A Clown Car Conspiracy

Is something a conspiracy if everyone knows about it?

Or is it “private consensus building” or “socializing the concept” or a “quiet concerted effort” or merely “coordinating interests?”

Whatever it will end up being called, President Joe Biden was just the victim of one, which is ironic considering he was the beneficiary of a very similar “concerted effort” only 18 months ago.

It appears that the same forces in the Democratic Party that made absolutely sure that Biden had no challenger in this year’s primaries have now removed him from the 2024 race.

And it most likely happened once before, making Biden’s Sunday exit doubly ironic.   

Joe Biden was a midwit, midweight senator from a minor state for decades but always thought he could and should be president someday despite his having done little more than follow the way the wind was blowing (and helping his family earn a bit of money) for 36 years.

His presidential ambitions were thwarted by his own pointlessness and his tendency to lie about things that were in writing in someone else’s office: never do that as a politician – you will be called on it if it serves anyone else’s’ interest.

2008 rolls around and Barack Obama – after astonishingly beating out Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination – needs a vice president the establishment trusts absolutely. To the public, the Obama team said they picked Biden for his years of experience inside the beltway and that could be seen as true even though he did little of consequence.  At least he was there and knew some folks.

His vice presidency was most notably marked by two things: accidentally on purpose pushing Obama to be in favor of gay marriage and stage whispering “this is a big f****** deal” to Barack after Obamacare finally made it on the books.

He was not a breakout star, but he may have harbored hopes of moving up to the job until Hillary decided she wanted another shot.  The Democratic establishment loved the idea – just as they had loved the literally billions of dollars that had poured into her “Clinton Global Initiative” project and since they had no loyalty to Joe, he was gone, possibly his first brush being the victim of a “concerted effort.”

And then Hillary does something nearly as impossible – it seemed to most people – as jumping to the moon on a pogo stick: she lost to Donald Trump.

Now it’s 2020 and, after spending a few years making bank for his family with his connections, he decides to give the presidency one last shot. He is clearly beginning to totter a bit, but his real problem was, again, connecting with voters. Crushed in the first two primaries, Democrat leaders and nabobs and solons are faced with a dilemma. Biden, to them and to DC, is at least pliable, unlike the leading contender at the time, so a firewall is set up for him in South Carolina. Thanks to Rep. Jim Clyburn stoking the Black vote, he wins easily and then the pandemic blazed into full force.  

The restrictions put in place hamstrung the other candidates  and, by this time, Biden was already the “concerted effort consensus” candidate.

Putting aside for the moment concerns about the security of the 2020 election, Biden won, in large part because of the pandemic.  He didn’t have to leave his home, he didn’t have to talk to people up close, and Democrats across the country were, um, “ground gaming” to their hearts’ content.

He did have two decent debates against Trump and clearly won the first encounter.  These, however, were not indicators of the future and within the first year of his taking office Biden was showing serious decline, something that – with the stress of an actual primary campaign in 2020 – could very easily have but the kibosh on his candidacy then.

He became progressively less coherent, but the collaborationist media assured the public that what it was seeing with its own eyes was a ‘false narrative,” a “deep fake.”

The same Democratic leaders (literally – the same folks from 20 years ago) then decided to take the chance on Biden getting re-elected and cleared the field of any possible serious contender months in advance.  

While it is actually quite common for a party to make sure to protect its incumbent, the decision still involved “private consensus building” but still came with a very big risk:  Biden’s mental and physical deterioration was – and they knew it at the time – getting worse and/or at least was never going to get better.

That factor played heavily into the plan (scheme?) to avoid any primary challengers as Biden would possibly have to literally face-off with a serious contender or two.  He’d have to campaign and he’d have to talk in public off the top of his head (or get better at hiding his talking point notes,) two things the elders knew he might not be up to.

But they were also pretty sure that Trump was going to be the Republican nominee in 2024 so they rolled the dice on the guy who had beaten him once.

A debate was scheduled far earlier than a presidential debate had ever occurred before and that was for one very simple reason, a reason Biden himself was most likely unaware of.  The party wanted to see if he could make it through the campaign and, if not, they had time to replace him: 

Because it is very very possible that Biden will collapse or wander off stage or ask about the moderators’ dead relatives or slur his words or talk about how he freed Nelson Mandela from jail while he was single handedly desegregating, oh, maybe, say France this time.

In other words, anything that has happened since he took office could possibly happen again and if it’s bad enough it could be a dream come true for the Democrats.

For then the party will have an obvious and incontrovertible and spinnably non-political reason to replace him as the nominee and then they will have two months to figure who gets the top spot on the ticket.

In other words, if Biden goes Biden in public in June he becomes eminently replaceable in August. 

In one way, the plan worked when Joe came crashing down and the world saw Biden as everyone around hm has seen him for years: decrepit, incoherent, incapable of walking properly, let alone be President of the United States.  But in another way, it was a massive backfire – it can be assumed that even party leaders did not want to happen what actually happened, that the performance was so terrible that it made them – and the media – look terrible (or, in fact, be seen more accurately.)

But they still had that “Plan B” to go to. 

This leads to the final “conspiracy” in Joe Biden’s political (not necessarily financial or legal) life.  

Within days, Plan B moved from being a “what if?” thought problem to a hard cold reality:  Biden had to go and the sooner the better.

But that was not going to be easy – all of the the delegates were already pledged to him and simply burning him away like a tick would look very bad, possibly even un-democratic election interference- type stuff.

But technically, it’s not. The party unquestionably disenfranchised millions of its voters and members, but, in the end, “the party” does get to decide on the nominee and that “party” is in DC and a few other rich leftist power nubs like New York and San Francisco.

The funny thing is that if “the party” hadn’t cleared the way for Biden – in a nearly identical “a conspiracy of a consensus” way –  none of this would be happening now. No other Democrat really matters, as has just been shown.

As days from the debate turned into weeks, Democratic leaders started to go public with requests for Biden to step aside. This, too, was a coordinated effort, looking much like a congressional clown car as more people kept getting out, day after day.

What was it that convinced Biden and his family – so dependent upon him for his political leavings – to finally say okay and step aside? Presidential library funding promises? Letting him stay until the end of his term? A wink, nod that when he pardons everyone in his family no Democrat will raise an ethical query? Was Nancy Pelosi‘s signal –  through California senate candidate Adam Schiff so she could appear above the fray – that Biden had to go the last nail?

It may have been that one – Politico reports that ““Nancy made clear that they could do this the easy way or the hard way … She gave them three weeks of the easy way. It was about to be the hard way.”  

Pelosi did come out and support Harris today, but that extra day was presumably spent checking to see if there was another option and to make sure Kamala remembered who was in charge.

Or is it really his health? Leaving office six months early under an embarrassing cloud of dangerously enfeebled senility would be the ultimate humiliation for Biden.  

But staying in the job while saying his doctors finally very recently told him he has something serious (Parkinson’s maybe, but definitely not covid) that would make it impossible to finish a second term is not humiliating. It’s an unfortunate fact of life. The public will hear an explanation soon when Biden talks to American people later this week.

So, have the past few weeks seen an active “conspiracy’ play out at least partially, in public?  Or was it the party leaders coming to a “consensus” and then figuring out a “ concerted effort” to make it happen?  

It was either. It was both. But one thing we can be sure of is that it was politics as usual.

As to Kamala, the latest cabal beneficiary, be careful and remember that they had no choice but to make you the nominee.  

Just look what they did to Joe.