More lies from Biden, and no one should ever be surprised
Biden repeats the Whipgate lie, and follows it up with his trademark macho bluster:
Biden on the lie that border patrol were using whips on illegal immigrants at the border:
"To see people treated like they did? Horses running them over? People being strapped? It's outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay." pic.twitter.com/Jx79KoYTy9
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 24, 2021
I wrote a post recently about the absurdity of the lies of the left, the reasons that the left feels immune from criticism about those lies, and the function of the lies. But this lie about the border isn’t in the category of “absurd,” it’s a more traditional type of leftist lie aided and abetted by the press. It rests on a kernel of truth: a photo of the border authorities on horseback, trying to deal with some illegal immigrants (Haitians, I’m pretty sure). The photo was misinterpreted right off the bat, and given a much more pernicious spin (whipping) than was the case (reining the horses).
But the lie (it may have started as a mistake, perhaps, but once a correction was issued it became a lie) is a very useful one, so it is repeated and repeated. Biden and company know that the MSM is unlikely to expose this – lies such as “border police whipping poor black Haitians” play really really well with the public. And we have the photos, right? – so it must be true.
Biden has always been one of the most flagrant of political liars, and that’s saying something. So why would he stop now, in his dotage? And make no mistake about it – although his aides feed him many of his lines, and he is very cognitively challenged, he’s not so far gone that he doesn’t know what he’s doing quite a bit of the time, at least in some basic way. He simply doesn’t care about the truth and never did. He cares about what’s expedient for Joe and for the Democrats, that’s all.
Remember, this is the guy who launched his campaign with the Charlottesville lie, the gift to the Democrats that keeps on giving, and he doubled down on it again and again:
The first words Joe Biden spoke as he announced his presidential campaign on Thursday were “Charlottesville, Virginia.”
The former vice president entered the race with a video that framed the 2020 campaign as a battle to redeem the soul of the nation from a Donald Trump presidency he cast as “an aberrant moment in time.” And he chose to highlight the President’s reaction to white supremacists’ August 2017 march in Charlottesville and the killing of a counter-protester…
In the aftermath of the violence in Charlotesville, Biden wrote in The Atlantic that Trump’s willingness to divide the United States “knows no bounds,” and that Trump had “emboldened white supremacists with messages of comfort and support.”
“If it wasn’t clear before, it’s clear now: We are living through a battle for the soul of this nation,” Biden wrote then. “The giant forward steps we have taken in recent years on civil liberties and civil rights and human rights are being met by a ferocious pushback from the oldest and darkest forces in America.”
I very much doubt Biden actually wrote those words, but that’s more or less irrelevant. Biden lies repeatedly, whether the lies are generated by him or whether they are given to him by others. And these are not just tangential lies of the type that’s typical for politicians – bragging or exaggeration, for example – although they certainly include that sort of lie. They also feature huge material lies, and obvious lies such as his repeated lying about Afghanistan.
Lies have been the centerpiece of Biden’s political career, his 2020 campaign, and his presidency.
[NOTE: So far the “fact-checkers” of the MSM have avoided fact-checking this particular lie.]
I guess we can be thankful that Democrats and the Left believe their own lies. Reality always comes back to bite you in the butt.
Does anyone else recall that Democrats and the media just a few years ago were all jazzed about “flipping” Texas into a blue state? There was significant national Democrat enthusiasm for Beto O’Rourke and while turning Texas blue was probably always a pipe dream, there was seemingly real effort being put into at least making Democrats more competitive in the state.
Well, this border fiasco has likely killed any such dreams for a generation or two. I’m pretty sure Texas Latino-Americans are even more outraged by this than most white Republicans.
Mike
Until his recent comments on the “existential crisis” posed by climate change, Biden, the emperor not of ice-cream but of lies, has been fond of parroting the idiotic Garland at the Department of (In)Justice and the even stupider Mayorkas at the Department of Homeland (In)Security about the (wholly imaginary) so-called “greatest threat” of domestic terrorists, home-grown extremists, and “white supremacists”, with nary a word about Antifa, BLM, or jihadists, to say nothing of his policy of open borders allowing in untold millions of unskilled, unvetted, and unvaccinated illegal aliens, who are certain to be a great strain on resources and infrastructure with little likelihood of successful assimilation. Mendacity would seem to be Biden’s defining characteristic.
