The Paris Olympics began last Friday with incomprehensible opening ceremonies that featured a masked phantom running over rooftops, the severed head of Marie Antoinette floating in the Seine, a drag queen torchbearer, and a drag queen depiction of the Last Supper.

The Olympic motto used to be “Citius, Altius, Fortius.”  “Faster, Higher, Stronger.”  In 2021, the IOC changed it to “Citius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter .”  “Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together.”  This latest spectacle may require a further amendment – “Citius, Altius, Fortius, Perversus.”

The start of the Olympics motivated New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin to compare the media’s outpouring of adulation for Kamala Harris to the Olympic event, synchronized swimming.  That was good, but I thought synchronized diving was more apt, as the media, as one, leapt off the platform, did a series of twists and turns, and entered the deep water harmonizing Kamala’s praises.

On reflection, even the diving analogy isn’t quite right.  What we’re dealing with is Olympic level synchronized lying.  For instance, last week the Harris campaign told the lap dog media that she never was named Biden’s Border Czar.  The synchronized lying team immediately went into action, denying that Kackala was ever given such a task.  The fact that everything is preserved on the internet in word, photo and video did not deter the lying media.  As I’ve said before, when history consists only of that which Google spits out, and they can alter the results of searches, any shit can be peddled for the truth.

For the record, here’s the BBC  report of March 21, 2021, “Announcing Ms. Harris’s appointment as his immigration czar, Mr Biden told reporters and officials at the White House: ‘She’s the most qualified person to do it …'”  Here’s what it looked like –Then again, with the masks, maybe it really wasn’t Kamala.

And this is from NBC News no less (and there is no less) – “President Joe Biden tapped Kamala Harris to tackle the daunting issue of immigration in March 2021, but the vice president’s public-facing work on addressing the root causes of migration largely evaporated within months …” “When Harris became Biden’s “border czar,” as critics called her, the administration was under pressure from both sides to address the rising number of migrants — particularly unaccompanied children — crossing the border and landing in poor conditions in U.S. custody.  On March 24, 2021, Biden took the stage at the White House and seemed to hand the keys on the issue over to his vice president.”

There seems little doubt that Kamala was put in charge of the border problems.  But as obsessed with proper gendering as are the Democrats, maybe it’s just the title they object to.  How about Border Czarina?  It matters not.  Whatever you choose to call her, Kamala’s efforts failed.

In pursuit of “the root causes of mass migration” she made one trip to Mexico and Guatemala in June 2021.  She attacked the “root causes” by handing out $9.3 billion of your money.  There followed the entry of some 10 million illegal aliens, including criminals, the insane and terrorists, and Homeland Security admits that more than 85,000 children are “missing” in the United States.

In truth, it’s really not altogether fair to blame Kamala for not stopping migration as Border Czar, because she carried out Biden’s policy perfectly.  Democrat policy was and is to have no borders, and to overwhelm America with invaders.  So I don’t fault Kamala for failing to change the policy, I fault her for carrying out a policy with which she agrees.

The border disaster wasn’t a mistake or an oversight, it was the Democrat plan to overrun the country with illegals.  Kamala is on record favoring free Medicare for all illegals.  This is bound to collapse the system.  Democrats recoil at calling illegal aliens “invaders,” but wars have started over less.

The Declaration of Independence contains a long list of outrages committed on the Colonies by Fat King George.  One example is, “He has sent hither Swarms of officials to harass our People, and eat out their Substance.”  Replace “Officials” with “Migrants” and the actions of Mad King Joe and Queen Kamala are no less outrageous.

The border disaster is just one of the many challenges for the Kamala synchronized lying team to tackle.  To name a few, Kamala covered up Biden’s dementia, she’s was named the only Senator more liberal than Bernie Sanders,  she’s pro-Hamas and anti-Israel, she’s raising money for a BLM rioters’ bail fund, she will continue Biden’s ruinous energy policy, she opposes the Second Amendment, she wants to raise taxes, she’s impossible to work with (more than 90% of her staff has quit), if she can’t read a Teleprompter she’s a horrible public speaker, she compared ICE agents to the KKK, she wants to outlaw private medical insurance, oh and one more thing – she’s just plain dumb.

