Is there anything worse than white people? You likely wouldn’t be surprised to hear that at a dinner party thrown by leftists, especially now that they’ve ditched their rich old white guy for a rich younger woman of mixed ethnicity. Before last week, Democrats had to pretend to like white people, now they don’t. They’re still owned by rich, mostly white people, but none of them openly talk about their elite overlords, they just pretend that not being white or being a woman is “diverse,” even though being diverse requires multiple people, making it impossible for an individual to be it.

But reality has never been a barrier for the left, on anything. If they were bound by the truth, Democrats would be silent. They aren’t about to let the facts stand in the way of a good story now.

So, now that wildly unimpressive and unaccomplished Kamala Harris is their nominee, they are in need of something to distract from the fact that she got her start in politics as the side-piece of a married Democratic Party politician and powerbroker. They need a distraction from the fact that she has no children, only becoming a step-mom to her husband’s children when they were nearly adults and she Attorney General, while their real mother was still around (how much parenting do you think they needed at that age or would get from someone politically ambitious with a real mom in the picture? None?)

Race and gender are all they have.

The official representative of black women, MSNBC’s resident racist Joy Reid, has declared that black women are as excited as possible over the prospect of voting for someone who panders on their race and gender when it suits their political needs. OK, maybe she doesn’t put it that way, but that’s the effect of it.

To Reid and her ilk, race is a weapon and a shield. The shield aspect is more important these days, as the weapon’s edge is about as dull as Joy’s intellect from overuse – the weapon part, not the intellect part, which presumably still has that “new intellect smell” and very, very low miles.

It’s all Joy has, which is probably why she seems so unpleasant. There are still tens and tens of people who value what Joy and MSNBC have to say; black women happy to be have any shortcomings or career stumbles they may have explained away by “societal racism,” even though Joy managed to overcome a complete lack of talent, a privileged upbringing, Ivy League education and a “hacked” blog making her a homophobe, a tough case that even the FBI wasn’t able to crack.

It has not been easy for the official Democratic Party wrangler of black people for the prevention of individual thought and asking questions. Sure, it’s a long title, but it is an important one.

Still, what about white women? The black women vote is important to Democrats, but there are a lot more white women out there; suburbanite empty-nesters devoid of meaning, single or in loveless marriages in desperate need of meaning. There are no answers at the bottom of an empty bottle of chardonnay, but they will keep asking the full ones those question anyway, just in case.

What are they to do?

It turns out the answer is easy. These racists can help Kamala win.

All the guilt they are riddled with over the tax deduction they took when buying their hybrid can be alleviated by blind obedience to the Democratic Party and acceptance of just how horrible and racist they are. The Home Shopping Network doesn’t even offer this level of complete one-stop-shopping for answers to all your problems.

A kindergarten teacher and “social media influencer,” which means she’s likely indoctrinating 5-year-olds into progressive ideology rather than teaching, participated in a video conference to show white women how to help the Harris campaign, while still understanding that they suck because they’re white.

This group included soccer player Megan Rapinoe, gun-grabber Shannon Watts, former singer Pink and other usual suspect leftists who think people should feel guilty about things they didn’t do and make it up to people who didn’t have things done to them.

The chubby faced, condescending kindergarten teacher, some creatures called “Mrs. Frazzled” (never heard of her) came on and told these crackers they’d better learn their place. They need to help out Kamala, but only in a way black women approve of. “We need to use our privilege to make positive changes,” the chipmunk told the pathetic gaggle.

“If you find yourself talking over or speaking for BIPOC individuals, or God forbid correcting them, just take a beat and instead we can put our listening ears on,” the white moron told the gathered idiots.

For the uninitiated, “BIPOC” means “black, indigenous, and other people of color,” because anyone not “black or indigenous” can just be lumped together since there aren’t enough of them to make a difference electorally, or something.

But remember, this boob insists you can’t correct someone who is wrong if they are not white, so just put your listening ears on! I assume listening ears help you hear with your head up your ass. I looked it up and she’s married to an Indian man – which I’m sure she thinks imbues her with special empathy or something – and must defer to him on all matters or else she’s a racist, right?

Honestly, these people are beyond stupid, they’re evil. They know what they’re doing and do it anyway, either for a sense of superiority or because they hate themselves. I think they need for former, but really should suffer from the latter because that’s how I feel about them.

