Why now?
Look, Fat. Joe Biden's incompetence and corruption is suddenly fair game - but what game are they playing here?
It’s rare to see such a clear picture of CNN participating in the creation of a news cycle.
They've had this exact story in the can since before Biden was elected, which makes the timing of an apparent take-down interesting. Remember, this man was unpopular, rammed through the primaries to be The [Big] Guy, was paired with an even more unpopular VP candidate, and wanders around shaking hands with the air.
Time to revisit a theory I’ve called Cincinnatus 3.0.
As President, Biden has been an observably obedient (or at least trying to be obedient) puppet man for his handler team. He looks around the room for stage cues, reads from scripts, and stands on markers. He pops off, off-script, from time to time, spouting curious anachronisms, and while that seems to be something his handlers cannot fully control, it has until now largely been considered part of the lovable-uncle bullshit.
On January 9, 2023, we The People were allowed to find out about some classified documents that were somewhere they shouldn’t have been. And that maybe it’s Joe Biden’s butt on the line. Then we find out there are more documents. Then more. Angry Uncle Joe pops off that they were WITH HIS CORVETTE. The ever-condescending KJP starts battling with FoxNews’s weatherman’s son, but ends up trying her gaslighting ‘I’ve been clear’ an absurd number of times, in some eyebrow-raising skirmishes with non-FoxNews journalist-question-posers.
We find out that Team Joe has known about this since November 9. To this point, Fox News yeller Judge Jeanine Pirro posed the simple but good question:
…they didn't say anything before the midterms, but they didn't say anything until January 9th. They could have leaked this during Christmas week, after Christmas week, New Year's Eve. This could have all come out. My question is, what were they doing?
The 22nd Amendment provides that after tomorrow, January 20, 2023, Kamala Harris could serve out the just under two years remaining in Uncle Ice Cream’s term and still be eligible for two terms if elected as POTUS. (She would have been eligible for only one presidential term by election if she had assumed Captain Aviators’ term with more than two years remaining on the clock.)
The man who racistly quipped “You Ain’t Black” (two years of mental decline ago) is, to any neutral observer, suffering from an ongoing decline in his mental acuity, from phantom-handshakes, forgotten BIRTH-day-dear-mumbles, and stutter-to-trail-offs. Based on a host of variables unknown to the public - like whether medication previously has hidden some of the decline, the decline has hastened, and/or the Patient in Chief’s cooperation has declined - we really haven’t been able to tell what’s going on with him.
While mention of the Hunter Biden laptop has, perhaps in the last 30 days or so, not meant instantaneous banishment to the Fringe, the whiplash from this CNN acceleration to using the Mysterious Mac as substantiation of Biden’s apparent possible corruption is like riding in one of those AR-15-fighting-F-15s Uncle CrankyPants seems hell bent on using against his “right wing friends”. [He’s “serious. Think about it.”]
It’s clear the media is now on board with harming Joe Biden by uttering known facts that were previously unmentionable per holy Jargonists’ groupthink instructions. What is unclear is how long it will take for Biden to no longer be President.
Cincinnatus 3.0: For some time, it seemed to me that Biden could serve as a perfect sacrificial puppet for an unprecedented voluntary, non-scandal-tainted resignation. The media and the Democratic Party, nearly one in the same, could laud it as the grandest, most noble, and most selfless gesture in American history, an unprompted and humble admission of mental decline, and the resulting necessary, selfless relinquishment of the capstone political office obtained only by a select few, over a lifetime of heroic work as a politician. Joe could go down in history as a George Washington-like icon who walked away from the throne. The beauty of this idea was that it could be accomplished by The Schemers either through true cooperation by Joe, or by blackmailing him with any number of threats.
Thus, while it is still possible for him to resign, the Corvette Classifieds and their wide, and increasingly negative, coverage have eliminated the attractive, purely selfless heroism that could have been ridden for years by spokesmen like Rachel Maddow or Anderson Cooper. Any resignation now would be therefore tarnished by shame, and probably not vault the Big Guy onto his own Mount Rushmore.
I am afraid things trend toward a tragic medical episode being the escape hatch used by the political machine to give us our new Dear Leader. (God forbid The Schemers orchestrate something worse.)
Once Biden is out of office mid-term, basically anything could happen. Maybe Kamala is just as much as a handled puppet as Joe, or maybe not. But these people are schemers: Might Kamala nominate Michelle Obama as her Vice President per the 25th Amendment, to be confirmed by a majority vote of both houses of Congress?
Ask yourself, who, in a hypothetical time of unified, tear-soaked, patriotic national mourning over the loss of Navy Joan Roberts’ grandfather, will dare not vote for the former First Lady, to be the mere Vice President? Then, once VP, all it would take is a Kamala resignation to have a likely 10 years of Michelle Obama as POTUS. It could all be up in the air soon.
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Note: Of course, none of this considers the Trump dynamic, i.e. that Trump’s own classified documents saga (far, far different in nature) is something The Schemers want to remain a serious threat to Trump. This could be having the effect of forcing their hand on Biden’s docu-drama, sacrificing him publicly in an attempt to keep Trump in hot water, but that doesn’t seem to be the likeliest explanation.