Joe Biden will probably be forced to step down by the end of the month, if he survives until then
The Democratic Party can't risk the galactic and deeply penetrating rot impeachment hearings would expose
When I considered the matter of how U.S. President Joe Biden’s political career might end, I was surprised at the number of possibilities. This is probably because for all but a tiny fraction of my lifetime, presidents have simply stayed in office until either losing re-election or terming out after a successful bid for re-election. Issues like “Will this guy just drop dead?” or “Will his real, serious crimes catch up to him?” were never really on the table. Bill Clinton’s 1998 impeachment toward the midpoint of his second term was basically a show trial—he’d already given the neocons everything they wanted.
Starting with the most optimistic of these potential outcomes (from the perspective of Biden supporters, if not necessarily from that of Joe Biden himself):
Biden becomes the 2024 Democratic nominee, is re-elected (by sham means or otherwise), serves his second term in full, and retires from public life at 86.
Biden runs and wins, but doesn’t finish his term for whatever reason.
Biden runs and loses the election (and is officially declared its loser as well), but manages not to die before the Republican or (tee hee) third-party winner takes office in mid-January of 2025.
Biden chooses not run for re-election, but remains in office until the end of his term.
This more or less exhausts the possibilities that include Biden finishing at least his current stint, i.e., being POTUS until at least January of 2025.
The other possibilities are all far more likely:
Biden chooses not run for re-election, and then does not remain in office until the end of his term, with these events not causally connected. That is, he might withdraw from the race in, say, early 2024, then resign, be removed, or die before mid-January of 2025.
Biden chooses not run for re-election, and then immediately resigns. This could happen at around the same time.
Biden suddenly leaves office before the matter of his candidacy crystallizes for real (he’s officially “running” now, but everyone knows it’s really an open prospect). He could resign, die, or be removed without his own permission.
I honesty don’t believe that even the most fervent Democratic National Convention hack or deluded “liberal” voter can honestly foresee Joe Biden being president five years and four months from now. I don’t think many of these same people believe Biden will still be breathing then.
His handlers have now taken to cutting him off during his attempted soliloquies, using sudden music to enforce his removal from the dais. Maybe they can project the illusion of this being an accident a few more times, even though observers can see the whole thing is part of a script, with his handlers stepping in before the melodies kick in.
The whole thing has a funereal Curb Your Enthusiasm flavor to it.
These are not traditional gaffes, not are they a result of a stuttering problem (I doubt even Seth Abramson is trotting that one out anymore).
Biden’s decline has been uncomfortable to watch for a variety of reasons. He’s a lifelong crook and an asshole about being one—the diametric opposite of sympathetic figure. Yet he’s plainly a confused and scared old man like any other, sharting aplenty and visibly wanting to escape—but being constitutionally incapable of rapidly fleeing from—every public situation he’s forced to be in.
Everyone alive has seen older relatives and friends struggle with the biting and progressive cruelties of unnaturally rapid and pronounced cognitive decline. It’s difficult to watch even among those of us with firm plans to preclude ever reaching such a state.
And on top of that, he’s the president, at least nominally, and “he” has done a terrible job in every single way. Anyone who thinks the country is better off for anyone but wealthy people than it was under Donald Trump is lying or not right in the head, and anyone who has been cogent since the start of 2017 can see this while being completely agnostic about both Trump’s intentions and his real influence, good and bad.
Many observers besides myself have speculated that Biden will be replaced before his term ends, and in fact before the 2024 race begins in earnest on the Democratic side. And this was before the semi-recent emergence of his involvement in corruption schemes—disclosures that became inevitable once Republicans gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January, even if many Republicans are on the same side as the lever-pullers of Team Biden and the corruption-exposures are seemingly being slow-walked for strategic reasons.
But it now appears that articles of impeachment, owing in part to the progress of Special Counsel Daivd Weiss’s fake investigation into Biden’s corrupt dealings, will be unfurled on September 29.
There is no way the Democratic Party can tolerate impeachment hearings, even if they believe that the U.S. Senate ultimately won’t vote in favor of Biden’s removal from office. The media can ignore or minimize the corruption story for now, but they will have no choice but to cover impeachment hearings. If that happened, not only would the entire country suddenly be forced to awaken to the reality of the Biden family’s flamboyant criminality, but other major figures would be ineluctably drawn into the hearings (who was POTUS when Biden was running his Ukraine, etc. grifts again?).
