Posted on 07/18/2024 5:34:47 AM PDT by SJackson
“Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”
The Democrat press agents known as “the media” are frantically attempting to convince us that until the June 27 presidential debate, they didn’t know the extent and severity of Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical decline. That’s why since 2020 they smeared thousands of columns and videos documenting the decline as “disinformation” or “deep fakes” manufactured by the MAGA Ministry of Information. Essentially, they’ve been relying on the Marxist––of the Chico variety–– question, “Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”
But for over a century we’ve known that the left is the mother of Big Lies, ones so preposterous that it takes an arrogant and outrageous shamelessness to tell them. That’s what sets them apart from the ordinary lies that pretty much every politician tells.
The Dems’ current fantastical narrative––that they were unaware of Biden’s deterioration–– is itself an obvious Big Lie. The signs were there during the 2020 presidential election, when the Dems went to great lengths to keep Biden hidden away from voters, conducting a campaign––unprecedented for the Modern Age––from Biden’s basement with limited travel. So, if Biden’s decline was “fake news,” why were they keeping him from the voters? You’d think that the media’s shills would want to debunk the “lies” by highlighting Joe’s vigor and mental acuity as much as possible.
Another problem for the current mendacious special pleading in order to explain their dereliction of duty, is that millions of Americans are intimately familiar with the signs of dementia and can judge for themselves. Currently there are about six million people afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease––and millions more with personal experience of cognitive diseases, from living with or tending family members or patients.
As the Wall Street Journal wrote, “Well, the American people knew, since they are not oblivious to evidence they can see. They have said so in every poll for a year. Special counsel Robert Hur knew. His account exposed what many Americans have suspected based on Mr. Biden’s many public misstatements and faltering physical presence. He couldn’t recall which years he was Vice President or even when his son Beau died. He said an ally in the Obama Administration’s debate over Afghanistan was on the opposite side.”
Millions of Americans know the signs: difficulties with speaking, memory, word recall, walking, climbing stairs, and maintaining focus, along with sudden angry outbursts, and a tendency to wander––with a zombie shuffle and a slack-jawed thousand-yard stare, as was obvious in the footage of Biden at the G-7 conclave. Those of us who have witnessed all these signs haven’t needed doctored videos or “deep fakes,” just Occam’s Razor to get what’s going with the president. The regime media’s claim that they were unaware is a Big Lie they’re trying to spin.
And thanks to the Wall Street Journal, we know how they did it: “Senior White House advisers for more than a year [actually much longer than that, I’d bet] have aggressively stage-managed President Biden’s schedule, movements and personal interactions, as they sought to minimize signs of how age has taken a toll on the oldest president in U.S. history. . . [the White House staff] have limited Biden’s daily itinerary and shielded him from impromptu exchanges. Advisers have restricted news conferences and media appearances, twice declining Super Bowl halftime interviews—an easy way to reach millions of voters—and sought to make sure meetings with donors stuck to scripted pleasantries.”
Yet we shouldn’t be surprised or shocked at such mendacity. The Democrats filled Trump’s presidency with Big Lies almost daily. With help from corrupt federal agency officials and state prosecutors, the regime media created a dishonest narrative about Donald Trump, from being a wannabe dictator and an intelligence asset for Vladimir Putin, itching to destroy “our democracy”; to being a “rapist” and a “racist” in solidarity with tiki-torch-brandishing “white supremacists.”
And no matter how often the charges have been refuted by evidence, and their blatant dishonesty exposed, the lies continue to be circulated, the regime news-readers often using the exact same phrases and formulas––bespeaking the shameless impudence that is the hallmark of the Big Lie.
But the most consequential Big Lie was the signed letter solicited by the Biden team from 51 so-called national security “experts,” meaning federal agency clerks and hirelings, and then circulated to an eager media right before the 2020 election–an election determined by just 44,000 votes in a few swing states.
In that letter, the embarrassing exposure of Biden family corruption discovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop––which the FBI kept buried for a year––was claimed to be the product of Russian propaganda and kompromat for smearing Joe Biden. This willful act of deception and election interference didn’t seem to bother the Dems, who for nearly eight years have accuse Trump of that crime.
Most recently, we had the NATO presser at which Biden was supposed to show that the debate debacle was just a “bad night.” Democrats who aren’t trying to boot Biden from the ticket are now trying to spin his performance as proof of his cognitive health. As the Washington Post put it, “Biden shows foreign policy depth in news conference with a few stumbles.”
