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Five Quick Things: Biden Falling Down, Again and Again
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I hope he wasn’t hurt,” said former President Donald Trump of President Joe Biden’s tumble at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation ceremony, an embarrassing spectacle that was more or less emblematic of his entire presidency.

It’s getting harder and harder to be hidin’ Biden, you know. At some point, his handlers are going to have to face up to the fact that this virtual Weekend at Bernie’s presidency is kaput. But, of course, doing that brings them back to an even more unfortunate reality: The Democrats have all the coaches, analysts, cheerleaders, boosters, and fans they can handle, but very, very few decent players they can put in the game.

Of course, that’s true. If it wasn’t, they wouldn’t have saddled us with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

1. He Keeps Doing It, and They Keep Sending Him Out There to Do It Again

In case you haven’t seen it, this was Biden on Thursday:

Biden blamed it on a black sandbag that was on the stage. I don’t know what he blamed this on:

Gosh, I wonder how military recruitment could possibly be down. Other than the woke indoctrination that basic training has become.

I mean, who wouldn’t want to pledge his or her life to serve under such a sublime specimen of American competence as Joe Biden?

2. And Then There’s Ian Sams

You already know about Queen Karine Jean-Pierre and John Kirby, whose comedic stylings we touched on in this space’s last entry. Another member of the Biden press-flack team is someone named Ian Sams, a museum-grade beta male whose title is “Special Assistant to the President & Senior Advisor and Spokesman for White House Counsel’s Office.”

Apparently, that involves hanging out on Twitter all day and posting things like this:

If you click through to the tweet and see the absolutely brutal responses as Sams was ratioed into oblivion, you’ll see how well that went over.

I say here and elsewhere time and again that today’s Democrat Party has long since given up trying to persuade anyone of anything, and it’s all just an exercise in screaming as loudly as possible to drown out — if not using other means to choke out — any dissent to the party line. They’ve accomplished that completely within their own party, and all of the censorship and cancellation Democrats and their allies engage in is intended to shut everyone else up as well.

This week’s episode of The Spectacle Podcast, with our excellent guest John Daniel Davidson, talked about the religious war between the people of the Tao — a term Davidson borrowed from C.S. Lewis to essentially describe those of us who believe in natural law, objective truth, and a Creator who made it so — and the Machine, another borrowed term that describes the power-hungry globalist elite and radical leftist alliance that is about replacing God with their own will. The Machine, above all, seeks control of its fellow man and demonstrates time and again its ruthlessness in attaining it.

When you see somebody like Sams who so brazenly lies like this, you see the Machine in all its depraved splendor. All that is required to dispel his spluttering is one request: Tell us what those nine Biden family members did to earn those checks from foreign potentates and their functionaries.

The problem we have in our society is that such a question gets no answer — and the refusal to answer it draws no consequences.

Rep. James Comer and the others in the House trying to pull at these threads deserve credit for their efforts, even if it’s hard to summon up much faith that it’ll all unravel in due time.

3. Kurt Schlichter Is Right About Ronna McDaniel and the RNC

In his latest Townhall column, Kurt Schlichter cuts to the heart of why the Republican Party is not ready for 2024 prime time:

Ronna McDaniel is a subordinate to every one of us Republican voters, and she needs to explain to her bosses — that’s us — exactly what the hell she is doing to break her half-dozen botched election losing streak. Now, understand that calling her a subordinate to every one of us Republican voters is not and is not intended to be an insult, but rather a statement of her relationship with us. She works for us. To the extent she does not understand this, or worse, disagrees, that would explain a lot about the party’s recent unbroken track record of failure.

But we are sick of failing, exhausted by defeat, and looking back longingly to the time not so long ago when we were tired of all the winning. We have to win in 2024 — have to. The left is not the moderate (in today’s terms) liberals of yesteryear but a collection of hardcore, commie-curious aspiring tyrants who want us, at best, defeated, disarmed, and disenfranchised…. The bottom line is that the next election is serious business, not merely some notional competition between Beltway teams for whom being in the minority for a while is no big deal. It’s a big deal, and we need a serious effort to fix the administrative and logistical problems that plague our party.

I was against re-upping Ronna McDaniel last January, and I worked for her opponent. We argued that if you lose five times in a row you should not get a sixth chance to fail. But we lost that argument. Ronna, backed behind the scenes by Donald Trump (which I personally observed at the GOP committee convention), won. And she won fair and square and earned my loyalty. But it has been four months and I am not seeing the change that she promised and that is sorely needed. Where’s the audit? Who got fired for not performing? And the biggest question…what’s the game plan for 2024? Maybe it’s a communications issue. Maybe there is a plan. But have you heard about the plan, because I haven’t. And I’m paying attention. Failing to plan for victory is planning for defeat.

