Only in a world of political make-believe would the Wall Street Journal’s account of Biden’s years-long cognitive decline, and its concealment by his officials, count as a scoop
I read “news” in my Inbox only; I haven't watched any form of television for over forty years. So I don’t know a lot about President Biden. I do know he proposed a lot of legislation that benefitted people like me, I do know what he financed and supported mass murder in Gaza, I do know that like me (and even like you) he was a mere mortal, full of good and evil, stupidity and wisdom. My mother in law told me that everyone deserves respect. A lesson you apparently never were taught.
1. Biden had two scull surgeries in 1988 for brain aneurism (often accelerates dementia). In 2019 his mental decline become very noticeable. By 2021 he was no longer there – “English muffin”. Who ruled and rules now US??
• It is now evident -- Klein, Zientz and Blinken, the cabal who took over senile Biden to rule US and are all – rabid Zionists. Let that sink in….
2. In 2020 Biden got 81M+ votes – a mystery from where 3-4M extra votes came?? Trump got ~79M in a landslide
3. A bonus question: Why Trump has not “noticed” Biden’s genocide in Gaza yet…?
Most head shaking at “stupid voters” conveniently ignores the simple explanation that what voters “should” have known was unthinkable and terrifying. Being constantly bombarded with conflicting “facts” making no sense whatsoever creates self doubt, helplessness and a desperate need to trust that smarter minds know what they are doing. Telling voters they are stupid plays into the hands of propaganda.
They're not "stupid". They're hypnotised, as the article argues. The role of the media is precisely to hypnotise us. Our job should be to help jolt people back to reality, using elucidatory moments like this one.
There's one aspect of this scandal that I forgot to mention in my prior post. And that's the abuse of an old man. How dare the Democratic Party, and sadly it seems his own family, put their political ambitions and machinations before the health and welfare of a failing old man. I have little time for Biden, I don't think he's actually that nice a man, but he deserves the consideration of any ailing human being, and what was planned for him basically amounts to elder abuse. He may been determined to pursue his presidency, but one to the symptoms of his condition here appears to be his total lack of insight into his failing health. He should never have been allowed to run again, there was at least two years notice of this. That would have given the Party time to organise proper primaries and come up with a more attractive and capable candidate than Kamala Harris, tainted as she was by her association with the Biden administration, and actually beat Trump. Basically they gave the election away, again, a seriously delusional party.. . He has just a year or two of sentient existence ahead of him which he should enjoy with his family and friends, and be like any other retired gentlemen, fishing, reading, playing softball with his grandchildren, soaking up the sun in summer, and enjoying quiet winter walks holding hands with his wife.
Quite a lot of comments here about Biden, Trump, the Presidency, the wielders of power, the deep state etc. However the article is rather more, actually almost totally, about the media, and its complicity in the gaslighting of the US (and the rest of the world) in regard to the state of Biden's mental capacity (not to mention his obvious physical decline, his stooped posture, his slow unsteady gait, his facial weakness, his failing voice) People do fail in their old age, I might too, as I am now 78 yrs old, but it was the inability of those around Biden to tell the truth, even to promote him for another four years, and the media's willing and almost shrill support of this obviously failing human being that is being examined here. I think I first wrote about Biden's obvious failings shortly after he was elected.
This is not an original thought that in Russia Pravda and Izvestia were propaganda tools of the Soviet State, and little could be believed in these news organs. But then the people of Russia knew not to believe them anyway. They weren't fooled, the State just had to be tolerated. But here in the west, we are more gullible, the BBC is the voice of trust and truth, we actually do believe what we're told, and that's a propaganda that really works, it is powerful and successful, as Biden's failings remain hidden, the war in Ukraine escalates and as Israel expands its empire and continues eliminating Palestinians. Trust in the media is at an all time low, rightly, but the problem is now that we retreat into our silos of thought and stop communicating across the divide.
Yes, it's about the mainstream media in the West. However, we also need to be looking at the huge power of 'alternative' media targeting and conditioning. No one is really talking about this.