But the same signs of decline, though a bit improved over the debate performance, were still there. Phillip Klein of NRO lists several:
On the negative side of the measure, Biden was raspy and took a number of long pauses. He referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as Vice President Trump (on the heels of having mixed up Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin), claimed he was taking advice from the commander in chief, referred to a nonexistent broad federal rent-control program, and talked about how he had to do a better job of pacing himself. He mentioned how his staff had given him a list of reporters to call on and jabbed them for adding too many events to his schedule.
Another incident at the NATO conference revealed similar reminders that the dysfunctions remain. A reporter for Agence France-Presse told Biden, “Officials here are saying off the record that your decline has become noticeable,” and asked, “Hasn’t this now, frankly, become damaging for America’s standing in the world?”
Biden’s response featured all the tics, stumbles, and peevish boasting that make voters uneasy: “Did you see any damage to our standing in my leading this conference? Have you seen a more successful conference? What do you think? And the mo- — the Putin piece, I was talking about Putin, and I said, ‘And now — at the very end, I said, Here — I mean, ‘Putin.’ And I said, ‘Oh, no. I’m sorry, Zelenskyy.’ And then I — I added five other names.’”
And remember, the reporters were pre-approved, and no doubt Biden and his minders had seen their questions.
Finally, don’t think that the media who have spent years covering for Biden, and now are acknowledging Biden’s serious cognitive and physical decline, have suddenly acquired respect for their profession’s most important principle––telling the truth without fear or favor. They’re just employing a tactic in their efforts to keep Biden off the ticket. They read the polls and can see their party is floundering.
This whole sorry episode of our cognitive elites brazenly lying and trading in “Big Lies” is a reflection of their leftism that, from its beginning during the Russian Revolution, has been the Mitochondria Eve of all “Big Lies.” As French ex-communist Pierre Pascal in 1927 observed, “No regime has ever been a regime of lies to this extent.” For all tyrannies hate the truth, which, along with reasoned dissent must be silenced. Later, another apostate from communism, Boris Souvarine, captured the tyrannical modus operandi of Stalinism: “Not one fact, not one quotation, not one idea, not one argument: only impudent affirmations with a half-dozen interchangeable words come from the ‘heights.’”
It would hard to find a better description of our regime media and leftist discourse.
The stakes for allowing “Big Lies” to flourish are toxic for our freedom. We must defend truth and call out those who want to destroy it. For as scripture says, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
The problem here is that self-serving Joe has tons of campaign money
socked away in numerous offshore accounts thanks to Hunter Biden.
But downticket Dems are hurting b/c their campaign funds and sources
are dwindling from donors being duped about Biden’s acute mental state.
At a $2500-a-plate Hollywood fund-raiser, actor George Clooney praised Biden calling him “a star” yet Clooney openly revealed later (in a NYT op-ed) that the Joe Biden at the fund-raiser was not the Joe Biden of 2020. “He was the same Biden we all witnessed at the disastrous debate.”
Millions also saw Obama lead an obeisant Biden by the hand to get him offstage.
Which means the Clooney funder duped donors, and used fraudulent means, and lies, to raise money......aided and abetted by the Biden team.
“The CCAT® has 50 questions
You’ll have 15 minutes to answer as many questions as you can
There are 3 different kinds of questions: verbal, math and logic, and spatial reasoning”
“The Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test, or CCAT, measures your ability to problem solve, use new information, and think critically. Why do employers want to learn about your cognitive ability? Because how well you do on the test tells employers how easily you’ll pick up training for your new role. Research shows that cognitive aptitude is one of the best predictors of your job performance. It’s far more predictive than unstructured interviews, previous job experience, and your education level. At first glance, the Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test (CCAT) is intimidating. But don’t panic! You don’t need to get all the questions right to shine in front of employers. Keep in mind that most people don’t make it all the way through the test. In fact, the average test taker only gets 24 questions right.”
https://www.criteriacorp.com/candidates/ccat-prep
“one of the tests in the ACE III is to ask the patient to draw a clock and put the hands to a certain time. If this is carried out correctly, it virtually excludes dementia because a wide range of cognitive skills are used.”
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/dementia-revealed-toolkit.pdf
Joe, this is a copy of a Law School Admissions Test given in 2021. We’re testing your reasoning ability.
All so his muzzi wife could push her hatred of Israel.
Act the patient to put the hands of the clock to the time of 28:17.
If the tester grades the test “passed” then we know the tester has dementia.
:-)
WIKI
The current version of the test is the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-III (ACE-III). This consists of 19 activities which test five cognitive domains: attention, memory, fluency, language and visuospatial processing.
Attention is tested by asking the patient for the date including the season and the current location; repeating back three simple words; and serial subtraction. An example is something like “subtract seven from 100 and then continue subtracting seven away from each new number.”
