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Biden Isn’t Sabotaging Harris, Is He?

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The American Spectator 

No, this column isn’t declaring that Joe Biden is deliberately drilling holes in the hull of the S.S. Kamala.

But I might just be suggesting it a little.

Or maybe, what I’ll say is that if in fact Biden was trying to sabotage Harris’ campaign efforts, it might not look very different from what it looks like now.

Oh, come on. The idea of Biden sabotaging Harris isn’t all that far-fetched. In fact, it’s pretty much what you’d expect him to do.

You might not think he’s capable of it because you bought into the media narrative that somehow Joe Biden is a stand-up guy and a man of honor. That narrative is as false as it is persuasive.

Joe Biden is a son of a b***h, and he always has been. He’s venal, crooked, petty, and narcissistic in a way that has marked him as one of the worst examples of awful American politics for 50 years.

But he didn’t get that public reputation because most of Biden’s abuses have been directed at people the media doesn’t like.

Robert Bork, for example. Or Clarence Thomas.

Biden managed to ride the partisan-Democrat train and got a pass for his dirty tricks for decades. Most people wrote him off after he got caught plagiarizing Neil Kinnock’s speeches and was run out of the 1988 presidential primary race for it. That he ended up as Barack Obama’s vice president was a factor of Biden being Obama’s kind of SOB.

That and Obama could use Biden as a bridge to the white working class voters he was actively seeking to screw over. And Biden, so desperate for power and relevance that he would even sign up to be the No. 2 man in an administration fronted by a black guy (this, remember, is one of the most unreconstructed racists in American politics over the past half-century, with the public friendships with folks like Robert KKK Byrd to prove it), was happy to join in for the screwing.

Especially given the pipeline serving as Obama’s veep would establish between some of the world’s sleaziest global villains and his own bank account.

That Biden is capable of betrayal is hardly news to anyone. But then you introduce the fact that Biden is the victim, rather than the perpetrator, of the most shocking political betrayal of recent years, and it further establishes the motivation for a sabotage.

We are speaking here of the palace coup in which Obama and Nancy Pelosi knifed Biden in the back and took the Democrats’ presidential nomination away from him thanks to his rotten performance in the June 27 debate with Donald Trump and the multiple “senior moments” he displayed afterward.

Were Obama and Pelosi justified in screwing Biden out of the nomination he won in the Democrat primaries? Yes, probably so. Biden is so far gone cognitively that he really oughtn’t still be in office. But that’s been true for well more than a year, and these people all collaborated to hide this fact from the American public. The palace coup was merely something that could and should have been executed in July of 2023, not July of 2024; had it been shoved down his throat the previous year there could have been an actual American electoral process complete with Democrat voters getting to choose the Democrat nominee.

If you’re disgusted by this as a voter, think how disgusted Biden is over what was done to him.

Based on multiple reports we already know that Biden rushed out to endorse Kamala Harris, effectively handing the nomination over to her against the wishes of Obama, who had been openly discussing the possibility of a mini-media primary that he apparently thought would result in Sen. Mark Kelly getting the nomination.

Obama might not have been right about that. Kelly’s business ties to communist China, including a sizable investment in a company that makes spy balloons not unlike the ones wafting over the continental United States on Biden’s watch, would likely have made him a bad choice.

But Biden endorsing Harris made the Democrats’ machine go all in for her, propping up a clearly deficient candidate who can’t do even softball media interviews without coming off as an idiot. Harris went from a major liability as vice president to a “cultural phenomenon,” based on … nothing.

Which makes her vulnerable to sabotage.

And Biden would have nothing to lose. He’s immune from negative consequences if he buries the knife in her back, after all. Obama and Pelosi have already seen to that with the palace coup.

We know it’s a matter of time before he either pardons his son or commutes whatever sentence he gets from his various criminal trials. If that happens before the election, it’ll be proof that Biden aims to sabotage Harris.

After all, if Trump didn’t go after Hillary Clinton, he isn’t going after Biden. Trump has already taken the position that living well is the best revenge, politically speaking and otherwise. And most Democrats, whether they’ll admit it or not, wouldn’t be philosophically opposed to sweeping the deck clear of the current people in charge of their party — they just think the price of doing that, which is to lose an election to Trump and therefore be out of political power for four years, is ruinous. If Trump were to beat Harris, that price becomes fixed — so who cares if Biden sabotaged her?

And there’s nothing much you can do to him anyway. He’s so decrepit he barely knows who he is.

But again, this is just a theory. I’m not the first one advancing it.

And I’m not saying current events prove the theory.

But they don’t disprove it, do they?

After all, there is this…

Ummm, okay.

Yes, the federal government had resources pre-planned in advance of Hurricane Helene’s murderous swath through western Florida and into Appalachia. But that’s never the extent of what’s needed when a massive emergency like this hits. There is always supplemental aid coming.

Except he just said there wouldn’t be any.

