Several articles were published calling attention to TV ads run by Republican groups that are phony. The purpose of these ads is to make Biden appear feeble and incompetent.
This article in The Washington Post showed one example. Biden was watching a parachute drop alongside other world leaders at the recent G-7 meeting. The Daily Beast shows the edited video and points out that it got lots of coverage in Murdoch-owned media.
The video shows Biden wandering away from the other leaders, apparently dazed, talking to himself. The leader of Italy tapped his shoulder and he returned to the group.
The actual video showed Biden turning away from the other dignitaries to converse with a paratrooper who was disentangling from his parachute.
But the clipped video did not include the paratrooper, making it appear that he was aimlessly talking to himself.
He was engaged with another human being, asking questions, complimenting him, typical of Biden.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Because, the GOP feel that they can’t beat Biden fair and square, they’d, resorted to, this LOW a method, to, attempt to, sway the voters in the, Republicans’, favors, just hope, that those who will vote in the, Nov. presidential election will, see through that, but, you never know, because, people can get, easily, fooled…
Rupert Murdoch has made a fortune for being a scandalous fraud and Russian sympathizer. Once a fraud, always a fraud. Over his career he has profited from fake news assertions like aliens in our government or claims that the Dominion voting machines were cheating, for which Murdoch was finally held accountable. At age 93 he recently tied the knot again. His bride is a Russian scientist.
Republicans lie and cheat. There’s nothing new about this.
I remember back to Tricky Dick, but I think there is a much, much more pervasive attitude that lying and cheating are fine and dandy.
Any political ideology, business, theory, religion, et al, — based on lies like Traitor Trump’s fascist MAGA Republican controlled political party is a house of cards and when that house of cards collapses the suffering, destruction and damage will be spread far and wide.
And Traitor Trump’s entire life is built on lies.
In other news, the Gates PR machine, which annually rolls out books recommended by Gates, contains, this year, a book by that man of the world’s most mediocre mind, David Brooks.
These two belong together. If these guys were a chisel, it would be shaped like a basketball. If they were an arrow, it would be made of lead and tipped with bubblegum.
cx: In other news, the Gates PR machine, which annually rolls out a list of books recommended by Gates, is suggesting, this year, a book by that man of the world’s most mediocre mind, David Brooks. Brooks is what a public intellectual who is not an intellectual looks like. So is Gates, who is one of the slowest of learners. Sam Harris is another of these. And Thomas Friedman.
Technical point, but that video wasn’t a deep-fake. It was just cropped misleadingly.
That was language in story. The photo-video was cropped to make Biden look like a confused meandering man, instead of someone who reached out and spoke to an ordinary guy
Diane Ravitch demeans herself – whatever is left of her intellectual integrity – by insisting that Joe Biden is cognitively fit to be President for another four year term. A large majority of BIDEN supporters see through this partisan blindness. Come on, man: the reality is that Trump is a real danger AND Joe Biden won’t make it through a second term, and is barely there even now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/us/politics/biden-age-trump-poll.html
I’ll take a competent corporate Biden presidency over the absolute disaster that was Donald Trump ANY day. He abandoned our allies the Kurds, who had helped us defeat ISIL, leading to the resignation of his superbly competent SECDEF and to the horror of his Joint Chiefs. He ordered his Secretary of Homeland Security to have the Border Patrol SHOOT innocent, unarmed asylum seekers and conducted a campaign of mass kidnapping whereby kids as young as little babies were taken from their parents and shipped off god knows where. He completely gutted the Clean Air and Clean Water acts. He never delivered the healthcare bill that he kept promising “any day now” or “within a week.” He similarly never delivered his infrastructure bill. He increased the federal deficit by 7.8 TRILLION dollars.
And he thought that stealth airplanes were actually invisible and that we should send astronauts to the sun and nuke hurricanes and sweep forests and buy Greenland and inject disinfectant.
A traitorous, seditious career con man and sexual predator versus a statesman.
