Why Is Everyone Swallowing Biden’s Lies?

Issues & Insights ^ | 16 Apr, 2021 | Editorial Board

[MtnClimber]

How did this happen? How did the nation go in an instant from disbelieving every utterance of Donald Trump to robotically repeating — and acting on — every claim that falls out of Joe Biden’s mouth, no matter how disconnected from the truth?

The most glaring example involves Biden’s fact-challenged tirade against Georgia’s new voting law. At his first and only press conference, Biden declared the state’s efforts to protect against voter fraud were worse than Jim Crow, “un-American,” “sick,” and “despicable.” (This was the same press conference where moments later Biden bragged about how much time he’s spent with China’s genocidal communist dictator before calling him “a smart, smart guy.”)

In any case, everything Biden said about Georgia’s voting law was either a gross mischaracterization or an outright lie.

Even the Washington Post’s notoriously biased fact-checker had to admit as much, giving Biden four “Pinocchios” — its worst rating on the truth scale — for his claims.

Yet, Biden’s blatant falsehoods were enough to convince Major League Baseball, an army of CEOs, and various other leaders to threaten to punish Georgia and threaten any other state that dares try to protect their elections from fraud.

A Morning Consult poll found that while more people supported Georgia’s law than opposed it, the margin was thin — 42% said they support the law, while 36% oppose it. But, the survey also found that 62% of “avid” MLB fans supported the league’s decision to move the All-Star game out of Georgia because of this law.

Why?

[Luke21]

They make up polls. Trump wasn’t allowed over fifty percent hardly at all. Biden and Obama don’t fall below it. I remember week after week of “Trump hits highest approval rate ever, 49 percent.”

For everyone talking about all the stupid people, believing in polls and elections isn’t exactly smart.

[Bon of Babble]

Why are people swallowing Biden’s lies?

Easy. Because the media repeat these lies ad nauseam figuring a lie told often enough become the truth.

This is how they operate.

There are also threats against those who tell the truth, such as those who are trying to point out blatant voter fraud.

[firebrand]

Because ideology trumps sports, or at least many people will say something like that rather than looking like a low-class baseball addict.

[Bratch]

"In place of God, the left worships its narrative."

[sauropod]

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[Liz]

JOE'S A GUY WHO REALLY KNOWS HOW TO SUCK-UP.
Biden sucked up bigtime, virtue-signalling his distaste for GA’s new voting law; claimed it was "worse than Jim Crow,"
“un-American,” “sick,” and “despicable.” Biden then sucked-up to China’s communist dictator, calling Xi “a smart, smart guy.”

China's using the Red Playbook to (a) spread its Communist message, (b) improve its international image,
and to (c) exacerbate domestic fissures, (d) especially racial tensions in enemy countries.

And Beijing has a lot of help.

"Xi, old buddy, ol' pal, together we will make China great, again."

[glennaro]

You’re right. It isn’t the corpse in the White House the Left believes in ... it’s the pressure from the media/social media that makes believing the lies more, uh, “convenient.”

[antidemoncrat]

No/low information voters plus thousands of dead voters plus thousands of poll workers knowingly processing fraudulent votes lead to the first fraudulently elected president.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Not believing the Pew poll, but Demo voters are a bunch of Stepfords.

[TLI]

“”Because our media is the equivalent of Pravada.””

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100% correct.

Sources of truth from “mainstream media” are few and far between.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l18VstAylU

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[SunkenCiv]

How did this happen? How did the nation go in an instant from disbelieving every utterance of Donald Trump to robotically repeating — and acting on — every claim that falls out of Joe Biden’s mouth, no matter how disconnected from the truth?

Because those are NOT two things. They are the same thing. Same liars in the media, same regurgitation of DNC BS. Duh.

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What’s Left Of It interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]

And thanks to shrinkermd for posting this, I was looking for a different snip of "The True Believer" and found this one instead:

"It is of interest to note the means by which a mass movement accentuates and perpetuates the individual incompleteness of its adherents. By elevating dogma above reason, the individual’s intelligence is prevented from becoming self-reliant.

Economic dependence is maintained by centralizing economic power and by a deliberately created scarcity of the necessities of life. Social self-sufficiency is discouraged by crowded housing or communal quarters, and by enforced daily participation in public functions.

Ruthless censorship of literature, art, music and science prevents even the creative few from living self-sufficient lives. The inculcated devotions to church, party, country, leader and creed also perpetuate a state of incompleteness. For every devotion is a socket which demands the fitting in of a complementary part from without. Thus people raised in the atmosphere of a mass movement are fashioned into incomplete and dependent human beings even when they have within themselves the making of self-sufficient entities. Though strangers to frustration and without grievance, they will yet exhibit the peculiarities of people who crave to lose themselves and be rid of an existence that is irrevocably spoiled.

[Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, p 128]

[SunkenCiv]

“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.”

― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Let’s look at how science works.

You propose a theory, then make some predictions, then observe what happens and see if you were right or not.

Our theory: the Democrats are corrupt as heck and in bed with the Chinese and could give a flying f about the citizens of the US.

If that was true, we’d predict that they would eliminate fair elections, pack the SCOTUS, and lie and cheat in everything they do.

We were saying this well in advance of their hostile take-over.

THEORY PROVEN.

[G Larry]

Nobody is buying Biden's lies.

The Left simply agrees with the objectives.

The Right has largely been silenced.

[SaxxonWoods]

Looks pretty divided, but it’s shocking he’s this popular:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 49% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.

The latest figures include 31% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden is doing and 41% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10. (see trends)

Approval of Biden’s presidential performance peaked in mid-February, when his total approval reached 53% versus 43% total disapproval.

Politics
39% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

[Texas resident]

Everyone in the media is swallowing slo jo’s lies.

Can’t wait to hear them whine about their living conditions when the dims are done turning us into Venezuela.

[bigbob]

Democraps know he doesn’t believe half what he’s saying, his job is to say it to advance the commie agenda. Then after Kammy takes over she can pretend to be the moderate while not undoing a bit of it. Like a war where one king conquers a neighboring country and his successor rules over it as if it had always been his.

[x]

I got headline news from SmartNews on my phone. If there is a political angle to a story 80% of the time it comes from a progressive source: Alternet, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, Slate, The Daily Beast, The Daily Kos, Vanity Fair, Vox, NPR, Salon, Raw Story, The Guardian, PoliticsUSA. Add to that the stories from CNN and the major liberal networks and newspapers.

There would be a piece from the Washington Examiner or Washington Free Beacon or Fox News or the New York Post and once one from National Review, but it was an endless left-wing media diet every day all day long. People staring at their phones on the subway get a very different view of the world from what you or I get.

There seemed to be coordinated attacks. A host of stories would focus on Tucker Carlson or Matt Gaetz or Mike Lindell or Marjorie Taylor Greene. A target is chosen and all the stories focused on the target, just like in 1984. Also, it seems like every shooting that happens in the country is in the headlines to enhance the image of America as a violent country.

[BipolarBob]

2 Thesselonians 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

[sport]

I don’t. Unless you have a mouse in your pocket, everyone doesn’t. I do not believe anything the son of a bitch says. The media and fools are the only ones that believe him and they are in the same category he is.