Who is Running the US Government Now?

[Macrobius]

It's an interesting question... Tucker Carlson gave this surmise in a recent interview...

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By the way, Joe Biden has dementia and is not running the United States. So, that raises the obvious question: “Who is?”
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Weltwoche: Who is?

Carlson: I would assume Barack Obama through his cutouts who work for Joe Biden. But I don't know that. The New York Times hasn't bothered to report on it, but Joe Biden has dementia. He's not capable of speaking a complete sentence much less running the largest organization in human history, which is the US government. The whole premise is ridiculous, and now they're telling us? He's 80 years old. He can barely speak. He can barely walk. And he's going to run, again, for president of the United States while there's a war going on? The whole thing is so demented that we're moving to the point where they're not trying to convince anybody. They're just trying to suppress and arrest people who ask questions. They've arrested dozens of people, of political opponents, not for committing crimes, but for opposing them in the past month. Dozens in the past month.

Our system is collapsing in real time. We're watching this happen. If you read the American media, it's stories about Kim Kardashian and lots of irrelevant crap about trannies and all this stuff. The bottom line is the president of the United States is non compos mentis.
Who is running the government? If you can't answer that question, you're not doing your job in the media, it would seem to me. Whatever.

It's not the first time this has happened. Wilson was gaga before the end of his term and 'Col.' House and (for the last year) Wilson's wife ran the joint.

 

[Grug Arius]

George Bush 1 was probly in command for the second half of Ronnie Raygun's second termm at least.

I reckon there's some consortium of oligarchs who are directing the free-range tard corral aka USA govnoment in lieu of Bidet's withering brain

Barry-O and Big Mike certainly playing a key role.

 

[Mike]

George Bush 1 was probly in command for the second half of Ronnie Raygun's second termm at least.

I reckon there's some consortium of oligarchs who are directing the free-range tard corral aka USA govnoment in lieu of Bidet's withering brain

Barry-O and Big Mike certainly playing a key role.

Maybe I have it wrong, but I see Barry-O and Big Mike mainly as figureheads currently put out to pasture. Rumor has it that Barry does not much care for Crooked Senile Joe, at least on a personal level.

I don't know who is running the government or whether anyone is in fact running the government. Presumably various people are running their little fiefdoms as they like, e.g. Blinken and Nuland doubling-down on the Ukraine disaster, perhaps without knowing any better idea or plan, but not caring much about the consequences. You don't need a lot of presidential micromanagement to account for things like demographic treason at the border and ideological subversion and sexual perversion in the classroom. The bureaucratic inertia for these disasters is already in place and sustains itself; all you need is presidential malevolently passive compliance, and key cabinet members trusted not to interfere. Meanwhile Big Business and Big Finance are most likely planning their next multibillion-dollar emergency/fleecing of the US taxpayer; who knows what idea they will try next that will outperform the 2008 housing and recent covid crises. Whatever it is, I am sure it will be an idea as greedy as it is crafty and corrupt.

There is probably no one completely in charge of the whole system, no unified vision of the future. At best, the country is on autopilot. More likely we are in the looting stage of our country's collapse, as various small powers maneuver for private gain at public expense, much like the Soviet Union right before and after its collapse.

 

[Mike]

I think many agree that Biden is not running the country. The idea that Camelface Halfwit is running it is pretty laughable. The Duran speculate that it's Jake Sullivan who's currently in charge. FF to 7:29

 

[Macrobius]

I think many agree that Biden is not running the country. The idea that Camelface Halfwit is running it is pretty laughable. The Duran speculate that it's Jake Sullivan who's currently in charge. FF to 7:29

Jake Sullivan got his start as HRC's debate coach (his only prior claim to fame was being an all star debater in college), and became her general factotum.

If he's running the country, then the Rothschild faction is in charge, via their proxies the Clinton duo.

Maybe it's her turn after all.

Isn't it odd that no one can actually make the call in a convincing way as to who's calling the shots? The President is a somewhat ceremonial role and has been for a while, given the quality of the candidates 'in charge'. The President in its modern incarnation mostly exists to decide between in-fighting bureaucrats, and select between filtered menus of decisions. It would be relatively easy to make sure nothing reaches the president's desk undecided but the behind the scenes meetings where the top bureaucrats go head to head knowing that any unresolved issue leaving the room is lose-lose for everyone present... and the forms of pressure brought on the participants in that meeting ... must be ... interesting.

My money is on Caligula's horse.

 

[piscamaniac]

I'm not surprised journalists are afraid. In a hyperindividualistic society, the majority live in fear. It takes a special kind of person to thrive as a rugged individualist (and you'll find just that sort of person shitpoasting here on the phora), that's not most people. This is why so many were easily triggered by the fear mongering over covidium, terrorism, CO2 etc.

The serious work that politicians do these days is managerial and, I guess, most of the heavy lifting of that sort can be performed by the states (they have figured this out, that's why we get talk of succession which would give greater status to the lower down managerial types). As the fed government is probably redundant, does it really matter who is controlling it from a perspective of the day to day running of the country?

Where these fed politicians have regained power and authority is the aforementioned sphere of fear. The big thing At The moment is protecting us from CO2. But fear not, dear Phorons, they don't seem to be serious about tackling this "problem" and won't be doing away with consumerism, capitalism and exterminating the majority of us. They just want to sell us a bunch of stuff we don't need and won't tackle CO2 anyway, things like solar panels, electrick cars etc. (and gain stuatus and wealth being in charge of this project). We see clowns like Biden running this because it isn't a serious endeavour. Again, it doesn't really matter who is running this.

Foreign policy? Well that could be problematic, but the US still has a formidable array of military equipment that will still be effective in bullying these shithole countries, especially if they resist piecemeal.