Rumours churn' over Biden's 'mental capacity' amid calls to invoke 25th amendment
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'Stand by your man' not something Kamala does well!
Former Secretary Clinton set the tone back in 1992:
"“I’m not sitting here some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.”
It looks like we are watching Kamala's version of Hillary's line. Of course, Hillary was talking about standing by her husband the candidate. Kamala refuses to stand by her man the president.
What do you do when you get tired of standing behind Joe Biden wearing that mask? Well, you can use your eyes or body language to tell the world that Willie Brown was right about this thing called the vice-presidency. Or, you can take a fancy plane out of town and tell everybody in Asia that the U.S. is as firm as ever in supporting our allies.
Well, we will see how this trip goes but the lady Vice President is on her way:
The vice president is expected to use the trip to communicate U.S. views regarding China's growing power and influence in the region -- including the communist regime’s efforts to take control of the South China Sea.
Harris' Sunday plans following the long journey were not immediately clear.
On Monday, she is scheduled to speak by phone with Singapore President Halimah Yacob and participate in a bilateral meeting with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, according to The Associated Press. Harris and the prime minister are expected to field questions from reporters during a joint news conference, the AP reported.
She is also scheduled to deliver a speech aboard a U.S. combat ship in Singapore, the report said.
We will see how the men and women on that combat ship react. I'm sure that they are watching their brothers in arms defending the Kabul airport.
To be fair, vice presidents take foreign trips. VP Harris is not the first. At the same time, I can't recall the last time that a # 2 had a scheduled visit to the place that everyone is comparing Afghanistan to, i.e. Vietnam.
I can't believe that they couldn't reschedule this one along the grounds that the VP needs to stay in Washington because there are urgent matters on the agenda. On the other hand, maybe President Biden was happy to see her go, given how unhappy she looks behind him.
"Stand by your man" not a song on the VP Harris playlist!
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Kamala Harris Cackles as Reporters Ask Her About Afghanistan
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is currently traveling through South Asia, busted out in a fit of laughter when reporters attempted to ask her about Afghanistan.
“Hold on, hold on, slow down, everybody,” she said, laughing as a reporter began questioning her about Americans who are trapped in Afghanistan.
“Uh, I want to talk about two things. First, Afghanistan: we couldn’t have a higher priority right now,” she said. “And in particular, our priority is making sure that we safely evacuate American citizens, Afghans who worked with us, Afghans at risk including women and children — and that is one of our highest, if not the highest priority right now.”
Harris has been noticeably absent since the Taliban toppled the U.S.-backed Afghan government last week. For at least eight days after the crisis began, she vanished from public view and maintained complete silence about the issue, despite claiming to have played a key role in the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. A senior administration official defended Harris’ trip to Vietnam and Singapore, promising the vice president would continue to focus on the situation in Afghanistan.
The vice president has a nervous habit of laughing when faced with tough questions about serious political topics.
Before Harris went to the U.S.-Mexico border — 93 days after President Joe Biden assigned her the immigration crisis — she chuckled during an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt when pressured about her delay in visiting.
Holt stated, “You haven’t been to the border.”
“And I haven’t been to Europe,” Harris said with a laugh. “And I mean, I don’t understand the point that you’re making. I’m not discounting the importance of the border.”
She also once broke out in bizarre laughter before she became vice president when asked if she presents a “socialist or progressive perspective.”
More examples of her poorly-timed laughter can be found here, here, and here.
WE CAN LET THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR OPEN BORDERS DESTROY THIS NATION OR WE CAN PUT THEM OUT!
Rumours churn' over Biden's 'mental capacity' amid calls to invoke 25th amendment
Tucker: You don't see this everyday, in fact you never see it
Stand-by for the Real Insurrection… by the Democrats
People will put up with a little absentmindedness or occasional faux pas. But when creeping senility puts lives at risk and national interests in jeopardy, that’s entirely different.
When it was clear Joe Biden’s victory would stand up, it was obvious to me that Biden’s mental troubles, to frame it gently, would result in him being out of office one way or another within six months of his swearing in. By then, the Trojan Horse would have served his purpose. Democrats would control all three branches of government and have pushed through many fundamental changes.
Biden did his share. He signed a record number of executive orders, many of questionable constitutionality. But now, as has been so painfully and obviously illuminated by the Afghanistan debacle, the president’s competence and reliability are dramatically compromised by clearly advancing symptoms of old age. Just as yours truly predicted.
