{"id":1479754,"date":"2024-07-26T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1479754"},"modified":"2024-07-26T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T00:20:00","slug":"saving-our-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/saving-our-democracy\/1479754\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Our Democracy…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saving Our Democracy…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBeing insane is the new normal.\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– Aimee Terese on \u201cX\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

However it happened this week, \u201cJoe Biden\u201d passed the blowtorch to a new generation and got himself gone from the political battlefield. Delegates to the coming Democratic National Convention (August 19) were duly notified of the selected replacement, Veep Kamala Harris, and ordered to line up behind her.<\/p>\n

Not a peep of disagreement was heard among them. Amazing that no one had a different idea. Thus, is democracy saved.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The curious details around this event remain shrouded in mystery. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Reporters for\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0WashPo<\/em>\u00a0could not be bothered to inquire, and their readers are not inclined to ask how all this came to be. It just\u00a0is<\/em>. In a culture with no sense of consequence, things just happen or un-happen. It is your duty to recognize that the wind now blows from another direction and bend with it.<\/p>\n

One thing was obvious: the long-running prank of pretending that President \u201cJoe Biden\u201d is sound-of-mind fell apart after his mortifying appearance on the debate stage June 27th.<\/strong> Apparently, every last captain and foot-soldier in the Democratic Party ranks was taken completely by surprise to see their champion flicker out in real time, like a forty-watt bulb that has done years of duty on the front porch and suddenly leaves you in the dark. Three weeks followed with \u201cJoe Biden\u201d boldly campaigning as if nothing had happened. (Perhaps his mind did not register that things had changed.)<\/p>\n

And then there was the weird tweet on \u201cX\u201d Sunday afternoon when the whole country was outside waterskiing, grilling weiners, carjacking, and yelling at ballparks, and the deed was done.<\/strong> Someone, possibly even \u201cJoe Biden\u201d himself, wrote a letter pasted into the tweet that declared he was bowing out of the race. The White House staff didn\u2019t even know until it was up-and-posted. Rumor had it that Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama read the riot act to \u201cJB\u201d, who was refusing to follow the script. There were plenty of carrots-and-sticks to finally lever his obdurate ass into motion: not least must have involved any pending legal outcome of the family\u2019s influence-peddling operations, whispers of new whistleblower accusations about offshore bank accounts, perhaps with sweeteners in the deal as to how much schwag the clan could still hold onto in the end.<\/p>\n

Then, the valedictory speech on Wednesday, sort of a proof-of-life exhibition, to verify that Sunday\u2019s janky tweet to the nation was for real. <\/strong>You heard a Homeric recitation of \u201cJB\u2019s\u201d signal achievements in office, every one of them demonstrably false. He did not keep our country out of war, or grow the economy, or keep inflation down, or beat Big Pharma, or build anything, or defend personal freedoms, or \u201cmake it clear there is no place, no place in America for political violence or any violence ever.\u201d (In fact, the very next day, Thursday, pro-Hamas mobs attacked US Park police and vandalized federal property at Washington\u2019s Union Station, and on Friday all charges were dropped against them \u2014 while scores of J6 Capitol trespassers rotted for years in the DC jail.)<\/p>\n

What \u201cJoe Biden\u201d actually accomplished in office was the near-total wrecking of the USA.<\/strong> He torpedoed the authority and legitimacy of just about every federal agency, turned the Department of Justice into a Gestapo, seeded the federal court benches with Woke lunatics, allowed an invasion of perhaps 20-million border-jumpers (including many thousands of professional terrorists), coerced injections of an ineffective and injurious vaccine into millions of citizens afraid of losing their livelihoods, promoted gross medical experiments on sexually troubled children, invited drag queens and mentally-ill degenerates to cavort in the White House, spent borrowed money at a rate that propelled the national debt past the event horizon into a black hole, made the seeking of incompetence the number one priority of the Pentagon, provoked a war in Ukraine that now teeters on the hazard of a nuclear exchange, and allowed the CIA to complete its takeover of the US government. \u201cJoe Biden\u201d will go down in history as the worst of all 46 US presidents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And, of course, in the rush of cascading events the past several weeks came the attempted assassination of the Democratic Party\u2019s nemesis, Mr. Trump, an operation festooned with loose threads, suspicious agency failures, and intimations of Deep State blob engineering. You\u2019ll have to stand by on any of that resolving soon. But many Democrats expressed disappointment that Mr. Trump was not killed, since that would be\u00a0saving our democracy<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also not quite resolved is the case of who the Democratic Party truly intends to run for president this year as the days dwindle down to Nov. 5. The current delirium over Kamala Harris is like a relief rally in the financial markets when a crisis has been averted \u2014 or, at least, stalled. <\/strong>You have reason to doubt that the Democratic Party\u2019s leadership crisis has actually been averted. Despite sedulous efforts to wipe her record, too many Americans know Kamala Harris as a hee-hawing ninny with a predilection for hapless Marxist fantasies. I\u2019m not persuaded that she is at all comfortable in her sudden role as the party\u2019s avatar. She is rumored to hit the bottle in moments of stress.<\/p>\n

The Party of Chaos will supposedly run a \u201cvirtual roll call\u201d of delegates August 1st\u00a0in order to meet the requirements to get on the ballot in several states. But then comes the actual convention with live bodies in murmuration on the floor of the arena, and in the back rooms and hallways, and there are more than three weeks between now and then for Kamala Harris to remind the world what a cackling lightweight she is.<\/strong> A lot can happen between now and then.<\/p>\n

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Support his blog by visiting\u00a0Jim\u2019s Patreon Page<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Substack<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 07\/26\/2024 – 16:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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