The exposé by the Wall Street Journal in December revealed how the White House had meticulously managed Biden’s public appearances and shielded his cognitive decline from the public. Under the guise of COVID precautions, his team created an impenetrable bubble around him, controlling his schedule and keeping him in a largely ceremonial role. His staff reportedly handles most of the administrative duties, ensuring Biden avoids unscripted moments that could expose his limitations. This manufactured image has allowed Democrats to maintain the illusion of competence while the president has become a figurehead in his own administration.
CBS News legal correspondent Jan Crawford acknowledged that major media outlets significantly downplayed Biden’s cognitive decline:
“We should have much more forcefully questioned whether he was fit for office for another four years, which could have led to a primary for the Democrats,” Crawford lamented. “It could have changed the scope of the entire election. Yet still, incredibly, we read in The Washington Post that his advisers are saying that he regrets that he dropped out of the race, that he thinks he could have beaten Trump. And I think that is either delusional or they’re gaslighting the American people.”
My glaring question is who exactly did that illusion of competence work on? I know some of the faithful who will diligently echo every approved narrative – even when they don’t believe it but I would like to think that a vast majority of adults (with working senses) were able to see through that smokescreen.
It might be that the competence they were referring to related to their voters and supporters and they wished to make them still appear to be sane. It didn’t work.
All the while, gaslighting was maxed well into meltdown stage. It’s just astounding that they thought this would actually work. It’s even more astounding that their supporters went along with it. Who (with any remaining dignity) would actually believe this fairy tale?
One of the gaslighting leaders was senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, who spent the entire campaign telling anyone who would listen how sharp as a tack Biden was and he regularly ran circles around everyone while working late into the evening. Never mind that many reports were emerging at the time that he had spent over 40% of his term on vacation.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5091361-schumer-urged-biden-exit-2024-race/?tbref=hp
For most working stiffs, 2 or 3 weeks/year is about the most vacation time anyone can expect. So, it should not be a surprise that honest working people rejected someone who demands full loyalty and compliance while taking 20+ weeks off while in the process of decimating our republic.
But, the worst of that was what was actually happening behind the scenes as Schumer disclosed:
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), has now revealed to The New York Times that he pointedly urged Biden to drop out of the race during a private meeting July 13.
“If you run and you lose to Trump, and we lose the Senate, and we don’t get back the House, that 50 years of amazing, beautiful work goes out the window,” Schumer told Biden bluntly, according to the Times, which reported the “tense” encounter from the New York lawmaker’s point of view.
“But worse — you go down in American history as one of the darkest figures,” Schumer admonished Biden.
At least he got that final part right.
For a simple example of the obvious decline that everyone saw, examine this exchange below between Biden and house speaker Mike Johnson that occurred back a full YEAR ago.
The speaker recalled, “I said, Mr. President, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? You understand you’re fueling Vladimir Putin’s war machine because they’ve got to get their gas from him.”
“I didn’t do that,” Biden insisted.
But, in fact, the executive order had been signed just weeks earlier.
Johnson recounts the surreal moment when he offered to have Biden’s staff print out the executive order so they could read it together. It was only then that Biden vaguely acknowledged it.
But when Johnson pressed further, it became evident that the President had no grasp of the executive action, and Johnson was left “with fear and loathing.”
“I thought we’re in serious trouble. Who is running the country?” Johnson questioned. “Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know.”
This exchange underscores a chilling reality — a president who not only is struggling to remember critical decisions, but is also unable to engage fully in high-stakes discussions with national security implications. The fact that Biden, despite his decades of experience, was so out of the loop on an issue as fundamental as energy exports points to a worrying trend that many have long suspected: Biden is not (and likely never was) fully in charge.
Actually, the debate results ushered in the era where most DID see through this BS and is why we saw the electoral college results as well as the popular vote, the Senate, the House, and many state level victories.
The only thing that hasn’t occurred yet is for all those who have been proven wrong to fess up and admit it. I see that some are now admitting it but it will be quite a while before they are believed again.
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