No, this is not a difficult decision to make. If Biden’s presidency is being run by the astonishingly capable people he hired, who cares? At least Biden is not AN INSANE PERSON who thinks that a dementia screening is an IQ test and keeps talking about how he lusts after HIS DAUGHTER, a pathological liar and a malignant narcissist. Ronald Reagan was completely senile during his second term, but he delivered Perestroika and Detente.
So how is Biden doing? Let’s look at some leading economic indicators:
The current unemployment rate is 4.0 percent, significantly below the historical average of 5.69 percent.
The average annual inflation rate over the past 12 months was 3.3 percent. This is a TINY bit over the average annual inflation rate over the past 20 years, which was 2.51 percent. Hourly wage increases are at an average of 4.1 percent–HIGHER THAN THE INFLATION RATE.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, today, is 38,589.16 USD. On the last day of the Trump presidency, it was 30,930.52, 7,658.64 points lower. The S&P today is 5431.60. At the end of the Trump presidency, it was 3,798.91, 1632.69 points lower.
Under Biden, American oil production has reached its largest volume in recorded history—more than 13.2 million barrels per day in October, official figures show—outpacing its highest point under Don the Con,13 million barrels daily in November 2019.
One could go on and on in this vein.
But don’t let the facts get in the way of your belief system, cultist.
Mr. Shepherd,
You also demean yourself by personal attacks, calling me a cultist. Read my comment again, this time for copmprehension. I write: “Come on, man: the reality is that Trump is a real danger…” Who am I a cultist for?
You make a good point there, Mr. Owens. My apologies.
Trump tried to bribe Ukraine and delayed aid to that country illegally. He was impeached for this. He says now that he would cut off aid to Ukraine before his second presidency even starts (ofc, he cannot do this; Trump is an idiot and is profoundly ignorant about most everything; he STILL thinks that China pays the tariffs we place on its goods). Trump unilaterally withdrew from the INF and Open Skies treaties at the very time when Putin was fielding hypersonic nuclear missiles. Trump stored top secret documents containing info about our defense capabilities and plans and our intelligence sources and methods, in violation of the Espionage Act, in a freaking bathroom and on the stage in a ballroom at his breathtakingly tacky golf club and home in Flor-uh-duh.
Quite the guy. A career con man who cheated children’s charities, constrictors, and middle-class people trying to further their educations (with his fake university). A “Christian” who cannot name a single Bible verse and thinks there is a book called “Two Corinthians” (as in “two Corinthians walk into a bar?) and who exemplifies in excess every one of the seven deadly sins. An adjudged fraudster and rapist and lifelong sexual predator. A guy who told a reporter that he was carrying on an affair because his wife had “ruined her body” having children (his children!!!!) and that, being rich, he could have anyone he wanted.
Yeah, him over Biden. Why? Are Satan and John Wayne Gacy not available?
So, Mr. Owens, we have a race between Biden and Trump. Let’s consider a hypothetical and assume that you are right. Do you think that we should NOT vote for Biden because of his cognitive capacity?
Mike Owens,
Why are you telling us that Biden is cognitively impaired because of polls? People polled think Biden is cognitively impaired – that’s the extent of your argument? That’s some questionable thinking there, Mr. Owens. Folks who see Trump’s increasing insanity don’t point to polls – they point to actually actions that Trump did. Trump doesn’t seem to be able to get through a speech or even a short interview without revealing his severe cognitive impairment. Trump told Americans that injecting bleach might be a good way to fight covid, and ordered a scientific advisor to look into that. Trump thinks Revolutionary War battles were fought at airports. His more recent speeches veer off into total incoherence. It’s shocking that his supporters would rather believe Trump intentionally lies all the time than acknowledge that Trump is in severe cognitive decline.
But you tried to make your case for Biden’s cognitive decline by citing polls as evidence. Surely you can name a bunch of actions Biden did to convince us that you are acting in good faith when you push your false equivalencies about Biden being cognitively impaired like Trump.
