As Republican Convention Begins Democrats Come Bearing Gifts
By John Kass
July 14, 2024
In a magnificent gesture of brotherly love across the American political divide, the Democrat Party comes bringing great gifts to the Republican National Convention that opens this week in Milwaukee:
The first gift, of course, the greatest gift, is absolute chaos.
The politically eviscerated incumbent, President Joe Biden has been mercilessly torn apart by his erstwhile friend, Former President Barak Obama, by elite Democrats and their leftist media allies. Biden is trying to run out the clock on them. And Biden is now where Obama put him, up there swinging in the wind like the senile meat puppet most Americans know him to be, yet defying Obama by refusing to withdraw from the presidential race.
But the Democrats have brought other gifts, too. And while some old professors of the classics like Victor Davis Hanson would admonish us to beware of those bearing gifts, do Americans even read history and literature anymore on their cell phones?
One of my favorite gifts is the Kamala Harris action figure, a message to Democrats from Democrats that they must, as she says incessantly have faith “in what can be, unburdened by what has been.”
Is she a vulgar cackling nincompoop unburdened by her past? Is she Democrat Willie Brown’s arm candy with all that terrifying chuckling, just like a madwoman?
Is she a cackling nincompoop just a heartbeat away from the presidency? Just because you haven’t seen it doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. And no matter what her critics say, she insists on displaying her cringiest moments.
All the Kamala Harris action figure needs is a sound loop of her cackling like an idiot, or an endless loop of one of her word salads, and tens of millions of Americans will stab out their eardrums with a fork.
Either way, Kamala has been a great insurance policy for Joe as he slipped deeper into his senility, as Democrat elites from Obama on down supported and promoted his candidacy for years. I’ve been writing about the Kamala Insurance for years, but now that she has been like a blow-up doll thrown to drowning Democrats, I’m told we must not ever mock her.
To mock her for her own words would be racist and sexist.
Really?
You can only mock Republicans? If a moron is a Democrat and welcomes other idiots desperate for hugs from the woman they call their “Momala,” what does the future hold for Democrats in November?
It will get worse, as Obama Democrats and corrupt corporate media–from the New York Times to CNN and MSNBC on down–keep stabbing President Biden in the back to force him out of the race. And he won’t go, as time passes and Democrats get nervous and their politicians grow increasingly nervous. Even the late night TV show hosts, who suck up to Obama on a nightly basis now scurry like rats to bite Biden at Obama’s command. They are despicable. But though he can’t remember things, and suffers age-related mental decline, Dr. Jill won’t let Joe quit. He doesn’t want to quit.
If Biden doesn’t quiver and crack soon, look for some pro-Obama Department of Justice weasels to “leak” video of the Biden’s damaging interview with Department of Justice Special Prosecutor Robert Kyoung Hur.
Remember that Biden, who illegally kept decades worth of top secret and classified documents in his garage, was so befuddled and lost in that Hur interview that he couldn’t remember when his son Beau died, and what years he served as Obama’s vice president. Hur declined to prosecute Biden, saying that to a jury, the president would present as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
In other words, Biden was too senile to prosecute. But Obama and other Democrats defended him.
Yet after Biden’s famous disastrous debate fail against former President Trump, the Obama Democrats decided to take him out?
They would kill democracy in order to save it only for themselves.
As I wrote earlier this week at johnkassnews.com in “The Silky: The Two Deep State Coups of Barack Obama” what Obama is doing is destroying democracy. He is conducting yet another presidential coup. The first coup was hatched before Trump was sworn in. Sadly, for the leftist media hacks who bray like jack asses that “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” Obama is allowed to hide his face and fingerprints and keeps to the shadows with his agents demanding that Biden withdraw. The corrupt corporate media protect Obama, but his agents come rushing forward with their knives against Joe.
Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, chief Obama propagandist David Axelrod, and Hollywood pretty boy George Clooney stab away at the defiant Biden. In a New York Times op-ed that was intended to leave Biden in the land of the politically dead, Clooney first cleared his attack with Obama, and then called on Biden to step down while shedding crocodile tears.
