Biden says pandemic is over
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Things like this, his recent red lighting speech, and his comments on it after and walking them back show that his staffers/handlers do make an attempt to keep him in the loop on whatever they are planning.
Which is horrifying. I think pretty much everyone here knows that ole Joe isn't all there. I'd bet a large portion of the general public knows this. Yet his staffers don't, don't care, or fully understand his condition yet keep giving him important information. It would be easy enough to keep feeding him whatever cocktail of drugs he is on and trot him out from time to time, have him read from a script, and move him back to Delaware or where ever. So why does he go off-script? What is he being told and then told to tell? We already know his "briefings" are controlled events so why would anyone provide him actual information when the narrative doesn't back that up? Knowing his state, why risk it?
My only guess is that these staffers, his handlers, are True Believers of the State. "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." They are willing to Weekend at Bernie's the guy around but also truly believe he is head of The Party and therefor infallible.
Which, if I am even a bit right, is horrifying.
If Biden as the Chief Executive isn't allowed to go "off script" (ie. "unilaterally make policy decisions which his subordinates then carry out"), then can he truly be considered "Chief Executive"?
Interesting how when Trump said something they'd lie to him, but when Biden says something they just immediately say "no we're not actually doing that". I'm not sure which is worse, but the latter is more brazen.
That's the thing. I don't think many, if anyone, actually considers him Chief Executive. I know people who voted for Biden who are completely silent about it now. When I ask about their views on him as a leader I just get dead air. A variation of "Actually Kamala is in charge" (even more horrifying) or "his staff know what to do"
So why does he say things that don't mesh with policy? Why is there an entire staff that can just say "Oh, he didn't mean that"? Why is there continued support to hold the man as some holy person who can't be wrong?
The latter instance you mentioned isn't just brazen, it seems absolutely intentional to me.