Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, wrote “The President [of the Galaxy] in particular is very much a figurehead—he wields no real power whatsoever. […] His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.” This week, Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) seemed to be taking the Hitchhiker’s Guide as a guide for government. When asked about the alarming physical and mental decline of President Joe Biden, Goldman suggested that it really does not matter. In responding to a call for Biden’s removal under the 25th Amendment, Goldman suggested that the Republic is safe because it is safely in the hands of people around Biden. It is an argument that flips the 25th Amendment on its head and embraces the idea of a figurehead president.
After the Hur report was released noting the diminishment of the President’s faculties, Goldman was one of the most vocal in shouting the Special Counsel down. He went public declaring that the President is “sharper than anyone I’ve spoken to” on public policy issues.
He has continued brushed away the growing calls for President Biden to step aside as incapable of serving another four years. Indeed, some are calling for an investigation into whether he can carry out the duties of his office until January 2025.
“So, let’s not just focus on Joe Biden here. Let’s focus on the people around him, the administration, the policies, and most importantly, the appreciation and protection for the rule of law and our democracy that Donald Trump, every single day, has vowed to take down.”
He added that Biden is “vibrant” and that “the reality is that Joe Biden has surrounded himself with an incredibly capable team with almost no turnover.”
Other Democrats have attempted to avoid the manifest confusion and infirmity of the president. This includes Democrats who repeatedly called for formal action to remove former President Donald Trump under the 25th Amendment, including Reps. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.; Jamie Raskin, D-Md.; Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
However, it was Goldman who, as usual, came up with the most vertigo-triggering spin.
The 25th Amendment was designed to specifically avoid a figurehead presidency where family or aides perform critical functions of the office. That was indeed the concern with presidents like Woodrow Wilson when a stroke left him incapable to function as president. His wife Edith hid the truth from the public and the Congress as she and others carried out his functions.
He also had “an incredibly capable team” around him, but they were not elected president.
In the meantime, the media is still struggling to explain to the public why they did not disclose the President’s condition earlier while promulgating the “cheap fake” narrative. For weeks heading into the debate, media outlets repeated the claim that videos showing Biden’s confusion were false and misleading. Some are now reportedly admitting that they did not want to confirm “right-wing media” accounts — an admission of shaping the news for political purposes.
The greatest threat to President Biden may ultimately be the political calculus. For most of these members, their loyalty to Biden ends at the point that he endangers their own hold on power. A couple dozen members are reportedly preparing a letter calling for possible removal in the hope that they can replace Biden with someone who has a better chance of beating Trump. It is no easy feat, but Democratic operatives are furiously working out the complications under federal election laws and state laws.
In the meantime, the 25th Amendment process is looming. More citizens may become convinced by what Pelosi said about then President Donald Trump: “Congress has a constitutional duty to lay out the process by which a president’s incapacity and the president of any party is determined…A president’s fitness for office must be determined by science and facts.”
Dear Prof Turley,
Brandon is not going anywhere. Sharp as a tack. The best Biden ever.
Quite frankly, that’s probably true .. . afaict, his first fifty years in high gov. office has no redeeming attributes.
The demoncrats are now so dirty we might as well throw them in the pig pen, open the gate, and let them all run into the water and drown, as Beelzebubba and Molech overtake them completely.
RIP
Freedom is never free.
PS It isn’t that I learned nothing from Adams and Jefferson yesterday, it’s just that I’m not 84 or 93 years old.
Give it time, you’ll see you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
ROFL
The democrats and some of the republicans are simply the evolution of organized crime from the streets then the boardroom and now the government. How dom you think biden ever rose to VP – there were other white ctholics that could have tokened for obamma
Out of touch much?
“HERDING CATS AND OTHER NUTJOBS AND LUNATICS”
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America is a restricted-vote republic of self-governance under representatives elected by people who are “entitled to vote,” by definition in Merriam Webster.
“Democracy” has NEVER been of the one-man, one-vote variety since inception in Greece.
Constitutional America is untenable under one-man, one-vote democracy, which is, de facto, Karl Marx’s “dictatorship of the proletariat.”
The communist American welfare state is wholly unconstitutional.
The Constitution and Bill of Rights provide maximal freedom to individuals while severely limiting and restricting government.
As Roe v. Wade was struck down, corrected and reversed, the unconstitutional regulatory welfare state must be reversed by the judicial branch, to include the Supreme Court.
State legislatures MUST resume imposing strict qualifications on voters as was the intent of the Founders.
