Who's Running the Country?

I Can Tell You Who's Not Running the Country

Who is running the country? Whoever it is, they were not elected and I am sure of this because I do not know who they are and—being a smart and literate person—I would be able to find this information out if they had been elected.

The chief executive of the United States is an unknown entity, or possibly a secret cabal, a ruling committee, a dictator and court… they are more mysterious than the Illuminati, more esoteric than the Knights Templar, and vastly more stupid.

It may be several people; it may have been several people, some of whom have transitioned in and out of this role. It may be people we know. It may be people we’ve never heard of. Wouldn’t it be just awful if we found out it was Taylor Swift? Brian Stelter? I think I’d rather have a committee of inscrutable Chinamen as the “behind the curtain” government than Brian Stelter.

Truth is, we have no idea.

When it comes to who is running the freak show, the name you hear most often is Barack Obama. There are a couple of reasons to think the leader of the Choom Gang is still in power. After he left office in 2016, he bought and still maintains a home in a fancy neighborhood in Washington, D.C., within striking distance of the White House. Most retired presidents can’t wait to get their bag of cash out of Dodge, but Obama lingers like herpes. Obama has also said he would like to be President if he could do it behind the scenes and not have to salute the flag or attend funerals of the soldiers his policies have killed. And everything that is driving a stake through the heart of this beloved country of mine is something Obama would applaud. So it’s easy to see why Obama would be a contender for the wizard of Oz.

The reason I doubt that Obama is a puppet master is that he likes to check out. While he was junior Senator from Illinois, he had a remarkably poor attendance record. He couldn’t be bothered to show up for work. He was allegedly a professor somewhere and was notorious for not showing up for work, either. He was the first Black editor of the Harvard Review and wrote nothing during his prestigious tenure—most people who serve on the Review write several and important articles. Except for a bunch of autobiographies and one ghost-written medical article on how great Obamacare is, Obama has written nothing. If you follow the conspiracy rabbit holes, it is not even confirmed that Obama showed up much for his own education at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard. The guy is Mr. No-Show. So it seems unlikely he would work behind the scenes because he wasn’t that crazy about working when he was supposed to working on the scene. Besides, even when Obama comes out to prop up the failing and flailing Mr. Biden, he’s usually accompanied by a decrepit-looking Bill Clinton. If Obama were a power-broker, why does he need red-nosed Bill Clinton as his chaperone?

I don’t see it. I’m not saying it’s not true, I just do not see Obama as taking on such a big and complicated job.

Other names are floated around. Susan “Dirty” Rice? Valerie Jarrett? That Iranian weasel has disappeared from public life lately. In the olden days, she literally lived with the Obamas at the White House. I wonder if she’s living at the Obama house in D.C. now? Of course, maybe it’s the Podesta boys? How about the detached head of Hillary Clinton in a jar, being pushed around on a cart, spouting policy statements and insults?

It may include people we’ve never heard of.

Now it is true that all Presidents seek the counsel of un-elected officials. Nobody says this too loudly, but I suspect all Presidents—even back when we had actual elected Presidents—seek advice from non-political sources like spouses, grown children, and friends.

Every President hand-picks his own cabinet and no elections are required. Plus presidents also consult with other politicians and bureaucratic leaders, such as high-ranking officials of various agencies. Presidents also have access to experts in all areas: inventors, academicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, military leaders. They may consult from time to time with foreign counterparts. So there are many un-elected people on whom the President may draw to craft policy or make important decisions. Some of these people are public figures, and sometimes we know they are advising the president. Some are more obscure and some may advise the president in secret.

But in all of those cases, there was a known President. I never doubted that, back in the day, it was Bill Clinton or Barack Obama or Ronald Reagan, who ultimately made the decisions, no matter who was consulted behind the scenes. Back in the days when George W. Bush was President, I knew he was the President. Maybe other people told him what to do, but Bush was actually doing stuff.

Today it’s a mystery.  Right now, nobody knows where Joe Biden is. In fact, nobody can confidently say how many Joe Bidens there are. It is not unusual for high-profile people, such as politicians and celebrities, to have body doubles. It’s a security strategy. But there are so many different people playing Biden—it’s like they’re not even trying to hide the “fake Biden” routine any more. These body doubles have different heights! And one of them has a weird lumpy chin! At least when Ronald Reagan was president, he always looked like Ronald Reagan. True, he got older, but he never developed two huge bulbous growths on his chin and he never got four inches shorter.

Biden has spent approximately half of his term as President on vacation and just returned from something like 16 consecutive days at a Delaware Beach. He’s also recently been hobnobbing at a mansion of a billionaire pal of his. But even if Biden is in the White House and allegedly on duty, he’s not doing anything. He’s not even very visible. About the only action photos you see of the guy involve his going out to get ice cream or his putting the creepy granddad moves on some baby.

I used to think this was just Biden. He got elected so late in life, I figured that his old age meant he needed to rest a lot. However, Kamala is doing exactly the same thing and she’s not even 60. She doesn’t go in for the extended vacations like Biden, but she disappears. In fact, she is more famous for not going and not doing things as Vice President than doing things.

• She didn’t go to the border

• She didn’t help rural and under-served areas get high-speed internet (despite multibillion dollar investments 3 years ago)

• She didn’t reduce fentanyl trafficking

• She didn’t provide support for the space program (and now we still have two astronauts stranded in space) despite being space czar

• She never said or did anything related to artificial intelligence (AI), although she was put in charge of that, too)

• She didn’t keep her staff; she has seen 92% of her staff quit in her tenure as Vice President

• She doesn’t meet with Biden; she was supposed to have lunch with Biden weekly and be his right-hand person, but I’m not sure that even happened once

So maybe Biden isn’t really just old and senile, maybe the powers-behind-the-throne have set up a system in which somebody “plays the President” and spends most of the time hiding out in plain sight. Biden did it on vacation. Kamala did it by just disappearing.

