The following is the text of the Daily Mail article (date: June 17, 2024), referenced by Steve Bannon on a warroom pocast (see GAW post: Bannon : On the 17th of June, 2024, candidate Donald Trump has officially defeated Joe Biden in the race for President
A short note on the author is below the text, as well as points for potential discussion
Sauce of text: Daily Mail : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13481849/democrat-plot-biden-replacement-clinton-obama-pelosi-schumer.html
Secret Democrat plot to replace Biden revealed: How Clinton, Obama, Pelosi and Schumer would topple the aging President… and when they'd do it
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Nearly every time President Joe Biden appears in public these days, he fuels the chatter: Will aging Joe bow out of the 2024 race? Will he be forced to step aside?
In the latest incident, former president Barack Obama was seen on Saturday reaching for Biden's hand and seemingly guiding the 81-year-old Commander-in-Chief off the stage at a Los Angeles fundraiser.
And that came after Biden stood motionless and stared blankly for a full minute at a Juneteenth celebration at the White House on Monday, as others sang and danced around him. Eventually, Philonise Floyd, brother of the late George Floyd, noticed Biden's concerning pause and wrapped his arm around him to help.
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates is denying that Biden froze in the viral video, calling it a 'cheap fake memo' being spewed by the media.
But it seems no matter how much cold water the Biden campaign or Democratic Party throw on this raging fire of speculation, Americans will not be put off the Great Joe Biden Replacement Theory.
It's the idea that somehow, some way the President will be swapped out as the Democratic Party's candidate ahead of the 2024 election.
'Dropping out would be a big risk. But there's some threshold below which continuing to run is a bigger risk,' polling guru Nate Silver wrote on social media last week. 'Are we there yet? I don't know. But it's more than fair to ask.'
Last week, Biden stood motionless and stared blankly for a full minute at a Juneteenth celebration at the White House, as people around him sang and danced to the music. Last week, Biden stood motionless and stared blankly for nearly a full minute at a Juneteenth celebration at the White House, as people around him sang and danced to the music.
Silver, founder of the website FiveThirtyEight, noted that Biden's average approval rating had reached a new low of 37.4 percent. And chief among voter concerns is Biden's age, which Silver concluded to be, 'an extremely understandable concern, [as] Biden looks/acts his age and is a huge outlier to ask for the job until 86 [years old].'
Atlantic columnist Mark Leibovich cruelly stamped the President 'Ruth Bader Biden' earlier this month.
That's a reference to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who once angered some liberals by refusing to retire during Barack Obama's presidency and subsequently passed away during Donald Trump's term, allowing the Republican president to nominate a conservative justice.
And James Carville, the political mastermind behind Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns, said flat-out this month that Biden should not have run for re-election.
Now, a last-ditch effort by Biden's backers to silence his critics inside the party may prove to be his ultimate undoing.
According to Democratic bigwig, Obama campaign guru David Axelrod, the Biden team scheduled one of the earliest presidential debates in history (June 27 on CNN) to prove to naysayers that Joe's not going anywhere.
But the gambit carries tremendous risk.
While an efficient debate performance by Biden could help rally Democrats behind him - a significant misstep would only stoke more replacement chatter.
Former Clinton advisor and polling expert Mark Penn suggested the CNN debate will be Biden's last chance to reassure voters he's fit for the job.
On Saturday, video of former President Barack Obama reaching for Biden's hand and seemingly guiding the 81-year-old Commander-in-Chief off the stage at a Los Angeles fundraiser went viral.
While an efficient debate performance by Biden could help rally Democrats behind him - a significant misstep would only stoke more replacement chatter. (Above) President Trump and Joe Biden during the first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio on September 29, 2020
'They have deliberately thrown down the gauntlet for an early debate,' Penn said, 'and I think that's gonna be the point at which Americans judge: is he ready for another term or not.'
Now DailyMail.com has learned that if Joe stumbles in that first face-off with Trump or if his polling numbers keep falling, it'll take a united front of the liberal grandees to make Joe throw in the towel.
