{"id":626046,"date":"2024-07-07T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=626046"},"modified":"2024-07-07T11:50:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:50:17","slug":"the-ben-gay-is-out-of-the-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=626046","title":{"rendered":"The Ben-Gay is out of the tube."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE&#8230;CLICK ON SCREEN SHOTS TO ENLARGE FOR EASIER READING<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Childers Sunday is paywalled for his supporters. We should all be his supporters but in case you are not&#8230;Here is his take of the <strong>Dementocrats Civil War<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TO JOE OR NOT TO JOE THAT IS THE QUESTION<\/p>\n<p> The Democrat Dilemma \u2014Joe or no Joe?\u2014 may be the greatest gift and greatest opportunity to have blessed Republicans since the 1860 election.  The Democrat\u2019s emerging Civil War could create a generational shift in America\u2019s politics, and the possibility of a permanent destruction of the Democrat party lies just inside the margin of error.  Most importantly and least discussed, it probably destroys any chance the Democrats can win by cheating. Let us count the ways.<\/p>\n<p>A modern Civil War is sprouting inside the Democrat Party.  President Turnip isn\u2019t going anywhere: \u201cLet me say this as clear as I can: I\u2019m staying in the race.\u201d (He should\u2019ve said \u201cclearly,\u201d but his two synapses sparked just then, instantly vaporizing the \u2018ly\u2019.) Hunter agreed with the Big Guy, in exchange for ten percent.<\/p>\n<p>And so the Anti-Turnip armies have begun assembling all along the battle lines, right out in the open. Behold yesterday\u2019s nascent Civil War headline from the New York Times:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u1-300x113.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-626047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u1-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u1-800x302.png 800w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u1-150x57.png 150w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u1.png 1231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clash\u201d is a synonym for \u201cbattle,\u201d or \u201cwar.\u201d The Times reported that an Anti-Turnip sub-party is emerging within the Democrats, called \u201cPass the Torch.\u201d I didn\u2019t make that up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u2-300x142.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-626048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u2-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u2-150x71.png 150w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u2.png 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somehow, the allied Democrat world, so uniformly gleeful and expectant over the sixty criminal prosecutions of President Trump, has split into a massive gulf, like the unbridgeable divide between the land of the living and the land where a dementia patient runs the hospital instead of the other way around. The growing gulf is unbridgeable because Biden has shot past his ability to repair. It\u2019s too late, the gorge is too wide.<\/p>\n<p>The Ben-Gay is out of the tube.<\/p>\n<p>The Times reported \u201cMr. Biden\u201d \u2014not \u201cPresident\u201d Biden\u2014 told campaign staffers he \u201cunderstood the concerns and wanted to do more interviews and unscripted appearances in the future.\u201d But nobody believes Joe will do more unscripted interviews in the future. It\u2019s more likely that space aliens from Arcturus will do more unscripted interviews in the future than Joe will.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat world lies in a tattered, shambolic heap split in two. It\u2019s Brother-Against-Brother. The two \u2018sides\u2019 are as follows: The Pro-Turnip alliance believes wholeheartedly that the best way to beat the convicted felon is to stick with Joe Biden. And the Anti-Turnip forces believe just as strongly that Joe Biden cannot beat Trump and he must pass the torch. There is no overlap, no possibility for compromise. Both sides are equally zealous and impassioned.<\/p>\n<p>(You might disbelieve that the Democrat party has become so nihilistic that they care only about winning, and not whether the country goes to Hell in a Handbasket, but you\u2019d be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The Times quoted former Oklahoma Governor and top DNC member David Walters. David says there is only one thing that matters, a singular objective uber alles \u2014above all else\u2014 that hangs in the sky like a distant star to guide them home:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u3-300x49.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"49\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-626049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u3-300x49.png 300w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u3-150x24.png 150w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u3.png 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not the best candidate to run the country. Just to STOP TRUMP. So.)<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, a panicked Trump Derangement Syndrome fled right over the Cliffs of Schismatic Psychosis, and now the whole party is in free fall, rushing toward the canyon\u2019s rocky bottom. For now, they are trying to be polite. \u201cWe love Joe, but he must go,\u201d they say. It\u2019s not that they want to be nice. They are trying to minimize the collateral damage. It\u2019s like the Southern States saying, \u201cit was a great experiment, honestly, and we really appreciate all your fascinating views about our slavery practices. But we\u2019re bowing out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u4-300x96.