Can you picture Kamala on the world stage, dealing with Putin, Xi, and the mullahs in Iran?  Here’s her take on the Russia-Ukraine war, “So Ukraine is a country in Europe.  It exists next to another country called Russia.  Russia is a bigger country.  Russia is a powerful country.  Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.  So, basically, that’s wrong.”  Nothing gets past her, huh?

As Ricky Ricardo might say to the Kamala media choir,             “Leftists, you got a lotta lyin’ to do.”  In hindsight, maybe the synchronized lying team by itself won’t be enough.  As I wrote two weeks ago, the Kamala campaign is no more than a Hollywood production.

In this production, the media plays the part of the Greek Chorus.  The chorus was featured in ancient Greek plays, fittingly mostly tragedies.  It consisted of a group of 12 to 50 players who spoke or sang their lines in unison, wore masks, and functioned as one actor rather than a large group of many performers.  The chorus acted as a guiding voice to the audience, cluing them in on plot shifts.

The Greek Chorus description perfectly fits the shameless actions of a media seeking to obscure Kamala’s past image and create a new, fictitious image.  Though they are many, they speak with one voice, while wearing masks that disguise them as legitimate journalists.  Here’s the CNN Chorus –

Let’s switch over to MSNBC –

Now we’ll change channels to go to the heifers of The View –

But Hollywood is more comfortable with modern productions. So how about the tried and true Star Wars Jedi mind trick?  “This is not the Kamala you are looking for.  This Kamala isn’t weird, she’s moderate.  Trump and Vance are weird.”

Who knows, the trick only works on the simpleminded, so it could get her elected.

There was a time when, even in an election year, the Summer months were the quiet time for politics.  Not this year.  It’s still only July and things have been anything but quiet.  On July 13, a would-be assassin came within a quarter inch of killing Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.  Four people were shot and one was killed.

That would have been bad enough, had it not come to light that the shooting occurred only because the Secret Service failed to secure the most obvious rooftop in the area of the Trump rally, from which the shooter fired 8 shots.  The Secret Service says it was short-handed.  Local police assigned to the roof stayed inside because “it was too hot.”  Although the shooter was identified as a threat at least 20 minutes before he fired his rifle, he wasn’t detained, and no one, except hundreds of rally attendees who notified police of a man with a rifle, took any action, till it was too late.

On top of that, it seems requests for more security for Trump were repeatedly rejected by Biden’s Department of Homeland Security.  After he was shot, the Secret Service agreed to increase security, but they’re advising Trump not to hold outdoor rallies.  Good luck with that.  On Tuesday, Dr. Jill Biden’s handpicked Director of the Secret Service resigned.  That same day, Dr. Jill and her Secret Service detail departed for the Paris Olympics.

On July 21, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden finally surrendered to the inevitable, and announced, by means of a social media post, which surprised his own staff, that he will not run for reelection.  I’ve been telling you that since last year.  Old Joe had been stubborn, declaring that he would quit only if the Lord Almighty told him to go.

In the end, it wasn’t the Lord Almighty, but the God Almighty Dollar that caused Joe to fold.  Democrat mega-donors shut off the money to all Democrats.  A Democrat deprived of the ability to spend someone else’s money is the functional equivalent of the Wrath of God.  Then a delegation of Chicago-style politicians visited Joe in Delaware.  They obviously made him an offer he couldn’t refuse (or showed the evidence they would leak) and Joe bowed out.

This put me in mind of a song recorded by Frank Sinatra, entitled Don’t Cry Joe.  The Biden edition would go like this –

Don’t cry, Joe, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go,
Don’t cry, Joe, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.
You got to realize this is the wind-up,
You’re gonna feel much better once they make your mind up.
Don’t cry, Joe, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.
So you lost your mind, it’s happened many times before,
So you sit and mope like a dope, that’s all you’re good for,
Get a hold of yourself, forget it, you’ll soon forget you said it.
There are lots of other scams, so I say,
Don’t cry, Joe, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.

Biden’s decision not to run was the latest such announcement in American history.  In 1968, LBJ made his announcement on March 31.  Chaos ensued at the Chicago convention.    Democrats lost that election.

