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Biden’s epic disaster of a debate performance has led to calls for, and much speculation about, replacing him at the top of the Democrat ticket. It ain’t gonna happen. The Emperor has no brain, and nobody cares.

Shock and Slack Jaw

In the TV series, Mad Men, there’s a scene involving newlyweds Kitty and Sal.  Kitty complains that Sal has been neglecting her wifely needs.  Sal makes the excuse that he’s stressed about a TV commercial he’s directing.  As Sal pantomimes the flirty dance routine of the actress in the commercial, a look of shocked realization comes over Kitty’s face: her husband is a closeted homosexual.

Similar sad epiphanies struck millions of Democrats mere minutes into last week’s presidential debate.  As with Sal in Mad Men, the glaring signs were apparent all along, yet the unpalatable truth denied: Joe Biden has advanced senile dementia.  Even before the debate was over, Democrat bigwigs openly panicked.  Their flying monkeys in legacy media — who for weeks had gaslit the public that footage of Biden wandering off, looking confused & aimless, staring catatonically into space, were ‘cheap fakes’ — turned on a dime.  They were shocked, shocked they told us, to discover Biden’s true state. Calls for Biden to step aside roared down like an avalanche.

A Flock of Birdshit

In truth, as Bari Weiss so scathingly notes , they knew all along, but dutifully praised the Emperor’s New Clothes.  ‘Dark Brandon’ was as massive a fraud as the Great And Powerful Oz.

After years of insisting the geriatric POTUS was as sharp as a tack , the pundits and talking heads are now frantically scrambling to keep up with the latest narrative.  Mere minutes after the debate, David Axelrod suggested Biden withdraw.  The next morning, sociopath Joe Scarborough — who’d recently declared Biden “cogent … better than he’s ever been,” solemnly declared Joe must step down.   Then, as the Dem oligarchs started circling the wagons, the pundits changed direction once again mid-flight, dutifully returning to roost.  Axelrod counseled Democrats accept the likely fait accompli of Biden as their nominee.  Then sour-puss Mika Brzezinski began mopping up the mess on the floor. She chided Biden’s handlers for not ‘managing’ his age (they dragged him through too many time zones, donchaknow) before waxing fondly about how Biden’s age also brings wisdom and experience. In soaring tones, she reeled off his many astonishing accomplishments. “I’m just not ready to count Joe Biden out,” she concluded, voice wavering, “not even close.” I haven’t seen such a performance since I used to watch East German television.

Qui Bono?  Nemo.

Calls to replace Biden ‘for the good of the party’ fall on deaf ears.  For the Democrat Party — every political party ever — is but a loose affiliation of machiavellian individuals and their factions.  Power within the party is a zero-sum game, and every politician is a Tommy Carcetti.  They only care about the good of the party when it also serves their personal ambitions.  They care even less about the fate of the nation.

Why would the cabal of deep-staters actually running the country — Anita Dunn, Ron Klain, Anthony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, John Kirby, Janet Yellen, et al. — toss out the puppet through whom they rule?

Why would Doctor Jill, bolstered by her Rasputin-like “work husband” Anthony Bernal, forsake the thrill of playing White House while channeling Edith Wilson?

Why would the lazy, incompetent, and/or criminal members of the Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment, jeopardizing their continued graft and cushy positions?

Nor are are Pelosi, Schumer or the rest of the Democrat gerontocracy inclined to shake things up, lest it unleash a whole-scale purge of ossification.

As for the bevy of younger pols dreaming of the White House, why raise even a finger to boost a rival? Either Biden or Trump will serve equally well as seat warmers for their Oval Office aspirations.  In contrast, a successful Whitmer candidacy forces Newsom to wait until 2032, and vice versa.  Likewise for lurkers like Polis or Shapiro, whose machinations are timed to a lane opening up four years from now, not sixteen.

Incumbents facing uphill reelection battles, like John Tester, Jackie Rosen, and Sherrod Brown, must feel queasy about a deadweight at the top of the ticket. But no one’s gonna go out on a limb to rescue potential rivals, who’ve probably already been written off as lost causes along with retaining control of the Senate.

That leaves Kamala.  Biden is her surest (and likely only) path to the presidency.  No wonder she’s shamelessly & insincerely simping for him post-debate.  The Party would love to dump her but, due to their ideological capture, can’t.  Another sticking point: with Biden deleted, the Biden-Harris campaign’s massive war chest may by law only go to Harris.

The DNC likewise has left itself little to no flexibility.  They quashed the primary process to anoint Biden.  The convention, as it has been for ages, was designed as a mere pep rally.  In their minds, the drawbacks of sticking with Dementia Joe are far outweighed by the chaos unleashed, and deep rifts exposed, by a floor fight.

Plan ‘A’ Or Bust

Doctor Jill’s plan has always been to ride Joe until he croaked, (and even then, she’d probably be tempted to turn the White House into Bates Motel.)  Apparently, Jill also harbors delusions of becoming POTUS herself.

For the Cabal, it was always a crap shoot as to how long Biden could last.  While they were able to (and to a diminished extent, still do) fool some of the people all of the time about his mental acuity, there’s no predicting when Joe’s frail (and likely Parkinson’s-ridden) husk will give up the ghost.  It seems their plan was something like the following:

• Mortally wound Trump with lawfare, ideally forcing him to campaign from a prison cell;
• Exploit the resulting Blue Wave to expand the Supreme Court;
• Dispose of Kamala by promoting her up to SC Justice;
• Replace her as VP with one of their own — John Kirby most likely — confirmed by a compliant Congress;
• Threaten Jill with the humiliation of 25A if she doesn’t tell Joe to retire, or;
• Just wait for him to die;
• President Kirby issues a slew of executive orders, rubber-stamped by the SC, including –
• Blanket amnesty & voter registration for 40 million, eternally grateful, illegals, transforming America into a one-party dictatorship with the Cabal as a perpetual oligarchy.

Powerball Ticket over Scratcher

The lawfare against Trump, which has backfired to date and has now run out of steam, was a miscalculation on their part.  Their hubris, in presuming they could continue to get away with the Dark Brandon charade, finally bit them in the face.  In spite of all that, through swift and vigorous damage-control they believe they can right the ship.  So far, it seems to be working, although several mega-donors are restive.  The potential pay-off of Plan ‘A’ is so huge, it’s worth still pursuing it in lieu of some ad hoc Plan ‘B’ that necessitates the Cabal relinquish the reins of power.  As noted, it’s in the personal interests of many of the Party’s princelings to go along for now.  The media are already back to gaslighting. And, so long as the Democrat base prefer Biden’s head in a jar of blue liquid over LITERALLY WORSE THAN HITLER, the Cabal is likely to get away with it.

Make no mistake – none among the Dem party nomenklatura believe their own Chicken Little agitprop:  a second Trump presidency will not spell the end of ‘our Democracy’.  Indeed, it could prove beneficial for certain Democrats.  Better to bide one’s time, harbor one’s political capital.  This was precisely their strategy in 2020, when no one expected Biden to win — until covid and the Summer of Love put the election within a few thousand early-morning ballots’ reach.  This year, most Democrat pols are perfectly willing to ride out the storm while praying for black swans and 2000 mules.

It’s all droll in a way, but let’s call this for what it is: a Putsch. Our nation is in the hands of an unelected Junta, facilitated by a complicit media and an irredeemably corrupt Democrat Party. Whether or not Joe Biden is at the top of the ticket come this November, a vote for any Democrat will be a vote for a Banana Republic style tyranny.

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