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Monday, July 08, 2024

Biden Propagandists and Sheltered Reality

"Biden has yet to push the eject button on his re-election bid, but it is only a matter of days now. The issue has already gone from his manifest incapacity, the sad deterioration of age, to the high-combustion scandal of coverup."
"Several senior people would have known about the president's capacity and will have to account for their role in hiding it, starting awkwardly, with Vice-President Kamala Harris."
Father Raymond J. de Sousa, National Post
 
"It's clear the best news reporters in Washington have failed in the first duty of journalism: to hold power accountable."
"The Biden White House clearly succeeded in a massive coverup of the degree of the president's feebleness and his serious physical decline."
"Shame on the White House press corps for not [having] pierced the veil of secrecy surrounding the president."
Jill Abramson, (former) executive editor, New York Times
 
"I think Biden has a problem."
"He's moving more slowly, he is taking longer to answer questions. The U.S. elections are very important for all the world."
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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The first general election debate, sponsored by CNN, was attended by presumptive nominees Joe Biden and Donald Trump held on June 27, 2024.

Suddenly it has become too obvious and in full view of the public that the most powerful man on the planet is just a senile elderly man requiring constant prompts and props to present him in a public arena and even then his lack of mental acuity and frail physical condition has become embarrassingly and increasingly evident, revealing the man who occupies the presidency of the United States of America to be little more than an empty shell, manipulated by a party whose focus is on power irrespective of the man's incapacity to communicate and to manage the critical decision-making of his executive post.
 
In Europe the general consensus among government authorities privately speak of President Joe Biden's need to vacate the presidency in favour of an alternative for the upcoming fall presidential election, who would stand a chance at confronting and denying former president Donald Trump a renewed Republican mandate to govern the United States, and by extension to a great degree, the world at large. President Biden has been revealed in all his indelicate frailty, as obviously incapable of continuing the farce of his presidency.
 
That up to the current point in time when his pathetic performance at the June 27 election debate between himself as incumbent and the former president faced one another and millions of people not only in the United States but worldwide watched bemused and fascinated at the instability of Joe Biden fully revealed also made clear that his position was utterly untenable. Disappointed Americans have good reason to fear the near future should this man continue in the role he holds and intends to continue with at the determined urging of his wife.

Clearly, his family in urging him to resist concerned and fearful advisers not of his inner circle who see disaster ahead in continuing with this frail man whose mind is occasionally absent and physical coordination compromised by old age and a failing cerebral function, care more to retain the prestige of his position reflecting on the family, than they do about the welfare of the country they claim to be proud of and loyal to. They found great value in the inestimable support of legacy media who ignored reality and presented a false image of a failing president.
 
Sometimes polls are capable of revealing a great deal about the Machiavellian byways of politics and in late April an NBC News poll identified sharp divisions between supporters of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, driven in large part by the source of their news through various types of media. 
  • People who rely on newspapers for their news are likely to prefer Biden over Trump by 70 percent to 21 percent;
  • Those who favour national network news, prefer Biden over Trump by 55 percent to 35 percent;
  • News websites much the same, giving Biden the advantage over Trump at 49 percent to 39 percent;
  • On the other hand, where social media is the source of news, Trump is favoured, 45 percent to 42 percent;
  • Those who tend toward Cable news, prefer Trump by 53 percent to 45 percent;
  • As for YouTube and Google as the primary source of news, Trump is ahead by 55 percent to 39 percent;
  • Finally, for those who fail to follow any news media sources, Trump is still ahead by 53 percent to 27 percent.
 And then there are those short video clips that pop up here and there that greet viewers with brief scenarios demonstrating the utter futility of believing that President Biden's performance in every metric could conceivably improve, much less stabilize. He is on a downward trajectory as age has been most unkind to him; many people in their early 80s like him are fully functioning, which he is most definitely not. Legacy media continued to publish Biden-positive reviews despite his descent into senility. 

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Donald Trump and President Joe Biden at the CNN presidential debate in Atlanta on June 27.  Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
 
 

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Friday, May 03, 2024

Oops -- Damage Control Alert!

"[The upcoming general election is about] freedom, America and democracy [and the nation's economy is thriving] because of you [immigrants to the United States] and many others."
"Why? Because we welcome immigrants. Look, think about it. Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia? Why is India? Because they're xenophobic. They don't want immigrants."
"Immigrants are what makes us strong. Not a joke. That's not hyperbole, because we have an influx of workers who want to be here and want to contribute."
U.S. President Joe Biden, address to Asian-American audience at fundraiser
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US President Joe Biden speaks April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
 
A simplistic analysis for economic enlightenment to an audience he is pitching,to  help fund his re-election. Where he implies negatively that Japan and India along with China and Russia are "xenophobic" in their attitude toward welcoming newcomers. The United States' 'open borders' to immigration by illegal migrants must make those countries shudder, thinking what they'd do themselves faced with a similar situation, while simultaneously smirking that they don't quite anticipate becoming a target in the same class as the United States.

For one thing, none of them would go out of their way to welcome as future citizens and a bolster to an aging workforce, migrants, refugees and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa. India, China and Russia have ample reason to shrink from such a scenario given their interior experience with their own Muslim populations. For another, those countries have a vast complex of various ethnic, religious and cultural groups within their citizenry, some of which agitate forcefully resulting in social disequilibrium.

Mr. Biden cannot possibly, intelligently boast that the United States  under his administration has fared well in attempting to hold back the tide of illegal entries crossing the border between Mexico and the United States, straining the capacity of cities toward which they stream to handle their human needs, aside from the fact that among the migrants there are invariably present seeking infiltration, individuals and groups inimical to the security of the country.

At that campaign fundraising event, it's difficult to imagine his audience viewing those assertions with any credulity, unless they're completely oblivious of world events, and Asian-Americans tend to be fairly knowledgeable. The countries whose immigration policies with the exception of Russia and China that he cites as short-sighted; Japan and India in particular are close allies of the United States; their reactions to his opinion might be lacking enthusiasm.

Particularly in a climate that has twisted itself into a woke pretzel where academia is placing limits on the numbers of orientals that Ivy League universities can admit, to make way for less intellectually endowed applicants under the human rights  banner of 'diversity, equity and inclusion', where white-privilege can be extended to encompass anyone in society who is intellectually exceptional to the mainstream.

Biden, according to White House national security spokesman John Kirby, stated that a broader point about the U.S. position on immigration was being made: "Our allies and partners know well in tangible ways how President Biden values them, their friendship, their co-operation and the capabilities that they bring across the spectrum on a range of issues, not just security related".

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Concertina wire lines the path as members of Congress tour an area near the Texas-Mexico border, in Eagle Pass, Texas. As congressional negotiators try to finalize a bipartisan deal on the border and immigration, their effort is drawing the wrath of hard-right lawmakers and former President Donald Trump. That vocal opposition threatens to unravel a delicate compromise. (AP Photo/Eric Gay

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