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Victor Davis Hanson: Bidengate and the Doom Loop
American Greatness ^ | 8 Jul, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/08/2024 5:07:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The more Biden avoids the media, the more the public considers him an inadequate president. Yet the more he might welcome more exposure, the more his ensuing dementia becomes apparent.

The entire 2019-20 Biden candidacy and subsequent presidency were predicated on a rotten Faustian bargain. A hale Joe Biden would feign his aw-shucks, Joe from Scranton schtick. And an ossified working-class Joe’s camouflage would get the hard left elected—especially thanks to the changes in balloting laws that often saw only 30 percent of the electorate voting on Election Day in key states.

In exchange, the two narcissistic Bidens would bask in the power and attention of the presidency. From the start, Jill and the media would orchestrate deep cover for Joe’s escalating dementia as well as the true intentions of the now-in-power radical Democratic Party with its neo-socialist agenda. The former Obama acolytes would get their long-dreamed-of third presidential term. And this time they would enact a truly radical agenda while their string puppet mumbled to everyone that he was just old, familiar Joe working for the middle class.

The problem, inter alia, with the ruse was that it was based on a complete lie to the American people. Joe Biden was nowhere near cognitively competent. He could not campaign “normally” in 2020. And it would be impossible for his dementia to go undetected even in the ceremonial duties of the presidency for four, perhaps even eight, more years.

And there were plenty of other problems that transcended even Biden’s mental confusion.

First, the new Obama agenda—hyperinflation, open borders, woke crime theories, destroying deterrence abroad, green extremist mandates—was further to the left of the American people than in 2016.

And worse, it was nihilist and destructive. By the August 2021 Kabul withdrawal humiliation...

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 202108; afghanistan; biden; dementia; obama; runaway; surrenderjunkies; vdh; victordavishanson
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To: MtnClimber

Wealthy, corrupt, dementia-addled politician selected to rule over free citizens in the republic. Enablers approve. FJB


21 posted on 07/08/2024 5:37:58 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Williams

My wife is the pessimist. And I never predict the future.
Yesterday, I turned to her and said “We’re gong to lose this election.


I am glad there were not more people like you around during our Revolutionary war. But there were many like you.

The patriots got involved.


22 posted on 07/08/2024 5:39:01 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: MtnClimber

What a lucent and historically interesting piece! I did not realize that Henry Wallace was a Progressive!


23 posted on 07/08/2024 5:42:18 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Joe has been exactly the same guy for the past 45 years. He’s just under the full constant exposure of being the president. Then toss in some mobility issues that come with age, and that’s what we’ve got.


24 posted on 07/08/2024 5:42:25 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: All

Who’s in charge as Joe deteriorates? Can you say Hunter Biden?

The focus has been on four-time “Vogue cover girl” Jill Biden and her self-serving rants WRT
Joe’s fitness, while jobless Hunter creeps around the WH, continually mooching off taxpayers.
<><>the unemployed Hunter is glued to his father’s side
<><>he was at Camp David to help daddy prepare for the disastrous debate,
<><>he was there for the vainglorious Annie Leibovitz family photo shoot post-debate,
<><>he freeloaded on AF one w/ dad back to the White House
<><>moocher Hunter has been ensconced in the WH ever since.
<><>Hunter is acting as “gatekeeper” to those who want access to his decrepit father
<><>Hunter helps write useless Joe’s incoherent speeches,
<><>alarmingly, Hunter has been sitting in on Joe’s meetings with senior staff
<><>is dad giving Hunter classified info?
<><>Hunter’s peddling his father’s influence is a very lucrative business.


25 posted on 07/08/2024 5:50:15 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: CIB-173RDABN

good question


26 posted on 07/08/2024 5:51:36 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

I’ve been thinking the same thing since Joe came out so hale, hearty, and alert on the day after the debate. He seemed like a different person.

Makes one wonder just what kind of psyops are being run on the American people.


27 posted on 07/08/2024 5:52:19 AM PDT by NorthWoody (Half of all people are below average, and half of those are in the bottom 25%.)
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To: MtnClimber

Who’s got the football?
Ya know, the nuclear football?
If senile joe has it, then the world is screwed.
If he does not have it, then who does?
The chain of command has been broken.
We officially no longer live in a world that has the government controlled by our constitution.
Who controls the world right now?


28 posted on 07/08/2024 5:53:56 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: blackdog

the media covered up how he was forced out of the ‘88 race for his outrageous lies. He’s always been a POS.


29 posted on 07/08/2024 5:58:54 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: oldtech
Maybe the first thing to do is to go after Obama & once & for all get him out of politics.

+++++++++

I believe you are correct. PDJT if you recall was the one who went after him prior to 2016 with the birth certificate ordeal. The drivebymedia easily covered for Obumba back then.