Biden and his wife Jill insist that millions of Democrats have already nominated Biden for 2024. They’ve tried to fight them off, but Obama strikes back, pushing to cut off Biden’s campaign funds like a Chicago political boss. And like I said, watch for some leaker to miraculously unearth the Hur interview.
The Obama left doesn’t care about honor. Their media types have honored themselves with awards over the fake Russia collusion stories. And do the Bidens worry about honor? They’re grifters. That’s like wondering if the street walker on the Rue St. Denis has a heart of gold.
As the RNC opens in Wisconsin, as Obama keeps trying to destroy democracy in order to save it, I’m reminded of an old movie, “Jeremiah Johnson.” It starred another left wing pretty boy, Robert Redford, playing the mountain man trapper of the 1800s.
Johnson comes upon a fellow trapper, buried in sand by some uncivilized tribe and left to die, the vultures gathering.
Injuns put you here?’
“‘t’weren’t Mormons.”
The Bidens know who is behind the attacks against them. They will fight. Joe is not a nice man. He’s a mean old man. A vicious old man who sold his country for money. He’s hateful and corrupt. Obama is now a billionaire, living the good life. And there are no promises Obama can make to protect Hunter and the family influence peddling business. And there is that stunt Kamala pulled vs Joe. This is what Jill won’t forgive.
Is all this ugly?
Yes.
The Delaware Way is the Chicago Way is the Obama Way. This isn’t a place of fairy tales and gentle forest fauns ready with hugs like Mr. Tumnus.
It’s messy. And mean. It’s called democracy.
And it will only get worse.
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About the author: John Kass spent decades as a political writer and news columnist in Chicago working at a major metropolitan newspaper. He is co-host of The Chicago Way podcast. And he just loves his “No Chumbolone” hat, because johnkassnews.com is a “No Chumbolone” Zone where you can always get a cup of common sense.
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Trump gets his ear clipped by a rifle round and gets up, pumps his fist and shouts “FIGHT!” That’s the most badass thing I’ve seen in a long time. The dem commies can’t fight that. They just lost.
To Everyone on this Board:
I made a mistake running this column today. The events of Saturday evening’s failed assassination attempt prompted me to write another column off notes I had posted on X. But this one ran instead. Technical mistake. My fault. My name’s on the web site. It’s my fault.
Sorry
I’ll try to do better in the future.
Thank you for your patience,
John
LOL! No worries John. You’ll live to write another day and we’ll live to read a nother column. This post just shows why you write about politics rather that jump in the sewer and become one: You take ownership of your mistakes, something a politician would never, ever do!
No need to apologize. The articles good. But John it’s beneath you to make fun of Biden who has a serious medical disease, ie dementia. Having taken care of patients and family members in my medical career with this horrible disease, these patients want to please their care takers. They are afraid of being abandoned and in the early stages of the disease will do what they are told. Criticize his wife but it’s wrong to call him names, ie meat puppet. Your better than that.
Rudd sez: “…it’s beneath you to make fun of Biden who has a serious medical disease, ie dementia.”
Rudd also sez: “If that bullet had hit orange man in the head we’d have 2 candidates running for POTUS without a brain.”
Dude…
Thomas, you might perceive it to be ‘making fun’. Yet as horrible as a disease it is, this is not your mother, wife or the nice guy down the street. This is about the Comamnder & Chief who has been propped up and used as a puppet. Your criticism should be directed to those who know and don’t care. And priase to those like John Kass who’s placing energy in the direction of exposing the situation using whatever means which may be effective. He is ‘better than that’ and doesn’t need my defense. I believe that your criticism should be directed to the source of this situation and not to those banging their head against the wall to expose it.
Not a problem. It might make for an interesting column to hear your thoughts on what (if any) effect the events of Saturday night might have had on your thoughts as expressed in *this* column. My initial thought would be “not much”, since you weren’t talking about Trump, but that’s just me…
Chill, Kasso – the last person that was perfect they hung on a cross!
Don’t sweat it.