Liberal white women are the worst. Their existence is devoid of meaning, they have no original thoughts and seemingly only care about abortion (likely to try to normalize something they did that haunts them but they’ll never admit) and race, which is weird because the largest killer of black people in the country is abortion, right before the Godawful policies of the Democratic Party and other black people subjected to them. As evil as white women are, they don’t crack the top 10.

Of course, for that to matter, liberal white women would need to actually care about black people, not just view them as a means to an electoral end. They don’t. They’ve very progressive in the abstract, but will watch with an eagle eye through a crack in their drapes anyone darker than a 3-day tan who happens to walk down their street. If you want to see the real face of racism in the 21st century, look no further than the nearest white savior complexed Karen insisting she and other people like are the only ones who can save the minorities.

After 60 years of failure, you’d think they’d wise up. But that can only happen if you really care, which they clearly do not.

Derek Hunter

When I was 18 years old, I decided to hike all 2,193 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine.

It was a strange year to come of age, 2020. Covid had canceled my high school graduation and delayed my freshman year of college; it was hard to see how to go out into the world and grow up. But from my bedroom in the suburbs of Chicago, there was an image I couldn’t get out of my head, a memory from a childhood trip in Vermont: little carved signs pointing out a path through the woods. Turn one way, and you could walk to Georgia. Turn around, and you could walk to Maine.

The Appalachian Trail’s length is about 9 percent of the Earth’s circumference and, in terms of elevation, equivalent to hiking up and down Mount Everest sixteen times. It was stitched together in the ’20s and ’30s for local recreation, not for long-distance backpacking: To hike its entirety, to be a “thru-hiker,” was originally thought impossible.

But in 1948, a WWII veteran named Earl Shaffer saw the newly-completed trail as a chance to “walk off the war.” After four long months, he stood atop Mount Katahdin in Maine, and an American tradition was born. Every year, thousands of hikers arrive at the trail’s southern terminus, on Springer Mountain in Georgia, hoping to follow in his footsteps. Only about 20 percent make it to the end; the rest get injured, sick, or give up.

I wanted to prove to myself I could do something most people couldn’t, and could do it all on my own. I’d never camped for more than a few days at a time, and never alone, but in February of 2021, I arrived at the foot of Springer, my eyes set on Maine. The journey would take five or six months. My pack—which held everything I would need to live on trail—felt heavier than it had in my living room. After graduating high school during Covid, it was hard to see a path. That’s why I decided to hike the Appalachian Trail, writes Elias Wachtel for The Free Press. The author captures the calm after a freak snowstorm in the Grayson Highlands in Virginia.

I started slowly, my mileage light and the late-winter days still short. In my first week, freezing rain poured down; I had not yet mastered the art of setting up a tent in howling wind quickly enough to keep my sleeping bag dry, my numb fingers fumbling with stakes. One night, it dropped below freezing, and I woke up knowing I was at risk of hypothermia.

It was my first moment of real fear on trail; there was no one around to take care of me, no one else to correct my mistakes. I started doing sit-ups in my sleeping bag to generate body heat.

I learned to love the self-sufficiency of trail life. I made my own rules. I decided when to hike and when to rest. In every town, I’d look at a map and decide how much food to buy for the journey’s next leg. When I was cold at night, I’d light a fire; when I was bored, I’d sing James Taylor. As spring exploded around me, I harvested wild garlic mustard and bathed in deep streams. It was like living in a folktale.

I could feel myself getting stronger. Thru-hikers call it “getting trail legs.” Nine-mile days gave way to twelve, and twelve to sixteen; as the nights got warmer, I slowly made my way up the country—Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee.

And I wasn’t always on my own. On another miserable, stormy day, I came across an unobtrusive paper bag tucked between the roots of a tree. Inside, I found homemade apple turnovers, delicately wrapped in parchment paper, which had kept out the worst of the rain. This was my first encounter with what thru-hikers call “trail magic,” little offerings left by locals to lift our spirits. We called them “trail angels.”

Trail magic came in all shapes and sizes: coolers full of drinks, rides into town when I needed to resupply. People I’d never met before welcomed me into their homes for a night’s sleep and a much-needed shower.

Friends back home were, of course, horrified by this: “What about serial killers?!” And I was wary at first, too. After all, my generation was raised on a steady diet of stranger-danger assemblies. But when you thru-hike the AT, you are constantly bombarded by the kindness of strangers, and it becomes easier and easier to accept. After graduating high school during Covid, it was hard to see a path. That’s why I decided to hike the Appalachian Trail, writes Elias Wachtel for The Free Press. Elias took this photo on the day he turned 19, in northern Tennessee.

