There was a time when, even in an election year, the Summer months were the quiet time for politics.  Not this year.  It’s still only July and things have been anything but quiet.  On July 13, a would-be assassin came within a quarter inch of killing Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.  Four people were shot and one was killed.

That would have been bad enough, had it not come to light that the shooting occurred only because the Secret Service failed to secure the most obvious rooftop in the area of the Trump rally, from which the shooter fired 8 shots.  The Secret Service says it was short-handed.  Local police assigned to the roof stayed inside because “it was too hot.”  Although the shooter was identified as a threat at least 20 minutes before he fired his rifle, he wasn’t detained, and no one, except hundreds of rally attendees who notified police of a man with a rifle, took any action, till it was too late.

On top of that, it seems requests for more security for Trump were repeatedly rejected by Biden’s Department of Homeland Security.  After he was shot, the Secret Service agreed to increase security, but they’re advising Trump not to hold outdoor rallies.  Good luck with that.  On Tuesday, Dr. Jill Biden’s handpicked Director of the Secret Service resigned.  That same day, Dr. Jill and her Secret Service detail departed for the Paris Olympics.

On July 21, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden finally surrendered to the inevitable, and announced, by means of a social media post, which surprised his own staff, that he will not run for reelection.  I’ve been telling you that since last year.  Old Joe had been stubborn, declaring that he would quit only if the Lord Almighty told him to go.

In the end, it wasn’t the Lord Almighty, but the God Almighty Dollar that caused Joe to fold.  Democrat mega-donors shut off the money to all Democrats.  A Democrat deprived of the ability to spend someone else’s money is the functional equivalent of the Wrath of God.  Then a delegation of Chicago-style politicians visited Joe in Delaware.  They obviously made him an offer he couldn’t refuse (or showed the evidence they would leak) and Joe bowed out.

This put me in mind of a song recorded by Frank Sinatra, entitled Don’t Cry Joe.  The Biden edition would go like this –

Don’t cry, Joe, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go,
Don’t cry, Joe, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.
You got to realize this is the wind-up,
You’re gonna feel much better once they make your mind up.
Don’t cry, Joe, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.
So you lost your mind, it’s happened many times before,
So you sit and mope like a dope, that’s all you’re good for,
Get a hold of yourself, forget it, you’ll soon forget you said it.
There are lots of other scams, so I say,
Don’t cry, Joe, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.

Biden’s decision not to run was the latest such announcement in American history.  In 1968, LBJ made his announcement on March 31.  Chaos ensued at the Chicago convention.    Democrats lost that election.

The nearest parallel is 1920.  Woodrow Wilson had a massive stroke on October 1, 1919.  His wife Edith kept Wilson hidden in the White House, his supporters claimed that Wilson was “in fine shape,” and Edith convinced Wilson he could be renominated in 1920.  Sound familiar?

Democrats went to their convention in late June, without any official announcement that Wilson was dropping out.  It took Democrats 44 ballots to nominate James Cox on July 6.  Democrats lost that election.

Anyhow, Joe endorsed Kackling Kamala Harris.  The Clintons immediately jumped onboard the Kamala train, but Il Duce Obama, Schumer and Jeffries held back.  On Monday, Kamala announced she was going “to work to get the nomination.”  What work?  She called some delegates.  The donors turned the money spigot back on, and by Tuesday it was announced that Kamala “had earned” enough delegates to be nominated.  This was progress for a progressive who “earned” exactly zero delegates when she was a candidate.

At that, Schumer and Jeffries endorsed the Kackler.  The Detestable Chuck Schumer pontificated, “Now that the process has played out from the grassroots, bottom up, we throw our support to Kamala Harris.”

This was rank bullshit, even for Schumer.  What process?  Democrats like to say “bottom up, middle out” as though those words have any meaning.  Kamala earned nothing from the “bottom up,” which implies some connection to real voters.  She got on a telephone with the most influential Democrat politicians and donors and sold herself to them.  Maybe, when Schumer said “bottom up,” he meant Democrats pulled Kamala out of their asses because there was no other alternative.

There has followed an outpouring of media adulation for Kamala which, even for shameless left wing media hacks, has been revolting.  The woman who, last Monday, was less popular than Biden, the woman who has inflicted on America numerous instances of simple-minded word salad, the woman who was put in charge of a border that was then erased, the woman who always appears to be in jeopardy of death, should an original thought ever cross her mind, was transformed into the second coming of Daniel Webster, FDR, and Mother Teresa.

The media may be getting that old Obama thrill down its leg, but all is not as rosy as they make it appear.  There’s dissension in the ranks.  Senator John Tester of Montana, facing a tough reelection battle, says Kamala is not “a done deal.”  Maybe he means, with her on the ticket, he’s done.  In addition, Il Duce Obama is conspicuously absent from the league of Kamala endorsers.  Rumor has it that he doesn’t think she can win.  The convention is in Chicago, Kamala, so watch your back.

And get this one.  Black Lives Matter, a racist organization run by avowed Marxists, has denounced the Kamala coronation, and has demanded a primary to “protect democracy.”  The fact that a group whose announced purpose is to destroy our form of government is seeking to “protect democracy” proves that Democrat warnings that “democracy is on the ballot” are just so much leftist happy horseshit.

The truth is, despite the praise they’re heaping on Kamala, she has a lot of work to do.  As this is written, she trails Trump in every swing State:  -6% in Arizona; -7% in Georgia; -9% in Nevada; and -2% in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.  So far, Kamala has “earned” nothing.  She’s simply been promoted for her chronic and habitual lying to the American people about Joe Biden’s obvious dementia.

The Democrat convention is about three weeks away.  How they will handle compliance with State ballot laws that require the nominations to be done before August remains unclear.  What will happen when they get to Chicago on August 19 is equally uncertain.  I’m sure BLM will be heard from.  Don’t you just love the Summertime lull?