but Trump is the liar!

Headline:

Joe Biden Is A Good Man? Please Don’t Insult Our Intelligence

The talking points must have gone out within minutes of the end of President Joe Biden’s lame debate performance. Among the first to tell us just how fine a man Biden [is] was Barack Obama, who called his former vice president “someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life.” It is, of course, a lie. Biden is not a good man, and the idea he’s “fought for ordinary folks” for even a single day of his “public service” is risible.

Obama’s tweet also claimed that Biden is the candidate “who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight.” From there, the gaslighting grew exponentially worse.

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After wading hip deep through the malarkey, let’s look at the Biden record.

The man who occupies the highest office in the world is a pathological liar. We need go no further back than 1987, when he had to drop his campaign for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination because he plagiarized a speech from Neil Kinnock, then a Labor Party member of the British Parliament.

“The tapes of the two speakers, which were eventually aired on U.S. television, show Biden not only echoing Kinnock’s words but aping his gestures,” Time reported in 1987.

Decades earlier, “Biden also failed a course because he wrote a paper that used five pages from a published law-review article without quotation marks or a proper footnote,” Time remembers in a 2019 article.

A decent man would not steal the work of others and claim they were his own.

Biden also lied, Time added, when he rattled “off his academic accomplishments, including saying that he graduated in the top half of his law school, when in fact, he ranked 76th out of 85.”

The truth was also twisted by Biden when he said that he “went to law school on a full academic scholarship,” was “the only one in my class to have [a] full academic scholarship,” and earned three undergraduate degrees. It was a neat package of lies.

There are many other self-aggrandizing inventions, such as his claim that he drove an 18-wheel rig; his oft-repeated implication that late son Beau died a war hero in Iraq; that he was a teen civil rights activist and once arrested for standing up for [a] black family that had moved into a neighborhood during desegregation; that he “had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see (Nelson Mandela) on Robben Island,” a total fabrication; that he was the first in his family to go college (yet Biden also said his grandfather was a star college football player); and that he had been nominated to attend the United States Naval Academy.

The inveterate braggart has also implied that he had an uncle whose last act was to serve as featured guest at a party of cannibals and has told different audiences that he was “brought up by both the Puerto Rican community and the black community,” is “more Jewish than the Jews” and “came close to trying out as a walk-on in the NFL.”

We’re exhausted already, and we haven’t even gotten to Biden’s lies in regard to his and Donald Trump’s presidencies.

For instance, Biden said during the debate that when he took office the “economy was flat on its back,” unemployment was “15%” and “there were no jobs.”

“These are 100%, solid-gold lies,” we said, and we backed up our statement.

Other Biden falsehoods during the debate include the whopper that he is the “only president this century, this decade, that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world” when in fact 13 U.S. service members were killed in action in Afghanistan during Biden’s bungled August 2021 pullout; that the U.S. Border Patrol union had “endorsed me, endorsed my position”; and that Trump “wants to get rid of Social Security. … He’s wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare.”

Biden followed up the debate with an ABC interview in which he said “I’m the guy who put NATO together” and “I’m the guy that shut (Vladimir) Putin down,” both of which are such obvious fabrications that we don’t even need to provide the evidence to the contrary. And, as we pointed out yesterday, he lied about the lies he’d previously told about how economists did or didn’t endorse his economic plan.

Let me save you the burden of committing the tu quoque fallacy by going "But—but—Trump!" Sure, Trump lies, exaggerates, refuses to admit error, etc. Even my alt-media sources like Styx freely admit this. No one I know is a blind defender of Trump's supposed honor, which puts our side one up on the left (Whoopi Goldberg, whom I used to love for her acting talent, just said she'd vote for Biden even if he pooped his pants). But the talking point that Trump lies became part of the leftie narrative very early on, at least in 2015 if not before. Note, too, that people loved Trump before he slapped the "R" behind his name: back when he called himself a Democrat, no one had a major complaint about him. He was a harmless part of the cultural background despite being the same sexist, womanizing, trophy-wife-ing Trump.* If you're honest, though, you'll acknowledge that Biden told whopper after whopper during the debate and, as you see above, he's also told many, many lies outside the context of the debate. If you focus fanatically on Trump without also loudly acknowledging that Biden is a pathological fabulist, I have no reason to take you seriously. 

So, a comment-policy change: from now on, any comment on this blog about Trump's lies should be prefaced by a litany of Biden's lies on a one-for-one basis. What I'm proposing is only fair; I'm not forcing you to say Biden lies more even if he does. And when you list a Biden lie, be specific. There's plenty of material to pull from.

Let's put this in perspective. Successful businessmen lie. Lawyers lie. Politicians lie. As Dr. House cynically notes, Everybody lies. That's the reality. And the thing I really want to know is: what exactly is the subtext of your argument when you castigate Trump? That you expect a politician not to be a hypocrite? Are you really that naive? The day we have totally honest politicians is the day we institute benevolent anarchy. Good fucking luck with that. As wiser heads have said, when it's time to vote, you can't make the perfect the enemy of the good. I judge by actions, not words, and that means looking at (1) policies and priorities and (2) whether those policies and priorities are followed up. This thought isn't original to me, but it rings true: what scares the shit out of the Washington establishment is that Trump actually tries to follow through on his rhetoric, and no politician in his right mind ever wants to do more than make empty promises. This is, after all, how Democrat-run shithole cities have remained under Democrat control for decades and decades. Promise everything, do nothing. And here, too, I don't excuse the Republicans: before Trump, the GOP would talk big on economics, then do little to nothing. This is why cynics about US politics speak of a Uniparty: these jokers fight each other in front of the cameras, then go out and drink and yuk it up and backslap at the same Capitol Hill bars night after night. The whole system is rotten, and when you aim your misinformed fire at Trump, you're aiming it at the wrong target.

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*At worst, people thought of Democrat Trump as a foppish blowhard. But as you know, any presidential candidate or actual president who calls himself a Republican is automatically, reflexively branded as Hitler/fascist/etc. by the left, mainly because the people using such labels have forgotten what those labels really mean. If I were the country's autocrat and people loudly denounced me that way, you can bet I'd be rounding up dissidents and their families and running them through Uday and Qusay Hussein's hypothetical human shredder. People would fear my rule, which is what would happen in America if America really were the fascist dictatorship that the wild-eyed left disingenuously insists it is. Yes, disingenuously: the left doesn't really believe its own rhetoric. The evidence for this is as plain as day: demand that a leftie leave the country for a better one, and he'll either (1) pick another Western country similar to the US or (2) make excuses for not leaving, like a mumbled, convictionless "I need to stay and fight," which is code for "I'm a coward."

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