Getting It Out of the Way

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

First of all, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, yes, I did a quick house cleaning yesterday. Forgive me, readers, for I cleaned, and as we all know when I clean things go weird.

Not that this is all that weird, except for the fact that it has all the appearance of a palace coup. As in, one does wonder if Biden knows he dropped out of his campaign. One does wonder, at that, if Biden is alive, or sufficiently compus mentis to know that he has dropped out. And that’s if he knew he was running in the first place, which one very much doubts.

Some people on Twitter are horrified that someone other than Joe Biden is obviously acting as president. I want to scream, vomit, laugh and hit my head on the wall. First of all, if they don’t think that’s been happening since 2020 they are such wishful thinkers they’re not even in this reality. Second, apparently they’re horrified because the people running the country “weren’t elected” which implies they think Joe Biden WAS elected. Despite the campaign run from the basement, which no one would do unless they were SURE they could win, and the only way to be sure was to have it fraud-locked in place; despite the obviously and clearly hackable voting machines; despite the kicked out poll observers, despite the glaring mathematical impossibility of the vote count; despite the way the democrats acted immediately after, like they were afraid the American people would catch on and tear them limb from limb. Despite all this, these people believed. Because they wanted to believe.

This complacency and this going along with it because no one wanted to “cause a constitutional crisis” — this includes our craven Supreme Court — is why we are where we are now.

A small group never elected to anything is trying to manage perceptions while they behave as they please, hold this great country in vile submission and rotate the nominal presidency among them as they please.

America isn’t gone, because America is not its government but its people, but we are being held in nominal captivity by a Junta that is less legitimate than some banana republic governments.

This isn’t our first time in this situation. Most of the elections that put people like FDR in power were probably unable to stand scrutiny.

And the good news is that we are winning the culture, which in turn will change the politics, hopefully before a Northern Ireland situation eventuates. (Which would be very very bad, because Americans do everything bigger and with more bang.)

But this doesn’t mean we’ll wrestle control back this November. Maybe. Maybe a miracle will occur, in which case we should straighten out our electoral dysfunction then and there, before worse happens.

However, no matter how unpalatable what comes next is — and if they get Big Mike in, it’s very unpalatable indeed — remember that yeah, sure, they can’t win the election, but that’s not the goal and never was.

Their goal is simply to PRETEND to have won it, plausibly enough the usual weak sisters tell us to shut up, and obviously Trump lost, because so mean, so abrasive.

In that sense even Kamala might do, because it distances them from the obvious Biden negatives, gives the opposition research less time, and can count on the bizarre tribalism of many American women (no, not all, but many) who will vote for someone “because vagina” having such low opinions of themselves that they think they should be a separate category with only one requirement of being born with an organ that does not in any way contribute to cogitation.

So while we stand here, in awe of the magnificent dumpster fire, make not the mistake of underestimating the enemy. They have fraud on their side, and fraud is a powerful demon.

Be not afraid, but be not stupid. And if you’re a believer — or even if you’re not. Imagine how surprised the Author would be if you piped up at Him — pray for America.

We’ll survive. We’ve survived worse. But we’re going through a very narrow point with near-endless ruthless door-to-door civil war on one side, and vile submission for a few decades on the other.

Pray we don’t fall either way.

198 thoughts on “Getting It Out of the Way”

  2. Larry Coreia was asked to plot out (as an author) a thriller plot involving the events thus far. He produced the following –

    https://tinyurl.com/2jm24y3c

    And of course our hostess did something similar last week, though that was before the announcement yesterday from the X account that bears Biden’s name.

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      1. About the “if true” the signature on the letter didn’t match Bidens’ usual or autopen one, and he hasn’t been seen in public since then.

        I wonder if he knows that he has dropped out of the Presidential race?

        AndvI think that the Ds had to kick him to the curb because not even the MSM indoctrinated voters would believe the numbers he would have to steal to beat Trump, if he lives to the election.

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      2. About the “if true” the signature on the letter didn’t match Bidens’ usual or autopen one, and he hasn’t been seen in public since then.

        I wonder if he knows that he has dropped out of the Presidential race?

        AndvI think that the Ds had to kick him to the curb because not even the MSM indoctrinated voters would believe the numbers he would have to steal to beat Trump, if he lives to the election.

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          1. I believe he does. Since Harris appears to be running things now, I can’t see an advantage to Dr. Jill to play pretend about the status of her husband’s pulse.

            Now it’s possible that he’s not currently conscious, and the Dems are hoping he recovers quickly so that they can play it off.

            This suddenly reminds me of Def Sec Austin’s sudden disappearence a few months ago for a medical procedure

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            1. What I’m seeing is that the “event” in Las Vegas was actually a TIA event. They initially had the route cleared to LV trauma center, and then decided en route to “medevac” (their words) him to DC on AF1. However, they went to Delaware instead. 🤔🤔

              His boarding and deplaning were apparently consistent with TIA.

