The debacle that was President Biden’s performance at last Thursday’s Presidential debate divided America. Half were astonished to see someone with a crypt-keeper vibe who was obviously dazed and confused and whose language consisted mainly of mumbling nonsense that often trailed off into sheer incomprehensibility. The other half merely saw business as usual from Biden. Political pundits refer to this phenomenon as, in the words of Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, “one screen, two movies”.
Much of the blame for this societal dissonance lies in the unhealthy alliance of our MSM (mainstream media composed of broadcast networks and major newspapers) and the Democrat Party. Since at least the 1990s the MSM have been operating as a propaganda arm for the Democrat Party as opposed to providing “truth to power”. The MSM are gradually losing the battle for relevance in the huge flourishing of, first, cable networks and now internet-based sites, podcasts and assorted social media, but they are still powerful in their waning days. They trashed Trump merrily during his Presidency, pushed Biden over the finish line in 2020, and have carried Biden’s water since then.
And since 2020 the MSM have been carrying more water for Biden than the Ganges in monsoon season. Biden’s deterioration has been evident for some years and it became an issue in the 2020 election. Brit Hume, one of journalism’s grey eminences, posed that Biden was senile based on his manner, behaviour and actions. MSM “fact-checkers” protected the precious candidate. But Biden and his handlers took notice that they had been rumbled and used the excuse of Covid from early 2020 on to hide Biden away campaigning from his basement. MSM ignored his concerning demeanor completely and supported him for President in words that would have embarrassed George Washington.
After a most unusual election came a most unusual Presidency, where the hiding away of the most powerful man in the world continued. Appearances were controlled, press conferences limited and interviews permitted only in controlled scripted environments such as with celebrities or on late night talk shows. Biden’s deteriorating physical condition, as well as his mental decline, were covered up by his handlers in a number of ways.
This year, two events began to poke serious holes in the view that Biden is just old. Last year a Special Counsel, Robert Hur, was appointed to conduct an investigation into the finding of classified documents at Biden’s residences. He reported his findings in January. The report was not kind to Biden to say the least. He stated that Biden should not be prosecuted for the documents because a jury would not find him guilty as they would be sympathetic to the fact he was a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”. NBC News dutifully provided covering fire for this by rolling out Democrat operatives to trash both Hur and the report.
Then there were the recent international events such as D-Day and the G7 meetings, where Biden was caught on camera spacing out and wandering off. The videos were shown on Fox News and went viral. The Associated Press stepped up for the covering fire and called them “cheap fakes”, following on from the White House reaction. A bemused Fox News said the videos “have not been cropped, they have not been sped up or slowed down or edited in any way”.
And then came the debate. Biden had slipped in the polls against Trump due to the response from voters to seeing a candidate pursue the Kafka-esque strategy of putting an opponent on trial. And so Biden and his handlers came up with a cunning plan – to challenge Trump to a debate in an environment they believed they could control. They set the rules, selected the moderators (CNN, who had earlier supplied the questions in advance to Hillary Clinton in a 2016 debate), had no audience that would cause Biden to lose focus, and banned any cross-talk to limit Trump’s quick repartee. Biden spent seven days at Camp David prepping for the debate as if there was nothing else going on that required his attention. It was a brilliant strategy and only one thing could ruin it – the senility of the candidate. It did.
The reaction was immediate from folks believing in Biden. Democrats and Never-Trumpers were gob-smacked. But it is fascinating how their surprise was akin to reading the last few pages of an Agatha Christie novel. Massive surprise at the unveiling of the murderer is followed by an “oh yeah” as folks think back on the clues that were there all along. These reactions showed up in polls taken over the last few days. A CBS News poll two days after the debate showed 72% of folks now believe Biden’s cognitive issues prohibit him from being President, and this includes 42% of Democrat voters.
The immediate reactions of the MSM were different. At 10:30 that night the panicked howls of the MSNBC political pundits and “experts” mourned the death of their favoured campaign, while CNN threw ashes on the coffin. The New York Times suffered a dark night of the soul, and as the dawn broke published an editorial claiming Biden should step down. These are the guys who in March this year were taking a victory lap comparing Biden to Beethoven, Wagner and Martin Scorsese after Biden angrily shouted his way through a teleprompter speech to Congress.