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Turnout in 1789 was 11.6% by design; voter qualifications were generally by state, male, European, 21, 50 lbs. Sterling/50 acres.
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a [restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
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You couldn’t.
Biden’s Real Legacy Will Be As Silencer Of Speech
As Jonathan Turley writes in his new book, The Indispensable Right, Joe Biden is ‘the most anti-free speech president since John Adams.’
By: M.D. Kittle ~ July 04, 2024
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/04/bidens-real-legacy-will-be-as-silencer-of-speech/
Kamala v. Jill: The Ugly Catfight Ahead
Dr. Jill is politically smarter than Hillary or Michelle ever were.
By: Dov Fischer ~ July 3, 2024
https://spectator.org/kamala-v-jill-the-ugly-catfight-ahead/
Americans Want to Know Who is Really in Charge in the White House
Whether Biden remains in office for the remainder of his term or lets Harris take over, our country is facing a leadership crisis that puts U.S. national security at serious risk.
By: Fred Fleitz ~ July 5, 2024
[Link] amgreatness.com/2024/07/05/americans-want-to-know-who-is-really-in-charge-in-the-white-house/
StandWithUs urges Northwestern trustees to nullify agreement with anti-Israel encampment protesters
Pro-Israel organization StandWithUs sent a letter to the Northwestern University Board of Trustees asking them to nullify an agreement that administrators made with the anti-Israel encampment “agitators.”
By: Adam Sabes | Deputy Editor ~ July 4, 2024
[Link] campusreform.org/article/-standwithus-urges-northwestern-trustees-nullify-agreement-anti-israel-encampment-protesters/25827
From somewhere, a silly rhyme thing popped into my head, and I am not sure if I left the TV on and heard it while sleeping, or if the Universe sent it to me. Anyway:
Dr. Jill
Went up the Hill
To fetch her ailing hubby
But Joe fell down
And lost his crown
And Jill became all huffy.
Biden is the enemy of free speech–really? What about red states like Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas banning library books?
keeping porn and abominations out of children’s libraries has never been the government implementing free speech, you perverts can still get all the kiddie porn other places as you need.
Biden/obamma’s crew took over media and squelched speech for political gain, you disgusting P O S, and they should be hanged
…implementing censorship…
Why do you want pornography in elementary library schools?
All us normal people would call that immoral.
I think the Trump organization better take all this negative on Biden and Canmello caustiously. They’ve proven in the past they will do anything to obtain their goals and they are masters of ballot harvesting. I wouldn’t put it past the Biden organization if they’ve already employed out of work Santa helpers to fill in ballots in bunkers in the North Pole.
Your claim of “ballot harvesting” is an unmitigated LIE.
To add to your comment, what about all the talk on the left, and their what-if-ism, following SCOTUS’ ruling on the Trump immunity case, about the president using Seal Team 6 to assassinate his political rivals? Are they just being hyperbolic, or might there actually be a plan to “neutralize” Trump, either right before November 5th, or sometime between election day and the inauguration? Understand, this will be a covert operation, and all covert ops have plausible deniability built-in to protect, in this case the “Big guy”.
My dad, God rest his soul, firmly believed that Lyndon B. Johnson was behind Kennedy’s assassination. It actually wouldn’t surprise me, considering Johnson was not a particularly nice fellow, not unlike Biden, and detested being second in command. Also, as I understand it, Kennedy wasn’t particularly keen on us becoming involved in Vietnam, whereas Johnson desperately wanted our involvement, since his wife owned considerable stock in Bell Helicopter, and Vietnam would make her a boatload of money.
Sleepy Joe, his wife, and family and associates would have their “gravy train” interrupted, and further exposed, should Trump win re-election, and there’s no way in hell they’re gonna let that happen.
the Democrat party is the oldest party in America. they stick together, they’re unified, they’re masters at incrementalism, and there appears to be nothing they won’t try to achieve their ends.
Rep Goldman and his amen choir in television and print media and on social media–and it is astounding, how broad has been the dereliction of duty to country in favor of party loyalty, astounding–they now have zero credibility.
They acted like a herd of middle school girls.
Fire them all.
Get journalists who remember how to report versus conduct P.R. Get politicians who care enough about their country to call out the obvious unfitness for duty of the President. That’s assuming these confused persons are even still moved by the notion of patriotism. I know the middle school girls think it’s uncool.