The spring storms seemed endless. When the rainwater flowed downhill, the trail was like a shallow river. I’d hike ankle deep against the current; I’d climb over the downed trunks of storm-toppled trees. Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland.

One day in April, a hiker came bounding up to me in Shenandoah National Park, salt-and-pepper mane blowing in the breeze. Before I had even finished introducing myself, he was offering me the dingy little earbuds he hiked with: “They’re my favorite Brazilian punk band!”

Long-distance backpacking attracts an eclectic community, hippie-dippie potheads and gruff ex-Marines alike. I met Bowdoin graduates and welders’ sons; some hikers had the Pride flag stitched onto their packs, others sported the thin blue line. We all knew each other by our trail names, a break from who we’d been in the “real world”: There was Shivers and Shiner, Skeeter and Pixie, Goldie and Dolittle. My new friend was called Midnight.

It turned out he had grown up not far from me, but he left town before I was born, so we’d never have met in Illinois. As a young man, he’d renounced his family fortune and had been traveling the country ever since, a kind of itinerant music teacher; I never asked how old he was.

Midnight was unflaggingly positive, and always claimed to feel no pain. Of course, part of his strategy was a near-constant supply of weed—he hiked without trekking poles, so his hands were always free to pack a bowl.

In the “real world,” I never would have befriended Sundance, either. We first met at a hostel in North Carolina, but I kept running into him—at a lookout point here, at a campsite two weeks later. A 67-year-old former Green Beret’s wiry strength and grit put us all to shame: He was often up before dawn, not willing to let his age decrease his mileage. We made a funny pair sitting around the fire, telling stories—he was one of the oldest hikers on trail, I was one of the youngest.

Sundance didn’t much care for Midnight’s habits—“he smokes too much hash,” he’d say—but it was never an issue. When you’re hiking together, the outward trappings of difference don’t matter all that much. Everyone is interested in the same things: Where’s the nearest water source? How bad will that next climb be? Does it look like rain? After graduating high school during Covid, it was hard to see a path. That’s why I decided to hike the Appalachian Trail, writes Elias Wachtel for The Free Press. “The northernmost states are beautiful, but this was often lost on me,” writes Elias, who took this photograph near the border between Massachusetts and Connecticut.

The storms of May gave way to 100-degree days in June, and with early summer came black bears, ticks, and rattlesnakes. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York.

One day in Pennsylvania, I sat on a mountain overlook under clear blue skies. Looking out on the land, I realized I was learning to love America by walking it. I thought back on childhood trips to Italy and France, where people prized the local and the familiar: the cathedral across the street, the twelfth-century tavern beside it. America is different, I thought—the land of the frontier, the land of the explorer. To love America is to love something wild and ever-changing; our greatness is measured in space rather than time.

Two-thirds of the way through my trek, I was hiking twenty, twenty five, even thirty-mile days, eating five thousand calories and struggling to maintain my weight. My body was starting to break down. On the descent from New York’s Bear Mountain, all I remember is the pain. It was a June weekend, so a steady stream of Manhattanites and young families were passing me on the trail. I noticed their concerned looks before I even realized I had tears streaming down my 

even thitty-mile days, eating five thousand calories and struggling to maintain my weight. My body was starting to break down. On the descent from New York’s Bear Mountain, all I remember is the pain. It was a June weekend, so a steady stream of Manhattanites and young families were passing me on the trail. I noticed their concerned looks before I even realized I had tears streaming down my face.

The next day, an orthopedic surgeon in New York told me my leg could break if I continued hiking—I had shin splints that were developing into a stress fracture with every step. At that point, though, I was too far in to falter. Either my leg would break, or I’d make it to Maine. After a week of rest and against doctor’s orders, I was back on the trail.

I moved slowly through Connecticut and Massachusetts, living off of Tylenol and ibuprofen. The northernmost states are beautiful, but this was often lost on me. I thought about the refrain of The Little Engine That Could, huffing and puffing up the hill: I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. . .

Just up and over the next mountain. And the next. And the next. Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine.

For days before you reach it, you can see Mount Katahdin’s imposing shadow laid out across the horizon. I knew my family had traveled to Maine, and would be waiting for me, after the final climb.