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              1. So I don’t think I’m THIS much of a sweet summer child (to quote Our Fearless Leader and Mistress) but…if Biden really did have a TIA or some other sincere medical emergency, and he’s currently at least partially incapacitated as a result of it, why the Kabuki theater? What good does it do? Why not just go ahead and say “Pres. Biden has a this and that and he’s recovering, the Ho has the keys for a few days.” Are these people so used to lying that they literally can’t tell the truth even when it’s the smart thing to do?

                Never mind, I just answered that one myself.

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                1. The only thing that makes sense to me is what I suggested above – that they’re hoping for a quick recovery so that they can pass it off as something that isn’t life-threatening. Admitting that Biden had a close-call with death suggests that he’s physically frail, and weak. It also validates the Republican claims of the last few years, which the Democrats have been desperately denying.

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    2. I hope Larry Coreia is so far out of the leftest orbits that he hasn’t given the idiots any ideas.

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  3. ” … the bizarre tribalism of many American women (no, not all, but many) who will vote for someone “because vagina” …”

    You forget that most of those tribalist women now feel themselves compelled to assert that womanhood has nothing to do with the anatomical structure you mentioned. Some of them even believe it; many others know that they must appear to believe it, to not be expelled from the tribe. Strange days.

    There are so many other parts of your essay I could comment on, perhaps not all comfortably, but that will do for a start.

    Republica restituendae.

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  4. This has the feeling of a “Hail Mary” play-

    Short version of this idea-Biden is completely out of it. Maybe his brain has finally fried due to COVID, or “COVID” (i.e. a stroke), or the medications aren’t working anymore. Or he’s actually dead or completely incapacitated. And to keep the Woodrow Wilson analogy going, they’re keeping him…protected, that’s a good term, protected…until after the election, where they’ll announce things.

    I don’t think anyone seriously believes that Harris can win this election. Even if you convince every self-loathing vagina owner (they aren’t women, in my mind-someone worth that name would see her and know that she’s a cheap whore without any skill beyond rolling desperate overgrown children, not a courtesan of any quality) to vote for her, any path to the White House would involve fraud on such a scale that even the normies would notice. (See the reports of issues with vote counting machines due to Croud Strike in Arizona, which has a proof-of-citizenship requirement for voting.) Which is why the current narrative that they’re building is “Harris didn’t get elected because America is a racist, sexist country that wants to make Project 2050 real.”

    If Trump had caught a suicide from the useful idiot a few weeks ago-in their minds-they think that they could ride a good scam all the way to the White House again for another four to eight years. Instead, even with the news being wall-to-wall “what’s going to happen next” with the Democratic nomination, the Secret Service is acting like five-year-olds caught doing something stupid and thinking that if they keep saying “NO!” in a loud enough voice, they can get away with it. And that is showing up in the news, along with the nomination issues. Trump looking…presidential is showing up in the news, still.

    The poll numbers have to look terrifying.

    And if Trump was to catch another bullet any time soon (which could happen, since we’ve had over eight years of people marinading in “TRUMP IS HITLER BUT WORSE! AND HE DOESN’T EVEN EAT SUGAR!!!” and a popular culture that is glorifying people that are preventing the Darkest Timeline), a few of them with some serious introspection have to realize that things will go bad, and they go bad fast. And there is no good way to disarm the things they’ve set in motion, not quickly at least.

    And Trump is going to come into the White House wanting blood by the buckets. Be assured that he’s in revenge mode and he’s going to not be fooled again by the usual Beltway Elite.

    I would love to read about this story. Twenty years from now, wealthy and having published my thirtieth novel.

    Living through it right now, on the other hand…

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    1. I don’t think he could actually be posthumous now. If he was that would massively simplify the handover to the VP.

      I do wonder if he is seriously incapacitated, and the staffers have decided they need to hide it for some clownshow reason.

      Which will probably explode in as stupid a way as possible.

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      2. One rumour I heard today (from last week apparently) is that there was a serious medical emergency on AF1. Which could explain a few things. Prob’ly Herr Doktor Frau Biden running this SNAFU

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        1. What they fail to be aware of is the fact that their own actions have turned Trump from a man with a cause, into an Icon who now represents Justice. If they do try and kill him again, he will become a martyr against every thing they stand for. They created the monster Trump, and now can no longer keep Trumpzilla out of DC. Interesting times indeed. Keep your powder dry, and know where your bug gout gear is located.

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          2. While I know this was a typo, I want to mention that “bug gout gear” put a very special mental image in my head. A centipede, having overindulged in wine most of his life, now suffering from gout in all hundred feet, moaning and groaning about how he’d like a time machine so he can go back and slap some sense into his younger self.

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            1. As I was recently amazed to discover, Gout is also a complication of some autoimmune illnesses, due to high cellular turnover raising ureic acid levels.

              Ouch indeed.

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            2. If he got that time machine, how long would it take a centipede to slap some sense into his younger self, if he made a point of using as many “hands” as possible?

