If Biden really were a puppet of secret higher powers, you might think that the shotcallers would have had a contingency plan for how to replace him in case the stubborn old egomaniac becomes so senile that even the public notices.
"Undemocratic" as in: unelected., (largely) unaccountable, unseen, unknown ("nameless, faceless," from news-and-politics-consuming public's perspective). The definition of "democratic" and thus "undemocratic" has been shifting, so specific descriptors are useful.
See also the strange line from 'Chuck' Schumer that Trump needs to be very careful because "the intelligence agencies have 'six ways from Sunday' to get back at you." What the heck does that mean??, in a world oriented around the WYSIWYG State model?
"The WYSIWYG State" is my coinage, as n alternative for Sailer's 'Peak State.' People were complaining that 'Peak State' was confusing (as in: "the peak of the Roman state occurred in the 1st century..."; when it really means, the person you see as the head of government really is the one controlling everything, more or less).
An interesting aside (at least to me) is that when Biden and I were born there were still men alive who fought at Gettysburg and Antietam who themselves were born during the Polk administration in the 1840’s. Although we are truly old, our nation is still relatively young and there exists a link between a president who chose to do the right thing and one too blinded by his own selfish self importance to see it.
It is all very odd, can they be this dumb and unorganised? I have another theory that I admit is tenuous. But I suspect the globalists gave up propping up Biden/Dems a while back - as their incompetence and Demon-like behaviour has become too obvious to everyone and so it's impossible to print enough ballots to cheat again. So the plan is to lose and then collapse the economy while Trump is in power.
I believed at the end of 2020 that Biden would certainly be retired by the end of 2021, so what do I know? It is amazing that no one has spilled a single believable bean about what must be the uniquely weird operations of this WH. Biden still has an AWFL teacher, a gay Mexican, a sex & drug addict, a black lesbian, and Clyburn backing him, who else does he need from the Party?
Would we have had a war between the states if the balance of power hadn't been put in doubt by Polk's extra territory? Shouldn't he get credit for helping free the slaves (at massive cost in B&W lives and treasure)?
It is indeed a puzzle that the DNC worked so hard to steal the 2020 election with zero preparation for their puppet's public decline in cognition. I put it down to the obvious pitfalls of believing one's own BS.
Biden also "won" the D-team's primary in 2020 by suspect methods, through an early, deliberate, and coordinated synchronized mass-dropout by other candidates in early March, just before the Corona-Panic really began to hit.
"So, the Deep State frets [in summer 2024], whaddaya whaddaya?"
This counts as a 'Sailerism,' but new readers out there they might not get what the "Whaddaya" means. As far as I know, it is meant as an ironic-comedic contraction of "What do you want ME to do about it?"
'Whaddaya,' possibly taken from Yiddish0-nflected English and Jewish humorist stylings of the 20th century, e.g. by absurdly "passing the buck" in some situations with that wave of a hand. Used by Sailer to make fun of people who are trying to making fun of a situation.
To what extent can group think and peer pressure account for so much collective stupidity? Indeed, is there any other explanation? Once the dummies are in power it's hard to get them out.
I think you and the very well-connected British historian H.A.L Fisher would have gotten along splendidly. From the Introduction to volume one of his three-volume "History of Europe":
“Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations; only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.”
Google tells me that "History of Europe" appeared in 1935. H. A. L. Fisher (b.1865) would have been in his later sixties when he wrote it. At the time of writing (such a multi-volume work would probably would be multi-year project), he was probably still troubled by the shock of the 1914-1918 war, the great tragedy.
By the way, I don't read into Fisher's words, there, that he had in mind monocausal "conspiracy theories" when he talked of rhythms, patterns, plots as in those plays.
DeVoto is terrific. Recommend also "Across the Wide Missouri" and "The Course of Empire." All his Mark Twain stuff is good, too, as well as his editing of "The Journals of Louis and Clark."
In doing research for a post over at Philip Greenspun's blog, I discovered that out of presidents who died from natural causes, Polk was the youngest at 53. Arthur (57.1), Harding (57.9), T. Roosevelt (60.2), and Coolidge (60.6) joined him in dying at 60 or younger.
It's not a coup if they allow him to finish out his term. Just because one is the incumbent president doesn't confer the right of being on the ballot for reëlection. Just ask LBJ, who saw the writing on the wall and had the decency to step down.
If the anti-Biden people had pressured him to step down before the D-team primaries, it would be above-board and legit. That they are doing it in July is without precedent in all U.S. presidential history.
If there is one thing I learned from this election cycle, it is that their is absolutely no grand plan and the elites (whoever they are) are inept.
Again: "Deep State", or better "Permanent Bureaucracy" means undemocratic and omnipotent, not competent.
"Undemocratic" as in: unelected., (largely) unaccountable, unseen, unknown ("nameless, faceless," from news-and-politics-consuming public's perspective). The definition of "democratic" and thus "undemocratic" has been shifting, so specific descriptors are useful.
See also the strange line from 'Chuck' Schumer that Trump needs to be very careful because "the intelligence agencies have 'six ways from Sunday' to get back at you." What the heck does that mean??, in a world oriented around the WYSIWYG State model?
What’s a WYSIWYG state? Baffled …
"The WYSIWYG State" is my coinage, as n alternative for Sailer's 'Peak State.' People were complaining that 'Peak State' was confusing (as in: "the peak of the Roman state occurred in the 1st century..."; when it really means, the person you see as the head of government really is the one controlling everything, more or less).
