Biden out, Harris in. Conspiracy theories metastasize as the democratic candidate (and current President) calls it quits and coronates his Vice President. The right spreads conspiracy theories about Joe Biden being dead and replaced by a body double or some form of AI. BlueAnon chimes in with some new theories now that "their guy" is out. And we explore what's next for election season with analyst & politics writer Josh (Ettingermentum).
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Breaking news!
My dangerous rhetoric has finally caused President Joe Biden to test positive for COVID, die, and become an artificial intelligence body double.
Unfortunately, a line of code in the new Biden bot has caused him to drop out of the race for the presidency, forcing Kamala Harris into the spotlight as she opens the panel in the back of his head and attempts to reboot the democracy chip.
In this episode, we'll be exploring the conspiracy theories spawned by Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential race, Making way for the ascent of existential philosopher, former prosecutor, and savior of democracy, Kamala Harris, who was probably taking a vice-presidential nap while her administration armed Israel, and is now a good person despite the context of all in which she lives and what came before her.
Our guest this week is Josh, known as Edindrementum on Twitter, who will help us flawlessly predict what comes next for the American experiment.
You can go check out his newsletter at edindrementum.news.
We'll be putting that link in the show notes.
Welcome, Josh.
Yeah, it's great to be on.
It is our pleasure.
Friends, President Joseph Robinette Biden is no longer seeking a second term, and Vice President Kamala Harris is now the Democratic presidential nominee.
Conspiracy theories, unsurprisingly, are flourishing in reaction to the shift, beginning with some baking of Biden's announcement, which he first made through a letter posted to social media on July 21st.
And since QAnon is now in the water, we don't need to dig very deep to find claims that Joe Biden is in fact dead, slain by the COVID-19 virus he recently contracted.
It is an odd way to announce it though, right?
Like, you would think that he would have some sort of video, some sort of proof of life, not like a notes app apology.
Oh, you just expected him to make a video like, I'm dead.
Maybe, maybe there was like a moment during his COVID infection where like his fever, I don't know, maybe his fever spiked or something happened and people panicked.
They were like, well, we better like get you something in writing just in case this gets any worse.
And then, you know, he got better and everything was good.
Yeah, it was, it was supposedly a really bad variant.
Like, it was like a really new, like, kind of variant.
I know this because, like, my girlfriend works in public health and she told me about it.
It's called a flirt variant, and it's really bad.
Nancy Pelosi was just, like, cooking up a new variant.
Yeah, she was licking every doorknob in the White House.
It paid off.
Yeah, well, I mean, he certainly made an effort.
Like, I think he gave that, like, Zoomer interviewer COVID.
He made a video like, okay, I think, uh, I think the president gave me the clap.
That's so awesome that he just went around contaminating everybody and then just kind of like went off grid and the right wing is like, he's dead.
I mean, he's already dropped out, guys.
Why kick an old man while he's down, Jack?
How genuinely different is the development of history if Joe Biden dies, like right now?
I feel like the same thing functionally happens.
No, Kamala gets the incumbency key.
Oh, that's true.
She gets the key, right?
Bad for their whole campaign promise that, like, he cured COVID, you know, that would be not so good.
It's one of the things that they talk about.
It's like Trump getting killed by an illegal immigrant or ISIS or something.
I love that in his goodbye speech, which we all watched before this recording, he said he was going to cure cancer.
I'm like, I can think of something else he should probably focus on right now.
It's going to be the October surprise of a lifetime.
He's going to do it.
That's what Biden will be known for.
Yeah.
It's like Jimmy Carter lifespan, sort of.
Yeah.
If you had a Jimmy Carter level post-presidency, I think you'd have to live to like 130.
Well, I mean, times are changing.
Medicine is getting better.
You never know.
Yeah.
He's going to refuse to give Kamala any credit and she's going to lose the election because of it.
He's like, this one was all me, Jack.
So here is former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino speaking to Brett Baier on Fox News a few hours after Biden announced his withdrawal from the presidential race.
They didn't even release a White House still photograph.
Nothing.
So are we, I mean, I hope he's fine.
But you could forgive people for wondering if we are really living Weekend at Bernie's right now.
This comes across as like the way someone talks about their frenemy.
It's like, oh no, I hope she's fine.
Former Congressman Madison Cawthorn added fuel to the fire tweeting, anyone else think Biden is dead?
That's that's just so awesome that you can just go on Twitter and do that.
I mean, I guess he's he's out, right?
He got outed for saying that they had sex parties in the Republican circles.
