In the space of a week, an attempt was made to eliminate any of the candidates for the presidency of the United States. On Saturday, July 13, Thomas Matthew Crooks tried, unsuccessfully, to shoot former President Donald Trump to death during a rally in Pennsylvania. On Sunday, July 21, a press release on President Joe Biden’s X account announced that he would not seek a new nomination yet and would complete his term as president. Shortly after, he briefly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.
The president went unnoticed in public from Wednesday, July 17 to Tuesday, July 23. His team said he was suffering from a mild case of COVID. On Wednesday, July 24, he delivered a 10-minute speech from the Oval Office. Biden showed he would not run again, but he did not tell the public why he was resigning, how he made his decision or what he had replaced since July 12, when he said at a rally in Detroit, “I’m running and we’re going to win.
Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH), the Republican vice presidential nominee, calls it a “coup. “You can see what it means, but it doesn’t. According to the OED, the main meaning of the term “coup d’état” is “a sudden, violent and illegal seizure of force by a government”. That is not what is happening. The leaders of the main factions of the political parties, Nancy Pelosi’s Californians and Barack Obama’s Chicago Potomac, have to face another candidate in November. The government is still standing. No legislation was violated. If it is a coup d’état, then each and every one of the Popes is elected through a coup d’état.
The media equivalent of a puff of white smoke coming out of the Vatican chimney indicates that the factions of the Democrats’ secret conclave have reached a consensus. We are so used to the corporatist fusion of political parties and government that we confuse them. The government is bound by law. Political parties are free to draw up regulations on the fly. In 2016, making the Republican nomination procedure more democratic allowed party members to decide on Trump over party leaders. In 2024, making the Democratic nomination procedure less democratic will allow party leaders to decide on a new candidate over party members. Who knew that the “smoke-filled room” was still open to the public?
This is an insult to Democrats who supported Biden in an uncontested primary, but who are now used to being taken for fools. This meets the secondary definition of “coup”: “an example of how to effectively accomplish something difficult,” provided, of course, that the new consensus around Harris is what everyone else wanted. conspirators. Biden, or whoever runs the Presidential X account, is rumored to have supported Harris to thwart his assassins. Or maybe the killers had no choice. The 2020 electorate elected Biden knowing that if the presidential brain turned to mush, Harris would assume power. Still, donors seem to agree with her as a candidate. All of this is perfectly legal, all of this is perfectly disgusting.
We complain that nothing works in America, that the government is frozen and the infrastructure is crumbling, but the media-industrial complex works perfectly. For four years, most of the media lied to us about Biden’s physical and intellectual fitness, until they announced that he was a vegetable. The change from “Harris is a losing candidate” to “Harris will save America” is stunning. Of course, this is all a lie. Anyone who believes in it, much less votes for it, gets what they deserve.
Maybe the government works better than we think. A president, who is somewhat absent on weekdays, is absent most of the week. The formula still works. Like the surrealist turn of the media, this is a type of transparency. All you have to do is watch, if you can stand it. The presidency was created with the powers of an elected monarch. It has become a symbol. Carlos III takes a long weekend.
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Change a symbol and it will be less difficult to continue swapping them. Rome had four emperors in 69 AD. Britain had three prime ministers in 2022. I suspect we’ve only noticed the first level of success from Biden’s withdrawal. If Harris is the nominee now, it makes sense for her to move to the Democratic National Committee in Chicapass as chair. If she does not succeed then, she may not be a candidate until November. Again, all of this is perfectly legal and perfectly disgusting.
In “Federalist No. 10,” James Madison explained a faction as a small organization “united and actuated through a not unusual impulse of pastime or interest, contrary to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and global interests of the community. “Array” That was in 1787. Today, either party claims that their hobbies and interests are the same as those of the others. It is evident that they are lying. This is the only transparency we will ever get. Soon there will be nothing left to see.