Consequently, we are about to witness a genuine insurrection that will put Jan. 6, 2020, into proper perspective. The unruly mob that stormed the Capitol was weak tea. Even its most militant participants never intended to overthrow the government. Their purpose was simply to have votes recounted and verified, which still hasn’t been done.
What looms today is far more serious, infinitely more calculated and definitely more likely to achieve its goal: to replace a sitting president in mid-term, probably against his will. It ain’t gonna be pretty. It has the real possibility of resembling a banana republic coup d'état.
Getting him up in Marine One with Nancy sitting behind him might be one way....
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Many people note that the 25th Amendment to the Constitution permits the yanking of a president out of the Oval Office against his will, but consider the obstacles for replacing the vice president to ensure a Senate tie-breaking vote for Democrats. Recall how little the Constitution and laws have meant in recent years with the 2020 election improprieties, the politicizing and weaponizing of the FBI and Justice Department, nationwide illegal lockdowns and mandates, the wide-open southern border and of course the blind eyes turned to the Clinton attempts to frame Donald Trump. And consider this: Democrats really have no other option that works for them.
The motivation for a such drastic move is that the situation already is urgent and grows more dire by the day. No longer can Democrats trust Biden to stick to talking points rehearsed beforehand, or even to read from teleprompters or cheat sheets he carries to the podium. And when he goes off script, Biden is at best unpredictable, often contradicting his own administration and frequently spewing outright lies that have even CNN blanching. At any moment, the president is liable to veer into forbidden territory with a devastating flourish.
As fascinating as it may be to consider, playing hide the pea with the president of the United States is unrealistic. Mrs. Edith Wilson fooled the world, while her president husband, Woodrow, finished his term disabled by a stroke hidden from the public. That won’t happen today. Not in this 24/7 intense news cycle world. Not in the age of the nuclear briefcase.
Biden has finished his seventh month. But he’s on borrowed time. Everyone knows it.
As any observer can verify by watching and listening, Joe Biden has ceased to be the president of the United States. Someone is pulling his strings and has been for quite some time. That is clear to everyone. What is unclear to nearly everyone is, who exactly is in charge.
We may be about to find out because whoever it is will be confronted by any number of challengers seeking to gain control over the next puppet-in-chief, Kamala Harris.
There’s not much use speculating about how Democrats will jettison Biden. It will be done in plain view. The real game will be how the media and the varied factions with interest in the office of the presidency publicly deal with the ouster and replacement.
For any student of government and any subscriber to the theory of the Deep State, this stuff is not new. Rule #1: whoever wins serves at the pleasure of others. And we’re not talking about the voters’ pleasure.
So, America, prepare for all the unpleasantries from House of Cards and Advise and Consent to play out in real time, prime time even. Political jockeying for the inside track always is cutthroat but normally out of view. It will be nearly impossible to keep the jostling sub-rosa once the media and political antagonists smell Biden’s blood in the water. The shark frenzy looms. Slow shark dies.
When it becomes clear that Biden is on his way out, none of those interested in controlling the new titular figurehead will be reserved when making their move. Unlike normal times, such as the assassination of JFK and the forced resignation of Richard Nixon, there won’t be time for politics as usual. Behind-the-scenes subtleties will give way to high-profile public power plays. The players know they need to win the public to their cause and time is short.
Ousting an unstable president unlikely to go quietly is fraught with landmines. Imagine a public setting in which the magnitude of what his own party is doing to him pushes Biden beyond the limits of his self-control. That’s not hard to imagine, is it?
There’s a reason Biden is ushered away from the podium and news cameras. Prolonged exposure risks embarrassment. And worse.
We’ve already seen him lose control with the media, who Biden barks at sarcastically, and even with voters, who he insults to their face (“You lyin’ dog-faced pony soldier!”).
But what happens when the President of the United States insists on going out for an ice cream cone, then unexpectedly is triggered and launches a public rant captured by news and cellphone cameras? What happens when Secret Service agents are unpersuasive and Biden shrugs off their grasp and continues his rant?
How many such outbursts will the public tolerate before realizing such instability threatens public Afghanistan withdrawal already has severely reduced the public’s faith in Biden’s competence. The normally fawning press already complains that he doesn’t make himself available or answer their questions. Even pre-screened reporters with pre-approved questions are beginning to rebel. They want the truth, not Joe’s scripted lies.
