That's President Kamala Fucking Harris To You
Maybe pushing Biden out wasn't your best move, scumbags.
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The last three weeks have been nerve-wracking. Not because I was worried that Biden couldn’t do the job, but because I didn’t know if the press would be successful in its efforts to push Biden out. Well, now we know. They claimed their scalp. Well done.
Might not be the big win you were hoping for though, scumbags. In fact, this might be the worst miscalculation since Hitler attacked Russia and opened a second front in WWII. And yes, I just compared the press to the fucking Nazis. Lay down with fascists, wake up with swastikas. Fuck your civility. President Kamala Fucking Harris is going to lay waste to your plans.
First, let’s look at why, exactly, the press pushed Biden out:
They hated him because he governed like an adult. No drama. No scandals. No corruption. Therefore, no juicy gossip to report on. No book deals. No Pulitzers. No clicks and views. Booooooring.
Worse, Biden treated them with indifference. He didn’t care about their opinion and that was intolerable for self-important “kingmakers.”Trump’s chaos was “exciting.” That motherfucker over at the NYT, Joe Khan, says “fasten your seatbelts” if Trump wins again. Because it’s gonna be a rollercoaster of exciting news to cover, baby! That should tell you everything you need to know about how the press views Trump.
Need more? Allow me to help:Yeah, I can’t imagine why the press has been so eager to “shake up” the race and help Trump win. Four more years of Biden’s boring adult governing would be a death sentence. But Trump? Trump is money in the bank!
No one really wants to talk about this but I am as cynical as it comes to the motivations of people with ill intent. And the press has shown nothing but ill intent since allowing George W. Bush to steal the 2000 election.
Here’s the thing. In 2000, the Supreme Court was 5-4 Republican, and the Chief Justice, William Rehnquist, was 76 years old. Would he make it through 4-8 years of an Al Gore presidency? Very risky. So when the Republicans stole the election and made sure to keep control of the Court, the press played along.
In 2008, there was little chance of the Court tilting. None of the Republican Justices were old enough to retire and probably wouldn’t die so why not let a Democrat win? But then Scalia died and that would have tipped the Court to the left. Unacceptable. So when Republicans refused to allow Obama to fill that seat, the press played along.
That’s why in 2016, it was very important for a Republican to win. Keeping a SCOTUS seat open for a year? Sure. Keeping it open for 5 years? That’s harder to sell to the public.
2020. Doesn’t matter much if Trump loses. The Court is pretty secure. Hell, both Alito AND Thomas would have to resign and why would they ever give up those sweet, sweetbribes“gratuities?”
But 2024? Well, now we’re running into a problem. Alito and Thomas may not retire under a Democratic president but they could very easily die. Men in their late 70s have a habit of doing that. Especially evil ones that thrive on cruelty. Trump really needs to win so he can replace both men with Federalist clones in their 40s and lock up the Court for the next 30 years.
If Republicans control the Supreme Court, they can keep lying and stealing and cheating and churning out scandal after scandal after scandal. It’s media mana from heaven for decades. A guaranteed source of income for the press.
But if Democrats take control of the Court, the Republican Party ceases to exist. No gerrymandering. No voter suppression. No election fraud. No GOP. And no money for the press. Unacceptable.
And here’s where the miscalculation comes in. The thought process appears to be that Biden was the biggest threat. I’ve been saying for months that the press is not worried about Biden losing. They’re terrified Biden would win. So, Biden had to go. And he did. Here comes that sweet, sweet chaos!
Or…not? The hope was obviously that there would be a massive fight among Democrats to replace Biden but…that does not appear to be happening. A great deal of the party has already consolidated around Harris, including several of the people the press has been floating as replacements for Biden.
The press is calling for an open convention because they want more chaos. The tell is their use of the word “coronation.” Every single person using the word “coronation” as a slur against Kamala Harris is telling on themselves. They have no interest in “picking the best candidate.” They only care about sowing discord.
These are the people demanding a mini-primary as if the primaries didn’t already happen. You know, the primaries where millions of voters chose Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?
There’s a huge amount of excitement around Harris running and you can hear the teeth grinding in newsrooms across the country:
This sudden surge of excitement and unity was not what the press (or the GOP) were looking for. They want division and recriminations. If the August convention goes smoothly, the outrage will be so thick you can cut it with a knife. That is not the plan. Dems in array is not the plan! A unified Democratic Party is the death knell for Trump and that is not the plan!
President Kamala Harris is not the plan!
It goes downhill from here. First, Harris is not particularly prone to scandal.
She watched and learned from Biden just like Biden watched and learned from Obama. Harris knows the press is a hostile force working for the GOP. I find it unlikely she’s going to give the press a fucking morsel to snack on.
Four years of stability and governing like an adult will bring out the worst in the press and Harris is going to ignore them just like Biden did because she gains nothing from engaging bad faith masquerading as journalism.
Second, President Harris who took over for an ailing President Biden would be in a weakened position in 2028. But President Harris who won her own election in 2024 is an incumbent and as I’ve mentioned more than once, the GOP’s bench is non-existent. Nikki Haley the flip-flopping boot-licker? Ron DeSantis, the Trump wannabe with the personality of a dead fish? Vivek RamaAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH! I can’t even finish typing it!
The GOP has no one to replace Trump, who will have fled the country to declare himself a “president in exile” from the steps of the Kremlin. Maybe Don Jr. if he hasn’t OD’ed on cocaine by then. Good luck, buddy!
So, President Kamala Harris is looking pretty good for November. The press will try daily for the next month to sow division but it’s not at all clear this will work. Their usual sexist attacks are going to come across as racist and that will invite a backlash that will make the ass-whipping they got over attacking Biden seem mild in comparison.
The right and the press do not have decades of attacks banked and precious little time to roll out the handful of garbage they came up with to attack Harris during the primaries. And most of the right’s attacks are just naked racism. That didn’t work against Obama, it’s definitely not going to work now.
The alt-left is going to try rolling out “Kamala the cop” but, last I looked, a big theme for this election was “law and order.” Not really sure that’s going to hurt her with independent voters and, whoops, you can’t hang Gaza around her neck. What a damn shame. Best of luck to the alt-left rat-fuckers.
Four years of President Kamala followed by her reelection in 2028 means the end of the GOP’s grip on the Supreme Court for the last 40 years or so.
That was not the plan!
We’re going to watch the press lose its fucking mind in the coming weeks as the Democratic Party comes together to squish Trump like a bug and the press realizes how much it fucked up. And while all of that’s going on, that same press is going to have to fend off daily demands to know why they aren’t questioning Trump’s age and far more pronounced mental deterioration with the same maniacal vigor as Biden’s. Did age magically stop being important when only one of the candidates was old? Yes, do explain that one, Joe Khan, you piece of shit rat fuck.
The best revenge we can get for the last decade of Donald Trump and the last four years of the press maligning a true American hero like Joe Biden is to make Kamala Harris president and let them spend the next eight years choking on it.
Say it with me: President Kamala Fucking Harris 2024.
There are 105 days until the 2024 election. Vote blue like your life depends on it. No kings. Vote Kamala.
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Those scribblers make me ashamed to have been a journalist. You incompetent fuckheads, why aren’t you demanding an immediate press conference with Trump, just like you did with Biden? Rhetorical question: it’s because the Dems will tax the people with whom your publishers golf.
Permission to borrow "Vivek RamaAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!" please!