Pick Your Scandal: Democrats Installing Their Deep State Meat Puppet? Or America Accepting Subjugation?
By John Kass
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Years ago, when I began using the phrase “meat puppet” to describe those useful idiots the party would drag out to testify in favor of tax increases or open borders or welfare for illegals, the political left couldn’t help seething as they attacked me.
But I liked “meat puppet” and kept using it because it works.
And yes, it applies to Joe Biden, who was installed in the White House to protect the Deep State, and perhaps fulfilling the dark fantasies of Barack Obama.
But now the scandals keep growing. And the question the nation keeps asking: Who in the Democratic government knew of Biden’s growing senility and covered it up? Besides the corrupt left wing corporate media, of course.
Who used the White House autopen to allow some 15 million illegal migrants into the country? And who used that autopen to pardon the corrupt Biden Family Inc. and enablers? Whoever held that pen held the presidency.
Who gave the order to use the Biden autopen?
Was it Biden who had sold his honor and the White House to China? And just who held that autopen?
Was it Biden, whose brains have been a bowlful of mush for years during this long goodbye?
With all these issues colliding and growing, even metastasizing, I asked my good friend Tom Bevan, the president and co-founder of Real Clear politics to talk about all this on the Chicago Way podcast that all subscribers to johnkassnews.com get free. We talked about Biden, about Obama’s Littlefinger James Comey. And on Monday, Bevan offered an X post striking at the heart of the thing. Bevan clearly understands the political disease infecting America. It’s ugly and it’s dangerous.
For all the left’s mewling and whining about supposed “authoritarianism,” it is the Democrat hard left that would rule with the iron fist.
“Isn’t one of the hallmarks of a fascist/totalitarian regime a government that blatantly lies to its people and a press corps that dutifully repeats those lies and propaganda? Asking for a friend.”
The key to understanding all of it https://t.co/xTvrTViVLJ
— John Kass (@John_Kass) May 20, 2025
And one thing remains unanswered, as they hope to gaslight the American people into ignoring their oily handprints all over this mess: Who controlled the presidential auto-pen? He couldn’t even control himself. And adding to the stink of the Augean stables on the Potomac is the news pushed by the Biden Democrats over the weekend that he is suffering from stage 4 prostate cancer—and that it has spread to Biden’s bones. This is widely seen by most people as a cynical effort to use a terrible disease to spin the controversy. I feel sorry for the man. No one wants this.
But it’s all tied to the senility drama, and Biden’s senility just won’t go away, will it?
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist who worked as a Covid adviser to the Biden White House, was among those claiming that Biden probably had been ill with cancer for some time, perhaps without necessarily knowing it. Emanuel is from Chicago. Rahm’s brother will not play the chumbolone for anyone. But I believe the Biden Crime Family knew. And I think they put it out there to shut Americans up about the fact he was the White House meat puppet. The cancer story is just too convenient for a family that lied about everything.
“He did not develop in the last 100, 200 days. He had it while he was president,” Emanuel told MSNBC’s Morning Joe show. “He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021. Yes, I don’t think there’s any disagreement about that.”
Code translation: Biden had prostate cancer regardless of Democrat spin. And Obama mouthpiece David Axelrod used Biden’s cancer diagnosis as an excuse to spin the story away from White House culpability and tell America to hush up.
It won’t work.
He said on Sunday that discussions about President Biden’s mental acuity and whether he should have exited last year’s presidential race sooner should be “set aside” as the former president deals with a prostate cancer diagnosis.
“I think those kinds of discussions are going to happen, but they should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s sort of struggling through this,” Axelrod said on CNN as the Biden cancer news circulated.
My brother Nicholas, an expert analyst of the Deep State asked an important question on “X.” In January 2024 he wrote an article for American Greatness. He asks the essential question: Whether voters would finally condemn the Deep State or embrace it along with their own subjugation.
“We now have the answer to that question,” he posted recently. “President Trump’s epic victory against the odds marked the greatest comeback in US political history. More importantly, it represents a thorough public repudiation of the Deep State and its authoritarianism, operations, puppets and supporters, and ideological pretensions and sustained, to the detriment of US interests:
…Other challenges may emerge, “Beyond this, other challenges may well emerge. Historical examples from other countries suggest that, for a time, Deep State impulses can be suppressed. However, if ignored or otherwise left unaddressed, these impulses, nurtured in any environment where there is a lack of transparency or accountability in government operations, can resurface at moments of crisis or perceived weakness among elected civilians. —In this context it is particularly useful to consider the history of Kemalist-era Turkey, from which the Deep State concept and terminology originated. My article here.
