Surely you've seen those "final expense" insurance commercials where an elderly person informs the family they've purchased a policy to protect against the financial hardships inflicted by a demise they fear may be imminent.
Joe Biden has one of those policies, but the payoff isn't financial... and it doesn't insure against death; he's insured himself against a political demise. And so, no matter how poorly Joe Biden performs as president, no matter how incoherent, incompetent, and inept he may be, no matter how bad he is... and the miserable state of the country confirms he's profoundly bad, there's no way Joe Biden's fellow democrats dare remove him from office because of that insurance policy he has, issued by...
Mutual of Kamala Harris.
Yesterday, in yet another wince-worthy interview, Kamala Harris was asked about inflation. She proceeded to give glossolalic assurances that she and the administration were working together to seek the root causes of inflation, and together, they would get to the root of the problem by first seeking the reasons for high costs and then looking for the causes of high prices so that, working together, confidence in the economy would be restored. A most dizzyingly circumloquacious collection of gibberish would be impossible to imagine... outside of an off-script speech by Joe Biden, that is.
After listening to her excruciatingly tedious and utterly incomprehensible replies to questions middle school social studies students could answer with far greater clarity and substance, the only sense of confidence Kamala Harris managed to impart was that Joe Biden's political insurance policy premiums have been paid in full; he hasn't a worry in the world he'll ever face a 25th Amendment moment... or a single call for his resignation from fellow democrats.
And Joe Biden's insurance policy protects him against republicans, too; his death-grip on the presidency will remain unaffected by the midterm elections. Republicans may sweep democrats from their congressional majorities and committee chairs, but given the replacement alternative, it's a cinch there will be no impeachment of Joe Biden, however warranted it may be, because his replacement is infinitely more problematic.
Kamala Harris currently enjoys a 28% approval rating; the only people who still support her are those who cling to the "historical-first significance" of her vice presidency. Historical, perhaps, but the same list of historical firsts also includes the Civil War, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11. Each was an historical disaster, and Kamala Harris would be no less disastrous.
That's because there's only one thing worse, more frightening, more unsettling, more fraught with the potential for even greater damage than has already been wrought by Joe Biden, and it can be summed up in three terrifying words: President Kamala Harris.
And together, almost everyone is together when it comes to the root of that problem.