It’s been a very, very, very good week for the Trump campaign. Ever since the presidential debate made Joe Biden’s senile decay so screamingly obvious that even the mainstream media couldn’t lie about it any more (though plenty of them are still giving it the ol’ college try), all Donald Trump has had to do is sit back, shut his mouth (OK, a hard ask for the Donald, I’ll admit) and watch the Dems implode in a slo-mo train wreck.
Within seconds of Biden mumbling something about finally beating Medicare, the panic in Dem circles was palpable. The only thing stopping them continuing the Weekend at Bernie’s act is, a), just who the hell will they turn to, now? and b) the intransigence of the Biden family. A family summit at Camp David made it clear: they were sticking with Joe even if they had to wheel his cold, dead corpse into the Democratic Convention on a gurney.
How much longer can even Biden Inc hold out, though, now that the real heavyweights in progressive politics have spoken out?
No, I’m not talking about Barack Obama, the DNC or even George Soros. No, the only people in the world whose opinions really matter have passed their lofty judgement.
I’m talking, of course, about the Gods Among Mere Mortals known as ‘celebrities’.
Actor and big time Democratic Party donor George Clooney has called for Joe Biden to stand aside or be thrashed by Donald Trump in November, as former Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested the president may yet drop out of the race […]
Director and fellow Democratic Party donor Rob Reiner backed Clooney’s call a few hours later, declaring in a post on social media that democracy was “facing an existential threat”.
The Australian
There it is: that guy who pretended to be a doctor on Gray’s Anatomy and Meathead have spoken. Tremble and obey, ye mortals.
Well, far be it for mere elected officials to disobey the edicts of They On High.
Chuck Schumer, majority leader in the US Senate and the most powerful Democrat on Capitol Hill, has privately indicated to party donors he’s open to a presidential ticket not led by Joe Biden.
While Senator Schumer has publicly backed the embattled US President, according to reports published by US outlet Axios, the New York Senator is far less committed to the Biden campaign in private, signalling he is open to dumping the President from the Democratic ticket […]
On Wednesday, former House speaker Nancy Pelosi openly suggested that Biden consider dropping out of the race for the White House: It’s up to the President to decide if he is going to run,” Pelosi told MSNBC.
The Australian
Mind you, it’s kind of rich for a pickled hag who hung on long after the last drinks bell had been run to tell a man three years her junior that he’s too old to be in politics. Besides, we’re talking about the American left, here, who kept Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the Supreme Court long after her only means of communication was soiling her Depends in Morse.
Besides, they’re reckoning without the true power behind the throne.
Jill Biden is fighting back against claims that her ambition is fuelling her husband’s campaign, embarking on a 24-hour, three-state tour to spread the message that the family’s sole aim is to stop Donald Trump.
She has been criticised for a “clumsy” show of support for the President during the disastrous June 27 debate, and for an ill-timed Vogue cover, in which she stared imperiously into the lens and declared: “We will decide our future … we will not let those 90 minutes define the four years he’s been President. We will continue to fight.”
They do say that behind every great man is a great woman – and behind even the most decrepit dictator is a power-hungry she-hag. Lady McBeth, Madam Mao, Elena Ceausescu, Hillary Clinton… and Jill Biden. Oops – Dr Jill Biden.
Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News anchor, called her a “power-hungry aspirant” running a “shadow presidency”. The Drudge Report wrote: “Cruel Jill clings to power.”
Harriet Hageman, a congresswoman for Wyoming, said she was guilty of “elder abuse” for “rolling President Biden out on stage to engage in a battle of wits while unarmed”.
Even her first husband, Bill Stevenson, chimed in, saying: “I just don’t understand why she is so adamant about defending him and keeping him in the race since it appears that he’s struggling.”
In a TV interview on Monday, Trump himself insisted: “I think Jill would like to see him stay, she’s having a good time.”
The Australian
It’s rumoured that Dr Jill’s ambition is so overweening that she demanded her own theme music. The Imperial March was already taken by Darth Vader, so she had to settle for something more by-the-numbers.
The Marine Corps band was instructed last fall to come up with an entrance theme for the first lady, a source told the Washington Examiner. The band now has in its repertoire an original composition titled “Fanfare for the First Lady.” The song, the source said, is essentially Jill Biden’s personal “Hail to the Chief,” in that it is to be performed and repeated at official White House functions, from her first appearance until she is ready to speak.
“Fanfare for the First Lady” has created both amusement and confusion within the band, with some remarking that in the many years they’ve played in the group, this is the first time the group has had to provide the first lady with an exclusive entrance theme.
The Washington Examiner
For her part, Dr Jill denies making any such demand, claiming that the Marines Corps band came up with it all out of their goodness of their hearts.
Anyway, Dr Jill is far from the only family member with a vested interested in keep Joe’s corpse in the Oval Office. Nobody else is likely to be handing young Hunter any presidential pardons any time soon.
