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The Coming Dethronement of Joe Biden<\/a>
\nBiden\u2019s situation presents the unnamed committee who actually runs the presidency with a huge and delicate problem. It can\u2019t last.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not often that I agree with Joe Biden, but he said something in his nasty, brutish, and long\u00a0press conference last week<\/a>\u00a0with which, if properly understood, I agree.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong. The press conference as a whole was a \u201ctotal disaster<\/a>.\u201d Notwithstanding the sycophantic performance of the court eunuchs in the regime media, everybody understands this. (But speaking of \u201ccourt eunuchs,\u201d what\u2019s the female equivalent? It was Jennifer Rubin, who actually\u00a0gave Biden an \u201cA-\u201d<\/a>\u00a0for the presser, that prompts this vital question and I hope some enterprising savant will contribute the answer.)<\/p>\n

At one point, a reporter, noting a few of the multifarious failures of Biden\u2019s first year in office\u2014runaway inflation; his failure to \u201cshut down the virus<\/a>\u201d; the smoldering ruin of his legislative agenda; the sharp, persistent partisan divisions that he came to office promising to heal\u2014given all that, the scribe suggested, perhaps Biden had \u201coverpromised.\u201d<\/p>\n

No, no, Biden replied, \u201cI didn\u2019t overpromise, but I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Delicious, isn\u2019t it? Peel off and discard the first bit. Biden clearly overpromised. Just utter the word \u201cnormalcy\u201d anywhere near the name \u201cBiden\u201d and watch the reaction. But many people jumped all over the second bit. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), for example, quoted the word \u201coutperformed\u201d and\u00a0tweeted<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m not sure what planet he\u2019s inhabiting but on planet earth his record is a record of failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is true. It\u2019s a dismal record of failure, and we\u2019ve only made it through one year. Biden\u2019s even outdone his master, Barack Obama, who before Biden held the world record for worst president in the history of the United States. Biden is far worse, in part, granted, because he continues to follow the blueprint set forth by his\u00a0clean<\/a>,\u00a0elegantly clad<\/a>\u00a0predecessor.<\/p>\n

But I have to cavil with the idea that Biden has not \u201coutperformed\u201d expectations. He certainly outperformed mine. I didn\u2019t think he would make it through his first year in the White House. But here it is, January 20-something, and the old guy is still in office. Amazing.<\/p>\n

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True, there is something of Dr. Johnson\u2019s dog about the whole thing. Presented with the spectacle of female preachers, Samuel Johnson marveled: \u201cSir, a woman\u2019s preaching is like a dog\u2019s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

My feelings about Biden are somewhat similar. I have accordingly revised my prediction. I was wrong that Joe Biden wouldn\u2019t make it through his first year. I continue to cling to the conviction he will not remain the occupant of the White House through to the morning of January 20, 2025. The prospect of a second Biden term is, I am convinced, not worth speaking about. In tragedy, Aristotle said, we should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities, but a second Biden term is so improbable as to be well-nigh impossible, and I am not forgetting about what a tragedy such an eventuality would entail for the country and the world. Even CNN seems to be\u00a0coming around to this realization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If I am even remotely correct about this, Biden\u2019s situation presents the unnamed committee who actually runs the presidency with a huge and delicate problem. Biden\u2019s behavior long ago passed from embarrassing to dangerous. We can see that all around us.<\/p>\n

By October of 79 A.D., Romans living in the vicinity of Mt. Vesuvius had become accustomed to tremors and eructations. A largish earthquake in 62 A.D. had caused widespread damage. Plumes of poisonous gas killed some 600 sheep. But the populace got used to the interruptions. Until around mid-October of 79, that is, when the volcano erupted and buried the surrounding area in yards and yards of molten lava and volcanic ash.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d say we have had plenty of admonitory tremors. And who knows how many sheep have been gassed along the way? We\u2019re still waiting for the big one, however, and as of this writing, it\u2019s not clear how it will unfold. Will Biden do something stupid\u2014(stop tittering with your suggestion that I should insert a full stop after the word \u201cstupid\u201d). What I was going to say was, will he do something stupid in Ukraine, precipitating a crisis with Vladimir Putin? Will he continue to coddle President Xi Jinping or the mullahs in Iran? Do not,\u00a0Barack Obama once warned<\/a>, \u201cunderestimate Joe\u2019s ability to f\u2014 things up.\u201d What if we get double-digit inflation, plus rising interest rates, plus a recession? We\u2019re well down that road, and though I try to arrange things so that there is no math, I do note that the interest payments on our $30 trillion federal debt are much bigger at 5 percent than they are at roughly 1 percent.<\/p>\n

Some people talk about invoking the 25th Amendment and removing Biden for incapacity. But waiting in the wings to take the reins of power is Kamala Harris (and after her is Nancy Pelosi: Think about that!). So I don\u2019t think that expedient will be resorted to.<\/p>\n

Somehow, the cabal that put Biden in power will scheme to winkle him out of power. It is unlikely to be as straightforward as it was with Richard Nixon. Biden is not hated so much as he is held in contempt. And with Nixon, the Democrats were fortunate that his vice-president, Spiro Agnew, was corrupt in a good, old-fashioned, straightforward political way. It turns out that he liked simple brown bags, especially ones\u00a0filled with cash<\/a>. Agnew would have been as unacceptable as Kamala Harris, but the blatant corruption made it easy to get rid of him before proceeding to tackle the big fish of Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n

As I say, I doubt removing Joe Biden will be so easy. It will be interesting to see what the deep-state committee comes up with. They put him in power, instructing Bernie Sanders and the other Democrats to drop out in 2020, and they will figure out a way to remove him from the 2024 presidential equation.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it will be something like those\u00a0corrupt quiz shows in the 1950s<\/a>\u2014shows like \u201cTwenty-One.\u201d Radio quiz shows had been wildly popular, so early television producers had high hopes. When \u201cTwenty-One\u201d debuted, however, it was a dismal failure. The contestants could answer hardly any questions. It is a nice detail that the initial sponsor was Geritol, a detail that might well play a role in American politics today.<\/p>\n

Well, the television producers weren\u2019t going to gamble on a repeat of the initial performance, so they began coaching one or more of the contestants. They let one player rack up considerable winnings and then, when the public\u2019s interest began to wane, instructed him to throw the contest to another player. Unfortunately, one of the players,\u00a0Herb Stemple<\/a>, did not take his dethronement lying down. He told his story and exposed Charles Van Doren, son of the poet Mark Van Doren, who had taken Stemple\u2019s place. It took a while for the story to achieve general credibility, but it eventually did and caused a huge scandal. Maybe we have something similar to look forward to with Joe Biden and whoever the committee selects as his successor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Coming Dethronement of Joe Biden Biden\u2019s situation presents the unnamed committee who actually runs the presidency with a huge and delicate problem. It can\u2019t last. It\u2019s not often that I agree with Joe Biden, but he said something in his nasty, brutish, and long\u00a0press conference last week\u00a0with which, if properly understood, I agree. Don\u2019t … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76447,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76446\/revisions\/76447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}