Media Reports Suggest Turmoil Between Biden, Harris Going Into 2024

  Jon Dougherty

Former GOP presidential candidate and media magnate Steve Forbes told Fox News: “Joe Biden will not be the Democratic Party nominee … Because the economy — yeah, they can sweep the Hunter stuff away — but that has a stench out there

"A spate of new media reports hint that there is rising tension in the White House between President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as the 2024 presidential election cycle begins in earnest, with more Republicans jumping in to challenge them.

As noted by the outlet 1945, one of the biggest mounting concerns is Biden’s age and the fact that Harris, should the geriatric president be forced to resign his post or worse, die in office, would succeed him. She’s not been a popular vice president and in fact, her polling has consistently been worse than Biden’s, even when Biden’s numbers were at historic lows.

“ 'A vote for the Democrats might be for Biden. Then again, it might not be,” is what Republicans want Democratic voters to understand, the outlet noted.

"The report added ominously: “After all, President Joe Biden will be 82 if he were to win his reelection. The average lifespan for most American men is 77 years of age.”

?The report noted further:. . .

As uncomfortable as it is, Americans need to have the conversation about Biden that no Democrat wants them to have: can the forty-sixth president even make it as president for another four years? As a corollary to that line of questioning comes another important query that voters should be asking: can Kamala Harris be a good president, if something were to happen to Biden?

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Biden Has No Idea Who He Is Calling for at Event, as He Ditches Debt Deadline for Vacation

  RedState   "Joe Biden doesn’t seem to give a darn about debt negotiations or our economic status.

First, he refused to even talk with Republicans for 97 days. But since he has been talking, he doesn’t want to cut anything, he just wants to keep spending us into the poor house. He’s completely in the thrall of the leftist wing of his party and they don’t want him to agree with the Republicans. Unfortunately for the Democrats, Americans want cuts and they see Joe Biden as the obstacle here. The Republicans already passed a bill, it’s Biden who isn’t getting it done and Americans see it. A new Fox poll is showing that Americans would ascribe any blame here, quite rightly, to Joe Biden.

So what is Biden doing in the face of all this? We’ve already been put on a “credit negative watch” because of him. But he’s not changing anything about his habits — he’s out the door for yet one more weekend vacation on Friday, with time in both Camp David and at his home in Delaware. He’s already spent about 40 percent of his time in office away on vacation, and there he goes again, hang agreeing on anything of substance.

"But let’s hear how urgent he thinks things are from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

"...the president is going to Camp David this weekend, going to Delaware. Can you describe the sense of urgency that the president feels?"

Karine Jean-Pierre: "There's always been urgency!"

Biden waited 97 days to discuss the debt ceiling. pic.twitter.com/UR1MjAitwU

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 25, 2023

America’s Dangerous Shortage Of Free Thinkers –

  Issues & Insights  

A society without free thinkers, dissenters and contrarians is not only one that lacks color and vibrance, it is accelerating toward a wreck. Some might recognize that happening right in front of them. 

"Our country has become a conformist society where free expression is rewarded with the swing of a truncheon. We’re on a road that leads to repression, and we are not far from the destination.

"This nation owes its existence and its never-seen-before prosperity to free thinkers. The founders were men of the enlightenment. They stand in stark contrast to our ruling class of today, a corrupt and depraved cabal of politicians, state media, institutional leaders, militant activists and corporate executives that is hurtling us into an era of darkness. In the 2020s, the only “truth” is what the narrative, invariably fabricated by the worst people who have ever held power and influence in this country’s history, says it is.

"We see those yard signs, the ones that proclaim their occupants’ unwavering grand tolerance and thirst for diversity. But we know that those who put up those signs are the most intolerant, limited thinkers among us. They don’t believe in diversity of thought. Their objective is to force conformity to their way of thinking while immodestly displaying their superior virtue.

“​​ 'There is a new use for tolerance today, and, quite frankly, it is self-serving and hypocritical,” says Paul Chappell, a pastor and president of the West Coast Baptist College in Lancaster, California. “It doesn’t mean tolerance in the traditional sense of the word at all. It means, ‘You must condone and support my choices – even at the expense of your beliefs.’”

Entropy, Joe Biden, and the Progressive Left

Entropy, Joe Biden, and the Progressive Left - American Thinker    Joe Biden’s decline into incompetence is more than a personal journey towards life’s end, it is an allegory for the likely collapse of the Progressive Left and the Democrat Party now under its rule.