The Left lives in a delusional space, and like all Cretan’s, liars, no matter their ranking or social order. The paradox of their actions speaks volumes of any statement they may make as fact or truth. They have been shielded under a blanket of ‘notions of grandeur’, thinking their lies where of no harm. Example of a lie (man can become woman or vice versa), this ties to Socratic fallacy [word meanings require unequivocal clarity] such as the meaning of (chromosomes’), I do not believe a Female can exchange an X-chromosome for a Y any more than a Male can change a Y for an X, yet the lefts delusional lie is they can. Now today there are many disciples in a delusional dream that they can cast enough Wool to camouflage their leaders advanced Senility.
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Mid-Afternoon, Friday, July 5th
Dispersion is the strategy again today. In fact, the Morning Greek Chorus Bots are extensive while the established puppets are not as visible.
Waters is missing again this morning. Readers will remember that just last week, Waters was being positioned as the new lead puppet with Traveler as his loyal sidekick. But without Waters, Traveler had just one comment this morning.
Founding puppet Estovir is also missing this morning. Estovir is definitely the lead suspect in the investigation concerning those spools of ancient text. On June 27th at 7:40 pm, Estovir posted the entire Book of Revelations. Readers are advised to review that post on the column, “Want To Defeat Joe Biden–
Floyd was also there June 27th at 9:21 pm posting an ancient Welsh poem. Floyd only had 3 comments this morning. Floyd and Estovir are both the same troll.
Upstate Farmer is the lead puppet this morning with 24 comments so far. The troll farm is leaning heavily on Upstate since Waters imploded and Floyd-Estovir are under scrutiny. The idea seems to be that Upstate is so well-established that no reader would question his identity.
Edward Mahl had 5 comments this morning. The first 4 were with his usual red icon. But then Mahl came back with a green icon after 2 comments from from the malicious green anonymous. That’s a clue confirming Mahl’s puppet status.
Whimsical Mama seems to post just 1 or 2 comments each morning and the same can be said for Margot Ballhere. While Jaelyn Unafraid surfaces later in the day with her 1 or 2 comments. Female puppets don’t get to say as much.
Our Morning Greek Chorus Bots today includes: ugabuzdad3845, Gordy Thomas, acumen resource, gdonalallen, sd, American, cfromthewoods, MRR, bremondco, Giocon, Randy Perkins, Barry, Papas, PeterK, Dollarbill.
Be advised that a barrage of ancient text might come in response to this report.
Anonymous – I’ve been coming to this blog for a number of years and I’ve never committed to memory or tracked as many posters as you have, which leads me to are you projecting away from yourself? The issues at hand is the result of the popularity of the blog by rational posters who for the most part do not agree with what’s going on in the country brought to us by democrats. So as a result some individual or organization is trying to impair free discussion utilizing a rather juvenile approach. What we see is just a form of “shout downs”. The only thing needed is a blog moderator to erase the unwanted post’s.
For whatever reasons, whether being paid to be here or not,
Upstate acts like this is HIS comment section because he’s ‘sane and normal’.
Even though Mr. Turley is one of the Dems in the leftist cult he says he despises.
It’s been noticeable that the more Upstate spoke against ‘Anonymous’
(instead of just ignoring them which is what he recommended to others),
the more Latin and ?’s and other nuisances erupted. So, good job, Upstate.
^^^^idiot
——not Upstate
From The New York Times. Abigail E. Disney, a filmmaker who is an heir to the Disney fortune, said in an email exchange that Mr. Biden’s campaign and committees supporting it — including the Democratic National Committee, super PACs and nonprofit groups — “will not receive another dime from me until they bite the bullet and replace Biden at the top of the ticket.” Ms. Disney, who has been a major Democratic donor, added, “Biden is a good man who has served his country well, but the stakes are far too high to allow timidity to determine our course of action.” When the levee brakes it’ll cause em to weep and moan. When the levee brakes they gona leave their Whitehouse home. When the levee breaks they got no place to go. Attributing to Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy with adaptions appropriate for the current situation.
I wonder how much money biden could raise if he named soros’s kid as VP…
Gideon Stein, a donor and operative with deep connections in Democratic politics, said his family was withholding $3.5 million in planned donations to nonprofits and political organizations active in the presidential race unless Mr. Biden stepped aside. He said that virtually every major donor he had spoken with believed that “a new ticket is in the best interest of defeating Donald Trump. From The New York Times.