There’s a reason our folk heroes are rugged mountain men who survive by their own strength and wit: It’s true that no one can get you up the mountain but yourself. But as I reached Katahdin’s summit, I thought about my family, and my friends on trail. I thought about the trail angels who had helped us. I thought about Earl Shaffer, and the generations of Americans who cut the trails we walk.

I started college only a few weeks after standing on that summit, and found many of my classmates were afraid of independence—of living alone and taking care of themselves. Without having been on trail, I might have been the same. In high school, after all, there had always been a drumbeat to march to, whether from parents, teachers, or coaches. But on trail, I’d had no one to follow but myself.

Like my friends, I often worry about what I can achieve, whether I’ll succeed on my own. But somewhere in the back of my mind, I can still hear that most-American of refrains, the one I thought of over and over again on the trail: I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. . .

Elias Wachtel

Red Badger

Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, works for the law firm DLA Piper, which “has nearly 30 years of experience in communist China with more than 140 lawyers dedicated to its branch of “Investment Services in Communist China.” He has just been appointed professor at Yale for future school lawyers at the fine points of communism.

When she was elected to the United States Senate, Kamala Harris appointed a pro-communist Senate chief of staff, Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre actively participated in the New York-based Haiti Support Network. The organization worked closely with the Communist World Workers’ Party of North Korea/pro-communist China and supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s former far-left communist president and the radical Lavalas movement.

Fortunately for Harris, but potentially disastrous for the Republic, elected office holders are not subject to the security clearance process. Had the FBI done a background investigation into Kamala Harris, she would never have passed, due to her close 40-year ties to Marxists, Communists, Maoists and communist China. Harris would never have been approved to be accepted into any of the 5 Military Service Academies, nor would she have been appointed to a position in the U.S. Government Sub-cabinet, nor would it have been approved to hold a delicate position for a high-security defense contractor.

However, since Joe Biden was elected, Harris could be one step away from being president. The Constitutional Republic of the United States is being threatened by the People’s Republic of Communist China (PPC) and its very active espionage operations within the United States. The Communist People’s Republic of China (CFP), with 1.4 billion inhabitants, is ruled by the 90 million-member Chinese Communist Party (PCCh), which has been working with Russia to destroy the Constitutional Republic of the United States for more than 70 years.

If U.S. voters read the background information (in Trevor Loudon’s article) about Kamala Harris, they would never support her election as vice president of the United States. Joe Biden suffers from early onset of dementia and will continue to decrease brain awareness; will never be able to serve a four-year term. Since Biden was elected, the Socialists, Marxists, and Communists who control Kamala Harris plan to enact provisions of the 25th Amendment, to dismiss Joe Biden from office, so that Harris can become the first communist president of the United States.

Since Biden was elected, because Biden would not live up to it, Kamala Harris would lead the effort to name leftists, communists, socialists and anti-American Marxists very dangerous to occupy very sensitive positions in the bureaucracy of the deep state of Washington. She would hold all designated positions at the U.S. Intelligence Agencies, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the State Department, the FBI, the CIA, most cabinet posts, the National Security Council, and White House personnel.

American voters must alert their fellow Americans that Kamala Harris is a very serious national security threat to the very survival of the Constitutional Republic of the United States; she has been a travel companion for Marxists, Communists, Maoists, Socialists, Progressives and Chinese Communists for more than 35 years. President Trump had a lot more background information about Kamala Harris than we put here, and he was right when he accused Kamala Harris of being a communist subverter.

Geoffrey B. Higginbotham Major General, USMC (Ret.)

None of this makes any sense. Not only because she is one of the most unproven and unlikeable candidates in the Democrats’ stable, but because she is a radical leftist from San Francisco whose voting record and rhetoric makes her a liability on the party’s ticket in swing states.
The internet is forever, and there’s no equivocation about her position on some matters that are of crucial importance to millions of Americans, and particularly in those precious swing states.

She has said that she supports the abolition of private insurance and a nationalized healthcare system. She supports taxpayers funding “free college,” an end to fracking and fossil fuels, defunding the police, open borders, and free healthcare for illegal aliens. Kamala Harris notably encouraged rioters in the leadup to the 2020 election and helped in fundraising for violent criminals’ and arsonists’ bail. And most importantly, she believes that it is the government’s job to achieve the equality of all Americans’ outcome.

In the words of the late, great Norm McDonald, that’s all “some commie gobbledygook.” And Americans don’t like that commie stuff. Some Democrats do, sure, but the ones they’ve liked are named Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. And they haven’t been the candidates that the Democrat establishment has been promoting.