The nearest parallel is 1920.  Woodrow Wilson had a massive stroke on October 1, 1919.  His wife Edith kept Wilson hidden in the White House, his supporters claimed that Wilson was “in fine shape,” and Edith convinced Wilson he could be renominated in 1920.  Sound familiar?

Democrats went to their convention in late June, without any official announcement that Wilson was dropping out.  It took Democrats 44 ballots to nominate James Cox on July 6.  Democrats lost that election.

Anyhow, Joe endorsed Kackling Kamala Harris.  The Clintons immediately jumped onboard the Kamala train, but Il Duce Obama, Schumer and Jeffries held back.  On Monday, Kamala announced she was going “to work to get the nomination.”  What work?  She called some delegates.  The donors turned the money spigot back on, and by Tuesday it was announced that Kamala “had earned” enough delegates to be nominated.  This was progress for a progressive who “earned” exactly zero delegates when she was a candidate.

At that, Schumer and Jeffries endorsed the Kackler.  The Detestable Chuck Schumer pontificated, “Now that the process has played out from the grassroots, bottom up, we throw our support to Kamala Harris.”

This was rank bullshit, even for Schumer.  What process?  Democrats like to say “bottom up, middle out” as though those words have any meaning.  Kamala earned nothing from the “bottom up,” which implies some connection to real voters.  She got on a telephone with the most influential Democrat politicians and donors and sold herself to them.  Maybe, when Schumer said “bottom up,” he meant Democrats pulled Kamala out of their asses because there was no other alternative.

There has followed an outpouring of media adulation for Kamala which, even for shameless left wing media hacks, has been revolting.  The woman who, last Monday, was less popular than Biden, the woman who has inflicted on America numerous instances of simple-minded word salad, the woman who was put in charge of a border that was then erased, the woman who always appears to be in jeopardy of death, should an original thought ever cross her mind, was transformed into the second coming of Daniel Webster, FDR, and Mother Teresa.

The media may be getting that old Obama thrill down its leg, but all is not as rosy as they make it appear.  There’s dissension in the ranks.  Senator John Tester of Montana, facing a tough reelection battle, says Kamala is not “a done deal.”  Maybe he means, with her on the ticket, he’s done.  In addition, Il Duce Obama is conspicuously absent from the league of Kamala endorsers.  Rumor has it that he doesn’t think she can win.  The convention is in Chicago, Kamala, so watch your back.

And get this one.  Black Lives Matter, a racist organization run by avowed Marxists, has denounced the Kamala coronation, and has demanded a primary to “protect democracy.”  The fact that a group whose announced purpose is to destroy our form of government is seeking to “protect democracy” proves that Democrat warnings that “democracy is on the ballot” are just so much leftist happy horseshit.

The truth is, despite the praise they’re heaping on Kamala, she has a lot of work to do.  As this is written, she trails Trump in every swing State:  -6% in Arizona; -7% in Georgia; -9% in Nevada; and -2% in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.  So far, Kamala has “earned” nothing.  She’s simply been promoted for her chronic and habitual lying to the American people about Joe Biden’s obvious dementia.

The Democrat convention is about three weeks away.  How they will handle compliance with State ballot laws that require the nominations to be done before August remains unclear.  What will happen when they get to Chicago on August 19 is equally uncertain.  I’m sure BLM will be heard from.  Don’t you just love the Summertime lull?

As William Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women only players.”  That observation clearly applies to our current political situation.  As this is written, it’s become nearly certain that Joe Biden will be removed from the ticket.  That’s because word has come down from the true authority that’s in control of the Democrat Party – Hollywood.

After the June 27 debate, actor George Clooney, with the approval of Il Duce Obama, had a letter published in The New York Times, calling for Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden to be removed from the presidential ticket.

Clooney is a big fundraiser for the Democrat party.  About two weeks before last month’s debate, Clooney co-hosted a Los Angeles fundraiser for the Biden campaign that raised $30 million — breaking the record for the Democratic Party’s largest fundraising event.

But after wringing $30 million from a group of ignorant leftist A-holes such as himself, Clooney decided we need a new nominee, because the president he saw at a fundraiser in June “was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”

After professing his love for Joe Biden, Clooney admitted that the Biden he was with last month was not the Joe Biden of 2010 or “even the Joe Biden of 2020.” Clooney further admitted that, faced with the prospect of a second  Trump presidency, the Democrat party has “opted to ignore every warning sign.”  Clooney admonished, “our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw,” at the debate.

