Bidengate reflections
For the past few days I’ve been reading articles and watching podcasts about the new spin that Democrats and the MSM (the latter in the form of Jake Tapper’s and Alex Thompson’s book) have been putting on what I’ll call Bidengate, the attempt at a coverup of Biden’s cognitive decline.
Their excuses and explanations are extraordinarily weak. And yet they offer them, and expect us – apparently – to believe them.
I’ll take a few points:
(1) Although it was an attempt at a coverup, it actually didn’t succeed. More than half of Americans easily perceived that Joe Biden, the president, was losing it.
(2) One of the excuses people like Tapper give is: “well, Bidens’ aides were lying to us and saying he was fine.” But aren’t people who write for the MSM supposed to be, you know, reporters? People who don’t just accept the self-serving responses of those with a motive to lie? People who will like, dig into and investigate a story? In other words, why rely on the report of aides? More than half of America could see the evidence with their own eyes and ears. Why couldn’t you, oh ye reporters/journalists? And if you couldn’t, isn’t it time to turn in your press passes and take up another profession?
(3) One excuse they make is that only doctors can diagnose mental decline. That’s as risible as Justice Jackson saying she doesn’t know what a woman is because she’s not a medical person. The approach of dementia or senility is not hard to notice, although it helps to have a doctor’s diagnosis for the specifics. Biden’s symptoms were obvious to all who didn’t have blinders on, and the exact diagnosis wasn’t necessary. Being president requires mental sharpness and he didn’t have it.
(4) Another excuse was that well, it doesn’t really require mental sharpness to be president. It just requires getting elected, and then the aides can take the wheel. One Democrat is as good as another, as in an ant colony.
I’m not kidding; see this:
A longtime aide—an unelected official within the Biden administration—admits the staff "acted undemocratically" and claims it was justified because they viewed Trump as an "existential threat" to democracy, according to the book Original Sin.
The book also alleges that a trio of… pic.twitter.com/FoGhfygYYn
— Julia ?? (@Jules31415) May 27, 2025
(5) As Thompson says in that video, once you declare Trump that serious a threat, anything can be justified in order to fight him. If Biden’s the only candidate you have at the moment, then no matter what his cognitive state you’ll have to get him elected. Anything you do is justified – which is the argument tyrants often use to explain and excuse their own actions. And indeed, the aides and other Democrats did justify everything to themselves: the lies of Russiagate, the lies about Charlottesville, the laptop coverup, lawfare against Trump and his attorneys, so many things it would be tedious to list them.
(6) And if all those lies are done in the name of stopping Trump, who’s the biggest threat to democracy? Not Trump for sure, but either the perpetrators can’t see that or they’re lying to us even about how they evaluate Trump. They may know he’s no threat to democracy. What they do know is that he’s a threat to their power.
They still don’t understand an inflection point has been passed, as if history isn’t replete with examples that trying to apologize, deflect and minimize the severity of a watershed event is never successful. There will be no forgetting and certainly no forgiving the MSM or their deep state allies for their treachery. This is generational. They’d shut their mouths now and slink away quietly if they knew what’s coming, but even self-interest eludes them.
Unfortunately, nearly 50% of the country didn’t care about what was happening with Biden. And from what I’m reading, they accept the BS Tapper et al are selling. Their belief in the MSM has not in the least been shaken. As long as the MSM keeps pumping out Trump is bad stories, they’re happy.
Things haven’t changed here in Los Angeles and that despite the fact that a number of people suffered horrendous loss at the hands of the Democrats they vote for and install in office in this state. Believing the lies, propaganda, fear, the desire to have the affirmation of your peers–this is what informs the votes of many of my fellow citizens. And in truth despite the fires many still don’t suffer the consequences of their choices. That’s for us in the middle. For the other 50% in the middle that do see and live among the filth, crime and corruption resulting from their vote–well, I guess that list above is powerful stuff on the psyche.
You just have to accept those weak explanations as the definitive proof that they would do it all over again, if the circumstances suggested it would be to their tactical advantage. There is no internal moral compass that would block it, or guide their choices – and that is the tidbit to always keep in mind, front & center. Progressive journalism is about shaping public perception for the benefit of the cause, not digging for the truth to let the chips fall where they may.
And now we have Harvard and NPR suing the administration for withholding funds, declaring proudly that they stand on the principles of Free Speech and Independence, Hurrah !
But: How exactly are they independent if they’re accepting taxpayer dollars, which come with certain conditions? Isn’t independence only truly attained by being…… independent?
I think maybe Harvard is mistaking ‘independence’ for ‘incorrigible’, or maybe ‘intractable’, or how about ‘insubordination’. Do they teach vocabulary at Harvard?
Harvard leads the way!
‘Trump Threatens To Withhold “Large Scale” Federal Funding From California After Trans Athlete Destroys Biological Females’—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-threatens-withhold-large-scale-federal-funding-california-after-trans-athlete
physicsguy’s first sentence, “Unfortunately, nearly 50% of the country didn’t care about what was happening with Biden.”