Somehow, not only has the radical progressive standard finally become acceptable to the Democrat party, but they’ve calculatedly decided that Kamala Harris will be the standard bearer in a national election?

I’m not buying it.

— from The American Thinker on 7-29-24

A crash is coming.

We find ourselves deep into the irrational-exuberance phase of Kamala Harris’s surprise ascension to her role as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. All of five full days have elapsed since Joe Biden was dragged unwillingly to the conclusion most Americans came to well over a year ago. Already, Harris’s political star is said by her allies to have eclipsed even Barack Obama’s.

“I covered the Clinton campaign, the Women’s March, the anti-Trump resistance, the wave of women in the 2018 midterms,” TIME Magazine correspondent Charlotte Alter asserted, “and the momentum for Harris over the last five days is basically like all of that rolled together.” MSNBC’s Cornell Belcher agreed. Not only has Democratic fundraising exploded since Biden withdrew from the race, but the “organic” outpouring of online enthusiasm is like nothing he has seen since 2008. “This could be bigger than ’08,” former RNC chairman Michael Steel replied. He later added that Harris’s performance over the last 120 hours suggests that the era of the prolonged campaign is over. “We can do this in a very short timeframe,” he insisted. “Because Kamala Harris is doing it.”

Democrats have not been energized by their party’s leader in a long time — that is no secret. The reprieve from psychological torment has provided Democratic partisans with a boost of enthusiasm, but that passion has clouded their judgment. At best, Democrats have transformed what was shaping up to be an epochal disaster for their party into a competitive race that nonetheless still favors Donald Trump.

It will take several more weeks for voters to fully digest the series of historic events that occurred in quick succession over the summer of 2024. The polling landscape is going to be unsettled for a while, and it’s unwise to put much stock in surveys before Democrats reintroduce Harris and debut her vice-presidential nominee at their party’s nominating convention. But it’s just as foolish to ignore the data we do have.

For example, we can deduce from the polling that every American voter is aware that the president will not be on the ballot in November. We also know that, based on her job-approval rating, most Americans have a fully formed opinion of Harris, and a plurality of those Americans don’t view her positively (indeed, she’s viewed less favorably than Trump since his brush with death). And with these two conditions established in voters’ minds, the race is still a dead heat. Substituting Harris for Biden has helped Democrats claw back to the position they occupied before the first presidential debate — both at the national and swing-state levels. But Democrats were losing the race for the White House even before the debate. Based only on the data we have so far, they still are. The acknowledgment by some on the left that Harris will have to “reintroduce” herself to voters is a tacit admission that the impression she’s already made is uninspiring.

Ah, but there is a long campaign ahead of us, and Harris has the opportunity to reintroduce herself to voters with the goal of erasing the negative impression so many Americans have of her. Whether the 104 days between now and Election Day is a “long” time depends on whom you ask, but, even if we grant the stipulation, Harris has shown no inclination to reinvent herself at all so far. Indeed, she has hewn closely to both Biden’s policies and his rhetoric.

Harris has continued to promulgate the notion that “democracy is on the ballot” in November — a message that resonates primarily with degree-holding Democrats who were already in the party’s camp. She has promoted herself as a skilled prosecutor who will finally litigate the case against “the felon” at the top of the GOP ticket. But fewer than half of American adults polled by AP-NORC in June said they “strongly or somewhat” approved of Trump’s conviction in the Alvin Bragg case, and the stronger cases against Trump are now in a state of limbo following the Supreme Court’s decision on the scope of presidential immunity. Going down that rabbit hole energizes Democrats, but it doesn’t seem to sway many persuadable voters. And if Harris’s press conference following her meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu is any indication, she intends to carry Biden’s foreign policy forward, too. In Israel’s case, that involves hectoring Jerusalem over its imagined human-rights abuses and berating it into accepting the terms of a cease-fire agreement that does not exist and by which Hamas would not abide.

If the Democratic theory of the case is that Joe Biden’s presidency would have been successful and beloved but for his decrepitude, this strategy makes sense. But voters soured on Biden not just because he was old but because his policies were broadly resented. Pledging to preserve conditions voters dislike is no path to victory.

