The Biden administration has always been a Potemkin construct, a sham. Every single person knows that he is simply mentally unfit, and everybody has known it since before the laughable election. Some people lie about this because he’s their guy — they won’t admit it — but they know nonetheless. Always did.
And this installation of a bumbling incompetent is not an accident. Biden is prima facie in charge of nothing, therefore somebody else is, or somebodies else are. I lean toward the latter. There is indeed a conspiracy, it’s just not a well-organized one. This whole thing is a tremendous exercise in the government becoming unaccountable. People throughout government, media, and the actual Democrat party apparatus knew this, and willfully worked to install this marionette — each striving to get their hands on a string.
A dead body is ejected from a car at high speed. Hundreds of people witness it. The crowd turns on those asking “who was in the car”? That’s two conspiracies — one of the perpetrators in the car, and another of those who have decided to shut up, and to shut others up, if they know what’s good for them. They know what’s best for all of us — just ask them. Yet it’s not crazy to point out that there is indeed a conspiracy, despite a lack of specifics. “Can you cite your sources?”
Every President — every leader — relies on staff and institutions to advise, to plan, to execute. This Presidency shows the staff and institutions finally engulfing the office. Joe Biden is the most prominent casualty of the deep-state mutiny and coup which brought down Trump, and which now owns the Presidency. Shut up if you know what’s good for you.
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Corollary I’m working on: “Cynicism cannot be detected by the insufficiently cynical. He without his own cynicism cannot see it in others — cannot hear the tone, does not get the joke, will not guess the true state of affairs.”
Something like that.
It’s close, but probably prone to semantic pushback.
My first thought is that the insufficiently cynical do hear the tone and it repels them away from an awakening if such a thing were possible.
“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” – Attributed to Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, presciently describing American politics in the 21st Century.
Government-By-Committee is a keystone of progressive ideology.
They believe that committees are inherently more “democratic” than a single decision-maker at the top of the hierarchy, despite the oodles of evidence that committees simply result in groupthink (“Ahem! Consensus-building!”) while a single decision-maker with a diverse group of advisers actually results in more freedom to express dissenting opinions and influence decision-making.
The scene from The Death Of Stalin where every decision is made “unanimously” is a great illustration of this phenomenon. Anything less than unanimous consent is “factionalism”, which is of course intolerable to anybody that believes history has a right side and a wrong side.
This immediately had me thinking about the recent Rogan episode with HR McMaster. Likable guy; energetic, curious, seemingly solid thought processes.
Except when it comes to the obvious deep state war on Trump and conservatives. On January sixth, McMaster just can’t see the government running an agent provocateur operation or a false flag. After all we’ve seen and know about 2014-present; after he had an inside view for it all.
Is he such a non-cynic as you’re describing? So much that he really can’t see any of it? That’s hard to believe.
Or is McMaster a smooth lying operator doing his duty for this deep state? As dangerous and horrific as that is to contemplate, this option is far more believable.