Clooney explained that his sudden reversal was “about age. Nothing more.  But also nothing that can be reversed,”  adding, “We are not going to win in November with this president.”

As with every other lying phony leftist, Clooney pretended that Sleepy Joe’s mental condition was “new and upsetting information.”  Clooney wasn’t finished.  After hitting Biden with the shovel, he decided to bury his body, but in so doing, Clooney spilled the secret most thinking people already knew.  “This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private.  Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.  We can put our heads in the sand and pray for a miracle in November, or we can speak the truth[now that our lies have been exposed].

The letter immediately sparked what could be called the Hollywood Sidestep, with media talking head after talking head mouthing the same scripted line- “Biden should step aside.”

An even more repulsive Hollywood A-hole, “Meathead” Rob Reiner, was more blunt, writing that Clooney had “clearly expressed what many of us have been saying. … We need someone younger to fight back.  Joe Biden must step aside.”  Reiner warned, “It’s time to stop fucking around.”

The Clooney letter and its aftermath proved that the farce that has been the Biden presidency has been nothing more than a show, produced by deluded leftists, some of whom actually believe that it’s actors and so-called celebrities who know what’s best for America.

Clooney’s letter release was just another Hollywood production.  It was published at the behest of Producer-Director Il Duce Obama, who had final script approval.  George Clooney was the star of the show, chosen by the Producer as the actor who might convince Joe Biden that it’s time to go.  He was the perfect Hollywood choice for the job.  After all, Clooney played a president of the United States in a Spy Kids movie.  For Hollywood, that’s the only qualification necessary.  It put me in mind of the scene from Animal House, “You better listen to him, he’s pre-med.”

Joe Biden won’t listen to Clooney, though.  I can’t understand why not.  He must know that he’s really just the person they cast in 2020 to pretend to be the President.  Biden played his part well enough for a while, but he has become unpopular. He was chosen because he could beat Trump, and now that it appears he can’t perform that role, the role must be recast.   After all, in Showbiz, it’s all about the ratings.  When the box office turns against the actor, the actor is out.

I remembered something that 1940’s actress Mary Astor once wrote, which aptly summarizes the four stages of Hollywood casting: Who’s Mary Astor?  Get me Mary Astor!  Get me someone like Mary Astor.  Who’s Mary Astor?

That description applies to the situation of our current Chief Executive – 1988 – Who’s Joe Biden?  2020 – Get me Joe Biden!  2024 – Get me someone like Joe Biden.  2025 – Who’s Joe Biden.  Only Biden won’t leave willingly.

He insisted on holding a “Big Boy” news conference this week. The conference was filled with gaffes, including calling Ukranian President Zelensky “Putin;”  calling his vice-president “Trump;” and a reprise of Biden’s creepy whispering.

This was nothing new.  Before the debate the Left ignored gaffes from “good old Uncle Joe,” and denounced anyone who mentioned them.  It didn’t matter because it was all part of the show.  Biden was just playing his part.  Now they want to recast the part, so they seize on any gaffe.

The problem may be that Clooney’s word alone isn’t enough.  Maybe they need to enlist the help of other actors who have portrayed presidents.  Biden might listen to a media-type.  Steven Colbert played a president in Monsters vs. Aliens.  Maybe a business-type guy.  Mark Cuban played a president in a Sharknado movie.  Biden has claimed he grew up in black churches.  Morgan Freeman played presidents four times.  Maybe they can make use of the age issue.  Harrison Ford, 82, and Gene Hackman, 94, have both played presidents.

I’ve got it!  Jack Nicholson was the president in Mars Attacks!  He could relate to Biden, one dementia patient to another.   Better yet, let’s call in Martin Sheen.  He has all the bases covered, having portrayed fictional President Josiah Bartlet, real president JFK, and to check the insurrection box, Robert E. Lee.

Biden should be grateful that Obama and Clooney are trying to ease him out gracefully.  Clooney at least told Biden he loved him before plunging the knife into his back.  But maybe it was just a genre problem.  Perhaps, instead of a drama, Biden would prefer a musical.  Hollywood can take care of that, no problem.