Badass? I’ve cut myself worse shaving. Gimme a break.
It did get worse John. After 7 years of calling Trump a Russian stooge, a threat to democracy and “literally Hitler,” someone decided to try and take “literally Hitler” out. Now the senile old meat puppet’s handlers are having him tell us that we need to unify and tone down the rhetoric on both sides. Y’know, for the sake of the country, settle this at the “battle box.”
Obama and his media jackals thought the lap dog would go away quietly when pushed and clear the way for Kamala, which would then clear the way for a Harris – Michelle ticket. They didn’t plan on the lap dog’s stubbornness and the unwillingness of the lap dog’s leash holder to let go of the lap dog and leave his doghouse gracefully. The Democrats cannot control the monster they created. The payback is coming, and the rats have turned each other.
As HL Mencken said, “honor is simply the morality of superior man,” Obama, Biden and their stooges sneer at honor and superior people.
Every time I think of the Bidens, I shudder in memory of what that hag Jill Biden did to America’s greatest essayist, Joseph Epstein. An empty skulled egoist bullied Northwestern, a school of fish in Evanston, into placing the great Mr. Epstein into “the memory hole.”
I get nauseous with memory of President Biden’s shedding Afghanistan and shredding thirteen service people and shrugging off the worst American defeat since the fall of Saigon.
Think Fauci, Milley, Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Wray, Mayorakas, Garland, et al. amoral pygmies the lot of them,
Honor? The is simply the morality of superior people.
The only honor that the above listed gang has is their honoring the temple and false god of money and power. Personal honor and responsibility are alien to them. An ant crawling on the ground cares more about the good of the nest then the “amoral pygmies” and their like listed above care about the good of the country. The Democrats have had no morality since they backed Clinton for the Monica affair over morality and set the stage for everything that has followed. Regarding Clinton, isn’t he who set the stage for immorality and not only got away with it, but profited from the immorality?
Love that line Mr. Hickey – thank you! And loved Melania’s open letter so much. Always amazes me how first generation Americans can so readily grasp the core tenets of our Republic, they are that solid
This is the harsh reality which most Americans cannot read. The thoughts and insights are suppressed.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
-Winston Churchill
This campaign has been double clutched into a crazy new gear. Events are out pacing our attempts put them into perspective. Hang in there John!
Wow, great line by Churchill!
“They would kill democracy in order to save it only for themselves”
Yes, they would kill democracy in order to save Democracy, the autocratic gerontocracy they have installed to rule in perpetuity. Trump has other ideas. God bless him.
After the failed attempt to assassinate Trump the Dems know that this game is over. The presidency is lost. Now the battle will move from the national stage to a ferocious state by state one as the Dems desperately try to take the House back. As matters stand, the Senate will be lost, in part because the map is working against the Dems. At the very least, their current 51-49 advantage will be flipped as Dem senators in W.Va. and Md. will be replaced by Republicans. Release of the Hur-Biden recording will have to be done by an A.G. nominated by Trump and confirmed by his Senate.
Can the action figure of Kamala be our actual VP turned president. Perhaps the action figure will take action at the border.
You are so right about Biden not being the nice, good ol’ Joe. All you had to do was watch him last night trying to tell the American people that assassinations aren’t nice then equivocate that violence with J6. It was a campaign speech, ill performed filled with gaffes because Biden can’t read let alone perform duties as a president.
During 2016 and all the way until today all the Democrats have done is hate-filled power grabbing. But now let’s call for calm. Forget Biden’s anti-MAGA speech in Philly in front of red lights. Forget all the times lawfare has been used against a former president. Forget the FBI raid on a former-president’s home. Forget that Trump has been called Hitler, and Americans have to fear his presidency because it will literally be the end of democracy. Forget all that and more because we Americans will vote at the “battle box.”
No, Joebama isn’t nice, a great father, a great husband, and certainly not a great president. He and his administration led by Barack are evil set upon an evil journey to end America. It will get worse before November. My fear is that the Dems will have to counter the image of Trump, blood dripping down his face, and still fist pumping.
