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On Tuesday, Joe Biden was in New Orleans to tout a grant given to Tulane University for cancer research. Biden, who has almost literally ruined every single thing he’s touched in the miserable three and a half years he’s been president, is claiming now that he’ll cure cancer before leaving office. Maybe Biden should have spearheaded a Dementia Moonshot instead. Who knows? He might still be atop the Democrats’ ticket if that had paid off. Biden’s speech gave some heft to the plotters inside his party who ran him off as their nominee last month. He didn’t just slur his words in New Orleans; he commenced to shouting after repeating a fake story about all the time he’s spent with Xi Jinping: Biden (sundowning) repeats the fake story about Xi Jinping and the Tibetan plateau, then starts randomly screaming. He is truly unwell — and Kamala covered it up. pic.twitter.com/z8HIEEOxOF — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 13, 2024 Of course, the worst of the New Orleans trip was how it ended. Biden and his entourage stopped in at world-famous Drago’s Restaurant in Metairie, the seafood place that for all practical purposes invented the chargrilled oyster, and he ate… …a cheeseburger. With that pearls-before-swine moment past, Biden would next make news Wednesday morning when a piece in Politico featured the president, or at least those sentient members of his inner circle willing to leak to the Democrat organ’s reporters, engaging in a Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me routine whining about how he was deposed from the party’s ticket: President Joe Biden is frustrated that Barack Obama wouldn’t tell him to his face that he should leave the race. He’s angry with Nancy Pelosi and views her as ruthless for ushering him out the door. And he’s still miffed at the role Chuck Schumer played, too. Biden has told his closest aides and associates that he is coming to terms with his decision to bow out of the presidential race last month, but still harbors some frustration toward the members of his own party he believes pushed him out, according to three people familiar with Biden’s thinking who are not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations. Oh, how terrible for him. There is a certain glee some of us can take from the fact that Biden is now publicly grousing about being run off the ballot by the Cool Kids in his party. After all, it’s been three weeks plus since Kamala Harris’ ascension as the Democrats’ new savior, and it’s obvious that the legacy corporate media will now abandon any pretense of objectivity or credible journalism in order to cast her as anything but the incompetent empty skirt that she’s been her entire political career. And along comes Biden to micturate on Harris’ press coronation, whether intentionally or out of a lack of discipline, and it’s fun to watch. Let’s not forget that it was Biden’s endorsement of Harris that foreclosed the sham media primary that Obama and others among the Democrats’ Cool Kids had been publicly touting while plotting his removal. That was almost certainly done out of spite, and if Biden will continue publicly grousing about his removal, it might just generate the kind of discord that breaks up the fact-free honeymoon America is being subjected to. Call that social justice if you will. Be that as it may, Biden — or his disgruntled handlers who recognize there will be reduced or even absent places for them on Team Harris — wasn’t done complaining to Politico: A senior White House official, also granted anonymity to describe private conversations, said Biden views Pelosi as “ruthless” and willing to set aside long-term relationships in order to keep her party in power — and, most importantly, to prevent Republican nominee Donald Trump from returning to the White House. “That’s who she has always been,” the person added. Pelosi and Biden have not spoken since he stepped away. And the president’s anger flashed to the surface during a televised interview that aired this weekend when he namechecked the former speaker as he explained why he quit the race. “And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic,” Biden told CBS. “You’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say, why did so — and — and I thought it’d be a real distraction.” And another delicious morsel: Biden has long thought that Obama’s staff looked down upon him and the president’s aides still bristle when Obama allies like David Axelrod or the Pod Save America cast criticize the incumbent. Many people around Biden were rankled when, in 2016, Obama made clear he favored Hillary Clinton to succeed him and not his own vice president. But it’s Pelosi who came in for the bulk of the grousing: But Biden’s inner circle believes Pelosi was the decisive voice in pushing him out. His allies thought that, after nearly two weeks of trying to reassure fellow Democrats, his candidacy was on track to be salvaged the morning of July 10. But that was when Pelosi made a now-infamous appearance on “Morning Joe,” repeatedly making clear that she did not support Biden continuing his candidacy. The president’s aides believe that opened the door for a host of other Democrats and donors to follow suit. Moreover, Biden’s inner circle told him the day before he dropped out that if he persisted in the race they believed that Pelosi was going to take her misgivings public — including her belief that Trump would defeat him — which would have been deeply humiliating for a sitting president, two of the people said. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday said that Biden “respects” Pelosi and insisted that he has “no hard feelings.” One guesses that Joe wasn’t impressed by Pelosi’s ridiculous suggestions that he be added to Mount Rushmore. Maybe he’s somewhat sentient after all. The Politico piece won’t likely get much oxygen, as the rest of the media isn’t interested in talking about Biden’s problems. You can’t blame them, really, as Biden hasn’t exactly earned much sympathy for the damage he’s done. But if the grousing and whining continues, and Dirty Joe carries on peeing on Kamala’s parade up and through the Democrats’ convention next week — he’s speaking on Monday night, rather than Wednesday or Thursday, and that speech is almost certainly going to be a low point no matter its content — then if nothing else, the public’s attention might well turn to Harris’ role not just in the coup that ruined Biden’s reelection bid but, more importantly, her role in gaslighting America about his mental