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Failed Coup?
Fun read at City Journal by a former diplomat comparing the current coup to dump Biden to political coups he witnessed serving as a US diplomat in Africa: What Do you Do with a Failed Coup? by Dave Seminara. Concluding comment:
The media thought that they could take Biden down, but it’s becoming clear that he’s not stepping down just because armies of polyamorous, Brooklyn-dwelling sub-editors have soured on him. The question now is: In the wake of their failed coup attempt, how will the media go back to shilling for Biden? It seems like an impossible pivot, but somehow I’m confident that the same lying, dog-faced pony soldiers who told us the president was as sharp as a tack will return to business as usual. That is to say, after a brief hiatus, they will go back to promoting the perceived interests of the Democratic Party, hoping that voters forget all the mean things they said about Joe Biden during the brief, heady days when it looked like the coup was on.
Apparently, Joe thinks Trump is beatable and that he can weather this intra-party assault, after which these herd animals will have no choice but to rejoin him and again rev up the “most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Trump’s fixed support ceiling and Democratic machine power means the Dems are never out of it. Joe and Donald are each still the only guy the other one is likely to be able to beat.
If Biden does not decline even more over the next 39 days and muscles his way to controlling enough of his delegates, the coup is over. In the alternative, the leaders of the coup might pretend fealty, let him get the nomination, then find the political equivalent of a John Wilkes Booth moment after which the party leaders can pick the replacements without tiresome input from pledge-bound elected delegates. But that is a stretch. Even the likes of Claus von Staffenberg and Sidney Reilly failed to change leadership and the Dems don’t have anyone of that caliber on their roster.
Published in General
The Ruthless Podcast boys are predicting a comeback kid storyline. That does seem to be a favorite storyline for the media. Get Biden to the convention and go with, look how he’s turned things around. Joe’s the comeback kid.
The IC had successful coups against Nixon and Trump. They like someone like Biden, so they aren’t working this one. They are trying to return to the Russian Collusion Hoax and warning about Russia interfering in the election.
We have always been at war with EastAsia.
Putin made us believe that Biden was declining just to help elect Trump. Sources indicate that it may have been the the work of the same specialized FSB section that authored the Hunter Biden laptop. [Note “Putin” here refers to the Russian guy not the president of Ukraine as introduced the other day.]
And watch for the Fed to cut interest rates just in time for the election; spawning a phony-baloney stock market rally that, in an effort to blunt one of Trump’s strongest talking-points, they will to use to boast that our economy is the “envy of the world” and “the greatest economy in U.S. history”
My grocery bill must have been higher under Trump. Gas prices have never been lower. And yes, O’Brien, you are holding up three fingers.
They are late to the party. Hakeem and Mika were shilling the comeback kid story right after the debate.
Wow! Shameless. Of course some never strayed from Joe. Jim Acosta was commenting that he enjoys naps too when it came out that Biden’s debate prep included a nap.
The sheer heroism of a man (we now admit) who is noticeably impaired but, gosh darn it, fighting with his last breath to save our democracy must be supported. Yeah, he won’t make it four years without crashing out entirely but we owe to Joe and to America to push him over the finish line…
This is likely. But will likely raise long-term interest rates and hurt homeowners.
The Corporate media can spin a dime to produce any desired propaganda. They will memory hole any previous statements (cheap fakes) and stick to the party line.
The Democratic nominee for president already has the votes for a large majority of Electors. The ‘election’ campaign is just WWE for slobs.
I was assured that the Deep State™ was capable of stealing an election and was in on the fact that the Biden were a “crime family” and that they conspired with the Corrupt Lying Biased Press™ to pull off the former and conceal the latter.
Now you’re telling me what? That the Deep State™ has decided Biden must run and win again (even though he is senile and might not always understand what is required of him) and that some rogue member of the Corrupt Lying Biased Press™ who has all of this proof of Biden’s criminality can’t use it? Or won’t leak it to someone who will?
I mean if you can’t rely on the Corrupt Lying Biased Press™ to do something for ratings or newspaper sales, well, we should all be shaken to our core.
Biden isn’t the only official who has a legacy. I doubt Powell, and by implication the Fed, will make any change to rates. The economy is finely balanced between slow growth and no growth. The rate of inflation continues to decline. Prices of course are roughly 20% higher than 4 years ago. If present trends continue, a rate cut might be in order late in the year.