The assorted Democrat Party apparatchiks and elected representatives were even more on fire. The donors did not like seeing their investment go down the drain. Many wanted their money back. Incumbent Democrats facing election in November were all over the place, with the mood varying from total support to calls to step down. In a Presidential election year Biden is at the top of the ticket and so has the capability of dragging these guys over the finish line, as party regulars tend to vote the entire line. Or not, as the case may be.
The White House gamely tried damage control, saying Biden was ill with a cold or suffering from jet lag after two back-to-back trips to Europe two weeks before the debate. The usually obedient White House Press Corps did not buy it.
No word as yet from White House doctor Dr. Kevin O’Connor, who gave Biden his annual physical this year and claimed he was “fit for duty“.
As for the Biden campaign, its response came four days later on Monday night when he addressed the nation on TV. The Supreme Court had issued a ruling on Presidential immunity when carrying out constitutional duties that essentially destroyed the strategy to tie Trump up in court for bogus charges. All Biden had to do was give a stirring speech on TV about the evil Supreme Court as a dramatic riposte to the debate nightmare. Unfortunately, Biden stank up the joint once again. His speech was only four minutes long, delivered in the trademark Biden mumble. He read both his speech and his instructions (“end of quote”) off the teleprompter. And it did not help that Biden’s face was painted with orange make-up in a vain effort to look as vibrant as his opponent.
This story is going to take a while to play out as the Democrat Party is on the horns of a dilemma. Biden is still planning on running and if he (or those around him) want him to, he will. His delegates (over 90%) have to vote for him on a first ballot at the Democratic Convention in August, which makes him the Democrat nominee. Only pressure from Democrats, anxious about a thrashing in November if he heads the ticket, can change this. But try that with a cranky, senile, elderly man. Also, the $100 million campaign war chest he has raised so far can only be transferred to his VP, Kamala Harris. And Democrats, apart from those who want the first POC woman as President, do not want her as she is, unbelievably, more unpopular than Biden with the public. Raising that kind of money and formulating a nationwide campaign is unrealistic with just four months left. Whatever strategy is followed, one thing is clear – the MSM will support whatever path is chosen by the Democrat Party.
Left out of all this is the state of the country. The focus at the moment is on Biden the candidate, but it is Biden as President for the next six months that is far more worrying. The MSM and Democrat Party, however, cannot waste too much time on something as trivial as the state of the nation. Not when there is an election to win.
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Indeed. The fake news. Paid off, bought long ago. Just an extension of the unDemocratic Communist party. A stolen election, 40 million vote fraud, the forever war, money laundering, showering with his daughter, sniffing children, a degenerate coke snorting idiot as a son laundering money for Daddy through the Uketopia, biolabs everywhere, the synthetic Wuhu-lab flu, the FBI and CIA as his personal Gestapo, calling half of Americans the enemy and terrorists, vomiting his love for Tranny’s when major mass killings were committed by these mentally ill halfwits at Christian schools etc etc.
On the other hand, Biden is the perfect emblem of the evil, stupidity and perversion which is the US empire.
Beautifully put , I remember the staged clip of the grinning cackle fest that is Kamala , dressed in her civvies ,Ear cupped with both hands , cell phone in-between as she cooed supposedly to her new Lord & Master , We Did it Joe , We did it Joe ! ! as news broke of Bidens victory against Trump & I was caught in disbelief that this totally unlikely pairing had pulled off what surely is the biggest of scams ever to win that election !
I read the whole article intently with one question constantly running through my mind, why? The author succinctly answers it with his last sentence.
Nearly all the British media are CIA controlled too. Remember the Russian sub nonsense that appeared on every front page after Biden blew up nordstream. Yeah Russia blew up their own pipeline! Similarly our politicians as an occupied vassal state since 1942 are essentially all Manchurian candidates.
Who did blow it up?
Maybe no-one. Leave a pipeline unpressurised with residual condensate for a while and it is quite likely to go bang, said someone in the industry.
