President Joe Biden’s late decision not to seek reelection has scrambled both the media’s Sunday plans and collective brains. In the wake of the expected but nonetheless surprising news, the galaxy-brain takes are flying.
Watch as former U.S. Senator for Missouri and MSNBC contributor “Air” Claire McCaskill drops a head-scratcher in the immediate aftermath of Biden’s announcement: that Biden had no one hoping for some other candidate.
JEN PSAKI: Claire, let me ask you, you know President Biden well. What- we’re going to spend some time, as I think we ought, as I think everybody should over the next couple months talking about his legacy. What do you hope people remember and talk about him in terms of his time as president?
CLAIRE MCCASKILL: You know, I think it’s really important. We are so polarized in this country right now. I think it’s really important to remember how effective he was at marshaling a team, first of all. He doesn't have anybody in his cabinet that’s not- that wasn't endorsing him. He doesn't have a vice president that isn't gonna be at his convention. He doesn't have, you know, loads of people saying, “oh, I wish it were someone else” behind the scenes. [!] Um, you know, it really is that he- that he was going to bring people together. And that he was gonna restore dignity. And normalcy to the Oval Office.
Wait, are we in the Twilight Zone? Did we not arrive at this historical juncture PRECISELY BECAUSE there were “loads of people saying, ‘oh, I wish it were somewhere else’”? Do vast majorities of the American population and even Democrats not count as “loads of people”?
The same media that gaslit the American public over Joe Biden’s mental fitness to execute the office of the presidency and abetted the DNC’s suppression of the 2024 primary, which would’ve flushed Biden’s deficiencies out a lot sooner than the June 27th debate, are now going to attempt to gaslight the American public into believing that this is “democracy”. Proof evident of that is a former United States Senator appearing on MSNBC air and saying that no one clamored for someone other than Biden to be the 2024 Democrat candidate.