Get me Patty Lupone and Mandy Patinkin, for a remake of Evita.  In that play and movie, there’s a song entitled, Goodbye and Thank You.  In it, Eva Peron and Che Guevara sing of Evita’s breakup with tango singer Augustin Magaldi, which permitted her to begin her love affair with Colonel Juan Peron.  The ballad they would sing to Joe Biden would go something like this –

Goodnight and thank you, Joe Biden
You’ve completed your task
What more could we ask of you now?
Please sign the book on your way out the door
That will be all
If we need you, we’ll call
But I don’t think that’s likely somehow

Oh, but it’s sad that when a love affair dies
The parting, the closing of doors
But we must be honest, stop fooling ourselves

Which means “Up yours!”

Cut!  Print it!  Better take Clooney’s advice Joe, or you’ll never work in this town again.

[Note – Events are moving so quickly that it’s hard to keep up.  As a result, mid-week updates may be necessary]

No, I’m not advocating the use of mass transit.  But I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of the bus under which the Democrats are preparing to throw their 2020 savior, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden.  The worm, as they say, has turned.  Or, as Il Duce Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright once observed, “The chickens are coming home to roost!”

It’s looking more and more like the June 27th debate was a Democrat plan to trigger the removal of Biden from the 2024 ticket.  I’ve heard suggestions that the early debate was a stress test to permit Biden to allay concerns about his ability to continue.  I don’t buy it.  Biden’s handlers knew the shape he was in, and they purposely led him to the slaughter.  I would not be at all surprised if his medication was purposely altered or withheld to ensure his failure.

Why would a political Party do such a thing at this late date?  Necessity is the mother of conspiracy.  The Democrats have painted themselves into a corner, and desperate times call for desperate measures.

Whoever is really running the government (Obama) has decided that Old Joe isn’t up to the job and he must go.  Mind you, this conclusion wasn’t in any way motivated by the fact that Biden is senile, weak, crippled, and a threat to national security.  The motivation was more elemental.  If they can’t fool enough of the voters to get the pathetic wreck reelected, they will lose their power, and with it their ability to continue their planned destruction of the United States.

The debate was the signal to the media that it was time to expose Biden for what he is.  Calls for Biden to leave the race began immediately, and have spread to a number of elected Democrats.  You can be sure that the Dems have directed their media lapdogs to attack when The New York Times, the paper that buried the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story, this week reprinted a Post story about a Parkinson’s disease specialist calling at the White House.

For his part, Biden is still in there pitching, but he’s hardly helping himself.  In a July Fourth appearance, he declared, “Ho, ho, ho, happy Independence Day.”  He later told a radio interviewer, from a station that had been supplied safe questions in advance, that he was proud to have been “the first black woman to serve with a black president.”

When George Stephanopolous asked him if he would take a cognitive test, Biden claimed that he takes one every day.  When asked if he would quit, Biden was adamant, “I’ll go if the Lord Almighty tells me to go.”  I guess it’s time to call in Il Duce Obama. I’ve heard some interesting insights from Dan Bongino, who as a Secret Service agent was on the White House detail.  Bongino advises to watch for signals from David Axelrod, James Clyburn, and Senator Mark Warner.  For Biden, the signals from those three have been anything but positive.

Axelrod, who is for all intents and purposes the public voice of Il Duce Obama, starting questioning Biden’s ability to continue on the night of the debate.  Bad news for Biden.

Mark Warner, who Bongino asserts is in the pocket of the Intelligence community, is actively trying to gather a group of Senators to go to Biden and convince him to quit.  So far, Biden is resistant.  In an interview with Joe Scarborough, Biden dared rivals to “Run against me.”  If the intelligence crowd wants him out and he doesn’t relent, well, accidents sometimes happen.

Clyburn, the South Carolina Congressman who’s influence with black voters made Biden the 2020 nominee, after he had lost in Iowa and New Hampshire, has suggested a “mini-primary” that would permit other candidates to run for the nomination before the August convention.

But Democrats have a problem.  After the 1968 Democrat Convention fiasco in Chicago, they changed the rules to ensure that the delegates would all be in place before the convention, to avoid late challenges at the convention.  Biden has all the delegates in his pocket.  But faced with Biden’s now public mental and physical deficits, Clyburn wants to change the rules a month before the convention.

