Tonight is Iowa caucus night, the first steps along the road to the nominations for President of the United States. Therefore, this post is designed to offer a perspective that you won’t hear on the major news networks, nor even on the talking head cable news network. And the post I’m linking to actually conforms something that had been troubling me about “Slo’ Joe” Biden’s campaign from the start.
You see, even though I haven’t been following his campaign on a day-to-day basis, it doesn’t really matter what any given political campaign or candidate is doing at a given time, it’s how the campaign and candidate are being reported by the Democratic mouthpieces in the mainstream media that counts.
It didn’t take a genius to watch the Biden campaign and think there was something wrong with it. All the venues Biden would campaign at were small, “intimate” gatherings, as if he were somehow being positioned by both his campaign and the media as low-key, supposedly “self-assured”. But it never made any sense to me – if you’re the supposed “front runner” in the campaign, where were the crowds? Where was the commanding stage presence during the debates? Where was the unrelentingly focused message of a self-assured candidate? Shouldn’t the candidate with the most White House experience be rock-solid and leading on the issues important to Democratic voters? Where was the supposed “king of the blue-collar workers” abandoning them with knee-jerk approval of abandoning coal miners and fossil-fuel energy workers in key battleground states and pushing “go green” far-left proposals without so much as a bye you me?
Instead of what everyone thought “Slo’ Joe” Biden’s campaign was going to be founded on, instead what folks began to see was an unfocused candidate being led around by an unfocused, uncertain campaign. I mean, the “No Malarkey Tour”? Are you serious? Biden’s off-hand remarks to reporters were often sloppy and unfocused, confusing states, dates, and even his past positions on things. He seemed incapable of responding to debate questions with a tight, focused response, instead just babbling on as if he hadn’t bothered preparing ahead of time. And what about the missing endorsement from Barack Obama? That, too, made no sense to me. After all, Biden was Obama’s right-hand man for eight years – wouldn’t it be logical for Biden to carry the mantle of Obama’s legacy forward?
So it was truly eye-opening to see a pair of posts here and here by Sundance in his Last Refuge blog about what Biden’s true purpose in running was. Consider the timeline involved. First, you had the end of the Mueller investigation returning no evidence of “Russia collusion” and only the sketchiest allusion to so-called “obstruction of justice:
The Trump-Russia hoax [Impeachment] 1.0 was dependent on a ‘Special Counsel’ because the coup plotters held no other avenue to eliminate Donald Trump. In 2017 and 2018 both the House and Senate were republican. [Impeachment] 1.0 relied upon a created structure of oversight, an insurance policy of sorts, within the framework of government.
[Then], the Weissmann special counsel group, using Robert Mueller as a figurehead, failed to deliver because the Trump-Russia narrative was always a hoax. Without the ‘there‘ there the only damage they could deploy was political speculation, innuendo and weaponized narratives. They tried hard, but were only able to create a tenuous ‘obstruction’ case.
When Mueller eventually testified about his investigation the world saw he was merely a figurehead, a visible prop to represent a team he barely understood; and with that testimony the impeachment usefulness collapsed.
With nothing to use from the Mueller investigation in terms of impeachable offenses to remove Donald Trump from office, the so-called “Resistance” needed to find another avenue to impeach the President, and quick. Again, consider the timeline involved: first you had the end of the Mueller investigation, announced to the public on April 18. Second, you had the election of the new anti-corruption Ukrainian prime minister Volodymyr Zelensky on April 21 and Trump’s initial, congratulatory call shortly thereafter. Then, just four days later, on April 25, you have Joe Biden announcing his run for president. See how this all works? Which is why what Sundance published yesterday makes all the more sense:
Joe Biden was never a viable candidate. He was pushed into the election to set-up a hoax impeachment narrative of President Trump investigating his 2020 political opponent.
If Biden didn’t run, Trump talking to Zelensky is an investigation of corrupt Ukraine activity in 2016. If Biden ran, that conversation is spun into Trump talking to Zelensky to request an investigation of his 2020 opponent. So Biden was told to run for office.
As I have mentioned previously, the high-water mark of the Democrats’ impeachment sham occurred when Nancy Pelosi delivered the two articles to the Senate for consideration. This past week, the country watched as the Democrats flailed around in the withering fire from the President’s legal team, basically saying they had failed to make their own case for impeachment because they needed the Senate to call more witnesses. Once that failed, the whole Impeachment 2.0 sham fell apart.
So what have we seen from the media, then, these past few days? Articles like this and this, basically saying Biden’s campaign is not just in trouble but even collapsing.
Funny how things work, isn’t it?
Now maybe you don’t buy into these kinds of conspiracy theories, but I’ll leave it to Sundance to have the last word:
It’s all rigged folks. Just like the DNC rigging the 2008 and 2016 nominations for Obama and Hillary. Just like the RNC rigging 2012 for Romney and attempting to rig the 2016 with their splitter plan for Jeb. It’s all a rigged scheme.
If there’s one thing the last dozen years of national politics has taught us, it’s that DC politics is heavily controlled, party/club manipulated and ran by operatives of the administrative state. Nothing is organic, everything is purposed for a reason.
…”There are trillions at stake” etc.
Biden was needed for impeachment hoax 2.0, nothing more. And now he’s no longer needed, all pretenses will be dropped and Biden will be dispatched to the ash-heap of history. A decade from now no-one will even remember why Biden ran, and historians will never connect Biden’s July 25th announcement to the collapse of Mueller [‘s testimony] the day before.
The next phase is to see what happens if Bernie Sanders starts piling up delegates, and you can bet that no one in the Dwhich is why you have Hillary Clinton lurking in the background. But that’s for another day. For now, it’s good just to see that someone has connected the dots involving Joe Biden’s campaign that I couldn’t see.
Just don’t expect to hear this anywhere on your local and cable network channels.