The twitter post about it means nothing, because we've known forever that Biden has nothing to do with that account.
Where's Joe?
"He announced it via Twitter... I thought that if Joe Biden was going to do this, he would've announced that he had a presser or... some sort of big statement that he was going to give from the Oval Office or from the White House somewhere, and that he was going to do that at a preset time later in the evening.... The rest of the world knows that Joe Biden is... totally senile and not in control of his faculties at this point. I mean, when Joe Biden wakes up and someone tells him he's no longer running for president, he's gonna be quite shocked about that. I would assume. I mean, by the way, he could wake up tomorrow and undo this...."
Said Ben Shapiro, in the new episode of his podcast.
So, yeah, what evidence do we have that Joe Biden knows he has given up his candidacy and released the delegates pledged to him? We haven't seen him. He's been sick with Covid. When last we heard from him in person he was defiantly clinging to the candidacy, apparently still believing that he is the one person who can save the world from Donald Trump. We were simply handed written statements.
Shapiro imagines Joe Biden shocked to hear that he's dropped out. He could be shocked because he didn't actually agree to drop out, but he could be shocked because he actually is something like what Ben Shapiro calls "totally senile" and he doesn't remember or understand what he did or supposedly did yesterday. Is his written statement binding?
I can't buy into this theory, but this is a major, major decision affecting the country. Until Biden signs on the line that he's withdrawing, we should not permit him to withdraw (or to be withdrawn by others).
We require a signature and a witness for most legal matters. But in this case, we're taking the word of a twitter account run by anonymous propagandists?
No.
Supposedly Biden's White House staffers only learned that Biden was "dropping out" from the tweet that was written and posted by someone other than Joe Biden.
POLITICO
@politico
Biden's announcement stunned White House and campaign aides, who up until this afternoon were insisting he'd stay in the race.
"We're all finding out by tweet," said one Dem. "None of us understand what's happening."
I started to feel that Biden would not drop out after all of those statements that he was in it to win it on Friday. I kept saying, "All he has to do to resist this pressure is just keep saying, 'no.' And that's all he has to do, say 'no.'"
But then on Saturday, I realized that wasn't true: They could force Biden out: By the 25th Amendment process. The scenario I considered is that every Cabinet secretary (they vote in the 25th Amendment process) could come forward to Biden and tell him, "If you force us to invoke the 25th Amendment, we will all vote that you are 'incapacitated,' and you'll lose this presidency as well as the next one. And you'll go down in history as the first officially-senile president."
So here's my own conspiracy theory about why Joe isn't talking:
Joe called their bluff and said "then have your vote." They voted, and declared him incapacitated -- secretly. Then, instead of making this public, they took the vote to Biden, and said, "We are about to announce this. But you can negotiate a way out. Just withdraw from the race, and we'll bury this vote and never speak of it again."
That could explain this very strange situation.
Obviously, this would mean that Biden is currently not the president, as upon the taking of this (hypothetical) vote he ceased to be president and Kamala Harris became president, and that means that the nation is currently being run by an illegal junta.
In other words-- par for the course.
Per Wikipedia: they could even declare him temporarily incapacitated, and then restore him to office when they decide the "incapacitation" ends. In other words, when Biden says "Okay, I withdraw."
The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with presidential succession and disability.
It clarifies that the vice president becomes president if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office through impeachment, and establishes how a vacancy in the office of the vice president can be filled. It also provides for the temporary transfer of the president's powers and duties to the vice president, either on the initiative of the president alone or on the initiative of the vice president together with a majority of the president's cabinet. In either case, the vice president becomes acting president until the presidential powers and duties are returned to the president.
I don't believe my own conspiracy theory, but I also don't disbelieve it. This crew has shown themselves to be sneaky, mendacious, and infinitely corrupt and lawless. If there are gaps in any of their official stories, it is prudent to fill those gaps with assumptions of crimes and corruptions.