“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.“

—George Orwell, “1984”

The increasing tendency of the Axis of Unethical Conduct—you know, the “resistance,” Democrats, and the mainstream media—to adopt totalitarian tactics to try to deal with the failure of the Biden Presidency and its alleged author’s obvious mental and physical deterioration is now nearing Code Red status. I wonder what more it will take to alarm partisan progressives sufficiently to have them slap their foreheads and exclaim, “What the hell am I doing? THESE people are the ones who threaten democracy!” If the latest bombardment of astounding “it isn’t what it is” denials doesn’t provoke that response, one has to despair that nothing will. Facts don’t matter.”Res ipsa loquitur” is dead to these zombies.

Insisting that what should be obvious to anyone isn’t real is unethical. Why should I even have to write that?

In three recent incidents caught on video, President Biden appeared confused, dazed, or just hopelessly doddering at public events. One took place at the G7 in Italy, as Biden appeared to wander off during a parachuting exhibition until he was tapped on the shoulder and lead back to the group by Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni. The other two are shown above: in one, Biden is led shuffling off stage by Barack Obama who appears to be leading and steadying the President. In the other, Biden stands oddly motionless with a frozen smile on his face as those around him bop to the music at a White House Juneteenth event.

All three episodes are subject to interpretation and confirmation bias. However, Biden has appeared doddering, unsteady, confused and dazed many, many times going back to before the 2020 election. He also mutters, slurs his words, and sometimes descends into gibberish. Even though one could, if one were desperate enough, insist that there is no reason at all to doubt the President’s mental fitness and health (another relevant context: he refuses to take a mental acuity exam) the Axis’s strategy for deflecting perceptions of reality sufficiently to get Biden re-elected has now shifted into an alarming new stage.

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I waited to see if this discouraging tale ever broke into the national news. It did not.

More than 2,000 musicians from he U.S. and Australia, most of them school-aged children, traveled to Normandy’s Brittany American Cemetery to perform on June 7. Families paid their own way to Europe to watch their children parade and play in an exciting, moving, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The bands had planned this trip a year in advance, and the Brittany event was a prominent feature of the schedule.

President Biden was also in Normandy, however, and Biden’s handlers decided on the fly that the President, who had endured a gaffe-filled D-Day anniversary already, needed one more, final, last-minute photo op that hadn’t been scheduled and couldn’t be screwed up. POTUS’s unscheduled and unnecessary events in election year take precedence over long-scheduled events that a lot of students were looking forward to.

It’s good to be king.

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One of the reasons the anti-abortion position has trouble making the inroads on public opinion and policy that it should on its merits is because of supposed pro-life advocates like GOP State Rep. Richard Holtorf. In a TV interview on a local TV station (he is running for Congress—just what we need, another dim bulb hypocrite in the Capitol) Holtorf was forced to justify his indefensible double standard on abortion. Naturally, he couldn’t do it.

In January, the 59-year-old defended footing the bill for his girlfriend’s abortion, which seemed to be inconsistent with a failed 2020 measure he supported that would have banned the procedure in the Colorado after 22 weeks. His girl friend was more than 22 weeks pregnant. “I respected her rights and actually gave her money to help her through her important, critical time,” Holtorf said, that time being 1986.  

9News anchor Kyle Clark asked him the obvious question: “If abortion was the best choice for your girlfriend, why try to deny that choice to other women?” Holtorf”s response can be fairly summarized as “huminahuminahumina,” Ralph Kramden’s immortal retort on “The Honeymooners” when trapped into having to explain one of his habitual blunders.

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Politico and other outlets are flogging a new poll from Marquette Law School released Tuesday found that 40% of adults approve of the Supreme Court’s actions, while 60% disapprove. This really isn’t news; it’s fake news in “The Sun is hot!” category by now. Gallup, which has been tracking the trust levels in American institutions for decades, wrote last September that “the 41% of U.S. adults who currently approve of how the Supreme Court is handling its job is statistically similar to the 40% to 43% ratings over the past two years. The court’s approval rating first fell to the record-low 40% in September 2021.” A single percentage point, obviously, is well within the margin for error in any poll and is not significant, and not significant means “not newsworthy.”

So the #1 villain in the ongoing destruction of the Supreme Court’s level of trust and approval among the public is…no surprise—our unethical, despicable, democracy-undermining news media. Since Roe v. Wade was finally knocked down by the Dobbs decision but even before, our “advocacy journalists,” or “journalists,” have made it their mission to erode public support for SCOTUS as part of their goal of forcing the Court to the ideological left so it can advance progressive agenda items that the Democratic Party can’t accomplish the way democracies are supposed to—you know, by passing constitutional laws.

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I bailed on Netflix’s Baby Reindeer series mid-way through the second episode, and wish I had quit earlier. I found the sordid tale of a dim-witted would-be stand-up comic and the sociopathic woman who stalked him too unpleasant and infuriating to stomach. I think I’d rather watch cattle be slaughtered. For some reason the thing is popular, however, and now it’s the object of a lawsuit.

Fiona Harvey, who says she is the real life inspiration for the series villain, the stalker Martha, has filed a $170 million lawsuit against Netflix alleging defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, gross negligence and violations of her right of privacy.” [ NOT “right of publicity,” which is how I managed to type it first time around.]” The sum includes totals for damages, “loss of enjoyment and loss of business” plus “all profits from ‘Baby Reindeer’.”

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