There are not many places in the world that have a chief executive analogous to the American President, a single person who is both the head of state and the political leader of the nation. Most places have something similar to the UK, with a monarch or other figurehead who holds little political power along with a Prime Minister who runs the government and is responsible for policymaking.
In this country, what we tend to have is somebody who is supposed to fill both roles but who is much better at one than the other. LBJ, for example, is generally regarded as a political genius but an extremely crude man who was an embarrassment as a president. Bill Clinton was much the same---a politician who always thought three steps ahead, but a rapist and apparent sociopath in his private life. Jimmy Carter was the opposite, a kindly and soft-spoken religious sort who had no clue how to deal with the economy, foreign countries, etc. Occasionally, you get a guy who can handle both roles. Reagan was courtly and charming but knew how to get things done. Obama also was very effective in the dirty world of politics but was generally admired as a gentleman and a family man.
And what is Biden? Well, he’s not exactly a President, is he?
Biden is the head of state. He doesn’t seem to work much, except in public events where he will have a few words to recite from a teleprompter. Photographs are taken. He shakes hands with the Israeli foreign minister. He has lunch with an important diplomat from somewhere. Then he is taken to Rehoboth, Delaware for a long weekend where he is photographed eating an ice-cream cone. Always, no questions may be asked unless it is a brief, planted question for which Joe has been prepared with an answer.
Joe Biden does not make policy or craft legislative plans or strategize around a political agenda. He is not capable of doing those things anymore. Twenty years ago, he might have functioned as a real president, but of course, nobody wanted him to be president twenty years ago. It was only when he reached his dotage that he became useful for the Democrats as a figurehead. He is told what to do and what to say, he is rehearsed for his public appearances, and then he is taken back to his rooms for a nap.
This is the third term of Barack Obama. About 75% of the staff in the West Wing, and everyone of significance, previously worked for Obama. Susan Rice, who recently left the White House position as domestic policy advisor, was Obama’s national security advisor and UN ambassador. Among other things, she oversaw passing Biden’s trillion-dollar infrastructure spending bill and supervised immigration policy on the Mexican border. She has been, in effect, Obama’s chief of staff throughout the Biden “presidency.”
And for the Democrats, this clandestine version of the UK’s bifurcated executive has worked well. The biggest benefit is that Biden automatically becomes the fall-guy for the disasters wrought by Obama and the Democratic politburo during this administration. The bizarre departure from Afghanistan, leaving thousands of Americans behind enemy lines and bequeathing tens of billions of dollars’ worth of state-of-the-art military equipment to a regime rooted in 8th-century values---that little booboo belongs to Joe. And so does the human trafficking now rampant along our open southern border.
But now there is a problem. The Democrats were able to drag Joe across the finish line in 2020 for several reasons. First, there was an unprecedented enthusiasm among Trump-haters and a widespread willingness to use any method to defeat him. Then, when authentication-free, mail-in voting became legal in many states, new methods of cheating were available for the first time. But now the many policy failures of the administration, and Joe’s increasingly obvious age and senility, mean that he will have to be replaced.
This must be done gently, but the process has begun. For more than two years, the corruption of the Biden family and the millions in bribes accepted from foreign powers has been suppressed by the media and censored by tech companies, but now bits and pieces of this story are being allowed to appear in outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post. In addition, one tiny story about Joe’s health was published about three weeks ago---he is now using a CPAP machine to help him sleep. This is especially significant because absolutely NOTHING at all negative about Biden’s health or mental capacity has been permitted in the state-controlled media since he was nominated in 2020, and there was no necessity to report this CPAP story at all. It would seem the only reason to release it is to begin laying the groundwork for a “Joe-is-getting-a-little-too-old-to-be-president” explanation for why he must step aside.
But how to replace him, and by whom? Joe Biden was the perfect figurehead in part because he was not capable of being a real president. But how do you get Gavin Newsom, at age 55, to stand in front of the cameras and eat ice-cream? You can’t. If Biden steps aside and Newsom wins, he will be glad to take Obama’s phone calls, but he will insist on his own aides, his own West Wing, and his own policies. There will be no fourth term for Barack Obama.
The Democrats have been very successful in forging a united front for electoral purposes. In 2020, Bernie Sanders was persuaded to drop out and fade away, Buttigieg and Kamala Harris were bought off with high-level positions, and the decks were cleared for the third Obama administration. This time, however, the attempt to replace Biden with another figurehead will likely lead to a schism. Democrats like Newsom will stand aside if Joe runs as an incumbent president, but if Biden is dropped there will a challenge to the Obama reign and the new Obama avatar.
