"Don't believe your eyes! Believe us gaslighters!" (06-19-2024--Hour3)

[00:00:30] He is, let me get his title here, he is the senior editor at TheFederalist.com He's a nationally syndicated columnist and he is the author of five books. The most recent is titled Euro Trash Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of

[00:00:49] a Dying Continent and you can follow him on Twitter at David Hersanyi That's H-A-R-S-A-N-Y-I, Hersanyi. And he has a piece at TheFederalist.com that he starts by saying he would support a zombie for president if they promised to

[00:01:08] nominate originalists for the Supreme Court and deregulate the economy. Do whatever you have to do but stop telling me that Joe Biden is not a mentally and physically fragile man. We can all watch the video of our octogenarian president

[00:01:25] awkwardly freezing up and staring out at a crowd before the former President Barack Obama takes his arm and leads him off the stage. We have seen, we saw it over the weekend, right, I talked about a little bit on I think Monday. He just

[00:01:39] freezes again this is it he's done this repeatedly. I've lost track there are so many instances of this stuff you know it started with the garbling of the words, the lack of focus, halfway through a sentence he'll just forget

[00:01:53] what he was saying and just better stop you know. Wandering off stage left or right not knowing where to go now he's being directed by people and you know they'll come and grab his hand and kind of direct him I just saw a video that

[00:02:08] came out from last night where he's going to get into the, do they still call it the beast? It's now an SUV you know used to be just a limo now it's a Escalade or something it's a very large black SUV and you know he's going to get

[00:02:25] into the back seat and he he's every bit of 81 years old and I'm not saying this to be mean to him or anything it's just it's obvious right we've been I've been I've noticed it since he's since he ran for this term now at the beginning

[00:02:48] in what 2019 or 2018 2020 when he was running COVID he was in the basement they were able to control his appearances right quick hits with interviews and stuff recorded messages so it wasn't as obvious but any

[00:03:04] comparison that you make to how he looks and behaves now to four years ago you could you you know what's happening right and going back eight years when he was vice president it's the contrast is even more stark right he is a fragile guy

[00:03:31] and you know God bless all of us that we live to be the age that he has attained achieved we can all watch the videos which makes the approach that the White House and the campaign is taking makes that approach even more obnoxious

[00:03:53] the term gaslighting is often overused nowadays but this is in fact what gaslighting looks like right when when Caringe jump here from the White House podium tells us that these are what the term they've they've settled on

[00:04:13] apparently is a cheap fake not a deep fake but a cheap fake and by cheap fake they mean true I guess because they're claiming that these videos that you and I have seen are somehow manipulated to convey a status that Joe Biden doesn't

[00:04:33] actually exhibit when in fact he does and they'll point to behavior that he exhibits that's better let's say right he'll be on a stage delivering a speech like when he was all you know amped up for that State of the Union speech or

[00:04:51] he's doing a you know a grip and grin with a bunch of supporters or something kissing babies and such oh well okay maybe not in that case stiffen hair more along the lines with it but anyway point is they'll point to those things and say

[00:05:04] look at he's fine but anybody who has you know witnessed a loved one go through the aging process there are good days and bad days right there are good moments and not so good moments that's part of this cycle and as one ages and gets

[00:05:26] older the the number of the not-so-good moments start to eclipse the number of good moments right the number of bad days eclipse the number of good days there's a there's an old axiom it's you know slowly at first and then very

[00:05:46] quickly and that applies here too it's you know slowly at first and then very quickly all of a sudden you're like whoa what just happened and then when you look back you're like oh those were the warning signs it's only in hindsight

[00:06:00] after a diagnosis or after you know your loved one gets lost or doesn't come home they've been driving around all night long or something like that you don't know where they were they got lost in their own neighborhood lost in their own

[00:06:15] house that kind of thing it's only then that it's like oh something is really wrong here and then you start going backwards and piecing together all of the incidents where you thought things were where the person was behaving

