If you’ve ever seen the classic “King Kong,” at the end when Kong is lying dead at the base of the Empire State Building, and the cop says, “The airplanes got him,” and Robert Armstrong famously replies, “Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.” As we watched Joe Biden slink away into the pages of history, there are a lot people who will blame a lot of other people for the end of his administration, but make no mistake: it was the rich donors who killed Biden’s reelection campaign.
There will be talk of the polls being so bad that Biden realized he simply could not win, though he was swearing up and down just last week that the polls he was seeing were saying the exact opposite. Besides, bad polling for an incumbent 4 months before an election is nothing new, so the idea of dropping out because of them is like quitting at halftime of the Super Bowl because you’re down by 21 points. Sure, the odds of you making a comeback are long, but not impossible.
We’re supposed to believe a guy who lived his whole adult like on a quest to become President of the United States would walk away from that because the polls had him down? Why wouldn’t he use that as motivation to work harder, to campaign better, to overcome those polls?
I get it, he’s old, but wouldn’t you rather go out swinging than, well, on a porch swing?
There will also be talk of Biden’s heath being so bad that he had to quit. His health has been bad for a very long time, with his mind having been slipping for years. But remember: in addition to going senile, Joe Biden has always been stupid. There’s a possibility that he comes off as more senile than he is because of that. It’s impossible to tell.
Nevertheless, Camp Biden swore this wasn’t the case anyway. The entire line-up on MSNBC staked their reputations on the President having the brain power of a Jeopardy champion, not someone in need of Velcro shoes because there’s a probability of choking himself to unconsciousness.
I don’t know how far gone he is; how many steps (or flights of stairs) he has lost. That they tried so desperately to hide it does not bode well for Joe.
But if the idea that he’s too far into dementia to hold the job is true, what does it say about all those people on MSNBC who knew this, yet were willing to help commit the cover-up to prevent Kamala Harris from ascending to the presidency?
They still are, if it’s true, as they’re all content to let Joe finish the term rather than have her run as an incumbent.
Hell, I would too. Kamala is awful.
That brings us to the other option, the one that is true regardless of whether or not the others are too: the Democratic Party is controlled by the rich and powerful donors.
The money dried up after the horrible debate performance by Joe Biden. It was not new, his decline was obvious even though, considering where he started, he didn’t have that far to descend. But it couldn’t be covered up, it couldn’t be lied about. Too many people saw the 90-minute senior moment to brush it off with the political-spin equivalent of “swamp gas.”
If there’s one thing rich people like to buy with their money it’s access. Lines are for suckers, waiting your turn is for the lesser-classes, and they damn well want political influence if they’re going to fund someone else’s ambitions. They all have their causes, whether benefit financially or it’s just an ego/pet project thing, they seek meaning for their otherwise empty lives externally. Their kids are probably horrible, so politics will be their legacy.
While they’d ripped their pockets off to grab their wallets 4 years ago to be Donald Trump, they were less excited this time around. Even trust fund babies are feeling the failures of the Biden economy.
After that debate, that was it. They were willing to try to polish a turd, but not one the whole country caught a whiff of. Besides, what’s the point of buying influence from someone who has none? From someone who likely wouldn’t be around long enough to make it worth their while? The 25th Amendment was looming, and sooner or later it would have to be invoked. Wallets ran dry.
Money is the lifeblood of politics. Well, other people’s money is the lifeblood of politics – both in campaign contributions and spending it through the government. If the former dries up, the second gets out of reach. That’s why Democrats finally cared about getting rid of Joe Biden – their sugar-mommies and daddies threatened to cut them off if they didn’t break up with the guy they’d been seeing. And they did, quickly.
Democrats – the self-professed party of the working class – gave their rich masters exactly what they wanted, what they demanded, without a fight. They are the party of, for and by the rich and always have been. Like Joe Biden’s senility, they just used to be much better at hiding it.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.