Forgive the trivial question but I have to know who is the man to Obama's right in the photo at the top of the page. I wish to make enquiries of the manufacturer of his syrup.
To OUR right is Richie Daley, to OBAMA'S right is Rod Blagojevich, a character in his own right. As governor of IL he was convicted of trying to sell Obama's vacated senate seat. It was somewhat controversial, but was upheld on two appeals. Trump commuted his sentence.
Are we supposed to believe any replacement Democrat will have different, other than middle class crushing policies? Ha! How stupid do they think we are?
Well the sheeple might believe it but the rest of us aren't stupid.
They will continue the same idiotic policies no matter what "D" is (s)elected.
Shut down working electric facilities replace with non-working intermittent.
Shut down oil (aka: gasoline for your car) and trucks that move products to market.
Keep printing money (inflation).
Keep starting wars. The Military industrial donors rely on it.
Read Eric Weinstein’s comment (see zerohedge) on the elephant in the room no one talks about: “It’s communism, stupid.” Even the money people are waking up to the threat posed by the “progressive” democrat party.
People have made far too much of the distinction between communism and fascism — the rough idea being that they are at opposite ends of a spectrum. In point of fact, in terms of ideas and in terms of history, the two share quite a bit. In short, both are murderous, collectivist, totalitarian ideologies. So… a distinction without much of a practical difference.
Yes, that's how it works on the liberal left. It works in a slightly more convoluted way on the liberal right--libertarianism also works to destroy the concept of a need for "a moral and religious people." The result is moral--and thus social--breakdown. And that leads to the similar demand by the morally and socially bereft for State control. Exactly what the daft libertarians claim to oppose.
Well, my answer would be a little of both. We have a fascist government, but we also have a communist revolution taking place in plain sight. Seems like a lot of people are beginning to see both in action.. Weinstein should recognize a communism: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eric-weinstein-its-communism-stupid
Insider Chicago plowing alert (my wife) Frowns that Harris is supported to replace Zhou. She’s holding out for Barry’s wife Michelle. (Sad face). Haven’t the heart to help her through her sorrow today.
Very interesting. Given the Clintons’ full-throated support for Zhou and their quick pivot to Kama Sutra. That, and even weirder, I understand La Michelle had been fundraising for Kama Sutra.
Hard to imagine an outcome that doesn’t get really messy for the Democrats. I’m sure there are a whole bunch of people on the “Biden all the way” side and those on “Anybody but Biden” side who are going to be seriously pissed off and ready to rumble!
May wind up making the’68 convention look like a Sunday School picnic, but with so many people and so many scandals in so many closets and so many giant egos it’s bound to be an interesting outcome at the very least.
And I fully concur with other folks who have made the point, if he’s not good enough to be the nominee then how in the hell is he good enough to remain POTUS? The RINOs and the rest of the cowards who make up the Republican Party continue to tell on themselves by not unanimously screaming for Biden’s immediate resignation.
DJT may be up to the task, but the majority of the gutless wonders who make up the Republican Party most certainly have shown the ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory on far too many occasions for me to feel overly confident at this point.
Yes, the Deems are going to war. The donors want their party back. They want a “re-brand,” and Clinton, Obama and Biden are under the bus, and have been for months.
Why did Biden wait on getting out? The women around him that have been making the decisions. They know they will not be significant going forward. So they, with Joe as the front man, want “protection,” once Trump comes in…the assassination attempt now ensures he won’t play by the rules he did the first term. Remember when he got talked out of releasing the JFK files?
Why is all of this happening now? Why is it beyond American borders? Globalism died. They all benefited from it, and have lots of laundry that will come out.
There is no hiding in the DIGITAL paradigm, where fantasy narratives are not accepted.
The Deems are frantic about losing the woman vote, particularly Black and other “minorities.” They have already lost a good part of the Black men and others.
Why have Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, you name the old Deem, held on? Because they know the party is being pushed by the younger crowd and it is going to explode on everyone.
