Popular Joe is Going Down on Big Wednesday
In 2020, US President Joe Biden scored more than 81 million votes – a record. Some 12 million more than were racked up twelve years earlier by Barack Obama, in fact, despite Biden’s minimal campaigning.
Tim Blair
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November 7, 2022 - 12:21AM
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You've gotta hand it to him, Joe Biden is one of the few people on earth capable of falling up a staircase
Just two years later, however, Biden’s Democrats face a historic rebuke of hilarious proportions. Podcaster Joe Rogan believes that the red Republican wave that’s coming on Wednesday, Sydney time, “is going to be like the elevator doors opening up in The Shining".
So what went wrong? How did the most popular US presidential candidate in history, backed by an almost completely compliant and supportive media, convert 81 million votes into what will likely be a massive Democrat disaster?
Well, that media support didn’t help. Trust in the US press has collapsed as voters realised just how much they were duped two years ago by the media’s anti-Trump obsession.
They’ve turned away from cable network CNN, a ratings high-flyer during Donald Trump’s reign. Multiple bosses and on-air stars –
Jeff Zucker,
John Harwood,
Brian Stelter and
Chris Cuomo, among others – have been fired or quit.
CNN’s fortunes pancaked in parallel with Biden’s Democrats, for whom CNN acts as a blatant promotional agency. So, too, do US
free-to-air networks.
The other night, CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert – a comedy program under previous hosts – featured sucky interviews with Democrat fake native American Elizabeth Warren and Obama-era energy official Ernest Moniz.
No wonder Colbert is
beaten in the ratings by Fox New’s irreverent conservative Greg Gutfeld. Colbert and other late-night hosts are on board with the Democrats, so they avoid taking shots at Biden – even when he’s offering comedy gold.
Gutfeld therefore has all that material for himself. It’s like being the only non-vegan at an all-you-can-eat wagyu steak buffet.
During just the past week or so, while Warren was
whining to Colbert about nothing anybody cared about, Biden claimed there was a war in Iraq rather than Ukraine, that his son Beau died in Iraq instead of a US hospital and GM is “committed to going all electric by 3035”.
Then came a line reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election vow to “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business”, a ruinous blunder Clinton later said was her greatest campaign regret.
“No one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it. Even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of the existence of the plant,” Biden told an audience in California on Friday.
“We’re going to be
shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar power.”
With only a few days to go before the midterms, that wasn’t exactly a vote-winning promise – especially not in coal mining states such as Pennsylvania, where the only Democrat less lucid than Biden (Lurch-like stroke victim John Fetterman) is running for senate.
So, as usual, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was forced to mop up.
“President Biden knows that the men and women of coal country built this nation,” diversity hire Jean-Pierre said in a
statement that expressed “regret” if anyone hearing Biden’s remarks “took offense”.
Biden, she said, “came to the White House to end years of big words but little action to help the coal-producing parts of our country”.
He’s going to help them by shutting them down. Great plan.
When Biden isn’t stomping on the economy, he’s railing against sinister “MAGA Republicans” who, he says, are somehow able to destroy democracy by questioning a previous election’s outcome – in much the same way Democrats denied the outcomes of the 2000, 2004 and 2016 elections, all won by Republicans.
“American democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the United States refuses to accept the results of the 2020 election,” Biden said last week. “Make no mistake. Democracy is on the ballot for all of us.”
When Democrats say
democracy is in danger, they mean
Democrats are in danger. And they are, which is why Biden has been campaigning in Democrat strongholds California, Washington DC and New York.
Sadly for Democrats, they don’t have the same social media assistance they were granted in 2020. Twitter
banned the New York Post’s accurate Hunter Biden story two years ago, but now the Twitter executive who made that decision is gone – along with about half the company’s 7500-strong workforce.
New owner Elon Musk turfed them after noting that for every Twitter engineer there were ten managers, many of whom suppressed certain accounts and elevated others in order to push leftist narratives.
Democrats are now scared that actual truth – always kryptonite to the left – may dominate the platform. As one conservative
mockingly observed: “What will we do without overpaid 25-year-old left wingers contextualising our news for us?”
Twitter might be a fun place on Wednesday.
Besides following The Daily Telegraph’s
James Morrow at our site, also enjoy his Twitter reports direct from the US – along with coverage from Sky’s
Rita Panahi and conservatives
Ben Shapiro,
Jim Treacher,
Jesse Kelly,
Libs of TikTok,
Jack Posobiec and
Dana Loesch.
And also
Oilfield Rando, an anonymous oil worker who is a more acute political observer than anyone on staff at the New York Times.
Long live democracy.
UPDATE. Could New York possibly be in play?
Michael Goodwin believes so:
A friend writes to say that his wife and “some of her staunchly D” female friends, all pro-choice suburbanites, are voting for Republican Lee Zeldin for governor.
A former colleague working in real estate volunteers that he’s backing Zeldin “because this isn’t the Democratic Party I signed up for.”
Another Dem, a former top New York official, writes: “For the first time in my life, I just voted the straight Republican ticket for New York state. The Democratic Party has lost touch with the people they are supposed to represent.”
These are the voices of a potential earthquake.
The last Republican governor of New York left office 16 years ago.
UPDATE II. Biden’s media friends are turning against him. Even the New York Times:
And that crazy old lady from the Washington Post:
UPDATE III. Ex-SBS presenter turned Australian Twitter executive
Katherine Gallo mourns the loss of her staff:
“Today, my entire team was laid off from Twitter,” Ms Gallo wrote on LinkedIn.
“I’m heartbroken because when I left my previous job at SBS I thought I wasn’t going to find another place I loved so much so quickly.
“My brilliant curation colleagues tackled misinformation, contextualised topics of interest, including breaking news, politics, health, social justice, sports and entertainment, summarising complex conversations unfolding in real-time on Twitter.”
They were a bunch of bossy leftists and now they’re sacked.
UPDATE IV:
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