Joe Biden Campaign Strategy: Hide Biden, Stoke Chaos, Obstruct Recovery
By: Victor Davis Hanson (National Review)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Joe Biden is tragically suffering a mental eclipse and sliding away at a geometric rate. Understandably, his handlers have kept him out of sight. He stays off the campaign trail on the pretext of the virus and his age-related susceptibility to COVID-19 morbidity.
I say "pretext" without apology. Quarantine should not have otherwise stopped Biden over the past three months from doing daily interviews, speeches, and meetings. But each occasion, however scripted, rehearsed, and canned, would only have offered further daily proof that Biden is cognitively unable to be president or indeed to hold any office.
Often Biden cannot finish a sentence. Names are vague eddies in his mind's river of forgetfulness. He is in a far more dire mental state than a physically failing FDR was in his 1944 campaign for a fourth term.
The earlier career of a healthy Biden illustrates that he was not especially sharp even when in control of most of his faculties. We recall the former sane/nutty Biden of Neal Kinnock plagiarism, his "put y'all in chains" demagoguery, the studied racism of Biden's riffs about a "clean" and well-spoken Obama, and the sane/insane Corn Pop stories. All are the trademark of a once fool Joe Biden, who was at least alert when compared with his current catalepsy. If Donald Trump can be ungrammatical, Biden is agrammatical — he simply streams together half-thoughts without syntax and then abandons the sentence entirely.
If Trump repeats vocabulary, Biden increasingly searches for words, any noun, whatever its irrelevance to the point he is making. Biden seems to suffer dyscognitive seizures, in which for moments he has no idea what he is doing or saying or where he is — a tragic, nearly epileptic condition. In scary episodes, the pale, scaly, and frozen visage of Biden appears almost reptilian, like a lizard freezing and remaining stationary as it struggles to process signals of perceived danger.
Inserting memorized answers into rehearsed questions, as if the entire con was spontaneous, only reveals how his once episodic dementia has become chronic as he loses his prompt and place. It was understandable that his handlers saw opportunity in secluding Biden during Trump's tweeting, alongside the contagion, the lockdown, the recession, and the rioting that in voters' minds had equated fear of chaos with the culpability of the current commander in chief.
But there were always problems with placing Biden in suspended animation in his basement, even as he seemingly surged ahead of Trump in the early-summer polls.
One, seclusion, quiet, and the absence of intellectual stimuli often only enhance dementia, while travel, conversation, and new imagery and experiences tend to unclog for a bit the congested neuron pathways. The more Biden "rests up," the more he seems to be non compos mentis in his rare staged interviews. His brain is like a flabby muscle, and restful disuse does not make it firmer.
Two, in theory there should be a shelf life to a virtual presidential candidate. True, Biden has climbed in the polls, as the public never sees or hears him — in the manner that an unpopular lame-duck Obama disappeared to the golf courses and retreats in 2016 and yielded the media spotlight to the dog and cat fighting between Trump and Clinton. Obama then discovered that the more he retreated from the public eye, the more the public liked the old idea, rather than the current reality, of him.
So too the ghost model was supposed to work for Biden.
He is a cardboard candidate, but at least he's not on the front lines of commentary on statue toppling and the contagion, and so he can be blamed for neither.
But by avoiding the campaign trail, Biden is only postponing the inevitable. He is compressing the campaign into an ever-shorter late-summer and autumn cycle. If he really agrees to three debates (he may not agree to any at all), and if he performs as he usually now acts and speaks, then he may end up reminding the American people in the eleventh hour of the campaign that they have a choice between a controversial president and a presidential candidate who simply cannot fulfill the office of presidency. And if Biden is a no-show, Trump will probably debate an empty, Clint Eastwood-prop mute chair.
Why, then, is Biden the nominee at all — other than that he leads in the delegate count and surged after Democrat back-roomers panicked when Bloomberg imploded and Bernie surged? As a result, politicos forced or enticed all the other primary candidates to vacate and unite around someone nominally not a socialist.