One paradigm has ended, and soon everyone is going to see the Mushroom cloud. Keep in mind that it’s not just the Deems that are the screaming kid holding onto his toy…it’s generational…and the new war is going to hit on Election day. The next few months will pale to what happens starting in ‘25.
Welcome to the DIGITAL paradigm…now get out!
We certainly live in interesting times, times where we get to talk with other humans…;)
“They want a “re-brand,” and Clinton, Obama and Biden are under the bus…”
They may have succeeded with the latter, but I wish them luck with the other two. The Democrat Party is run like a mafia ring, and the Clintons and Obamas are its two ruling families. Without them, there is no Party.
If the Democrats go into the convention without a consensus nominee it could get very, very ugly. I expect that, if they are happy enough with Harris as the nominee, they might well push her through with the virtual delegate vote within the next couple of weeks.
There was a story just this morning that she ran a fundraiser online with some big donors and it was a mess--badly organized and the donors felt like they were being "talked down to." Dems will need to get a ticket together fast or they may find a lot of trouble getting the kind of money they need--Trump is bringing in enormous amounts. Or so it seems to me.
It is a real issue to not have a firm nominee right now- donors are thinking, "If I donate to Harris, that money might be stranded if someone else is nominated in a month's time." I think the Democrats might not have had a real option here but to coelesce behind Harris no matter how stupid and weak she is- just to get the donor money flowing to a Presidential campaign organization.
How in the world can anyone with two functioning brain cells look at Kama and not break down into tears or uncontrollable laughter?
If Biden was a clown, then I guess that would make her the Court Jester? True, she can probably read a teleprompter and maintain a consistent train of thought for 60 seconds, but honestly, will any world leader anywhere actually take her seriously?
If no one has declared for the nomination by Friday, then it is going to be Harris.
She will find it difficult to get a high-profile running mate- no one who thinks they are presidential material for a run in 2028 is going to want to be a losing VP candidate in 2024 or stuck behind President Harris until 2032.
That sounds about right. There have been stories the last few days that she's been sounding out possible veeps. I'd say she needs a really strong one to have a shot, but your reasoning makes sense to me.
It's nice to see Blago back in form. Of course he himself never participated an any dirty Chicago politics..... As a former Dem, I'd guess there will be, if not a Civil War, at least some significant disgust and resistance against the blatantly top-down coup that was just carried out by big Dem donors, who showed their naked hubris, greed, sense of entitlement, and lust for power. The unashamed and arrogant, condescending way the big donors acted, simply assuming that they, as if by divine right, naturally had the right to choose who the next Dem candidates would be, has, I think, been a learning experience for many Dems, something they will never forget. Moreover, the question of "Who rules America?" and "Who controls the president?" have been raised and have become part of legitimate daily discussion, and many Dems will look at the naked intervention of the big donors and their messenger boy Obama, and they will not approve of the way things have been managed and manipulated, ways redolent of the elections in the USSR. Basically the coup against Biden is telling ordinary Dems that they don't matter at all, though we will accept your donations, thank you. This feeling of betrayal will be made stronger by the fact that the transition from Biden to Harris actually represents a step down. Even a senile Biden is more coherent than an inane, rambling, and vacuous Harris. When you carry out a coup, you need to present at least a better-seeming alternative. How can Harris possibly muddle her way through in a debate with Trump? She didn't win even a single vote in the Dem primaries in 2020, despite the strong backing of Hillary, and almost any Dem VP candidate will outshine her and make her look pitifully unprepared and unqualified. So the hubristic big donors interfered in the electoral process just so they could give us this shallow, superficial imitation of a candidate? This will be a question many Dems will have, so even if there is no overt rebellion against Obama's backstage tactics, I predict that Dem turnout in November will be rather lackluster, because the image of the Dem Party as the party "of the common people" will have taken a big hit. This trend will probably be even more pronounced among independents, and RFK Jr. may benefit from the coup. As for what happens outside the Dem convention, I doubt it will get quite as hot as in1968, but something significant may happen in the streets of Chicago.
