Who’s running the federal government?

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Samuels wrote that while the legacy media have generally portrayed Obama as somewhat aloof from the politics of today and uninterested in power, the former president and his most loyal lieutenants are heavily involved in directing the federal government and politics in general.

The Obamas never left the nation’s capital. “Instead, they bought a large brick mansion in the center of Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood—violating a norm governing the transfer of presidential power, which has been breached only once in post-Civil War American history, by Woodrow Wilson, who couldn’t physically be moved after suffering a series of debilitating strokes,” Samuels wrote.

The excuse the Obamas gave for staying in Washington was that their daughter Sasha was still in high school, and they wanted her to finish her education at the posh Sidwell Friends private school. But Sasha has since left for college, but the Obamas stayed in Washington.

Samuels wrote that it’s clear that their decision to stay was not just a “personal matter.” Instead, Obama remained to orchestrate resistance to his successor, President Donald Trump, and to continue the work he’d been doing while in office.

To an extent that has never been meaningfully reported on, the Obamas served as both the symbolic and practical heads of the Democratic Party shadow government that ‘resisted’ Trump—another phenomenon that defied prior norms.
The fact that these were not normal times could be adduced by even a passing glance at the front pages of the country’s daily newspapers, which were filled with claims that the 2016 election had been ‘stolen’ by Russia and that Trump was a Russian agent.

The Tablet piece paints a picture of a former president pulling the strings to orchestrate the federal government’s domestic and foreign policies, with Biden reduced to being a “Weekend at Bernie’s”-like puppet.

“When Obama turned up at the White House, staffers and the press crowded around him, leaving President Biden talking to the drapes—which is not a metaphor, but a real thing that happened,” Samuels wrote.

A powerful, charismatic politician with no official power but ruling from the shadows is common for countries with a long tradition of authoritarian government. For instance, that was how Vladimir Putin held onto power in Russia when he was constitutionally barred from serving a third consecutive term in office. Dmitry Medvedev became president, but Putin was the man in charge.

It was a good way to uphold the illusion of a free society without having to deal with the whole “government of the people, by the people, for the people” business.

Again, these sorts of arrangements aren’t unusual through the scope of history. At one time, our way of government was seen as merely an experiment. Over time, we proved that it wasn’t just an experiment, but the best way to organize a society.



 

Hijinx

Well-Known Member
Obama or whoever runs Obama , can we call it a cabal is running America.
Joe Biden is just wallpaper. Just a puppet, IMO Obama also got his share of the money the Bidens got for selling influence also.
You don't buy 4 mansions off what Obama made on books and Presidential salary. It cost $ Millions just for the upkeep on mansions .

Whoever is running things has made a sorry mess of it.
Weaponizing every part of the Government with partisan politics not seen since Hitler took over Germany.
It hardens my suspicions that the Democrat party and Dr. Faucci worked together with China to destroy our electoral system and our economy to get rid of Trump and put this old crook in the White House.
 
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