Article: Former Kamala Harris aide says Joe Biden should resign so she can serve as 47th president
A couple things this article mentions:
1. Getting Kamala as the 47th would render worthless any merchandise the Trump camp has already created branding him as the 47th President. Which, I mean… how petty can you get? I wonder if Simmons applauds evicted tenants who wreck the homes they’re evicted from.
2. She wouldn’t be VP anymore, so wouldn’t have to oversee the Electoral Vote certification on January 6th. Oh yes, we must spare her feelings in this because… let me guess… she’s a woman? Give me a fucking break!
3. She’d still be the first female President…. Yeah, UNELECTED! But suddenly that little detail doesn’t matter here? Does no one have any consistency in their political positions anymore? And personally I don’t care whether Jimmy Carter would get to be alive with the first female President.
4. “It’d fulfill his promise (to be a transitional president).” No, that’d make him a disruptive President. It’s why the idea’s never been considered by any previous President. So to consider it now is… unbecoming in the kindest terms.
And it’d also give Trump one last talking point about Biden deciding to just run away rather than face Trump one last time on Inauguration Day. Something about pulling out of the race early for his anointed successor, and running away again rather than seeing his term through to the end. I mean, Biden faced Trump and won in 2020, so why not face him again?
And, again, it’s acting like Harris is entitled to the Office.
At this point, the closest she’ll get to being President is if she and half the cabinet pull the 25th Amendment on Biden.
Though I do expect the attempts to lobby Electors to start appearing ahead of their vote next month with the same talking points and appeals we had in 2016. “Do the right thing and save this country from Trump!” Though more Electors defected from Clinton (4 in Washington and 1 in Hawaii) than Trump (2 in Texas). Which led to the Supreme Court upholding the States’ power to prosecute faithless Electors…
Jamal shows what happens when you get way too emotionally invested in an outcome that you must see that outcome by any means possible… Where “Harris will be the 47th President!” becomes “Biden must resign so Harris can be the 47th President!”