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            1. Nah. Edith Wilson and Col. House at least had the best interests of the country in mind, even if we now disagree with their philosophy. And they had a VP who didn’t want to be president [!] to deal with. And some uncertainty about a president who was mostly incapacitated but not dead and what succession rules applied to him.

              Yes, Mrs. Wilson was power-hungry, but at least she and House were semi-competent.

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              1. The VP in Wilson’s time was also forbidden by Wilson to come to the White House, because Wilson hated him so much. So the VP set up an office elsewhere, and stayed away as he had been told.

                This meant that there wasn’t anybody to stop Edith’s scheme when Wilson got sick. Which presidents should remember.

                It was sad, because the VP seemed like a good guy.

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              2. Dr. Jill and all the other Dems do have the best interests of their country in mind. It’s just that their country is the Deep State of America. Which sees the MAGA States of America as a defeated, occupied, but still unrepentant enemy nation that they want to inflict a 21st century Morgenthau Plan on. Only this time without flinching due to either humanitarian or prudential concerns.

                And when they scream that Trump is Literally Hitler, they are being civil and avoiding inflammatory rhetoric – they’re holding back how they really feel about him.

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                1. nah, their country isn’t the deep state. It’s just that each truly believes “l’etat, c’est moi”

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              3. I’m pleasantly surprised whenever I find that someone knows of Edward Mandel House. When the someone is TXRed, I shouldn’t be surprised, and I apologize.

                If any here have not read of Colonel House, please do so. He was Woodrow Wilson’s alter ego, or perhaps eminence grise. He is credited with the idea of the swing voter in the swing state, and his chapter in Bobbitt’s The Shield of Achilles is titled Colonel House and a World Made of Law. It could just as well have been titled The Architect of the Twentieth Century.

                As to the Cabal Around Old Slow Joe knowing what they are doing: Yes, I think most of them do. I’m not so sure about Kamala the Shrill (“If she doesn’t creep you, no freaky thing will”), since the kindergarteners she has lectured seem to have more developed higher reasoning than she has.

                How low do you have to go in a morally repugnant organization before you find the functionaries eating their own dog’s breakfast?

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        3. A related rumor, attributed to Charlie Kirk (via RyanAFournier) had Joe having a medical emergency in Las Vegas. LVPD directed to clear the road to the hospital, then told to stand down, with a medevac to John’s Hopkins. After that, the COVID seclusion.

          Kirk said he hadn’t put much confidence in it, but the seclusion and now the weirdness surrounding the dropout, made him wonder. I’m wondering if they’re figuring out the right time to announce that he’s an Ex-FICUS, and no longer pining for the fjords.

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          1. Nah, he’s still got a heartbeat, and likely still breathing on his own, but if he could put words out of his mouth even in a way they could only use by editing them together they would have put a video out.

            They don’t even have anyone saying they got a phone call from him. That is very telling.

            * As they have done previously, albeit ineptly. Have they never heard of using two cameras and hiding your jump cuts with a camera switch?

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            1. Of course the way that last one was microcut together, camera cuts for each edit would have caused epileptic seizures across the viewership.

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            2. If he’s deceased, all the issues with state ballot criteria becomes moot, and Kamala(s handlers) can pick the VP by the convention. Can’t see any obvious reasons why they’d hide it, unless they figure they’re going to need one hell of a distraction in the near future.

              Right now, it’s just a distraction, though they’re trying to overwhelm the fallout from the assassination attempt.

              Regardless, I don’t think FICUS is long for the world. Going to be harder and harder to run the maladministration by surrogate.

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              1. I think he’s obviously incapacitated and they are dodging the 25th so Kammie can campaign instead of honchoing a 25th amendment process through congress – she is after all still the President of the Senate. This would explain why they are not even letting her and Joe’s cabinet officers see him – it’s Veep and majority of the cabinet officers for the 25th, so them seeing him such would be an issue.

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                1. Nod, the VP and a majority of the cabinet members could invoke that part of the 25th Amendment by sending a letter to Congress.

                  Of course, Congress doesn’t really get involved until the President sends a letter to Congress saying that he’s fit for duty.

                  Then Congress gets involved if the VP and a majority of the cabinet members disagree with the President.

                  It would take a 2/3 vote of Both Houses to keep the President from regaining his authority.

                  Earlier I’d said that “Doctor” Jill would have Biden “send that letter” but if she’s “conspiring” with them, then the letter wouldn’t be sent.

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                  1. What if that same Joe account on X posted an “I’m Feeling Much Better!” post? Would that count just like the pdf of the “letter” did? So basically the social media intern could be the one deciding what happens?

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                    3. Somebody on the Bar apparently found a Y-Tube video about that conversation and “heard” Biden.

                      According to him, Biden sounded either drunk or heavily medicated.

                      I’m not sure that it was really Biden.

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                  2. If they have relocated the First Lady to the “Romanov” room in the Rehoboth sub-basement, and let Hunter not go there if he issued his statement, that could explain many things.

