Many people, including myself several times in this blog, predicted that if Biden became the President of the United States, he would just be a puppet of his staff, of the people behind the scenes. It became amply clear during his presidential campaign that he's suffering from old age and his mental faculties are not what they used to be. He's borderline senile. Many, many times during his campaign, and after he became the president, he showed clear signs of this, such as forgetting where he is, forgetting people's names, even using the wrong names (of people and places), stopping in the middle of long sentences and then rambling about something else, as if he just forgot what he was trying to say, and so on and so forth.
Likewise he seems too senile to realize when something is too questionable or inappropriate to say, in other words blurting out the first thing that comes to his mind, which might sound witty in his mind but turns out to be horribly inappropriate (such as saying "if you don't vote for me you ain't black", to a black person, which might have sounded witty in his own head, but he was too slow to realize how horrendously inappropriate it actually sounds, before he blurted it out.)
Many people have pointed out that he also seems quite clearly too senile to even try to hide the fact that he's just a puppet of his "staff", of people controlling him and telling him to do. Like with so many other things he just blurts it out, probably thinking that it sounds funny or endearing or something.
In several press conferences he has said things along the lines of "my staff will get mad at me if I answer any more questions", as if that were something funny to say.
In a speech in the recent US-Russia summit in Switzerland he said:
"I'll take your questions and as usual, folks, they gave me a list of the people I'm going to call on."
They gave him a list. Who's "they"?
Don't get me wrong: It's absolutely normal and to be expected for the president (and most other top members of the government) to have aides, consultants, speech writers and all other kind of staff that keep the president informed on things, guide him on upcoming events, write him speeches, inform him of the people that he will be dealing with, and help him in any way they can to prepare him for any upcoming event.
However, and of course, even then the president himself should always understand and agree to the advice and material given to him. He should read his speeches and make or ask for corrections if there's something he doesn't like or doesn't agree with, for example.
It's not proper for someone in this position, the President of the United States, the most powerful person in the country, one of the most powerful people in the world, to talk as if he's not the person in control and instead some other people, "they", are telling him what to do, who he can speak to, or what kind of things he can say or what kind of questions he can answer. It's not good for the image of the President to speak as if he wasn't making his own decisions. It's just not something you blurt out, in such a prestigious position. You don't just say "they are telling me what to do", or "they'll get angry if I do this". That just erodes the prestige and image of the President, because it hints at you not actually being in control, and instead being a puppet of "them".
And the thing is, in this case Biden most probably is a puppet of the group of people behind the scenes. He's being told what to do and what to say and who to speak to, and he just obeys (except when his senility makes him forget and he, once again, blurts something inappropriate to someone, like a reporter).
He's just too senile to realize that he shouldn't be revealing this to the worldwide public.
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