[00:06:32] pretty weirdly but it was just like oh well I guess you know they're dull they got a case of the 70s or something you know whatever they you just chalked it up to a senior moment right Harsani says there is something decidedly abnormal

[00:06:48] though about the way the media is covering this and by covering it I mean cover up I he says I'm not sure we have seen anything quite like this kind of gaslighting now I recall when I was growing up we heard of you know JFK and

[00:07:03] FDR so JFK womanizer right had all these affairs and stuff and all the media knew about it the White House press pool they all knew but they all didn't report on it that they covered for him they covered it up right FDR he

[00:07:21] was in a wheelchair media never covered it they covered that up even Woodrow Wilson that they ever taught us about what that that part of Woodrow Wilson that you know he had had a stroke and his wife was basically acting as president

[00:07:34] completely extra constitutionally I don't know if anybody knew of that but I'm sure some people probably heard rumors didn't cover it so I was always under the illusion that the media today would never do something like that and

[00:07:52] the proof was always offered up in my lifetime again that Gary Hart was the example that Gary Hart had challenged the the media oh yeah follow me around I'm not having any affairs and then of course they caught him on that boat with

[00:08:08] what was her name Jessica Hahn right was that her name or was that the PTL guys I forget anyway doesn't matter the point is they busted him and so that was conveyed I remember when I was in school and you know taking journalism classes

[00:08:22] and stuff they cited that example as sort of this evolution of the media that they would never do for a modern-day politician like they did for JFK and FDR those were quote different times but now here we are and we've got media telling

[00:08:42] us that the videos that we're seeing are not true even though we can see the videos let us go to Steve hello Steve hey what's up hey how's it going thanks for hanging on yes I just want to make two dark comparisons to what you talked

[00:09:00] about I just was up Maryland this weekend I seen my mom who is 87 who gets out and digs out weeds she doesn't do it very vigorously just takes time out of it uncle who's 89 he still gets around drives in the town and I see my aunt who

[00:09:21] was 96 who just fell but probably 70% of the the Sundays so far this year she makes a full spread for about 15 people and I doubted if Joe could do that you know make that spread but now she doesn't get to get as long but she still

[00:09:40] drives mm-hmm people age different correct guys toast yeah yeah correct no and this is one of my big beefs is when I see people describe voter concerns with Joe Biden and they say oh it's his age they're concerned about his age I'm

[00:09:56] not concerned about his age I'm concerned about his health his mental and physical abilities his cognitive ability that's what concerns me and because like you said people can be in their 80s and 90s and still be sharp as

[00:10:09] a tack yes and I'll give you another example I went up for my 50th year reunion and you know basically everybody in the place is 68 mm-hmm there were some old 68 and there were some younger 68 and there's just a difference it's the

[00:10:33] curse of Adam I'm a believer and it's you know the curse of Adam affects each one of us differently and his mental state and fragility he needs to go to the beach and settle out on the beach and just relax and enjoy what's left

[00:10:52] with his life yeah no yeah I agree Steve I appreciate the call buddy thanks and I was watching Christie's she had a show on the other day and I was you know she was in bed watching this this program whatever it's a documentary about elderly

[00:11:10] people and this guy was going all over the world and looking at these blue zones is what they call not for they got its name because of the the first researcher who started mapping where the these large clusters of population over

[00:11:27] a hundred year old people were he used a blue pen and he would put a dot on a map every time there was a case of somebody reported over a hundred years old and as he started mapping all of the all of the data you would see these

[00:11:42] clusters and so this documentary filmmaker guy starts going all around the world and hitting these these places and one of the things he said that I recall from the documentary when I come in to go to bed I'm watching

[00:11:57] it's on the TV and I'm just watching some of it with Christie and it's like oh the there is a connection between higher altitude cities towns whatever people who live in higher altitudes tend to live they have a heart they have a

[00:12:15] larger population that lives longer why is that and when you go and visit these places it's because these people walk and they're walking uphill you know and it's a higher altitude not like you know can't breathe high altitudes but