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                2. Actually aren’t the Dems down a Senator with Menendez? Or has he not resigned, just said he would?

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                    1. Whatever happens to FICUS, they are going to blame Trump and his supporters.

                      And that could get decidedly ugly if the Donkuloids really are in a panic.

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  5. Well, you’ve probably seen the ad by now… but YouTube, which constantly shows me Dem ads, has finally stopped showing me the Biden and Obama ads.

    They are now showing me a new Harris for President/Act Blue ad, which starts with Kamala saying, “Donald Trump is an existential threat.” She then progresses to asking if we remember the disorder, except it’s said in such a tone that it’s not clear if she means “ooh, those bad Tea Party Jan 6 guys”, as she ostensibly is, or if she’s telling Dems to contribute or else, with donations as protection money to keep BLM away.

    (I’m not only offended, but I’m offended by Kamala’s tone of voice. Come the heck on, people, pretend like you want to win and get her a speech therapist.)

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        1. I hope somebody is doing that third level thinking of “if we try to fraud her in, nobody is going to believe it and we’re either going to have to live in exile or decorate a lamp post somewhere…”

          But considering these idiots…better stock up on rope and pitchforks.

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            1. After 2020 and the recent “discoveries” in (I think) AZ and GA, it’s possible that the judicial Overton Window has shifted just a little bit–enough to get at least some processes halted when An Impropriety of Unusual Chutzpah is credibly alleged (ie. you can see it from the street, and Damon Runyon might have written about it).

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            2. I am honestly interested to see if Crowder’s election monitoring project will make a serious impact.

              It is ambitious as hell, from the sounds of it.

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      2. Given her “talents” it seems to me that a video on the proper use of kneepads would be of greater utility… :twisted:

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      3. First Black,female president, 101% of the voting population will vote her in. How could anyone possibly vote against such a momentous event.

        Because Obama made such a difference to things like driving while black.

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        1. She is not Black. She is a mix: she has an Indian (dot not feather) mother and a Jamaican father; neither one was an American citizen at the time of “Knee Pads” Kamalas’ birth.

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          2. My apologies, maybe I should have made my sarcasm more obvious. She is black under the American standard of black, where 1/4 or 1/8 is enough to be black and that somehow overides the 50?% Indian.

            Unfortunately that bad habit has been picked up around the world this century, so you will have even as low as 1/16 blond haired aboriginal talking about how proud they are of their aboriginal heritage and how they respect the traditions of their ancestors.

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    3. Now there’s another ad for Kamala. She starts with “The former president is a threat,” and it ends up saying that he promised to “be a dictator”.

      OMG. It just gets worse and worse.

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      1. Part of things will depend a bit if Biden’s big facist imagery speech was incompetence, or purposeful.

        If accidental, accidents will occur.

        If purposeful, said facist idjits may have an easier time exploiting Harris.

        Edith was at least careful that Brandon Manson did not bomb too badly on metrics that housewives would naturally be alert to.

        Very tragic.

        If I were not purely watching for injuries, I would offer the Democrats some concern trolling ‘advice’.

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      2. The American reporter/correspondent on Australian news referred to the January 6th coup by trump.

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    4. all i know is these democraps better watch out what they start calling us because i know more than a few guys who wont be civil anymore, personally im going to be the best damn deplorable i can possibly be going forward.

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  6. I was thinking of a plot where in a desparate Leftist staffer goes to The Crossroads to see if they could cut Yet Another Deal with the Devil…

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  7. There are some odd gaps in the endorsements that Harris has collected so far. In particular –

    Ace is reporting that Pelosi is acting supportive without actually endorsing . And she’s attempting to convince Harris that having an open convention will provide a boost to Harris against Trump.

    I’m also seeing claims that Obama (who also hasn’t endorsed Harris) is up to his eyeballs in everything that’s going on right now. No idea who I might support, though.

    The head of the Secret Service met with Trump during the convention. It was probably boring stuff about protection after he formally got the nomination. But what if she threw herself at his mercy, instead, and he told her to stall until he took office? Would be fun, if true. 😋

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      1. I though Gruesome Newsom would be a bet for VP with Harris – but they’re both from the California party machine, and that would be a geographical unbalance. My daughter notes that Pete Buttigieg has been notably quiet lately – no hostile or any other news coverage of him, so perhaps he will be the VP pic. Gretchen “Nurse Ratchet” Witmer would be too unpopular. Hillary is too old and can’t bring herself to play second fiddle again, and Michelle Obama probably doesn’t want anything like the minimal work that would be involved.

        What a team – Kamala-Sutra and Buttplug!

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        1. The Dems are likely oblivious to it, but Buttigieg doesn’t pass the “Giggle Test”. What I mean by that is that you tell a group of teenagers that the campaign ticket includes a gay guy whose name starts with “Butt”. If they start giggling (and they will, in this case…), then the campaign is doomed. Many adults will find it impossible to take him seriously, even if only at a subconscious level.

