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In another UK Daily Mail article you won’t see in U.S. Establishment Media, this weekend’s headline said, “Incredible moment White House staff abruptly end Biden’s rambling Vietnam press conference mid-sentence and cut his mic.”

https://x.com/Newsweek/status/1701216498784891225

In a difficult start, President Robert L. Peters began by telling reporters, “I don’t know about you, but I’m going to go to bed.” Well. That’s obvious. Then, Biden continued, rambling incoherently, “We talked about stability, we talked about the Third World, excuse me, the Southern Hemisphere has access to change. It wasn’t confrontational at all….”

Suddenly, the booming voice of Biden’s extra-diverse press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, can be heard butting in. “Thank you everybody. This ends the press conference. Thanks everyone,” she said firmly, abruptly terminating the presser, all while Biden goofily continued trying to talk on the dead mic.

It is excruciating to watch, even for Joe.

Curiously, this time Establishment Media pointed out Joe’s struggles to remain compos mentis. For example, from Newsweek:

It raises questions, indeed. Like, is the Establishment Media trying to torpedo Joe’s presidential run to make room for someone else?

But who?

? In a Meet The Press interview with Chuck Todd, Governor Newsom expanded on his poor pandemic response and “humbly” said that he’d learned a lot of lessons and, in hindsight, “would have done everything different.” Newsom doesn’t blame himself, he blames partisanship: “I think science took a big hit,” the coiffed Governor explained. “It should be alarming to all of us that all of sudden it became partisan.”

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1700991249849917943

Nobody got it right! “Even Florida’s Ron DeSantis” closed the beaches, Newsom explained, suggesting Florida and California handled the pandemic about the same.

But even more politically fascinating, the California governor announced he’s assembled a DeSantis-style “international panel of experts,” including “ones who disagreed with our approach,” and will soon be publishing a non-partisan report “with our own lessons learned,” offering suggestions for the next pandemic.

“What is something you would have done different?” asked Todd.

“We would have done everything different,” Newsom calmly replied.

How about that? I’ll make a rare prediction. This interview is Newsom’s unofficial announcement he is running for president. They’re trying to fix what appears to be his biggest weakness: California’s disastrous pandemic policies. The tell was Newsom’s repeated invocation of non-partisanship and his excellent upcoming book report, which Establishment Media can triumph as an example of great leadership.

Governor Newsom is lining up to be the “people’s governor.” I say, good luck to him! He’s going to need it.