Who was really running Biden's White House?
Who was the shadowy string-puller in charge?
Twitter is aflame with speculation about how They were controlling the increasingly senile and prostate cancer ridden Joe Biden.
But nobody can agree on who They were.
Is They Barack and Michelle?
But are those two in their mid-sixties really that energetic?
Is They Bill and Hill?
But are those two, at even more advanced ages, really that energetic? And they were always more rivals than allies of Biden.
Is They Kamala?
Yeah, sure, Joe and Jill went out of their way to make her look good: “You, be Border Czar!”
Is They the Klaus Schaub World Economic Forum?
Sure.
As I’ve argued all along, They is mostly Joe and Jill Biden’s appointees, such as Joe’s old-timer Mike Donilon and Jill’s top aide Anthony Bernal [link fixed]. I.e., They are staffers doing pretty much what Joe Biden would have done over his half-century career in Washington if he were still able.
Biden, with his huge ego, is basically The Other Trump, except he’s much less entertaining.
Yes, I think this speculation is exactly right. It was Biden's "people" through a whole lot of virtuous groupthink who were running things. The "White House" is a collection of a lot of lower level "political kids" and they run every administration. The only check being that the president usually ultimately has the final say on most matters... but usually he just does whatever the political kids tell him to do.
In the Biden White House, Jill probably interacted with the staff to keep up the ruse that he was in charge, but as long as they respected her as the queen of the castle, they were free to do whatever they wanted in conjunction with the overall goals of the democrat party. And whenever they needed Joe to go out there and make a statement or travel somewhere, he dutifully did and then went back to bed and never made any actual decisions.
Really, more broadly I'd say, and have thought for some time, that the Biden White House was run by the democrat party. There was someone who had control of the autopen and told the local staff what to work on on a day to day basis, probably the Chief of Staff and others near to him, but really policy decisions were made by a cabal of senior democrat politicians (Pelosi, Schumer, to a lesser extent Obama) and Biden's political staff doing whatever the hell they wanted to do in a combination of true believer crap (see the tranny parties etc etc) and pork barrel politics (ie Green New Deal).
What I find most amusing is the hand-wringing of the leftist journalists about how senile Joe Biden was during his presidency. His senility was obvious for at least the last year. Why didn't the journalists point this out? If a Republican president was senile, the left-journalists would have gone after him like piranhas going after a steer that had wandered into the Amazon. The left-journalists didn't point out Biden's senility because they thought he could defeat Donald Trump until his poor performance in the June 2024 debate.
Had Joe Biden stayed in the 2024 presidential election race and won, you would see these very same left-journalists defending Biden's mental acuity right now.