Presently I cannot foresee a path whereby Joe Biden does not get re-elected in 2024, save exposure of a weekend at Bernie’s (and I don’t mean Sanders). He is already emulating Woodrow Wilson, who finished his term via a doughty spouse who substituted for him after his stroke. Jill Biden wisely has kept a lower profile, but with all the permanent politicos surrounding any President her role may be only the quieting caregiver. In the expected avoidance by his Cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, we can expect 17 months of semi-continuous vacation at some beach or rich supporter’s venue, with increasingly faltering public appearances, belatedly, at various national disasters and international photo ops. The major current question is, will he show up in Florida after the hurricane, and tell us how he almost drowned in his flooding basement during the last election? Any such bungled appearance would elevate red state Floridians to the same status as blue state Hawaiians, and anointing Ron DeSantis with Presidential malapropisms seems imprudent in this early phase of Biden’s repeated campaign in absentia.
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Job 21.7
Are age and lifelong exposure to the toxins of Washington the only causes of his debility? I think not. As a physician with 40 years clinical experience and 10 years of work in hospitals before that, I engage in that most dangerous of all practices that is now considered mainstream medicine, remote diagnosis. Remember his past cerebral bleeds? Watching Biden’s stilted gait, his mask-like facies, his suppressed mumbling speech pattern, his frequent almost narcoleptic lapses, and hearing his constant confabulations, I believe he is under treatment for Parkinsonism (this may be true of Mitch McConnell as well, since “freezing” is seen as a side effect of some Parkinsonian medications). If so we can expect not only a decline in his mentation, but an increase in his inactivity. That can only be hidden by unavailability. A greater risk than absence of coherence is the hallucinatory process that up to 50% of Parkinson’s patients may experience. Have we seen this already in his occasions of turning on stage to shake hands with someone who is not there? This kind of debility cannot be hidden like FDR’s paralysis or JFK’s severe back problems. But we do expect the mainstream media to ignore it or downplay it, much as they did with those two prior physically, but not mentally, impaired chief executives. The nightmare for the media and those politicos is a sudden physical event that clearly disables him, leading to Kamala Harris’ early ascension as a perfect example of the Peter Principle. Anything and everything will be done by the political glitterati to carry him through to the next election. Perhaps NOT to the extent seen in the movie, “Dave”—where would one find an exact double?
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. Job 21.26
Given all that, when he runs again, how will he win? He has restored a long tradition in American politics. Until the late 1800’s people did not “campaign” for President. It was thought too unseemly. They used surrogates, party apparatus, and journalists to tout their reputations while sitting elsewhere in stately isolation—much as Joe Biden did in the 2020 election. Trump gave everyone a good scare, however, and the Biden machine may have headed off a second unexpected win in the last minute only by the deus ex machina of Dominion and its ilk. No solid plausible explanation has ever been shown for the 3 AM “miracle” on election night in several critical states and districts. Supporting the “consensus” of our government, the Democratic Party, many RINOs, and the mainstream media, no trial of fact regarding possible election incompetence or malfeasance anywhere has ever taken place. Serious attempts at inquiry have been sidelined by authoritative reassurances and courtroom technicalities that preclude discovery. Given the Crisis of Voting Inconvenience established during the Covid Crisis, and amplified by the Climate Change Crisis that would want the voters not to use carbon-based energy to travel to and from an actual polling place, the broadening of methods by which almost anyone, credentialed or not, can record a vote, alive or dead, at least once if not more often, has been actively expanded by the powers that be.
On that basis alone a victory by any Democrat other than Biden would seem assured. But we must not forget the most important part--one key to Biden's re-election will be dumping Harris in favor of Gavin Newsom as Vice-President. This is a solidly winning team for the left and everybody who is desperately afraid of Orange Man Light whoever that may be. Newsom, as a mayor and governor experienced in actually running the progressive agenda, can offer sure "behind the curtain" guidance to the Wizard of Odd in his second and terminal term. Should Biden fail to survive mentally or physically, Newsom will be a welcome step-in assured of continuing and expanding the regime's progressive agenda, and then be in excellent position to serve two more full terms. A full 24 years of Obamaism should be enough to bury the last vestiges of federalism and freedom.
We must also acknowledge the true power of the Trump Derangement Syndrome. All Democrats, many moderates, and a sizeable number of conservatives have joined the Never Trumpers Club. They refuse to see any Republican candidate as other than Orange Man Light. Some “Republicans For Kennedy, Justice restored”, have arisen, but their interest as well as RFK Jr.’s candidacy will be ghosted and cancelled by the establishment media machine. The Democrat Party remembers the lessons taught the Republicans by Teddy Roosevelt and Ross Perot. Allowing even a mildly attractive 3rd party candidate any attention can split a party and give an easy victory to the other party with its phalanx of falsehoods. Regardless of whether some few Trump policies were successful or common-sensical, they all must be painted as inimical to democracy. That is, the Democrat Party democracy. Rule by an international technocratic and financial elite, for the general welfare. Note that last phrase, currently used almost biblically to mean raising the least favored over the more favored (but not at the expense of the most favored), originally referred to the States and their enumerated powers under our Constitution. If in doubt see Noah Webster’s original dictionary of the new “American” language. Given the U.N.’s new insistence on authority over the world’s children’s sexual training and experience, and the WHO’s soon to be affirmed treaty that binds all nations to WHO sovereignty over all human activity under their One Health authority, we may have reached a Gladwellian tipping point. The Deep State’s next election (with the mechanisms they have put in place since the 2016 ‘accident’ there are no longer any ‘our elections’) may begin the long fall of America’s version of the Roman republic. President Biden, by any unbiased review of our past presidential history, is unelectable now. But like the proverbial tree in the forest, when he fails in his basement, it will not have happened, because we and our media “will not hear or see it”.
But I forgot the most important paragraph--one key to Biden's re-election will be dumping Harris in favor of Gavin Newsom as Vice-President. This is a solidly winning team for the left and everybody who is desperately afraid of Orange Man Light whoever that may be. Newsom, as a mayor and governor experienced in actually running the progressive agenda, can offer sure "behind the curtain" guidance to the Wizard of Odd in his second and terminal term. Should Biden fail to survive mentally or physically, Newsom will be a welcome step-in assured of continuing and expanding the regime's progressive agenda, and then be in excellent position to serve two more full terms. A full 16 years of Obamaism should be enough to bury the last vestiges of federalism and freedom.
Weekend at Bernie's is a perfect parallel.