Is one consolation that Biden's dementia offers a credible defense that he has "no recollection" that he was in on Obama's efforts to surveil an oppositional campaign and abort a presidential transition?
While all Democrats know that the cat must be belled, no one wishes to step forward to do it and remove Biden — and indeed no one knows how to steal a nomination from an enfeebled winner and hand it off to an undeserving but cogent alternative. Take out Biden in August, and who knows what sort of candidate stampede might follow in today's insane landscape?
So what are these strategies of dementia other than putting Biden on ice while redefining the election as Trump versus the media's version of the virus, lockdown, and economic stagnation?
Pity is one pretext. The progressive media have put Biden's blank stares and word searching off limits. We are not supposed to remember that Trump was hounded by progressive M.D.s, to the point that he took — and aced — the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test, an examination that no one in his right mind would suggest Biden now take, given that the results would be no surprise.
Dementia is also about the only valid reason one can legitimately say "I don't remember." So ask Joe Biden about those early January 2017 strategy sessions in which Obama, Biden, and their henchmen plotted the surveillance of the Trump campaign and the destruction of Michael Flynn — and he can honestly say, "What administration?" Ask Biden about his illiberal past statements, his associations with neo-Confederate senators, or his plagiarism, and without guile he can retort, "What? What plagiarism? What senators?" Burisma? Hunter Biden's Chinese lucre? He will look dumbfounded and turn to an aide to ask, "What is Burisma and who is Hunter?"
Democrats also knew that they would lose with an Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, or Bernie Sanders as their masthead. The primaries, even heavily loaded to the left-wing base, taught them that well enough. The hard-left agenda of winter 2020 went nowhere, and it will go less than nowhere in the fall after months of televised arson, looting, and gratuitous violence.
In contrast, even a cardboard-cutout version of Biden offers them the veneer of the "moderation." A Bill Clinton-style Biden phantom, if elected, can allow a passageway for a leftist surrogate into the presidency, the same way that Harry Truman, a centrist, was put on the ticket in 1944 to save the country from Vice President Henry Wallace's Communism.
Translated, that means the Democratic donor class accepts that they cannot win while siding with the mobs on the street and their appeasers and apologists — and yet the latter leftists are needed to provide the missing 5 to 7 points for victory. With a wink and nod, the vice-presidential candidate will be seen as assuming the presidency and giving to the Left what they could not achieve through a presidential election — while old Joe Biden from Scranton stares at the TV screen a bit longer to prove he's not a raving socialist.
Also expect the Democrats to push the following strategies harder and harder, as they square the circle of a demented candidate who nonetheless could prove enormously useful — if he can just get elected.
Expect more calls to cancel the debates as corrupt, fluff, reality-TV pizzazz and utterly unnecessary. Anticipate that the virus lockdown will be prolonged nearly until Election Day and will de facto lead Democrats to call for a Zoom campaign: Biden talking to the camera with a teleprompted script behind the screen.
Election Day voting, we will be told, is merely an ossified construct. The key to our new electoral process is not Neanderthal driving into a COVID-infested polling booth, but rather voter-harvested mail-in ballots.
Expect the vote in November to be declared in advance warped, stolen, and invalid — and then declared valid and fair if Biden wins.
Expect blue states to remain economically mired in quarantines, in hopes of aborting a recovery. Democratic leaders will never really crack down on what heretofore have been blue-state rioting and looting; the chronic chaos and recession will be kept alive and geared to the November election.
Are there problems with such Biden basement strategies? Lots.
A hard-left candidate for vice president will have to do the campaign messaging as a public auxiliary of, and in line with, Joe Biden. She will privately reassure her base that it's all a moderate con, assuming that leftist voters are sophisticated and cynical enough to be willing to be lied to now for the sake of gaining power shortly.
It will also be problematic to assure the country that Joe Biden is 110 percent fit to be president in November but then to leak to the public by February 2021 that he's crazy and it's past time for his radical vice president, regrettably, to move him out.