competence over the past four years. Either way, let it burn. And at a seafood restaurant, don’t eat a cheeseburger. Don’t be like Dirty Joe. Have some class, for crying out loud. READ MORE: Kamala’s Media Bodyguards Behold, Tampon Tim Harris Can Avoid Reporters But Not Economics The post Poor, Poor, Pitiful Joe appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Over more than three years, Democrats couldn’t sell Joe Biden; now, they must sell Kamala Harris in just under three months. This tall order requires two things: convincing voters that this administration deserves four more years and that Harris is truly different from Biden. Democrats’ continued marketing strategy of hiding their candidate tells Americans that neither is true. On paper, selling Joe Biden should have been easy. Joe had a long Senate resume. He also had two terms as vice president behind Democrats’ most popular living president. Facing him was a divisive incumbent hobbled by a pandemic, an economy slowed by lockdowns, and civil unrest. Even so, it was not all that easy with Joe. Despite winning with 51.3 percent of the popular vote, his electoral vote victory was razor-thin (just 77,000 votes spread across four states provided his margin). And from the moment Joe entered the White House, it got harder still. Joe seemed to have the Midas touch in reverse: everything he touched went wrong — foreign policy, inflation, illegal immigration. Topping it off, Joe’s own failings became increasingly clear. As Joe’s term progressed and his popularity fell, he became increasingly dependent on — and subservient to — his radical Left. Selling Joe as substance, rather than symbol, proved too hard a task. So, halfway through 2024, the Democrat elite replaced Joe with Kamala Harris. On paper, Harris in 2024 should be as easy a sell as Joe was in 2020. Where Biden’s time in politics lacked accomplishments, Harris’ lacked duration. The problem for Harris — and therefore for Democrats trying to sell her — is that she, like Biden before her, only exists on paper. Not only is there no “there” there; there is less “there” than there was with Biden. While Biden had practically no private sector experience, Harris has literally none. After entering government straight from law school, she has held only government jobs, some (thanks to then California Speaker Wille Brown) as incongruous as they are forgettable (on California’s Unemployment Insurance Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission). Harris’ time as a prosecutor would seem appealing at a time when America feels threatened by rampant lawlessness — until we recall that this lawlessness is Democrats’ doing and that Harris’ tenures also overlap with California’s descent into dystopia — in particular through the now infamous Proposition 47 (now on California’s ballot for repeal this November). In the Senate, Harris was there just over two years before she mistook herself for president. Democrat voters, however, did not, and her 2020 campaign ended before 2020 itself began. Somehow, failing to make it to the presidential starting line qualified her to be vice president. Yet like her presidential campaign, Harris’ tenure as vice president started in reverse. It never found its forward gear. Of her three most notable assignments — abortion, voting rights, and immigration — she registered two “nondecisions” and a cataclysmic failure so great on immigration that her first job in running for president has been to run away from having been the administration’s border czar. It was not long ago that there were calls to replace Harris as vice president. Of course, Harris’ biggest problem is also Democrats’ biggest problem — which in turn was Biden’s biggest problem and remains this administration’s biggest problem: radical left policies. Democrats insisted, Biden capitulated, and Harris now owns them. Hugely unpopular, Democrats cannot change the American people’s mind. As much as Democrats would like to pretend — and to have America believe — that Harris (and before her, Biden) is “the product,” she is not. Harris and Biden were merely the spokespeople for the actual product: leftist extremism. Stuck with selling a hugely unpopular product, Democrats’ hope was to hide it behind their spokesperson. When over the first six months of this year, both product and spokesperson failed with Biden, Democrats just changed their spokesperson. Harris and Biden have some differences. Harris is far more to the left than Biden: in 2019, the National Republican Senatorial Committee ranked her the Senate’s most liberal member. Her embrace of the Green New Deal in the Senate and her tapping of Tim Walz (the Midwest’s version of Bernie Sanders) only confirm it. Like Biden, Harris has a tissue-thin resume. Harris is also a poor communicator. Similarly to Biden, she can veer into the nonsensical at a moment’s notice and a teleprompter’s absence. And because Biden’s speaking difficulties were ultimately used to depose him from the nomination he had won, Democrats are doubly reluctant for Harris to wrestle the English language in public. So, in another similarity with Biden, Democrats are using the same strategy of hiding her from serious public interaction — as they did with Biden in 2020 and increasingly during his presidency — something the establishment media is happy to accommodate. With under three months to go, Democrats hope their strategy of running out the clock on Harris may have a better chance of success. However, Biden and Harris are similar in an even more important, and dangerous, way for Democrats. Neither are the real problem; Democrats’ real problem is the leftist extremism with which they have stuck their nominees. The same people who told us that Biden was fine from 2020 and into 2024, that he was the best choice for the president, and then forced him out less than a month ago now tell us to trust them about Harris. They see no inconsistency because Biden and Harris are merely spokespeople, not the product itself. Changing the mouthpiece doesn’t change the message — any more than hiding the messenger does. J.T. Young was a professional staffer in the House and Senate from 1987-2000, served in the Department of Treasury and Office of Management and Budget from 2001-2004, and was director of government relations for a Fortune 20 company from 2004-2023. READ MORE: Kamala’s Media Bodyguards Teeing Off on ‘Trad’ Wives USA 2024: Dept. of Health Shuts Down 12-Year-Old’s Ice Cream Stand The post Selling Harris by Hiding Harris appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.