Those in the 'covid' dissent demographic were purposefully targeted on social media with unscientific nonsense about the climate crisis- it being a psy-op to control us. It was so successful that it's now impossible to have a debate about climate change as millions won't even accept basic concepts of observed reality. They're also able to hold in place that Rockefeller is powerful because of oil and wants to get Africa 'addicted to oil' and yet at the same time that he is plotting to stop us using oil and herd us into 15 min cities. Seemingly well-educated people have lost their sanity.
Given that the climate and environmental crises, driven by oil and animal ag exploitation and profits, is the single biggest threat to modern humans, they've pulled a blinder.
Thanks Jo, worthwhile point, we shouldn't ignore the alternative media's role in narrative constructs that are highly useful to certain powerful players in society. They are a force which most of us, well certainly I count myself, haven't quite got a handle on. I suppose for an older person like me, who for most of his life relied on the MSM (carefully chosen of course) for our news and current affairs it's a bit of a shock to realise just how wedded the MSM is to powerful interests that work behind the scenes. It's only recently that I've just taken note of the fact I haven't watched the evening news or current affairs on broadcast TV here in NZ for at least ten years. I am too conscious of the fact that I may too be conducting myself in a political silo. Every now and then I'll listen to BBC or Guardian or other more right wing political podcasts, to see what I'm missing and challenge myself but when I do so, the frustration certainly mounts, and the concerns. - Thanks for the post. JKM
Hi Jock, you’re very welcome and lovely to hear from you.
I turned 60 this year and haven’t listened to MSM news since I was a teenager living with my parents, or the unavoidable news bulletins on the radio at work (why do the reporters speak in that weird, affected way?). I did read the Independent for a while until the whining of Robert Fisk drove me away.
I know that many younger people don’t read or watch MSM at all either. Hence the US trying to ban tik tok because of the unfiltered, unspun presentation of the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
I dabbled on Twitter to find things out about the ‘covid’ debacle (I knew the measures were way over the top given the evidence for them). This was when I became acutely aware of the message being fed to me. I was told my compassion for animals was being used against me by BiIl Gates who wanted me to be vegan! People I met there are still shouting in the street every Sunday that co2 is plant food! They pride themselves on being immune to MSM propaganda yet have fallen hook line and sinker for alternative propaganda. It’s been one of the most bizarre experiences of my life.
The duopoly is what is strangling the U.S. Biden's decline was obvious to those that were watching BUT there was only one other choice. Nope. The U.S. is not a democracy.
I believed he was old and his mental and physical decline was inevitable. I didn't and still don't care. He was and is a true patriot and believed in the Constitution, democracy, the rule of law, America and her people. He has principles, he fought for us and kept us safe a little longer from the threat we now face. He knew trump was an existential threat to America, a racist, a felon, a con-artist, a rapist and so much more. He is leaving behind a legacy of profound accomplishments that made America that much closer to the dream our founders fought and died for. Well above and beyond any other president in my lifetime. All while under constant attack. His accomplishments are undeniable. He had a team who clearly loved America and believed in equity, equality, liberty, justice for all. The American dream is the pursuit of happiness. He gave us the foundation as others have before him. If nothing else, it will take a bit longer for trump to completely destroy it. President Joe Biden made us stronger and gave us a little more time. Thank you President Joe Biden and team for your commitment to America, the people, constitution and trying to preserve democracy.
This reads like desperate D party propaganda. A deluge of noble sounding words with not a shred of empirical evidence to back them up. Pointing out the other guy is bad doesn't make yours good; it's merely deflection.
You must not know the recent history of the Ds. In the late '70s, the party was usurped by neoliberals who dumped the common good of the New Deal, including financial regulations. Plus abandoning the majority working class. Neolibs support an econ system that defines away devastation of human communities and destruction of ecosystems as unimportant externalities. The result? The Ds did FOR the suffering, unemployed Rust belt workers same as they did TO the vultures who caused the '08 crash--NOTHING! I know because as a blue collar rank and file activist and former local D campaign manager, I fought them.
The Ds only represent upper middle class administrators and professionals. People who don't worry about job loss, healthcare coverage, or stagnant wages. Who as bureaucrats, keep repressive econ/political systems functioning. And who, like the Ivy Ds, are certain their superiority gives them the right to rule. We peasants are merely to submit to our betters, and to vote for whomever they deign to offer us.