100% true and decidedly unnerving. Since 2015 POTUS Trump has been painted as the bastard son of Satan and lots of your neighbours, family, friends, coworkers ad nauseam will burn the US to the ground to get rid of him.
@ Unwillin’ Barkis: I fear that you are far too optimistic.
As the meme says, “I’m so fed up with this that I’m voting for a different Democrat!”
Physicsguy says “Unfortunately, nearly 50% of the country didn’t care about” the lies of Bidengate.
On the up side, Rasmussen reports that for the first time in annual polling over 29 years, the Right Track (versus wring track fir the country( has now pulled a new high of 50%.
CONCLUSION: granted the dismaying takes above,c the Right side continues to grow well.
Tapper’s BOLD (and COURAGEOUS) print:
“We lied to you—FOR YEARS, heh—but IT’S NOT OUR FAULT: we wuz sorely and serially misled by terrible, terrible people!!! (People we propped up daily, weekly, monthly, continually, ad nauseum, ad infinitum…because—you know, sure you do—WE HAD TO SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM TRUMP. QED.
The fine print?
“We will continue lying to you, count on it—it’s our moral imperative…AND, frankly, the only thing we know how to do at this point (and if you ever do find out about it, or give a damn, well we’ll just have to conjure up some other dishonest excuse, won’t we? So run along, nuthin’ to see here, folks…BUT DON’T FORGET TO BE GRATEFUL for the job we’ve been doing—tirelessly—to protect and our Demockracy!!
…the aides and other Democrats did justify everything to themselves: the lies of Russiagate, the lies about Charlottesville, the laptop coverup, lawfare against Trump and his attorneys, so many things it would be tedious to list them.
This writer took a stab at the aforementioned tedious list.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/they_lied_time_and_time_again_and_now_they_want_you_to_believe_this.html
The punchline of his article is: now telling you there’s no genocide against white farmers in South Africa.
I know nothing about that topic, but you’ve been forewarned.
Trump is not a threat to democracy – he’s a threat to Democrats.
Their self preservation justifies any means necessary to get rid of Trump.
They keep trying even after multiple failures.
They are truly insane.
Liberal democrat voters… sheep willfully blind to the reality that they have and are enabling the fashioning of the ‘chains’ of their future enslavement. Though in truth, sheep welcome the shepherds’ rulership.
Demonstrating that extending the voting franchise to everyone above an arbitrarily chosen age, fatally ignores that humanity consists of subservient sheep, independently minded sheepdogs and ruthless wolves.
Sheep vote as they’re ‘told’. Wolves justify with “If God didn’t want them sheared, He would not have made them sheep” Sheepdogs risk death to protect the sheep. Half of whom in their ingratitude prove their unworthiness of the sheepdog’s sacrifice. “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
Related:
Enjoy…well, as much as possible under the circumstances…
(It’s Mark Steyn.)
“Lie, Lie, and Lie Again”—
http://jewishworldreview.com/0525/steyn052725.php
H/T Powerline blog.
“…nearly 50% of the country didn’t care about what was happening with Biden.”
Per Grok, the popular vote totals were Trump 49.9% and Harris 48.4%. I’m guessing Harris actualy got fewer votes than that, due to Democrat fraud. So the glass is more than half full.
What conservatives need to do now (among other things) is to do whatever they can to encourage Democrat voters to switch (or at least not turn them off with personal attacks). I don’t begrudge Trump spiking the football, but the rest of us should try not to be offensive when dealing with people who might be convincible.
I think Trump said “my revenge will be the country’s success.” Nothing succeeds like success!
In a nutshell:
We stole the 2020 election fair ‘n square.
We hijacked the country fair ‘n square…
…and we almost succeeded in wrecking it fair ‘n square.
We lied to y’all constantly, fair ‘n square. (Not our fault if you believed us.)
BUT what Trump is doing is illegal and unconstitutional.
Never seen anything like it.
This maniac’s a clear and present danger to the country and to the entire world.
Just one example…
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/dr-oz-finds-medicaid-fraud-costing-taxpayers-14-billion
“What conservatives need to do now (among other things) is to do whatever they can to encourage Democrat voters to switch…”
LOL! Good luck with that! The working class Democrats have already switched. Those that are left (pun intended) are the true believers. My experience is that this is a fool’s errand. Anything we can say will be instantly dismissed. It’s only going to take a real hard lesson in reality for any change to happen. And as our hostess has documented many times, even that may not be enough it the person doesn’t want to change.
physicsguy
Agreed. Every discussion with a dem voter involves endless falsehoods. I’m not sure if I should call them lies, since some of the folks seem to actually believe them. But discussing each issue in detail is fruitless since, “I don’t believe it.” suffices to discredit any factual argument one may make.
One acquaintance of that stripe posted a long list of government intrusions into our freedom…as if Trump were doing it. In fact, they were all Obama and Biden administrations’ doings. Given her other posts, I’d say she’s dumb enough to believe this. Or, a small possibility, she knows better but hopes SOMEBODY out there may be fooled and it’s worth looking as she does to normal people to fool that one SOMEBODY out there.
