Bidenoptics: Promoting the Illusion of Competence
“Bureautocracy:” The combined, unelected cadre of high-level, federal political appointees, career bureaucrats, and advisors who see their roles essential to mediating Presidential activism, or lack thereof, and controlling the hoi poloi for “the good of the masses.”
“OBriceklainiden Administration:” A contraction of the principle players (handlers) in the “Biden” white house: Barry Obama, Susan Rice, and Ron Klain. I may have to change it to “OBriceklainivan” to reflect Barry Obama, Susan Rice, Ron Klain, and Jake Sullivan.
Briefings From the Soundstage
The bureautocracy’s (AKA deep state, shadow government) attempts to continue the illusion of !President Biden’s competence would be laughable, if it were not so serious. Biden is no more than the sock puppet of the OBama-Rice-Klain-military-security-intelligence-complex political machine. Perhaps the saddest part is that Joe seems to revel in the charade (or, maybe he is unaware of it?).
One of the truly laughable optics are the obviously staged “working at his desk” shots. Rather than being staged in surroundings familiar to Americans, that is the office adjacent to the rose garden, a stage with fake windows and a shrunken desk is presented, with Joe sitting behind the miniaturized desk posed to be “presidential.” The vision reminds me of a desk my wife had when she was six, and suggests a portrait of a kid playing grownup.
One of the ironies over their efforts to project a “clean” optic is that audiences of large venues, whether political, or not, know speakers use teleprompters to stay on point, and on time. The angular glass screens are ubiquitous. Most viewers of Joe’s pressers likely suspect he is reading from a teleprompter, whether they see it or not.
However, the penchant for “clean” optics is necessary to project, and continue, the image of a mentally alert, verbally competent, in-control head-of-state. The mounting evidence of Milley’s out-of-band telephone calls, the Attorney General’s extraordinarily rapid memos to curtail dissent issued in response to private alarm over calls for accountability of locally elected officials, reportedly with an absence of preliminary investigation, and Joe’s frequent “I’ll get in trouble” quips (the recent absence of which suggests he got in trouble over that, too) seems to belie their desired image of competence.
§ Personally, my confidence in the fidelity and ability of Biden is not zero; it is in the negative numbers–just as it is with the bureautocracy of “his” dministration