So my boomer co-worker has an interesting theory. He thinks that Obama is the one running things, due to him living part time in DC and many of his cabinet members being heavily involved in the current admin. I'm of the opinion that he just cashed out once his presidency was over and they have to really drag him to do anything, while his cabinet are the ones who really ran his presidency/the ones who are in charge. Opinions or thoughts?
Obama isn't running things per say. Biden only got the nomination because Obama won the civil war between him and the Clintons that initially saw Obama, in spite of his boast he was staying in Washington to "lead the resistance against Trump" running out of town in the middle of the night to spend the first year of Trump's term pouting on his island vacation home about how the mean old Clintons wouldn't get out of the DNC Iron Throne.
Obama probably has his underlings acting, with enough buffer to avoid plausible deniability, under a bit of a guide for what he wants done. But between Biden being Biden, his wife being a power mad cunt, Pelosi and Schumer's own agendas, and the temptation of the staff to do whatever the fuck they want because Biden's mind is not already there PLUS (((them))) giving orders? It's probably a free for all with the various factions running wild with various vagaries in play where each faction has a outline for what they want but not working together on a single path to get it done
MSNBC and CNN will ultimately be paying for those civil suits, which even if they don't go in St. Kyle's favor, will be a drop in the bucket from what he wins in the defamation lawsuits.
They will fight the lawsuits (they have a hell of a lot more money than Kyle does and can pretty much begger Kyle, especially since Kyle's banned from using internet crowdfunding sites for donations). Unless there is shit behind the scenes (like MSNBC trying to dox the jury being ordered from the very top level of the network on orders from the DNC) that they will settle purely to keep from seeing the light of day.
Similarly, Biden will have his army of lawyers keep the case out of court if he sues combined with the bonus hypocritical "fuck you" ism of Biden arguing that as President, he is above the law and can't be sued, at least while he's in office.
And even if they DO settle, they'll NEVER EVER EVER EVER admit guilt and basically lock a BDSM muzzle onto Kyle's face to make sure he never is able to say HOW MUCH they paid him, while bragging to the public that the payoff was "super small" to justify them having to pay a couple of million extra to both make Kyle accept the NDA muzzle mask and their refusing to admit any guilt or wrongdoing like they did with Sandmann