Amazing how ignorant people had to be to vote for this guy. Freudian slip much like the bit about the most extensive fraud organization. I am not sure he knows he isn't supposed to be saying this stuff in public...this was supposed to remain behind closed doors. If elected, Kamala will be president within 6 months. God help the US.
"Like I told Barack, if I reach something where there's a fundamental disagreement we have based on a moral principle, I'll develop some disease and say I have to resign."
Biden says he will ‘develop some disease’ and resign if disagreements with Harris arise
I took him to mean that the #2 would have to resign, but, good luck with that Illegitimate Joe! She'll drop your ass faster than Epstein did in his cell.
Ultimately, it won't matter.
Why Trump’s America will live on because it has little to do with Trump.
In their current guise, Democrats today can only offer redistribution of wealth, which itself can come in two forms, each with inherent problems. A traditional socialist approach would hardly be in the interest of the Democratic funders or the non-profit establishment, given it would involve siphoning off the wealth of people like Jeff Bezos, who expended much of his media power,
through the
Washington Post, opposing Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid. Yet the progressive left continues to push this agenda, notably in
big urban centres, a continuing challenge to more oligarch-friendly liberals.
Middle/Working Class Serfdom
The other alternative would be to turn the middle and working class into future serfs – that is, people increasingly
dependent on what Marx called ‘the proletarian alms bag’ (1). This ‘oligarchal socialism’ –
backed by many tech oligarchs – would transfer funds, likely from the remaining middle class, to fund a ‘guaranteed annual income’ to keep
hoi polloi in subsidised apartments, spending their time in low-wage gig jobs, while they play video games, smoke pot, drink and water their houseplants. It is an approach that allows the oligarchs to continue accumulating the wealth and power they see as
their due, while keeping the peasants separate from their pitchforks.
We aren't trading our Liberty for that.
These unattractive alternatives could provide enormous opportunities for Republicans, or more traditional Democrats, if they could overcome the opposition of ‘market fundamentalists’. On the right, as the
American Prospect has demonstrated, many conservative think-tanks are financed by Google and other oligopolists. The future could belong not to Trump but to more coherent Republicans like
Oren Cass and his American Compass group, who reject ‘let the market rip’ fundamentalism and openly
favour working-class interests in terms of healthcare, education, housing, anti-trust policy and energy.
"Kinder Gentler" Communism
Americans do not want to be either Marxist or oligarchic wards. They generally desire to become more self-sufficient and successful. The attempt to implement a pilot
guaranteed-incomes programme in Modesto, California, a hardscrabble Valley town of 300,000, was recently rescinded by a primarily minority electorate, who replaced a progressive Democratic with a black Republican preacher. Like most Americans, most minorities and working-class people still believe in the ‘dream’ even if they believe that it is more difficult to achieve.
It's only more difficult because of the Leftwing Overlords And Crony Capitalists that rob the Working/Middle Class of opportunity
Until that quintessentially American spark is squelched entirely, the disruptive process brought on by Trump will not go away, but simply evolve and even expand. The question will be whether a more sober, less nativist, and focused populism will emerge from the wreckage or be replaced by something more troubling.
Trump’s America will live on, because
Trump’s greatest achievement has been exposing the rot and corruption of our ruling class.
Illegitimate Joe and The Ho will play their Game of Thrones and neither politically survives into 2025.
They know they are protected. The Swamp is deep. On their own they would be cleaning toilets. We are still allowed to have different vires in a continuing reduced role. It is incredible that we have a man with dementia and a woman who should be slinging hash at a greasy spoon in power.
Yes, but, in a fiendishly clever move, with Durham in the Special Counsel role continuing to investigate Biden's corrupt attack on the Trump transition team, and it will only be a matter of time before the Biden Crime Family global foreign bribery cabal is pulled into the investigation.
Benjamin "Witless" Wittes has been one of the louder anti-Trump voices in the country over the past few years. He spent a lot of time (with his
toy cannon) promoting the Russia collusion story. In 2018 he advocated “mindlessly and mechanically” voting against GOP nominees in order to save the GOP from itself.
Today, Witless Wittes examines AG Barr’s appointment of John Durham
as special counsel. Titled “
How do you solve a problem like John Durham?” the piece examines the details of Barr’s appointment and what the Illegitimate Joe administration might to do to undo it. In the process of examining the appointment, Wittes concedes that Barr’s move was done in such a way that the incoming AG, which certainly will not be Sunk Sally Yates, will not be able to do anything about it.
The more I study what Attorney General Bill Barr did in his secret October order naming the Connecticut U.S. attorney as a special counsel, the more devilishly clever it seems—and the bigger the pickle it creates for Barr’s successor. This, presumably, is Barr’s intention. Untangling this knot is going to take no small amount of diplomacy, lawyering and finesse. And a false move in any of several directions could create a real mess.
NARRATOR'S VOICE: It will not be undone.