"As Joe Biden’s mind closes in on itself and his body struggles with infirmity, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is at work.  The Second Law holds that the more energy systems (think a person or an organization) become self-absorbed and isolated from the larger eco-systems surrounding them, the less productive work they can accomplish.

"This is the law of entropy where, as entropy increases, useful work decreases because the energies in closed systems become random and uncoordinated in seeking practical outcomes.  The system just gets more and more chaotic, losing rhyme and reason.

"Notice Joe Biden’s use of words -- his mind works randomly and can’t stay on topic. He even has trouble being coherent when reading what his staff has written for him to say. When he walks or greets people, he seems out of touch with his surroundings. This is chaotic randomness working right before our eyes.

"Now, with Biden his randomness comes from aging -- his mind and body are no longer capable of intersecting with reality as they once were. The effects of aging slowly but surely close down our internal biological and physical systems. At the end we can do no work at all as our mind and body slip away into that final rest.

Texas Continues Bussing Illegal Immigrants to “Sanctuary Cities”

 Texas Continues Bussing Illegal Immigrants to “Sanctuary Cities” (legalinsurrection.com)

"Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on May 18, 2023, “the arrival of the first group of migrants bused to Denver, Colorado from Texas.” This follows Texas bussing illegal immigrants to Philadelphia, Chicago, New York City, and Washington, DC.

"Governor Abbott blamed the Biden Administration’s “border policies” for the influx of illegal immigrants burdening Texas communities and the need for bussing to sanctuary cities:

"Texas’ overwhelmed and overrun border communities should not have to shoulder the flood of illegal immigration due to President Biden’s reckless open border policies, like his mass catch and release without court dates or any way to track them. Until the President and his Administration step up and fulfill their constitutional duty to secure the border, the State of Texas will continue busing migrants to self-declared sanctuary cities like Denver to provide much-needed relief to our small border towns.Texas began its program of shipping illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities in April 2022 and has reported bussing over 19,000 people since then.

"Chicago, under the direction of then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, strenuously objected to Texas’s bussing program in a letter dated April 30, 2023. Mayor Lightfoot urged the Abbott “administration to stop the inhumane and dangerous action”:" . . .

 

 

The Left Has Pushed the Envelope

. . ."All these implosions are not just shocking but surreal. Why are our government, corporations, and popular culture colluding in mass suicide - to the delight of our enemies like Communist China??

 RealClearPolitics   "The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.

"Special-counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice.

"The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and intelligence agencies interfered in the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.

"Directors and high-ranking FBI officials lied under oath. They misled Congress. They altered court documents and deceived federal judges.

"The FBI hired a foreign national to gather dirt on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign - while he was being paid by the rival Hillary Clinton campaign.

"The FBI contracted Twitter to suppress news stories. It kept the Hunter Biden laptop under wraps, even as former intelligence officials flat out lied it was likely "Russian disinformation." That was a blatant effort to aid the 2020 Biden campaign.

"The IRS just conceded whistleblowers were correct and the agency fired its entire multi-year audit team responsible for investigating Hunter Biden's purported tax irregularities.

"The agency claimed it was ordered to do so by the Department of Justice, headed by Biden's appointee Merrick Garland." . . .

AOC Picks Fight With Ted Cruz on 'Racist History' of Democrat Party, He Finishes It –

 AOC Picks Fight With Ted Cruz on 'Racist History' of Democrat Party, He Finishes It – RedState  "Understandably, many Republicans shook their heads when news broke Monday on the NAACP’s announcement of a “travel advisory” for Florida, especially upon learning that the wildly partisan advisory revolved around bogus allegations that the state’s GOP governor, Ron DeSantis, was “openly hostile” to the black community and allegedly doesn’t want black children to learn black history (a claim that is also untrue).

" Among those on the right rolling their eyes over the NAACP’s actions was Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who took to the Twitter machine to express his outrage over how far the organization has fallen over the years. 

 “This is bizarre. And utterly dishonest,” Cruz wrote. “In the 1950s & 1960s, the NAACP did extraordinary good helping lead the civil rights movement. Today, Dr. King would be ashamed of how profoundly they’ve lost their way.” 

" That’s when some on the Very Online Left lost their minds, including AOC (whose tweet we’ll get to in a minute) and some so-called “historians” like Kevin Kruse, who posted that 

“In 1965, Dr. King called for a national boycott of the state of Alabama, saying that Democratic Gov. George Wallace’s policies constituted ‘a reign of terror’ against Black Americans.” Cruz did not back down, pointing out that Wallace, a Democrat was “an incorrigible racist” and that “Dr. King’s standing up to his bigotry was heroic & helped change America.” 

