We must together, work together, to see where we are, where we are headed, but also see it as a moment, yes, to together, address the challenges and to work on the opportunities.
~ Kamala Harris
Does anybody else feel gross and vaguely queasy about the amount of gaslighting going on in the United States these days? It’s probably just me.
N.P.: “Whole Lotta Sabbath (Wax Audio Lance Herbstrong Edit)” – Lance Herbstrong
“You’re out of your fucking tree” was the exact wording of my response to this absurd request. At first I thought the call was just one of my friends pranking me. But then I remembered that I don’t have any friends. And these people seemed legit…but I couldn’t really believe that they’d ever approach me for such an assignment. So I asked.
“Why me?” I asked.
I can’t see the person I’m speaking with over the phone, but they sound as if they are trying not to sound panicked and desperate. It’s not working.
“The Harris Campaign has been going exceedingly well these first two weeks…”
“Oh, fer sure,” I interrupted. “You managed to pull off the most successful palace coup since the Glorious Revolution of 1688 without a single democratic voter seeming to care. Or even notice, really. Most impressive.”
“Well, to be fair, our target demographic is…how shall I put this?”
“Dangerously gullible?”
“We prefer ‘pleasantly suggestable.'”
“They’re suckers.”
“That’s pretty aggressive.”
“I’m a pretty aggressive guy…I mean as opposed to pathetically suggestable. Which is why I’m still wondering why you’re calling me.”
“Well, as great as it’s been going these three weeks, we have some…rather…significant challenges we need to overcome, sooner than later, but also sooner and later, if that makes sense.”
“It doesn’t. What the fuck are you talking about?”
“It’ll be a lot easier to explain in person. Where are you right now?”
“I’m nowhere near ready to share my whereabouts with you. Why, where are you?”
“Where we are depends greatly on when we are.”
“I don’t think we’re going to get along very well at all. Don’t be abstruse.”
“All I mean to say is that where we are now is almost irrelevant to anything pertaining to the making of plans since it is unlikely to the point of impossibility that we will be where we are much longer at all, let alone still be here whenever the plans are made for. I guess it’s better to ask where we will be as opposed to where we are.”
“You’re giving me a headache. And I don’t give a fuck about any of this. Your people contacted my people and wanted me to do this. You said 20k to go to the convention and do one post…I’m still weighing whether that will be worth it. I would likely need combat pay to get anywhere near that catastrophe. What about the non-convention deal?”
“We’ll give you $1200 per positive post about Kamala, and $1800 per negative Trump post.”
“And I don’t even need to leave my house to do this?”
“That is correct…in fact it’s probably better if you don’t.”
“Sounds good to me.”
“There is one thing.”
“What’s that?”
“You can’t talk about…not even mention…what or how she eats.”
“Wait…what? Why?”
“That’s just the rules.”
“Weird. Anything else off limits as far as questions or interviews?”
“Actually, both questions and interviews are off limits.”
“Waaaaait a minute…this idiot is suddenly running for president, and you’re telling me she’s not doing any interviews or answering any questions? From me specifically, or at all, in general?”
“At all. No questions.”
“Then what are we supposed to base our posts on?”
“The money that we’re paying you, that the other side isn’t.”
“The other side doesn’t have to pay anybody. They do interviews and ask questions for free. Your strategy is incredibly weird and will not work.”
“Sure it will…it’s been working like a charm so far: 21 days without any real interviews or press conferences. Remember, she’s the Democratic nominee, and Dem voters don’t give a shit about anything she says…she just has to be not Trump. That’s how Biden won.”
“Yeah, and look what you guys did to that poor old bastard.”
“We’re not talking about that either. Can we count on you for the posts?”
“Yeah. Sure. God yes. I’ll start immediately.”
N.P.: “Let Me Live / Let Me Die” – Des Rocs
One social media post? I find your terms acceptable.
N.P.: “Nessun Dorma” – Jeff Beck
The democrats aren’t even pretending anymore. Saviors of democracy my ass. Over the weekend, in what can only be described as a palace coup, the party elites (3-4 people) decided to literally depose the democratic nominee (according to the primary vote), nullify 15 million democratic votes, and just give his nomination and campaign funds to someone else “who can win.”