Using Biden as an empty vessel also assumes that he is at least a vessel. But what if Biden, say, on October 25, 2020, has one of his blank-outs? Or what if he announces once again, but this time at his final rare press conference: "I am going to beat [be] Joe Biden!" What then? Do they call Christopher Steele out of retirement to do a hasty file on Joe Biden, the delusional nut, and use Yahoo or Mother Jones again to leak the dirt in order to switch the order of the Democratic ticket?
Given the current racial hysteria, how do Democratic handlers muzzle the not always latently bigoted Biden? Often dementia is a cruel pathway to the truth, freed from normal self-censorship, politeness, and social awareness. Meaning: What if Biden has more "you ain't black" moments, or Corn Pop storytelling, or he mimics a black accent to riff about chains, "clean" blacks, and such? And in the present climate, will people be forgiving when he brags that his home state of Delaware was once a "slave state"? One or two such outbursts could shrink his share of the black vote to 80 percent, which would lead to losses in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Florida.
In the chaos of July, Biden's handlers have been acclaimed geniuses for anesthetizing him. But in the different season of October, he may finally be forced out from his lockdown, in the wild manner that soon-to-be looters and arsonists at last emerged from quarantine in June — pent-up, angry, incoherent, and self-destructive.
Victor Davis Hanson
Article is LOCKED by author/seeder
"Stoke chaos, obstruct economic recovery, and hide Biden in the basement till Election Day."
If Biden's lead over the President continues through the summer, his campaign may try and avoid any debate with Donald Trump. If the poll numbers get close like they did in 2016 at the very end of the campaign, Biden's handlers may have no choice but to allow a debate. It is really sad to watch.
Compared to a mentally impaired devoted deviant and Diva of deprivation , a social sycophant without the need or want, to put anything or anyone above self , especially our once great nation, Biden is a true Red White and Blue Inspiration to our purposefully Divided United States Nation, as Trump has proven to be the ultimate loser, as the only thing we lead on is Corona infections as the dereliction of the delusional deity, directs US down that make America Sewer Grate, Draining and dragging those who pray along side those who don't prey on the fears, that Trump continually attempts while shopping at/to sears no skin in the blame game, as he burns Americans. He's burnt our citizens out of the truth on a containable virus, all while treasonously trying to try US, on the charge of First Degree IGNORANCE, another projection from the projector in chief who projects Dis Belief, as he LIES again and again, tweets to NO END, Racist White Power tweets, and it'seasy to read between the WHITE Sheets , for the Liter that should have been ousted by the Quarts, but for the R's, and that R does not stand for Retorts, as they have aloud what the herd has bought, for the benefit of what only a disgusting excuse of a party sought, cause heard mentality has been hear, sounding from all proximity around, a failure of a President, another useless puppet cast and spent on words he can't spell more LIES he can't sell, as his denial and silence on the REAL PROBLEMS facing our country do tell. Trump spews racist spouts, talks of whatabouts like how that Corona is again gonna disappear as sure asz his fat asz isn't his rear,
and due to a mental midget with too much time to golf and tweet, to criticise and cheat, as he is the picture of De Feat that walks in the footsteps of the one that Putin wear he never fit, do do things to benefit Russia non stop is BULLSHIT, to not condemn and take action on his Mother Russia is the ultimate insult to ALL PATRIOTIC AMERICANS, ESPECIALLY OUR TROOPS, as bounties were laid and paid, like Trump's women, but our Troops are not his playmate porno collection, they are our sons, brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers, that Trump feels are not worthy of his time to read of dire warnings, and or do a damn thing about it for them, besides blame others, cause he IS NO LEADER OF MEN. He is of the elected and infected pervy infection brought forth by the last mislead election, that a sleeping sleepy Joe Biden , could surpass while FAST ASLEEP and California dreaming , ASZ Trump is RUSSIAN AWAKE and screamin, BLACKS, IN THE USSR better than those of the US of A whole lot wrong , as a treasonous POS potUS that the GOP could have solved, is and will be, a problem till the day he Dies, and all those DEATHS and Violations of a NATION, fall back upon the Republicans and one ignorant Nation, where as we all see, even FOOLS, Ignorance continues to rulez. There is probably NOT a person that the Democratic pity party could run, that would/could not chase out Trump like the Father blaming the Altered Boy HE violated, for Raping the NUN, cause when it comes to pussies, Trump just GRABS HIM SOME !
