National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan hosts Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong of Singapore and other senior Singaporean officials, Thursday, October 12, 2023, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Oliver Contreras)
Where’s Joe Biden? Where’s Kamala Harris? With Biden out to pasture on a Delaware beach somewhere and Harris only appearing in carefully curated and mostly scripted campaign stops, who is running the country? James Howard Kunstler wonders on his Substack, writing:
How did they even get “Joe Biden” off the beach for that photo op? It is understood by everyone over ten-years-old in America that “JB” is not available for duty anymore. The “out-to-lunch” sign hangs permanently on the doorknob of the Oval Office now. The USA does not have a functioning chief-of-state for the first time in 235 years. After 2021, some sort of unelected, informal Politburu that self-assembled in the White House, like a clot from a Covid Vaccine shot, is running our affairs. Maybe Kamala Harris has a clue who is in that outfit. Or somebody in the news median could ask her (if she ever gets around to holding an actual news conference, where the questions are not previewed or scripted.) Anyone dare ask?
Kamala Harris is strangely missing from the front page of The New York Times this morning. Is that a little ominous? The debate is behind her. There will not be another, apparently. There is nothing about her schedule on the official campaign website. Has she entered fade-away mode? Is it all over now except for the ballot harvesting and the, uh, little adjustments to the Dominion vote-counting machines? Has the drinking started again?
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