Great comment! Will the voters ever believe the "save our Democracy from Trump" line again? Will they ever have faith that their vote will matter if they vote Democrat? The truth about who really rules is out now. This party is on its way out...
The regime that spent four years screeching about democracy just forced the incumbent president out of the race, despite tens of millions of voters picking him as their nominee. Which should tell you everything you need to know about how these crooks actually view democracy.
Some have raised questions about his signature being forged. It does look different from other samples, but who’s to say whether those were his real signature either. What fun!
The Federalist has an essay questioning whether Zhou had any knowledge of the decision to withdraw. The last time he was on camera before the announcement, he was still clearly committed to running.
It's like the Babylon Bee headline, Democrat Leaders Convince Biden He Already Stepped Down Yesterday... The headlines today over at BB are "lit", as the kids say. If one needs to laugh rather than cry.
It seems like the Dems are going for Kama Sutra as a unity candidate. The Grand Kackler, Hillary, has endorsed the lesser Kackler, Kamala. Pretend open convention or Kacklin’ Kamala Kumbaya?
Forgive the trivial question but I have to know who is the man to Obama's right in the photo at the top of the page. I wish to make enquiries of the manufacturer of his syrup.
* syrup of figs -> wigs
To OUR right is Richie Daley, to OBAMA'S right is Rod Blagojevich, a character in his own right. As governor of IL he was convicted of trying to sell Obama's vacated senate seat. It was somewhat controversial, but was upheld on two appeals. Trump commuted his sentence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich
Thanks, never heard of him but off to follow that link and end up who knows where ;-)
Is that the Richard Dailey of, “Remember, vote early and vote often!” fame? :-)
Are we supposed to believe any replacement Democrat will have different, other than middle class crushing policies? Ha! How stupid do they think we are?
Well the sheeple might believe it but the rest of us aren't stupid.
They will continue the same idiotic policies no matter what "D" is (s)elected.
Shut down working electric facilities replace with non-working intermittent.
Shut down oil (aka: gasoline for your car) and trucks that move products to market.
Keep printing money (inflation).
Keep starting wars. The Military industrial donors rely on it.
Etc.
Read Eric Weinstein’s comment (see zerohedge) on the elephant in the room no one talks about: “It’s communism, stupid.” Even the money people are waking up to the threat posed by the “progressive” democrat party.
People have made far too much of the distinction between communism and fascism — the rough idea being that they are at opposite ends of a spectrum. In point of fact, in terms of ideas and in terms of history, the two share quite a bit. In short, both are murderous, collectivist, totalitarian ideologies. So… a distinction without much of a practical difference.
Yeah. That's strictly a Leftist meme for use against the non-Left of any persuasion.
Yes, that's how it works on the liberal left. It works in a slightly more convoluted way on the liberal right--libertarianism also works to destroy the concept of a need for "a moral and religious people." The result is moral--and thus social--breakdown. And that leads to the similar demand by the morally and socially bereft for State control. Exactly what the daft libertarians claim to oppose.
Well, my answer would be a little of both. We have a fascist government, but we also have a communist revolution taking place in plain sight. Seems like a lot of people are beginning to see both in action.. Weinstein should recognize a communism: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eric-weinstein-its-communism-stupid
Insider Chicago plowing alert (my wife) Frowns that Harris is supported to replace Zhou. She’s holding out for Barry’s wife Michelle. (Sad face). Haven’t the heart to help her through her sorrow today.
Interesting that Barry hasn’t yet come out backing Kama Sutra.
Very interesting. Given the Clintons’ full-throated support for Zhou and their quick pivot to Kama Sutra. That, and even weirder, I understand La Michelle had been fundraising for Kama Sutra.
Hard to imagine an outcome that doesn’t get really messy for the Democrats. I’m sure there are a whole bunch of people on the “Biden all the way” side and those on “Anybody but Biden” side who are going to be seriously pissed off and ready to rumble!