" “Florida today, by contrast, is an oasis of freedom, which is why vast numbers of African-Americans are moving there,” Cruz went on to note." . . .

I can help! Democrats doubled down by embracing the “soft bigotry of low expectations” angle, becoming a party bent on telling a myriad of groups that they’re weak and incapable without the party’s help in an attempt to keep them under their thumb. Y’all are heinous.

— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) May 23, 2023

Target Partners with Satanist Designer Abprallen for Gay Pride Collection

 Target Partners with Satanist Designer Abprallen for Gay Pride Collection (breitbart.com)   .Abprallen mixes a good deal of satanism with its pro-LGBT activism, asserting on its Instagram page that “Satan loves you and respects who you are; you’re important and valuable in this world and you deserve to treat yourself with love and respect.”

“LGBT+ people are so often referred to as being a product of Satan or going against God’s will, so fine. We’ll hang with Satan instead,” it declares.

“So, naturally, Satan respects pronouns. He loves all LGBT+ people,” it states.

Target Partners with Satanist Designer Abprallen for Gay Pride Collection (breitbart.com)  . . ."Johnson shows what appears to be an Abprallen children’s fanny pack emblazoned with the slogan, “We Belong Everywhere.”

“ 'See that?” he asks. “This is designed by the now infamous Satanic company, the guy that says ‘We’re hanging with Satan because Satan respects pronouns.’ This is his brand. Look it up. Right here, at the front of the store, along with the child mannequin.”

"But perhaps most disturbing is the proximity of the Faustian fanny packs to the Joanna Gaines section of the store.

" 'For those unfamiliar, reality TV stars Chip and Joanna Gaines have marketed themselves as the quintessential Christian family, with wholesome values and a love of all things “homey.” . ."

" 'Joanna Gaines is a very lucrative — a presumably multi-billion-dollar deal with Target,” Johnson explains, “and she is a Christian who has Christian moral values that she wishes to uphold and built her entire brand on family values.”. . .

“You see, I’ve just taken probably 10 steps from the display and here we are,” he says, showing an entire section of the store dedicated to “Hearth and Home” merchandise.

“This is the Joanna Gaines fiefdom inside of Target,” Johnson reveals.

" 'There they are, the paragons of Christian entrepreneurs and family values, right next to the Satanic designs inside of the Pride display in Target that they’ve been lying to you about,” he stated as he did a close-up shot of a picture of Chip and Joanna Gaines. “So, there you go, Joanna.”

"Johnson isn’t the only one calling out the Gaineses for their duplicity.". . .

Violence — The calling card of the Democrat Party

 BPR   "The Democrat Party has embraced violence as its modus operandi. The party has sent a message to its adherents that anything goes in the pursuit of power—from weaponizing the FBI and IRS against political opponents, to rigging elections, to the use of violence. Democrats will not hesitate to deprive you of your basic rights if it suits their purpose. If that entails violent behavior aimed at you, too bad.

"A classic example of Democratic Party-supported violence is occurring as mobs attempt to intimidate conservative Supreme Court justices by protesting in front of their homes. Although this is expressly prohibited by federal law, you won’t see the Democrat-controlled Justice Department taking action against the protestors. Breaking the law has become acceptable.

"To mask its love of violence, the Democratic Party has used groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter as surrogates. Mark Levin calls Antifa “the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party.” They show up everywhere with the intention of shutting down free speech. We don’t hear much about it because the mainstream media is the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party. Hitler used similar tactics in the 1930s. Hitler’s thugs targeted communists and Jews; Antifa vilifies conservatives and Trump supporters. Our liberal mobs believe their mission is to physically assault anyone who happens to be conservative. They feel justified in doing all the things that the Nazi Party did in Germany.

"Antifa is the contemporary version of Hitler’s Brownshirts, whose objective, says Dinesh D’Souza, is to “beat people into obeisance.” With the support of Democrat mayors and governors, violent Antifa mobs have trashed our cities, assaulted Trump supporters, and provided justification for more government control over the individual. What has the DOJ done to stop it? Nothing.

"Black Lives Matter is another ally of the Democrats.  . . ."