Now look at the Biden administration specifically. His Department of State was run by PNAC neocons trained by Dick Cheney. Why do you think Cheney endorsed Harris? Neocons are explicitly for empire--their current term is 'unipolar power.' They're also for however many wars it takes to maintain their illusion. It doesn't matter to them this is intensely pro-death. Or that it leaves little or no funding for domestic problems.
If you can explain how a party and its President that are neolib and neocon are somehow good for us lessers, please do. I have yet to hear any nice liberal D apologist even admit to either, let alone justify them.
My goodness, amazing what one can achieve in one's dotage. He has not kept you safe, you may still think so as you inhabit the bunker that the US is now, but nuclear war threatens like never before, and your and your fellow countrymen's dreams will then disappear into the ether like all dreams ultimately do. A team that love America? Possibly true, the problem is that I am not American, and that team that loves American hates everyone else. Actually they also hate a good number of your fellow citizens for their colour, their race or their religion. That you don't care that your President, the leader so-called of the free world is mentally and physically incapacitated, then who is actually running your country? Obviously not Biden, so all your encomiums in his name are worthless, someone else has been pulling the strings of power, and the shutters over your eyes too it seems. .What you say about Trump may well be true, I shudder to think what he might do in the next four years, but I equally shuddered at the thought of another four years of American gerontocracy and its failure to the other 95% of the world's population. It seems to me that the whole US citizenry has been gaslighted in regard to Biden, and you have yet to understand this. A senile president and a near senile, personality disordered president is being inflicted on you and us, you need, as they say in France, to tend your own garden before trying to run the rest of the planet.
The tragedy is not so much Biden's cognitive decline but the fact that un-elected individuals are acting out their own fantasies and proclivities in all the agencies of US governance without any sense of responsibility. The public have been distracted by fluttering red and blue flags and deafened by the cacophony of propaganda that the media employs to normalise this tragedy.
We peasants, the working class majority, KNOW they're lying to us. That's why the number of U.S. non-voters is so high. It's a dual aspect monoparty corporate sponsored. One supported by econopaths who love power and dominance plus religious fanatics who hate uncertainty. The other run by Ivy League elitists who usurped the party of the New Deal and converted it to neolib and then neocon agendas. It's supported by upper middle class administrators and professionals. Their condescension toward us rankles. We're supposed to submit to our betters and vote for whatever they offer us; our opinions, our needs, our lives are unimportant. Similar seems true of the entire Anglophone world.
The more voters that tell their electoral candidates what the electorate wants before voting starts the more likely that successful candidates will take heed and act as true representatives of their electorate. US and UK parliamentary candidates don't really want a big turn-out of voters - that brings a fear of a landslide outcome. They prefer cash "donations" to fund their media propaganda campaign.
Rumors were that Biden was kept functioning with drug cocktails and if true who deliberately withheld them during the debate? It was the earliest debate in history and I think it was a planned takedown of Biden because the truth couldn’t be hidden much longer.
The next day he was fine again. Back on the drug cocktails? I’ll never believe otherwise.
And Zuckerberg and the Kushner Stephen Miller Minyan will donate to the Gooey Goyim ….
Mark Zuckerberg recently shared a glimpse into his personal and professional life through a lighthearted Instagram video posted by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. While the video focused on the couple’s nonprofit work and fun personal anecdotes, many viewers couldn't help but notice the stunning watch on Zuckerberg's wrist – a Patek Philippe Grand Complications 5303R in 18k rose gold, worth a jaw-dropping $1.2 million.
Joe Biden is like old Mr Grace in the TV sitcom Are you being served? “You’ve all done very well!” and collapses into nurses arms?
I read “news” in my Inbox only; I haven't watched any form of television for over forty years. So I don’t know a lot about President Biden. I do know he proposed a lot of legislation that benefitted people like me, I do know what he financed and supported mass murder in Gaza, I do know that like me (and even like you) he was a mere mortal, full of good and evil, stupidity and wisdom. My mother in law told me that everyone deserves respect. A lesson you apparently never were taught.
