Interesting article<\/p>\n
BLUF: The issue is never the issue. I suspect that Joe Biden is being prepped for ejection. Exactly how it will happen I do not yet know. But he is on the threshold, or possibly has even passed the threshold, where he could appear to govern. His minders understand this. They must be the ones to replace him, otherwise they themselves risk being replaced, which would be intolerable. As I say, it\u2019s not entirely clear yet how the defenestration will take place. Obviously, Kamala will have to be dealt with first, and she will be. Look for some ground softening stories such as the\u00a0Times\u00a0<\/i>just served up about the laptop. They won\u2019t be long in coming<\/p>\n Biden\u2019s Handlers Are Preparing to Eject Him (and Kamala)<\/a><\/p>\n I sense a disturbance in the force. In fact, I\u2019ve been feeling the tremors for a while. Back in January, I wrote a column for American Greatness<\/i>\u00a0called \u201cThe Coming Dethronement of Joe Biden<\/a>.\u201d In it, I noted that Biden\u2019s appalling performance as president would sooner or later\u2014and probably sooner, given the ostentatious nature of his multifaceted failure\u2014lead to his removal as president.<\/p>\n I should have added that it wasn\u2019t Biden\u2019s performance\u00a0per se<\/i>\u00a0that would lead to his downfall. The problem, rather, was the way his performance was undermining his\u2014and therefore his minders\u2019 and puppetmasters\u2019\u2014political power. As Saul Alinsky, community organizer to the stars, noted, the \u201cissue is never the issue.\u201d Accordingly, the people who put Joe Biden in power\u2014I cannot name them, but I know they are the same people who keep him in power\u2014do not care about inflation, rising gas and food prices, COVID lockdowns or mask mandates, the porousness of our Southern border, the threat of war with Russia, or the myriad other issues that worry ordinary voters. I am quite certain, in fact, that the word \u201cvoters\u201d brings a vaguely contemptuous smile to their faces.<\/p>\n They are not troubled by the suffering of the people, indeed, they approve of a certain amount of suffering. Suffering produces dependency; and dependency, in turn, is like an insurance policy for those who cater to it: the bureaucrats who fill the troughs that feed the populace. The point, of course, was never to end the dependency but to manage in such a way as to perpetuate and expand it. Joe Biden is an errand boy, a figurehead, in the metabolism of this great (not to say Great Society) act of political legerdemain.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kamala Harris is more of a problem. She is at least as appallingly incompetent as her boss, and no less challenged rhetorically, as her\u00a0alarming performance in Poland and Romania<\/a>\u00a0a week or two back demonstrated. But Harris will not be as easy to shift as was Agnew. I have heard nothing about actual bribery, and acting as the\u00a0warm bun<\/a>\u00a0for Willie Brown\u2019s bratwurst may be in dubious taste but is not actionable.<\/p>\n But Biden\u2019s\u2014and Harris\u2019\u2014polls continue to crater, with 60 percent of respondents disapproving of the job Biden is doing, and 50 percent \u201cstrongly<\/a>\u201d disapproving. It\u2019s the worst showing yet, and many commentators are rubbing salt into the wound by stressing the adverb: We\u2019ve been traveling down this road for months, they say, and so far every \u201cworst yet\u201d turns out to be tomorrow\u2019s \u201chold my beer\u201d moment.<\/p>\n The last several days have been full of wonder at the\u00a0New York Time\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0admission\u00a0<\/a>that, guess what, Hunter Biden\u2019s \u201claptop from hell<\/a>\u201d was not\u2014as Joe Biden claimed\u2014\u201cRussian disinformation<\/a>.\u201d Nope,\u00a0everything<\/i>\u00a0that Donald Trump said to Leslie Stahl about it was true. Everything the\u00a0New York Post<\/i>\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0about it was true. Twitter and the rest of the regime media pronounced a\u00a0damnatio memoriae\u00a0<\/i>on the\u00a0Post<\/i>\u00a0and anyone who dared publicize the\u00a0scurrilous story<\/a>. The poor computer repair chap who found and publicized the dirt, political as well as sexual, on Hunter\u2019s laptop was\u00a0hounded and driven into bankruptcy<\/a>. (Remember\u00a0Jonah Goldberg on that poor fellow<\/a>? I do. \u201cWait you believe the computer repair shop story? Like at face value?\u201d)<\/p>\n The truth was there, staring everyone in the face. Remember Tony Bobulinski? He is the former Navy officer and businessman who was set to start a financial company with Hunter and Jim Biden, Joe\u2019s brother. As\u00a0I noted<\/a>\u00a0at the time, just before the 2020 election Bobulinski demonstrated, with copious contemporary documentation,<\/p>\n that various Chinese entities, all of whom\u2014like all things Chinese\u2014are ultimately answerable to the party, have invested heavily in the Bidens via various business enterprises of Joe\u2019s son Hunter. We are talking about tens of millions of dollars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now, why would the Chinese do this? Out of some misplaced humanitarian instinct? No, they did it in order \u201cto capitalize on the Biden name.\u201d At the time, remember, Joe was vice-president of the United States. That was all that Hunter had to offer. But it was, the Chinese wagered, quite a lot. Many thought that Joe Biden might be president, and it turns out they were right. It was, in short, \u201cinfluence peddling of the grossest and most spectacular kind.