One of the big tests that would allow Biden to stay in the race is if his mega donors would remain behind him. Here’s what’s happening. The open letter, organized by the pro-Democrat Leadership Now Project, received 168 signatures but continued to receive more after it was delivered. Among its signatories were Walmart heiress Christy Walton, former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, billionaire investor Mike Novogratz, and former Google executive Ning Mosberger-Tang. 165 big time donors telling Biden to step down. As the saying goes, money talks and BS walks. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/us/politics/biden-donors.html#:~:text=And%20financial%20supporters%20are%20urging,Mr.%20Biden%20to%20stand%20down. The big money is drying up faster than Joe Biden and the big money runs the show.
Little Danny Goldman is flailing around in front of the cameras because he’s trying out for the Democrat’s Varsity Team.
I hope those that want to turn on Joe are not doing anyone a favor. If he accepts the nomination , then you left him weakened and are handing the Republicans red meat.
If you can replace him, you are putting up Harris that nobody likes and upsetting lots of Democrats that like Biden. BTW, if you replace both of them and that is what it is going to take because Harris will not step aside, then you are upsetting a group that fully believes in identity politics and losing a $200,000,000 campaign chest because it cannot be used.
Should have kept quiet and hoped for the best.
The revenge of DEI style political pandering as you describe it 100% accurate.
@The Quiet Man
I personally don’t believe for a second that any of that is accidental. They let him fail in the debate to prepare radicals for their pulling of him to replace him with someone (possibly Newsome) that placates their privilege and wokeness. We had better believe we are in a fight not for democracy, but for basic sanity. Let’s not let America be another place (a la Canada or Britain) that falls into unelected, leftist, aristocratic darkness. We do not need caste societies in the West and we need to unequivocally prove it or that is our fate.
So now it’s put forward as a selling point that the government is being run by a shadowy unelected cabal that can’t be held accountable at the ballot box. A selling point! Can the Dems go any lower than that? I would say no, but they always surprise me.
@oldman
Some of us have been saying it for years. It is absolutely a cabal, their tendrils are everywhere, and this November may very well be our last chance to correct things, and we can, at least in this country. This year, yes, your vote DOES matter. No sitting it out. This is do or die, so DO.
Oh, my!
Democrats, please do not listen to these pesky legal scholars and conservatives.
By all means, and at all costs, run Joke Buydone.
Remember, if you do not remember anything else, DO NOT RUN Michelle Obama.
Whatever it takes, please run Joke Buydone.
Goldman and all the Democrats screaming about immunity for the President. Not a word about immunity afforded to members of congress. Here’s the law.
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place. Their talking points are more important than the truth because the truth will not guarantee that they will keep their jobs.
Darren,
Thank you for the clean up!
Amen!
Sooooooooo Professor Turley came to his senses and gave Darren permission to rightly censor the sabotage of the Media Matters group. MM did a similar tactic with Twitter / X which is why Elon Musk sued them. Make no mistake this is a strategic, organized attempt to hurt JT. Free speech is founded on the life principle that a people practices self-regulation. When cells break genomic regulation, uncontrolled cell differentiation occurs, also known as cancer.
Happily some in the MSM are now skewering Biden’s Handlers for
also allowing a metastasis to occur with uncontrolled, rampant unfettered growth of evil to occur while calling it “protecting democracy”. We can not
live in a society where behaviors go unchecked at the expense of others. If they can not self-regulate then they must be subjected to excision, radiation and chemotherapy to save the “body”.’ To do otherwise is foolish and James Madison saw that with his own personal life vis a vis stating in his will re: ownership of slaves and instructions to his widow Dolly Madison.
Glad you are back Darren
The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden – The president’s mental decline was like a dark family secret for many elite supporters.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/conspiracy-of-silence-to-protect-joe-biden.html
BAN FOR LIFE THE EGREGIOUS IMPERTINENCE
@Upstate @Darren
Indeed, thank you. And just to note, I have never felt so close to people I have never and likely will ever meet as I do here of late. Bless you all. I hope your fourth was an act of not rebellion, but of resilience, as mine was. We can do this, we really can, but we are going to have to be on board with each other, and I am so grateful for the Professor and for all of you. 👍🏼
James,
Why thank you very much.
Well said.
Goldman cites the near zero turnover in Cabinet and support staff as a plus. In fact, it’s not. No one lost a job over Afghanistan or over the Palestine train derailment or the supply chain snafu etc. This suggests that Biden has been too uncritical of his own admin and that the fact that those people are the de facto ruling cabal is scary.
Recently Dr. Fauci testified that the “6-foot distancing rule”, which has been shown to be wrong, “suddenly appeared” one day. He didn’t create it and he did not know who did. Anonymous government in action. (“Someone told those bombers to go. Joe was napping.”)