Today, Karine Jean-Pierre’s “long-awaited” Independent, a book on her recent transformation into an “independent” political activist/theorist/shill, hits the bookstores, with Amazon promising to deliver the tome on the 24th.
I write about it now hoping never to have to write about it later. You guessed it: I’m not planning on reading the thing.
I did, however, cover her turn-of-coat re-alignment/what-have-you in June. “I think we need to stop thinking in boxes and think outside of our boxes,” I quoted her in “Rats-a-Jumpin’.”
Whatever else, she had certainly not resisted cliché!
But can we be sure of her sincerity? It’s hard to imagine a paid fibber writing a book and expecting it to be taken at face value. Still, the story is her story, not the full story, so there may be some truth in it.
“The Democratic Party had defined my life, my career,” The Epoch Times quotes her in apparent sincere mode. “Everything I’d done to make people’s lives better had been connected to it. The party was the vehicle that allowed me not just to have a front seat to history, working first on [President Barack] Obama’s presidential campaign then in his administration, but also to make some history of my own as the first Black woman and openly queer person to ever be a White House press secretary. Never had I considered leaving the party until now.”
This may possibly be seen as galling to long-term independents: much ado about a latecomer’s anguish.
Tellingly, there’s no mention, in the pre-publication buzz, of Russiagate or the Epstein case — that is, something that might make the book worthwhile. Only her in-the-box account of Biden’s competence provides any interest at all.
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Ms Karine Jean-Pierre has staked-out a weird position.
Her book will sell only to some subset of the wonkigentsia, and she cannot expect to fund much of her remaining life from her advance and further sales. She has cut herself off from allies outside of the Bidens, a dynasty terribly diminished and with no prospects for other than continued decline.
She could instead have played the good soldier for the Democratic Party. She wouldn’t have found a position within it in the near future, but it would have found a position for her in academia at someplace such as the Kennedy School, and with the passage of time she might even have found an opportunity to step back into a position within the Party, had she wanted to do so.
I mean, look at Bill[y Don] Moyers, a man surely more evil than Ms Jean-Pierre, who did truly vile things for a truly vile President, but managed for decades after his time as Press Secretary to be presented as if some paragon of wisdom and of courage — at least until tales of his persecution of homosexuals came to light.
Bill Moyers did his work years before C‑SPAN existed. Now the WH briefings are on TV and on the internet for posterity. It was easy for Washington media to cover for Moyers, since fewer people saw him. As for KJP, she’ll likely find ‘work’ at some think tank somewhere. It won’t be glamorous but it will pay the bills.
My point concerning her allies applies still more to think-tanks. If she’d stayed a good soldier for the Democrats, then she might find a position sine cure at a think-tank, but who of her allies will now give that to her?
Back in 2020 that burned out old communist Bernie Sanders was shaking up the party. He had raised an impressive campaign finance war chest and not one penny from billionaire oligarchs. He was amassing more potential electoral votes than any of the other candidates including dementia Joe. UNACCEPTABLE!
The cultural communist apparatchik led by Obama and funded by the billionaire oligarch donor class of Soros, Hoffman, et al, felt that the American masses were not sufficiently brainwashed as yet to accept a cultural communist society. They knew Bernie wasn’t going to be their puppet so he had to go in favor of dementia Joe, so Bernie gave them the middle finger and became an independent. He also calls himself a Democratic Socialist, which is an oxymoron, but is quick to point out that Democratic Socialist isn’t a political party. Uh huh.
RFK Jr identified as independent because the Democratic party canceled him. Bill O’Reilly calls himself an independent too after FOX canned him.
Independent voters in American politics are anything BUT undecided voters. They call themselves “independent” out of ego because they believe themselves to be open-minded superior free thinkers and intellectuals. That’s just psycho BS. They are either supporters of the left or the right. There is no middle in American politics and never was. Social Justice, Identity politics and the resulting class warfare have divided Americans along very clear and opposing ideological lines.
Most ‘Independents’ don’t vote third party and they’re rarely swing voters. Some are allowed to vote in primaries and then revert to being ‘independent’. It’s a scam. All members of the House and Senate who call themselves ‘independent’ caucus with a major party. Their independence is a facade. The same goes for KJP.
I’m thinking ghost-written.
LOL