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With the recent release of the Biden tapes with his biographer (which makes it clear why he fought their release) and recent releases of FBI records, we know with certainty a couple of things we thought but couldn't confirm. First, Biden was not in any cognitive condition to assume the presidency as far back as 2016, 2017, at the end of his term as vice president, and never should have been anywhere near the office. Second, there was a conscious, sustained effort by the FBI and CIA to affect the 2020 election, suppressing information regarding Biden corruption, knowingly fomenting a false narrative of Trump/Russia collusion, labelling all who informed them of Biden corruption as Russian agents and their information as Russian disinformation, while targeting not only Trump but top members of his administration for investigation.
It's also clear that the Democratic leaders were well aware of Biden's incapacity, and that they fomented the narratives promulgated by the CIA and FBI, indeed initiated and prosecuted that false narrative, from Obama on down.
So the 2020 electoral process was a scam on the American public. Democrats had every intention of running the country in Biden's name, and so it happened. The Biden Presidency should go down in history as the Autopen presidency, the American experiment in electoral fraud and abuse of the nation. But the nation sucked it up and hardly objected.
The DSA is now advocating governance by committee with elimination of the presidency. That has already been done. The only difference is that under the DSA proposal, we might have some idea of who is actually making decisions—something we still don't have for the Biden presidency, though we can guess.
America isn't a dumbocracy. It is a dementocracy. And the electorate seems very content with that state of affairs. If Democrats win in 2026 and 2028, it will become a demonocracy, whereas if the Republicans win, it will remain somewhere between a dumbocracy and a dementocracy. Pick your poison, America.
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For four years the ship of state was taking on water, but not yet sunk. What if we had had four more?
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But . . . but . . . Biden got 81 million votes!
Pure as the driven snow, amirite?
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You can fool most of the people most of the time, particularly when they are begging, pleading, and demanding to be fooled.
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It *could* have been worse. It could have been sunk.
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If so, we would have seen some signs.
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