See: https://www.stevesailer.net/p/deep-state-peak-state-and-shallow/comment/60656253
WYSIWYG: an old Internet code-writing term which stands for "What You See Is What You Get."
WYSIWYG means “what you see is what you get.”
An interesting aside (at least to me) is that when Biden and I were born there were still men alive who fought at Gettysburg and Antietam who themselves were born during the Polk administration in the 1840’s. Although we are truly old, our nation is still relatively young and there exists a link between a president who chose to do the right thing and one too blinded by his own selfish self importance to see it.
It is all very odd, can they be this dumb and unorganised? I have another theory that I admit is tenuous. But I suspect the globalists gave up propping up Biden/Dems a while back - as their incompetence and Demon-like behaviour has become too obvious to everyone and so it's impossible to print enough ballots to cheat again. So the plan is to lose and then collapse the economy while Trump is in power.
I believed at the end of 2020 that Biden would certainly be retired by the end of 2021, so what do I know? It is amazing that no one has spilled a single believable bean about what must be the uniquely weird operations of this WH. Biden still has an AWFL teacher, a gay Mexican, a sex & drug addict, a black lesbian, and Clyburn backing him, who else does he need from the Party?
Would we have had a war between the states if the balance of power hadn't been put in doubt by Polk's extra territory? Shouldn't he get credit for helping free the slaves (at massive cost in B&W lives and treasure)?
I like Vancouver Island. Maybe the Canadians will swap for Detroit or Buffalo?
Would you trade a nice plate of pasta for a battered hubcap filled with dog turds?
There’s a new bridge in Detroit …. Great package deal Craig In Maine 🤣
Nope!
It is indeed a puzzle that the DNC worked so hard to steal the 2020 election with zero preparation for their puppet's public decline in cognition. I put it down to the obvious pitfalls of believing one's own BS.
Biden also "won" the D-team's primary in 2020 by suspect methods, through an early, deliberate, and coordinated synchronized mass-dropout by other candidates in early March, just before the Corona-Panic really began to hit.
And remember the bizarre incident with the vote-counting app during the Iowa caucus.
So that’s why we have Polk Street in San Francisco …
"So, the Deep State frets [in summer 2024], whaddaya whaddaya?"
This counts as a 'Sailerism,' but new readers out there they might not get what the "Whaddaya" means. As far as I know, it is meant as an ironic-comedic contraction of "What do you want ME to do about it?"
'Whaddaya,' possibly taken from Yiddish0-nflected English and Jewish humorist stylings of the 20th century, e.g. by absurdly "passing the buck" in some situations with that wave of a hand. Used by Sailer to make fun of people who are trying to making fun of a situation.
'Whaddaya whaddaya?' is also a stock response of the police and courtroom characters in Tom Wolfe's masterpiece, i.e. The Bonfire of the Vanities.
To what extent can group think and peer pressure account for so much collective stupidity? Indeed, is there any other explanation? Once the dummies are in power it's hard to get them out.
I think you and the very well-connected British historian H.A.L Fisher would have gotten along splendidly. From the Introduction to volume one of his three-volume "History of Europe":
“Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations; only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.”
Google tells me that "History of Europe" appeared in 1935. H. A. L. Fisher (b.1865) would have been in his later sixties when he wrote it. At the time of writing (such a multi-volume work would probably would be multi-year project), he was probably still troubled by the shock of the 1914-1918 war, the great tragedy.
By the way, I don't read into Fisher's words, there, that he had in mind monocausal "conspiracy theories" when he talked of rhythms, patterns, plots as in those plays.
They could never have extolled the virtues of a colonist and pro-slavery Dem like Polk.
Well one problem is that Polk in both temperament and politics is far more similar to Trump than to Biden.
You and Matt Yglesias are both praising Polk. More behind-the-scenes coordination! https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1808899055814083058
For erudite and compelling Polk-bashing, see Bernard DeVoto's brilliant _The Year of Decision: 1846_.
DeVoto is terrific. Recommend also "Across the Wide Missouri" and "The Course of Empire." All his Mark Twain stuff is good, too, as well as his editing of "The Journals of Louis and Clark."
In doing research for a post over at Philip Greenspun's blog, I discovered that out of presidents who died from natural causes, Polk was the youngest at 53. Arthur (57.1), Harding (57.9), T. Roosevelt (60.2), and Coolidge (60.6) joined him in dying at 60 or younger.
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2024/07/01/a-constitutional-amendment-to-impose-an-age-limit-of-67-on-the-president/#comment-387180
Just caught the news that Biden has no intention of withdrawing from the race.
One problem is that dementia patients often think there is nothing wrong them them.
In this case, it’s being reinforced by Jill and Hunter and others in the inner circle, all of whom want to stay on for another four years.
DementiaGate seems less about dementia per se than about a group of schemers seeking to stage a palace-coup against a perceived weak candidate, IMO.
It's not a coup if they allow him to finish out his term. Just because one is the incumbent president doesn't confer the right of being on the ballot for reëlection. Just ask LBJ, who saw the writing on the wall and had the decency to step down.
If the anti-Biden people had pressured him to step down before the D-team primaries, it would be above-board and legit. That they are doing it in July is without precedent in all U.S. presidential history.
"One problem is that dementia patients often think there is nothing wrong them them."
Yeah, they don't know they're repeating themselves selves.
No they don’t. They lose ability to form short term memories.