Joe Biden’s Best Bet for Survival

As I’ve written before, the selection of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s vice-president was a genius move by the puppet-masters of a senescent leader whose brain appears to be on a permanent rinse-cycle. Whenever someone might be tempted to admit the obvious and point out that the President is a doddering coot who often seems barely aware of where he is, the mere thought of President Harris will be enough to quietly shelve any thought of shuffling Joe off to the presidential retirement home.

Yet it seems almost certain that Harris won’t get a shot at being the 47th president any other way.

Fourteen months into the Biden administration and a year after she was given the task of tackling rampant migration at the Mexico border, Harris, 57, appears to have shrunk, rather than grown, in her role. Her ratings are worse than those of her boss – even in her home state of California she is at just 35 per cent approval, according to the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies (Biden is on 50 per cent in California and in the low 40s nationally).

The border crisis has exploded under Harris’ watch — or lack thereof. It took her months, after all, to even bother to visit the border for herself. Meanwhile, the Biden administration gives every appearance of encouraging, rather than trying to stem, the flood of illegal immigrants. Little wonder, then, that Harris is racing her boss to the bottom of some of the worst poll ratings ever seen.

The fanfare that greeted the first woman, and the first person of black and south Asian descent, to occupy the East Wing was perhaps too great, the challenge of shining without annoying Biden – or his people – too tricky to pull off.

Or maybe that was the entire problem: all Harris had was her gender and ethnicity. That was it. Like Biden’s pick for the Supreme Court, she is a second-rate diversity hire — and it shows.

One rather obvious sign that all is not well has been the damaging leaks that have beset Harris, exposing discontent in her camp and irritating the president’s. Her office has also suffered from a prodigious turnover of personnel, capped this week by the announcement that her chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, is to depart.

Then there is simply Harris herself. The weird cackles and inappropriate moments, the bizarre, rambling answers that make even her demented boss sound lucid. The unrelenting puffery: hiring child actors to pretend to be awestruck schoolchildren, blithering about Wordle in major interviews. Lying about visiting the southern border when she hadn’t, and then acting surprised that anyone would even expect her to bother.

While Biden is behaving as if he will run again in 2024, there are serious doubts inside the Democratic Party about whether he has the stamina for a campaign unrestricted by Covid-19.

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The concern more likely is whether the stench of his re-animated corpse will be too much even for the lickspittle legacy media to cover up, any more.

So, who will be the likely Democrat contender in 2024? Normally, it would be the incumbent VP, but given that Harris is about as popular as anal cancer, that’s less likely than Joe managing to stay awake for more than half an hour at a time.

Many Democrats are touting transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg. As a flagrantly gay man, he has, it must be admitted, even more intersectional cred than Harris. But that’s about it. While America is staggering through a supply chain crisis brought on by widespread failures in the transportation system — many of them the result of Democrat policies — what has Buttigieg advocated spending billions on? “Equity” in the transport sector. That’s right: when train robberies are a thing in the US for the first time since the days of the Wild West, what Pete really cares about is whether the train driver is a gay, black tranny.

Butters’ only public office before the Biden administration was as mayor of a bumpkin town in Indiana. Yet, even in that big league job, he stuffed up transportation: the city experienced a “pothole crisis” so bad, that pizza chain Domino’s was forced to step in and pay to help fix it up, just so their pizzas would arrive in one piece.