I’d say the efforts would be more effectively directed toward the stay-at-homes and independents.
Aggie wrote “You just have to accept those weak explanations as the definitive proof that they would do it all over again, if the circumstances suggested it would be to their tactical advantage.”
Exactly. The past 4 years has been a training experiment for the globalists & marxists.
Having a malleable candidate is likely still a goal. Just need one that can fool more people than Joe did.
physicsguy wrote
“‘encourage Democrat voters to switch…’
LOL! Good luck with that!”
I don’t disagree with you. What I meant to say was that we should not *discourage* Democrats from switching, by our own overly harsh rhetoric. Then some of them may have the scales fall from their eyes, or turn with the herd as it moves away from its self-destructive path.
I don’t discuss politics with anyone in person; I just comment on a few websites.
yes those suddenly cured votes in California, had nothing to do with lowering that popular vote total,
it is a sargasso sea of lies, so much so that sweeney todd I mean andrew cuomo has a good chance of becoming the mayor of Gotham, and the alternatives are worse,
as I’ve said, the bloodprice of that fraud, is the two wars that errupted on the camarillas watch, in the Caucasus and the Levant, the collapse of civil order on our streets, and the invasion,
btw an update about news from azania* malema who was a youth leader in the anc before forming the efp, has rejoined the anc per sources,
*the peoples republic that the Soviets saw South Africa, becoming,
Not sure it’s stupidity.
It may be.
Fact is that the DPOTUS-driven Media has hijacked—simply taken over—the minds of many good, kind, decent and compassionate—AND INTELLIGENT—people (no, not all of them, if course, but enough of them) so that they are simply unable to do anything other than regurgitate the constant avalanche of manipulated, manufactured outrage directed against Trump and those who support him.
(Actually, they firmly believe WE’RE the deluded ones…not to mention evil, sick, deranged, etc…in this Alice-In-Wonderland “reality” in which we seem to be living….
…And it was said that “it could NEVER happen here…”.)
well stupid is willful ignorant is inadvertent, but our Gellman sydrome media, sort of crosses the dividing line, if one is misinformed, that keeps one in almost hermetically sealed cave,
well stupid is willful ignorant is inadvertent, but our Gellman sydrome media, sort of crosses the dividing line, if one is misinformed, that keeps one in almost hermetically sealed cave,
I looked at for example, an andromeda strain technothriller from Lawrence Wright, who had done some very good work in describing the rise of Al Queda, the End of October, the short story is a new virus arises out of a region in Indonesia, and it causes Spanish flu level damage, the hero is a brave CDC official, (spit) and his tracking the virus from indonesia to Saudi Arabia during the Haj and it’s spread across the worldl all well in good, but the whole subtext is every bit of agitation, that leads to a war with the Russians, is because of hacking or dezinforma, he believed the whole Steele/Danchenko production, and the Archipelago or ORange Man bad that stems from that, of course there’s a twist at the end, that undermines the narrative,
now it’s possible he doesn’t really subscribe to these views, but he put them in his novel
to curry favor with his readers,
his sources seem to have been those public health officials that indulged in gain of function research, in places far and wide,
@Dax:What I meant to say was that we should not *discourage* Democrats from switching, by our own overly harsh rhetoric. Then some of them may have the scales fall from their eyes, or turn with the herd as it moves away from its self-destructive path.
They bring their ideas with them. The ones who balk at the men-in-women’s-sports or cancel culture or campus anti-semitism are still otherwise progressives. You increase the population of RINOs and the perpetual leftist ratchet goes on.
This mess isn’t fixed by just who votes how. Too much of it is made by actors that no one votes for: bureaucrats, Federal judges, corporate rent-seekers…
@Niketas
“The ones who balk at the men-in-women’s-sports or cancel culture or campus anti-semitism are still otherwise progressives.”
I don’t disagree with your post at all. Still, if they balk at men-in-women’s-sports or cancel culture or campus anti-semitism, I count those as (partial) victories. As well as having Trump 2.0 now, rather than Obama/Biden/Harris 4.0
The cancer in our society has metastasized. The challenge is to remove it without killing the patient.
Brown said she couldn’t say what a woman was because she wasn’t a biologist, not that substituting Martian would make the statement any more farcical. I so wish someone would have asked her, “What is 2+2”. She couldn’t deny saying “4”; so are you a mathematician.
I haven’t seen anyone pick up on the implication of her statement that gender is based on biology, not preference.
(2) One of the excuses people like Tapper give is: “well, Bidens’ aides were lying to us and saying he was fine.” But aren’t people who write for the MSM supposed to be, you know, reporters? People who don’t just accept the self-serving responses of those with a motive to lie?
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That has been SOP for the press for many years, maybe forever. Remember the laptop? The Springfield Haitians? The Russia Hoax? Monica?
The trick is you go to a reliably Democrat source (self serving, as you say), and just repeat what that source tells you. Anything else is mis-dis-mal-information. A conspiracy theory.
It would be nice if this forced them to stop doing this, but I doubt that will happen.