Al Sharpton– another flagrant liar– got to the Texas border before either Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.
MBunge (4:47 pm) said, “I guess we can be thankful that Democrats and the Left believe their own lies. Reality always comes back to bite you in the butt.”
Dunno ’bout you, but I believe it when/if I see it, on a case-by-case basis. Ain’t been terribly much of a believer of late . . .
“Ain’t been terribly much of a believer of late . . .”
What do you think the Democrats clearing the deck for Hilary in 2016 was all about? Or the GOP establishment trying to foist Jeb Bush off onto voters?
Mike
People who think Biden is doing good things are wrong. People who think he’s some kind of nice decent guy are delusional.
Mike (5:49 pm), please bear in mind that I did *not* write, “phooey, no way it can happen”; what I *did* write was, “I believe it when/if I see it, on a case-by-case basis.”
Democrats/Hillary!, it was her turn; they’d already done the (half-) black thing, now it was time for the woman thing. Trump’s 2016 surprise had much less to do with Hillary and/or Obama and a lot to do with people finally having someone who spoke their language.
Repblicans/Jeb! [note how both your examples got punctuated with exclamation points in 2016], it was his turn, or so the imbeciles thought. Trump certainly tossed a few monkey wrenches into those plans. Trump was a very special case. In the 2016 Republican primaries, he utterly surprised the establishment.
Democrats reacted in 2020 by nominating you-know-whom; has reality left the Democrats with sore butts yet? We’ll see in 2022, and do not underestimate the will and the willingness of the Democrats to gaslight/deceive/hoodwink the electorate even more than before (if that’s possible).
In the case of Republicans, it’ll be interesting whom they put up for office in 2022 (and in 2024), and whether they’ll run as Democrat-lite or as enough-of-this-Demo-crappe. But we’ll have to realize that in many/most states, they will have to appeal to (so-called) independents.
In both cases, I’ll believe what I see, and when, on a case-by-case basis. See ya!
Pointing to the lies is a waste of time because those who remain naively convinced of the lies don’t want to face the truth. They’re either willfully blind or justify the lying. Which makes them an accomplice in the lies.
The way to handle liars is to firmly confront the liar. Every time Biden, Psaki, Pelosi, Schumer, AOC et al appear in public they must face confrontation. Calm confrontation that doesn’t back down. Simply say, “Stop lying, have you no shame? (briefest of pauses, then as they open their mouth…) Just Stop. (short pause) Stop the lying…” Keep repeating it in every instance. It won’t stop the liar but it will affect the listener.
Repetition. A constant drip, wears a hole even in granite.
This needs to happen in Congress, at press appearances. If enough people speak out, it will begin to have an effect. No yelling, no violence, complete cooperation when the ‘hall monitors’ tell them to leave. But relentless “speaking truth to power”. Alinsky’s rule # 4 can be applied to them.
We need to stop doing what isn’t working or the only means left will be force.
Costanza’s Law: It’s not a lie if you believe it.
So many things which Biden says are not backed by all the facts. They are his onions. It’s his ,and many other people’s, opinions hat the Border Patrol horseback officers acted brutally against the illegals. They know nothing about how horses are used for crowd control. They just don’t like what they saw. Opinion. He thinks he’s right, but it’s open to debate. because many other people see it quite differently. Their ideas aren’t useful to him because this gives him a chance to trash law enforcement, (Even when they work for him. 🙁 )
Same with climate change as an existential threat. He thinks he’s right because a bunch of “climate scientists” ( I use scare quotes because there really is no climate science – only the study of meteorology over long periods of time.) told him it was so. He hasn’t heard from the “climate scientists” on the other side of the debate because it isn’t useful to his idea of controlling the population’s energy use. It’s his opinion because it’s useful to him.