          Plus, DoT has been an absolute disaster for pretty much the entire length of his tenure there.

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          2. As has been said- people actually know that the secretary or transportation is Buttigieg. That does not bode well for him- that particular slot in government isn’t visible unless it’s screwing up. Quick question- can you, off the top of your head- name any PREBIOUS Sec of Transportation? I can’t.

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            1. Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnel’s wife, SecTrans for W Bush and Trump.

              Elizabeth Dole, Bob Dole’s wife, who successfully extorted states to raise their drinking age to 21 or lose their federal highway funding.

              As you can see, it’s basically a spot to dump hangers on.

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        1. Pfah! As if I… er, I mean Obama would condescend to visit an intellectually lightweight blog like this one! I have .. I mean Obama has much weightier places to visit on the Internet where he comments and.. uh… um… he uh…

          Darn it! Who moved the teleprompter!?

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          2. Hey man don’t complain to me I don’t walk on my own. I fed you decent stuff for 8 years. Did I get a nice new OLED screen or even a regular dusting ? Hell no. Did I get to ride with you on the cushy 747-200 or at least it’s cargo space. No, I rode in some skanky C-17 with the BEAST which smells of gasoline, cheap tires and secret service agents that eat to many beans. For heavens sake, the cargo master in the C-17 was so busy making sure the crew was good with its DEI training they didn’t secure me properly and I’d get banged up every flight. Then I got a new guy who didn’t seem to need me so I sat and got dusty for 4 years. Then you saddled me with your Protoge who barely could read and would go off script on long inane rants about made up characters from the 60’s and 70’s. If you stick me with this new one I’m going to end up throwing Doctor Seuss rhymes up on the screen as it will make as much sense as anything I’ve ever heard her say. If it weren’t for the fact that I’m only 8 years from retiurement I’d be out of here working for some CEO in the defense industry. A pox on you and your whole class.

            Yours Truly,

            TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States)

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            2. First read. “WTH????”

              Read signature. “Oh!” Good thing my keyboard is sealed against liquids.

              Reread. Giggling.

              😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🥳🎇🎆

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    2. I think nobody wants to ride a Harris campaign down in flames. And that’s what is going to happen.

      They might try to broker something where Harris remains VP for a new candidate, but that would be tricky and who wants the top seat right now?

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      1. Maybe they learned their lesson when they rode down in flames with HRC?

        Nah. Who am I kidding. They took the flame ride over the last 4 years with Biden.

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      2. Who wants the top seat? All of them, all the time. But that’s tempered somewhat, for those who can actually think, by the strong possibility that the top seat may well turn out to be lethal, politically and physically. But they do still want it; authoritarians gotta authority.

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      3. On the one hand, yeah. On the other hand, there’s a good chance that some of those people will never get a shot again if they pass up this one. And there’s always a chance that they’ll pull it off. After all, 1992 was supposed to be the Clinton campaign going down in flames.

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      1. This also explains why Meghan Markle thought she was going to run for president for a while — because that was when she was “lunching” frequently with Gordon Getty, to the point that his family started getting worried about it.

        She had a lucky escape from the snakepit, and probably doesn’t even realize it.

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      2. I heard early on that Newsome has endorsed Harris. So if Newsome and Pelosi are plotting something, they’ll wait for a Harris mistep before he declares.

        There isn’t much time to arrange everything.

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          1. It’s the other way around: He would not have proceeded with signing that bill if he had not already been told by Aunt Nancy that he wasn’t going to be running any national campaign this year.

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    4. “Sure, Veep, an open convention will be a slam-dunk for you, and a show of strength to the whole country.”

      I can believe Harris is dim enough to swallow (ahem) this line. What I’m not sure of is whether her abrasive ways have driven off everybody on her staff smart enough to warn her what kind of ambush she’d be walking into.

      I complained here some days ago that we weren’t getting to see all the immensely entertaining behind-the-scenes machinations revolving around how we are ruled. This flashing glimpse gives us the barest taste of the feast we could be enjoying. I’m still miffed that we’re being denied. Neither liberty nor entertainment: the worst of both worlds.

      Republica restituendae.

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  8. Be not afraid, but be not stupid. And if you’re a believer — or even if you’re not. Imagine how surprised the Author would be if you piped up at Him — pray for America

    I just got back from the Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis where 60,000 faithful people prayed for our church, and millions more prayed remotely, for our country and our people before Our Risen Lord from July 17-21. (Intense 24hr each way bus ride for our contingent). It was not a political event in any way whatsoever, but our country was definitely held up in prayer and will continue to be. I also specifically remembered all of you before The Lord and asked for His special protection for you all.

    The ongoing theme was repentance and unity that all believers would come together to heal our broken world with much prayer and sacrifice.

    Please, please, all of you, heed our Dear Sarah and pray, pray, pray for each other, our country, and our world.

    The AUTHOR IS LISTENING. He wants to heal us. He LOVES each and every one of you personally and deeply.