“So, be vigilant,” he writes. “It’s not over yet.”
No it isn’t over, especially after the weekend spin frenzy and the Democrats trying to use Biden’s prostate cancer to quash more legitimate questions. But I’m an American and I have questions to ask my nation:
Did treatments to keep Biden mentally sharp occasionally involve testosterone therapy, and would that magnify the spread of the cancer?
Did the regime that ran things do that to Biden? Did Jill Biden, the evil Edith Wilson of her age, know her husband was being abused? Or was she the abuser, working him to grab all that Chinese and Ukrainian cash?
Will voters finally condemn the Deep State or embrace it along with their own subjugation?
Also, who was running the country as Joe was calling a lid on it every day and napping his presidency away, drooling over his ice cream?
Congress must demand a full-blown Congressional investigation, and a special council inquiry to find out. They have to ignore the whining and the professional keeners and use subpoena power and ask pointed, direct questions relentlessly. Just get to the bottom of it, Congressmen. Just do your jobs.
All you have to do to betray all the patriots who died for our nation over the past 250 years is suppress your anger and submit to the embrace of Deep State subjugation. It’s up to you and up to me either way this goes. Remember what Ben Franklin said, “A republic. If you can keep it.”
Let’s see if we can keep it. I have my doubts we can keep it.
But for now, it’s our country. Or at least it used to be our country.
The Fool and the Lady Fool. Kupferstich, engraving
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A totalitarian state that lies to its people, abetted by the press is the very definition of Fascism. Not a (freeze-frame) photo of Elon Musk waiving to a crowd. Using the term “fascist” in America should be abhorrent to any thinking American, but the shoe fits. Autopen? See “Dr. B.” More to follow, now that Jake Tapper is on our side!
John Kass warns, “So, be vigilant,” he writes. “It’s not over yet.”
Not by a jugful, it ain’t, CBS and its affiliates like WTBS in South Bend, Indiana are going full speed doing Medicaid/Medicare scare. The corrupt media is still very much in place, Liars are doing book tours and Skilled Trade Unions continue with Trump Evil Orange Man agit-prop. One slip and it is over, The GOP and SCOTUS are playing to Nicole Wallace and Morning Joe.
Ridicule the creeps and never let up. November was long, long, long ago. Stay awake , watch the woke and stay on your feet, brothers and sisters,
Agree Pat! Vigilance is critical, all across the political spectrum. We just barely have our country. Yes, people voted for Trump as a repudiation of the establishment oligarchy and deep state. But we need to be vigilant about corruption amidst the Republicans and Independents. Transparency is key, and continued calling out of all the political and media liars from the last 4 years and any new ones that pop up across the spectrum. We need to know the truth to continue to live in freedom!
“Obama mouthpiece David Axelrod used Biden’s cancer diagnosis as an excuse to spin the story away from White House culpability and tell America to hush up.”
This is all anyone needs to know as to who’s controlling ground operations.
I’ve said Obama was behind this all along. That was the reason Joe went to his private home in Delaware every weekend, so Jill et al could get the next set of instructions. (And now we know, Joe could get his treatments behind the public record of White House visitors). Who indeed, has been in charge?
You’re asking Congress to do its job and find out who was running the presidency? That’s funny. When has Congress done anything FOR THE PEOPLE and not the special interest groups who line their pockets. Both sides of the aisle are guilty. We have the best politicians money can buy🥴
“And adding to the stink of the Augean stables on the Potomac is the news pushed by Biden Democrats over the weekend that he has stage 4 prostate cancer…” – Had to look up Augean. You’re always teaching me, John, even while you chronicle these historic times! You haven’t lost a step.
Anyone who believes anything the corrupt media or Democratic Party and their mouthpieces say is a fool. Biden very inconveniently did not die in office so Harris could take over. He ruined the Deep State plans by living too long. Anyone who can’t see that this was a grand conspiracy all long either hasn’t connected the dots yet or doesn’t want too. However, as the Democrats say, “We are looking forward”. The real crime is letting all this slime off the hook.
In the 236 years we’ve had a president only three have remained in DC after their term: John Q Adams served in the House after his term, Wilson was too sick to leave after his stroke, and Barack Obama. Why? Biden’s people were all dead or retired, his staff was filled with old Obama staffers. That’s the first place to look.
Tough to choose between the two well-chosen questions in the headline of this splendid column. It’s like deciding whether you’d rather sit through a Taylor Swift concert or spend an hour listening to a cat howl.
