrainian government with the loss of a billion dollars in loan guarantees if it didn't fire a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian natural gas company on whose board his son Hunter Biden sat. The younger Biden was hauling in somewhere between $50,000 and $83,000 per month, totaling $3 million plus, for the presence of his butt in a board of directors chair. Joe's threat was clearly quid pro quo. Joe got the law off Burisma's back as a favor to Burisma for Hunter's inordinately generous compensation. The Poroshenko government could shut down the investigation or lose the billion in loan guarantees. It got the money. Except now there was a reformer, Volodymyr Zelensky, heading the Ukrainian government. Had Poroshenko not lost the election, Joe Biden at 77 might not have felt the same urgency about throwing his hat into the presidential ring.
But he did, mounting an unimpressive campaign for the Democratic nomination, and when it looked as if socialist Bernie Sanders was going to win it, the Democratic powers that be lined up behind Biden, the electable candidate. Elizabeth Warren was persuaded to stay in the primary races long enough to siphon votes away from front runner Sanders. An apparently reluctant James Clyburn, Democratic Representative of South Carolina, was persuaded to endorse Biden's candidacy, a crucial factor in securing South Carolina's delegates for Joe, setting off a string of victories that propelled Biden to the nomination.
But the moment Joe Biden threw his hat into the ring he created a shield for himself against possible criminal prosecution for his and Hunter's ethically dubious Ukrainian enterprises. He was a presidential candidate, a Democratic presidential candidate. As we have seen with Hillary Clinton and her mishandling of classified email, careerists in the U.S. Department of Justice are loathe to disrupt the campaign of a Democratic presidential candidate.
Whether by accident or by design, Joe's status as a presidential candidate made it possible for a question about Hunter Biden that President Trump asked of President Zelensky to be considered an impeachable offense. Without Joe running for president, Trump's question about Hunter had nothing to do with the election and could provide no pretext for impeachment. But Joe got into the race and Democrats seized the opportunity for a second shot at Trump for colluding-with-foreigners-to-rig-a-US-election. The House voted to impeach President Trump.
So here I am, wondering if Joe Biden was really all that enthusiastic about running for president this time around, or was it a combination of the immunity it afforded him and the opportunity for Democrats to get Trump that pressured him into it. He wasn't presidential material when he launched his first short-lived bid in 1987, and age hasn't improved him. Are the Democrats looking for presidential timber in their candidate, anyway? Or do they just want something to prop up in office while their globalist sponsors dictate policy? Biden would be the perfect prop, the ideal placeholder president.
There is one thing we know, because Biden has already said it. There will not be a Biden administration second term. In fact, I strongly doubt that he will bother to finish a first term, assuming he beats the odds and gets himself elected in November. Biden is the Wild Card Candidate, and Biden's pick for VP becomes the President-in-Waiting. With riots and Black Lives Matter so much in the forefront, Biden is reportedly leaning towards a woman of color to be his running mate. But are there any among them who can inspire confidence in a "waxwork dummy" administration? What VP candidate, running as the de facto presidential candidate, can carry the election once gaff-o-matic Joe Biden begins his inevitable collapse on the campaign trail?
Back in February Hillary Clinton was on with Ellen Degeneris and she was asked about the vice presidency.
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres asked the former Secretary of State on Thursday whether she’d agree to be on the ticket of the of the eventual Democratic nominee, if she were asked.
“Well, that’s not going to happen,” Clinton laughed. “But no, probably no.”
Pushed on the question, Clinton, 72, reluctantly said she’d consider it.
“I never say never because I believe in serving my country, but it’s never going to happen,” she said.
Very little has been heard from Hillary since then, and she's not on anybody's list of potential Biden running mates. But the Vice Presidential Sweepstakes have been under way for months. The longer they go on the more likely it seems that we'll wait until August and the Democratic National Convention for a dramatic "and the winner is" announcement. And what could be more dramatic than Hillary Clinton joining the ticket? With polls currently showing Biden with substantial leads, the Democrats may not realize they're in a tough spot, but if Joe has to come out of his bunker to campaign head to head against Trump before the August convention, that may change. Hillary might then be seen as the indispensable savior. With Hillary on the ticket, a vote for Joe would once again be a vote for the Hillary as first woman president in American history.
A dramatic made-for-Hollywood moment practically writes itself. Hillary's eleventh hour appearance on the ticket rescues the sinking Biden campaign, powering Joe and Hillary to victory. Then on January 20, 2021 and the stage is set. Immediately after taking the oath of office, President Biden stuns the crowd and the country by announcing his resignation. He steps back, turns to Hillary, and Hillary, herself, steps forward to deliver the Inaugural Address. America would be delirious with joy.
Or not.
Biden and Clinton would make a perfect match that half of America would despise. In a Biden-Clinton administration Clinton Foundation fortunes would once again soar. Hunter Biden would set records for most seats on boards of directors in countries getting massive foreign aid from America. The only downside for Joe Biden is a slightly heightened health risk that increases in direct proportion to the length of time he delays his departure from the Oval Office.
At the moment illegal FBI spying on the Trump campaign, based on improper FISA warrants, and prosecutorial misconduct in the Flynn case are stories that can't be ignored. Under a Biden-Clinton administration big tech and big media could engineer a cavernous memory hole down which inconvenient news stories, facts, and opinions would disappear forever under the rationale that "misleading information" must be suppressed. All of those things that we would never have found out about, had Hillary won in 2016, could disappear again.
Potential legal difficulties for the Bidens, the Clintons, and a host of others would disappear. With constraints removed the FBI and DOJ would once again enjoy great latitude in protecting America from her domestic enemies, just as they have done in recent years with their spying on Carter Page, Sharyl Attkisson, and James Rosen, and their prosecutions of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, George Papadopolous, and General Michael Flynn. The focus of the Department of Justice would once again be turned to its traditional role of prosecuting Republicans who appear to threaten Democrat political fortunes.
On the foreign policy front America could revive her many previous cordial relationships and reciprocal agreements. Like the ones where the CIA would spy on their citizens in return for their intelligence agencies spying on Americans. Iran could get a bomb. With foreign aid floodgates open to the max, massive aid could be doled out on condition that spending would be directed by well connected non-government organizations who would be well compensated for their efforts. That's in addition to the billions in aid that simply disappear. Opportunities would once again abound for the Clinton Foundation and its laundry network.
Standing in the way of this Dream Administration are only the deplorable voters. Perhaps a minor obstacle. With many states on the verge of approving mail in voting for the November presidential elections, it might just be possible to correct the predictably erroneous voting by those unsuitable voters. Election workers could assist those unable, unwilling, ineligible, or even too dead to get to the polls. As one success builds on another, Democrats will enjoy ever greater popularity. Could we imagine a time when Democrats become so popular they win one hundred percent of the vote? Years ago I would never have thought so, but now I'm not so sure.
In 2016 the alliance of Democrats, corporate media, and key members of the administrative state were right on the cusp of achieving the level of control that would assure Democrat "popularity" for years to come. An obstacle named Trump unexpectedly has delayed them.
Even more unexpectedly, Trump has successfully resisted all of the Democrats' subsequent efforts to remove him from office. He wisely avoided the Mueller obstruction of justice trap. Impeachment was a farce from the word go. The coronavirus has all but killed the economy, inducing a recession that Democrats hope to extend with lockdowns. It will recover, as will Trump's re-election prospects.
Four years ago Trump got in the way. 2020 Democrats may turn with desperate hope toward Hillary to prevent him from doing it again.
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