May wind up making the’68 convention look like a Sunday School picnic, but with so many people and so many scandals in so many closets and so many giant egos it’s bound to be an interesting outcome at the very least.
And I fully concur with other folks who have made the point, if he’s not good enough to be the nominee then how in the hell is he good enough to remain POTUS? The RINOs and the rest of the cowards who make up the Republican Party continue to tell on themselves by not unanimously screaming for Biden’s immediate resignation.
DJT may be up to the task, but the majority of the gutless wonders who make up the Republican Party most certainly have shown the ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory on far too many occasions for me to feel overly confident at this point.
Yes, the Deems are going to war. The donors want their party back. They want a “re-brand,” and Clinton, Obama and Biden are under the bus, and have been for months.
Why did Biden wait on getting out? The women around him that have been making the decisions. They know they will not be significant going forward. So they, with Joe as the front man, want “protection,” once Trump comes in…the assassination attempt now ensures he won’t play by the rules he did the first term. Remember when he got talked out of releasing the JFK files?
Why is all of this happening now? Why is it beyond American borders? Globalism died. They all benefited from it, and have lots of laundry that will come out.
There is no hiding in the DIGITAL paradigm, where fantasy narratives are not accepted.
The Deems are frantic about losing the woman vote, particularly Black and other “minorities.” They have already lost a good part of the Black men and others.
Why have Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, you name the old Deem, held on? Because they know the party is being pushed by the younger crowd and it is going to explode on everyone.
One paradigm has ended, and soon everyone is going to see the Mushroom cloud. Keep in mind that it’s not just the Deems that are the screaming kid holding onto his toy…it’s generational…and the new war is going to hit on Election day. The next few months will pale to what happens starting in ‘25.
Welcome to the DIGITAL paradigm…now get out!
We certainly live in interesting times, times where we get to talk with other humans…;)
“They want a “re-brand,” and Clinton, Obama and Biden are under the bus…”
They may have succeeded with the latter, but I wish them luck with the other two. The Democrat Party is run like a mafia ring, and the Clintons and Obamas are its two ruling families. Without them, there is no Party.
If the Democrats go into the convention without a consensus nominee it could get very, very ugly. I expect that, if they are happy enough with Harris as the nominee, they might well push her through with the virtual delegate vote within the next couple of weeks.
There was a story just this morning that she ran a fundraiser online with some big donors and it was a mess--badly organized and the donors felt like they were being "talked down to." Dems will need to get a ticket together fast or they may find a lot of trouble getting the kind of money they need--Trump is bringing in enormous amounts. Or so it seems to me.
It is a real issue to not have a firm nominee right now- donors are thinking, "If I donate to Harris, that money might be stranded if someone else is nominated in a month's time." I think the Democrats might not have had a real option here but to coelesce behind Harris no matter how stupid and weak she is- just to get the donor money flowing to a Presidential campaign organization.
How in the world can anyone with two functioning brain cells look at Kama and not break down into tears or uncontrollable laughter?
If Biden was a clown, then I guess that would make her the Court Jester? True, she can probably read a teleprompter and maintain a consistent train of thought for 60 seconds, but honestly, will any world leader anywhere actually take her seriously?
So . . . you're saying she's burdened by what has been?
Well, I guess it you look at it relative to the passage of time on a Venn diagram, I guess that is what I’m saying.
Ha!
If no one has declared for the nomination by Friday, then it is going to be Harris.
She will find it difficult to get a high-profile running mate- no one who thinks they are presidential material for a run in 2028 is going to want to be a losing VP candidate in 2024 or stuck behind President Harris until 2032.
That sounds about right. There have been stories the last few days that she's been sounding out possible veeps. I'd say she needs a really strong one to have a shot, but your reasoning makes sense to me.
Like Wes Moore.