'The only people who could force him out would be Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer,' one Democratic strategist told DailyMail.com. 'It would have to be the four of them collectively.'
And the process would be high risk.
One consultant theatrically described the difficulty level of replacing their candidate as similar to trying to turn that doomed container ship that careened into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in May.
That sad story ended with a total collapse and six deaths.
But other party insiders concede that the candidate swap could work if everything was carefully planned and executed.
Political columnist Joe Klein theorized in a recent newsletter that if Biden were to stand down, 'a vigorous young candidate — don't ask me who — could win over the country with a single convention speech' in August.'
In Klein's scenario, the Democratic party savior would deliver an Obama-esque inspirational speech, akin to Barack's famous 2004 Democratic Convention address, that would quickly bring together disaffected Democrats and moderate independents.
Plus, wrote Klein, the Democratic Party's prodigious dislike of Trump would unite any disaffected factions behind a new nominee.
However, there's another potential complication.
As the recognized leader of the Democratic Party, a stubborn Biden could refuse to step down and fight on to Election Day, even as the party grows more exasperated with his performance.
Biden is fiercely proud of his first-term accomplishments, which he – dubiously – boasts are more significant than other modern president's triumphs. Though to be fair, Biden was the one who beat Trump in 2020.
Additionally, while Biden respects former House Speaker Pelosi, Bill Clinton, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, his growing resentment of Obama has become painfully clear.
The former president famously backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 over Biden in the Democratic primary and even reportedly tried to stop his vice president from running in 2020.
Ironically, both Barack and Michelle Obama appear to have intentionally kept their distance from the Biden White House - knowing that their public appearances trigger nostalgia for the days when voters liked their nominees.
Barack Obama made a brief appearance at the White House state dinner for the Kenyan president in late May and Michelle was nowhere in sight.
Mrs. Obama, who has no close personal feelings for the Bidens, according to one well-connected Democratic source, flat-out ignored the invitation.
That troubling incident at the Democratic fundraiser held at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday night only underscored the concerning optics for the Biden campaign.
The video shows Biden giving the audience a thumbs up before rigidly staring out over the crowd. Obama, still smiling and waving, takes Biden by the wrist and gives him a gentle tug to walk off stage.
On Monday, in response to this article, a spokesman for Nancy Pelosi reiterated her support for the President, telling the Mail that, 'Speaker Pelosi has full confidence in President Biden.'
The Democratic party machine has now elected to hold an online nomination, complete with a 'virtual roll call,' to formally select Biden as their nominee ahead of the DNC convention in Chicago in mid-August.
Part of the reason to go 'virtual' is to ensure a more controlled process should the party decide to select a replacement candidate.
In that case, top Democratic leaders would quietly draft the substitute nominee in advance.
That person would not be Vice President Kamala Harris, according to sources, who observed that Harris has already had to fend off a push to replace her on the ticket.
'It doesn't just become Kamala. Kamala only becomes the nominee if Biden dies,' one blunt consultant said.
Another Democratic political insider believes that Harris has failed so badly as vice president that she has made it nearly impossible for Biden to step aside – because the party would have to contend with progressive blowback over passing over the potential first black woman president.
But if not Harris, then who?
Democratic leaders would quietly draft the substitute nominee in advance. That person would not be Vice President Kamala Harris, according to sources.
Strategists theorize that Democrats would have to hold a public event to symbolically transfer power to the new candidate. Biden, Obama, Clinton, Schumer, and Pelosi would publicly introduce and endorse the anointed nominee.
They would also have to convince Harris to throw her support behind the substitute, which would be a painful experience for someone so fiercely protective of their political future.
And the Biden Replacement would also be a risk for the replacement nominee. If he or should took up the party banner and then lost to Trump in November, their political careers may never recover.
All Democrats may have some painful decisions ahead.
Biden has said that American democracy is on the line in the 2024 election.