Two Questions for shitty US state media:
1. Biden had two scull surgeries in 1988 for brain aneurism (often accelerates dementia). In 2019 his mental decline become very noticeable. By 2021 he was no longer there – “English muffin”. Who ruled and rules now US??
• It is now evident -- Klein, Zientz and Blinken, the cabal who took over senile Biden to rule US and are all – rabid Zionists. Let that sink in….
2. In 2020 Biden got 81M+ votes – a mystery from where 3-4M extra votes came?? Trump got ~79M in a landslide
3. A bonus question: Why Trump has not “noticed” Biden’s genocide in Gaza yet…?
Most head shaking at “stupid voters” conveniently ignores the simple explanation that what voters “should” have known was unthinkable and terrifying. Being constantly bombarded with conflicting “facts” making no sense whatsoever creates self doubt, helplessness and a desperate need to trust that smarter minds know what they are doing. Telling voters they are stupid plays into the hands of propaganda.
They're not "stupid". They're hypnotised, as the article argues. The role of the media is precisely to hypnotise us. Our job should be to help jolt people back to reality, using elucidatory moments like this one.
I despise that crook, the worst POTUS in my lifetime. Very helpful in illustrating the monstrosity the "Democratic Party " has become, though.
Why have the 25th Amendment if we’re never going to use it?
There's one aspect of this scandal that I forgot to mention in my prior post. And that's the abuse of an old man. How dare the Democratic Party, and sadly it seems his own family, put their political ambitions and machinations before the health and welfare of a failing old man. I have little time for Biden, I don't think he's actually that nice a man, but he deserves the consideration of any ailing human being, and what was planned for him basically amounts to elder abuse. He may been determined to pursue his presidency, but one to the symptoms of his condition here appears to be his total lack of insight into his failing health. He should never have been allowed to run again, there was at least two years notice of this. That would have given the Party time to organise proper primaries and come up with a more attractive and capable candidate than Kamala Harris, tainted as she was by her association with the Biden administration, and actually beat Trump. Basically they gave the election away, again, a seriously delusional party.. . He has just a year or two of sentient existence ahead of him which he should enjoy with his family and friends, and be like any other retired gentlemen, fishing, reading, playing softball with his grandchildren, soaking up the sun in summer, and enjoying quiet winter walks holding hands with his wife.
"None of them were genuises(sic)" !
Quick Jonathan - correct the deeply ironic typo that your enemies may use against you. Or was/is your typo deeply cryptically ironic?
Only in America! That's one seriously f**ked up regime. The (toilet) seat of democracy....more like the begining of another dark age!
Quite a lot of comments here about Biden, Trump, the Presidency, the wielders of power, the deep state etc. However the article is rather more, actually almost totally, about the media, and its complicity in the gaslighting of the US (and the rest of the world) in regard to the state of Biden's mental capacity (not to mention his obvious physical decline, his stooped posture, his slow unsteady gait, his facial weakness, his failing voice) People do fail in their old age, I might too, as I am now 78 yrs old, but it was the inability of those around Biden to tell the truth, even to promote him for another four years, and the media's willing and almost shrill support of this obviously failing human being that is being examined here. I think I first wrote about Biden's obvious failings shortly after he was elected.
This is not an original thought that in Russia Pravda and Izvestia were propaganda tools of the Soviet State, and little could be believed in these news organs. But then the people of Russia knew not to believe them anyway. They weren't fooled, the State just had to be tolerated. But here in the west, we are more gullible, the BBC is the voice of trust and truth, we actually do believe what we're told, and that's a propaganda that really works, it is powerful and successful, as Biden's failings remain hidden, the war in Ukraine escalates and as Israel expands its empire and continues eliminating Palestinians. Trust in the media is at an all time low, rightly, but the problem is now that we retreat into our silos of thought and stop communicating across the divide.
Yes, it's about the mainstream media in the West. However, we also need to be looking at the huge power of 'alternative' media targeting and conditioning. No one is really talking about this.
