The Illusion of Joe
- Rick de la Torre
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The real scandal isn’t that Joe Biden has Stage 4 cancer. It’s that no one told the American people—because the people running the show didn’t think you deserved to know.
Stage 4 doesn’t just sneak up on a sitting president surrounded by round-the-clock care, daily briefings, and the most comprehensive medical infrastructure on the planet. Either they knew and hid it—or they were too incompetent to notice. And after years of watching Biden stumble, mumble, and disappear from the public eye, the “we didn’t know” excuse doesn’t pass the laugh test.
So let’s stop pretending Joe Biden was ever truly in charge. The real question now is: who was?
Because what we lived through from 2021 to 2025 wasn’t a presidency—it was a managed illusion. A marketing campaign masquerading as leadership. Biden was the figurehead. The signature. The stand-in. And behind the curtain, a web of unelected operatives, D.C. lifers, and Obama-era loyalists ran the country through press releases and policy memos—while the media played bouncer for the truth.
This wasn’t a slip-up. It was a strategy. The same machine that called Trump a dictator for sending mean tweets treated the American public like children who couldn’t handle reality. The same machine that buried the Hunter Biden laptop story now wants to memory-hole the fact that they sold the country a man who may have been physically and mentally unfit to serve from day one.
And let’s not forget the 51 former intel officials—most with long careers in the CIA and other agencies—who signed their names to a public letter designed to discredit the laptop story right before the election. Not because they had proof. But because they had an agenda. They gave the Biden campaign the talking point it needed, and the media gave them cover. It was a masterclass in narrative warfare—backed by credentials, devoid of evidence, and perfectly timed to manipulate the electorate.
They said it was “Russian disinformation.” Now we know the only real disinformation was coming from inside the house.
If you’re wondering how a president with Stage 4 cancer could campaign, debate, and “govern” without anyone sounding the alarm—congratulations, you’re asking the right question. The answer is simple: he wasn’t governing. He was being handled.
That’s why they kept him away from cameras. That’s why aides screamed at reporters who asked about his health. That’s why meetings were scripted, questions were pre-approved, and any glimpse behind the curtain was treated like a national security threat. Not because Biden was fine. But because they couldn’t afford for you to know he wasn’t.
The entire thing was a lie of omission—and it’s one of the greatest deceptions ever perpetrated on the American public.
The same people who screamed about “transparency” under Trump ran a government-by-ghost under Biden. The same media that once tracked Trump’s cholesterol like it was a live ticker now shrugs off a metastatic cancer diagnosis like it’s a footnote.
This isn’t just hypocrisy. It’s institutional rot. And it’s why public trust isn’t just low—it’s collapsing.
We don’t need another commission. We need accountability. We need to know who was making decisions. Who knew what. Who decided to keep it quiet. And we need to send a message that the Oval Office is not a nursing home for the politically useful.
Because if they were willing to hide this, what else did they bury?
And who’s still lying to cover it up?