Witless Wittes notes that it was right for Barr to appoint Durham in secret rather than make the appointment public just before the election. The appointment prevents the incoming illegitimate Biden administration from
sweeping Durham aside:
The move saddles Biden with a special counsel investigation. As a U.S. attorney, Durham would be dismissed in the normal course of the change of administration, as a special counsel he is protected from removal by regulations and guaranteed day-to-day independence.
Barr’s appointment gave Durham wide latitude in what he can investigate: Essentially anything connected to the Russian investigation. And
he required that at the end of his investigation Durham produce a report:
The regulations themselves do not do this. They require only a confidential report from the special counsel to the attorney general explaining the special counsel’s prosecution and non-prosecution decisions. But Barr’s order goes a step further, requiring that: “In addition to the confidential report required by 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c), the Special Counsel, to the maximum extent possible and consistent with the law and the policies and practices of the Department of Justice, shall submit to the Attorney General a final report, and such interim reports as he deems appropriate, in a form that will permit public dissemination.”
If illegitimate Biden’s AG refused to release this report it would only raise questions and investigations about why. By mandating the writing of a report Barr has guaranteed that the outcome will become public. Clever.
Barr’s appointment of Durham closely mirrors the appointment of Dirty Bob Mueller. Here Witless Wittes relies on a piece
by Josh Blackman:
Barr and Rosenstein, respectively, appointed Durham and Mueller pursuant to the same three statutes: 28 U.S.C § 509, § 510, and § 515. The third statute is the most important for present purposes. Section 515 empowers the attorney general to authorize a “special assistant”—though not a “special counsel”—to conduct “any kind of legal proceeding, civil or criminal, including grand jury proceedings.” Both the Durham and Mueller appointments contain the same, critical sentence: “If the Special Counsel believes it is necessary and appropriate, the Special Counsel is authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from the investigation of these matters.” This provision will allow Durham to bring federal prosecutions during the Biden presidency.
Witless Wittes says the political impact of this detail is that it will be very difficult for a future AG to
undo the appointment:
This careful tracking of the Mueller appointment seems designed to make it awkward for a Democratic attorney general to come in and remove Durham or curtail his investigation. After all, Democrats, and many Republicans too, drew a firm line in insisting that Mueller not be fired and be allowed to complete his work. They also took a hard line in insisting that the special counsel regulations on the independence of the special counsel be respected. By setting this up as a direct legal parallel to the Mueller investigation, Barr puts those suspicious of the Durham investigation and wanting to curtail it in the position of having to argue, all of a sudden, that it’s actually okay to fire a special prosecutor or to figure out ways around the special counsel rules.
In other words, Barr has created a landmine for Biden who would trigger “Saturday Night Massacre” parallels if he has Durham removed. All of the people on the left who would argue in favor of Durham’s removal will have been on the record against removing Mueller. Witless Wittes asks us to imagine where this leaves an AG
under Illegitimate Biden:
Curtail the Durham investigation and Republican senators will cry foul and claim the attorney general has betrayed a commitment made at his or her confirmation in order to shut down an investigation of FBI misconduct targeting Republicans. Perhaps more important, such a move would also set a precedent that firing special prosecutors is okay. This is precedent that is sure to be cited, exploited and abused in the future.
A thorough exacting and deeply detailed investigation:
Conversely, just let Durham do his thing, and the new attorney general runs a different risk: of letting a wide-ranging investigation of the Russia investigation run riot over the new administration for as long as Durham wants and with a mandate to issue a public report—including, potentially, on the non-criminal matters that were the subject of the original Durham review—at a time of the special counsel’s choosing.
Witless Wittes is assuming for the sake of argument that the media would hold Democrats to the same standard as Republicans, but of course that’s not how things really work in The Swamp. We saw that when all of the women’s groups who came out against Judge Kavanaugh suddenly explained that “Believe women!” didn’t mean believing
all women. But he’s right that
if Democrats were held to the same standards this would present a real problem.
Witless Wittes goes on to argue that the next AG can simply rescind AG Barr’s order and thereby do away with Durham’s Special Counsel status. This no different that
firing Durham:
The attorney general might hesitate to take this step because of external and internal pressures. To the general public, after all, the rescission of Barr’s order would be indistinguishable from firing the special counsel. And given the fact that Barr never removed Mueller from his position as special counsel, there will likely be public pressure to allow Durham to complete his task.
I’m sure the left will try to reverse course on Durham (and argue he should be fired) and I’m sure the media will mostly let them get away with it. But it would still be a scandal.
Illegitimate Biden and his future AG are trapped but not by anything AG Barr did. They are trapped in a box Democrats built over years of investigations of Russian collusion and endless harping about the importance of observing norms. They can suddenly abandon all of that now that it’s no longer convenient but doing so would not only reveal their deep hypocrisy it would set a powerful precedent for the future.
Ultimately it doesn't matter if it's Illegitimate Joe or The Ho, they both go down in 2024.
