The Real Joe Biden

The Founders must be spinning in their graves. Now it's coming out, after the election, of course. This demonstrates the power of bought media and the power of tribalism. The fact that they hid Biden's condition so well demonstrates the horrific things that can be done in the name of "democracy." Never again trust anyone who asks you to trust them. It's going to make it a lot harder to figure out what is going on, but it's your only option.  Nellie Bowles at The Free Press (visit her article for lots of links):

Oh, Joe Biden: He’s still the sitting president, so we begin here. Another week brings us yet more details on how far Biden has been falling mentally, this time coming from The Wall Street Journal, where a team of reporters describe an insulated, out-of-contact Joe, beginning when he took office. Over his presidency he’s had very, very little contact with people you’d think of as important top figures in the government. We already know he didn’t do evenings, but he wasn’t great in the mornings either. But the 40 minutes in the middle of the day after his nap and before his IV drip? That’s the gold right there. Right at 2:20–3? That’s when America is Online.

“[I]n the spring of 2021, a national security official explained to another aide why a meeting needed to be rescheduled. ‘He has good days and bad days, and today was a bad day so we’re going to address this tomorrow,’ the former aide recalled the official saying.”

Ahead of the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, key government figures couldn’t get in touch with Joe. As inflation crushed consumers, then–Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was on her own.

Here’s Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee: “I really had no personal contact with this president.”

Biden was the cozy vessel. He was the comforting smile, a flirty wink that said, I’m normal and you’re safe. In the background, up very early and also very late, were busy bee staffers with a very different vision for the country: opening the border on Day One; $175 billion for student loan forgiveness; plus, for good measure, his presidential proclamation recognizing Trans Day of Visibility (what about lesbians, Joe!). Any given day, staffers just put on the Joe Biden bodysuit and did something absolutely bananas and then said whoa, whoa, are you calling Joe Biden a communist?

Anyway, this is me reading tea leaves, but Biden this week chose the leftist magazine The American Prospect to publish his farewell essay. Obama chose The Economist, a stately bugle for intelligent globalists such as myself. Which is all to say: Joe Biden was never a moderate president. From the day he got in, his mind was slipping and his policies were wild, and in polite, elite society we were all supposed to pretend otherwise because he does give a moderate vibe with those shades and the ice cream cones. And he flirted with a biker chick once—doing a little inappropriate flirting does feel moderate. I do regard that as being politically aligned with me.

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Duke Lacrosse Accuser Confesses that She Made it All Up

"Believe women" was always an idiotic principle. The only principle we should ever follow is Believe Evidence. Back in 2006, DNA exonerated these three men, but the DA forged ahead anyway. Then the media credulously jumped on the bandwagon because the false story fit their male-bashing race-baiting narrative. Now the woman who falsely accused these three innocent men has confessed that she made the entire thing up (She is now in prison for murder of her boyfriend in 2016).

This article by Ted Balaker is titled: “I testified falsely”Woman who accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape admits she lied. Excerpt from this article: "The court threw out the charges, DA Mike Nifong was disbarred, and the students forced Duke into a settlement for defamation."

Ten years ago, I produced a documentary short for FIRE that features K.C. Johnson, co-author of the book Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case. Here’s how Johnson summarized the episode:

This was a case that served different agendas of differing groups. For [the DA] Mike Nifong, he wanted guilt because it would help his cause in the primary. For the Duke faculty members, portraying their own students as racist advanced an on-campus agenda of making more hires dealing with race, class, and gender, and requiring more courses in race, class, and gender.

And for The New York Times, this was a case that fit very much the basic assumptions of a typical Times journalist that white, male athletes were out of control, with both sexual and racial connotations, and that advancing this would sort of advance a broader ideological agenda of The Times. And so it was almost a perfect storm of a case in which a variety of different groups could exploit the case for their own purposes

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