By Mike Bibb
Cartoon: California Fleeing
"The Democratic Party is back. That's not hyperbole. Did you see the election results? The American people are sending a message, a message to Trump and to his crowd. The fact is that we had a great night in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, New York City, Georgia, Mississippi — even in Mississippi." — Former President Joe Biden speaking at the Ben Nelson Gala, Omaha, Nebraska, Nov. 7, 2025.
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It might be a bit premature for Joe Biden to declare "The Democrat Party is back" for at least three reasons: 1. Democrat candidates won in primarily Democrat areas of the country. 2. Apparently, the Democrat Party is now being led by Socialists, and an avowed Socialist/Communist Mayor in New York City and a similar one in Seattle. 3. How would Joe know the party is back? He doesn't even know where he is half the time.
Which is probably the reason he was suddenly replaced by Kamala Harris during last year's Presidential Election. His debate collapse against Donald Trump was the final straw. Dems quickly yanked him and shoved-in Kamala. More desperation than wisdom.
As a result, for Joe to claim the party is back might be an overexaggeration. In my opinion, remnants of the old Democrat Party have finally left the building — not with a bang but a whimper.
Their recent holdout in approving a continuing budget resolution, tackeling the financial disaster of Obama Care (aka Affordable Care Act) and subsequent 43-day partial government shutdown, is evidence of their unwillingness to cooperate in resolving major issues.
However, after 50 years in Washington, old habits are hard to break. Joe continues to think he's relevant in Democrat politics. That, somehow, his views and influence carry as much weight as before.
Joe may still believe this nonsense — no one else does. Joe's relevancy is about as influential as the tragedy of the Plains Buffalo.
Heck, he, or his handlers, no longer have access to the Auto-Pen, so the authority he legitimately had flew away from the Capitol when he did.
No more scams to run and no more b.s. to feed the folks, other than what mainstream news is obligingly willing to broadcast.
Actually, it will probably take several years to repair the damage Joe and his administration's inflicted upon the country. From the quagmire of the COVID-19 mismanagement fracas, to record setting economic inflation, to his inexplicable "Open Borders" calamity, to his administration denying the border was open, to stumbling into the Russia/Ukraine tussle, to fabricating false accusations and indictments against a former President, to sending a couple of dozen armed FBI agents into Trump's Florida home looking for alleged unauthorized documents, to Biden's health issues concealed by his medical staff, to pardoning members of his family and thousands of others of past and future criminal activities are just a sampling of the near total ineptness of his time in office and the unbelievable disjointed incompetency of his cabinet.
His single term was an absolute mess from the very beginning to his embarassing failure to be renominated by his own party. At the end, Joe was wandering around, shaking hands with invisible people, and being helped off-stage by his wife and other assistants.
He was simply lost in his own confusion.
It's gotten so bad that members of his team have taken the 5th Amendment in refusing to answer Congressional questions. A few have been recently indicted, while others are under DOJ investigation.
Seems nearly every other week another felonious activity is revealed.
In effect, much of the phony-baloney his administration was accusing Trump of doing, Dems were doing themselves.
If Joe is not historically recorded as the worst President in United States history, then he must be in the top three. Film and documented events of his disastrous White House occupancy will long remain after his bumbling tenure as Chief Executive has faded from memory.
There will always be a Joe Biden type around, and, like a bout of recurring stomach cramps, it's inevitable another one will eventually scratch his/her way to the top of Washington's elite circle of political hucksters.
It took Joe five decades, but he made it — then lost it — then forgot it.
Now, his pathetic antics of leadership are in full view. The shoe's on the other foot and it's not as much fun as when Democrat's were blaming Trump for everything gone wrong in the universe.
Still do.
So, for Joe to piously proclaim he was a Washington success story stretches the laws of probability about as far as they can be stretched.
Nevertheless, many Democrats will march in lockstep to whatever party officials, and a compliant media tell them. Recent elections in the Deep Blue Northeast and California are a sampling.
Conversely, so is the exodus of people leaving these areas because they're tired of the lies, government foul-ups, misstatements, cost of living and taxes.
Sometimes, referred to as "The U-Haul factor" — a business evaluation of the number of U-Haul moving vans leaving a location, substantially exceeding the number of vans entering the same vicinity.
If people can escape the torment, why wouldn't they?
Which, coincidentally, could be one of the reasons Phoenix based U-Haul Company has recently opened a large, multi-million-dollar storage and assembly facility in the Gila Valley, Graham County, Arizona (Safford area).
California is just next door — and so are the thousands of folks who are waving the middle-finger salute and hollering "Adios. Hasta la vista, baby. Enjoy your misery. We're outta here!!!"