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-626050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u4-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u4-800x256.png 800w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u4-150x48.png 150w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u4.png 893w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The happy talk won\u2019t, can\u2019t, last. The more Joe digs in, the more the rhetoric will heat up and the harder the blows will fall. Even now, the insidious leaks are starting. For instance, behold the New York Times\u2019 version of the latest headline that popped up everywhere yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2024\/07\/06\/biden-aides-provided-questions-in-advance-for-his-radio-interviews\/\">https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2024\/07\/06\/biden-aides-provided-questions-in-advance-for-his-radio-interviews\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u5-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-626051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u5-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u5-150x67.jpg 150w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u5.jpg 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One article explained that, even with the scripted questions, Joe still managed to be totally incoherent. You tell me: what was this answer supposed to mean?:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u6-300x112.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-626052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u6-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u6-800x298.png 800w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u6-150x56.png 150w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u6.png 807w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s long overdue. But I\u2019ll admit it was deeply satisfying to finally see Joe\u2019s rambling incoherence in print.<\/p>\n<p>? What does all this amount to? It foretells accelerating acrimony and bloodier in-fighting. It is coming as surely as Tax Day and they know it. On Friday, the New York Times ran an astonishing bit of long-form, magazine-style journalism headlined, \u201cDivided and Undecided, 2024\u2019s America Rhymes With 1924\u2019s.\u201d The article described in loving detail the Democrat\u2019s disastrous 1924 convention, when the party split over its support for the Ku Klux Klan platform:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u7-300x177.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-626053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u7-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u7-150x89.png 150w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u7.png 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As in 1924, the Democrats must now push through a painful, contentious, and ugly public battle fought between the Pro-Turnip and Anti-Turnip forces, hopefully followed by reconciliation. Then, the Dems must stabilize either behind Joe or a new candidate. Can they do it all in four months? 1924\u2019s contentious convention required over 100 votes to select a candidate, who then lost fantastically badly to a corpse-like incumbent:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u8-300x79.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"79\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-626054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u8-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u8-150x39.png 150w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u8.png 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a bad bet. But they looked so happy, for about thirteen minutes, after which Candidate Davis\u2019 Model-T threw a piston rod and nobody could get it started again:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u9-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-626055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u9-300x72.png 300w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u9-800x191.png 800w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u9-150x36.png 150w, https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/u9.png 1015w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not going to be so easy this time.<\/p>\n<p>? Biden already holds almost all the Democrat delegates. He was fairly voted for in all fifty states \u2014including in New Hampshire, where he wasn\u2019t even on the ballot, because he forgot to get his application turned in on time, but was still handily selected as a write-in candidate. If Joe won\u2019t voluntarily surrender his delegates, a lot of democracy-loving, rank-and-file Democrats will be righteously pissed. There is a good chance that, with so little remaining time, Democrats won\u2019t resolve their differences and multiple candidates could emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s do a thought experiment. Let\u2019s say 20 million outraged Democrats write in \u201cGavin Newsom\u201d for President and do not vote for Joe or Kamala. How could Joe (or Kamala) repeat 2020\u2019s 80+ million votes to beat Trump, without the cheating being so obvious that nobody will believe it? They can\u2019t claim 100 million Democrat votes. It won\u2019t fly.<\/p>\n<p>It especially won\u2019t fly with angry Anti-Turnip Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Trump can beat the steal. Trump doesn\u2019t have to convince a single partisan Democrat to vote for him. Trump just has to get a few Democrats to vote against Joe. If enough protesting Dems vote for Kennedy or for a write-in candidate, not only will it split the Democrat vote, but it will foreclose the tried-and-true technique of a quiet truckload delivery of midnight mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n<p>And we haven\u2019t even considered yet the anti-Israel Democrats. Jerusalem has become a stumbling stone for the Democrat party. So there could even be two different write-in candidates; an Israel supporter and a pro-Palestinian.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, it is too late for Democrats to avoid 1924. And it might even be more like 1860. Unimaginably, a landslide win for President Trump \u2014formerly a best-case, long-shot scenario\u2014 now looks like the most likely scenario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE&#8230;CLICK ON SCREEN SHOTS TO ENLARGE FOR EASIER READING Jeff Childers Sunday is paywalled for his supporters. 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