    ’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.’— Jeremiah 29:11

    Just pray and hang on. He’s got this!!!

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    1. The Author also came up with Ornithorhynchus anatinus.

      Looks like my namesake is right and they are going to let KneePads play President while the Bidens get to play the grief card to avoid all the questions…

      So predictible, so eye rollingly obvious…

      You might want to turn media off till August to avoid all the sycopathic statements.

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      1. “…sycopathic…”; a cross between sycophantic and psychopathic.

        If that was intentional it’s beautiful; congratulations! If not, it’s still beautiful, but Someone obviously was controlling your fingers… 😉😆😆

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        1. I was trying to multi-task and failed today.

          I got tired of useless idiots in the corporate world servicing Biden and also ClownStrike.

          Didn’t help that my left brain didn’t want to show up at all.

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        1. Not as cute as opposums.

          Maybe cuter than Himalayan Opossums though…

          What’s a Himalayan Opossum?

          Him-a-layin on the side of the road…

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            1. Nav checks complete and green. Hatch charges armed and green. Turn keys to launch in 3…2…1…

              click ….whoooooshhhruuuumble..THUD ….. ROOOOAAAARRRR!!!

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  9. Can’t wait for the people who said that Biden’s decline was cheap fakes and propaganda to tell us how great Kamala Harris is going to be. I mean, it’s been hours since they last lied to us. We can totally trust them this time honest they swear.

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    1. sheep: “For legs good! Two legs be-e-e-e-e-e-tter!”

      We have always been at war with North Elbonia.

      Fnord!

      For the Liberty of Super Earth!

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  11. I know that they’re still sticking to the cover story of the world’s most conveniently timed COVID diagnosis ever, but if Biden is alive and well, couldn’t he do a video call or something? This cone of silence is unsettling as hell.

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    1. So supposedly:
      White House doctor offers update on Biden’s health status: ‘absolutely normal’

      White House physician Kevin O’Connor released an update Monday on President Joe Biden’s health has he recovers from COVID-1 – one day after Biden dropped out of the presidential race.

      “President Biden completed his tenth dose of PAXLOVID this morning. His symptoms have almost resolved completely,” O’Connor said Monday in a letter to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre.

      “His pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and temperature remain absolutely normal. His oxygen saturation continues to be excellent on room air. His lungs remain clear.”

      O’Connor noted that “the President continues to perform all of his presidential duties” and that “continue to keep your office updated with any changes in his condition or treatment plan.”
      (From Fox)

      So either:
      Biden is hale and healthy and can keep being Pres
      or
      They’ve got some nasty dirt on the WH physician and he either claims Biden is hale and healthy, or the dirt comes out and the physician is ruined and possibly imprisoned…

      Place your bets, place your bets

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        1. More points indicate that the doc is yet another one who’s friends (socially, financially) with the Bidens. It’s been a wild couple of weeks, but I thought I read that the doc was into Yet Another Biden Deal[tm].

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          1. There’s a phone call supposedly from Biden, but those are easily faked. I wish I didn’t even have to consider the possibility that something like this was happening, but that’s where we are right now. If he makes a public appearance with lots of witnesses I’ll be happy to be proven wrong.

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    2. If you game play the possibilities, a tragic departure plays best for all Dems involved…

      Biden family get a pass. Dems get the first woman Prez and no Bidens in the way.

      And Republicans get called “meanies” for bringing up facts or laws.

      The press can do their usual song and dance on their knees…

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      1. “Republicans get called ‘meanies’ for bringing up facts or laws.”

        Well duh. That isn’t news.

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    2. Profile of George Soros – actually a bit odd, as GS is more of a broker than a direct assassin, at least these days.

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      1. It involves the donations to the Biden/Harris campaign.

        The only person that can use it now is Harris.

        If Harris isn’t the Democratic candidate, then the money legally has to be returned to the people who made the donations.

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          1. Well, the problem is Already News so it would be much harder than normal to “bypass”.

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          2. “Returning” the donations to all of the low income retired smurfs who didn’t know that they had donated tens of thousands of dollars to Bidens’ campaign would help their finances, sure, but would massively p*ss off the actual bribe paying donors.

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            1. ““Returning” the donations to all of the low income retired smurfs who didn’t know that they had donated”

              “Returning” the donations to all the dead …

              FIFY

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              1. First rule of Acquisition: “Once you have their money, never give it back.”

                Works for political acquisitions, also.

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        2. Are they going to return it to the people who actually donated, or are they going to return it to the nominal donors whose names they used to launder the donations?

          Because that latter would be hilarious: “Why am I getting a refund from the Biden campaign? I’ve never donated to them! … not that I’m complaining mind you.”

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            2. Thus the question of if those who the China donation names hid behind. Like “Why am I getting money returned? Not that I mind. But I didn’t donate to the brain dead jackal and his …” Just saying.