Drag soldiers; a product of Joe's Walter Mitty dreams

 

Biden’s Drag Queen Navy - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   That loss of market share and the reduced revenue that accompany it have been enough to bring Anheuser-Busch back to reality and make the company remember that its primary mission is to brew good beer. Unfortunately for our national security, there are no market protections against President Joe Biden’s political agenda, which is destroying the readiness and lethality of our military.

"Anheuser-Busch’s transgender mess came late to the party. From October 2022 to March 2023, the U.S. Navy made an active-duty drag queen one of its “digital ambassadors” to help recruit new sailors, which we’ll get back to in a moment.

"Back in the olden days of the 1990s, the military had a culture unto itself, defined by patriotism, tradition, and pride. Young men and women join the military for any number of reasons. Some do it to satisfy family tradition. Some join simply out of patriotism. Some join to get a job or to get away from their family and friends. Some join to earn GI Bill benefits, which is the only way they can go to college." . . .

"The Navy is, like most of the branches of the armed services, seeing a major drop in recruitment and is failing to meet its need for new people. When I asked a couple of my retired Navy pals for a reaction to the drag queen recruitment tactic, their comments were mostly unprintable. The calmest reaction was that the chief of naval operations — the boss of the entire Navy — should be fired and every officer above the rank of lieutenant commander who was involved should be fired. I agree comprehensively.

"Why would the Navy believe that having a drag queen recruit new sailors would be effective? What kind of people is the Navy trying to reach? Does the Navy really want the people who are attracted to join by watching “Harpy Daniels” perform? If so, why?

"The only reason is that Biden’s military leaders are so dedicated to his DEI agenda that they care more about it than about the lethality and readiness of the forces under their command.

"That’s a recipe for defeat in the next war. Messrs. Putin, Xi, and Khamenei must be greatly amused by what Biden is doing to our military.". . .

It will soon become clear that the Biden-Garland-establishment has engaged in criminality that makes Watergate look like kindergarten

 The scandal that's hit America and will be bigger than Watergate ; Newt Gingrich

Compare the shock of Democrats and Republicans in the Watergate era with the staunch unwillingness of virtually any Democrat to go after the Biden family scandals – or to be infuriated at the blatant abuses of power and obstructions of justice.

. . ."Mitchell is an extremely important parallel to the current disaster, because Attorney General Merrick Garland seems to be doing a lot more obstructing of justice than Mitchell ever dreamed of doing. Garland’s Justice Department reportedly instructed the IRS to disband the unit investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes. ". . .

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Can democracy be saved? -Fear the quality of the voters.

  American Thinker  "Elections matter.  But just as important is the quality of the electorate.  One of my long-time and wise colleagues who has passed on, Professor Bertram Levin, some years ago pointed out to me the irony that a democracy can destroy itself by voting itself into communism.  Chicago, a beautiful and once vibrant city, has proven the point.  Brandon Johnson, the new mayor, is an avowed communist.  His recent characterization of businesses as evil profit-mongers is sure to accelerate Chicago's death spiral as businesses flee the city.  Johnson should not be blamed; the electorate should.

"The quality of the electorate can have profound effects on society.  Argentina, one of the highest-income countries in the world in 1900, changed its voting rules early in the 20th century.  The new voters had grandiose progressive ideas to redistribute wealth.  Argentina became a third-world country and continues to suffer today. 

"Many democracies in the 20th century extended the franchise to women, making their societies more inclusive and kinder, gentler nations.  So changes in voting can have good as well as bad effects on a nation's well-being.

"The latest attempts to expand the electorate, both here and abroad, are proposals to lower the voting age.  This raises the question concerning the optimal age.  Recently, youths have received negative press from looting and shooting in major cities.  Mass shootings are now commonplace among people 21 or younger.  Most recently, on April 15, 2023, in Dadeville, Alabama, a 16- and a 17-year-old shot up a "sweet sixteen" party, leaving four dead and 32 others injured.". . .

Victor Davis Hanson: The Left has pushed the envelope (msn.com)

"The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.

"Special-counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice.

"The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and intelligence agencies interfered in the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.

"Directors and high-ranking FBI officials lied under oath. They misled Congress. They altered court documents and deceived federal judges.

"The FBI hired a foreign national to gather dirt on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign – while he was being paid by the rival Hillary Clinton campaign.

"The FBI contracted Twitter to suppress news stories. It kept the Hunter Biden laptop under wraps, even as former intelligence officials flat out lied it was likely “Russian disinformation.” That was a blatant effort to aid the 2020 Biden campaign.". . .