If his party becomes convinced that he'll lose, they'll feel compelled to take drastic – perhaps even unimaginable – action. Share or comment on this article: Secret Democrat plot to replace Biden revealed: How Clinton, Obama, Pelosi and Schumer would topple the aging President… and when they'd do it
About the Author: CHARLIE SPIERING, SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER, WASHINGTON, DC
Charlie Spiering began his career as a political journalist in Washington, DC fifteen years ago as a reporter for Washington Post columnist Robert D. Novak.
He was a political writer for the Washington Examiner before moving to Breitbart News as a White House correspondent.
He joined the Daily Mail as a senior political reporter for their Washington, DC bureau in 2024.
Discussion
The "Switch of Batter" has been bandied about for years among anons and q patriots, even before Biden was elected. What is the impact of dropping a narrative that preemptively hits the enemy before they can do the move?
What are the impacts of the "Switch of Batter" narrative going mainstream?
Does this exposure make the situation MORE difficult for the Dems, or easier?
Are such deployments as this article meant to be actual predictions? Or are they narrative deployments that preemptively cutoff the enemy's options and drive them into more and more difficult corners?
Are they really on a team? Or, does the Trump core team war game so well they can predict what key players will do? So much so, the moves and countermoves appear to be scripted and give the impression they are working with POTUS?
There are lot of players who are allowed to do their actions organically but nudged into where they need to go.
Biden, on the other hand, is perfectly scripted and perfectly executed. To me, there is no doubt he is up there in the operation. (Clearly, I am saying its not the real Biden - its an actor in a mask or something)
Not even a very convincing mask
I think we are being allowed to see that it is a mask. Plus all the references to "central casting". Those are crumbs for those of us that understand we are watching a "movie"... a story being told to wake up all the zombie sheep who are still oblivious to all of it.
Yeah, because we are now reaching troll level 100
Def not a fan or proponent of the "actor in a mask" theory, for the reasons that zerodelta outlines. IMO, it would be unethical, antithetical to 'law and order' and would undermine public support if ever revealed. Not to mention that I have never found an argument or evidence that convinces me.
Random occasional substitute for legitimate reasons? Sure, possible. Planted actor replacing the real Joe Biden? Nonsensical on too many levels for me.
I had replied to this yesterday, but the browser window got closed before posting. Hate it when it happens, but let me try again.
There are many layers at which you can look at this. If we assume that celebrities and politicians are simply "actors" for the Cabal to control us, it would then be a standard procedure for the Cabal to "replace" any of these people for whatever reason.
If this is the case, the WHs dont have to replace Biden with an actor and directly control him. That would never work and has too many problems. Instead, they can let the Cabal do what they do best. Cut off all other options and make "Biden" the most lucrative. Make it the best option for all the Cabal factions to agree on a puppet actor to be the president while they all believe that this would give them a way to get rid of Trump and escape their reckoning.
Then they would do what they do best without the WHs having any direct role in it. All they need is give the motivation for the DS to do it, and then take control as necessary - assuming they have dirt on everyone, it should be easy.
More importantly, believing that real Biden - the one with all the connections and who has been key to all the criminality for the past 5 decades or so - is being put in the position as a president - thats just extremely hard to believe. The number of ways he can blow up the whole thing is just too much.
Oh, I see. That's an interesting line of thought, and one I haven't seen before.
Just as an aside, my general approach is to go with things (explanations) that I experience a strong confirmation for (by a convergence of 3-axes: factual logical and intuitive), but things that I don't experience a strong confirmation for, I'll more likely go hard-nosed skeptic. I feel like this keeps me grounded.
It's the case with the actor/replacement thing. I haven't experienced compelling confirmation, so I tend to just go "nope" at least until something better comes along.
A few points:
I don't see Biden as "key to all the criminality for the past 5 decades or so". I don't see him as a mastermind, but as one of the usual suspects of swamp feudal lords. I don't think he has 'all the connections'. Rather, I think that he and the Biden crime family are the one that the WHs have the most easily usable information on. for example, if Hunter actually cut some deal years back, then it would make sense for the white hats to choose Biden as the one to push forward as the 'face of the swamp'.