Democratic ebullience has also obscured the fact that Republicans will get their bite at this apple soon enough, and Harris’s record is rich with targets. What will Harris’s rejoinder be when Republicans confront her with a lavishly funded campaign of attack ads featuring her repeatedly insisting that “an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal”? How will she neutralize the glaring liability she saddled herself with when she insisted that we must retire the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism”? Can she articulate a conversion narrative that explains why she once sidled up alongside “defund the police” activists? Can she defuse her association with those who sought to “reimagine how we are creating safety” in ways that don’t involve police because it’s “wrong” to suggest “you get more safety by putting more cops on the street”?

To assume that Harris can deftly maneuver her way out of these traps she’s set for herself is to put one’s faith in the unseen. The vice president spent years crafting a reputation as a far-left progressive with policy preferences that are not shared by the median American voter — a political problem that is mitigated only by how maladroitly she pursued her policy preferences.

Before the debate, political observers across the political spectrum knew that Harris was a bad campaigner with immoderate political tastes. She still is. All that has changed in the interim is that unenviable circumstances have forced Democrats to rationalize themselves into being excited about her candidacy, inflating her stock well beyond its natural value. A crash is coming.

Why is it not bigger news that “President Kamala” is capable of bombing Israel, by her own words?

The United States and other Israeli allies continue to warn against an assault on Rafah, where over 1 million Palestinian civilians are sheltering.

“We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,” Harris told ABC’s This Week.

“I have studied the maps – there’s nowhere for those folks to go. And we’re looking at about a million and a half people in Rafah who are there because they were told to go there,” Harris added.

“I am ruling out nothing,” Harris said when she was asked whether there would be consequences from the US if the Israeli operation in the overcrowded city goes ahead.

She did not give details of what such consequences might entail. “We’re going to take it one step at a time, but we’ve been very clear in terms of our perspective on whether or not that should happen,” she said. [aljazeera, March 2024]

In March, Kamala implied military action AGAINST Israel BY AMERICA should not be ruled out. Unthinkable? Not if she gets elected President–or selected, as Biden was.

I wrote at the time:

The regime has sent out powder-for-brains to threaten MILITARY ACTION against Israel if it doesn’t cease fire and let Hamas decimate them.

This is yet another new low, and a really big deal. The American government is now enabling the next Holocaust, which may be worse than the original. Stupid people who keep voting Democratic do not grasp or appreciate that their party of choice is morally on par with the Nazi party. Yes, the Republicans are befuddled, inept, have very strange priorities at times and have no clue how to defeat an enemy of the kind we now face. But Democrats — and I am including you Democrat Jews in this rant — you have openly thrown your support to evil.

Will American troops bomb and attack Israel? If they don’t, I suppose they’ll get the same treatment as soldiers who refused the vax.

By the way: I am siding with Israel.

Michael J. Hurd

Barack Obama and Kamala Harris have been friends long before Obama was in the U. S. Senate. When he ran for that office, Harris campaigned for Obama vigorously and that created a bond. When Harris became the district attorney in San Francisco, Obama helped her retire some of her campaign debts. Obama has done fundraisers for Harris. So, they’ve had a connection and a relationship for a long, long time and most important — they think alike.

Joe Biden stands down . . .

A well-orchestrated coup to stop the faltering Joe Biden from seeking re-election has been underway for weeks, but Biden has been stubborn and fought it every step of the way.

Part of the elaborate strategy to remove Biden from the race was allowing him to debate Donald Trump on live TV in Atlanta. That debate was a set-up to convince Democrats that he was in no condition to run for president and win.

That was the final nail.

On Sunday, July 21st, the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee was “deposed in a coup that was overseen by the shadow president, Barack Obama (who has been directing most things White House-related since Biden was sworn in on January 20, 2021).

It was finally over. He couldn’t hold out any more. He signed and submitted a “stand down” letter. Joe Biden quit the race on July 21, 2024.

This didn’t happen overnight. It was months in the planning and execution, but when Biden’s enemies made their move, things happened fast — 14 days start to finish — to seize total dominance and control of the Democratic Party.

Biden will remain as a ceremonial president for now. If he is unable to campaign for the office, then he is clearly unable to execute the duties as president. Whoever has been running the government will continue to do so.

Biden’s 50-year political career had come to a disastrous end and the word is that Joe didn’t have a lot of input into the decision to end it.

July 12:

A loose anti-Biden network, made up of Obama, Pelosi, Carville, Hillary and Bill Clinton staffers, were working behind the scenes to get rid of Joe Biden. The network was growing every day. They were circulating polls showing Democrats would shoot from sure losers to big winners with a new ticket.