This latest round with FJB being exposed as a mentally ill occupant of 1600 PA AVE has blown a hole just above the waterline into the media flotilla. A continuous exposure of drivebymedia lies and deception is what the American people need so that even a small percentage wake up.

30 posted on 07/08/2024 6:00:14 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: MtnClimber

“He is not merely making gaffes or misstating things, he is purposely injecting false information into the national conversation.”

2019 - Washington Post

“He does not seem to be able to differentiate between fact and fiction.”

Ben Berzin Jr. - 1997

“He was a great character, but he was full of **** 90 percent of the time.”

Susany Mulcahy - 2004 “Vanity Fair”

“he would tell the staff his ridiculous lies, and after a while, no one believed a single word he would say”

Barbara Res - “former Trump Organization vice president”

“In the 12 years of FactCheck.org’s existence, we’ve never seen his match. He stands out not only for the sheer number of his factually false claims, but also for his brazen refusals to admit error when proven wrong.”

Despite the extracts, I would not give this an ‘A’:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump


31 posted on 07/08/2024 6:02:34 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

I know it is unpleasant, but issues will be raised and must be dealt with.

The Clintons have an answer to every allegation because they come prepared. In fact, I suspect they don’t act without thinking of a plausible excuse.


32 posted on 07/08/2024 6:04:14 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

Feb. 6, 2009

Quotes:

“If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30% chance we’re going to get it wrong.”

Biden may have gotten a big promotion on Jan. 20, but he proved early on in his term that he was still the same old gaffe-prone politician.

The White House later dismissed the remark, with Obama quipping at a prime-time press conference, “I don’t remember exactly what Joe was referring to, not surprisingly.”

https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1895156_1894977_1846610,00.html


33 posted on 07/08/2024 6:10:15 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Williams

I’m positive about the real vote. As a teacher and also a father of 20 somethings, these kids are very proTrump. They make fun of Biden, calling him old, dementia, etc, and look at Trump as a younger guy, a fun guy, who has a swag about him. Huge difference from 2020, where Trump was evil. I see this a lot in kids today....but as you mentioned, the steal, the fix is in.


34 posted on 07/08/2024 6:11:07 AM PDT by krug
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To: MtnClimber

“Biden’s problems continued when C-SPAN footage surfaced two weeks later [in 1987] showing Biden inflating his academic record at law school. (His claims included one that he finished in the top half of his class at Syracuse Law School; he graduated 76th of 85.)”

https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1895156_1894977_1895081,00.html


35 posted on 07/08/2024 6:11:16 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: joe fonebone
***Who controls the world right now?***

🤷 You ask good questions... the answers are just as ambiguous today as they were in January, 2021. One thing is for sure: whoever it is, they were fully and immediately prepared to impose their autocratic dictates from day one - and presumably still are.

The one factor that they have no control over is God's Will: Present political situation in France, The American Revolution, The fall of the Soviet Union... etc.

36 posted on 07/08/2024 6:11:41 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: MtnClimber

Joe Biden’s Best Gaffes Of All Time | Ultimate Compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MVZdS18NX8


37 posted on 07/08/2024 6:12:13 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

I think I can only stand to watch that a little at a time.


38 posted on 07/08/2024 6:17:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber
The torch of Journalistic Indispensable National Treasure has been passed from Thomas Sowell to VDH and those are some big boots to fill

One thing I wish VDH would have touched upon was the very troubling fact that progressive Democrats almost universally love Biden's destructive policies.

The Left seems completely untroubled or even approving of the Biden Admin engineered crisis and disasters along with increasingly severe and accelerating managed decline in the American economy and culture, the explosion of crime, drug addiction and violence in our cites, the massive invasion of our country by unvetted, military age illegal aliens and the decline in national security at home and the damage to US international standing and support for global stability abroad.

They are also totally down with the whole Biden White House charade to con the American people about Biden's mental health and fitness to hold office.

It's becoming obvious that the White House staff was far more focused on stage managing Biden's dementia to fool the American people than they were on doing President stuff like running the country and executing sound foreign policy.

This has resulted in chaos and instability both at home and abroad and return to the Obama era foreign policy of degrading and punishing our allies while rewarding and enabling our enemies.

To the Left, Biden is considered the best President in history because he has rammed through their toxic agenda more effectively than the 9/11 hijackers rammed airliners into the the Twin Towers and with similar effect.

The Left are just upset that exposing Biden has exposed their destructive agenda for America and may just cost them control of the government.

39 posted on 07/08/2024 6:31:03 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: MtnClimber

“…and ensuring Trump an unobstructed legislative trajectory to implement a complete reversal of the Obama-Biden years.“

With both parties and both houses and the deepstate in full mutiny? It’s going to be much more interesting than that…


40 posted on 07/08/2024 6:32:21 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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