As tcrosse said, it’s not a lie if you believe it.
“ I promise you, those people will pay.” Given his history, some innocent family is more likely to pay.
But taking away the horses, reminds me of the rules of engagement Obama used that put our military at risk in Afghanistan. Biden does things that likewise makes our border agents vulnerable. Missing bus and agents attacked on a tarmac? The Haitians know which side Biden supports.
Let’s face it, people: the USA is done, and done for. There is no remaining shred of morality and decency to be found among Democrats on the Hill. They are sociopaths, just like Ted Bundy, but instead of killing a few nurses, they are killing a country.
Among their greatest crimes is legalization of murder of unborn American citizens–how many millions now? 60? It’s a great contribution to the Democratic fight against “climate change”; consider how many million megatons of CO2 were not caused to be produced by those dead 60 million.
We are replacing those dead with illegals not just from Central America but from the Mideast and West Africa, sneakily distributing them all over the country with night flights. Most of them will remain on the dole forever, just like Obama’s aunt in Boston.
We are in the hands of Dr. Faustus, paroled from hell by Lucifer just for this very excellent opportunity.
“People who think he’s some kind of nice decent guy are delusional.”
A lot of our elite and near-elite are actually awful people who think their social status provides all the moral justification they need.
I once read someone who literally argued that there should be one set of rules for important people and one set of rules for the rest of us. I’m not joking or exaggerating. He didn’t say there ARE different rules for important people and it can’t be avoided. He argued there SHOULD be different rules for important people.
It was in regard to the military and this guy’s viewpoint was that if an enlisted grunt violated a rule, it was perfectly fine to court martial the guy and either throw him in jail or out of the service. But if a high-ranking officer violated the exact same rule, he should receive absolutely no punishment except the barest slap on the wrist which would be quickly forgotten.
Mike
“Costanza’s Law: It’s not a lie if you believe it.”
Well, that’s true. If you say something you believe to be true but is in fact false, you are not lying, you are mistaken. You may be culpably mistaken, or deluded, but you’re not intending to deceive.
I’m being nit-picky about this because conflating “false statement” with “lie” is a major weapon used by the Democrats. It’s part of the technique they use to come up with those enormous counts of “lies” told by Trump and anyone else they dislike. And of course they creatively extend it by conflating statements of opinion with statements of fact. “Critical race theory is a bad thing.” “Liar!”
This “law” does have some applicability where the accused is such a deeply dishonest person that he has come to believe his own lies, which on some level he knows to be lies. That no doubt applies to Biden & Co.
@Mac:This “law” does have some applicability where the accused is such a deeply dishonest person that he has come to believe his own lies…
In George Costanza’s case, he is indeed such a person and convincing himself there’s a nugget of truth behind his lie is part of his deliberate strategy for lying convincingly.
For everyone else, an honest but mistaken belief is not a lie.
A lie must be a) false, b) known to the speaker to be false, c) intended by the speaker to be accepted as true and d) intended by the speaker to deceive.
Without a) the truth is a lie. Without b), mistakes are lies. Without c), irony and fiction are lies. Without d), art is a lie. No one uses “lie” without condemnation but these others can be done innocently.
“this gives him a chance to trash law enforcement” J.J.
Come their declaration of martial law, being able to count on law enforcement will be a necessity. One they’re busily destroying.
“Never interfere with an enemy committed to stupid.”
“Most of them will remain on the dole forever, just like Obama’s aunt in Boston.” Cicero
Nope. Come the revolution, anyone not able to prove American citizenship at birth or legal naturalization will be shown the proverbial door.
Frederick:
I think there is another category of lie, a much more subtle and difficult to determine one. It’s the sort of lie – or “lie” – told when someone makes an assertion that he or she should know is false, and would know is false if he or she had not purposely shut out and/or denied all evidence to the contrary even if that evidence is obvious.
That actually happens quite a bit, I think. And if it’s not a lie, what is it? A self-willed delusion?