‘Weekend at Biden’s’ is just the latest Western democracy farce
By: Rachel Marsden
PARIS — Remember that’80s movie, “Weekend at Bernie’s,” where a couple of
guys spend their vacation dragging around their deceased boss like he was still
alive so they could keep using his beach house? Note to Biden’s enablers: that
wasn’t supposed to be a documentary.
If Biden, or anyone around him, actually thinks that democracy is so precious,
then why is the whole world currently witnessing the kind of behavior that’s
typically synonymous with Banana Republics?
“I’m not going anywhere,” Biden has said in response to calls to step down after
the recent debate performance that even left many Democrats calling into
question his ability to function normally, let alone lead the country.
I might be assuming too much here, but one would think that as a bare minimum
requirement, the guy with his finger on the button for deployment of one of the
largest nuclear arsenal on the planet shouldn’t also appear as though he risks
getting it mixed up with his Life Alert.
Biden was asked in a recent ABC News interview whether he’d stand down if it
became clear that he couldn’t beat rival Donald Trump in the November
presidential vote. “It depends on – on if the Lord Almighty comes down and tells
me that. I might do that,” Biden said. So, no one can dispatch him but the Lord
himself? Not even the 25th Amendment invoked by the vice president and a
majority of his cabinet finding him “unable to discharge the powers and duties
of” the presidency?
During his State of the Union address in March, Biden said that “freedom and
democracy are under attack, both at home and overseas, at the very same time.”
No kidding. Right now, Biden’s Oval Office is starting to look like the Algerian
Presidential Palace, up until 2019. The late former President Abdelaziz
Bouteflika was overwhelmingly elected in 1999, suffered a stroke in 2013, and
disappeared entirely from public view in 2017.
Having completely vanished, it was announced that Bouteflika would nonetheless
run for a fifth term in 2019. It took mass protests for the power hungry
establishment elites piggybacking on a guy who would die in 2021 — part way
through what would have been his next term — to reverse course and announce his
resignation.
Where exactly on Bouteflika’s timeline does Biden currently see himself?
Here’s how the Western press viewed Bouteflika when he was pulling a Biden.
Calling him a “dictator”, Vox mentioned that his 2013 stroke did him in
functionally, and said that he “remained in power — even if in name only —
because Algeria’s military, business, and political elites wanted to keep their
privileged positions.” Sound familiar? In the wake of civilian unrest pushing
Bouteflika to resign in 2019, The Economist described him as having “clung to
power.”
Not that all hope is lost for Biden. “Warning to dictators: If you want to keep
your job, don’t wreck your economy, as Bouteflika and his cronies did,” wrote
Canada’s Globe and Mail’s European Bureau Chief at the time.
So if said cronies can keep a steady hand on the economic wheel while managing
their “Weekend at Bernie’s” charade, then can Democrats keep going pedal to the
metal? Well, that would explain a lot.
It’s not like this Biden farce is much worse than other recent democratic
failures around the Western world. Or among their closest allies. Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s cancellation of presidential elections in Ukraine
under martial law, effectively making him president indefinitely, has been
shrugged off by the collective West, for example.
Meanwhile, here in France, ahead of the second round of parliamentary election
voting last weekend, French President Emmanuel Macron, whose establishment party
was obliterated in a third place first round showing, put out a call in unison
with the second place anti-establishment Leftist opposition to coordinate so
that if the two entities risked splitting the vote in the final round against
Marine Le Pen’s anti-establishment right-wing National Rally party (which
massively won the first round) in any district, then they’d arrange it so that
voters were only left with a single candidate to choose against Le Pen. The
objective? To ensure that even if voters democratically elect the National
Rally, it still wouldn’t have a chance of forming government. It all blew up in
his face with the anti-establishment left winning a relative majority (despite a
landslide National Rally popular vote win) and it’s leftist leader calling for
Macron’s resignation.
Such inherently anti-democratic displays were also seen amid the European Union
parliamentary election held last month. Despite anti-establishment right-wing
gains across the bloc, the leadership of the bureaucracy that actually creates
the policy in Brussels for all 27 member countries was nonetheless just
handpicked in the backroom.
Under the EU constitution, particularly critical matters are subjected to
unanimous vote. So the establishment’s latest tactic, recently used on Hungarian
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has been to just get the dissenter out into the
hallway during the vote so they can ram it through while he’s counting the tiles
on the bathroom wall.
Nice “democracy” you Western elites have going on these days. Do you have
another one, perhaps? Maybe one that doesn’t involve making a mockery of your
own stated principles so you can cling to power?
COPYRIGHT 2024 RACHEL MARSDEN