While this is egregious and outrageous enough, what is truly unbelievable has been the democrats reaction to this: they don’t give a shit. Which is just bizarre. Apparently they’re fine with this blatant revelation that their political party is run by a small group of “elites” who are apparently totally comfortable overwriting the will of their own people, and why shouldn’t they be…their own people won’t say a word.
You almost have to feel bad for Old Joe. He was so insistent…he was going to do a string of comeback appearances last week, including a multi-date trip to Las Vegas. Every night, after Matlock but before bed, Joe and his comms team we putting out fiery and defiant messages declaring with papal ex cathedra that by Christ Joe was the nominee and that he was staying in the race. Then suddenly, in the middle of his Vegas stint, Joe Biden, who has been vaxed and boosted 113 times, got COVID. For the third time. The public got a glimpse of him trudging up his big boy stairs to Air Force One and that was it…he was off to deepest, darkest Delaware to “recover” from COVID.
Then Joe woke up last Sunday to find someone had forged a letter on his personal stationary and posted it to his X account saying that he was dropping out of the race. Then whomever posted the first X published another, more hastily written X saying, “Oh yeah…we also endorse Scamala as replacement candidate.” And democrat voters just fell in line immediately.
Well, most of them did. Even the shameless, race-baiting grifters over at BLM know this whole thing stinks to high hell of corruption and shady shit. To wit:
It’s a start. Wait ’til they find out the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War because of it, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the civil rights acts of the ’50s and ’60s. But “a party of hypocrites” is a start. Baby steps.
N.P.: “Black Betty – Fuzzy” – Spiderbait
Well, dearest reader, as you know, I’ve watched every season of The United States since Nixon was president, and I can tell you absolutely and objectively that this season’s finale continues to be far and away the most fascinating, intriguing, riveting season finale ever.
The Democrats’ Collapse Into Chaos is now complete: a letter on Joe Biden’s personal stationary (not that of the White House) appeared on Biden’s X account weirdly announcing he’s ending his reelection bid.
I don’t buy it. I mean, I’m sure he’s dropping out, but I’ve seen nothing at all to indicate that this is his decision. Quite the opposite…everything points to the contrary. This senile old ball-bag made recorded statements from the Oval Office recently, first when his DOJ prosecuted Trump on a bunch of bullshit…apparently that was important enough to warrant addressing the nation. He did it again after the attempted assassination of the same former President. Apparently that was important enough to warrant addressing the nation. But becoming the first incumbent President not to seek reelection since LBJ, and to do so after actively running in the primaries and getting 50 million+ democrat votes in the process, and then “deciding” not to run for reelection…that doesn’t warrant addressing the nation. That doesn’t warrant a prepared statement from the Oval Office. Apparently that doesn’t warrant even a carefully edited video clip. No audio…nothing at all to indicate that Old Joe is even aware these statements are being made. Sending out a letter, on X…weird as hell.
As of Friday night, the Biden campaign was still defiant as fuck, stating unequivocally that Joe was the democratic nominee, and that message did not change over the weekend. Biden’s White House aides as well as aides to the Biden campaign are now publicly saying that they all found out about Old Joe dropping out when the statement was released on X along with the rest of the world. “We’re all finding out by tweet,” said one such insider, “None of us understand what’s happening.” A reporter for the beshitted New York Times
X’d: “To give a sense of how much Biden’s decision took his campaign by surprise…Campaign staff were still calling delegates 30 minutes before the announcement, pushing them to declare their support for Biden in the rollcall & on social media, according to one delegate.” He then X’d that “the delegate who received the call 30 mins before the announcement says…they refused to commit and commented, “It’s absolutely bonkers.”
So even two hours after the supposed announcement, there still has been no indication whatsoever that Joe Biden, anyone in the Biden family, or anyone working in the White House or on the Biden campaign had even a hint that this was happening.
Then, significantly after the initial letter was posted, another message appeared on Biden’s X account endorsing Scamala Harris. Like it was an afterthought.
No…this is way too weird…I don’t think we’ll know what actually happened for some time…if ever. But know that there is presently (and has been for over three years) someone who is apparently admitting that he doesn’t have the mental or physical ability required to run a successful campaign, but simultaneously continues to insist is perfectly fine to run the United States and effectively the entire world.
Seven months is a dangerously long time.
N.P.: “You Missed” – Tom MacDonald
A few leftist pundits (mostly women, but embarrassingly not all) have actually propounded the notion that the Trump assassination attempt was somehow staged, suggesting that “no one gets up from getting shot and does fist pumps and shouts, “Fight.”