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              1. I get it, but A) mine was funny, and B) they’d have the cc info for the refund, so there’d be a lot of “Hey, how come Ms. Veronica Stewart in Roanoke, VA has a credit card that goes to a bank in Guangdong?”

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                1. No they wouldn’t. In both 2008 and 2012, Barak Obama disabled all credit card verification checks on his campaign site. I personally verified this.

                  Action by the FEC: NONE.

                  For God’s sake, HAMAS was running a phone bank in Gaza to raise him money.

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          3. “Wait, why is Ukraine sending us tanks?”

            Not that I’ve seen a proposed mechanism from those who believe that one, just trying to come up with the most absurd visual I can think of.

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        3. If they could get away with it, they’d return it to the PAC which collected it, and call it good.

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  15. Biden was using the same strategy as Charles Manson, but different tactics.

    If Harris will continue that strategy, likely to have similar or worse results.

    She may of course be advised by the finest strategic minds that the Democrats have to offer. We shall see what, if anything, she takes away from that.

    Biden was probably given some advice by the finest strategic minds that the Democrats have to offer. Yet, the status quo is what it is, after traveling a perhaps avoidable path here.

    It is not clear to me that I can reliably forecast any of the decision makers, based on the assumption that they are rational actors processing theory in a way I can comprehend.

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  16. “They have fraud on their side, and fraud is a powerful demon.”

    My brain wanted to read that as “powerful enemy” and ended up reading it as “powerful enema.”

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    1. Many years ago amd miles away, a deranged person was breaking into (female) student apartments, would bind the occupant and administer an enema. (I don’t know if it had ever been resolved, or the creep got caught one way or another.)

      It did bring up the doorknock query: “Friend or enema?”

      When 2024 gets too weird, I recall parts of the early-mid 1970s…

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  17. I’ve been saying since 1/6/21 that the 2024 elections HAVE to look squeaky clean. The fortification can’t be bleeding obvious as it was in 2020; there has to be plausible deniability for all of it, or the voting public won’t accept it.

    Seen polls to the effect that a large chunk of Americans believe that “cheating was a factor” in the 2020 elections–well over 60%, of all ideologies–and at this point only massive fortification is going to save their bacon.

    Ought to be quite interesting. But it makes plain that republican voters MUST vote in this election.

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  18. What does it say that our first assumption is that the government is lying to us, and we’re just trying to figure out what they’re lying to us about?

    Or that our assumption is based on so much of their previous behavior? We’re shocked if we find something they haven’t lied about!

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        1. So they say. Some know the that those are lies, but those lies benefit their twisted goals. Hell of a reason to deny reality to Deplorables.

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  21.  …but we are being held in nominal captivity by a Junta

    Well, much in the same way the US Military kept the NVA and VC in “nominal captivity” along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

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  22. … live in interesting times, and come to the attention of important people.

    Though identifying and locating those “important people ” may become more relevant, should ny

    people desire to counsel them on the wisdom of their choices.

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  24. The reaction of the Secret Service is instructive. Are they embarrassed and ashamed by their failure? Are they apologizing for the incompetence that allowed a nutjob to climb up on a roof that was an obvious position to shoot at the President from, and then diddle around with a rifle for 20 minutes before actually taking the shots? Are they expressing doubts about policies that put agents with shockingly obvious lack of ability in critical positions?

    Nope. Instead, they’re whining about all those horrible people saying Bad Things about their Noble Institution, while protesting that They Did Nothing Wrong. They are proving that their First, Last and Only Commandment is the Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

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  25. …for I cleaned, and as we all know when I clean things go weird.

    You NEED to LEAD with that for you next fundraiser. You need a Cleaning Service, or thing go all… screwy. And, mind, that’s 202’s levels of screwy. As in, I am considering trying LSD to see what NORMAL looks like again!

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    2. ”The Nation Cannot Cope With Another Sarah Housecleaning Event! Hire A Cleaning Service For Sarah!! Donate Now!!!”

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        2. No broom today. Broom tomorrow. There’s always a broom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody’s got to have some damn perspective around here. Broom. Sooner or later. BROOM!

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        3. Over three cats is Crazy Cat Lady domain. Unless they are farm cats…

          Just run them through a Flowbee! ;)

          (Already cleaning up after two senior cats here…)

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          1. “Over three cats is Crazy Cat Lady domain. Unless they are farm cats…”

            No. No. No. Not if you are married. Applies to crazy cat gentlemen, too.

            Thus, Sarah, neither of us are crazy cat ladies! Besides it is hubby’s fault we have the 5th cat, not mine. Buddy won’t even have anything to do with me.

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    3. There are cleaning services and there are cleaning services…

      She needs the one that goes after dust bunnies.

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  27. “With near-endless ruthless door-to-door civil war” No, we won’t have a near-endless civil war if we truly go to fighting ourselves again. There are too many outsiders, from individual Jihadists to Nations, that would see our division for the opportunity it would be, and our Nation, as such, would be crushed.

