Posted on 06/16/2024 9:03:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You don’t need a news outlet to tell you what happened—see for yourself. Watch Joe Biden at the end of his talk with Barack Obama at Saturday night’s glitzfest of a fundraiser in Los Angeles and you decide whether you think it's normal behavior:
Biden freezes before Obama grabs his arm and leads him off stage. Yikes! 😳 pic.twitter.com/nCgAGitoQ6— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 16, 2024
RedState’s Nick Arama summed up her take on the moment:
Yikes is right.
It's not normal that he just stood there and Obama then had to take his hand to lead him away. How could anyone vote for this? He did something similar at the Juneteenth celebration. But comparing the two as they walked off the stage only accentuated the problem. What's frightening too, is that the crowd claps, completely ignoring the issues.
Biden Has Another Embarrassing Moment at Fundraiser—Obama Has to Intervene
You might think standing there, appearing to be in a daze, is perfectly normal, but many people do not.
The White House and Barack Obama (some would say they’re the same thing) were quick to respond and tell you that what you saw wasn’t what actually happened.
this did not happen https://t.co/QAPOCla3Sq— Eric Schultz (@EricSchultz) June 16, 2024
"This did not happen," Obama senior adviser Eric Shultz posted. Oh, well then what did?
Meanwhile, Biden senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates sent a rather snippy response to the New York Post, the outlet that broke the Hunter “Laptop from Hell” story and was promptly censored for it:
“Fresh off being fact checked by at least 6 mainstream news organizations for lying about President Biden with cheap fakes, Rupert Murdoch’s sad little super pac, the New York Post, is back to disrespecting it’s readers and itself once again by pretending the President taking in an applauding crowd for a few seconds is somehow wrong,” Bates’s statement said. “Their ethical standards could deal with a little unfreezing.”
Notice the use of the term “cheap fakes.” Get used to it, because you’re likely to see a lot more use of it coming out of the Biden White House as we approach the election. A take-off on the term “deep fakes,” which refers to images created or manipulated with AI, its premise is the right-wing media are trying to deceive you by not showing you the full context of a video, manipulating its speed, or cropping it.
They’re specifically moaning about clips disseminated after Biden’s disastrous D-Day performances, where the president wandered off during a photo shoot and just generally seemed off the reservation. The Washington Post was aghast that Republicans would dare publicize Biden’s mental frailty:
In edited videos, Republican officials and allies of former president Donald Trump repeatedly tried to turn Biden’s Normandy visit into a highlight reel of senior moments and missteps, aimed at showing the president as infirm, addled or out of his depth...But an examination of video feeds from the events in Normandy, France, makes clear that the selected clips had been edited to present a particularly damaging — and often misleading — picture.
Again, you be the judge:
The amount of drugs they are going to have to pump into him for the debate is unfathomable. pic.twitter.com/Fzf8Yx7nxO— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 13, 2024
They can claim all they want that it's been cropped, slowed down, whatever, but it doesn't change the fact that we're watching a man who seems completely out of it half the time.
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They can keep telling us we’re not seeing what we’re seeing, but I can tell you who is observing it with 20/20 vision: the American people.
Get read for Biden to roar like a lion at the debate.
Joe Biden did not freeze in Hollywood and there is a perfectly logical explanation for his behavior.
Joe Biden was onstage with Barak Obama .
Biden has become so accustomed to taking orders from Obama that when they get together in person, Biden cannot even move with out Obama giving him directions. .
I have a theory that they’re keeping him off the drugs leading up to the debate, so the drugs will have maximum helpful effect on the old man.
They’ll have a special concoction of drugs for Joe and he’ll come out swinging, verbally of course. After a bit, he’ll crash.
Obviously.
That, or it could be a body double, probably both.
Here, this stays close: https://x.com/i/status/1802372826566987877
Who you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes…..
All he REALLY has is, to accuse Donald of being a convicted blah blah blah blah blah blah. But he's only been convicted because of crooked Joe Bribeme and his totally, obscenely crooked, partisan and lawless DOJ.
It's a sure loser for Joe at any debate. So, what else does he really have?
