Instapundit links to an Elon Musk tweet this morning that quotes an important Glenn Greenwald observation:
The US has no functional president and has not had one for months, and it’s barely noticeable and barely matters because there’s a permanent unelected machine that runs the government.
Elon adds: BINGO
Thomas Massie interjects: “Where’s the lie?” Well, that leads to my only complaint with the verbiage…that being the word “months” because a proper recording of the history will notice that Joe Biden has not been a functional president since the beginning.
The bigger picture related to that observation goes back to the topic of the Prideless Executive in a failing Republic that I have been trying to clearly communicate (mostly to myself) for a while now. I repeat here the final passages of my first attempt at the topic:
I return to the topic tonight just to document what has been obvious for some time to most anyone willing to see but – as of late last evening (evidently) – is now just being openly rubbed in our faces to the cheers and giggles of a fully corrupted party: The oval office has been occupied since January 2021 by a hollow vessel happy to have the title but without an ounce of pride in the authority that goes with it and the uses of it done in his name by others…nameless, faceless others. (He has been mindlessly signing Executive Orders since his very first hours in office like Colonel Henry Blake initialing whatever papers Radar O’Reilly puts under his nose. His party cheered him on…embarrassments galore.)
From my vantage point, this is the culmination of voting undefined “Hope and Change” into power and the big finale of the “fundamental transformation” promised back in 2008. This is the ultimate poison pill: the system we were given does not work when the Chief Executive has no real pride in this sense. (Both parties must abide by this in good faith. Obviously, given the replacement for FJB on the 2024 ticket, our current construct fails this requirement. Any potential relief in the offing is destined to be temporary.)
A vain moron with advanced cognitive decline is a poor substitute for a Proud President. May history treat him and his enablers and his handlers appropriately.
[Emphasis added]
I will also repeat here one of the growing number of wonderful signs that three and a half years of Prideless Leadership does not go unnoticed by a population that has the pride inherent in American Liberty pumping through its veins:
Again: Complete and utter indifference…a natural and oh-so-fitting response to the pathetic figure that is FJB and his number two. Nobody likes cares for a loser.
Less than ten days until we enter the next phase of the managed decline of the American Republic. I suspect that nothing about the end of this phase or the beginning of the next is going to be pleasant. The Progressive Machine – in its usual lack-of-good-faith manner – will make sure of that. Hold on tight.
Deeper into the abyss we go…
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For easy reference, here are the earlier posts of the Prideless Executive series:
Bad Faith Governance and the (Intentional) Absence of the Proud Executive (August 20, 2024)
The Prideless Candidate Model of the American Left (September 2, 2024)
An Administration of the Prideless – The Path to the Well Earned and Humiliating ‘Indifference’ of the Masses (September 13, 2024)
That first link contains a good summary of the Bad Faith Governance series as posted throughout the FJB years. I will provide that here also for easy reference in the future:
Bad Faith Governance on Collision Course With the Voluntary Compact
Bad Faith Governance and More Symptoms of the Great Unraveling
Bad Faith Governance Through Coercion and Lawlessness
Bad Faith Governance: The Chicken[CRAP] Court Edition
Bad Faith Governance – The ‘They aren’t even pretending otherwise anymore’ Edition
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