Those in the 'covid' dissent demographic were purposefully targeted on social media with unscientific nonsense about the climate crisis- it being a psy-op to control us. It was so successful that it's now impossible to have a debate about climate change as millions won't even accept basic concepts of observed reality. They're also able to hold in place that Rockefeller is powerful because of oil and wants to get Africa 'addicted to oil' and yet at the same time that he is plotting to stop us using oil and herd us into 15 min cities. Seemingly well-educated people have lost their sanity.
Given that the climate and environmental crises, driven by oil and animal ag exploitation and profits, is the single biggest threat to modern humans, they've pulled a blinder.
Thanks Jo, worthwhile point, we shouldn't ignore the alternative media's role in narrative constructs that are highly useful to certain powerful players in society. They are a force which most of us, well certainly I count myself, haven't quite got a handle on. I suppose for an older person like me, who for most of his life relied on the MSM (carefully chosen of course) for our news and current affairs it's a bit of a shock to realise just how wedded the MSM is to powerful interests that work behind the scenes. It's only recently that I've just taken note of the fact I haven't watched the evening news or current affairs on broadcast TV here in NZ for at least ten years. I am too conscious of the fact that I may too be conducting myself in a political silo. Every now and then I'll listen to BBC or Guardian or other more right wing political podcasts, to see what I'm missing and challenge myself but when I do so, the frustration certainly mounts, and the concerns. - Thanks for the post. JKM
Hi Jock, you’re very welcome and lovely to hear from you.
I turned 60 this year and haven’t listened to MSM news since I was a teenager living with my parents, or the unavoidable news bulletins on the radio at work (why do the reporters speak in that weird, affected way?). I did read the Independent for a while until the whining of Robert Fisk drove me away.
I know that many younger people don’t read or watch MSM at all either. Hence the US trying to ban tik tok because of the unfiltered, unspun presentation of the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
I dabbled on Twitter to find things out about the ‘covid’ debacle (I knew the measures were way over the top given the evidence for them). This was when I became acutely aware of the message being fed to me. I was told my compassion for animals was being used against me by BiIl Gates who wanted me to be vegan! People I met there are still shouting in the street every Sunday that co2 is plant food! They pride themselves on being immune to MSM propaganda yet have fallen hook line and sinker for alternative propaganda. It’s been one of the most bizarre experiences of my life.
The duopoly is what is strangling the U.S. Biden's decline was obvious to those that were watching BUT there was only one other choice. Nope. The U.S. is not a democracy.
I believed he was old and his mental and physical decline was inevitable. I didn't and still don't care. He was and is a true patriot and believed in the Constitution, democracy, the rule of law, America and her people. He has principles, he fought for us and kept us safe a little longer from the threat we now face. He knew trump was an existential threat to America, a racist, a felon, a con-artist, a rapist and so much more. He is leaving behind a legacy of profound accomplishments that made America that much closer to the dream our founders fought and died for. Well above and beyond any other president in my lifetime. All while under constant attack. His accomplishments are undeniable. He had a team who clearly loved America and believed in equity, equality, liberty, justice for all. The American dream is the pursuit of happiness. He gave us the foundation as others have before him. If nothing else, it will take a bit longer for trump to completely destroy it. President Joe Biden made us stronger and gave us a little more time. Thank you President Joe Biden and team for your commitment to America, the people, constitution and trying to preserve democracy.
Since Biden is basically a skin puppet, who is running things behind the scenes? Who elected them? How do we get rid of them?
This reads like desperate D party propaganda. A deluge of noble sounding words with not a shred of empirical evidence to back them up. Pointing out the other guy is bad doesn't make yours good; it's merely deflection.
You must not know the recent history of the Ds. In the late '70s, the party was usurped by neoliberals who dumped the common good of the New Deal, including financial regulations. Plus abandoning the majority working class. Neolibs support an econ system that defines away devastation of human communities and destruction of ecosystems as unimportant externalities. The result? The Ds did FOR the suffering, unemployed Rust belt workers same as they did TO the vultures who caused the '08 crash--NOTHING! I know because as a blue collar rank and file activist and former local D campaign manager, I fought them.
The Ds only represent upper middle class administrators and professionals. People who don't worry about job loss, healthcare coverage, or stagnant wages. Who as bureaucrats, keep repressive econ/political systems functioning. And who, like the Ivy Ds, are certain their superiority gives them the right to rule. We peasants are merely to submit to our betters, and to vote for whomever they deign to offer us.