And if either of them makes a public speech—even with 18 teleprompters, an earpiece, copious notes, and a subservient press—it comes off as a disaster. Biden and Harris are both dullards, dim-witted, unlettered, unread, ill-informed, and inarticulate. They know they can’t do it alone, so they depend on somebody behind the scenes to run the show for them. They get the money and the ice cream. If they had any integrity, they’d die of shame, but, fortunately for them, running this scam is not problematic.

But as America celebrates diversity in the form of a woman as ill-equipped to serve as President as the current white man serving as President, a lot of scary stuff is happening.

• Ukraine is launching drone attacks on Russia and Russia is shooting them down. The war between Kiev and Moscow is ratcheting up

• The Selective Service has been re-instated. That could mean U.S. boots on the ground

• There are rumors of Chinese troops in Alaska. But I don’t know anything about that. What I do know is that right now, more than one Chinese warship is cruising around Alaska

• The U.S. Secret Service is embroiled in a tremendous scandal over ineptitude or worse in the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump. The Secret Service chief who just resigned, Kim Cheatle, is a gal-pal of Her Exalted Highness Dr. Jill Biden. Yeah, that doesn’t seem suspicious

• The war in the Middle East is still raging with no coherent efforts on the part of the United States to broker peace or even build a temporary off-ramp

• An American hostage was held in Gaza for something like 300 days was executed shortly before he could be rescued. Hersh Goldberg was just 23 years old and he was one of six hostages killed

• Bolivia just had a coup, which was overthrown and the general behind it was arrested, however everything is in crisis

• Haiti is still being ravaged by gang rule

• Mexico has devolved into a narco-state

• The tech mogul who runs Telegram was just arrested in France

• There’s another coup going on in Niger and Niger has just told France they can no longer mine uranium in that country, even though they had legal permission and all necessary permits

• The Democratic Republic of Congo (producer of half the world’s cobalt used in smartphones and other technologies) is facing an on-again-off-again war with neighboring Rwanda

• China just paid a visit to Russia to pledge mutual cooperation

• We still have two astronauts stranded in space and officials are finally saying what Ricochet Café suspected: getting them home is going to be more complicated than we thought. Expected arrival date? 2025

• The Houthi pirates have attacked commercial ships and are drastically reducing the shipping going through the Suez Canal

• According to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) which is part of the U.S. Department of Education, 85% of Black students in America are “functionally illiterate.” And since 84% are not proficient in math, allow me to interpret. It means more than 8 out of every 10 Black students in America can’t read or write or do math

• Illegal immigration is so out of control, I do not even have statistics. But at least 85,000 undocumented children—the so-called “unaccompanied minors” who show up at the Southern Border—have gone missing

• Iran is making progress toward building its own atomic bomb

• And today, like every other day, 300 Americans will die of a fentanyl overdose

It seems like somebody ought to be minding the store.

The fact that Kamala and Joe can both be AWOL at the same time, far from the constraints of having an actual job and political responsibility, suggests to me what we all know. Neither Joe nor Kamala is anything other than a figurehead. Despite their differences in age, temperament, and background, both are just faces behind a podium that rely totally on the use of a teleprompter.

They are useful and similar because the real powers at the White House need empty vessels.

Neither Joe or Kamala is informed enough about foreign policy, domestic issues, or even just normal day-to-day American life to dare speak extemporaneously, even for a couple of minutes. These are poorly informed, befuddled people who get dressed up to play a part and take home bushel baskets of money. It’s sort of like being a movie star except without having to actually work.

I have noticed some striking similarities between Joe and Kamala.

• Both of them seem to be inebriated all of the time. Joe may be on old-age medications but Kamala’s drunk

• Both Kamala and Joe lack an ideology. They have no true north

• Kamala steals Trump’s policies (like no tax on tips and the border walls) while Joe plagiarizes speeches

• Joe and Kamala both exhibit sociopathic tendencies

• Both Kamala and Joe are pompous and snooty, which is a sign that they know they are inferior specimens not worthy of their high office. Joe insists we call his wife Dr. Jill Biden although she got her degree from the University of Delaware (there are whole buildings there named for the Bidens; it would be a miracle if she couldn’t get a degree from the school Joe built or, conversely, could shut down tomorrow). People who hold an Ed.D. degree rarely are called Dr., but this is Jill Biden, and if she could make us call her Her Royal Highness, she would. She’s probably want us to bow and curtsy in her presence. And as for Kamala, she rambles and speaks incoherently but if she’s ever interrupted, she straightens her back and sniffs and then says, “I’m speaking” like she was at the imperial court of Russia during the days of the Romanovs. That’s probably why Biden called her the Border Czar, since she has czar-like qualities of demanding complete and utter subjugation of anyone luckless enough to be caught in the same room with her.

• Both Kamala and Joe like money a little more than they like America, human beings, their own families, or integrity

• Both Joe and Kamala talk like they’re insane

• Both are inauthentic human beings who do not relate to real people well

• Neither one knows politics and neither one can read the room. Look at Kamala’s idea for price controls or taxing unrealized capital gains. Or Joe’s idea to build a railroad over the Indian Ocean (yes, he did say that). Look at how Kamala practically melted down in ecstasy over the idea that electric school buses would have USB ports. Remember when Joe screamed on a blood-red stage on the fourth of July that MAGA was going to destroy the nation?

But they’re not running the country, they’re just keeping us distracted. Who’s actually in the secret cabal running things? Communists? The Chinese? The CIA? Don’t tell me it’s Kim Cheatle and Pete Buttigieg. Then we’re really in trouble. I really wish some whistleblowers would tell us: who’s running the country?