Secondly, if Biden is restricted and controlled because a) the WH's have ALL the goods on him, including with Hunter's flipping, b) his lines of communication and power are all cutoff (because the WHs have been taking down the Cabal infrastructure since 2016) and c) almost none of the old Swamp System now operates as it used to, apart from the mid-level actors down, and d) devolution has been implemented so that the POTUS position does not function as it used to but is restricted in what it can do, then I don't think "The number of ways he can blow up the whole thing are just too much"
I think we can agree that the white hat team would not put or allow the real Biden to assume power if he was in a position to use real power. But perhaps we differ in our view of exactly what power the current "potus" actually has.
In any case, you bring another aspect or possibility I haven't thought of before, and so while keeping to my own reasoning, I continue to be open to learning.
Perhaps we might agree on this: If we ever find out if its real Joe or Joe schmo, then next time you're down this way or I'm up that way, the victor can buy the other one a dinner!
There is some debate on this point. However, considering Biden's actions and behavior, it is not unreasonable to theorize that he is actually cooperating with the Trump plan.
In other words, through Hunter, the WH having everything they need to completely take down and destroy the Biden crime family, but that Biden and Hunter were given an opportunity to play their role in order to avoid the harshest of penatlies (i.e. death).
Nothing that Biden is doing is actually helping the Cabal Deep State. And when you look at the policies he is executing, including certain Executive orders, he is actually continuing DJT's agenda on a lot of points.
Here is the big sticking point for me:
If President Trump and his team are controlling Biden, then they are directly responsible for everything that is happening. They would be directly responsible for vaccine mandates, damaging energy policy, inflation, the mass invasion of illegal aliens, the rapes and murders committed by illegals, the list goes on. . .
It would also mean President Trump is actually staging the lawfare against himself. That, through his control of Biden, he is using the DOJ to orchestrate the actions of Bragg, Willis, and Smith to make him appear to be a political martyr. And, in turn, raising hundreds of millions dollars on the contrivance of being persecuted.
If President Trump (and his team) are controlling Biden, and that became public knowledge his support would collapse instantaneously. The vast majority of people would not be able to accept that it was necessary to put them through this painful experience. MAGA would fall apart and the DS would prevail.
Please, study Q posts to gain insight in the manner of what Q calls: control, as your thinking is flawed.
In a chess game, your opponent will make his moves. Which move are beyond your control. Even in a situation where there is "Zugzwang", you do not necessarily control which move is made. The only outcome of such move is the same. Your game strategy pays off.
There is eventually a situation where "zugzwang" leaves the opponent only one or two options. It does not mean the responsibility for such a move lies on your shoulders. Because, beyond the one or two moves available, there is a third: yield.
And that, TSearch, is the only viable moral thing to do. But the dems do not contemplate such a move. Instead, they are contemplating which move they will make, thinking they can still win. The moral culpability rests squarely on their shoulders. It is them who devise and implement these measures. And so, have to bare the consequences of them.
Consider the sequence of these posts:
u/#q4281
u/#q2816
u/#q2788
u/#q2604
u/#q816
u/#q3906
I think we are actually in agreement. Patriots in control means they are in control of the game, they are driving it to an inevitable outcome. But, they are not in control of the moves being made by the DS.
People can and will accept it was necessary to provoke the DS to accelerate their plan and reveal their true intentions. And, you’re right, the DS knows they can’t win, their only hope is to take these horrible actions to provoke the white hats into making a fatal error.
My point in this comment is President Trump and his team are not telling Biden what to do, say, or how to act. If they are, that makes them directly responsible for the disaster we are currently experiencing. And, if that is true, most people would feel deceived and profoundly disappointed.
I 100% agree with TSearch. The whole "great awakening" could fall apart if it's found that someone's child, Mom, Dad, or other family relation was killed and Trump/white hats are in control. I have a friend whose Mother passed away during "covid". She didn't have much contact with her Mom during the 'rona since her Mom was very sick and she was always afraid she would pass something to her, and didn't want to be responsible if it was the 'rona. The funeral, I did child watch for the "attendees" of which there was only allowed to be 6 people.
