The Lies We Have Lived Through

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Victor Davis Hanson

After last Thursday's debate, Biden himself laid to rest the Democratic lie that he was robust and in control of his faculties. In truth, he demonstrated to the nation that he is a sad, failing octogenarian who could not perform any job in America other than apparently the easy task of President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief in charge of our nuclear codes.

It's too long to quote in full, but worth your time.

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Game Changer or Not??

It breaks my heat to say it, but I say Not.

In my life I have seen three moments in politics that appeared to change everything. In two of those cases, the appearance turned out to be true. In the third, in the end nothing changed, to the sad detriment of our country.

Last week's debate between president Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump appears to be another such potential game-changing event. The change however will not be whether Joe Biden will be the candidate when the election finally rolls around in November, or whether even if he will win or lose the election.

The change, should it happen, will be much more funadmental. I come at this from the point of view of a historian, so bear with me as I attempt to explain.

Cliff Notes
The Watergate hearings
Iran Contra
Bill Clinton's "I did not have sex" press conference

and now

Biden's Debate debacle

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But whether Biden sticks it out or gets dumped is not the game-changer to which I refer. The real game-changer is whether ordinary Democrats in the general public, which saw without question Biden's growing mental incapacity during that debate, will excuse it and still vote Democrat, as they did for Clinton in 2000.

Will the general public finally recognize that the partisan mainstream media has been in the tank for the Democrats for years? Will the general public finally realize that this press has been lying to us repeatedly during that time to prop up this party of corrrupt, dishones, and incompetent hacks?

If the public finally recognizes this plain facts, than nothing Biden or the press will do in the coming few months will change anything. The public will see it for the lies they are, and ignore it. It will vote overwhelming to fire Biden, to an extent so overwhelming that the Democrats themselves will find it pointless or counter-productive to attempt any vote tampering, and even if they do, the vote turnout against Biden will be so high that such tampering won't work.

If this game-changer does happen, it will signal a major and very positive change for our country. It will mean that the hold the left has had on the general public since Watergate will finally have been broken. It means we can finally begin getting back to hold all politicians, no matter what party they belong to, to standards of some decency and honest.

And if so, this will maybe be the biggest game-changer ever in the past century.

[Jim at Gentex]

Love me some VDH. 

He is one of the wisest and most intelligent historians of our day who can see clearly through all of the political spin on any issue.

[CNCAppsJames]

This comment... true as the day is long.

Sometimes when a card is flipped in the card game of "Solitaire" that one card becomes the key that allows every other card to be turned until the entire deck has been flipped over and revealed.
No longer will the deluge of lies remain damed up, The opposite will happen. What could have been dealt with in a trickle down fashion, if an honest media and honest government had been in charge, will now become like a dam of accumulated debris that breaks causing a deluge that floods everyone who was disillusioned into thinking they were safe and that America was a ship staffed by a competent captain and crew. Now we know it is a Ship of Fools staffed by an incompetent captain and crew.
All manner of lies and deceptions will now be exposed and no one is likely to believe the liars again including those who will vote for Biden or his substitute because they so despise Trump.
A far bigger concern is the fear that this ship, minus a competent captain and crew, is now drifting through uncharted and dangerous waters. Those aware and concerned among us are thinking about the damage we will experience when we slam into the iceberg that now appears impossible to avoid. Our enemies, from within, and on the outside, are watching.