Presidency

The Democrats are in full fledged panic mode over Biden’s performance in the debate last night. His dementia was on full display and obvious to all, even the Democrat faithful. This generates a couple of interesting questions. The inner circle of the left KNOWS how bad Joe’s mental state is, yet his campaign allowed the debate. This tells me that either the Dems WANTED to showcase how bad he is, or the campaign really is clueless.

We know that they aren’t clueless, so that leaves us with it being purposeful. After all, if they are simply going to cheat the election, all they had to do was- nothing. But they decided to let the world see what Biden is all about. To what end? Do they want to replace him? There are a few options.

• Gavin Newsome. The rainbow coalition of the Democrat party is not going to accept another cis-gendered (straight) white male as its candidate if Biden is out. I just don’t see him being the pick.
• Kamala Harris. If it’s possible, she is even less popular than the President. Sure, she will garner some women, the party faithful, and the black vote. Is that enough to win her the Presidency, even with the margin of cheat? I don’t think so.
• Big Mike. I know that he has said he isn’t running, but that can change. This is the most viable of the picks, and people would be salivating for another Obama White House.
• Whoever they pick, it will be interesting to see it unfold.

But how do they get Joe out? 25th Amendment? Assassination? Simply replace him?

I still say that the left won’t allow Trump back in office. He is too dangerous, and he is pissed. They will assassinate him before he ever gets near to the inauguration podium. The FBI alone will never allow him to gut their agency, which is sure to happen if he gets in office again.

It turns out that Biden knew about, supported, and approved, the attack on Israel by Iran. For those of you who sit in approval of Israel getting attacked, think about who you are in bed with.

Our allies are watching this play out, and they now know the US is no longer worthy of trust as an ally.

Biden has further damaged the US.

The Biden administration is supposedly pissed off that Israel didn’t inform them of the strike in Damascus that killed an Iranian General. Do you know why Israel didn’t inform anyone? Because Biden is a Neville Chamberlain kind of milquetoast jellyfish. He called Netanyahu and asked him not to retaliate for the over 300 missiles that were fired at his country overnight because, “they didn’t hit anything of value.”

Except there were casualties, including a 7 year old girl who was struck by shrapnel. I’m sure someone thought that their 7 year old daughter was of value. The only reason that there were few casualties was that the Israeli systems were able to intercept 99% of the missiles before they hit anything.

Look, I am against the US getting militarily involved in foreign wars, and that includes both Ukraine and Israel. With that being said, how hard would it be to make a call telling Netanyahu, “The American people are both saddened and shocked at Iran’s attempted attacks on your civilian populations. We will not stand in opposition to any action that your nation chooses to take in response to this ghastly attack.” Instead, Biden proved that his statement of supporting Israel was bullshit.

Otherwise, you embolden those dictators who would attack others.

Potentially significant statement by #IRGC chief commander Hossein Salami:

"We have decided to create a new equation [with #Israel]."

This equation is that, from now on, if Israel attacks #Iranian interests, figures, and citizens anywhere, they will retaliate from Iran. 1/ pic.twitter.com/X3i8X74KWI

— Farzan Sabet (@IranWonk) April 14, 2024

He is deliberately ignoring that it was his sponsoring of terrorists, to the point that his own generals were planning and supporting the attacks on Israeli citizens, that prompted the Israeli drone strike that got his panties in a bunch.

Just because Democrats have been kissing Iran ass since the 1970’s doesn’t mean that Israel has to.

NIKKI HALEY: "The majority of Americans dislike Trump. The majority of Americans dislike Biden.”

Do you think she’s right? 🤔pic.twitter.com/MtkWCQiWvW

— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) February 5, 2024

I don’t like either one of them. That has nothing to do with which of them is more qualified to be President, and it isn’t Nikki Haley.

Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the race.

A President, born while George Washington was still in office, yet has a grandson who is still alive. He was the first Vice-President to ascend to the Presidency due to the death of the President. He was a slaveholder who owned 40 slaves, yet opposed slavery. He signed a treaty that outlawed slave trading by sea.

While he was in office, he pissed off his party (Whig) by vetoing their bill to create a national bank because he was a strict constructionist who believed strongly in states rights. He had a strong dislike for the Federal Government, believing that the more populous northern states were using it as a cudgel to beat down the more agricultural southern states. The Tariff of 1828 was a great example of this- the tariff placed a 38% tax on some imported goods and a 45% tax on certain imported raw materials, especially iron products, as well as wool and cotton textiles. The target of these taxes were the southern states, and most of the southern states were demanding secession over the taxes.

The manufacturing-based economy in the Northeastern states was being undersold by manufactured items from Britain. The major goal of the tariff was to protect the factories by taxing imports from Europe, thereby forcing the agrarian southern states to buy northern goods at higher prices. This also prevented the southern states from selling their products overseas, because the loss of European nations’ ability to sell their manufactured goods to the Union meant that they no longer had the money to purchase the south’s agricultural goods. This in turn forced southern farmers to sell cotton to northern mills at lower prices. South Carolina refused to pay the tax. President Jackson was advocating for the use of military force, with Congress voting against it.

John Tyler, being one of the main opponents of Jackson’s plan, was forced out of the Democrat party and would eventually cause him to join the (northern based) Whigs, where he was elected to be the Vice President in 1840. After only 31 days, President Harrison died of pneumonia, and Tyler became President. Members of his own party attempted to use him as an empty suit to carry out the party’s wishes, and he refused, which caused the party to expel him.

When Tyler, who was from Virginia, vetoed tariffs that would further damage the south, the Whigs in the House of Representatives began the first impeachment hearings in this nation’s history. John Quincy Adams, an abolitionist who disliked slaveholders like Tyler, condemned Tyler’s use of the veto and attacked his character when pushing for impeachment. He survived, and finished out President Harrison’s term.

If you think that the Civil war was about slavery, you would be taking a shortsighted view that has been pressed by the North. The real story here is that the northern states had for years been using their numerical superiority to force the south to pay large sums of money to support northern industry.

We see the same thing playing out today, although the lines aren’t north-south. The lines are a bit more geographically muddy. Still, many of the things that happened nearly two hundred years ago have well defined parallels today.

A car ran into the Presidential motorcade last night. The sedan struck a trailing vehicle as the President was exiting his campaign headquarters and heading towards his vehicle. The collision happened less than 100 feet from the President. What’s important here is the poor reaction times displayed by the USSS agents in his detail. Watch closely. The collision happens 10 seconds into the video.

The agents spend the next 5 seconds looking around and trying to decide what to do. Their first reaction should be to get the President to safety. They don’t get him into the armored SUV until 14 seconds after the collision. Had this collision been an attack involving an VBIED or a gunman, there is a fair chance that the President would have been caught in the open.