Why won’t the Fed cut rates to help Biden?
Because Biden’s administration has set a new record for financial incontinence. The Fed has been forced to accommodate every dollar of overspending. I doubt the Fed is inclined to throw Spendy Joe a life preserver.
Given Biden’s age and rate of deterioration, odds are Democrats are going to look back on Biden’s debate performance as the high point of his campaign.
The Fox website is saying Biden has pulled ahead of Trump in the last week too, but I didn’t read further, because I don’t think anyone really knows. I know Democrats will vote for whoever the placeholder is, retarded, deranged, senile or dead.
Claiming FJB is ahead in the polls is the first step in covering for massive fraud in November.
This is correct.
That’s the message from Joe at today’s campaign rally in Detroit.
Many prices are up WAY, WAY more than that. Including prices on very important things like housing. A lot of items that were $1 at local stores pre-FJB, are now $1.65 or more.
Could be. The rate of inflation is a measure of the general price level.
I wonder what things have gone up only 20%? Luxury wines and premium cigars, maybe? That would explain why some people aren’t very concerned.
If it’s correct then why aren’t they using that to move someone else in? Why would the Deep State™ and the Corrupt Lying Biased Press™ not use this information to replace Biden with someone who was more likely to keep the vote with the margin of fraud?
Come on, man. Gotta keep the conspiracy stories straight. Either this level of perceived corruption is real or it’s imaginary.
Patience, EJ. Patience. There is still time.
This is year four. My patience ran out a long time ago.
I saw a long string of X posts today on Obama’s birth certificate. They’re still prattling on about that 16 years later. Somewhere all the conspiracy theories are merging and in the end the mastermind behind it all will probably be Fala, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Scottish terrier who it was rumored was once photographed lifting his hind leg on the grassy knoll in Dallas to mark the spot for Ted Cruz’s father.
Now we all know.
A coup is when you use physical force, without benefit of legality, to take over. Usually, a coup is done with the support of a country’s army.
The term is overused, and nothing described in this thread so far, constitutes a coup. In a real failed coup, people go to jail, are even killed without due process.
So maybe the media that are failing in their attempt to get Biden to leave suffer repurcussions from the government. At worst, the IRS will go after individual reporters. There’s still a modicum of due process involved.
From the City Journal piece:
Comparing this litany of African dictators and their fates I conclude that those referring to the US as a banana republic have it all wrong. Latin American dictators don’t generally live into their 80s or 90s. Mr. Biden is a veritable spring chicken compared to Mugabe and Biya.
No, what we have here is an African kleptocracy. We can look forward to many more years of Biden leadership, with perhaps Joe Biden declaring himself President for Life. Admittedly, that title proved a bit of a stretch for Mr Amin, though he did finish out his life in luxury exile. Alternatively, if Joe descends into a dementia too obvious and embarrassing to cover, maybe Hunter could step into the fray. Admittedly, that would be a more Haitian Papa Doc/Baby Doc situation. In defense of my African kleptocracy thesis, Haiti is more African than it is Banana.
It is as you describe it, a fun read. City Journal is a unique treasure, an island of urbanity in the “clinger” continent of conservatism. The article is light entertainment, however. It’s not just the Trustafarians of Trolley-Dodger land trying to dump Biden. It’s an older group of donors and Democrat dons with names like Obama and Clinton.
Conservatives shouldn’t underestimate their opposition. Axios named “the Clinton diaspora” as well as Bill Clinton himself in their list of coup plotters. Nor is it wise to underestimate Big Media, which includes trending-sane near moderates like Billy Maher aiming his mockery tool at the absurdity of the Biden Family Presidency.
Whether you believe the ghost voters of 2020 are a chimera or in pre-production on a sequel, every Presidential election henceforth will be won by the mobilized, and most by a mobilized middle.
In mid-July 2024 imagining a Democrat ticket beyond Biden-Harris feels unlikely. Imagine harder. The will and power of those wishing to make it so run much of our country, and this isn’t the Chad, Zimbabwe or Equatorial Guinea of Mr. Seminara’s experience.
After you got 12 likes for something I didn’t understand, I had to look that up. Duh!…. It’s been 35 years since I read Orwell’s 1984.
I think the public is already on to those tactics. Notice that Biden didn’t get squat from his belated phony effort to secure the border. His switching college loan burdens onto the taxpayers produced a similar dud, maybe even hurt him.