Dubious Caesar: The Stabbing Of Joe Biden

The Consultant’s Coup

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Joe Biden has been getting old in public for 81 years, this was not news. It’s literally olds. The political and news castes made this a story in 2024, in an attempt to overthrow him. You could see the conventional logic turn overnight, like someone couped the radio and TV stations. The talking heads went from ‘Joe Biden is my friend and how dare you question him’ to ‘Joe Biden is my friend and must be defenestrated.’ Elites are now calling for an ‘open’ convention, pointedly after it’s impossible for ordinary Americans to vote. What we witnessed in the earliest debate in American history was the latest ruse in the longest running theatrical production in the world. American elections.

Dubious Caesar

June 27th, 2024 was a night of pure political theatre, writ large. That’s when the production of Dubious Caesar took the boards of the Globalization Theatre, broadcast by CNN. As Shakespeare wrote in his much better original:

CAESAR: Et tu, Brutè! Then fall, Caesar. [Dies]
CINNA: Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead! Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.
CASSIUS:
Some to the common pulpits, and cry out ‘Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!’

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