[00:12:32] probably a little bit I don't know but like so but essentially it was because of the physical activity they're getting this physical activity sort of passively throughout the day they're walking up flights of stairs because you know all

[00:12:43] the homes in these little villages are like two three stories so they're walking up the stairs they're walking up and down the city streets they're going to the local markets and stuff and so they're just more active and yeah

[00:12:57] probably Joe Biden may not be getting a lot of physical activity I know he's probably working out they probably got him on the Ruth Bader Ginsburg you know workout regimen it's important he says without doing any physical activity himself David or Sonny he says success successfully suppressing the

[00:13:19] misadventures of President Magoo means convincing millions of Americans to reject the events they see happening every day things that anybody who has ever dealt with an aging relative recognizes he says I'm not contending that every single video clip that is spread by the Republican National

[00:13:37] Committee is offered in full pristine context right Democrats who are still accusing Donald Trump of calling tiki torch Nazis quote very fine people or claiming he wanted people to inject bleach they aren't really in a position

[00:13:54] though to complain about what the RNC does with these videos right because those two examples are sunny just laid out are the very kind of things that you guys now claim is being done against Joe Biden I'm merely saying there are

[00:14:10] numerous videos of these events and there are endless examples of Biden's decline right there is video of the Obama incident from Hollywood there is unedited raw video that you can watch every time the left provide some sort of

[00:14:29] a video clip to try to debunk or contextualize one of Biden's mishaps all they end up doing is reinforcing the original video Corrine Jean-Pierre told the press that the Hollywood video of where he's on the stage with Obama and other recent clips of the baffled president are

[00:14:46] cheap fakes as far as I can tell he says not a single reporter asked her to elaborate on which parts of these clips were manipulated instead most of the media rushed to the White House's aid for the democracy right we got to put it

[00:15:05] back in place we got to protect the precious for the democracy see when you amp up everything is like end of the world Armageddon if we don't get our way kind of stuff well now you're you're opening the door you creating a

[00:15:18] permission structure to allow for almost any kinds of means to justify the ends that you see right this is why the best follow-up question you can ask as a journalist is how so it really is how so because when she says oh this is a cheap

[00:15:38] fake how so it's another way of asking like why or show me the proof explain yourself but it covers all of it how so and nobody asks her if they know they know what she's doing she's she's spinning and so they let her just like

[00:15:58] they did for FDR just like they did for JFK so there's an illusion that I had that has now been completely blown up the media is no better than they were during those past presidents got a message from hellion who says imagine

[00:16:12] the right trying to get away with this stuff with Ronald Reagan great point right Ronald Reagan in his 80s I remember this to all we heard about was that he's got Alzheimer's he's in mental decline he's not fit to be president

[00:16:30] anymore right they were making this argument all the time could you imagine if Reagan were behaving as if as Joe Biden is now right you would be hearing about the democracy all over the place but we already are actually it's now

[00:16:49] that they're gonna say the same thing about Donald Trump they are saying the same thing about Trump right we were about Trump he said this stuff about sharks and batteries at that speech whatever like first off if Donald Trump

[00:17:00] starts going off on these flights of ideas and bouncing around all these different crazy notions and stuff you know from sentence to sentence how is that a proof that he's in mental decline he's been doing that for like decades

[00:17:12] there's no change any of that it's funny cuz it's true right like he's always been that way like it was one of the hardest things to figure out it's why gets into all the trouble all the time because he said stuff and he's just kind

[00:17:29] of all over the place he's just bouncing all over the place so yeah it's like oh there's not just Biden it's Trump too like that's not that's not as solid an argument as you think it is guys right if you're if you're trying to tell me

[00:17:44] that Joe Biden is not in cognitive decline the proof of that is not to point to Donald Trump the proof of that is here's Joe Biden not being in mental decline cognitive decline right that's that's how you that's how you disprove

[00:17:59] that sort of thing David Hershon he writes that it is true that the vi the video of Biden fruitlessly trying to find his chair during a D-Day commemoration was misleading I said that at the time to people are like oh I think