Professional incompetence and a series of public rants signaling mental instability. What could be more worrisome in a leader?
Anyone who ever has dealt with a loved one suffering from senility or Alzheimer’s knows the routine. When angry, they cannot be reasoned with. They become more adamant, not more reasonable. And louder. And less and less concerned that they may be creating a scene. Indeed, making a loud, disruptive scene may be intentional. It’s a sign of emotion trumping reason. Another undesirable trait for a leader.
Now imagine such a person is the most powerful man on the planet, the Commander in Chief, the man to whom every federal agency answers. Restraining that person becomes exponentially more difficult. When the president says, “Don’t do that!” do press aides persist? Do Secret Service agents back off? When he resists direction, does anyone forcibly and physically change his mind? In public?
What if the president feels he is being conspired against, which in fact he will be? What if he feels his closest advisors are in on it? Which they will be. What if he summons Oprah, a Senator or his barber or his brother so he can unload on them about the injustice. Then the secret’s out.
Imagine the tabloid headlines: “President a prisoner in the White House!”
Such missteps can be deadly to the cause. The party’s cause, that is.
Imagine the public reaction. Then imagine one or more crises erupting simultaneously in the South China Sea or Israel versus Iran or Russian aggression in Ukraine. Or another purposely released virus.
Are you beginning to feel the urgency? You can bet Democrats do. How long will they wait?
Mark Landsbaum is a Christian retired journalist, former investigative reporter, editorial writer, and columnist. He also is a husband, father, grandfather, and Dodgers fan. He can be reached at mark.landsbaum@gmail.com.
Maher on Execution of Afghanistan Withdrawal: ‘How Could It Be More Incompetent?’ Wouldn’t Be ‘Any Different if It Was Trump’
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher wondered how the execution of the withdrawal from Afghanistan could be worse than it is and stated, “I can’t think of how it could have been any different if it was Trump.” And that “the adults are back in charge” and they messed it up as badly as Trump would have.
Maher said, “[W]hat do you do when a guy like, I don’t know, Donald Trump gets elected president somehow, and you’ve got this ridiculous clown in office, this buffoon. … He’s stupid and he’s crazy. Okay, so, everything he did was f*cked up and crazy and stupid and didn’t work. And then, oh thank God, we elect — got him out of office, and the adults are back in charge, the people who know what they’re doing, the Democrats. And the pullout looks — I can’t think of how it could have been any different if it was Trump. Honestly, I mean, how could it be more f*cked up? How could it be more incompetent? How could it be more Trumpian? So, what do I say to myself to get to sleep at night, when the adults are back in charge and they f*ck it up exactly as bad as Trump would?”
Maher later added that Biden continued Trump’s policy and that the decision to withdraw will “look good and brave.”
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Poll: Majority Say U.S. Headed in the Wrong Direction
A majority of U.S. voters believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, a Reuters/Ipsos survey released this week found.
The survey asked respondents, “Generally speaking, would you say things in this country are heading in the right direction, or are they off on the wrong track?”
A majority of respondents, 59 percent, said the country is headed on the “wrong track,” while a quarter said it is moving in the “right direction” and 17 percent remain unsure.
A majority of Republicans and independent voters agree that America is on the wrong track, 83 percent and 66 percent, respectively. A plurality of Democrats, 44 percent, however, believe it is moving in the “right direction.”
President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual meeting from the South Court Auditorium at the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, to discuss the importance of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
The survey also asked respondents to identify the most important problem facing the U.S. today. A plurality, 18 percent, chose the economy, unemployment, and jobs, followed by public health, disease, and illness (14 percent), the healthcare system (10 percent), and immigration and the environment, both of which garnered nine percent.
Energy issues fell to the bottom of the list, garnering one percent. Notably, three percent of respondents chose war and foreign conflicts, which comes as the Biden administration struggles to evacuate stranded Americans out of Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover. Biden contradicted himself during Friday’s press conference on the matter, vowing to get Americans home safely but adding that he could not guarantee their safety.
Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan’s Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short on cash and bureaucrats to potentially facing an armed opposition began to emerge. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
The survey, conducted August 18-19, 2021, among 1,003 American adults, has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percent.
It coincides with a Trafalgar Group/Convention of States Action survey released Thursday, showing a majority of Americans signaling they are not optimistic about the country’s future.
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