I’ve been saying for a while that I don’t care who the GOP nominee is — though, if it’s Trump, can somebody get in his ear and explain that alienating the Kayleigh McEnanys of the world is directly counterproductive to winning the election next year? Instead, what’s crucial is that the party build an apparatus to win elections, as the Democrats have done.

And that’s Ronna McDaniel’s job.

There ought to be a legislative and legal effort to stop the Democrats from turning elections into stupid ballot-harvesting contests, wherever that can be done. In red states, it’s mostly already a fact. But in places like Pennsylvania where that can’t be done, then it is the responsibility of the Republican Party — much more so than of Trump, or Ron DeSantis, or Tim Scott, or whoever — to build ballot-harvesting organizations that are every bit as large, expensive, data-driven, high-tech, ruthless, and covered in slime as the Democrats’ operations are.

A good RNC chair would be on top of this. A good RNC chair would already have fixed it. The last thing I want to see from Ronna McDaniel is on-camera punditry about politics. That’s absolutely worthless to Republican voters. If she wants to do Fox News hits, then she can retire from her current job and trade on the fame it gave her. What we need from her is to raise money and build a damn army — and if she can’t do that, then she needs to get out of the way and let somebody else take that project on before it’s too late.

4. This Will Be the Worst June Yet

You probably didn’t need to see this, but in case you did, here it is:

The American people are already exhausted with this garbage, as Target, Bud Light, Disney, and the L.A. Dodgers might be able to attest, and June has just begun. (READ MORE: Dodgers, Indeed)

Two years ago, the rainbow flag went up the flagpole at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, and less than 90 days later the whole country had been taken over by the Taliban — because the Afghans decided it was better to be ruled by a bunch of bearded cavemen than to hew to the dictates of the woke American Left. If the Biden administration wants to frame the American spiritual and political conflict as a choice between a never-ending Pride Month and “white supremacy,” they might just find that “white supremacy” wins that argument. Nick Fuentes might be an undesirable cretin, but if it’s between him and … Sam Brinton? “Rachel” Levine?

5. The Rich Cooper–Danica Patrick Podcast

I’m coming in a bit late to this, as it went live about a month ago, but I thought it was pretty good stuff and worthy of inclusion here, in the five-hole where we’re usually talking about Netflix shows and concert videos and so on. It’s just a little slice of the culture.

You almost assuredly know who Danica Patrick is: She’s the race-car driver who did the GoDaddy commercials, and now she does TV commentary on racing. She’s been doing the Pretty Intense podcast for a while now. It’s actually pretty good.

And it turns out that Danica Patrick is, in the verbiage we’re beginning to adopt here at The American Spectator, more in tune with the Tao than the Machine. She’s not exactly MAGA, I wouldn’t say, but she’s no flaming lefty either.

You may not be as familiar with Rich Cooper. He’s not really a political guy, though occasionally you’ll see him podcasting on political topics. He’s Canadian, and he’s much better known as a “manosphere” figure who mostly covers relationships and dating from a male — and particularly alpha male — perspective.

The feminists hate Cooper more than anybody, especially since Kevin Samuels’ passing. Cooper’s message to men is actually something women should completely embrace, because above everything else he preaches that men should become the absolute best version of themselves before trying to enter into a relationship with a woman. He also gives no allowance for guys to slack off that quest, either — in fact, he says that men who aren’t “doing the work” are inviting trouble into their lives, and they’ll soon get dumped by the woman they’re with.

You’d think that would make Cooper a legacy-media-celebrated relationship guru, but the opposite is true because he also preaches that men should look for women who bring peace and comfort to their lives rather than drama and disagreement. And he also talks a lot about the need for men to “unplug” from the toxic culture that teaches so many bad habits.

So yeah — Rich Cooper is one of the forbidden people.

But Patrick brings him on her podcast anyway, and you can tell she’s terrified that it’s going to be a disaster. It isn’t. In fact, it’s a great show, and they mostly agree on the nature of men, women and the interaction with modern culture.

At least, I thought so. You guys are welcome to disagree in the comments.

Scott McKay
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Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator  and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. Scott is also the author of The Revivalist Manifesto: How Patriots Can Win The Next American Era, and, more recently, Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It's All Obama, available November 21. He’s also a writer of fiction — check out his four Tales of Ardenia novels Animus, Perdition, Retribution and Quandary at Amazon.
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