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    1. Are you an actual democrat? No? Then stop drinking their ink.
      Yes, there are a lot of outsiders. They will never work together. The ones inside will fight each other before they fight us. And none of them has ever operated in an armed nation. Most of them will beat feet the minute the set to starts.
      As for other nations? Bah. Russia can’t crush UKRAINE. That’s like the US being able to subdue Ohio. And before you tell us Ukraine has help, sure, but no armament. And if any of Russia’s nukes were operational, Vlad would already have lobbed one at Ukraine, just to silence the derision.
      As for China: NEVER believe a totalitarian country about their capabilities. Their soldiers cried at a slap fest (literally) with India. The Little Emperors generation is not stoic and ready to fight.
      Other nations? Don’t be silly. They might perhaps get a hit of opportunity in, but ultimately only the US. can defeat the US. Pray we don’t.

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      1. If outside countries attack the US while we are having an extreme family argument, there would be blood flowing in rivers the size of the Mississippi, every where. All the fury that was being directed inwards would have an outlet external, and no brakes until the fires burnt out. And afterword’s Americans would probably work out the issues more politely.

        Pray, pray so very much it doesn’t happen that way.

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      2. If the U.S. were to be sufficiently internally distracted the effect would be lots of opportunistic activity elsewhere, long suppressed grudge matches playing out and various internal and border disputes being kinetically resolved.

        If such were so I would not want to be anyplace the use of nukes has been constrained solely by U.S. pressure.

        But intervene here? Nope. Not even the traditional border raids from Mexico by the cartels.

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      3. An actual democrat? No. I am an actual boomer, and was raised with actual enemies outside our borders. Are they only Straw Men, now? I hope so.

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        1. I didn’t think you were. So, don’t let them in your head. Yes, they are paper tigers now. They probably always were but our execrable secret services failed to figure it out. Heilein said they were a waste of space. Apparently he was right.

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  28. Our Hostess said:

    We’ll survive. We’ve survived worse. But we’re going through a very narrow point with near-endless ruthless door-to-door civil war on one side, and vile submission for a few decades on the other.

    This puts me in mind of a scene from Lord Of the Rings. The fellowship has passed through Moria by the skin of their teeth but losing Gandalf. They come to Lothlorien and Galadriel, the Lady of the Wood probes each of them and says to Frodo (I think)

    “Your Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the Company is true.”

    With a bit of luck there are a couple thousand Frodo and Samwise analogs out there trudging along faithfully on what they believe is a hopeless task. With a bit more luck (or the Grace of the Author) they may succeed. In the meantime we have a thousand pages of story to slog through and we’d best be about it.

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    1. I remember the time that, as a tongue in cheek thing, Foxfier and I worked out the just man ratio negotiated by Abraham, and figured that using the best archeological guesses for the ruins corresponding to Sodom and Gomorrah. The ratio worked out to like 1 just man per 4700, and although I don’t remember the details of Foxfier’s math, she showed that according to this ratio, even cities as large as Chicago, LA and NYC needed only fairly modest populations of good people to be spared a smiting.

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  29. I can’t think of many ideas for a thriller, but Maya short story:

    Once upon a time, a fella named Joe wished on a monkey’s paw to be president one day…

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  31. Current theory (or maybe a bit more as it’s been reported by several sources) is Biden suffered a TIA in Las Vegas and after first planning to rush him to the local hospital they rushed him to AF1 and beat feet for DC. That would explain a lot. It does not, of course, explain why they didn’t take him to Walter Reed, as one source alleged they told the LV police they were.

    He has also had a couple of aneurysms in his past, which surely does not help.

    (For anyone who doesn’t know, a TIA is a temporary loss of blood flow to the brain, sometimes called a “mini-stroke.” Doesn’t often cause damage, but is a sign a major stroke might be incoming and is scary in and of itself).

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    1. Er… two so far here. OTOH dad has them every ten years, and is now in his mid nineties. And functional. Seems to be something with his side of the family. And yes, we tend to go by strokes, but QUITE old.

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  33. Ivanova: “Good luck, captain. I think you’re about to go where… everyone has gone before.”

    • B5 s3e5, “Voices of Authority”

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  34. “Joe, I brought you into this office, and I can take you out of it!”

    • B. Obama

    To be sure, the Joetato isn’t being replace because he’s incapable of being president. If that were true, he would never have been installed in 2020, nor would Kamala be allowed anywhere near the office in 2020 or today. The Joetato is being replaced by a palace coup because he can no longer be credibly reinstalled as a figurehead president. Too many people have seen him unmasked and most likely unmedicated, and they are aghast at the sight of what is serving at the White House. This has probably already been said, but I’m late to the party (as usual), and I don’t have time today to catch up.

    I had concerns about BHO because he and his staff were all communists of various flavors, and so diametrically opposed to the US as founded (and he wasted no time expressing that). I had concerns about Biden because he was lifelong grifter of limited intelligence with a large vicious streak. Kamala as president combines the worst attributes of both the previous.

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