Yes, I’ve written on this very subject. Even so, I had only a vague idea of just how empty the big chair in the Oval Office is and has been:
President Biden spends almost as much time on R&R as he does running the country.
The 81-year-old commander-in-chief has racked up 532 vacation days in less than four years — about 40% of the 1, 326 days he’s been in office.
It would take the average American — who gets 11 days a year of vacation — approximately 48 years to accumulate that number of days off, according to shocking data compiled by the Republican National Committee.
“The image of Biden fast asleep and lying flat on his back in his chair at the beach while America and the world is on fire will define the Biden presidency,” said Mark Paoletta, the general counsel of the White House budget office under former President Donald Trump.
I could make all manner of observations about this, but the one thing that must be said is that this dramatically confirms the power of the Deep State. Those faceless ones are even more in charge than I knew. With Biden absent from the power seat so often, they have their way in all things. No one is standing watch over them. Whatever they might choose to do, they can do unobserved and unopposed.
This is more alarming than anything else about the matter. People with power rarely surrender it willingly. They dig in at the mere suggestion of a reduction of their latitude. Biden has given them three and a half years to do that preemptively. I fear that even were we to see a Sumner Administration, or several of them in a row, it would be insufficient to root the moles of the Deep State out of their holes.
But Donald Trump will have only four years to do it. Who stands behind him, ready for the challenge when he’s finished? J. D. Vance, perhaps, but then who after him? And will the GOP marshal fresh defenses against further upstarts against the Established Order?
When the proto-libertarian Democratic Party first arose in the early 19th Century, the plan was to have a twenty-four-year campaign to chain the already swollen federal government to its Constitutional bounds: eight years of Andrew Jackson, eight years of Martin Van Buren, and eight years of Thomas Hart Benton. All three were committed to the project. Though their plans were good, their opponents were able to organize defenses and countermeasures against them that they did not foresee. Don’t imagine that the Establishment in our time would be less imaginative or ferocious in combating the dissidents and disruptors of today.
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FWP: “Those faceless ones are even more in charge than I knew.”
TFO: “Yes, those who know of Plato’s Cave are so few. Still it’s such fun torturing them with being so in their face with our shadow and implying there is nothing they can do about it.”
It’s more than just red vs blue, or dem vs republican. That’s the problem, nobody really grasps what’s going on. The manufactured differences are there to divide us, are foisted upon us to keep us from realizing the real threat(s).
And people ARE completely captured by it. See the yard signs. Even where I live in bumfuck appalachia, there’s 3 houses nearby w/ Harris signs. One is my elderly neighbor. She’s a widow, just turned 96! Spends all day in front of CNN. She believes what the tee vee tells her (we bring her egg’s and such from time to time, check in on her to make sure all is well). Several times when chatting with her on a visit she’s made statements that I simply blinked at, because I don’t want to offend the kindly old lady next door.
Why do I bring that up? She believes what she believes, in her heart and soul, that it is the truth as if God spoke it to her directly. If the anchor on CNN told her in a serious tone that the nation was at risk of being lost, the usurpers are at the gates, the only way to save our republic is to nuke the midwest and southern states… she’d be OK with it. Literally. And we live in Tennessee!
Ever wonder how Canada got it’s citizens to start offing themselves instead of burdening the healthcare system? This is how! Remember War of the Worlds? Nothing’s changed.
Today’s video technology is sufficient they could manufacture a nuclear strike on the other side of the globe and use it as a false-flag, and nobody and anything would stop them. Did the people who attacked the NordStream pipeline ever see the light of day? They’re still peddling the Ukie’s did it! AND PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT, simply b/c the talking head on the telescreen told them. They don’t have a navy, can’t fight their way out of a wet paper sack, but we’re supposed to believe a highly trained team of ocean divers sabotaged the pipeline months in advance, just waiting for the perfect moment. That US special forces boat that was there 12 hours before it happened? That’s been memory holed. Like the USS Liberty.
These people are the problem we face. Not the Deep State, not the actors that manipulate and control them. Those evil types will always be there, it’s the control they exert on the masses that makes the trouble for us to deal with. These people, this segment of our society, whatever percent it actually is, will never, EVER be woken from their spell. My own father, whom I had many conversations with, agreed with everything I said, still was captured by the system. Couldn’t fathom that the news was lying to him. Nah, they don’t do that, he’d say, even after you pointed out their contradictions. When I talk to people today it’s the rare individual who grok’s that the government IS actually trying to kill them. I have started seeing people wake up to the idea, start to talk about it (I wear my ‘lets go brandon shirt a lot), but they dismiss it as poppycock, impossible, would never happen. They see it w/ their own two eyes happening in front of them, but still can’t wrap their heads around the idea that it IS actually happening. To them. By their government. Nope, couldn’t be.
The heroin packets could spill out of the body-bag onto the tarmac, and people still would not believe we were shipping it in from Vietnam. 50-some years later and they still don’t believe it happened back then. They do not have a sufficient grasp of history to understand the fentanyl crisis we are facing in this country is simply payback for the opium wars of the 1800’s. They can’t get their heads around that a state actor would do this sorta thing, nevermind WE did it to China 200 years ago and their memory is better than ours. “Nah, our government would put a stop to it if that was happening.” THEY BELIEVE THAT! THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT IS TRUE! Ergo, it’s not possible they’re abetting or even turning a blind-eye to it. So when the facts clearly point to that being the case, these people jump through illogical hoops to support the fallacy they’ve built their worldview upon (because, well, if the gov’t IS actually allowing all this fentanyl into the country that’s killing people at a massive rate, it would mean they don’t have my best interest in mind, and that would destroy this person’s whole world-view, so we’ll all just stick our heads in the sand and pretend we didn’t see what we all just saw).
It’s truly fascinating from a psychological standpoint. I mean, the research papers that could be written….