It's nice to see Blago back in form. Of course he himself never participated an any dirty Chicago politics..... As a former Dem, I'd guess there will be, if not a Civil War, at least some significant disgust and resistance against the blatantly top-down coup that was just carried out by big Dem donors, who showed their naked hubris, greed, sense of entitlement, and lust for power. The unashamed and arrogant, condescending way the big donors acted, simply assuming that they, as if by divine right, naturally had the right to choose who the next Dem candidates would be, has, I think, been a learning experience for many Dems, something they will never forget. Moreover, the question of "Who rules America?" and "Who controls the president?" have been raised and have become part of legitimate daily discussion, and many Dems will look at the naked intervention of the big donors and their messenger boy Obama, and they will not approve of the way things have been managed and manipulated, ways redolent of the elections in the USSR. Basically the coup against Biden is telling ordinary Dems that they don't matter at all, though we will accept your donations, thank you. This feeling of betrayal will be made stronger by the fact that the transition from Biden to Harris actually represents a step down. Even a senile Biden is more coherent than an inane, rambling, and vacuous Harris. When you carry out a coup, you need to present at least a better-seeming alternative. How can Harris possibly muddle her way through in a debate with Trump? She didn't win even a single vote in the Dem primaries in 2020, despite the strong backing of Hillary, and almost any Dem VP candidate will outshine her and make her look pitifully unprepared and unqualified. So the hubristic big donors interfered in the electoral process just so they could give us this shallow, superficial imitation of a candidate? This will be a question many Dems will have, so even if there is no overt rebellion against Obama's backstage tactics, I predict that Dem turnout in November will be rather lackluster, because the image of the Dem Party as the party "of the common people" will have taken a big hit. This trend will probably be even more pronounced among independents, and RFK Jr. may benefit from the coup. As for what happens outside the Dem convention, I doubt it will get quite as hot as in1968, but something significant may happen in the streets of Chicago.
Great comment! Will the voters ever believe the "save our Democracy from Trump" line again? Will they ever have faith that their vote will matter if they vote Democrat? The truth about who really rules is out now. This party is on its way out...
YES! David Sacks said it better than I could. "Now we are in blackmail territory".
Quit or else, see?
we have All this evidence we were hiding.
Nice family you got there...
Your whole family could go down.
JD Vance calls on Biden to resign as president immediately
If the Republicans were all smart politically, they all would be doing this.
JUST IN - Hillary Clinton endorses Kamala Harris.
That would explain why Obama hasn't.
Sean Davis @seanmdav
The regime that spent four years screeching about democracy just forced the incumbent president out of the race, despite tens of millions of voters picking him as their nominee. Which should tell you everything you need to know about how these crooks actually view democracy.
More than odd that the announcement was made on Bidens official letterhead, not WH. Why on X and not a press conference or Oval Office address?
New reports on X that WH staffers have no idea about Biden dropping out. Could someone have hacked the account? Is this even real?
Some have raised questions about his signature being forged. It does look different from other samples, but who’s to say whether those were his real signature either. What fun!
The Federalist has an essay questioning whether Zhou had any knowledge of the decision to withdraw. The last time he was on camera before the announcement, he was still clearly committed to running.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/22/does-biden-even-know-hes-not-running-for-president-anymore/
Covid care in Delaware. No WH forms allowed.
It's like the Babylon Bee headline, Democrat Leaders Convince Biden He Already Stepped Down Yesterday... The headlines today over at BB are "lit", as the kids say. If one needs to laugh rather than cry.
It seems like the Dems are going for Kama Sutra as a unity candidate. The Grand Kackler, Hillary, has endorsed the lesser Kackler, Kamala. Pretend open convention or Kacklin’ Kamala Kumbaya?
Kama Sutra holds the purse right now. They can't jettison her just yet, until they figure out how they can get their hands on the campaign funds.
Not gonna happen.
Sean Davis @seanmdav
Democrats are rigging their own election. Does anyone still believe they didn’t rig the 2020 election?
Yup. Recycle prefilled Biden/Sutra ballots for 2024. Print prefilled Sutra/????? Ballots after ‘open’ convention. Distribute as needed. Trump/Vance for prison 2025.