We long ago reached the point where anyone paying attention swallowed comforting myth that any modern President delivers a farewell address that he really composed himself, but President Joe Biden’s scripted cavalcade of lies and hypocrisy is in a whole different category.

It stretched credulity to believe that the same man who mumbled this on national TV in June during the debate that effectively put him out of office just a half-year ago—

“He had the largest national debt of any president four-year period, number one. Number two, he got $2 trillion tax cut, benefited the very wealthy.What I’m going to do is fix the taxes. For example, we have a thousand trillionaires in America – I mean, billionaires in America. And what’s happening? They’re in a situation where they, in fact, pay 8.2 percent in taxes. If they just paid 24 percent or 25 percent, either one of those numbers, they’d raised $500 million – billion dollars, I should say, in a 10-year period. We’d be able to right – wipe out his debt. We’d be able to help make sure that – all those things we need to do, childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our healthcare system, making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the COVID – excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with. Look, if – we finally beat Medicare.”

….could compose, much less think, what he repeated off a teleprompter last night after resting all day.

*[Digression: buried in that gibberish, which was considerably cleaned up by the various transcripts (CNN’s leaves out all of Trump’s initial response to it, which was “I don’t know what he just said, and I don’t think Joe does,” entirely) was one of the many lies Biden and his ventriloquists have used repeatedly to distort debate and public information. He had been saying U.S. billionaires only paid 8% in taxes so often that even the Washington Post’s “factchecker” protested (Gift link!), though it took Glenn Kessler three years and he didn’t bother until last January (but six months before Biden said it again in the gibberish above.) Billionaires on average pay about 23% in taxes, and more in total than the bottom 70% of taxpayers combined. That 8% is a pretty big whopper, especially since the same paper that flagged it a year ago told readers, in a feature just yesterday that the disastrous debate performance “eclipsed Trump’s torrent of falsehoods.”] Digression over, but I couldn’t let that 8% garbage pass again.

So everyone knows that what Biden dutifully read last night was composed with the direction and oversight of one or more of the faceless, unelected Politburo-emulating leftist bureaucrats who have really been running the country while Biden pretended to be President of the United States. We also know the complicit news media did what it could to keep the public in the dark….about who was President of the United States.

In that context, last night’s address was and is an insult, a slap in the face. I had a sock drawer to organize and a rerun of “SpongeBob Squarepants ” to see last night so I didn’t watch it live, but when I read the transcript of what was planted in Biden’s mouth, it made be both furious and nauseous—furinausious.

Yoo’s Rationalization, or “It Isn’t What It Is,” has been the unofficial motto not only of Biden’s four years in office but of his entire party’s Orwellian drive to totalitarian control over the government. Here is the list’s description of Rationalization #44:

“Named after John Yoo, the Bush II Justice Department lawyer who wrote the infamous memo declaring waterboarding an “enhanced interrogation technique,” and not technically torture,  #64 is one of the most effective self-deceptions there is, a handy-dandy way to avoid logic, conscience, accountability and reality. Examples of this are everywhere. Paul Krugman, the progressive economist and Times columnist, began a column like this:

“Remember all the news reports suggesting, without evidence, that the Clinton Foundation’s fund-raising created conflicts of interest?”

The Clinton Foundation’s fundraising created a conflict of interest, by definition. For a non-profit organization, with family connections to either a current Secretary of State or a Presidential candidate, to accept money from any country, company or individual who has or might have interests that the Secretary or potential President can advance is a conflict. It’s indisputable. No further ‘evidence” is needed.” How does Krugman deal with this problem? Simple: he convinces himself that screaming conflicts aren’t what they are without “evidence,” by which he means “proof of a quid pro quo.” But a quid pro quo is bribery, not a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest might lead to bribery, but a conflict is created as soon as there is a tangible reason for an official’s loyalties to be divided. Yoo’s Rationalization or “It isn’t what it is” turns up everywhere, and has since time began. A mother swears that her serial killer son “is a good boy,” so she doesn’t have to face that fact that he’s not. It is denial, it is lying, but it is lying to convince oneself, because the truth is unbearable, or inconvenient.  It is asserting that the obvious is the opposite of what it is, hoping that enough people will be deluded, confused or corrupted to follow a fraudulent argument while convincing yourself as well. The Rationalization includes euphemisms, lawyerisms, and the logic of the con artist. Illegal immigration is just immigration. Oral sex isn’t sex, and so it’s not adultery, either. I didn’t steal the money from the treasury! I was just borrowing it! And waterboarding isn’t torture. #64  also could be named after Orwell’s “1984,” and called “Big Brother’s Rationalization” in homage to “War is Peace,” etc. But John Yoo deserves it.”

I wrote that, as you can tell, before Biden was President and his party went Yoo’s Rationalization bat-shit crazy. “The border is secure.” “The President is sharp as a tack.” “Biden voluntarily decided not to run for re-election.” “Trump is an existential threat to democracy.” “Kamala Harris ran a flawless campaign.” I could fill this page with more, and blog pages can go on forever.

I need a break, a Tylenol, and a splash of cold water in my face before I can go through last night’s speech, which was only slightly less disgusting than, you know,

…THAT.