They have so effectively socially castrated the men around them with “toxic masculinity” that they’ve become exclusively accustomed to effete old men who apologetically wheeze out a pathetic story about how their dad once told ’em, “Joey, it’s okay to fall down, as long as you get back up” every time they ineptly fuck something up.
They have been so completely bereft of actual masculine presence for so long that it is actually easier for them to believe a deadly event was “staged” because “nobody” would act that way.
My God…have the become so quickly and deeply inured to a frail, cowardly, senile old ball-bag wheezing on about LBGTQRSTUWXYZ&$FYXDVF rights as he sits in a full diaper behind the Resolute Desk that their fragile minds can no longer successfully process the fact that an actual man will, even in…especially in moments where their true selves are revealed, act with courage and resolution. The feminized men on the left so frequently choose Flight, they can’t handle it when someone instinctively chooses “Fight.”
Which is the real reason these idiots are so hilariously apoplectic right now: within two short weeks, we’ve unexpectedly had the opportunity to see both presidential candidates in truly unplanned for, totally unproduced and unscripted moments that showed both men at their absolute realist, rawest, and truest. We saw Who They Are in brutally real ways. We saw how they truly act in a crisis. One challenged his opponent to a debate, a debate which he wanted to do, for which he picked literally every aspect (when, what network, format, everything). This wasn’t really a crisis, but we all know how he handled it: he showed up and had a total mental collapse on live TV. That was a crisis. So how did he handle that? He spent the next two weeks mincing and whining and blaming literally everything and everyone else, finally, pathetically settling on “I had a cold,” and “I was still jet-lagged from 2 weeks ago.”
The other one got shot in the fucking head, bucked the Secret Service, and, with blood smeared across his face, raises a fist and shouts, “Fight!”
Well, I guess if you’re still on the fence, you now have the Harris/Vance debate coming up. No idea how that will go, of course, but I’m sure it will be unburdened by what has been.
N.P.: “Eractou” – cEvin Key, Ken Hiwatt Marshall
‘Nuff said. American Badass. This election is over.
Unfortunately, this despicable and cowardly act begins what I’m afraid will be a very ugly and violent time in the United States. Brace yourself.
N.P.: “Bruiser” – Bonkers Beat Club
What a wonderful week. If you had to be stuck indoors in a controlled climate due to a record-breaking heatwave, you were at least treated to some of the most politically intriguing television of the last 25 years. Ever since Joe Biden’s total mental collapse on live TV in front of millions of people confirmed that the Democratic Strategic Playbook for jailing Trump and re-electing Biden had back-fired on literally every level, the entire party has been in a state of panicked chaos. Most leftist media hacks were shitting themselves, in many cases literally:
Even those unduly smug fucks over at CNN are being forced to eat shit every night on live tv (which, ironically, might be the thing that finally starts to bring the network’s dismal ratings up out of the toilet they’ve been in for the last 3.5 years), trying now to pretend that they haven’t been running cover for the White House for decades and they honestly have had NO IDEA that the sitting President of the United States is and has been quite obviously severely demented for years now.
For their part, Joe, Jill, and Hunter all got the hell out of D.C. and slithered away, like Hitler, to their private retreat to “strategize” or figure out how to make a blatantly incompetent octogenarian somehow electable to an American populace who didn’t really care for the guy even before the cover-up was exposed. [Note: I typically avoid comparisons of anyone to Hitler, but in this case, I think the comparison is apt: a reasonable person could easily see similarities between Hitler in his bunker, railing against those few around him, shouting that statistics and polls are ALL wrong, actually believing until the moment they all killed themselves that somehow there was some way they could still actually win, with Joe Biden at what seems to be the end of his beshitted presidency, hiding in some dreary, remote retreat with Jill and Hunter restricting all access to Joe. Pelosi and Obama have run into an impenetrable wall: Hunter needs dad to stay in office so that he doesn’t have to get a real job. Turns out Jill absolutely loathes Kamala, and thus grows quite angry at the idea of Kamala replacing Joe on the ticket or anywhere else. And Joe cannot stomach a world where he doesn’t defeat Donald Trump in the next election.
The problem is that now, even the staunchest Dems are finding it impossible to realistically see any scenario in which a Democrat party with Biden at the top of the ticket win much of anything.
