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The Biden Conspiracy
Let us begin with the now-common conclusion that US presidential candidate Joe Biden is, to one degree or another, senile; and thus physically incapable of acting as President of the United States of America, the most powerful and influential office on the planet.
It has come to my attention that some Republican voters believe the worst possible outcome of this fraud would be for the Democratic candidate for Vice President to immediately take Biden’s place after his election to President. If only that were so. In that case, most voters would know who they were truly voting for or against: the VP candidate versus Donald Trump.
Even if that was the Democrats’ plan, it would be shameful for Republicans to allow it to proceed. Obviously, any candidate unfit for the office is equally unfit for the candidacy. To accept a senile candidate is to make a mockery of our elections. Democrats should be forced to put forth a substitute candidate.
But let’s assume Biden will be tolerated to remain the presidential candidate and that he will be elected President. Democrats would have another, more nefarious option.
Joe Biden could remain President.
So long as Democrats avoid, stall, or disrupt attempts to impeach the senile President, the real powers could remain hidden. We cannot assume the Vice President would be the primary “advisor” who drafts the President’s policies and speeches. Any person or group could work beyond public scrutiny, without ever being certainly revealed to the press, to direct the pawn voters naïvely selected as a national figurehead.
In other words, to accept a senile man as a presidential candidate is to accept the potential outcome of a nameless, faceless President-in-hiding whom not one American voted for. Such a possibility is an abomination. It would call into doubt the whole of our democratic system. It would threaten not only our own republic but all nations affected by American foreign policy.
Act now, Republicans. There is precious little time to defend the legitimacy of our country’s executive branch.
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I might agree except (1) leftist media coordinate to hide information from non-right voters and (2) many voters would assume the VP candidate will replace him and then wonder why he hasn’t been impeached yet — they would vote for the VP candidate and not get the VP as President.
Aaron,
Once more I am sickened by the state of the Democratic Party. Anyone with an ounce of integrity would call a foul on this. Where are the George Wills, Romneys, and the rest of the phony never Trump brigade? If you don’t speak out against this abomination now, any claim to being a conservative or even just an American with a respect for the Constitution is a complete joke.
Nothing could be more fraudulent than this. The Democrats have their regular ways of stealing an election going, vote harvesting, mail-in ballot fraud, illegal aliens voting, rigged social media platforms, and plain old ballot box stuffing. This is beyond all of that. This is a completely sick crime against everything this country has ever stood for. Shame on those who say nothing.
Thanks for the post Aaron.
Regards,
Jim
But Orange Man Bad. : (
Does Biden have a political machine? Trump didn’t have anyone when he came into office. Obama had his Chicago group to pull from. GWB had his Texas group and his dad’s people to choose from. But who does Biden have? Jill? Hunter?? There is just he Obama left-overs and whoever can force their way inside. Not having a crew is another reason Senators are weak choices for executive branch.
Biden has Antifa.
And here’s to hoping Biden and Bryan’s candidacies would be equally successful!
Why the questioner didn’t offer to submit to a drug screen if Biden would to a cognitive test is beyond me- unless of course he does take drugs…..
as to Biden faking it… as the Brits say “too clever by half”-and I’ve never heard Biden described as clever.
The political machine has Biden.
I’d say if Biden was pulling this off, it would be more akin to NYC mobster Vincente “The Chin” Gigante, who was being hunted by the feds in the late 1970s and tried to fight it by walking around his Greenwich Village neighborhood openly trying to show the public he was suffering from dementia.
I don’t think Biden’s sizeable ego would allow him to run a scam like that. But I still think it’s possible, and based on his last debate effort in March against Bernie, that if he can get the adrenal glands going enough for a major event, he can get it together for short periods of time, which is why if I were Trump and his people, I’d still go into the debates expecting the angry, combative Joe Biden from the 2012 debate against Paul Ryan, and not just assume he’s going to be a drooling idiot on the debate stage (and it also wouldn’t be a shock if Biden can get through the first debate that Team Joe then cancels the final two, and the media backs him by saying he’s already proved his mental acuity).
Right now the desires of Jill Biden and the rest of the Democratic Party’s Hillary/Obama wing are in alignment, in that they all want Joe Biden nominated for president. But Dr. Jill wants Joe to actually be president, either because she actually thinks he can do the job, or she wants to be Edith Wilson. The Hillary/Obama people are locked in with Biden only to the point he’s nominated and his VP selection is approved, because they don’t want Bernie Sanders and his people to gain control of the nomination and the party, since they fear that would result in McGovern v2.0 in November.
We have no idea what the crony capitalist wing of the Dems will do in September or October, if Biden is forced to make public appearances and bombs out there or on the debate stage — the only thing we can be sure of is his VP pick will be lauded as the greatest VP pick in American history by the usual media outlets, just to set the stage in case they do have to make a replacement before Election Day.
More likely, they’re hoping to get Joe past Nov. 3 and even sworn into office before we start getting the stories about Biden’s declining mental faculties, and how the 25th Amendment may have to be invoked (though even there, they still might pretend nothing’s wrong for a while, if Jill or whoever’s actually running things in the White House is all-in on pushing the approved agenda. They really don’t care who Melakon is to Biden’s John Gill, just as long as Melakon’s on their side).
I made this comment on another post but it better belongs here.
My thoughts seem to keep devolving into the most depressing. For the past several months I’ve been thinking, Why even have a president?
I may be wrong but it seems that presidential Executive Orders are used more and more, but they are ephemeral. Instead of taking years to craft a law, one that will take years of concerted effort to overturn, the president signs and EO that will only last until the next president (though this new means of legislation is so new we don’t know how it will develop). The government has come to be largely run by entrenched bureaucrats.