\u201d As I said then,<\/p>\n When influence is peddled, obligations are incurred. When obligations are incurred, favors can be expected. When the favors are owed, directly or indirectly, to the Chinese Communist Party, you want to be sure that the people in debt are not, you know, presiding over the government of the United States of America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n All that information about Bobulinski came from an interview with Tucker Carlson. It was about the only place you could find his name. Searches for him on CNN turned up zilch: \u201csearch not found.\u201d We\u2019re talking about a week or two before the election.\u00a0Everything<\/i>\u00a0not friendly to Biden was memory-holed. Hunter\u2019s laptop, of course, but also the evidence that Bobulinski produced showed that, contrary to Joe Biden\u2019s direct testimony,\u00a0Joe\u00a0did<\/i>\u00a0talk to Hunter about his business<\/a>. In one communication, equity stakes for the new company are spelled out. Ten percent is to be held by \u201cH\u201d\u2014that\u2019s Hunter\u2014for \u201cthe big guy,\u201d \u201cmy Chairman,\u201d i.e., Joe Biden.<\/p>\n Which brings me back to the disturbance in the force with which I began. Why do you suppose that the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0has decided, finally, at this late date, to acknowledge that the story that the\u00a0New York Post\u00a0<\/i>broke about Hunter\u2019s laptop was true? The\u00a0Times<\/i>, like the rest of the fake news establishment, like virtually all of social media, buried the story, screaming loudly that of course it wasn\u2019t true, of course it was Russian disinformation, mediated somehow by that consummate Putin puppet, Donald Trump. Fifty-one \u201cintelligence experts,\u201d remember, signed an open letter denouncing the story and pronouncing anathema upon Donald Trump. Presented with evidence that they were wrong, every one of that disgusting crew\u2014John Brennan, James Clapper, and the rest of the anti-Trump deep state coven\u2014refused to apologize<\/a>.<\/p>\n Many people seem to think that the reason that the story of Hunter\u2019s laptop\u2014which is just as much about Joe Biden\u2019s perfidy as it is about Hunter\u2019s perversion\u2014has emerged now is because it can no longer do any serious damage. The election is over, Biden won\u2014at least, he was declared the winner, which is not quite the same thing, although it does mean that he gets to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.<\/p>\n But I wonder if there isn\u2019t something else going on. The news is full not only of stories about the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0fessing up, sort of, about the contents of Hunter\u2019s laptop, but also of stories about how\u00a0Hunter is likely to be indicted<\/a>\u00a0for tax fraud. In one sense, that is not news.\u00a0I wrote about it<\/a>\u00a0at the end of 2020 when Hunter announced,\u00a0sotto voce<\/i>, that he had been informed that he was being investigated by the tax authorities. But in another sense, I suspect, that news, like the revelation from the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0that, what do you know, all that stuff about Hunter\u2019s laptop was on the level, like Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0bizarre suggestion\u00a0<\/a>a couple of days ago that \u201ceverybody knows somebody\u201d who has taken nude pictures of some lover and then used them to \u201cblackmail\u201d the person\u2014all that has a different valence now that the Biden Administration is seriously underwater and there are no lifelines in evidence.<\/p>\n The issue is never the issue. I suspect that Joe Biden is being prepped for ejection. Exactly how it will happen I do not yet know. But he is on the threshold, or possibly has even passed the threshold, where he could appear to govern. His minders understand this. They must be the ones to replace him, otherwise they themselves risk being replaced, which would be intolerable. As I say, it\u2019s not entirely clear yet how the defenestration will take place. Obviously, Kamala will have to be dealt with first, and she will be. Look for some ground softening stories such as the\u00a0Times\u00a0<\/i>just served up about the laptop. They won\u2019t be long in coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Interesting article BLUF: The news is full not only of stories about the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0fessing up, sort of, about the contents of Hunter\u2019s laptop, but also of stories about how\u00a0Hunter is likely to be indicted\u00a0for tax fraud. 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\nThe news is full not only of stories about the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0fessing up, sort of, about the contents of Hunter\u2019s laptop, but also of stories about how\u00a0Hunter is likely to be indicted<\/a>\u00a0for tax fraud. In one sense, that is not news.\u00a0I wrote about it<\/a>\u00a0at the end of 2020 when Hunter announced,\u00a0sotto voce<\/i>, that he had been informed that he was being investigated by the tax authorities. But in another sense, I suspect, that news, like the revelation from the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0that, what do you know, all that stuff about Hunter\u2019s laptop was on the level, like Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0bizarre suggestion\u00a0<\/a>a couple of days ago that \u201ceverybody knows somebody\u201d who has taken nude pictures of some lover and then used them to \u201cblackmail\u201d the person\u2014all that has a different valence now that the Biden Administration is seriously underwater and there are no lifelines in evidence.<\/p>\n