Kamala and Joe: What might happen next?

It’s official! 2024 has just passed 1968 as the most fucked exciting election in American history.

In 1968, President Lyndon Baines Johnson bowed out in March, leaving lots of time for Democrats to pick another candidate.

They chose the vice president, Hubert H. Humphrey. 

And they lost. 

No, I am not saying that means they are doomed to failure if they choose Vice President Kamala Harris as their nominee. More of that in a minute.

The ‘68 convention was a ratfest, within and without. The without were anti-war protesters that created chaos on the streets.

In 2024, the “without” protesters will be the pro-Hamas brigade, and we know what they are like.

Now, I know we are tempted to believe that the unnamed “elites” (Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Jamie Raskin, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer) took the car keys from Grandpa, but nobody believes that — except Joe and Jill Biden.

The President reportedly believes he was stabbed in the back, so now he knows how Bernie Sanders felt in 2016. Joe now joins the short list of Presidential Losers — modern presidents who got just one term: Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush. (Harry S Truman finished three years of FDR’s term before being elected to four of his own.)

Politics is a mean, win-at-all-costs business. 

Biden’s choice to replace him was Kamala.

Problem: She is less popular than Joe.

Possibility: She beat Donald J. Trump by two points in a recent poll, and there is no truth to the rumor that the poll was commissioned by Doug Emhoff.

Things are changing very fast as I write this, but I think the Phillies can pull it out.

Wait! That’s the other show I am watching.

Things I write now can be obsolete by 10 p.m.

My thoughts are a waterfall.

Would the Democrats dare to try to kick Kamala to the curb, when their most loyal cohort is Black women? 

I doubt it.

When did Kamala know that Biden would drop out?

When did Joe know? As late as Saturday night his staffers were saying he was staying in. Does he know now?

A possible convention fight could have been avoided had Biden resigned from the presidency. That would have made Kamala president. (It also would have ruined all the Trump 47 merch.) 

If filling out Joe’s term, she would not need to name a vice president, but if she did, he (she would not dare name a woman VP), would need approval by a majority of the House and Senate.

Josh Shapiro for VP? He’s popular, and Dems need Pennsylvania, but a Jew running with a Black. Might be a shade too historic.

Republicans control the House and Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson could stop any of her nominees. If she could not get a nominee approved, the next in the line of succession would be . . . Mike Johnson.

Trump calls Kamala “stupid.” Let’s see if he keeps that up if she pardons him. Don’t have a stroke, progressives. Just spit balling here.

Speaking of pardon, Biden is now free to pardon Hunter, even though he said he wouldn’t. If he did it before Election Day, it would probably hurt Democrats. Would he? Payback is a bitch.

If Kamala gets the nomination and loses, would that kind of kill women nominees for a few cycles? I mean if both Hillary and Kamala could not break the glass ceiling, maybe it is shatterproof?

Right now, it’s still Trump’s to lose.