Now with the prospect of a life-long, self-absorbed corrupticrat of diminishing mental capability, I foresee an empty Oval Office with a series of congressional staffers marching in, using a presidential seal to sign legislation, and walk out again.
Until Trump, the CIA and that MIC ran the show in international affairs and various executive departments ran domestic. Presidents’ campaign sloganeering, when enacted, amounted to minuscule alterations if the government’s direction. Now between Pelosi and Schumer and Chief Justice Roberts if doesn’t matter if the president agrees with congress or not, the law will be passed and carved in stone. Clinton’s “safe, legal and rare” changed nothing. Trump’s rule-of-law “lock her up” has come to nothing, and his “build the wall” has gone from thousands of miles to hundreds, over three years, not just because of legislators’ opposition, but largely because of the federal court system’s negating it.
The beauty of the Constitutional Republic was supposed to be that little would be legislated (and that what was legislated would be in line with goals determined by democratically elected representatives). And judges would apply the law. And the president would administer the laws and would be the first voice and the quickest hand in securing the country in event of insurrection, invasion or war.
But now we are really debating (those who are willing to debate) electing a mushroom — albeit an angry, arbitrary, corrupt and greedy mushroom — to the position of chief executive.
But not to worry: the bureaucracy-in-place will handle everything. The layers of elected representatives will assure that the vote counting leads to the New Green Deal (or the next story in its Tower of Babel). The nation’s District Attorneys will exercise discretion in who will be prosecuted, regardless of the law. The Supreme Court will maintain a starry-eyed stare decisis.
And the president will spend his days clutching children and sniffing their hair.
The real question is, why have a Legislature? They have failed to Legislate/set policy in any kind of meaningful way for at least a decade.
Well, a king would do.
Rodin and I had a conversation about this a while back. Courts won’t get involved in this. The Constitution provides political methods for installing presidents and for removing presidents either for crime or disability, and doesn’t allow courts a say in it. If the political methods for removing a senile president are not invoked, who is the court to do it? Or to declare a candidate invalid? The next thing would be challenging a candidate’s validity because he’s a racist or something.
After discussing these matters with a teacher of government, I must make a couple corrections.
First, the process for removing a President with a mental incapacity is not impeachment. That is not an impeachable offense (“high crimes and misdemeanors”). Rather, per the 25th Amendment, a senile President must be removed by his own Cabinet — meaning his own party.
If Biden is elected and Democrats want him to stay, there is nothing Republicans can do other than try to make Democrats’ own voters demand Biden’s removal.
Second, though there is no precedent for deliberate establishment of a hidden “shadow President” immune from legal and political scrutiny, there is precedent for an unelected President. Gerald Ford was appointed as the replacement Vice President under President Nixon and then succeeded Nixon.
In the case of the ‘shadow President’ it would simply come down to a matter of spin within the Democratic ranks and the media outlets who support them — i.e., Joe Biden is fine and completely in control of his mental faculties until he isn’t fine and is not in control of his mental faculties. Doesn’t really matter what the GOP thinks here — the talking points on Biden’s acuity could turn on a dime, and where the next question would be who’s in on those talking points flipping.
That’s why you had the leaks 10 days ago about Chris Dodd being wary of Kamala Harris and her ‘loyalty’ to Team Joe. It isn’t just that she’d start her 2024 campaign the moment she was sworn in, it’s that the VP’s office could start leaking like a dyke in Holland about Biden’s problems at cabinet meeting and elsewhere, as a way to set up the spin that the 25th Amendment needs to be invoked and Harris needs to take over as president ASAP.
If we do have a Presidential debate, I propose that persons seeking to be debaters, moderators, or audience members be required to take this qualification test. Under the American form of government,
We need to strengthen the states and cities and towns, and that means taking back responsibilities and money.
This is great, Mark. but you left out the correct answer for #3. The answer is 4. Everybody.
Flicker,
Hm. This made me think.
Now, having already had my two Manhattans, I am obviously not permitted by the Interwebs Code to write. But at least you made me think.
I assume were the Democrats to win the Presidential election, Joe Biden would become and remain in name President.
I therefore feel free, when debating the presidential election with someone who nominally supports Mr. Biden, to argue from the policies of the most extreme Democrats who have spoken on any topic, since we don’t know who will really be setting policy.
Almost all of the Democrats have publicly signed a document supporting the elimination of at least the free speech clause of the First Amendment..
Many Democrats concurred with Robert O’Rourke’s proposals to punish any church that does not preach government-approved theology.
Many Democrats also concurred with Robert O’Rourke’s plan to confiscate guns, and implicitly the midnight raids that would be required to implement such a plan. (Mr. “Beto” O’Rourke has been helpful in saying out loud the parts that were supposed to be kept under wraps.)
The Democrats who would run things also will prevent you from traveling by air (and these days probably by car too), will force you to remodel your house, will greatly restrict your choice of car to buy (assuming they let you buy a car), etc.
The Democrats will encourage riots in your town, and will encourage their supporters to commit violence against anyone who disagrees with them, as they have in the past (Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, [the crazy elderly black female Representative from Los Angeles], Sen. Hirono, etc.).
The point being that when debating the Presidential election, it is reasonable to paint the most horrible picture possible of a Democratic administration, because we don’t know who will actually be running things.
You don’t know what an honor you have paid me.
The big story on Trump tonight is that he pronounced “Thailand” with a “th” rather than a “t”. The same way I have always pronounced it.
They are getting desperate.
You don’t know what an honor you have paid me.
Thighland? Sounds like the place for me.
Please. It’s soooo Hangover 2.
There wasn’t a peep when Obama pronounced Marine Corps as Marine Corpse.