The internet and the legacy media are replete with tributes to Joe Biden by partisan Democrat politicos and influencers, for doing the “right thing” or the “patriotic thing” and giving up his bid to represent their party as their nominee.
But at this point, after well more than a decade of these people shilling for patently false and repugnantly corrupt narratives, from keeping your doctor under Obamacare to Coptic Christian anti-Muhammad videos causing the Benghazi fiasco to Charlottesville to Russia collusion to COVID lockdowns to George Floyd to “Russian disinformation” over Hunter’s laptop to “insurrection” to Biden being “sharp” and “on his game,” if you believe anything these people say without immediately available concrete proof, you’re a fool.
There is merely a letter, with no proof accompanying it, and otherwise … silence from the Biden camp.
These people, the members of and shills for the ruling elite within their party and the Washington political cabal which has colluded in making life demonstrably worse for average Americans in countless ways over the past two decades, no longer enjoy the benefit of the doubt.
The wise American looks at all of their words and deeds the way we would look at a thief fresh out of prison: it will be some time before we trust anything the thief says or does.
If they say the sky is blue we’d better see some verification.
And there is no verification, as of this writing well more than 24 hours after the fact, that Joe Biden has quit the 2024 race of his own volition.
All we’ve been given is a letter supposedly written by Biden but only equipped with a digital signature and not on presidential letterhead, which was released on Biden’s X account that everyone knows he isn’t in charge of.
Tradition indicates that something as dramatic, historic, and consequential as a sitting president refusing to run for reelection would be announced at a live press conference.
Or at least via a televised address to the nation.
Or perhaps a video statement.
Or in a phone interview with a member of the media.
Or even in a press release accompanied by a still photo.
We’ve not been given so much as proof of life as of 4:00 p.m. eastern time on Monday.
We’re given this letter supposedly written by Biden, and another statement of an endorsement of Kamala Harris which is similarly not directly sourced to him, and we’re asked to believe those represent his wishes.
Or that he has any wishes at all.
They haven’t made Jill Biden available to the public. Or Hunter Biden.
What we’ve been told was that Biden has COVID, and that he’s now been dosed at least eight times with PAXLOVID in an effort to ward it off.
You’re welcome to believe that if you want. Here’s another possible interpretation …
UPDATE: I’ve received multiple emails like this one confirming many elements of the story. Many have confirmed that a call went out to block streets to get Biden to University Medical trauma center ASAP, and then the plan abruptly changed and they got him out on AF1 very quickly.… https://t.co/0LY7F4DrYv pic.twitter.com/jp9Xud0mSP
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 22, 2024
Yes, Laura Loomer initially put out that information. Has Charlie Kirk corroborated it?
Are either of them less credible than the people in charge of Joe Biden’s X account?
Loomer and Kirk weren’t the ones saying Biden was “sharp” and “on his game” for years leading up to the Emperor’s New Clothes catastrophe that was the June 27 debate. As gaslighters of the public they’ve run up only rookie numbers compared to the cabal. (READ MORE from Scott McKay: Five Quick Things: They’ll Literally Say Anything, and They Just Proved It)
So are to we believe that Joe Biden is dead? Is he convalescing in Rehoboth Beach? Will he recover? Will we have to wait days or weeks before he’s able to make a public statement? Are we able to know his mind vis a vis the 2024 race? Is he able to know his mind on that issue or any other?
There are no answers available to any of these questions.
There is merely a letter, with no proof accompanying it, and otherwise … silence from the Biden camp.
And meanwhile Kamala Harris has gone from gaslighting the public as to Biden’s fitness, something she was enthusiastically doing as late as Saturday, to assuming the mantle of a presidential nominee.
And being gladhandled by the same people who swore she’d be an utter disaster a week ago.
I outlined a scenario in which Harris, if she were to show her political chops, could engineer a coup d’etat on Biden with the help of the Cabinet via the 25th Amendment and thus force his resignation. Was something like that done here? Was a deal cut whereby Biden would claim his remaining time in office in return for Harris ascending to the top of the ticket?
What role did Barack Obama, who has yet to endorse Harris (even though he put her forward as his initial puppet candidate in 2020 before she crashed and burned), play in ushering Biden out? What role have George and Alex Soros played? Nancy Pelosi? Chuck Schumer? Hakeem Jeffries?
Please don’t construe any of this as sympathy for Joe Biden.
Joe Biden didn’t do the “patriotic” thing on Sunday even if Sunday was his doing. Biden should never have run for president in 2020; he knew then that to last four years as a viable presidential leader in his cognitive condition was wildly improbable and he — and his wife especially — was being grossly reckless in running that year.
But even given that, for Biden to seek reelection a year ago when he was clearly deficient in both mind and body was indefensible as “public service.” In so doing he denied Democrat voters a real choice in who their nominee would be.
And as William Sullivan noted at The American Thinker on Monday, if all of this was in fact Biden’s doing he’s denied those voters — or at least the influencers within the Democrat Party — an opportunity once again to gain a real choice among candidates. As Sullivan writes, “[w]ith the last gasp of his campaign, he emphatically endorsed Kamala Harris to replace himself on the ticket. He simultaneously ended his own political future while severely wounding the enemies who conspired against him.” (READ MORE: On JD Vance and His Critics)
In other words, the theory goes that Biden responded to being pressured out of the campaign by hamstringing Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and the rest in endorsing Harris and therefore screwing the Democrats’ voters and delegates once again.
He also screwed Harris, though nobody on the Democrat side will recognize this, by mailing in an endorsement which looks like somebody else crafted and released it.
Because this isn’t how these things are done. It never has been. There’s a reason why we want them done in person.
Nothing about this is credible, respectful, decent, or “patriotic.” It’s sleazy. It’s opaque.
In keeping with previous columns, I’ll call it something else: villainous.
And you don’t have to give it credit. In fact, you shouldn’t. Not until Joe Biden either faces the nation and explains himself, or — what should have already been done — resigns the presidency and admits he’s been unfit for the job for some time.
Either way, it’s an outrage that the American people are being treated as though we’re the subjects of some banana republic rather than citizens of the greatest nation the world has ever seen. And it’s an even bigger outrage that the Democrats’ “influencers” are demanding we celebrate what was done on Sunday.
UPDATE: After more than a day in limbo, America was at least treated to proof of life from Biden.
But how convinced are you of this?
A phoner. No questions answered. And stilted, seemingly scripted, dialogue.
We’re going to need to see this man in person. And we’re going to need him to answer some real questions before any of this should be credited as real.
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