When that happens, Obama will have to drop the pretense. If, for example, Obama chooses Kamala Harris as his fake president, it won’t work because Newsom (or other Democrats), would crush her in the primaries. The only way Biden was nominated in 2020 was that all the other legitimate candidates were forced to buy into the scam, but Newsom and other candidates would have no reason to do that this time.
In 2024, in other words, the figurehead must be someone everyone knows will be a figurehead. That’s why the 2024 Democratic nominee will probably be Michelle Obama, and everyone will know up front that she will be spending most of her presidency on Martha’s Vineyard or Ibiza while her hubby is doing the actual president stuff.
The objection I always hear to this theory is that Michelle won’t do anything involving actual work, and that all she is willing to do is vacation and shop and hang with girlfriends. All that is true, and the negotiations in the Obama household regarding her presidential role from 2025 to 2029 would make for fascinating eavesdropping, but there can be little doubt she will fall into line. In their minds, you see, it’s never a power-grab or a coup d’etat, it’s what needs to be done “for the good of the country.” She won’t want to do it, but she will.
January 20, 2025: President Michelle Obama. Get used to the idea.
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I suppose I would be remiss in this review of the 2024 Democratic candidates if I failed to mention Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an announced contender for the nomination. Early polls had him taking 20% of the Democratic vote for the nomination (a number that has now dropped to about 10%).
On the plus side, he certainly has name recognition across the country, and from the first moment, he was right about every aspect of the COVID lunacy that swept the country for the past 3 ½ years. Unfortunately, he is a sideshow in the political world, and he will simply be disappeared by the state-controlled media and tech companies as the campaign becomes more serious.
The biggest problem for him is that NO ONE in a position of power wants to discuss what happened during “the pandemic.” Whether they are elected officials at the state or federal level, bureaucrats, part of the medical and healthcare establishment, media companies, technology businesses, pharma, or the judiciary, and whether they are Republicans or Democrats, virtually everyone has a lot to hide and nothing to be proud of. Holding our officialdom and elites in some way accountable for the lies, the deaths, and the economic meltdown they engineered will not be permitted so long as those same people are in charge. This is why the lies continue to this day and why someone like RFK Jr. is pilloried as a conspiracy theorist and a loonie. He was right about COVID and everything he said has now been proven correct. But that doesn’t matter.
The other problem for RFK Jr. is that he is a conspiracy theorist and a loonie. OK, that may be a bit harsh. However, in addition to his views on COVID, he is known for his beliefs that 5G causes cancer, fluoridated water makes children stupid, the 2004 election was stolen from John Kerry, and childhood vaccines cause autism.
These are all areas where serious inquiries may be made, of course, since that is what rational people are supposed to do, but RFK seems to have come to conclusions on these topics that cannot really be justified by existing knowledge. It is wrong, and ignorant, to dismiss the theory linking vaccines and increased levels of autism, or to laugh at the people who propose such a link. However, RFK doesn’t just propose it or theorize about it. He is convinced the issue is settled and that vaccines cause autism. The evidence supporting that conclusion does not exist.
But by far the most troubling aspect of Kennedy’s advocacy has been his maniacal support for worldwide efforts to fight climate change or global warming. In this area, he has been a true believer for decades, once demanding the “death penalty” for Exxon and Koch Industries because they sponsored “climate lies.”
Very recently, there is some evidence he is beginning to see that the climate totalitarians are the same people (the WEF, Gates, Schwab, leftist green groups), using the same methods (inciting panic, throttling free markets and economic growth, redistributing wealth worldwide, reducing population, imposing non-democratic “emergency” government), to achieve the same ends that the COVID fascists have sought for the past 3 ½ years. But for thirty years, Kennedy swallowed the entire package---the hockey stick, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Siberian tree rings, electric cars, “hiding the decline,” insect-eating, etc. For someone who claims to be devoted to human liberty, democratic principles, and scientific truth, how could he possibly miss the totalitarian agenda of the Green New Deal, the Great Reset, and the “global crisis” of climate change?
It would be wonderful for America, and even for the world, if Kennedy were permitted a national TV platform with other candidates. I agree with him that the most important issue in this election should be holding accountable those who tried to use COVID to eliminate our fundamental human rights and destroy our system of government. It’s just not going to happen.
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