by TED RALL
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll places the president’s approval rating at a record low, 36%. In the modern era, no president has been reelected with numbers like these.
Fifty-eight percent of Democrats want their party to nominate someone other than Joe Biden in 2024. Of Democrats.
If the election were held today, Donald Trump would beat Biden by four points.
Only 32% of voters think Biden has sufficient mental sharpness to do a president’s job.
This, as grim is it all is, is the good news. Enjoy, Democrats! Because it’s downhill from here. The economy is, as usual, stupid, the biggest issue; just as the campaign begins this fall, so will a recession, according to the Federal Reserve Bank. Then there’s Hunter Biden’s pesky laptop, the gift that keeps on giving to the Republicans. Whether Joe proves to be “the big guy” who gets slices of kickbacks or the $13 million that mysteriously wound up in his bank account in 2017 and 2018 turns out to be a bribe paid by an Uzbekistani telecom or some other scandal related to the crack-addict deadbeat-dad son who refuses to shut up, it’s beginning to smell a lot like whoop-ass.
Biden reminds me of the classic “Tales from the Darkside” episode in which a grandfather is too stubborn to admit that he’s dead even as chunks of flesh slip off his face. The American people have a clear, loud message for the president, which he refuses to hear: We hired you for one term. Which is kind of what he promised.
It isn’t, of course, too late to reverse course. Nothing prevents the president from announcing: “Well, on second thought, actually I’d like to spend more time with my great-great-grandchildren.” Who knows? With Joe an officially lame duck, Kamala Harris might step up and impress us with her border czarina gig — or her new AI thingie.
Could be he’s up to some 17-dimensional chess, as suggested by my fellow Centerclip contributor Rina Shah. Shah recently mused, and I think she’s on to something, that Biden officially announced in order to clear the field of Democratic competitors and set the stage for him to anoint his chosen successor whether they be Harris or someone less impressively unpopular. Such political bait-and-switch would be a new low — but don’t forget, we are talking about a guy who got 51 former intelligence officers to manipulate a presidential election for him, while risking World War III.
Short of these two options, what can an incumbent president who is disliked, disrespected and deemed to be dim, do to dodge defeat?
We know what Democrats plan to do: what worked in 2020.
Biden will point out that he’s not Trump. “Compare him to the alternative,” Biden surrogate Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) says. He won’t campaign. “Frankly, the best way to run for re-election as president is to be president,” Coons argues. He’ll avoid debating his Democratic primary challengers. He’ll hope Trump goes to prison (as if the legal system could act quickly).
But 2024 isn’t 2020. The pandemic is over. America is outside again. Americans expect their president to be out there with them.
“Watch me. It’s all I can say.” That’s what Biden says whenever a reporter asks whether he’s too old for his job. Trouble for him is, we have been watching — for three years — and the results are in that Washington Post-ABC News poll. Fair or not, we don’t like what we see.
The democrat party has no leader. The democrat party has no candidate for 2024.
What is the democrat party platform?
PARTY PLATFORM – THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
That’s from 2020. Expect updates as 2024 approaches.
The GOP has Resolutions. That’s all that their current platform page links to. 2023 is blank. If you click on Read the Party Platform, it time-warps you back to a PDF of their 2016 Platform. Apparently they scrapped 2020, but they’re still saddled with the guy it belonged to. “Retribution” may be a tough sell to non-Trump voters. Ditto the abandonment of Ukraine to Putin, and defaulting on the debt.
Meanwhile, Russia has taken bakhmut, Ukraine is out of bullets and men, the himars have been neutralized by EMP weapons, and zelinsky is meeting with the new owners of ukraine, Black Rock.
Now dance little monkey. Lie to me and tell me how Russia is losing, how it’s just one guy, and how the best way to end this war is for Ukraine to win by us just giving them an unlimited supply of laundered money at the expense of the taxpayer.
I rest easy at night knowing the cowards like you who are causing this war will never have the backbone to ever get physically involved with it.
So post your lies. It won’t make any difference.
8 hours ago: Ukrainian counter-offensive takes shape with first gains around Bakhmut
The most advantageous positions Russian troops could redeploy to are inside of Russia.
Listen closely to Col. Mikhail Khodaryonok’s assessment of the situation on Russian television:
Ukraine is working hard to put a brave, heroic face on a bad situation. While the battle over Bakhmut continues to dominate the attention of Western pundits and politicians, the war in Ukraine is raging in other locations, including Zaporozhye, Maryinka, Avdyevka, Petrovskoye and dozens of other cities and hamlets.
Russia has ample supplies of men, tanks and ammunition. Ukraine does not. Russia is choosing to fight a war of attrition rather than large scale maneuver.
No hurry for Russia to wrap things up in Bakhmut. It’s been a useful place to annihilate countless Ukrainian troops (just as Russian strategists intended it to be). As someone said already, it’s been ‘the gift that keeps on giving’ (tragically for the Ukrainian forces).
Apart from the whining complaints from Prigozhin, there is no sign of panic, fear or frustration on the Russian side. The essential question remains — how long can Ukraine hold out?
You dont understand the GOP died with Reagan, the Bushes put all the nails in the coffin, there is only the Party of Trump over 75 million strong. There are hanger ons or RINOs that hope some of Trumps shadow will hide their treason. 2 recently have exposed themselves. Two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie and John Duarte voted along side all Democrat members against the bill.
We watch we take notes we will not forgive, tolerate or forget.
AOC calls for Biden to illegally make it easier to hire illegals, the 10 to 12 million that are invading our country.
Take a good long look at all the same issues
https://www.cpusa.org/
this is the condition of the democrat party
The Democrat platform is failure, disaster, poverty, crime, racism and violence.
Carter had better poll numbers then Biden I mean Biden is going to Crash and Burn with each time he sells America out to China and Russia
https://twitter.com/marlahohner/status/1657364455389372416?t=v4GMFRq3zFEcZQ7Y1g-WCA&s=19
Well, unless there is a rash of water main breaks at critical ballot counting centers in critical battleground states.
The legal system can move pretty quickly when they don’t have to worry about following the law or Constitution. Idiot Biden’s best hope is for a meteor to land on Trump. That would save the Democrats a lot of expensive election fraud.
Well, the OLD one is.
“Watch me do this scripted interview. Watch me answer questions that are pre-screened and answered. Watch me talk to adoring reporters. Watch me go to my basement and hide.”
And that would never come close to happening. No one but a leftist ideologue is going to agree to pre-screen questions and they wouldn’t be showing their stupidity by asking questions based on urban legend and leftist rumor-mongering. Idiot Biden would have answer hard questions about real topics, with follow up questions. He wouldn’t survive.
This ain’t in slow motion; this is high-speed rail, and the nation is on board.