[00:18:15] he's doing it no that's just him like going to sit down not being sure where's the chair am I supposed to sit down now Jill Biden's oh sorry dr. Jill Biden saying don't sit down right now keep standing keep standing not yet you know

[00:18:27] whatever and then people tried to make it seem like he had forgotten how to sit down I didn't believe that right there was a chair there the video shows an old man struggling to accomplish a simple physical act of sitting down though

[00:18:42] because he's old it's transparently ridiculous to keep denying this truth his mental acuity never particularly sharp to begin with has considerably deteriorated over the past couple of years too it's not the lifelong fable in other words lying or habitual lying or is lashing out at anybody who asks

[00:19:05] him a marginally tough question whether he's saying God save the Queen man for no discernible reason remember that one how long ago was that I was like a year ago right he ends a speech by just saying God save the Queen man and what

[00:19:21] we're shaking hands with people that aren't there remember that one he just like puts his hand out and starts like going to shake somebody's hand and there's nobody standing there or struggling to walk upstairs

[00:19:36] yeah little things the president acts like a guy who's struggling to do his job he does have good moments as we all know Hasani says elderly people in decline have good days and bad ones maybe putting a lid on the day at 11 a.m. most

[00:19:50] weeks is paying off but the fact that Biden can still read a speech off of the teleprompter or give an interview to an obsequious journalist does not prove that he's not struggling in general we can all see the truth and no fake fact

[00:20:05] check is gonna hide that along the same lines Jeffrey Blair at National Review starts off with the quote from George Orwell's 1984 the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears it was their final most essential

[00:20:26] demand that's what we are being told to do and to this point it doesn't even really matter what the lie is right the lie is Joe Biden's fine no cognitive decline no I mean okay fine he's a little bit you know he's got a little

[00:20:48] bit of an elderly gate to his walk whatever but this is fine right dog sipping coffee in the fire house on fire right this is all fine and they want us to believe this it's not even really about that lie at this point it's about

[00:21:03] watching to see who is telling us the line who's promoting the line who's defending the line who's telling us that we're crazy for seeing what we see that is textbook literally textbook definition of gaslighting it is a form

[00:21:21] of psychological abuse abusive spouses do or or girlfriend or boyfriend they do this to each other they do this to their partner it's psychological abuse Jeffrey Blair says that this was obvious to him back on August 16th 2021 you know

[00:21:43] when that you know what happened on that day that was when Joe Biden mumbled and fumbled his way through his Afghanistan withdrawal speech Biden's demeanor shocked Jeffrey Blair slurred words a sleepy and distracted tone suggesting periodic loss of mental focus and is visibly withered face and slumped

[00:22:10] shoulder bearing he says the whole time I was cringing with an embarrassed empathy that comes not from politics but rather from that human reserve of mercy and shame that we all share he'd already looked slow and out of it during the

[00:22:25] abbreviated 2020 campaign but his rapid slide since only a year before was jarring it was ugly and unfortunate to see him looking lost and frail during the speech the ricketyness of our president revealed to the world

[00:22:42] sacrificing not only his own dignity but our national dignity as well I wanted to turn away to turn it off it hurt to watch it was at that moment that I concluded Joe Biden was not going to be his party's nominee for president in

[00:22:56] 2024 so of course I was completely wrong about that I am he says I am reliably wrong when it comes to political predictions you can set your watch by it and he says the British have a way of putting it that seems more appropriate

[00:23:15] here not that he's running for re-election as the British say he's standing for election and increasingly stock still at times standing and he may actually be sitting for it soon that's possible too he's gonna be sitting he

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[00:24:30] National Review he predicted Joe Biden would not be running for re-election because his mental and cognitive decline was so pronounced three years ago he said surely this guy's not gonna run again and then of course he was wrong

[00:24:42] because as he admits himself that he is reliably wrong when it comes to political predictions but he said he suspects the primary reason for Biden's re-election effort here is the shock outcome of the 2022 midterms where the GOP bricked