"Their ethical standards need unfreezing?!" What does that even mean?
This is our "Senior deputy press secretary," folks! Andrew Bates needs to first learn English!
Regards,
That’s right.
Obama didn’t simply lead Biden away, he did it in such a way as to make Biden look like a decrepit old man. That could mean they’ve already decided to get rid of Biden.
am an old guy myself what freaks me out is the way his hands are and how they move with his body. His gate seems to be off. He appears to not be a human being
Animatronic Joe is having trouble with his lithium battery.
They better get him down to Disney World and have the engineers take a look at him.
Agreed. He accentuated the guidance and the pats on the back and I’m sure comforting but overheard verbiage like “this way Joe….”
I can’t think of one reason why Biden’s handlers would let him debate.
I can think of many reasons why they would talk about Biden debating - but actually going through with it? No way.
And President Trump has nothing to gain by letting himself get ambushed by another one of these fake news debates.
The plan was for Biden to exit the stage with Obama, but he seemed to freeze in place, not knowing what to do. Words were apparently exchanged and in a stunningly awkward moment, Obama visibly reached over and grabbed the doddering Biden and led the president of these United States in a stumbling walk off the stage while onlookers applauded the embarrassing sight.
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression
SOP in Hollywood; Patented by Democrats
dcdave.com ^ | Dec. 28, 1999 | David Martin, AKA “DC Dave”
FR Posted on 6/17/2024, 12:30:41 AM by null and void
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When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.
Dummy up. If it’s not reported, if it’s not news, it didn’t happen.
Wax indignant. This is also known as the “How dare you?” gambit.
Characterize the charges as “rumors” or, better yet, “wild rumors.” If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through “rumors.” (If they tend to believe the “rumors” it must be because they are simply “paranoid” or “hysterical.”)
Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspects of the weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild rumors (or plant false stories) and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful alike.
Call the skeptics names like “conspiracy theorist,” “nutcase,” “ranter,” “kook,” “crackpot,” and, of course, “rumor monger.” Be sure, too, to use heavily loaded verbs and adjectives when characterizing their charges and defending the “more reasonable” government and its defenders. You must then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you have thus maligned. For insurance, set up your own “skeptics” to shoot down.
Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the truth but are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are out to make money (compared to over-compensated adherents to the government line who, presumably, are not).
Invoke authority. Here the controlled press and the sham opposition can be very useful.
Dismiss the charges as “old news.”
Come half-clean. This is also known as “confession and avoidance” or “taking the limited hangout route.” This way, you create the impression of candor and honesty while you admit only to relatively harmless, less-than-criminal “mistakes.” This stratagem often requires the embrace of a fall-back position quite different from the one originally taken. With effective damage control, the fall-back position need only be peddled by stooge skeptics to carefully limited markets.
Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the truth as ultimately unknowable.
Reason backward, using the deductive method with a vengeance. With thoroughly rigorous deduction, troublesome evidence is irrelevant. E.g. We have a completely free press. If evidence exists that the Vince Foster “suicide” note was forged, they would have reported it. They haven’t reported it so there is no such evidence. Another variation on this theme involves the likelihood of a conspiracy leaker and a press who would report the leak.
Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely. E.g. If Foster was murdered, who did it and why?
Change the subject. This technique includes creating and/or publicizing distractions.
Lightly report incriminating facts, and then make nothing of them. This is sometimes referred to as “bump and run” reporting.
Baldly and brazenly lie. A favorite way of doing this is to attribute the “facts” furnished the public to a plausible-sounding, but anonymous, source.
Expanding further on numbers 4 and 5, have your own stooges “expose” scandals and champion popular causes. Their job is to pre-empt real opponents and to play 99-yard football. A variation is to pay rich people for the job who will pretend to spend their own money.
Flood the Internet with agents. This is the answer to the question, “What could possibly motivate a person to spend hour upon hour on Internet news groups defending the government and/or the press and harassing genuine critics?” Don t the authorities have defenders enough in all the newspapers, magazines, radio, and television? One would think refusing to print critical letters and screening out serious callers or dumping them from radio talk shows would be control enough, but, obviously, it is not.
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