I'm gonna miss you in 5 months. That is if you honor your bets?
So when Trump loses "bigly" I take it we'll get a break here on NT from all the woefully uninformed conspiracy theorist conservative Republicans regurgitating bullshit and Trump lies? I rather doubt it, those folk will continue to whine and cry and claim it's the deep state or illegals or something, anything, as a reason for why they lost in a landslide because they will never take responsibility and will never admit it's their toxic ideology that already lost them the house and is soon to lose them the Senate and the white house. I don't expect them to actually learn anything, no doubt they'll be back spitting their hate towards minorities, liberals, progressives, lgtbq Americans, immigrants and non-Christians regardless of having all their power in the government stripped for being such incompetent divisive anti-American pro-Russian partisans.
You still have to put that moronic goon into the White House. That's gonna be a tall order. I assume you didn't read the article, nor do I think you've even listened to Joe Biden the other day with all the puff questions he was given and had such a hard time answering. He even had to look at a list of who the questions were from and had to keep looking at his prepared text. Other than the haters who are voting against Trump, who is going to go out and vote for Joe Biden?
any thinking individual
The left doesn't believe in freedom of thought.
Why would I want Trump back in the white house? He's the only moronic goon running.
Millions and millions more Americans than those who will vote for dirty Donald. Desperation is a stinky cologne, and lying to hide your insecurities isn't a good look either.
Then don't wear it!
That’s for sure! Great seed. You picked some really good ones again today.
I appreciate it.
The credit goes to Victor Davis Hanson.
Fact: Russia did in fact want Trump to win the 2016 election and worked hard to get him elected.
“President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?”
“Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.–Russia relationship back to normal.”
Fact: Russia hacked State voter databases.
"Mueller report: Russia hacked state databases and voting machine companies "
Fact: Russia hacked US political party campaign emails
"Mueller report sheds new light on how the Russians hacked the DNC and the Clinton campaign"
Fact: Russia released stolen emails the day of Trumps Access Hollywood video came out.
"October 7, 2016, WikiLeaks released another batch of hacked emails within hours of the revelation of the Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump is overheard boasting about sexually assaulting women."
Fact: The day Trump asked Russia to "find" Hillary's emails numerous hacking attempts were made by the Russians.
"Mueller’s indictment offers new evidence that Russia was listening—and acting on Trump’s request. The indictment charges 12 officers of the GRU, Russia’s military-intelligence agency, with hacking intended to interfere with the election"
Fact: The Russians were spending $1.25 million a month "to "rock the boat" on divisive issues like gun control and LGBT rights" all the issues right wing white nationalists and conservative Republicans were already sensitive about which worked to "to set Americans against their own government," and "to provoke unrest and discontent.".
Fact: The Mueller report describes numerous instances in which President Trump may have obstructed justice.
Asked by congress if it would be accurate to say that "lies by Trump campaign officials and administration officials impeded your investigation." "I would generally agree with that," Mueller said.
Fact; There were dozens and dozens of contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russian operatives.
"investigators have found that Trump and at least 17 of his campaign officials and advisors had more than 100 contacts between Trump associates and Russians , belying the campaign’s November 2016 claim that “there was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
The only thing that wasn't proven, due to the number of lies being told by Trump associates, was criminal conspiracy.
Not that you'd be honest enough to admit it, but if you had ALL that evidence against Joe Biden or some Democrat you'd be screaming to high heaven to have them removed even if Mueller was ultimately not able to find the smoking gun tape of the politician agreeing to lift sanctions in return for Russian help. We just saw Russians help and then Trump delay sanctions and his chosen National Security Advisor contacting the Russian Ambassador to let them know not to take the new sanctions or the kicking out of Russian officials in response to the Russian election meddling too hard because when Trump was in they would be reverse those measures. And then of course that National Security Advisors lied about his conversation with the Russians, and now Trump fixer Bill Barr is refusing to sentence him not because he didn't lie, but because they claim the questioning was "unwarranted" even though it clearly was. How any patriot can learn all these facts and still be proud of this kind of President, simply because he wasn't caught and had many liars surrounding him and protecting him, is truly beyond me.
