The Morning Report — 7/23/24
Good Morning Kids. Horrendous a human being as Joe Biden is (or was assuming he is still alive let alone compos mentis or compost) what the Democrat Left and the other powers that be did to him and to all of us, regardless of our politics, is every bit as disgusting as what has been done to Donald Trump vis a vis the shampeachments and kangaroo court show trials, let alone the assassination attempt. I get no schadenfreude from it, as it is yet another indication that whatever last vestiges of our nation as founded, and any shred of decency, morality and ethics have been completely eviscerated, or are on the verge of it.
Because those who installed Biden after sabotaging and then stealing the 2020 election somehow now feel as if their hold on power and their chance to seize and cement it once and for all sense that that ultimate goal might be slipping away, for a host of reasons, felt it necessary to get rid of him via what was and is in fact a textbook coup.
Theputschists�who prevailed against President Biden therefore err badly in their assumptions, chief among them the belief that the office, not the man, is the singular thing conferring meaning and therefore power. This is an easily arrived-at error in the fantasyland of propositional civics, which replaces people with concepts, and in fact�expects the people to conform to the concept: a coerced reversion to the pre-political state. But the truth is that a nation, contrary to propositionalism�s core thesis, is both man�and�law, both persons�and�forms. Moreover, the man and the person are the most important elements. In 1798 a predecessor in the presidency wrote to the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, then preparing to go to war with the French Republic, reminding its officers that �[o]ur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.� Solemn affirmations of basic rights are after all commonplaces in the constitutions and laws of nearly every autocratic society. The�putschists�who prevailed against President Biden therefore err badly in their assumptions, chief among them the belief that the office, not the man, is the singular thing conferring meaning and therefore power. This is an easily arrived-at error in the fantasyland of propositional civics, which replaces people with concepts, and in fact�expects the people to conform to the concept: a coerced reversion to the pre-political state. But the truth is that a nation, contrary to propositionalism�s core thesis, is both man�and�law, both persons�and�forms. Moreover, the man and the person are the most important elements. In 1798 a predecessor in the presidency wrote to the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, then preparing to go to war with the French Republic, reminding its officers that �[o]ur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.� Solemn affirmations of basic rights are after all commonplaces in the constitutions and laws of nearly every autocratic society. . .
. . . This, the ranks of dead collectivities, is where the United States finds itself under the present regime. The�coup d��tat�of July 21st is merely a dramatic symptom. Note the artifice of it all, shot through with the cant and strictures of propositionalism. We could list the details at length, from the rapid coordination of the involved elites, each pursuing the fiction of reaction to affairs that they themselves authored, to the overthrow of the expressed will of tens of millions of primary voters.�That�process now lies exposed not as mass democracy, but as mass theater. One of the minor historical ironies here is that when Joe Biden first assumed elected office � a moment in time closer to the existence of a Habsburg Emperor than to now ��the American presidential-selection system was undergoing a convulsive change, from party-elder�diktat�mostly via caucuses, to truly democratic primaries. What we just saw in the�coup�was supposed to have been rendered impossible back when our grandfathers were in middle age. Now we know better. We saw, and we know.
Meanwhile Joe Biden who, despite being pulled out of the race by the powers that be is nowhere to be seen. He is after all still supposedly the alleged president. And as Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the US neither Biden nor his presumptive replacement Kamala Harris were there to greet him. Despite the fact that this is their function, and that Israel is or at least was a staunch ally, their absence is telling. Even heads of state who visit that are not our allies, and some who are even considered rivals or enemies are traditionally met by the President.
The fact that greeting Bibi could lose the Democrats Minnesota and Michigan and those who harass or assault Jews on campuses and even in the streets in broad daylight I;m sure was part of the calculus, as well as not wanting to anger their friends in Tehran.
So, Biden and Harris are absent, so who is running the show.
Meanwhile, this Kim Cheatle hack got roasted alive on Capitol Hill mostly and most viciously by the Democrats. Many of whom have called for her resignation. I guess it's good theater.
Have a good day.