{"id":186,"date":"2024-07-10T17:24:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T00:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/disputedquestions\/?p=186"},"modified":"2024-07-11T07:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T14:39:04","slug":"who-is-really-in-charge-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/disputedquestions\/2024\/07\/who-is-really-in-charge-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Really in Charge in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
I have to admit, the brouhaha over Joe Biden\u2019s obvious cognitive decline makes me crazy.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s because some of us have been warning about it almost from the day he took office.<\/p>\n
In June 2021, just six months after his inauguration, I wrote this:<\/p>\n
\u201cJoe Biden is ostensibly the president, yet he continues to show signs of cognitive impairment \u2013 despite the controlled media insistence that all is well and there is nothing to see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\u201cA politician for more than 40 years, Biden is still able to read prepared remarks in front of a TelePrompter but appears to have difficulty answering impromptu questions \u2013 fumbling ordinary words, forgetting what he was speaking about in mid-sentence, sometimes even ceasing to speak altogether.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a number of high-profile gaffes, the White House press office recently conceded that Biden\u2019s handlers don\u2019t want him answering unscripted questions from the media<\/a>.<\/p>\n
A month before that, in May, a group of 124 retired U.S. military admirals and generals had signed a letter questioning Biden\u2019s fitness<\/a> for office.<\/p>\n
\u201cRecent Democrat leadership\u2019s inquiries about nuclear code procedures sends a dangerous national security signal to nuclear armed adversaries, raising the question about who is in charge,\u201d\u00a0the letter said<\/a>. \u201cWe must always have an unquestionable chain of command.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joe Biden speaks on the phone with the president of Mexico in May 2023. Source: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
This was in May 2021\u2026 more than three years ago!<\/em><\/p>\n
The letter was referring to a call by House Democrats that Biden give up sole control of U.S. nuclear weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n
In a letter written by Rep. Jimmy Panetta of California, the Democrats demanded that Biden change the command-and-control structure surrounding America\u2019s nuclear arsenal so that he no longer has the sole authority to launch weapons.<\/p>\n
The retired admirals and generals also questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election, a topic that the nation\u2019s corporate media have declared off-limits from any public discussion.<\/p>\n
The \u201cConstitutional Republic is lost\u201d without \u201cfair and honest elections that accurately reflect the \u2018will of the people,\u2019\u201d the retired flag officers\u00a0wrote<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cThe FBI and Supreme Court must act swiftly when election irregularities are surfaced and not ignore them as was done in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n
The corporate media have declared any questioning of the 2020 election to be a \u201cbig lie<\/a>,\u201d a phrase taken from World War II. \u00a0The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler in his autobiography\u00a0Mein Kampf<\/em>\u00a0and is used to mean \u201ca gross distortion or misrepresentation of the facts, especially when used as a propaganda device by a politician or official body.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet Republican leaders have turned the phrase itself against the corporate media, insisting that it is the corporate media, rather than ordinary Americans, that are engaged in overt propaganda.\u00a0 Biden\u2019s recent performance on the debate stage has proven that to hundreds of millions of people all over the world.\u00a0 It\u2019s become painfully clear to most that the controlled corporate media have been covering up Biden\u2019s mental decline\u2026 for years.<\/p>\n
As for the 2020 election, the media narrative has been that January 6th was an \u201cinsurrection\u201d by an \u201carmed mob\u201d that \u201ckilled police.\u201d<\/p>\n
After years of investigations, it turned out that law enforcement did not find a single weapon on any of the protesters<\/a>,\u00a0video surveillance footage reveals most were comically peaceful<\/a>, and the sole policeman who died at the time\u00a0was a victim of a stroke, not of any attack as the media repeatedly and falsely reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n
As for the public at large, polls show that many ordinary Americans continue to question the results of the 2020 election \u2013\u00a0despite being ordered not to by the corporate media<\/a>.<\/p>\n
According to Rasmussen Reports<\/a>, \u201cvoters are not letting go of their belief that the 2020 presidential election was a fraud-filled nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n
By a margin of 51% to 44%, voters said it is \u201clikely\u201d that cheating affected the outcome. That included 74% of Republicans and 30% of Democrats.<\/p>\n
The corporate media and Democrat politicians claim cheating rarely happens, and that there is no evidence of \u201cwidespread\u201d voter fraud.\u00a0 Yet they deliberately ignore the obvious fact that, due to the \u201cwinner take all\u201d electoral college voting system, \u201cwidespread\u201d cheating would not have been necessary.\u00a0 Just a little cheating would have worked just fine.<\/p>\n
As journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes claimed in their book, Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency,\u00a0<\/em>Biden only won the election with a slim cumulative margin of about 50,000 votes in four key swing states<\/a>.<\/p>\n
In addition, a month after the election, Time Magazine\u00a0published an article<\/a> that described how \u201ca \u2018well-funded cabal\u2019 of corporate elites, far-left activists and media organizations launched what the magazine called a \u201cconspiracy to save the 2020 election\u201d and ensure that Trump would lose his reelection bid.<\/p>\n
According to the article<\/a>, this powerful group of corporate and media elites succeeded by \u201cworking together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.\u201d<\/p>\n
The letter from 124 retired U.S. military admirals and generals showed that, even three years ago,<\/em> many top leaders were worried that a corporate takeover of American government had indeed occurred, that there was a \u201ccoup\u201d but that it was organized by corporate oligarchs, not raging Boomers on January 6th.<\/p>\n
Following Joe Biden\u2019s complete mental breakdown during the first Biden-Trump debate in July, in which he struggled to put even three coherent sentences together, the question has returned with dramatic force:\u00a0 Who is really in charge of America?\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n
It\u2019s clearly not Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
Is it his wife Jill?\u00a0 A group made up of former Obama Administration officials?\u00a0 The tech billionaires who fund the Democrat Party?<\/p>\n
No one knows.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s becoming increasingly clear even to \u201cnormies,\u201d the people who believe whatever the corporate media tell them, that America is veering dangerously close to a banana republic, with what they used to call a secret \u201cjunta\u201d in charge.<\/p>\n
Never forget that many Democrats specialize in projection:\u00a0 whatever they say Republicans will do, you can bet money that it\u2019s what they are already doing themselves\u2026 or have done.<\/p>\n
Now they\u2019re claiming that electing someone they don\u2019t like will mean the \u201cend of democracy\u201d (or, more accurately, the end of the Democrat Party).<\/p>\n
But that may well be because they\u2019ve already ended it themselves.<\/p>\n
Patheos writer Robert J Hutchinson in Munich. Photo by Robert Hutchinson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Robert J. Hutchinson is an award-winning Catholic writer and the author of numerous books of popular history<\/a>, including\u00a0<\/em>Searching for Jesus: New Discoveries in the Quest for Jesus of Nazareth (Thomas Nelson), The Dawn of Christianity (Thomas Nelson), The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible (Regnery) and When in Rome: A Journal of Life in Vatican City (Doubleday). Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, he attended Catholic schools, studied philosophy at a Jesuit university, moved to Israel to learn Hebrew, and then earned a degree in New Testament studies. Hutchinson is currently pursuing graduate studies in the Philosophy of Religion in Europe and writes for many publications. You can read more about the author at\u00a0www.RobertHutchinson.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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