If Biden doesn’t get out of the way, there will be a dire consequences. For nothing moves people like a flag draped coffin and a weeping wife.
There is no other way to get Joe off the Democratic ticket than Erin listed. You can be sure that the “Deep State” has their contingency plans already in place.
Maybe a convenient plane crash, like the one that worked for Putin?
*That* would mean Air Force One going down, along with several hundred people. I know you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs, but that seems a bit much, even for the ‘Rats…
Why would that mean something as dramatic as Air Force One going down?
Tell that to the loved ones of the thirteen servicemen killed in Afghanistan. Do you really think that the “Deep State” cares about the casualty list? How many Americans did they kill with their COVID scam that they still will not apologize for? The ends justify their means – self-preservation of their sorry butts.
P.S. Why is the action figure wearing a skirt?
To be ready for *her* kind of “action”?
That was my first thought, as I’ve never seen her wear a skirt. Also “action” figure is a gross misnomer.
Joe Reading from a teleprompter last night and three were several slip ups, no major gaffes but it was past his bedtime. He squinted as opposed to the presser where his eyes were wide open and to this observer working from a small screen tv looked dilated. Don’t know.
The USSS had a massive FAILURE. 1. High ground not covered even outside perimeter. He was seen on the rooftop by several who apparently could not get USSS attention. What was the radio traffic from the cop that found him in the roof. Watching the event the snipers were facing the building where Crooks got access. Was there a spotter with the sniper surveying? When the sniper first saw Crooks with a gun why not fire then. That moment hesitance almost cost Trump his life. The NYT high speed photo showing one of the bullets is incredible. Trump reacted as rapidly as he could. No meat puppet here. Had that been POTUS he would have stood there in a daze perhaps catching a bullet or being tackled by his detail. At his age and infirmity I’d bet even if not hit some bones would have cracked and he’d be in bed for a while possibly ending up with a terminal pneumonia from being bed ridden. He continues to cough as he did during the debate. Once maybe twice last night. USSS denying that they refused added coverage. How did this kid know where to go. Why no drones deployed. Why did the local cop not go on the roof with a gun drawn. Complacency or inexperience? He is said to have fallen after having the AR weapon pointed at him. Off the building? Could he not have radioed in that he was investigating and where? Too many questions. Obviously Trump alert and reactive. Much much better than Joe.
As it is said in Chicago, “the fix was in”. The USSS did not act until they had no choice other than having to admit the obvious.
Here’s my theory: Obama is not able get Joe to quit. Everything has failed. So, how about a call to John Brennan. They arrage for some shadowy operative to reach out to this kid, to have him kill Trump. With Trump out of the way, the Republicans would be in disarray, and Biden-Harris win. Then, sooner or later, Joe goes and cackling Kamala take over and becomes Obama’s meat puppet. I hope good wins over evil and we finally get Obama out of his White House basement in DC.
If that bullet had hit orange man in the head we’d have 2 candidates running for POTUS without a brain.
Mr. Thomas Rudd – I don’t know you, who you are nor what you represent – as is the case with most of those who post here, though I do know a few. May I respectfully suggest that one human being trying to make some kind of a sick joke out of the brutality of a gunshot to someone’s head is beyond disgusting. It is clear that you represent a way of thinking that is common on the blue side of the aisle, and it is repulsive. John Kass, with all of his health concerns, continues to provide a superb forum for not only his thoughtful, knowledgeable presentations on a variety of subjects, he also provides a platform for other intellectually capable folks to present on a those and other subjects. Your disgusting remark has soiled that platform in a way that demands an apology. Please take that kind of sewer effluent elsewhere.
Great read, Mr. Kass. Outside of the DC Marxist swamp, there are NO confessed Biden lovers left in America. There are only Trump haters. And it was precisely they who enabled and applauded the Biden bulk ballot installation of 2020.
Now their flyover America whirlwind looms. It may console them that McConnell, Romney and Paul Ryan are equally disconsolate.
