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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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1 posted on 07/08/2024 5:07:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Child sniffing Joe from Scranton has built himself quite a reputation.


2 posted on 07/08/2024 5:08:09 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: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 07/08/2024 5:08:35 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

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.
First, they are cheating and have the illegals voting, along with mail ballots and drop boxes, which are obvious. Everyone here agrees with that.

And the MSM has lied to a lot of people about Trump, Republicans and democrats.

There are a LOT of people out there poisoned against traditional values.

Agree Biden staying in is our best chance, but this is why he stays in. The ones around him know they can elect a dead man if they have to.


4 posted on 07/08/2024 5:15:59 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: MtnClimber

I woke up this morning with the residue of a nightmare: What if this whole mental thing is merely an elaborate ruse by the democrats. What if come the next debate, Ole Joe is completely sane and stable!


5 posted on 07/08/2024 5:21:13 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: MtnClimber
He could not campaign “normally” in 2020.

The media lied about his dementia.
The media lied about COVID and the need for a lockdown.
The media lied about the 2020 election being honest.

Never forget how deep the con really goes and the costs that we have all had to pay.

6 posted on 07/08/2024 5:22:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

7 posted on 07/08/2024 5:24:09 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: MtnClimber

“Biden is a hot mess and can’t put together a cohesive thought, BUT if they switch him out for someone else, it’s still the same crappy policies. It’s not the man, it’s the policies.”

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8 posted on 07/08/2024 5:26:18 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

The question not answered is just who has been directing American policies since Biden was sworn in?


9 posted on 07/08/2024 5:29:25 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Us: the media lied!

The Media: yes we did! Proud to have done it! Will do it again!


10 posted on 07/08/2024 5:30:34 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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11 posted on 07/08/2024 5:32:01 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: Williams

Damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.

But even damned persons can struggle to a position of power before they pull the roof down on all of us.

Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

Coming in high, hot, blind, dead-stick, wheels up, outta fuel, and with the glide angle of a rock. What could possibly go wrong?


12 posted on 07/08/2024 5:32:04 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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To: MtnClimber

All of this attention on Biden’s condition, is setting us up to lose.

We need more focus on policies and on Trump as a positive force.

I know Biden’s dementia seems like a gift, but it’s making a lot of people think that’s the only problem.
If they replace Biden, there will be a rush to vote Democrat.

Messaging the average person is very important. Right now, only Biden’s competency issue is getting through.

Conservatives don’t realize how many people are conditioned to believe Republicans are nazis. It’s not 30%, it’s more like 45-48% at this point. The brain washing is everywhere.

Some of you never watch television, or social media. There is a total rejecting of conservative thinking on all levels.
God is hated. Economics? Most people spout communism. The schools are teaching little kids how to have gay sex.
Republicans have to start tarring democrats and creating an uplifting view of Trump, and it needs to happen early.


13 posted on 07/08/2024 5:32:24 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Brian Griffin

Maybe the first thing to do is to go after Obama & once & for all get him out of politics.


14 posted on 07/08/2024 5:33:05 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: alloysteel

Exactly.


15 posted on 07/08/2024 5:33:28 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Bingo. Biden was an obvious shell and they put him in office anyway. And Trump had the incumbency and had done a great job.


16 posted on 07/08/2024 5:35:51 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams

“Agree Biden staying in is our best chance, but this is why he stays in. The ones around him know they can elect a dead man if they have to.”

I do not agree that Biden staying in is our best chance.

Thx for playing


17 posted on 07/08/2024 5:36:05 AM PDT by stockpirate (A group of baboons is referred to as a "Congress" of baboons.)
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To: Williams
***The ones around him know they can elect a dead man if they have to***

✅ When Joe became the Dem POTUS nominee in 2020 I posted here on FR: The Dems are out to prove that they can nominate an ape for office, get it elected and there is nothing anyone can do about it❗ Once again they face the challenge of proving their position.

The odd thing - then and now - is how little interest many Americans have in the outcome of elections. Indeed, many citizens are working to fraud elections.

Have we lost our way❓

18 posted on 07/08/2024 5:36:17 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

Another day waking up, and the ‘world’ is till being run by an 81 year old dementia patient.

Be fearful... Be very fearful.


19 posted on 07/08/2024 5:36:26 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

“What if this whole mental thing is merely an elaborate ruse by the democrats.”

That’s been mentioned before, and I’ve posted a clip from a “Just Shoot Me” episode “Slow Donnie”. From about :40 to 1:55.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7dkaU_qP8k


20 posted on 07/08/2024 5:37:20 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Bannon didn't kill himself.)
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