Here’s a Biden Handlers Administration epitaph that actually speaks to both questions, from March 6, 2024: “I’m about to tell you the truth. And F— you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I have known him for years . . . If it weren’t the truth I wouldn’t say it.”
That was Joe Scarborough, resident of the MSNBC Care Center. A year later he’s still on the air, still not getting the treatment he needs. That seems to be a common problem among ailing Meat Puppets now.
I have friends who are Progressive chumbolones who, when I ask about that mysterious auto-pen that magically signed all those EOs, tell me that “it doesn’t matter- they did good work!” (Yes, that belief that so long as Progressive things were done, it doesn’t matter that they were done my a shadow government makes them chumbolones).
I keep reminding them that, if the job done was so good and so important, perhaps those persons should have run for election AND BEEN VOTED DOWN? Hmmmm?
I have yet to get an answer after that question.
Well they do have a point since the supreme law of the land – the US Constitution – explicitly states that the President must actually sign proposed legislation for which he approves. But for many other powers he exercises – such as the power to pardon – there is no explicit requirement for his signature. So it’s not a “matter of good work”… it’s a matter of interpretation of the US Constitution.
You lie….. then you lie to cover the lie…… and then you keep lying because you have no escape from the conundrum you have created other than the “see no evil,” “hear no evil,” “say no evil,” “we are looking forward” mantra parroted by the dems and the media.
In the land of the Dems, the one-eyed man (Biden) is king, however, we the people are not blind and have enough wits and wisdom aided by independent media to shined light on the corruption.
agree John. I don’t think we can keep it. They can’t even cut a trillion out of the budget when they need to cut two trillion. Legislators see their role as bringing “free money” to their districts, not legislating for freedom. People want money out of politics until a budget has to be cut.
Less govt spending=more freedom
The cancer is Obama and the mets are his plants in the Deep State . Until Obama is removed from the Body Politic , there will ne no remission , only a pause until the next more serious relapse . Obama is the cancer. BTW tried to comment that on the WSJ last night and got a few likes and then the WSJ algorythm 86’ed the idea .
Yes, that is part of the disease to the country, but far from all of it. There is disease in the education of our younger generations and disease in the economics/finances of the nation and disease in the defense/military and disease in the judiciary. We need serious surgery and medicine and few in Congress are willing to address these issues. Trump will clean some things up, but isn’t going to nor able to go deep enough. Need a true “reset”.
Don’t say 86’d or you’ll be Comeyed.
LOL.
How did the cancer progress to this extent if not untreated or actually stimulated? Was treatment witheld lest he inadvertently drool out its existence again?
Then, once propped up past 11-5-24, the succession can be initiated.
Great work as always, Mr. Kass. My biggest takeaways are:
Was it Biden who had sold his honor and the White House to China? And just who held that autopen?
Was it Biden, whose brains have been a bowlful of mush for years during this long goodbye?
We need answers immediately.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for those answers. The people in the (sic) “media” and a lot of elected (sic) “officials” don’t want to give us chumbolones those answers. They decide what we need to know and what to release to us.
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Dan, if we wait for answers, the answers won’t come. This is the Deep State. And they are the rats bossing the ship.
“A republic,” said Dr. Franklin, “if you can keep it.”
JK
We can only keep it if we the people demand transparency. They (media and most Federal and State politicians) want to keep distracting us from the truth.
Given all the Biden lies…..do we really know he even has cancer?
The Cancer still is living a few blocks from 1600 Penna Ave. The Dems knew Kamala was a loser from the gate. The hope had been old Joe would die in office and she would be positioned to take over during the current term. But Joe blew it at the debate. Plan B did not work. The hard working Americans struggling out in flyover country had enough and resoundingly voted NO. If you think his buddy MD did not take a vial of blood for a PSA send it to a lab under another name I have a bridge to sell you. Failure by Dr O’Connor to do a PSA on a man of Biden’s age is gross negligence and malpractice. The deep state and BO were running things. “Dr Jill” highly complicit.
Not so. If you know anything about prostate cancer and screening you’d know that Dr. O’Connor most likely was following the influential guidelines of the US Preventive Services Task Force which in 2012 recommended AGAINST routine PSA screening for ALL men and then revised their recs in 2018 recommending AGAINST routine PSA screening for men over age 70 yrs of age. So no this is not – by definition – gross negligence or malpractice. In fact it is the opposite: “the standard of care.” If anything you (and I) have an argument against the “standard of care” which in my view is nuts. But that’s another story.
Bruce:
Your comment is spot on. Your career as a medical doctor (We must now specify what kind of doctor, don’t we “Dr.” Jill?) puts you in a position to know.