My neighbors died alone in their 90's, afraid to get sick. I was going to interview them since they are long term residents of this valley, and I knew that since they were in their 90's they wouldn't last. I never got to interview them, they only saw their great-grandson once since he was born right before the lockdowns.
My friend's Father passed away in July of 2020, after he found out he had stage 4 cancer at the beginning of March. Only ONE person was allowed at the hospital with him, his wife. She was NOT allowed to leave, otherwise she would have to stay away for 10 days to make sure she didn't bring the 'rona back with her (arbitrary, yes). So his wife was dealing with a husband who was dying, a prisoner at the hospital. His kids were not able to go see him, since if one of them went to see him, they would be prisoner of the hospital for 10 days while his wife was home. His wife didn't want to leave his side, his kids didn't want to take her from him, and him from her while she was away.
If any of them find out Trump and the white hats were in charge while they suffered, had loved ones die alone, and had to miss out on saying goodbye, they will lose all faith in the movement. Admittedly, I would too.
No, of course Trump and the white hats are not "making" the Biden admin do all these terrible things.
Think about it: If Trump's team was powerful enough to make all that bad stuff happen, they'd be powerful enough to put a stop to it. If they haven't put a stop to it, it's solely because they don't yet have enough power.
Trump's team is managing it as best they can but they are up against a worldwide, fully entrenched cabal that is trying its very best to destroy America from within.
The white hats' best weapon is to try to bring all this out in the open so that the normies will finally begin to understand the truth. That's a very tough task when you're utterly locked down by a press that's controlled with an iron fist, and when you're, you know, trying to NOT start a full-blown civil war and wreck whatever is still left of the USA.
These are good points, and I am generally in agreement with you on this aspect, except that I think that the lawfare is the DS actually thinking they can take down or block Trump. It need not (and very probably is not) Biden actually directing or controlling that, despite DJT's narrative exclamations.
How do you destroy an enemy? Let them loose and undermine themselves. Middle level / lower level minions like Braag, Willis and Smith don't need to be orchestrated by 'those in control' to go after Trump. They really only need to be let loose, or told by a higher level of DS to do it. In other words, and clearly, the lawfare is an example of a DS out of control, not in control. They keep making losing moves.
Biden however is a separate matter (as I wrote, I don't see Biden as actually directing the lawfare or the DS for that matter.) One possibility is that he is corralled. He is cutoff from his original puppet masters. And, through devolution, his ability to act may well be curtailed. He do X things but not Y and Z things (which a potus could normally do if there was no CoG or devolution in place).
So if Team DJT maneuvered and tricked the DS to go with Biden, then implemented devolution as a necessity because the election was stolen and the country could not deal with it properly at that time, so that the Biden admin was restricted in how much damage they could do, then team DJT could not be held morally responsible, because they took the best steps they could to limit the damage from the fraudulent administration and to preserve the country.
Also, if there was some deal arrangement in place, stipulating only that Biden cannot do X, Y and Z, and must do W, would this make DJT team responsible for Biden doing A, B, C, D, etc, etc.?
I think the real answer lies somewhere out there but that none of us really knows exactly what is going on. We have some clues, and some reasonable theories, but ultimately, none of us knows. Your point about culpability on the part of Trump and Team in the case of (this case) and (that case) are well taken. (It's one reason I do not subscribe to the theory that 'Biden' is an actor in a mask or a replacement controlled by the WH.)
But I'm not sure. My own thinking is probably a lot closer to u/redtoe-skipper 's thinking than anything else. But I wonder about Hunter, and I wonder about how and in what manner Biden may be 'controlled'.
Interesting point to consider. I see your point, and conceptual thinking.
What point would you then bring forward as being: do this?
If they are a team, when did it happen? At the funeral, the Bidens seemed genuinely surprised at the letter.