An additional problem is, even if Biden is dislodged, the usual suspects on the list to succeed him are no more popular than he.  The leading suspect, Kamala Harris, is less popular than Biden, but she is the frontrunner in the race to replace Old Joe.

Passing over a black female to nominate someone else would spark a war within the Democrat Party.  Clyburn says he’s supporting Kamala.  Case closed.  Campaign funding also comes into play.   If Biden is removed before he’s officially nominated, he can’t give the $220 million donated to the Biden-Harris campaign to another candidate.

As this is written, Democrats are having closed-door meetings to discuss what to do with Joe.  They have a dilemma.  If they agree Biden is too impaired to run for president, that means he’s too impaired to be president right now.  But he won’t leave, and they’re not prepared to invoke the 25th Amendment.  I suppose they can go back to Plan A – just keep lying.

Pardon my glee at the prospect of Leftist A-holes tearing one another apart in a vain attempt to put the right Progressive maniac on the ticket so they can stay in power.  There’s not yet unanimity on the Left to throw Joe out.  Once again, the calculus isn’t that Biden is mentally competent and deserving of reelection.  It’s that he may be the only one they’ve got who can beat that epitome of evil, Donald Trump.

Witness the wisdom of that eminent political commentator, Whoopi Goldberg. “I don’t care if he’s pooped his pants.  I don’t care if he can’t put a sentence together.  Show me he can’t do the job, and then I’ll say, maybe it’s time to go.”  Clearly Whoopi has low expectations for Biden’s job description.  I’ll translate.  As long as Biden is capable of continuing to pretend to be president, she’s okay with him.

MSNBC commentator (or is it Commisar) Ali Velshi echoed the Whoopi line.  Velshi said that, whether or not Biden is mentally incompetent is “almost irrelevant” because, “the election is between any Democratic nominee and the downfall of American democracy.” “Today, our great American experiment is at risk of collapse.  Rid yourself of the notion that this is simply a race between two parties.  This is a fight to preserve our hard fought freedoms.  We have two candidates. One stands for democracy and one doesn’t.  That’s the beginning and the end of the realization that voters need to have.”

For the crazy bastards at MSNBC, if a majority of voters choose to elect Donald Trump, that’s not “democracy.”  You see, according to the the know-it-all Left, anyone who votes for Trump is too stupid to understand that he’s an existential threat.  And a threat Trump surely is.  He’s a threat to continued anarchy, lawlessness, and the Left’s plan to crash our system and replace it with a new Socialist Worker’s Paradise.

So stay tuned, I can hear the bus approaching.  It won’t be long now.

When I watched last Thursday’s presidential “debate,” it was obvious to me that Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden exhibited a tenuous grip on reality.  He looked lost, he  rambled, he frequently descended into word salad, and several times, he made statements that were, at best, non sequiturs, and at worst, simply preposterous.

It can’t say that I was surprised.  On the rare occasions when Biden appears in public, he often mutters, stutters, and makes little sense.  So sure, as I watched, I concluded that Biden wasn’t doing well, in a “debate” that he had asked for, and under the rules that he had set.

What did surprise me however, was the reaction of the lap dog media that’s been propping up Biden throughout his presidency.  When the show ended, I began to hear disturbing reports that all was not well in Democrat land.  This caused me to do something I almost never do.  I put on CNN to hear the post-debate analysis of its all-leftist panel of Democrat apologists.

I expected to hear what we normally get from that crowd; a dutiful positive review of Biden, accompanied by a scathing denunciation of all things Trump.  That’s not what we got.

The CNN rogues gallery of leftists was in a panic.  They said Biden was “hoarse and sometimes unintelligible.”  Van Jones, after professing his love for Joe Biden, said, “That was painful,” and that Democrats “need to find a different way forward.”  Chris Wallace opined that Biden is not capable of doing any better than he did.  One of the panelists offered the opinion that subjecting Biden to the ordeal was elder abuse, asking, “What if that was your father up there?”  He had a point.  If this was a fight they would have stopped it.  Il Duce Obama veteran David Axelrod said, “There is a sense of shock.”