So no collusion then. Thanks!
I accepted the word of all our intelligence agencies, Putin just confirmed it. Conservatives are the only ones buying his lies like he's not really paying bounties on US soldiers or that he didn't have the GRU hack US State voter databases and those "little green men" aren't really Russian soldiers and hasn't been assassinating journalists and political opponents. It's why we see Trump supporters sporting "I'd Rather be Russian than Democrat" shirts. Talk about gullible.
Wear it????
They bathe in it.
Yes, conservative Republicans do seem to literally bathe in desperation and denial. Anything to keep reality at bay.
Biden is a mindless loser that other people are managing.
By that flawed logic I'm Russian despite being born in Pittsburgh. Who'd have thought.
Sounds like a failure of the last administration to ensure that things were secure.
How did they prove this without examining the servers?
Fact Russia only wanted to sow discord within the US. Mission accomplished bigly thanks to the lemming Democrats and their sheeple! Russia worked hard for Bernie Sanders as well; but the left and media leaves that out. Russia also sponsored events against Trump after he was elected; and the lemmings on the left came running to join them. Putin is overjoyed with the results, of course the Democrats made it easy being willing subjects. As for the "worked hard" part of your rant, hardly. The Russians waged a propaganda on face book and social media that cost them very little.
Now consider how much was spent in campaigning in 2016.
The left is bitching about 1.25 million spent a month by the Russians. A lot of it during the Hillary/Bernie Sanders primary, It was a drop in the fucking bucket. What made the Russians ads work are the lemmings on the left. Putin is still getting mileage out of the them as the left refuses to accept the election results. Your piece of shit lost fair and square, get over it.
Fact, not one vote was changed due to Russian tampering!
Doh!
Yes, yes they did. Russia also attempted to hack Republican party computers, emails, and campaigns. The media loves to ignore that fact. The Republicans, unlike the Democrats, cooperated with the federal government investigators and offers of help to make their systems more secure.
The Russians are not pro Trump, they are not pro Republican, they are anti US. The Democratics and the sheeple can't let the false narrative they hold that Trump is a Russian asset go. No matter how many times reality hits them in the face.
Fact, Mueller retracted how many statements during his testimony?
Seems that Mueller's Hillary and Obama team member sycophants coached him to correct the answer to keep both him and them getting torn a new one in court. As evidence surrounding their investigation would be on trial as well.
Ignore precedent set by every other candidate it seems before they take office.
But keep that Russian narrative going at all costs. Putin's unpaid assets are what the left have become.
None of those sources proved collusion. Hillary lost the old fashioned way. She deserved to.
the polls are manufactured. they mean nothing.
There are problems with polling, but there is also problems with the American press, which should be informing the American public but instead attempts to drive narratives, influence opinion and outright lies to us. I just watched MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle engage in what was nothing short of a love fest with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The New York Times admits their mission is no longer to inform but to defeat Trump. So you add that to the polling, which is voluntary and skewed more to democrats than Republicans an you have the brain dead Biden with a 14 point lead over Donald Trump.
people ignored the polls and the press in 2016
after the last 3 yrs of complete bs from the leftwing media, people are not going to suddenly believe them now
Will we ever forget that? Hillary Clinton also had a commanding lead at this point. Not many, including me, thought Donald Trump was going to win. Again, we must watch for those poll numbers begin to tighten up come October. The media is laying all that has besieged the nation in the past 4 months at the feet of Donald Trump - Let's see what the next 4 months brings.
once durham starts nailing people to the wall trumps actual support will increase regardless what any polls say.
im thinking a blow out. trump will take more states than last time.
Ya, that Durham investigation is in the mix - that's why House members are trying to impeach an honest AG - the finest one in my lifetime!
nothing they try will work - they got nothing but fear and panic left on the left.
it has been fun to watch
Pelosi isn't on board yet. The public reaction might just hand the President a big lead in the polls!
