“I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence,” former President Trump told CNN’s debate moderator Jake Tapper. “I don’t think he knows what he said either.”
Mr. Trump was referring to the incoherent ramblings of our current president at last week’s notorious debate — bizarrely held five months before the election. (Well, now, I guess that timing might make a little more sense.)
President Biden, as journalist Glenn Greenwald put it, “unsteadily shuffled onto a debate stage in Atlanta and then preceded to fulfill every fear and nightmare that Democratic Party operatives and American voters have been harboring about him.”
Beyond what Biden’s debate performance says about who should be the next president is what it screams at maximum volume: Who is really running the country?
It’s scary to think that it isn’t the man we elected to do the job. But perhaps scarier still, after last Thursday’s performance, would be if it actually is that man.
On his System Update program, Greenwald also pointed out that, “Just two weeks ago the media was insisting that the only reason Joe Biden looked in any way to be impaired is because right-wing liars were clipping videos in a deceitful way …”
No one clipped or cheap-faked the 90-minute debate, though.
In a country being torn apart and a world on fire, we have a commander-in-chief who is simply, obviously, not in command. And arguably even worse, we have a news media that has largely gaslighted the public on the matter.
If President Biden stays in the race, watch for the media to go back to its cover-up mentality, telling us only what they want us to know about him … so we will vote the way they want.
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The machine of which the Democratic Party is an overt expression did not want a mere place-holder President; so, while in office, Biden had to be presented as someone rather more effective than he actually was or is. Kamala Harris proved to be less manageable than Biden, so Biden had to be kept in office at least until a next candidate could be lined-up.* Joe Biden didn’t want to be seen as retreating from Trump, and Jill Biden wanted to continue as First Lady. The machine had to accept Biden’s candidacy or undermine the pretense that Biden were an able leader. But the machine knew that this day was coming, one way or another.
Presumably, they have a plan to end Biden’s candidacy, though that plan (like the plan to install Harris in the Oval Office and keep her there into 2032) may fail.
And presumably the plan includes, in general outline, what is to be said by the mainstream of the media.
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* Harris might have been replaced, as was Agnew, to allow subsequent removal of the President. But an unelected President such as Gerald Rudolph Ford cannot claim a popular mandate, and our Presidents now-a-days rule by Executive Order.
If Democrat machine didn’t want a placeholder president then why did they even nominate Biden in 2020? Trump had so many detractors that Dems could have picked a governor from a blue state that would have drawn independents and never-Trumpers to their cause. If they won’t get rid of Biden then they definitely need to get Harris off the ticket, as they did in 1944 (okay, it was eighty years ago!) when they knew FDR was dying.
Let me note that I wrote “mere place-holder”. The Biden Administration wasn’t supposed simply to bide its time for two years (followed by the ascension of Harris); it was immediately to resume the transformation of the social order.
Yes, given that Biden is the candidate, the Democrats in general would be helped by replacing Harris. But the Bidens know that doing so could deliver a pyrrhic victory for the Bidens.
The idea that ANY president “runs the country” is and always has been a fantasy. About 330 million people “run the country,” and the president only a tiny bit more so than most.
Even if by “run the country” you mean “run the government,” while the imperial presidency is far stronger than it should be, the government is partly run by Congress, partly run by the courts, partly run by executive branch bureaucrats, and run “by the president” largely in the form of his signature or lack thereof on legislation passed by Congress or executive orders drafted by bureaucrats.
That was the case before Biden, it’s been the case under Biden, and it will be the case after Biden.
If you don’t believe me, ask the supporters of Donald Trump, who have thus far excused, and starting next November may well have the opportunity to again begin excusing, his every failure as being due to the Deep State being actually in charge, with him just a powerless figurehead (except when they’re in “talk him up” mode, during which he becomes the Supreme God-Chosen Alpha Male 6D Chess Player until whatever he’s supposedly up to fails … again).
If a live human president was replaced by an auto-pen attached to a coin-toss program for “sign” or “don’t sign,” it would be difficult or impossible to tell the difference.
DemoSocialists are shocked and surprised by Creepy Joe’s performance (or lack thereof) during the debate. They’re pretending they didn’t already know that Biden was exhibiting advanced signs of dementia back in 2019, and that it would only grow worse.
Now that Joe is refusing to step down, we are heading inexorably towards an election where his winning will not be believed or believable. Which could raise enough ire in the citizenry to demand a lot of answers and risks uncovering and even dismantling the massive cheating mechanisms that have been decades in the making and installation.
Both of the comments so far, by Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan and Tom Knapp, are very interesting.
I doubt I go as far as Mr. Knapp, though, and do not think we are ready for an AI/auto-pen president yet. It is obvious that, as much as the vast government is run by its functionaries and officials, presidents do matter. JFK wasn’t snuffed out for no reason; LBJ was instrumental in ramping up the Vietnam War; Nixon went to China; Carter wore a sweater. And Reagan redefined a culture; Clinton brought China into America; etc etc etc. Having SloMo Joe in office affected Putin deeply, and that meant war and that meant mass death.
“Running the country,” then, can be taken as a term of art.
Much of presidential politics is about managing the People, the levels and direction of their consent. Having a brain-addled mumbler-in-chief is bad consent management. A bad psy-op. But Democrats and Republicans have a really big problem: there are no believable leaders because there is no easy way out of the mess we are in.
While it would be easy to get Biden OUT of office, were Democrats really concerned about the state of the union — the 25th Amendment §4 could be threatened, to force a resignation, and Kamala could be handled easy enough — Democrats don’t really have a good replacement. They are in a pickle. None of their b.s. persuades much any longer.
It’s also possible that the Biden Machine, which Joe Biden did run for decades — shaking down foreign businesses and governments in a fairly crude influence-peddling scheme — is also a blackmail scheme, and getting him out will be tricky for that reason. He and his family know where all the bodies are buried, and maybe even exactly how many penes are in the Obama family.
Except for people like Greenwald and other independent journalists, the media has made itself irrelevant to many people. We trusted them to tell us the truth and they abused that trust. It took many decades, but the damage they did to their own credibility may be irreversible. There’s no going back. Let the media churn out its false stories. Who cares what they say now?