What’s going on here?

Oh, nothing much: just

a) a demented President who has been forcibly removed from his party’s ticket despite already engaging in a Presidential debate and being voted onto that ticket by millions of Democrats,

b) a DEI VP who has never received a single vote from anyone to be President being summarily installed, Soviet-style, by a shadowy body of party leaders, some out of elected office (like Barack Obama), as the new candidate,

c) the anointed Presidential candidate and the actual President who was kicked to the metaphorical curb both making appearances and meeting with foreign officials like they were President when quite possibly neither is acting in that role, without

d) the news media showing the least curiosity about…

…and instead following DNC memos dictating that it keep emphasizing that the DEI VP didn’t do what she really did, hadn’t said what she really had, and is “exciting” while it concentrates on calling the Republican VP candidate “weird”—you know, like Harrison Butker-–and throttling him for what he blathered indelicately in a single interview seven years ago, as

e) the new sort-of half/joint/maybe co-President avoids even a single interview with a non-complicit interviewer to explain, oh, a whole lot of things, like whether she was a key participant in the years-long cover-up of the whatever-he-is-now previous Democratic candidate for President, what her actual policies were, are, and might be tomorrow, and what the public is to make of the giant mass of disturbing statements and speeches far more recent than seven years ago so it can, you know, know who they are voting for.

That’s all. And all of this completely engineered (or blundered into) by the party that laughably claims to be defending democracy.

If what I just described is democracy, I’m a Bactrian camel.

Then there’s this:

Oh. Wait, what? The administration–whatever that means now–announced that it had reached a deal with Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, three of the primary architects of the 9/11 attacks,  that took the death penalty off the table in exchange for the mass murderers agreeing to plead guilty to all charges. The deal avoided what some predicted would be an 12-18 month trial, with the very real “the possibility of the military judge throwing out confessions that were key to the government’s case.” (Ya think? With them being tortured and all?) Republicans pounced, though, and polling probably showed that most Americans were not happy with this result, despite being a legal necessity.  Besides, as long as the terrorists are freed after the election, why should the Biden/Harris whatever the hell it is care? All that matters is <cough>saving democracy.

Austin was not in the country when the team made the plea deal, the administration “explained,” as if that explains anything. If the plea deal was a surprise to him—these killers have been in federal custody for more than two decades!—then he’s a gross incompetent, which, based on previous evidence, he probably is. Moreover, this isn’t the 18th century: Austin does have ways of staying in touch with his staff and subordinates, and they with him.

Call me cynical, call me a walnut, call me Mr. Tibbs, call me late for dinner, but it sure looks to me like the nation’s policies now are being determined not according to responsible leadership and objective analysis, but based on what the DNC’s consultants think will get Kamala elected.

So are they running the country? Is that really okay with everybody? Does anybody care?

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Source: New York Times