[00:25:03] one of the easiest electoral layups in history given economic and political fundamentals by becoming the party of Trumpism and January 6th irredentism had the Democrats received their anticipated midterm walloping instead of retaining the Senate and conceding only the narrowest possible house majority to

[00:25:23] the GOP with results that have delighted Matt Gaetz the pressure on Joe Biden to fulfill his implied promise to be a bridge to the future and retire for an open primary would have been immense think about that right had the Republicans

[00:25:39] beaten the crap out of the Democrats in the 2022 midterms Joe Biden might not be seeking re-election right now I think that's a fair guess I don't know if it's true right but it seems logical because he had promised that he would be a bridge right kind of

[00:25:58] winking at this idea that I won't really be around I'm just here to beat Trump and then after that you know we'll get somebody else in and the Republicans will put somebody else up and then

[00:26:07] bridge to the future and all of that but then of course you know Trump says he's going to run for re-election and the midterms happen instead now the Democrats are sitting pretty and Biden probably

[00:26:22] has convinced himself in his own arrogance that he still had six more years left in him every bit as great as the first two I mean look at that historically you have an economy that's as bad

[00:26:32] as it was for him in the midterms right presidents don't win re-election with bad economies they don't do well in midterms their party doesn't do well in midterms and so the fact that his party

[00:26:46] did in 22 well he's obviously the outlier he's so awesome right but he's the reason this happened so yes I'm going to stick around I'm going to keep doing this the people love me and as all of

[00:27:01] this was happening his brain long since unplugged from any power source continued to defrost and is now melted into a puddle of congealed frogurt what's worse the decay has either accelerated or become impossible to cloak as the requirements of the campaign force at least some visibility

[00:27:22] outside of his protective bubble now it's too late to be pretended away as a fringe issue so it has to be spun every poll of the race it is absolutely top of mind for American voters

[00:27:37] that's why they have to spin it the democrat party today demands that you reject the evidence of your eyes and ears and so the drumbeat from its willing foot soldiers in the media begins

[00:27:49] it's only going to get worse right you got a presidential debate what next thursday I believe what next thursday I believe so a week from tomorrow and Blair says I anticipate that

[00:28:03] Biden's going to be pumped so full of Ritalin before the show that he could probably sit for an SAT afterward but every eye in America is going to be on him looking for the verbal slips

[00:28:15] and the gaffes right the narrative is both preset and for once it's accurate this is the man or this is a man on the verge of a geriatric collapse that's the narrative and as much as

[00:28:32] the media is trying to twist this around and salvage something else make people think of other things so don't believe that video believe us believe our lies he goes on to say most of all

[00:28:45] I reflect upon how horrifying it is to have not only as one of our major party's nominees but as an incumbent president a man who's intellectually no longer capable of satisfying the basic requirements of the job the progression downward is terrifying not the least reason being that it

[00:29:01] seems to be accelerating as end stage situations often do after all Biden's mental decline has progressed notably since the last time I wrote about Biden's mental decline and that was in

[00:29:13] March here's an utterly ironclad prediction that for once I ask you to bank on so I don't know if he could trust them given his own admitted record here right but he's got another prediction he

[00:29:29] says this mental decline will continue and that is true you can bank on that because that is the way of all such declines they do not stop they do not reverse I've been saying this for years

[00:29:41] it doesn't get better this is the best he will be every day is the best he will be uh John says in an email Pete remember when Gerald Ford slipped on the wet steps of Air Force One

[00:29:56] and Chevy Chase launched a career on Saturday Night Live mocking him almost weekly falling down yeah he was actually like a he was like an NCAA all-American athlete Gerald Ford was

[00:30:08] and they they made him seem like a bumbling idiot how many times has Biden tripped up Air Force One stairs in just one day before he started using the kiddie stairs underneath right

[00:30:21] and finally Dennis says I looked up the definition of the term fake facts and lo and behold a picture of Corinne Jean-Pierre popped up all right that'll do it for this episode thank you so much for

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