One of the many questions following Joe Biden’s “poor” performance in the presidential debate has been with whom the Democrats shall replace him. Or how about, who is fighting to keep Biden in the race, what donors are doing, what the base thinks (will this fracture the party or get independents off the fence), and, most importantly, who is playing as Chief Executive?
It is not Joe.
They are probably going through the motions, but someone in the West Wing is making decisions and convincing our sockpuppet president that whatever IT is, is the right thing to do. Rule by committee. A positional oligarchy undermining Democracy (admit it, Dems, that’s what this is). The guy you claim to have elected isn’t the guy running the joint, which, arguably, you could use as an excuse to claim he isn’t responsible for the shit we’re in. But someone is. Democrat someone’s or their appointees.
There’s really no escape from the Sock Puppet Presidency. Either Joe did it, or the people who picked to “advise” him did.
And who among us is surprised? Joe’s entire career has been as a placeholder. He’s a gaffe machine and always has been. Joe is a serial liar and plagiarist who hung out with career racists. He’s not an inspiring speaker or commanding presence and never was, and he didn’t get more votes than Obama. But the elites led by the Dem party picked him as the most likely not-Trump guy (talk about a sign of intellectual and political weakness), installed him, and told us it was for unity, the good of the people, the nation, and the safety and security of the world.
None of that was true, and none of it happened. We got the opposite, and we got it hard and fast.
Joe Biden, like COVID, was a bunch of Bureaucrats hiding the truth for as long as possible without any regard for the damage done, only admitting to anything suspicious when the truth had become so impossible to ignore that prevarication in service to limiting one’s complicity is only overshadowed by the deafening silence of many who were all in on mandates, passports, and censorship and would rather if we just forgot their part and just moved along.
Post-COVID watercooler etiquette has transitioned to a point where you’d be safer talking about abortion.
And the Left was fine with treating Biden’s decline like that until the first Presidential Debate of the 2024 season when the rhetorical red-headed stepchild didn’t just come out of the basement; he danced a gig on the national dinner table. The secrets are out. There’s no putting this demented genie back in the bottle, and the Democrat response proves it.
The only thing holding them back from change even they can believe in is Tribe Biden and whichever other treasonous actors have been undermining democracy for the past three-plus years with their hand up our sock puppet president. A multi-layered problem for the so-called defenders of democracy. To fix it, they have to uninstall the guy they put there. This requires them to ignore the base that voted for him in the 2024 Democratic primaries (including the complicit dopes in New Hampshire who wrote his name on a ballot on which he did not even appear).
Bernie Sanders has to be laughing his ass off, having been denied Democracy twice by the same lot. Elites will once again be asked to name a successor by any means necessary and drag them across a finish line that will keep moving until January 20th, 2025.
And the only ones who can conceivably stop them are Americans who may have voted for Joe Biden (or at least against Trump) and who choose not to be fooled again in numbers so significant that trying to game the results would be too blatant even for the American ruling class to dare.
And still, I suspect they will. They can’t do it with Joe Biden, and that has them out of whatever passes for their minds.
