The Grift Must Flow
The Prime Directive of the Democratic Party is being unveiled
According to the New York Times yesterday morning, donors told a top Democratic Party super-PAC, Future Forward, that they were pausing at least $90 million in donations.
Within hours, Politico’s front page was dominated by stories of Democrat politicians calling for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race.
Yesterday, Biden was an hour late for a Zoom meeting with the Hispanic Caucus and a congresscritter told him directly that the Party needed a new nominee.
This is the real death knell for the Biden campaign because the Democratic Party isn’t really a political party at all; it’s a vast moneylaundering operation with a simple prime directive: The grift must flow.
Just like the ruling oligarchy in Dune, the Party depends on one thing for its very life’s blood, except instead of spice it’s everything from campaign donations to Democrat-affiliated NGOs, think tanks, media outlets, and a whole interconnecting network of mutually supporting grifting operations.
The money flows round and round, whether the Party is in power or out, but the greatest grifting extravaganza of them all is the presidential election campaign every four years. If wealthy donors decide to sit this one out, that’s like the Fremen blowing up a BIG spice mine on Arrakis.
Or ten.
NGOs could go under. Media outlets will lose massive advertising revenue. Democrat think tanks might be so impacted they have to lay off more shills who will then be amazed at the disdainful reception they will receive on Substack.
The grift won’t flow, and that is what makes Joe Biden’s continued candidacy unacceptable to the real movers and shakers of the Party.
Their problem is that the demented old SOB they themselves installed in the White House refuses to leave! Biden hates and resents them, especially the Obamas and their circle, much like both Nixon and LBJ hated the Kennedys. And the Presidency is Joe & Jill’s Precious and they won’t give it up!
Talk about karma.
What to do? I don’t know, I ain’t them thank the gods, but I imagine they’ll make Jill and Hunter Biden an offer they can’t refuse, and if that doesn’t work they’ll order Kamala and the Cabinet to 25th Amendment Joe Biden’s demented ass.
One way or the other, if Biden is not the Democrat nominee in November, it’s because he obstructed the grift flow and had to be removed.
Not because he is enabling a genocide.
Not because he provoked a war with Russia that has killed hundreds of thousands, risks nuclear war, and seems hellbent on militarizing Europe.
Not because he totally hosed the border.
Not because his administration is responsible for the worst inflation since the 1980s.
Not because he opened up more oil & gas drilling on federal land than Trump ever did.
Not even because he really is demented and utterly incapable of handling the duties of the presidency.
Not because (add as many good reasons as you like in the comments).
Because, and only because, The Grift Must Flow!
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Ohio's right that it is a con, but the real conflict if any, since Biden's not actually making policy decisions, is that basically he's an actor going off script while they need everyone to believe there isn't a script. It's a con and he's deviating from the role because for the first time ever in his life the role isn't flattering. He doesn't wanna play himself. He wants to keep playing the president. And since he's demented enough to forget the threats and bribes that have kept him in line all these decades, he's impossible to corral.
It's interesting to me what his gaffs aren't. He doesn't seem to have been briefed on anything real. All his slips are still just political pageantry. This role really is his entire life it would seem, or, he's not yet far gone enough to really start spilling the important magic beans.
But again I must say for anyone wanting to understand the truth of our society, no one in DC is making policy. The banks are making policy, Obama still being in this loop proves it. The banks have decided Joe must go. This is a very unusual situation. But it's clear the read red phone rang, and the same people that summoned Obama's entire cabinet with a single email have ordered Joe's retirement. How they will deal with a disobedient sitting president in the middle of an election remains to be fully seen.
So I say again, we don't have a government. And this is just more proof. They canceled the primary. That should have been their only legal chance to swap out a candidate. If elections were real the DNC would be required to run an emergency primary, or drop out entirely. But no, they will just appoint a replacement, and we will be told we're being given a real choice, but we aren't.
https://innomen.substack.com/p/we-dont-have-a-government
delightfully entertaining and elucidating straight-talk ohio barbarian. tnx for the reality check: grift is the common denominator for every government agency, party, MSM cabal, and their dog's breakfast of a putative, patronizing, but entirely disingenuous 'platforms'.