The media website has already edited the 2020 story to mitigate the damage, but the damage was already done. And that’s not even the most compelling new ‘conspiracy theory’ of the weekend.
We’ve got two new questions to replenish the list of conspiracy theories… too many of which have proven themselves are done, not because they’ve een discredited, but because they’ve shown themselves to be 100% true.
After decades of honing their craft, the unholy symbiotic relationship of corporate media and Dem politics is very good at message discipline. It doesn’t even require a lot of heavy-handed control, since they all want the same thing. Travelling in the same direction means they will all make similar choices.
Aside from official a couple of keywords folded into official talking points of EVERY media source on the same day, you’d hardly notice any strings being pulled at all.
Where this system breaks down — however briefly — is in moments of transition and uncertainty.
Once there is consensus on the candidte (Obama, Hillary, Joe) or on an issue (abortion, gun control, vaccine mandates, trans athletes), media assumes their accustomed role of defending the candidate/issue and attacking any perceived threat. Even if that threat is, for instance, the Supreme Court.
But when a new issues arises, or the party has not yet coalesced around a particular candidate, rival factions can use media allies in an air war to lift one agenda/candidate at the expense of another. We’ve seen that with shifting opinions on Israel’s response to the Terror Attack of October 7, and we’ve seen it when candidates have pushed to climb that greasy pole.
In 2020, with Biden already the top of the ticket, there was a lot of speculation about his Veep. When Kamala’s name was floated, but not yet chosen, rival factions helped generate a news story that Newsweek ran. Days later, when this story was picked up by the ‘wrong’ people Newsweek started backpedaling like mad.
But their story is already in the public record. And some on the right are wondering if the central question has ever been addressed:
Given the distinction between ‘residency’ and ‘citizenshiop’ in the requirements for Presidency, does Kamala herself fully meet the bare minimum Constitutional requirements for serving as POTUS?
The Newsweek article itself explains questions at the heart of the dispute, written, you may notice, by someone from the respectable Claremont Institute.
The issue is by no means open-and-shut, even among the right. Some say there’s merit to the question, others think it’s a nothingburger.
But there’s still another burning question:
The worst-kept secret is that Joe Biden never made a choice to leave. Days ago, he was defiantly thumping his chest about how many delegates he had picked up and how he was going to run against Trump and win.
The knives came out from within the party… and suddenly he’s announced his withdrawal from the race, and his team has posted his Veep on the banner for his social media account.
But observers noticed something weird about Biden’s single most important announcement of (at minimum) this entire election cycle.
Not a word of it was delivered live and in person. It was a prepared, written statement delivered by way of a social media account run by a staffer.
Social media was cluttered with questions and/or observations in this vein:
Our President just made perhaps the most historic announcement of his presidency and we have yet to see or hear from him other than a tweet posted by an aide.
True madness.
— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) July 22, 2024
With Biden holed up in isolation, and every indication that someone other than him has been shouldering many of the day-to-day tasks of running the country, it leaves others wondering if Joe even had a hand in this decision, or if it was basically made on his behalf, either by his staffers, or his inner circle.
We didn’t even see a still photograph of Joe yesterday. Knowing how Democrats have hidden the ball with Kennedy’s health issues, FDR’s wheelchair, and most of all, Wilson’s stroke, it’s fair to ask to what degree they’re playing the same game with Joe Biden’s health issues… then and now.
He’s forever talking about ‘getting in trouble’ or what he’s ‘supposed’ to do… does that sound like the words of a man who think’s he’s in charge?
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This is a great gift for the prayer warriors. Real. Raw. Relevant.
