Jay Weber Show transcript 11-14-24 7:10am
It is a question that is being asked by several listeners-and on all sorts of left-wing blogs: so-
Who leads the democrat party now?
This is a very good question because it’s normally still the outgoing president, at least until the other leaders of the party can get their feet back under them... And have new leaders emerge.
New voices and faces of the party- and the policy.
This would normally still be ‘Joe Biden’s party’ …just as the GOP was still ‘trump’s party’...when he left office in 2021....and the democrat party was still ‘Obama’s party’....when he left office in 2017.
This person might have lost-but for somewhere between four and eight years-this sitting president- has been the clear leader of their party, right?
And so, normally, it would be up to Joe Biden to help point the party in the right direction and help engineer and influence the transition to new leaders.
But- this time around- Joe Biden is so old and tired that it’s clear to everyone he and jill are simply going to withdraw from public life and fade into retirement...and more dementia.
And I’m not trying to be mean or funny.
Time is a terrible thing that catches up with us all.
But this-is-the situation: Joe Biden is going to be in no position to point the party toward new leadership. Moreover, he has had no real ‘rivals’ for the presidency. There was no real primary on the dems side earlier this year-and even in 2020- that such a gaggle of 25 pretenders and dopes- that none of them has risen to the top as a natural successor to Biden.
Who? Corey Booker? Mayor Pete? Amy Klobuchar?
Can you name even half of the 25?
Tulsi gabbard is a republican now. Bernie’s older than joe is. Squats with Unions hasn’t risen in influence or prominence in dc since. If anything, her profile has shrunk.
Who is the heir apparent?
Is it Kammy? It’s Kammy, isn’t it? It’s got to be Kammy.
We just learned-it’s not Kammy.
And think about that plot twist: Biden’s too old to lead the party into the future-and the person who is in the natural ‘second chair’ to take the reigns- is certainly young enough to do it- but she just got her clock cleaned to ‘run thru the tape’ on joe’s first term.
And worse: in the process of running to replace Joe, Kamala Harris proved to the country that she’s a fraud and a lightweight-and so, it’s not like she’s coming back for a command performance in 2028....
But it’s also- quite clear- that she’s not the one to assume the position of ‘leader of the party’. Or ‘point person’ for the party.
Folks-almost by default, it’s going to have to be Gavin Newsome or tubby Pritzker...as well-known democrat governors who want the job- but they can’t step up and try to grab the reigns too early here...or it’s going to look like they are wrestling them away from an 82-year-old dementia patient.
You’ve seen the videos of the teenaged monsters in New York who attack and punch and rob the elderly woman just trying to get her grocery cart over the curb....
That’s what Newsome or Pritzker would look like if they tried to step up and ‘lead’ the dem party into the future- while joe was still in office.
So- this is a good question-and one that the democrat insiders and talking heads are increasingly focused on, given the drubbing they were just given last Tuesday.
After all- they got to re-group and get ready for spring elections in the states and the off-year congressional elections in ’26.
Listen to Van Jones over at CNN...who was amusing Scott Jennings and the other panelists with his blunt bit of truth telling yesterday:
I love every second of that.
I’ve said that I like Van Jones as a pundit because he will at least occasionally tell the truth and relies less religiously on the party’s talking points.
I could eat that sort of honesty for breakfast every day: finally. Finally. We get a democrat admitting: we sit here pretending we know things. We spout the talking points. We act smart. We think we are the smartest people in the world. We call Donald Trump and idiot. We are the idiots.
God, that’s good.
Thank you, van jones, for that.
This is a guy who-last week- early wed morning-after the race had been decided...sat on that same CNN set and nearly cried on-air and blamed racism and sexism for kamala’s loss. Lashed out at everyone who didn’t vote for her.
Now- a week removed from it and with some time to process the results and what they really mean? Jones sings an entirely different tune-but at least it’s an honest one.
As Larry O’Donnell and Chris Hayes and the hens on The View still want to insist that ‘America failed Kamala’...
Here’s jones saying...no, we suck. We had it all wrong. We know nothing. The party can’t heal until other democrats admit this: we are sucky suckers who suck....
Uh. This is fun.
And it brings me to James Zogby.
Who?
This isn’t John Zogby, the democrat pollster i reference occasionally.
This is -James Zogby- who is a long-time member of the democrat national committee.
He was on one of the cable networks- I think CNN? - and had several interesting admissions, as well.
Folks-
This guy is allegedly a member of the ‘inner sanctum’ of the democrat party, right? He’s a voting DNC member who is helping to decide what the focus of the party is. What its priorities are...etc.
Except- James Zogby admits- he’s not. He says...the democrat party has become a party of email lists and donor lists...and no one knows who is behind them:
This was a long interview, and Zogby went on to say- Kamala blew thru a billion dollars-and no one knows where it went.
He went on a great verbal tear- slamming the Harris campaign and the legislative leaders, in general. This comment would have been directed at not only the Harris campaign-but also Nancy Pelosi and Hakeem Jefferies and Chuck Schumer and all these powerful and influential ‘electeds’ who always want to set the agenda and the party strategy:
That’s good stuff, too, isn’t it?
I know it’s rubbing it in-but as dishonest and deceptive and degrading and arrogant as these democrats have been- it’s great fun to taste every one of their tears. Isn’t it?
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