Yeah, this guy is a mess. But what would the Pinko Party have to do to get rid of him? I’ve been talking a lot about how Joe Biden is swirling down the toilet bowl of senility like the human floater he is, but this last week has been particularly horrifying. He almost wandered away at the G7 summit and had to be reeled in by the right-wing girl leader of Italy. Then he had to be corralled at the pinkothon in Hollywood by Barack Obama and let away like a drooling shortbus rider when he froze up on stage. The guy is getting worse. What are the Democrats going to do?
Look, I don’t think they’re going to replace them. I think the practical challenges of replacing were just too great to deal with. For one thing, unless they do it in the next few weeks, he won’t be a candidate in Ohio. Because the Democrats screwed up and scheduled their convention for after the deadline to get on the Buckeye Ballot, he is going to have to be informally formally nominated well before the convention. If they kick him off the ticket after that, his replacement will not get his/her/their name to appear. That’s a real problem.
But there are other logistical concerns. There are lots of ballots that will have to be changed and lots of dumb Dem voters who are going to have to be told, “Hey, when you’re going to the voting booth, you’re going to be looking for Joe Biden, but there’s going to be somebody else there.” Don’t underestimate how checked-out Democrat constituents are. These are Democrats. They’re not smart. They’re not engaged. I can see them looking at their ballots and scratching their pointy heads, then bursting into tears when they don’t see Joe Biden’s name.
So, how would they manage to get Biden off the ticket if they were so inclined? They could try reasoning with him, but he’s a moron. Further, his wife, The Very Real Docter Jill, will not want him to go, nor are the thousands of people who owe him a job in the government. No one is talking these parasites out of their cushy sinecures no matter how bad Biden gets – and he could get pretty stinking bad.
So, how, mechanically, do they force Biden and his barnacles out of the White House? They could do the 25th Amendment to boot him out of office and possibly off the ballot. There’s a process. Kamala and a majority of the cabinet could get together and basically declare him incompetent and remove him. Of course, he can fight back and essentially say, “No, I am perfectly competent, and look, that squirrel is making faces at me again! Come on, squirrel, fight me, fat!”
Also, how do you explain them suddenly pulling the 25th? “Oh, you know. just last week, we noticed some troubling issues with the President out of the blue all of a sudden.” No, it would be seen as a massively cynical move, largely because it would be a massively cynical move.
And, worse, he might not lose that fight – the Republicans might just say, “Yeah, Biden is fine” when Congress has to referee the dispute. And remember, the 25th makes him not president, not not the nominee. This would be massively embarrassing and therefore hilarious, except for the whole thing about our enemies across the globe moving in to take advantage of this idiocy. Even if they defenestrate him, he could still be the Democrat candidate.
President Kamala would be the result of a successful removal, and she would definitely want to be the nominee. But even though we’re pretty sure she hasn’t showered with any of her children of the opposite sex, she has still managed to become even more despised than Biden himself. Americans just can’t stand her. But she’s also a person of color and womanness, and you’re not going to get even someone who’s moderately more popular than her to cut in line in front of her with those going for her.
Gavin Newsom was the dark horse, but he’s kind of Schiffed the bed lately. “Make America California” is hardly the inspirational slogan you’re looking for if you want to win a presidential election in 2024. There are some decent candidates. Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvania would be good. But let’s face it, there’s no one out there who is an obvious choice of the electorate. If there were, Biden might be gone already.
There are no more smoke-filled rooms of politicians picking candidates anymore, so they won’t be able to decree that Joe is off the ballot and someone else is on. No, I don’t see how a switch happens unless Crusty suffers some malady or injury. Maybe he breaks a hip or gets sick of, well, yuck, and then maybe I can see it. But that doesn’t solve the problem of who replaces him.
No, as senile, corrupt, perverted, and stupid as Joe Biden is, I think the Democrats have bought their ticket, and they’re riding this Amtrak all the way to the end of the line.
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