Memory is tested by asking the patient to recall the three words previously repeated; memorising and recalling a fictional name and address; and recalling widely known historical facts. The memory section is split into five sections scattered throughout the tests.
Fluency is tested by asking the patient to say as many words as they can think of starting with a specified letter within one minute; and naming as many animals as they can think of in one minute. An example of this would be the tester asking the test taker to list every word they can think of that starts with the letter C.
Language is tested by asking the patient to complete a set of sequenced physical commands using a pencil and piece of paper such as “place the paper on top of the pencil”; to write two grammatically-complete sentences; to repeat several polysyllabic words and two short proverbs; to name the objects shown in 12 line drawings, and answer contextual questions about some of the objects; and to read aloud five commonly-mispronounced words. Language involves ascribing meaning to words and statements so this section consists of simple directions that may involve movements, such as the example of placing the paper on top of the pencil, to see how well they apply meaning. Because language is valuable and important to functioning in society, this section is the longest consisting of seven separate parts.
Visuospatial skills are used almost daily to remember directions, addresses, and layout of familiar places. Visuospatial abilities are tested by asking the patient to copy two diagrams; to draw a clock face with the hands set at a specified time; to count sets of dots; and to recognize four letters which are partially obscured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addenbrooke%27s_Cognitive_Examination
The rise and fall of Biden remind me of the 1957 movie, “A Face in the Crowd,” in which Andy Griffith’s character is a witty bum who becomes a radio and tv star, his persona marketed as a folksy friend of the people. In reality he is a rotten bastard who has utter contempt for all who support him. Sound familiar?
Until that debate, we weren’t allowed to talk about evidence of Joe’s decline.
We could all see that Joe was having problems but we were not supposed to talk about it.
But then after that debate, the word went out from the powers that be , that now it is okay to talk about Joe’s problems.
Remember how Jill Biden had said how Joe was a vibrant energetic 81-year-old?
Remember how Karine Jean Pierre said that videos that showed Joe’s impairments were cheap fakes?
Remember how she said that Joe gets more done in an hour than most people would get done in an 8 hour day?
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Exactly. Also, until after the assassination attempt on PDJT we were not allowed to comment on DEI hires impacted matters of life and death. The footage of the failed SS women trying to escort Trump is sealed in posterity for all to see.
I'm not sure that the public exposure to failure of DEI is at the tipping point yet, but this last fiasco surely pushed it closer to that condition.
Until that debate, we weren’t allowed to talk about evidence of Joe’s decline.
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Agree.
And the article eludes to the fact that the media has done a complete 180 on the issue and how obvious it was to nearly everyone.
The problem I have is that the 25-45% of the population who willfully suspend disbelief and mindlessly listen to the MSM don’t actually think the media has just been exposed as a fraud. The article is wrong.
The brain-fogged NPCs out there are going to listen to the media when they throw up their hands and say they didn’t know, and that this is all a new phenomenon, and they will believe it. The NPCs will carry one as they always have, trusting the media, because they want to.
Most people with eyes and ears and with average and even below average intelligence, could tell that Biden was ‘deficient’ in body and mind, to run for president, or even to any kind of office.
All democrat leaders and all in left-wing media knew it/ Democrats needed to hide the facts about Joe’s deficiencies, and tried to keep him off the campaign trail as much as they could. The, they got lucky and Covid-19 came around, and they had their fool-proof excuse to keep him hidden in his basement, with no real campaign speeches or rallies or TV appearances.
Democrats knew that they just needed to get close to the election before doing any kind of debates. Joe failed in those debates, but, the liberal media knew they could get away with calling Biden the ‘winner’. Lies all around, and keeping Biden hidden so that it wouldn’t become a lot more evident that he couldn’t be president.
Democrats got away with the many lies and people who are committed democrats were all in with the lies. Now, the same thing happened with their attempts to hide Biden’s deepened deficiencies, but the debate results could not be hidden, He was atrocious. Democrats knew that the jig was up, and now, they’re scrambling do avoid disaster in November.
Biden cannot be president, and Kamala would be a disaster too. God willing, Biden and Kamala will be gone forever, and America can try to recover from the disasters which it underwent during the Biden and Obama years.
I had to take one of them last year (or I was told I had to take it for medicare). I passed of course. Or at least they let me walk out of there without putting on the jacket that makes you hold yourself in a bear hug. I know several people that can’t pass it. I am assuming JoeDemetia probably couldn’t.
Yeah, I saw that movie. Not the typical Andy Griffith role.
John Deere Co. just dropped its “DEI” programs...after much pressure...I am thinking the pendulum is swinging back...
The media are chronic liars and distorters. Why anyone believes them about anything absolutely befuddles me.
BTTT
SOD - Sudden Onset Dementia
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