BTW there are happy endings in this world. Yesterday the Senate accidentally passed a bill to stop accidentally sending checks to dead people!
Senate Bill 4104
Remember in 1988 President Dukakis had a 17 point 55-38 lead on Vice President Bush at this point in the campaign then.
Oh, do I ever!
We really dodged a bullet there!
And a tank too!
I didn't think so , I played a drinking game election eve, every time the media talking heads had to call a state for trump I took a triple shot of jack daniels Tennessee fire, as most that were here remember , I was fairly well shitfaced by 12 AM mountain time , went through a bottle and a half in that time and even closing one eye didn't help me navigate to walk.
that's funny.... LOL
here is some more good news...
I'll never forget that night. There was this friend of mine (she was a liberal), she had told me on election day - "I won't call you tomorrow because you'll probably be in a bad mood." That night as soon as I heard a news anchor say that it's completely turned around and now it was Hillary Clinton that would have to win every state still in play - I gave her a call. I don't even know how late it was. I asked her if she had any thoughts? She replied "It's not over yet!" It cracked me up! I loved it!
They were a little sour on that over at MSNBC. I don't recall CNN even mentioning it. The unemployment rate is already down to 11%.
America is becoming prosperous again!
From the New York Times this morning:
"The coronavirus trends in the United States are pretty dark right now. The number of new cases is surging, unlike in most other affluent countries. And Fourth of July gatherings have the potential to make a bad situation worse."
Take a look at this chart:
Sorry - I don't see your point of this chart. The death rate as a percentage of confirmed confirmed cases is dependent on the amount of testing. In the beginning, with limited availability of testing, only people showing up in the ER were tested. With broader testing, the percentage will be lower.
World data suggests that confirmed cases only account for a percentage of those actually infected but who have little or no symptoms. As (if) we increase testing we will identify more of those with symptoms.
I would then expect the death rate to decline to get to about .2% (not 2%, .2%). Then at herd immunity of 70% , assuming we don't have a vaccine before then, we probably will not lose more than a half million or so people.
The point of the chart was to show what the New York Times and the media are not talking about - death numbers going down as opposed to the cases going up!
Why are you trying to estimate percentages? The death rate from the Coronavirus stands by itself - a true picture - and it is going down.
The confirmed cases is based on testing. Those who are untested are still in the majority. The cases revealed by the testing are not necessarily "new" cases.
World data suggests that confirmed cases only account for a percentage of those actually infected but who have little or no symptoms. As (if) we increase testing we will identify more of those with symptoms.
Yes, which has nothing to do with the real finite number of deaths
I would then expect the death rate to decline to get to about .2% (not 2%, .2%). Then at herd immunity of 70% , assuming we don't have a vaccine before then, we probably will not lose more than a half million or so people.
That estimate is as good as any.
We also have no idea of how many cases of "seasonal flu" have been listed as corona virus. and how many people have died of it.
This doesn't indicate how many people that are being treated for Covid who actually don't have it. Several locations are treating a person with one single symptom as having Covid. So if I went in to the hospital with an existing pulmonary problem that causes shortness of breath (like COPD) I would be treated for Covid instead of COPD and wrongly included in those numbers.
We do know how many have needlessly died of it in nursing homes.
I guess the tip off on Biden was when he whispered in Obama's ear - "this is a big fuckin' deal." I believe Obama replied "I know, that's why your'e staying here."
Rudy Giuliani: "Joe Biden, remember, isn't all there. He's not working with a full deck. If you don't see that, there's something wrong with you."
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Huh?
Are you related to Biden? The incoherence appears to be of the same kind.
Mount Surigaffe – A.F. Branco Cartoon
A.F. Branco
Mainstream media is ignoring Biden’s corruption and mental decline and propping him up against Trump. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2020.
I can’t wait to watch the fireworks display at Mt. Rushmore tomorrow night on TV.
meanwhile
jobs jobs jobs... most new jobs in a single month ever...
and the cdc is busted.