N.P.: “Land of Confusion” – Genesis
Going into yesterday’s NATO press conference (Biden’s first “big boy” press conference in months), the bar had been set on the rather low side. There may not have been a bar at all…if this dude shows up and doesn’t literally collapse on stage, it’ll be seen as a win, at least by those who were too timid to actually publicly call for Biden to drop out of the campaign (and presumably to leave office immediately, because if he can’t successfully campaign, he can’t possibly successfully govern). Those on the other side (and I’m talking exclusively about democrats here, such is the current rift in the party), were praying for a definitive, dispositive cataclysmic shitting of the proverbial bed right there on live TV at the NATO summit.
Despite running an hour and a half late, Old Joe did finally shuffle out to the podium and speak for damn near an hour. He didn’t collapse dead on the stage, fall off the stage, fall down, wander off, or shit his pants. But he also introduced Zelensky as “President Putin” (which, btw, holy shit), and referred to Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump.” So there was really something for the whole family. If you wanted to Biden cake his pants and burst into flames so that the dems will have to, please God, run somebody, anybody else, you were left disappointed. If you wanted to see a strong, engaged Commander in Chief who is clearly In Charge, you were left equally disappointed. Republicans thought it was a disaster, Democrats thought it was a triumph. But none of that matters.
All that matters is that Old Joe and the Biden Crime Family saw yesterday’s scripted performance as all the proof anybody needs (with “anybody” here being defined as anyone whose last name is Biden who has been benefiting from the grift) that Joe Biden is indeed the man to win the election and lead the country to four more years of…whatever the fuck this is.
They are not going anywhere. Not voluntarily. Rumors are that Obama and Pelosi are in overdrive with plans to throw Joe overboard sooner rather than later. The truth is that Biden bought himself more time, which he desperately needed. This will likely be the final nail in the coffin of the Biden presidency: there wasn’t an event last night. But there will be an event in the coming weeks or months. And it will be Bad. It will be what everybody was looking for last night. And as I write this, it is mid-July. If this disastrous event doesn’t happen until mid-August or September, when it is truly Too Late….
We live in interesting times, dear reader.
N.P.: “Funeral March” – 2WEI
As predicted, Poopy Joe ain’t going nowhere. Dems and leftists who were loudly insisting that the president quit the race and make someone who isn’t a houseplant lose to Trump (Joe Scarborough and Jerry Nadler, to name two of many) today suddenly walked all that back and now, as of this morning, were fully in support of Biden remaining in the race.
Dr. Jill did three campaign rallies yesterday without Joe, and Hunter has become the gatekeeper for access to the president.
Yesterday, Chuck Schumer is sticking with old Joe, while Jon Stewart has had enough of the “bullshit excuses” being used to defend Droolin’ Joe’s debate performance and attempt to keep Biden on the ticket.
Today, George Clooney, who hosted a $30 million fundraiser for Biden’s Corpse just three weeks ago came out and said Joe needs to step aside.
Apparently these people have no idea how obviously stupid their sudden panic and outrage are to everybody not in the democrat echo chamber. It’s as if just before the 2012 election, the media and DNC suddenly “realized” Obama was black. The rest are just left wondering if these people are actually deluded, or that their hatred of Donald Trump is so ridiculously deep that they have literally blinded themselves to reality.
There are suddenly numerous and stunningly deep fractures within the democrat party, within the press corps, and between the Biden family and all of the above. The entire left is in disarray, which is never a good position to be in with fewer than four months until the election.
Poopy Joe has a “big boy press conference” (not my term…that’s how the White House characterized it) Thursday at the NATO summit, which is supposed to be the first time he’ll take unscripted questions from the press. Then there’s the DNC in August in Chicago (which, some of us are old enough to remember the last time the DNC held a contested convention in Chicago…I’m sure this time will be different.
Then there is the second debate against Trump on September 10.
It will be interesting to see not so much how Biden will do in each of these events, but just to see if he’s still able or even around to do them.
In the meantime, We the People are stuck hoping that if we’re attacked, they attack us during the hours of 10:00 and 16:00, except not during naptime or Matlock, etc, and thinking that November 5 can’t get here soon enough and end this long national nightmare as the Summer of Biden grinds on.
N.P.: “Fake Woke” Tom MacDonald