Yeah, they went really hard on him.
This is like a washed up tweet.
Like just very juiceless.
Kind of general feeling of that milieu.
Nothing else.
Yeah.
Anyone else think?
They stripped him out. It was like brutal work.
This is like a washed up tweet.
Like just very juiceless.
Kind of general feeling of that milieu.
Nothing else.
Anyone else think? I mean, not very strong.
Former Fox News producer Kyle Becker laid out what became a widespread conspiracy theory in an exhausting amount of bullet points that now people who pay for the fucking checkmark are allowed to post.
I'll never forgive you, Lon, for just letting you make like a billion character tweets.
Oh yeah, these people are writing full articles on Twitter.
It's the dreaded show more button.
Let's recap this historic day.
Joe Biden suddenly resigns in quotation marks via at X. White House staff find out one minute later.
Joe Biden resignation letter not on official letterhead.
Biden signature in quotes suspect underlined in parentheses What's with all the punctuation all of a sudden
Come on.
Steve Ruscetti helped write letter.
Jill Biden tweets heart emoji response.
Yeah, that's damn... Okay, I was a bit skeptical and now I'm convinced.
She tweeted the little devil face.
White House wipes Biden's schedule. White House chief of staff calls cabinet, manages comms.
Frank Biden confirms health a factor. Families suggest Biden may have terminal illness.
Joe Biden holds no live press conference. Where is Joe?
Just another perfectly normal day in Biden's America.
Becker has since deleted this tweet. Unsurprisingly.
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert joined in on the conspiracy theory, tweeting this.
I demand proof of life from Joe Biden today by 5 p.m.
She's doing like a Batman villain.
Yeah.
Or else I'll blow up this hospital.
[Laughter]
He needs to get in front of some camera and discuss if he's aware that he dropped out.
Yeah.
Hiding is completely unacceptable.
If he doesn't sneeze to prove that he has COVID, I would kill one hostage every hour on the hour.
This this makes sense, though.
She's like, privacy is not something that you should be afforded.
I know this because I gave a handjob to a guy watching Beetlejuice and it was on camera.
It's also she sounds like so disappointed.
It's like the stages of grief that Biden isn't the Democratic nominee.
Oh, yeah, they're all really upset.
Trump was demanding refunds for all the money he spent on ads against Biden.
Meanwhile, billionaires Bill Ackman and Elon Musk were discussing the situation on Twitter as well.
Ackman said, if this were a hostage situation, that letter would not qualify as proof of life.
And Elon responded, does have hostage vibes.
I like that you acted out.
I'm not a big Elon fan, but that was hilarious.
Owen Schroyer of InfoWars went a step further in a tweet that has been liked 30,000 times and retweeted 11,000 times.
It contains a blurry JPEG that I checked by, like, kind of clicking and expanding it and you still couldn't read the text in it.
But it's a kind of examination of Biden's signatures on his previous executive orders and a comparison to the underlined one.
Which I think was later determined was like a digital signature.
I mean, yeah, he's, he's, he's being, they're being lazy, folks.
They're being lazy.
But this is what Owen Schroyer said.
At first, I didn't think much of this, but upon further review, holy shit!
And he, uh, like put a star instead of the I, which is, dude, you work for Alex Jones.
Like, I'm pretty sure you could swear.
This was a legit coup today.
It's not his signature.
This is a blatant criminal forgery and a coup.
Why no word from Biden himself?
In the fog of the assassination attempt, the Democrats initiated a coup.
It's so funny how worried they are about Biden now when when literally like, you know, 72 hours ago, they were like, oh, he's like has dementia or he's like ushering in like the new communist regime.
But now they're like, hey, what's going on with him?
He might be being treated unfairly.
This is particularly funny because Schreuer's boss, Alex Jones, was ranting about Hillary Clinton the day before the Biden campaign made its announcement.
All right, folks, it's Saturday night and we saw The Hill, all the news reporting Hillary set to replace Joe Biden.
I called Roger Stone.
I called other sources.
They said, yeah, that's the word.
They're really going to try to replace Joe Biden in Chicago.
With Hillary Clinton, with all of her criminal activity, all of her background, all of this.
So they are literally involved in a Democrat civil war, a power struggle over what public gets control.
Biden had a closed election.
He had a closed primary.
That was all rigged.
He stole the election four years ago, tried to take Trump off the ballot, and now Hillary is swooping in to be the nominee above Big Mike, Gavin Newsom, Governor Whitmer.
Kamala Harris, all of them.
This is huge.
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