Seriously guys, what’s with the down ticks? I/ we would like to know what you think.
Ah. I see the way it is.
One of the best and honest summaries in the British media I’ve read. Well done.
Both President Biden and Vice President Harris are violating their Oath of Office–
they both solemnly swore they would “bear true faith and allegiance” to the Constitution and that they would “faithfully discharge the duties of the office.”
They stopped doing that a long time ago, probably the moment after they took this oath.
Yeah but as Obama said “The constitution is a document of neagtive liberties. It says what the government cannot do for you but does not say what the government CAN do for you”———-very clever wording —-So the government CAN take away all your fossil fuels eg because they are doing something FOR you.
Obama was mistaken, but it served his purposes.
I think you might want to take a second read of the Constitution, and if you need explanations, start with the “Federalist Papers”.
No I don’t need to read it. ————I strongly disagree with everything coming out of the mouth of Democrats. I hope you did not interpret my remarks as agreeing with Obama.
The purpose of any constitution is to restrain Government, to ensure the Government cannot do anything FOR you, because it cannot possibly know what best to do FOR each individual, and so will do what is best FOR itself.
As Reagan said, Government is the problem, not the solution.
Obama on the other hand was an idiot.
The purpose of the Constitution is (was) to define the roles and responsibilities the States granted to the Federal Govt, to create a gov’t with enough power to act on a national level but without so much power that fundamental rights would be at risk It replaced the Articles of Confederation which was a first try, but failed. The Constitution took a while to create, write, and ratify.
This absolutely personifies the contempt that the Democrat Party holds for its voters, and indeed for the very land of the USA. They will and have literally said, and done anything and everything to hold on to power at the cost of the welfare and well being of the American citizens, even to the extent of encouraging war as opposed to brokering peace. They will stop at nothing toachieve this aim, and for what? so that they can enrich themselves and their already grotesquely wealthy backers. If the American people who were Democrat voters cannot see this, or just choose to ignore it then they really have themselves to blame for the dreadful conclusion to what they are allowing to continue.
Sounds like the Conservatives here.
There’s another important point to be made about Biden. Anyone with at least two brain cells can see that he is suffering from quite advanced dementia, and has been for some time. This is a very ill elderly man who would normally receive sympathy and not hostility. But the ‘caring’ left, in the form of the Democrats, have used this ill elderly man and have now hung him out to dry. They will do anything to advance a socialist agenda; it doesn’t matter who is harmed, maimed or killed in the process. This is what we’re up against.
They’ll just lever in Michelle Obama and win again, you’ll never hear about Biden, or the home he goes to ever again, as if he never existed!
I still think a Biden assassination is on the cards and of course it will be a Trump supporter wot dun it.
Biden has said that only the Lord will prevent him from standing. America’s churches are now full of people praying that he is given just a few months more, as a Harris candidacy is probably impossible to bear.
At least with Biden we will know when AI replaces him, as he will finally become coherent.
Biden is a 4 handicap golfer, part time brain surgeon with a degree in Algebra and speaks 12 languages fluently and once gave a 12 minute speech in Ancient Greek without notes. ——-eh excuse me I was thinking of my old University Professor James Biden. —-Sorry about that. I was getting a bit mixed up.
There were those who thought Trump had made a yuge mistake by agreeing to the debate conditions clearly favourable to Biden and unfavourable to him, but Trump is smart – too many people don’t understand this because they don’t like him.
He knew what state Biden was in and all it would take was to get Biden on a public platform with no teleprompter. Trump could have said nothing and still won.
Why Biden’s handlers didn’t see that indicates their conceit.
The whole thing was a Globalist set-up to prepare the public for Biden standing down for the Cackler.
It could also be that Biden is just acting. He always planned to stand down, in order to enable the Unelectable Kackling Kamala to cackle her way into the White House. All set up by the Globalists, who want to put Ethnic African or Indian females into leadership positions in every western nation, as part of the “Global Goddess Religion”.
Indeed. However it is not true that “his delegates (over 90%) have to vote for him on a first ballot at the Democratic Convention in August”. They have no legal obligation to do so, except in some States.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector