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First of all, he didn't "tap his VP," he ceded to an intense internal pressure campaign conducted by the most influential power brokers within his own party. This has been thoroughly reported out by mainstream news sources, and even Nancy Pelosi herself acknowledged it (in guarded terms) in the recent podcast interview she just had with the New Yorker's David Remnick.

Secondly, my point is that this was a deliberate plan from the Democratic Party to scrap their primary process and install Kamala Harris without any type of popular vote. I predicted this exact scenario way back in June of last year, per the screenshot I sent here.

The media and the DNC both spent the past four years denying obvious signs of Biden's cognitive decline, including (in 2019 alone) forgetting Barack Obama's name, lecturing Black parents that they needed to have the "record player" playing at night so their kids could learn basic reading comprehension, and repeatedly forgetting what he said just minutes prior during debates. When rising star Julian Castro called him out on the latter, he was effectively excommunicated from the party, despite delivering the keynote speech at the 2012 Democratic Convention and being touted as the next Obama for years after that.

This doesn't even touch on all the obvious signs of senility and/or cognitive decline since 2019. Literally, the 1-2 weeks before the infamous debate, you have the NYT, NPR, etc. alleging that clips showing Biden's obvious listlessness were actually "deceptively edited" by right-wing conspiracists and malicious Russian actors, despite evidence to the contrary to literally anyone with a functioning pair of eyes and ears.

Then, you have Biden agreeing to the earliest general election debate in history (a timeframe spanning 74 years and 14 election cycles). It just so happens to be after the primary elections pass (prohibiting the chance of voters supporting a candidate not approved by DNC leadership), but before the convention (making replacement easy). It marked the perfect catalyst for DNC leadership to kick off a conversation about Biden's age and fitness, and it did.

Suddenly, media coverage turned on its "Biden is brilliant and you just don't see it publicly" stance on a dime, and you had cable news talking heads like David Axelrod literally saying their phones were "blowing up" with Dems saying Biden's fitness was a major issue, literal days after those same people were insisting that Biden was running meetings authoritatively and with cognitive clarity.

This was an obvious plan from the beginning to replace Biden and install Harris without a primary vote from Democratic voters where they may either reject Harris (as they did resoundingly in 2020) or end up with a different candidate. While I normally eschew making didactic statements about news events, I do believe one's opinion on this matter is a clear indicator of whether they have critical thinking skills, or whether they lap up whatever the DNC tells them. I do sincerely mean that.

Because while we can all agree that most conspiracy theorists are ridiculous and make massive assumptions based on little evidence, I think the opposite extreme also exists: "coincidence theorists" who ignore a *massive* amount of coincidental evidence in order to arrive upon a conclusion that is convenient for their "side."

And to me, if someone out there legitimately thinks that Biden randomly turned senile in the earliest, most unprecedented debate in US election history, after years of believing he was somehow cognitively sharp (despite all evidence to the contrary), and that media/DNC treatment of him suddenly changed based on this one event...then fuck, I don't think they're genuinely paying attention. I think they're lapping up DNC talking points and repeating them. Dead-ass.