On the even more radical MSNBC, the outlook was no rosier.  Joy Reid reported getting texts complaining that Biden appeared feeble and weak.  She added that Democrats were “approaching panic.”  Nicolle Wallace said “there have to be conversations” about replacing Biden, adding that the convention rules were “being circulated.”  Obama campaign manager David Plouffe announced that, “It’s kind of a DEFCON 1 moment.”

I was struck by the Axelrod take on the event.  There was a sense of shock?  It put me in mind of the scene in Casablanca, where, as the police chief is being handed his gambling winnings, he tells Rick, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.”

Honestly, what did these people think?  How many times on these pages have I said that Joe Biden lies, and the media swears that whatever he said is true?  The media panelists were shocked to see the condition of Joe Biden?  I hardly think so.  They have permitted his handlers to hide him from the public for the last 3-plus years.  And they have dealt with his rare, and embarrassing, public appearances by simply ignoring them, or by parroting the White House lie of the day.  If there was any shock among the lapdogs, it was the inescapable fact that the jig is up, and they can’t continue to lie and be believed by the Democrat rank and file.

The panicked texts that they were getting weren’t from fellow “journalists.”  They were coming from friends who are loyal Democrat voters who are finally realizing that everything they’ve been told about Joe Biden has been a tissue of lies.  Keep in mind that the perhaps 25% of voters who will vote Democrat no matter who or what is on the ticket, accept the leftist spin no matter how improbable or downright preposterous it may be.

When a liberal commentator standing in front of a burning building told them that a leftist riot was “mostly peaceful'” they believed it.  When they were told that Hunter’s laptop isn’t really Hunter’s, but is instead a Russian intelligence operation they believed it.  So when White House spokes-liars and their media assistants hid Biden from the public, and then swore that he was “sharp as a tack,” on top of every issue, and that the video evidence of Biden’s decrepitude was a MAGA “deep fake” operation, they believed that crap too.

These are the people who rely on whatever they’re told by the media.  The media obliged by feeding them lies that they wanted to believe.  These fools got high off their own stash.  It’s good that they’re finally shocked,  because on Thursday, they were forced to confront the truth.  Joe Biden is a physical wreck with mental deficits so acute that he shouldn’t be in charge of an ice cream shop, much less the United States of America.

The sad fact of the matter is that the Left isn’t shocked that Joe Biden has dementia, can barely move, and that his weaknesses make him a threat to national security.  They’re perfectly willing to reelect him, knowing that he can’t do the job, because they expect whoever has been running the country to continue to do their Progressive bidding.

Apparently Joe Biden is the only one who didn’t know that he’s in the White House only because he was a useful idiot who would do the bidding of Democrats who needed to find someone to beat Donald Trump.  But Old Joe, although still an idiot, isn’t useful anymore.  They’re not shocked that he’s incompetent.  They’re shocked that he might not win.  The New York Times editorial board therefore has decreed that it’s time for Joe to go.  They’re prepared to select a different empty shell to pretend to be president.

The possibility that Democrats could lose their power is what’s causing all the shock.  They want someone new, but who?  As New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin has written, “The Trump haters will rally around a dead racoon if they think it will win the White House.”  If that’s the case, they should stick with Biden.

For Joe’s part, he says he’s not going anywhere.  Amidst the hue and cry to replace Old Joe at the convention, so far, both Bill Clinton and Il Duce Obama have expressed support for Biden’s continued candidacy.  That means one of two things.  They either have concluded that making a change at the convention can’t be accomplished without making matters worse, or they already know that they’re going to take Joe out, and are just putting him at ease.  I predicted that that long ago.

As for Donald Trump, he did enough to beat a near-dead opponent.  He followed the rules, and countered the Democrat argument that he’s a raving Nazi.  And he had a couple of devastating comebacks to Biden’s gibberish, like, “I don’t know what he just said, and I don’t think he knows either.”  That said, Trump had the perfect opportunity to explain why his policies will make America better, but he spent too much time beating an already dead horse.

All in all, this was a far cry from most debates, that end with the judgment that, “Neither candidate moved the needle.”  Stay tuned for what should be a fascinating next four months. Here’s hoping that the Democrat convention in Chicago is a replay of 1968.