Whether or not Joe Biden received appropriate care does not matter as much as how his disease was never revealed during his term. It was a failure supported and also denied in lockstep by nearly the entire media. They all swim like a school of fish.
A few years ago I began calling them “The Press-tocracy.” They control the meat puppets.
David. Thanks. You’re 100% right about the Presstocracy. And we must not follow in their footsteps. We should try and be truthful and as “objective” as possible even if the result of doing so leads to inconvenient conclusions. For instance, there is no doubt that there was an enormous conspiracy (WH, Dr Jill, WH physician, presstocracy) to hide Mr. Biden’s cognitive decline and gas light the public that ole Joe was “sharp as a tack.”. It would be very convenient and satisfying (to me) to accuse those same actors as repeating their charade regarding his cancer diagnosis. And that is certainly possible. But it is also possible – in fact probable – that they – the WH physician in particular – were merely following the influential “standard of care” which (believe it or not) recommends against routine PSA screening in men over age 70.
As a retired CPA I’ve tried to research what the rules, procedures and law are regarding the use of a presidential auto pen. However, I have not been able to find anything definitive. I believe this would be an excellent assignment for an investigative reporter.
If anyone has a link to such rules…… I would greatly appreciate seeing it.
Congress needs to step up and demand autopen signatures cannot be used for any official government actions by the Executive. The people should demand it. Need multifactor verification going forward.
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if there were any investigative reporters
I spent the last holiday with at least 20 college educated…many Catholic educated adults. Every last one of them supports Biden and Harris and think orangemanbad is the worst person to ever exist in history. Most have mortgages, all have jobs. They LOVE DEI and the censorship of opposing views….Oddly, in the company of the people I am closest with, I have no free speech or right to an opinion. They love being sheep, they love letting the other guy pay….they love gender and racial discrimination. I just try to visit and only say things like ” nice weather” and “pass the salt” anything else is heresy.
Robert,
I’ve had experiences similar to yours. It is both astounding and depressing to experience the shutdown of dissent, the pompous intolerance towards other points of view and the smug superiority of otherwise intelligent fellow citizens who so eagerly tow the line of Hard Left ideology.
Thanks for this fine article, John Kass. Couldn’t agree more. The perpetrators of the Biden health scandal should be held accountable. But somehow, I doubt that will happen.
Robert, you nailed it, “Catholic college educated,” probably slavish followers of the late Catholic Berrigan brothers and supplicants of Sister Helen Prejean. Do not waste your time and energy. Let them know that it is all in God’s hands and the Truth is slowly being revealed whether they acknowledge it or not. Their world is being relegated, as the Left loves to spout, to the “Ashbins of History.”
Fornicate the Kerrigan brothers. Just sayin
Robert, yes, they love being sheep! They have been brainwashed in the liberal universities to think a particular way vs. think logically. You will find in observing that they are very emotional thinkers. They have been taught to respond primarily in the limbic brain process vs. taught to think with their prefrontal cortex (logical & rational thinking). Once people are trained to think like that, it takes significant trauma to change. Consider all the liberal college students that needed time off from class after the election of Trump – emotional thinking. The progressive elites want them to be sheep and do what they are told. It is about power and control. Same thing the Chinese Communist’s do to have/maintain power and control.
Yianni,
No, I concur, it’s not over at all. We’ve been deceived for the past several years, and we’re pissed! Regardless of Axelrod’s or Carville’s attempts to assuage voters, that dog won’t hunt anymore. Anyone with a brain saw the deterioration of Biden before their very eyes every single day. And now, “all of a sudden” Joe mumbles has prostate cancer? Sorry, not buying. I’ve dealt with it myself, and am well aware of symptoms, Gleason score, and biopsy results. Fortunately, I opted to treat it early on before cancer could spread, and recovered thanks to my docs. We may all look like chumbolones to the deep state (and media) that continue to deceive us, but we’ve all seen the light, and thankfully turned the page to a new adminstration that has tons of common sense, thank God!
Leo, I am afraid over 40% of the voting population has not seen the light and has been seriously brainwashed by many universities from logical thinking into emotional reactivity. We barely have our country! Notice how the progressives struggle to develop a message now!
Steve,
So true. Wasn’t it Ben Franklin that warned our country is “A republic if you can keep it?” We’ve gotten lazy and complacent, and it’s time to push back – especially if we hope to keep Chicago and Illinois!! Too many giveaway programs and people on the dole that will vote however they’re told, so they can stay on the taxpayers’ payroll – and not just here, it’s everywhere, but apparently the jig is up, and we’re tired of it. Thank God!