The Republicans are probably slow-walking this—if they are, and I don’t know any more about what genuine pacing in this area even resembles than anyone else—to offer Biden a chance to step down. He could quietly be offered immunity from prosecution, maybe an autobiography deal with a multi-million-dollar advance that an AI program could unspool a finished manuscript for in minutes, and say he’s stepping down to pursue other opportunities and spend more time with his family, like any other embattled CEO.
He needs to go. Not just from the perspective of desperate American voters, but from the coldest perspective of all: that of his DNC handlers and whoever the fuck’s actually orchestrating who the next POTUS needs to be, which reduces to what characteristics and vulnerabilities, not to which person or whichever party.
David Ignatius is a longtime asset of the Central Intelligence Agency who transmits the aims of his employer through liberal media outlets. I mentioned him in a post in late April:
David Ignatius remains a stenographer for The Empire to this day. But now that Soros, a renowned anticommunist and social destabilizer—and about as Jewish as a koala bear in practice—has far more power, associating him with his known sociopathy has become "antisemitic."
Yesterday, Ignatius published an announcement framed as an opinion column: Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both need to go.
It’s essential to remember that the media does not do real reporting in this area. The media’s job is to set agendas and manufacture consent for those agendas, because the major media outlets are all extensions of the U.S. intelligence services and the Pentagon, apart from their entanglements with corporations, financiers, and NGOs that are themselves enmeshed with governmental actors.
Joe Biden is history. I think he’ll be gone by the end of the month.
As something of an afterthought, eight men have died while serving as the President of the United States—four by assassination and the other four by, in order, pneumonia (William Henry Harrison, 1841), gastroenteritis (Zachary Taylor, 1850), myocardial infarction (Warren Harding, 1923) and cerebrovascular hemorrhage (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1945). It was FDR stroking out near the beginning of his fourth term—at a rather busy time in the area of U.S. foreign relations, at that—that led to U.S. Congress establishing a two-term (and in effect, ten-year) limit of service for the office.
This seems like a job with high mortality rate: Eight out of only forty-six presidents perishing at the helm means a better than one in six chance of dying within four to eight years after the job officially begins. But this ignores changes to term lengths and improvements in both medicine and presidential protection. Biden could croak at any moment, but no one is ever, ever again going to get a firearm or similar weapon within range of the POTUS. I don’t know exactly what kind of wireless technology they use to establish their grids, but they have people who are decent at geometry, and no one or no remotely operated no-no toy is getting inside it.
And I’m positive anyone near the POTUS at any time is having all their data streamed from their cell phones into some program that assembles a profile of its owner within seconds or fractions of a second. And any warm body not carrying a cell phone at all within the extent of this perimeter will be immediately flagged.
At least that’s how I’d set all this up, if asked.
Also, one president has left office without dying during my lifetime, and that was Richard Milhous Nixon stepped down partway though his second term on August 9, 1974, when I was four years old, having just learned how to tie my shoes at YMCA summer camp (I have since lost this skill). I remember my father wandering around the house smirking and doing the double peace-sign thing while muttering “Tricky Dick. Tricky Dick,” but other than that, the event didn’t fully register.
I’m not sure anything ever “fully” does. But nothing about presidential corruption is funny anymore because the people operating the president are for this, not against it.
We’re fucked! But I hope people are wise enough to not vote for whoever gets inserted in Biden’s place. Not unless you want absolutely everything that’s already working poorly to completely stall and what little freedom of expression, economic opportunity, and sense of personal agency you still retain to be seized away forever. Maybe every alterative is itself a layer of hell, too—that’s why most sane Republicans are pissed off at their prospects, too, even if they believe Trump can win.
But come on. This isn’t America anymore anyway, it’s the BlackRock-Pharma-Deep State re-organization camp for 335 million or so citizens, about 335,000 stand to benefit from the way things are going and the direction in which they’re being recklessly steered.
But some of us still have a picture of what even a broken-down America could still be, if enough people simply say no to prescription drugs, U.S. Centers for Disease Control “recommendations” local authorities inevitably treat as mandates and fully implement, demoralized groups like the Anti-Defamation League that pimp genuine longstanding toxic bigotries for bloodshed-fueled power and riches as well as the furthering of DNC aims, and ridiculous gender-grifts frames as human rights movements.
Fuck war. Fuck surveillance and censorship. Fuck the Uniparty.