Unelected technocrats are now the nation’s chief executives, by Ryan McMaken

So who, exactly, is running the country right now? From Ryan McMaken at mises.org:

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President Biden has not been seen in public since announcing he would not seek re-election on Sunday. Biden’s “resignation” was nothing more than a text-only post on Twitter/X—and we know that the president does not manage his own social media accounts. There has been no video of the president making an announcement, and the White House is apparently planning no press conference or official act of any kind. Biden has not been seen by anyone except his inner circle in days. (We can contrast this situation with Lyndon Johnson’s televised address announcing his withdrawal from the 1968 presidential campaign.) 

This is, in the words of Glenn Greenwald, “strange.” Moreover, Biden’s silence is inexplicable if Biden actually made the decision to withdraw from the race. After all, Greenwald, notes, if Biden is “well enough to decide, then he’s well enough to speak.” Yet, following one of the most important announcements of his political career, Biden has disappeared, and few things could better illustrate how irrelevant Biden now is to the matter of who is actually running the executive branch of the United States government. (We do have some audio of him speaking on a Monday phone call.) 

A chain of events like this is characteristic of a palace coup—something along the lines of the 1991 August Coup in the Soviet Union, had it succeeded. In such cases, the chief executive is marginalized and replaced at the discretion of high-ranking bureaucrats and elites from within the ruling government itself. 

It’s too early to get many facts about the details of what threats may have been used against Biden to get him to effectively step aside in favor of Kamala Harris.  What we do know, however, is that the president is essentially absent and it is Harris who is conducting public events at the White House

So, who is running the executive branch and the White House?

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2 responses to “Unelected technocrats are now the nation’s chief executives, by Ryan McMaken

  1. Neo is the One's avatar Neo is the One

    And the former USSR wiped out right after that in a Leave The World Behind mode.

    The Derps have been in control since long before 1963 and Dwight Ike used his big stones that day when he warned of the MIC.

    He was thinking of his family?

    These things happen in an OSS National Security State.

    You can have freedom or peace and safety in a Panopticon but you can’t have both.

    Get ready to battle in the Freedome because freedom isn’t free.

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  2. PS-Jeff Zients, Ron Klain (stepped down 2023), Doug Emhoff, Susan Rice, Chicago dingle Barry, and other externals.

    The Stig Beal was the coup and you don’t vote your way out of Bolshevik Revolution Redux.

    This just in from The Grid:

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