Will the Real Defender of Democracy Please Stand Up?
As Joe Biden calls it quits, Democrats 'rearrange the chairs on the Titanic'
So, Joe Biden has finally given up the ghost.
He’s too frail and feeble to run for president but not too frail and feeble to run the country that he has run into the ground. Actually he has not run it into the ground. He can barely run up the stairs of Air Force One. No, it’s been a whole team of country-ruiners.
Truly, on this, the 125th anniversary of the birth of Ernest Hemingway, one of America’s greatest writers, who got to the heart of the matter, the essence is this: American democracy is at a breaking point.
To wit:
Democrats are pretending they just discovered Joe Biden was too feeble-minded to run for president.
Who knew?!
If it was not so sad it would be funny: All those videos of Joe tripping up the stairs of Air Force One and other such embarrassing moments for the presidency, all the while officials insisted, to a one, Joe was as fit as a fiddle.
It is both a national tragedy and a national farce.
The truth is, they realized they could not do their abracadabra trick on November 5 with Joe atop the ticket like they did in 2020 starting on October 15, when 51 intel officials lied about the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell,” saying it was “Russian disinformation,” giving Biden some 17% more votes, pollsters estimate, than he otherwise would have received.
That’s when they stole the election.
Then, came the actual votes.
Mighty Joe Biden, who campaigned from his basement, got 81 million votes in 2020, they say with a straight face—16 million more than Obama in 2012; and five million more than Trump’s 76 million votes, 15 million more than he got in 2016.
The lies are so enormous, it calls to mind what Elena Gorokhova, author of A Mountain of Crumbs, wrote about the Soviet leaders: “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
Besides the fit-as-a-fiddle Biden lie, is the lie that former and future President Donald J. Trump is “a danger to democracy.”
“I took a bullet for democracy,” he told the audience in Grand Rapids, Michigan last night, a week after the assassination attempt on his life he only survived because of a miracle.
And, because of it his stature rose by leaps and bounds over just a few days and Biden bounded out of the race from sunny Rehoboth Beach, after he was hounded out in a bloodless coup.
Six long months from now, Trump will be back in the Oval Office, all things being equal.
Of course, all things are not equal.
Their energies are being poured into eliminating Donald Trump. Apropos of which, it is critically important that we learn how the near-assassination of Trump in that Butler, Pennsylvania field happened so it never happens again. If it was just the kid, we still have to deal with official ineptitude. But it could be far worse. The fact that the kid had three encrypted overseas accounts, said Cong. Michael Walz, forces us to contemplate the worst in the interest of avoiding a catastrophe.
And, now that they have pushed poor old Joe Biden overboard, they can implement the long-time plan to put Michelle Obama atop the ticket.
Notice that Barack refuses to endorse anyone and is urging an open selection process at the Democrat Convention starting on August 19, coincidentally being held in Michelle’s hometown of Chicago.
Perfect for her coronation!
So will the real defender of democracy please stand up?
The Republican candidate who took a bullet and won fair and square in his party’s primary, or the Democrat candidate (whoever that is, wink, wink, nod, nod), whose party has run roughshod over all the rules to try and wrest power once again, by pulling every trick in the book.
While I do not have a crystal ball, given the mess the Democrats have made of the country, I predict the vote will be “too big to rig.”
Or as Gov. Ron DeSantis says, Democrats are rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.
Trump is the real deal and voters know it. As he told the Republican National Convention in his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination three nights ago, “I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.”
As he also said, “They’ve got to stop… destroying our country. We have to work on making America great again, not on beating people. And we won. We beat them in all. We beat them on the impeachments. We beat them on the indictments. We beat them. But the time that you have to spend, the time that you have to spend. If they would devote that genius to helping our country, we’d have a much stronger and better country.” God willing, they will, either freely or otherwise, so that America might be great, once again.
Mary Claire Kendall is author of Oasis: Conversion Stories of Hollywood Legends. The sequel, Oasis of Faith: The Souls Behind the Billboard—Barrymore, Cagney, Tracy, Stewart, Guinness & Lemmon, was just published. Her biography of Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway’s Faith, is being published Christmas 2024 by Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.