The word was spreading fast. Axios published, “Behind the Curtain: Committee to Unelect the President.”

It began:

“President Biden beat back the initial public campaign by Democrats to oust him from the party’s presidential ticket, swiftly and decisively, but very-connected Democrats, mostly veterans of the Obama and Clinton administrations, are plotting hourly to get him to withdraw quickly.”

Former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, added additional pressure by telling Biden that she and other Democratic lawmakers were worried that he was hurting The Party and urged him to make a decision about stepping down soon.

July 13:

Biden held a “tense” Zoom call with dozens of moderate Democrats to ease their minds and demonstrate that he had recovered and was ready to go, but one person on the call described as even worse than the debate.

“He was rambling; he’d start an answer then lose his train of thought, then would just say ‘whatever.’ He really couldn’t complete an answer. I lost a ton of respect for him.”

One hour later, Trump was shot, and for the next couple of days, the shooting occupied the news — but the gremlins were busy.

July 17:

A survey by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was published. It found that only about 3 in 10 Democrats were extremely or very confident that Biden had the mental capability to serve effectively as president.

very confident that Biden had the mental capability to serve effectively as president.

July 18th

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries both asked Biden to drop out. CNN was reporting that Joe Biden was more open to the idea of quitting the race. Top Democrats were predicting that Biden would drop out that weekend.

Seymour Hersch was reporting that Obama and Harris threatened Biden with the potential invocation of the 25th Amendment if he didn’t drop out the presidential race and cede that spot to the Kamala.

July 19th

NewsMax was reporting that Joe Biden had agreed to step down and his speech had been written. The word was, he would not endorse Kamala Harris for president.

Biden’s political world was collapsing. His top allies had either publicly or privately called on him to step aside. Major donations had fallen off a cliff. Ads were produced asking Joe to, “pass the torch.”

The Obama camp was actively trying to replace Biden and the relationship between the two camps had never been worse. There was a lot of resentment building up.

July 21st

Within minutes of Joe Biden’s “stand down” announcement, all 50 of the state Democratic Party chairs held a conference call — on a Sunday morning!

Ken Martin, president of the Association of State Democratic Committees released a statement:

“Following President Biden’s announcement, our members immediately assembled to unite behind the candidate who has a track record of winning tough elections, and who is a proven leader on the issues that matter to Americans: reproductive freedom, gun violence prevention, climate protection, justice reform, and rebuilding the economy.”

In a matter of hours, all fifty state party chairs threw their weight behind Kamala Harris as their candidate to be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

Kamala Selected Not Elected

There was no discussion and there were no dissenters. — meanwhile, the 15 million people who voted for Joe Biden in the primary just had their votes thrown in the trash.

replace Joe Biden.

Kamala Selected Not Elected

Democrats have been holding conventions since 1832. For two hundred years, the purpose of the convention was to select the presidential and vice-presidential candidate. This year is the first time in The Party’s history that there will be no debates, no deals, and no real vote. This year, delegates to the convention will know who their candidates are before they get to the convention.

Delegates can “vote” for Kamala — and even start approving her yet-to be-named running mate — in online voting beginning next week.

Their names will be the only two names on the ballot.

July 26th

On Friday — at 05:01 AM — Barack Obama posted this this video on X. It is Barack’s and Michelle’s official public endorsement of Kamala Harris.

“We agree with President Biden — choosing Kamala was one of the best decisions he’s made. She has the resume to prove it. As a prosecutor, she defended the Constitution and fought for folks who deserve a fair shake. As California’s Attorney General, she worked hard to ensure everyone was treated fairly, no matter who they are or who they love.”

There you have it! Coup complete. Obama approves.

In a matter of days, Kamala Harris, a candidate, born of foreign parents and raised in Canada, more Marxist than Bernie Sanders, and who was selected, not elected, will become the official Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States of America.

If we were ever looking at a “Manchurian Candidate, by God, we’re looking at one now.

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“There will be no second chance after November 6th. Understand the assignment,” says a meme on social media.

November 6 is the opening of a civil war, because if Trump loses, the totalitarians will crack down; and if Trump wins, they will do the same thing. The only way there won’t be a civil war or national breakup is if millions who don’t support “Democrats” roll over and say, “enslave me.” The Commiefascists occupying our government and dominating all of American culture, business and schools are NOT backing down, not ever. They will have to be forced out of power, or they’re not going. You won’t see a peaceful transition of power back to Trump. No way.

