Thread by @SethAbramson

We all need to understand something.

Only one group has the power to decide whether President Biden will end his campaign.

Corporate media.

Voters do not get a say, nor, contrary to popular opinion, does the Biden Family.

American media wants him gone, and it will make it so.

I understand some of you doubt this. You probably haven't been watching CNN.

If you watch CNN, you'll understand that it and the rest of corporate media plans to cover this story until the Democratic Party is so terrified it forces Biden out.

All this is happening in real time.

I have been a journalist since 1994, and I don't believe I've seen corporate media collectively want something as badly as it wants Biden gone. And it knows it has the power to do it, so it's not going to stop until it's done.

I don't think anyone could withstand this onslaught.

The Supreme Court declared Donald Trump King of America yesterday—and media is treating it as a pg. 34 story. Trump and Putin had a "jet date" in a Dulles parking lot for 2 days and media is treating it as a *non*-story. The reason? It has work to do: force a president to resign.

The factual inaccuracies I'm seeing in reporting on the Atlanta debate are truly stunning. This tells me that corporate media has an agenda that it is working on, and that it intends to see through to its conclusion.

And as I said before, nothing can stand against that. Nothing.

You may wonder why the same processes weren't brought to bear on Trump nine years ago and every day since—given that Donald Trump did worse things on the first day of his political career than Joe Biden has ever done in his life. The answer is simple: Trump was great for ratings.

Already you can sense the conversation moving away from *whether* Biden will end his campaign to when and how he will do so. Not surprisingly, corporate media is pushing the alternative scenarios that will cause the most drama and chaos for Democrats and produce the best ratings.

A few weeks ago our updated passports arrived, and I'm sad to say it put our minds at ease. There's no way democracy can survive an onslaught that simultaneously comes from the courts, one of our two major political parties, corporate media and Big Business.

We've been betrayed.

To be clear, we plan to stick it out. But I think there's a broad sense in the country now that very few in America were actually committed to democracy. At least in this century. Corporate media wanted viewers; judges were just partisans; and Big Business sought endless profits.

The absolute chaos and turmoil corporate media is deliberately unleashing on the Democratic Party seems likely to make a victory for democracy in November impossible.

But don't worry: major media will profit from the chaos both pre- and post-election.

Until Trump shuts it down.

I have real admiration for Kamala Harris. Neither she nor Biden were my primary candidate, but I ranked her ahead of him.

But then I saw that for whatever reason, the country didn't like her and wouldn't vote for her.

Yet today CNN told us to ignore our eyes and ears on that.

But it hardly matters. Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom and J.B. Pritzker don't give a sh*t about democracy. They and their sycophants are just a new gang of power-hungry nihilists. If Biden steps out there'll be metaphorical blood all over the walls of the DNC—it'll be a shitshow.

I have zero faith the Democratic Party can hang together in the midst of a power vacuum.

It never has before—why would it start now?

Because democracy is on the line? Who cares, when a chance to grasp at power is in the offing for every two-bit Democratic politician nationwide?

There's only one way to do this—and no one's going to like it. I have been thinking about writing something on it, but I don't know if I will or not. To be clear, if I do, it will be free to the public. So this is not some big stupid tease or whatever. I just feel... pretty lost.