Now look at the Biden administration specifically. His Department of State was run by PNAC neocons trained by Dick Cheney. Why do you think Cheney endorsed Harris? Neocons are explicitly for empire--their current term is 'unipolar power.' They're also for however many wars it takes to maintain their illusion. It doesn't matter to them this is intensely pro-death. Or that it leaves little or no funding for domestic problems.
If you can explain how a party and its President that are neolib and neocon are somehow good for us lessers, please do. I have yet to hear any nice liberal D apologist even admit to either, let alone justify them.
My goodness, amazing what one can achieve in one's dotage. He has not kept you safe, you may still think so as you inhabit the bunker that the US is now, but nuclear war threatens like never before, and your and your fellow countrymen's dreams will then disappear into the ether like all dreams ultimately do. A team that love America? Possibly true, the problem is that I am not American, and that team that loves American hates everyone else. Actually they also hate a good number of your fellow citizens for their colour, their race or their religion. That you don't care that your President, the leader so-called of the free world is mentally and physically incapacitated, then who is actually running your country? Obviously not Biden, so all your encomiums in his name are worthless, someone else has been pulling the strings of power, and the shutters over your eyes too it seems. .What you say about Trump may well be true, I shudder to think what he might do in the next four years, but I equally shuddered at the thought of another four years of American gerontocracy and its failure to the other 95% of the world's population. It seems to me that the whole US citizenry has been gaslighted in regard to Biden, and you have yet to understand this. A senile president and a near senile, personality disordered president is being inflicted on you and us, you need, as they say in France, to tend your own garden before trying to run the rest of the planet.
The tragedy is not so much Biden's cognitive decline but the fact that un-elected individuals are acting out their own fantasies and proclivities in all the agencies of US governance without any sense of responsibility. The public have been distracted by fluttering red and blue flags and deafened by the cacophony of propaganda that the media employs to normalise this tragedy.
We peasants, the working class majority, KNOW they're lying to us. That's why the number of U.S. non-voters is so high. It's a dual aspect monoparty corporate sponsored. One supported by econopaths who love power and dominance plus religious fanatics who hate uncertainty. The other run by Ivy League elitists who usurped the party of the New Deal and converted it to neolib and then neocon agendas. It's supported by upper middle class administrators and professionals. Their condescension toward us rankles. We're supposed to submit to our betters and vote for whatever they offer us; our opinions, our needs, our lives are unimportant. Similar seems true of the entire Anglophone world.
You can choose between corporate imperialist muppet Tweedledee and corporate imperailist muppet Tweedledum.
The more voters that tell their electoral candidates what the electorate wants before voting starts the more likely that successful candidates will take heed and act as true representatives of their electorate. US and UK parliamentary candidates don't really want a big turn-out of voters - that brings a fear of a landslide outcome. They prefer cash "donations" to fund their media propaganda campaign.
How about i bring about a true democracy? Meaning:
- No more Citizens United
- No more lobbyists
- Ban on SuperPACS
- Dark money wrung out from government
- Referendum system akin to that of the Swiss
- Politicians and public servants cannot hold dual citizenship.
Also, no dual citizenships among politicians or senior public servants.
Gotcha.
Thanks for adding it.
Australia already has this very sensible rule.
Rumors were that Biden was kept functioning with drug cocktails and if true who deliberately withheld them during the debate? It was the earliest debate in history and I think it was a planned takedown of Biden because the truth couldn’t be hidden much longer.
The next day he was fine again. Back on the drug cocktails? I’ll never believe otherwise.
And Zuckerberg and the Kushner Stephen Miller Minyan will donate to the Gooey Goyim ….
Mark Zuckerberg recently shared a glimpse into his personal and professional life through a lighthearted Instagram video posted by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. While the video focused on the couple’s nonprofit work and fun personal anecdotes, many viewers couldn't help but notice the stunning watch on Zuckerberg's wrist – a Patek Philippe Grand Complications 5303R in 18k rose gold, worth a jaw-dropping $1.2 million.
Not sure what your comment has to do with Joe Biden.