The propaganda media has all but declared Kamala Harris the winner.

Watch out, Kamala. The people who just threw out the Bidens with the trash are the very same people elevating you now.

The Kamala jokes are too easy. America is in serious trouble for someone so utterly devoid of value to rise so far.

PROPAGANDA is not news. LIES are not truth. Highly paid ACTORS who do the government’s bidding are NOT objective professionals.

Ayn Rand said it best:

“The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser’s intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture’s dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.”

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The Democratic Party ruling class’s bloodless coup of their own democratically elected presidential nominee, who also happens to be the nominal sitting president of the United States, is one of the most astonishing political developments of my lifetime. Joe Biden, though clearly physically and mentally impaired, has sought the presidency for quite literally longer than I have been alive. Biden had been defiant ever since the June 27 presidential debate debacle that he was not going anywhere, despite overwhelming pressure from party elites and sycophantic media lapdogs demanding he do precisely that. He has a Lady Macbeth-like wife who craves power and a felonious son in desperate need of a presidential pardon.

Yet the coup succeeded. Biden became the first incumbent president to not seek reelection after his first term since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. Biden made the much-anticipated announcement not with a solemn Oval Office address — that came three days later, and he didn’t even explain his decision. Instead, he issued a bedridden tweet — from a personal, not even official, account. It’s the equivalent of divorcing your wife over text messages. As if that weren’t crazy enough, the announcement came smack in the middle of a five-day period in which Biden was not publicly seen and during which he apparently experienced an unspecified medical emergency. Suspicious much?

The Democrats’ decision to coup their own president is a curious one on political merits.

Hold aside the galling hypocrisy of the purported party of “democracy” trying to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot under an outlandish constitutional theory while simultaneously attempting to bankrupt, prosecute, and incarcerate him on equally spurious grounds. Hold aside the self-proclaimed party of “democracy” feigning ignorance over how its overheated rhetoric laid the seeds for their political opponent’s recent near-assassination and it’s continuing to depict that opponent as an existential threat to the American constitutional order. And hold aside that purportedly “democratic” party deposing its own presumptive elected nominee — a stark reversal from its presidential primary, when party poobahs worked hard to shut out all viable competition. Somewhere in Minnesota, Dean Phillips would like a word.

Hold all that aside. Because even on its own terms, the coup of Biden for cackler-in-chief Kamala Harris is going to spectacularly backfire on the Democrats.

Already, Democrats and the corporate media have been working hard to “define” Harris for the American people. At times, this has included some rather dubious retconning, such as magically pretending she wasn’t the Biden administration’s appointed “border czar.” (She was.) However, the even bigger problem for Democrats is that Harris is not an unknown commodity. On the contrary, she is a very well-known commodity — one who just happens to be about as popular with the American public as venereal disease.

Harris’s current average approval rating is under 38%, and an NBC News poll last June found her to be the single least popular vice president in American history — only 32% of Americans had a positive view of her, putting her 17 points underwater. Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign was an absolute dud, self-imploding well before the first primary votes were cast. And as recently as a month or two ago, Democratic elites were openly discussing whether she could still be dropped as Biden’s 2024 running mate. It’s funny how quickly one can go from the weakest link to the great savior of “Our Democracy.”

The path to winning 270 Electoral College votes still runs through the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. It is frankly bizarre for Democrats to swap out the man who talks ceaselessly about his hardscrabble Scranton upbringing for a Californian who boasts the most left-wing voting record of any presidential nominee in modern history. Do Democrats really think Harris’ support for the Green New Deal and a national fracking ban will play well in the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania or in the auto factories of Detroit? Will white working- and middle-class voters concerned about skyrocketing crime look favorably upon Harris’ enthusiastic support for the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, which racked up $2 billion worth of property damage?

It’s not that Uncle Joe, seemingly about to keel over and die at any moment, found himself in much better political shape. But in addition to the gross hypocrisy of their coup that has dealt yet another fatal blow to their specious claim to “defend democracy,” Democrats have also set themselves up for political failure. They would have been better off trying to limp across the finish line with their grievously wounded incumbent of a nominee rather than changing horses mid-race.

The 14 million people who voted for Biden in the Democratic primaries ought to be livid. Rust Belt voters ought to be bemused. But Trump and running mate J.D. Vance ought to be ecstatic.

Josh Hammer, Townhall