When Biden says “We are strongest in the most broken places” – A psychoanalyst would have a field day with this. This is a subconscious expression/portrayal of the Deep State. The Deep State is broken (corrupt) by definition. And as Mr. Kass pointed out in last Sunday’s post, they create chaos so they can be the ones to “pull us out of it”, to be in control, and of course to elevate themselves financially so they can have their heaven on Earth. Please see Secular Calvinism and the creation of the “God Man” wrote George Santayana, who went on to write “This God-Man both denies the existence of God and Man”. This is what infects us.
Many will fall, some will be allowed to climb the ladder. Who is the one doing the “allowing”? Its basically a cult of people who possess a dearth of intrinsic self worth. Its a mass addiction, something the Biden family knows a great deal about.
We will keep our Republic – even if we have to secede. But I much prefer to just kick out the Coasts. We out number them. We are better than they are
What the Dems did with Biden during his term was only the second worst scandal ever in the history of our country. The first is that they were actually intent on running him for a second term. Makes things like Watergate and the Tea Pot Scandal look like tidily winks.
I like many admired the investigative journalism of Woodward and Bernstein. Now however, in my old age, as I look back, I wonder would Watergate – a coverup of a two bit break in – ever have been exposed if Nixon was a Democrat.
Consider that many on both sides of the political aisle may be colluding. The deep state won’t go quietly. Maybe not even peaceably.
Hope and work for the best. Prepare for the worst.
As a life-long political “junkie”, it was the honor of a lifetime to claim elected office for multiple terms, albeit only at the local level, but with some golden opportunities to rub shoulders with those who are often referenced by those of you who also appreciate the efforts Brother(s) Kass puts forth for us.
Partly because they came here to our village for campaign events in the homes of neighbors they knew (Bush, Sr.; Reagan) and partly because being in Washington with the U.S. Conference of Mayors provides more than just a casual “hand-shake” encounter with the sitting President (Clinton; Bush, Jr.) it became a privilege to get a bit of a different ‘sense’ of these men. All that as a background to the personal interactions and experiences I had with Mr. Obama, particularly when he was an Illinois State Senator – before he had the halo of federal infallibility around his head.
As is often said – “Details Upon Request” – but the important point to this conversation, having offered the basis for my opinion – I don’t think Mr. Former President Barack Obama is the brains behind what we’re seeing unfold in Washington. He is PART of it, he is the FACE of it (how many times did we hear about how he was young, handsome, great smile, good talker, facile in dealing with questioners, etc., etc., etc.) But NO ONE to my recollection ever really touted his intellect! And I’m here to say, in this one person’s opinion, the intellect isn’t there!!! There is the cunning, the weasel-like willingness to see where he fits in a grander scheme; the skill to extract his “share of the take”…..but he is not the brains of the outfit. He is an opportunist, a manipulator, and does what is needed/expected of him to ‘get the job done’….but someone or someones are calling the shots. We really do need to work to find out who that is or who ‘they’ are.
Ha Ha. Axelblob and Rahm?
A republic if we can keep it. How is that possible? The media is and has been lying for years. How and why is this allowed? Time to shut that down.
I’ve asked through Biden’s four years who’s in charge? It wasn’t him. I’ve called out Dr. Jill for elder abuse. Was she the auto pen? Was Hunter?
This will be a big pimple on the Democratic Party for years to come.
We want answers.
I have a theory about why Barack Obama and Michelle look so unhappy recently. It’s because he wanted Michelle (Mike?) to run for president in 2024 so he could have his fourth term in office. He knew Kamala couldn’t pull it off.
Kind of makes you wonder why the Republicans didn’t use the Hur report to remove Biden? A non- partisan, Justice Department appointed US attorney writes an honest assessment of Bidens mental acuity and the report is largely ignored? What was the end plan? The Democrats end plan was undoubtedly to have the media carry Biden over the finish line with a victory over Trump, enabling them to install an unelected president after they forced Biden to step down over his cancer. Why is the audio being released now? I would love to see what Nick has to say about these questions. Maybe in a future column, John.
Well it was not really ignored. If you recall, Hur was vilified as a partisan. He was accused of political bias, fakery, yada, yada yada. In fact I read half the written transcript … too bored to read the rest. And in fact Biden came across pretty well via said transcript. Of course I was naive. I should have known from my own medical legal experience that one can always “clean up” a transcript. Clearly what I – and others read – was in no way reflective of the actual audio … as the release of the audio made clear. That is obviously why the administration was so willing to release the transcript but not the audio. So in answer to your question. If the audio was released, ole Joe and the Dems would have been finished, right then and there.