had a stray thought when i was drifting off a, perhaps the, core public role of a president is to appear and give speeches to coordinate national behavior we are now in our second presidency where the president is not good at his job and i suspect this is probably fairly bad
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1/ I think you're on the right track but letting Biden's appearance detract from your analysis. It's tempting to view Biden as an Obama puppet, but the real O wouldn't have withdrawn from Afghanistan against military advice nor pursued the same agenda goals of Biden. I think it's
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2/ fair to say Trump was more McConnell's fiddle than to say either Pelosi or Schumer guide the Biden agenda. Yes, it's beholden to DNC rot but Biden has a surprising sway. He's not convincing in public but he seems to have a better grip on Congress than Barry ever did.
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oh it hadnt even occurred to me to think of them as puppets or not or if you want to like surely one point of a puppet is to look convincingly not a puppet isnt it?
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