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Remember back to October 3, 2003? During the performance at the Mirage Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, Roy Horn was very seriously injured when his trained white tiger Mantacore attacked him. The Siegfried and Roy show ended that night and the 267 people in the production became unemployed.
A similar outcome will be the result of replacing Biden as the Democratic nominee in the next presidential election after the white tiger of the debate has done his damage. The immense staff that surrounds Biden and doubtlessly influences any decisions that he's allowed to make will be out of a job, at least temporarily. Sure there'll be positions for them in various government agencies, as faculty members at coastal universities, lobbyists, corporate board members and media talking heads. But it won't be the same without the prestige of regularly walking into the White House.
The new candidate will have his or her own circle of acolytes. Already the political class that inhabits the Maryland-Virginia tidewater are plotting their future on the candidate they think is most likely to end up next to the nuclear football. It will be interesting.
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