It’s obvious to anyone who isn’t cognitively impaired themselves that the GOP would not need to make fake videos to ridicule Biden if Biden demonstrated the cognitively impairment that Trump shows almost every time he appears in public.
The Dems don’t need to make deep fake videos about Trump. They don’t need to manufacture fake evidence about Trump’s decline. There is already far too much real evidence of Trump’s decline than they could ever use!
The anti-Biden folks lack evidence. They are so desperate that they make deep fake videos and cite “polls”! Polls!!!??? lol! That’s all you got? Polls show that most Americans think Trump is a crook, but as much as I dislike Trump, I’d never tell you that Trump is a criminal because “polls show” people believe he is a criminal.
Show us the evidence – if you have any. Why would the GOP need to manufacture evidence of Biden’s decline with a deep fake video if Biden’s decline was even 1/10th as bad as Trump’s is?
Mike Owens,
Good news! My intellectual integrity is higher than it’s ever been. At my time in life, I can’t be bought or compromised by anyone.
Biden is old, true. So is Trump.
Biden is wise and experienced. Trump is an unhinged, vindictive bully, who demeans the election system, the judicial system, the free press, and all our democratic institutions.
In addition, he is a convicted felon and a man adjudged to have sexually assaulted and defamed a woman. He calls our military “losers” and “suckers.” He ridiculed Senator McCain for being captured and spending five years in a North Vietnamese prison. Trump himself is a draft dodger.
It’s not a hard choice.
you may not have the stamina, but you have the intellectual acuity. Same with Biden. My aunt Mary Alice was sharp as a tack the day she died at 97. Biden might be the same. Looks like it to me.
Great response, Diane. All of it is true. Trump cares about Trump, not America.
Trump is the first person in U.S. history to run for President so he can stay out of jail
Mike Owens: The choice is Biden or Trump, full stop. If you have an ounce of brains you will vote for Biden over the putrid Trump. Biden is fit, competent and capable of doing the job as he has been for the past almost 4 years. The guy ranting and raving like some maniac is Trump, not Biden. Biden is traveling all over the world meeting with other presidents and PMs, so please stop with this nonsense that he’s senile.
I already voted for Biden (in the primary) and will certainly vote for him in November.
At the G-7 meeting in Italy, the other leaders deferred to him as their leader. He united the member states on a common agenda.
Trump wants to withdraw from NATO and blow off ties with other democratic nations. Previously he withdrew from the Paris Climate Acccord and the Iranian nuclear deal.
Trump’s natural allies are other dictators—Putin, Xi, Kim Jung On, and Viktor Orban. Maybe he can make amends with the mullahs of Iran while turning his back on our allies.
And so the era of the deep fake political campaign begins. This will be a great relief to the Trumpanzees because every time a video is released of The Idiot saying something idiotic (and thus in character), they will be able to say simply that it was faked–that Trump (imagine this) actually said something patriotic and compassionate and sane.
I love it. I’ve seen Biden mumbling, bumbling, and stumbling progressively since he took office, and anyone with a brain has. But, the lib angle now is to focus on “Biden being interested in the paratroopers” video. Good luck with that.
And how do Republicans explain the multiple instances of Trump talking nonsense? Remember when his teleprompter went out last week and he babbled about electric boats and sharks? Would you rather be electrocuted by the sinking electric boat or eaten by a shark? Huh?
And when he forgot the name of his personal doctor, Dr. Ronald Jackson , and called him Dr. Ronnie Johnson?
This is the man who thought that stealth airplanes were actually invisible. He was all in with regard to nuking hurricanes and sweeping forests. Who told a reporter that he got his intel about military matters “from the shows,” that is, television. Who, when told by his Secretary of Homeland Security that the Border Patrol could not legally just shoot asylum seekers (as Trump requested), said, well couldn’t you “just shoot them in the legs.”
An utter moron. Why that last comment? Because on television, people get into gunfights and “just” get shot in the legs and so are OK.
He’s never read a book in his life. He is completely ignorant about almost everything.
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