Where's Brandon?
Posted on 07/23/2024 9:34:50 AM PDT by bitt
We haven’t seen Joe Biden for days. No wonder conspiracy theories are flying.
On Monday afternoon, Joe Biden’s doctor, Kevin O’Connor, composed a memo designed to reassure the American people. The president, who tested positive for Covid six days ago, has completed his tenth dose of Paxlovid, he wrote, and “his symptoms have almost completely resolved.” O’Connor reiterated that Biden “continues to perform all his presidential duties.”
After that letter was released, everyone here at The Free Press still had the same question: Where the hell is the president?
If Joe Biden’s decision to step down was extraordinary, so was the manner of his announcement. At this dramatic denouement of his fifty-year career in Washington, he declared the end of his reelection bid by tweeting out a letter. Since then, nothing. Or almost nothing. Late on Monday afternoon, he phoned his former campaign headquarters, now Kamala Harris HQ. “I know yesterday’s news was surprising and hard for you to hear, but it was the right thing to do,” Biden said on the call.
But we still haven’t seen the president in days.
Last Wednesday, Biden flew from Las Vegas, where he had been campaigning, to his beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware. It was there that he isolated and stewed, alongside only his immediate family and closest advisers, and reportedly came to the decision to step down. According to the White House daily schedule, the president will reemerge this afternoon and return to Washington.
Assuming that happens, the president’s disappearing act will be over, but it will have been a strange stretch in which Biden vanished at the most crucial moment.
Into the void left by the amazing disappearing president appeared all manner of theories about what is going on. Some wilder than others. Was the president faking his Covid? Did Biden even sign his own announcement? Is he much sicker than his aides and doctors are letting on? Is he even. . . alive?
For some in the legacy media, the proliferation of all these “conspiracy theories” is the real concern. The Daily Beast complained that Bill Ackman had “compared Biden to [a] ‘hostage’ in [a] conspiracy rant.” For poking fun at the missing president, Donald Trump was accused by New York magazine of having a “conspiracy-theory meltdown.”
But to me, at least, the surge in conspiracy theories isn’t as worrying as the fact we hadn’t seen the president in five whole days.
After all, if Biden isn’t well enough to face the American people, is he really well enough to “continue to perform all his presidential duties,” as his doctor claims? And with Biden isolating and Kamala booting up her own presidential campaign, who is actually running this country?
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JILL off to Paris for OLYMPICS....
THIS is ONLY TUESDAY-—That event doesn’t start until FRIDAY.
Setting herself up with an iron clad alibi for Joe’s demise???
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....
Biden has been missing for 5 years.
There’s a body of the president somewhere, alive or dead, but, as president, he’s been missing all along.
so hunter is in charge
Cheatle slipped up yesterday and mentioned the COG (Continuity of Government) during her non-testimony, but neither the media, nor the casual observer has shown any curiosity in this entity.
Are pedojoe’s drugs being supplied by dr. jill or hunter ? Or both ?
The media is oddly uncurious.
“Was the president faking his Covid? Did Biden even sign his own announcement? Is he much sicker than his aides and doctors are letting on?”
Nothing would surprise me!
They are all slipping up. The whole house of cards is about to fall.
Part of COG is total control of the mass media so the sheeple obey their orders.
That was not him on the phone call to Harris campaign HQ. Too many long sentences without a pause, too articulate, no “anyways”, no garbled words, not even the same diction and speech pattern. AI most probably.
I think he might have had a stroke and is in critical condition somewhere. Look for a body double going forward.
I hope I’m wrong. It’s terrifying to think we don’t have anyone in charge.
Death does that to a person.
I’ll stick my neck out and prepare to get slammed: Biden is an elderly man who reportedly has Covid, and it is normal for someone with Covid symptoms to suspend activities and remain in isolation for five or six days. I understand that the timing of the Covid with his dropping out of the race has a strange feel to it, but that doesn’t change the protocols for dealing with Covid.
DU is back on the air trying to thread the needle and says that Biden should remain as President so Kamala can campaign full time.
You can’t make up this stuff.
The biggest problem is that Biden’s doctor is a known pathological liar who denied that Biden had dementia.
Once people tell whoppers it is kinda hard to believe anything they say after that.
The continuity of government needs marching orders; who’s giving them?
The continuity of government needs marching orders; who’s giving them?
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