I think everybody gives Obama too much credit. He was a lackluster state Senator and a fairly new U.S. Senator before he became President. Dirty tricks by David Axelrod removed Blair Hull and Jack Ryan from Obama’s path to the U.S. Senate. When he was a state senator he was pretty much a lackey, stooge, and a gofer for Emil Jones. Obama and his wife were caught up in a corruption scandal with Tony Rezko and wiggled out of it. He wasn’t smart enough to cover his tracks. It had to be done for him. He presents himself as a dynamic figure but has proven that he’s not. Somebody above him is calling the shots.
Interesting idea. Any idea who that might be?
Prior to Saturday I feared the Dems would employ the “Howard Beale” solution to get Joe out of the way. Would be a triple play: remove Joe, blame it on a Maga and create a martyr. Now, even the power pigs have to know they’re stuck with their Howard.
Raymond Shaw, excuse me sorry, Joe Biden is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
Jill deserved last month’s Moutza and I voted for her. But give her credit, she is doing the Tammy Wynette thing. A lot of wives don’t. Not in this century. If that is a misogynist comment, then so be it.
Don’t think it really matters. Trump won when he put his fist in the air and shouted “fight”. That was political genius. The globalists aren’t as powerful as they think. Klaus von Schwab doesn’t control the future. At least not yet.
I can’t wait to read your article about the assassination attempt John. In my opinion, the assassination attempt was planned by the Democrat elites. I pray for Donald J. Trump. We are so lucky he was not seriously injured. Go Trump!
I’m really sad that I had to put in my cancellation. I just can no longer be part of what has become a MAGA outlet. Did that happen after you became a Hoosier? Was there an indoctrination?
The true meat puppet is Trump to his Project 2025 handlers and the chumbalones are the MAGA cultist faithful.
I am no Biden fan or fan of the far left. I abhor all they stand for, but also reject the MAGA far right and all their conspiracy nonsense.
What saddens me most is that you were always a truth teller until you focused on the national stage.
Sorry, but I’m out.
Hmm, they are a group of thoughtful individuals who have been slapped across the face with relentless lies from the strength and power of the controlling ‘media’. This is one of the true sources of ideas, opinions and commentary that counter the indoctrination of our youth and which suppress meaningful information and opinions.
I don’t consider myself MAGA, I’m not a registered Republican, I first registered Peace & Freedom, I was an ACLU member for 15 years and my college’s rep to the local chapter, I was a philosophical conscientious objector who dodged prosecution threats for 3 years, I voted for Jimmy Carter. Open minds just don’t happen.
Your overgeneralization is shallow and insulting. So why are are you apologizing?
Me too. I followed the typical trajectory of young liberal then middle-aged conservative. Voted for Clinton, Kerry, and Obama in 2008. Didn’t’ vote in 2012. Voted for Trump in 2016. Never liked Donald Trump the blowhard TV personality, and never could have imagined voting for him, until he ran in 2016 and I liked his China policy and was persuaded by his immigration policy. I was an ACLU member briefly in my early 30s. Part of the reason I subscribe to JKN is to support alternative media. The legacy media is far beyond biased, it is deeply corrupt.
Remember Dan Quayle? Relentlessly ridiculed by the press in the early 1990s. This from a press back then that was supposedly more restrained (and perhaps a veneer of impartiality). Can you imagine how he’d be treated today? And Sarah Palin getting roasted alive during the John McCain 2008 campaign. And now we have the deafening silence regarding Kamala’s performance. An incontrovertible indictment of the state of the mainstream media.
I finally smell justice and truth. Evil is on it’s way out of America I pray. The Press is Evil and must be eliminated along with the New York Times, and so many other papers. We want our Country back. We want to be FREE and Proud to be AMERICANS again and respect the FLAG and each other. We are Americans we are not Illegals coming to change this great Country to be become their Evil and dishonest run Country. Americans that LOVE THIS GREAT COUNTRY ARE FINALLY WAKING UP. GLORY BE TO GOD.
” Joe is not a nice man. He’s a mean old man. A vicious old man who sold his country for money. He’s hateful and corrupt.” A perfect description of one of the rottenest frauds ever to have entered politics.