Did Biden walk that back? Well, he had a press conference Monday and he rattled off a bunch of things, but then there was this:

Yikes.

He phoned in his hurricane response. Meanwhile half of western North Carolina is now reduced to a state of nature and there are whole towns cut off from the outside world thanks to washed-out roads and bridges, cut power lines, downed cell towers, and other destroyed infrastructure.

It doesn’t help that the worst damage perhaps anywhere in Helene’s swath lies in Asheville, which has become a haven for crunchy lefties as it has grown. The local leadership is a collection of morons more interested in transgender ideology than emergency management, which bodes ill when a massive hurricane blows through and covers the place with floodwaters.

Those voters aren’t going to love hearing Biden tell them they have all they need. And when they find out that Harris was fundraising out west and has had little involvement in the Helene response, they probably won’t like it much, either. Then again, Kamala was certainly concerned about the victims of Helene; she proved that by running ads on the Weather Channel as the storm was cutting its swath of destruction through the Southeast.

Could all this be a natural manifestation of, as Obama famously said, Biden’s ability to “f**k things up?” Absolutely.

On the other hand, if Biden was sabotaging Harris, he couldn’t have done too much more than to express satisfaction with the federal response to the storm when it’s clearly lacking in energy so far.

Then there’s this…

Israel has been literally taking out the trash in southern Lebanon by decapitating nearly all of Hezbollah’s top management and much of their middle management in advance of routing them out of their positions. This, in tandem with what the Israelis have been able to do in Gaza, creates the best possibility in decades for a lasting peace in that region; destroying Iran’s proxies ringing Israel and forcing a transition to nation-state action in Middle Eastern affairs is the only way you’re ever going to have a deal anybody can stick to.

But Biden continues speaking weakly about ceasefires when that’s clearly not going to happen, and it’s a level of weakness that has to be corrosive to Harris’ campaign. He isn’t taking the position that we’re going to cut off aid to Israel, although they’ve put on the brakes about sending certain kinds of ordnance to the IDF, so what’s he going to do to enforce this “diplomacy” of which he speaks?

After Oct. 7, Israel is about finally winning this war rather than another ceasefire that merely buys time for the Iranians to rearm Hamas and Hezbollah. You can’t blame them. Biden can either support that cause or oppose it. Instead, he dithers in the middle, which has a poor effect on the Muslim voters Harris has to have in a state like Michigan while at the same time irritating a chunk of the Jewish support that her campaign would be broke without.

Again, if he was trying to sabotage her, this would be a way to do it that would be both effective and not quite obvious. And it isn’t like Kamala Harris has the political chops to sidestep this thing as it gets worse.

But what might be the coup de grace is this impending disaster:

About 45,000 dockworkers are expected to strike for higher wages across three dozen East and Gulf coast ports at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.

There is potential for increased consumer costs on a wide range of goods just five weeks before Election Day, and 12 weeks before Christmas.

Negotiations have been tense since June. The disagreement is between the International Longshore Association and Warehouse Union, which represents port workers across the country, and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents terminal operators and ocean carriers.

Wages of East and Gulf coast workers are a base wage of $39 an hour after six years. The union is asking for a 77% pay raise increase over six years. It is also asking for more restrictions and bans on the automation of cranes, gates, and container movements used to load or unload cargo.

North America’s largest union of maritime workers has 85,000 longshoremen from the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, according to its website.

The strike would impact 36 U.S. ports handling about one-half of U.S. ocean imports. Included are Boston, New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia.

While negotiations have remained stagnant, both parties have continued to push out updates on the situations.

The dockworkers’ strike could very easily give the U.S. economy a heart attack a little more than a month before the presidential election. With the amount of foreign trade the U.S. supply chain relies on, our ports are more crucial than ever.

The Biden Department of Transportation has done absolutely nothing to head off this strike. Politically it should have been obvious that a Democrat administration would have sided with the longshoremen and pressured the Maritime Alliance, which has an awful lot of foreign investment and ownership (that’s generally a good thing economically, but it’s not such a great thing politically, particularly if you’re a Democrat and you’re weighing the two sides).

And yet he’s done nothing. The effect? Well, just remember the supply chain meltdown back in 2021 as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took a powder to go on “paternity leave” complete with cutesy photos of him and his husband in what looked like a birthing bed with the two kids they adopted. That was a bleak moment you’d think the Democrats wouldn’t want to revive in the public’s perception, and yet it’s a good preview of what happens as food rots on the docks of American ports while grocery stores no longer have fresh produce to sell.

Right before an election.

There are lots of levers Biden could be pulling to settle the strike. Instead he’s on a beach.

It’s not Biden who bears the political cost of a busted supply chain right before an election, you know.

And believe me, even in his decrepit old mind, Biden is well aware of that.

Again — we’re not saying he’s sabotaging Harris. But we’re not not saying it, either. If he were sticking that knife in her back, it probably wouldn’t look much different from this.

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