Author name: Josh Slocum

Illegals Back in Mexico: “I Don’t Recommend to Cross”
Border, Illegal Immigration

Illegals Back in Mexico: “I Don’t Recommend to Cross”

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Oh, what a difference a week makes. President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders since his Jan 20 inauguration, laying waste to gender ideology, restoring girls’ rights to male-free sports and locker rooms, cancelling taxpayer-funded “transition” surgeries for illegal aliens and prisoners, and much more. 

The man campaigned on stopping illegal border jumpers, and he promised to launch the biggest mass deportation in American history. You would think that the fact that at least 11 million illegal aliens have come into the states under Joe Biden’s watch (and it’s impossible to get an accurate number; that is likely an undercount) would have all Americans cheering to get the criminals out. And indeed, a majority of Americans (66 percent according to pollster IPSOS), even including Democrats, say they want illegal aliens removed. All of them. 

But the leadership of the Democratic Party, which has been drifting away from its own constituents with the exception of the hardest-left fringe, seems unable to agree with what its own voters want. Arizona Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs is talking tough, saying her state is not going to help Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement to carry out its work in her state. She must believe Arizonans like Central and South American criminals in their neighborhoods. 

Major media are signaling shock and horror at the very idea of deporting illegals on military planes; it’s just bizarre. Look at these headlines:

You could be forgiven for asking: Do these outlets know that they are American companies? What explains this fairly recent and absurd “love” for foreigners who waltz across our borders, breaking the law? Why do American journalists seem to hate Americans and have bottomless “empathy” for scofflaws who eat up taxpayer resources? 

Still, a number of Democrats in Congress appear to have either found their spines, or have sussed out which way the wind blows. After all, they want to win votes when their terms are up, right? The House passed the Laken Riley Act this week, a law that would allow instant detention and deportation of any illegal who has been charged with a crime, even if the trial has not yet occurred (obviously, their very presence itself is illegal). Forty-six Democrats supported the bill. It ought to be a lot more, but that is progress. 

Whatever reservations the blue team has about enforcing immigration law really aren’t going to matter anyway. Military planes full of illegals are already flying out of the U.S. to destinations like Guatemala and Mexico, and it’s not going to stop. 

LibsofTikTok brings us this clip. Even the illegals themselves know what time it is! One guy quoted says, “I don’t recommend to cross” as he sadly walks himself back into Mexico. 

Commenters on X/Twitter seem very glad to see it. This guy asks the obvious question:

Yes, it always was that easy. It’s the Democrats who refused to enforce the law. 

Of course there’s always that one bleeding heart. 

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Teacher Has Some Tough Talkin’ for the Feds: How’s That Gonna Work Out?
Illegal Immigration

Teacher Has Some Tough Talkin’ for the Feds: How’s That Gonna Work Out?

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Back when America had families, most people remembered trying to get away with things before Dad got home. Many a mother–or babysitter–could be heard to say, “Just wait until your father gets home.” That signaled that shenanigans were coming to an end, your room had better get cleaned, and your backside might smart tomorrow. 

Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th President of the United States is the biggest daddy-coming-home moment this country has ever seen. On his first day in office he signed hundreds of executive orders, just as he promised. With the stroke of a pen, Trump wiped out Joe Biden’s demented reinterpretation of laws meant to protect female students, clarifying that the word woman means “woman,” not “man who says he’s a woman.” 

He closed every single Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office in the federal government and put every single employee working for such on unpaid leave. No more tax dollars will be siphoned off by leftists posing as good people while they practice illegal racial discrimination against white people, men, and normal Americans. He shocked the cosmopolitan world elite at Davos by telling those globalist bastards that from here on out, the U.S. recognizes only two sexes: the real ones, male and female. 

For leftists who’ve been in the cultural catbird seat for too long, the transition will be difficult. Predictably, many of them are squawking tough, acting as though their TikTok sass will be enough to let them continue getting away with whatever they want. 

Here is one such case, a transgender “woman” public school teacher with super strong words of warning about any customs and border agents who dare to enforce immigration law in school. 

Quoth the instructor: “ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) can now raid classrooms, and as a high school teacher I just wanna make one thing clear,” it croaks. “If someone tries to come in my classroom and take one of my students, one of us [head waggle] isn’t leaving the classroom. Play with me.”

I think we can imagine how that would go.

In his description on the video, the teacher, now named “Katie,” attempts to pretend the clear threat in the video isn’t actually a threat, while explicitly confirming he’s only saying he’s only saying that for legal reasons.

No the brightest bulb, clearly.

Somehow, it seems more likely that this morbidly obese man with a fetish is going to be the one who loses that showdown. 

Let’s see what X/Twitter had to say:

CNN Anchor Gobsmacked at Notion of Enforcing Law Against Illegal Aliens
News

CNN Anchor Gobsmacked at Notion of Enforcing Law Against Illegal Aliens

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The mainstream media has so thoroughly reversed the truth for so many years that even the skeptical among us don’t really react anymore when the most ludicrous statements are made by people who are allegedly trustworthy and serious. Since at least 2016, the left—and the mainstream media is 100 percent left-aligned with the partial exception of Fox News—has successfully unmoored the very idea of truth from anything observable or sensible in the real world. 

Look at how many Americans accept the idea that there are “transgender children.” That is to say, grown adults in huge numbers profess to believe that it is natural and normal for a percentage of children to be “born in the wrong body.” If that doesn’t shock you reading it, that’s because you, like all the rest of us, have been living in a deliberately created dystopian fiction that’s worn you down. You may expect  to hear straight lunacy on the news, but you should not. Big, society-level lies such as the existence of “transgender children” (or really, “transgender” anyone) do enough damage on their own, but there’s a secondary damage: We get used to it enough that we don’t fight back much anymore. 

It’s how cults work. It’s how cult societies such as North Korea grind down adults of ordinary intelligence until they actually believe that it’s Americans, not North Koreans, who are suffering under political abuse. 

So it isn’t a surprise when an allegedly respectable, grown-up news anchor like CNN’s Dana Bash cannot seem to comprehend that it’s normal and morally acceptable to enforce the law against lawbreakers. She can’t accept that simple premise. Listen to Bash characterize the completely normal activity of apprehending criminals, then transporting criminals to where they need to go, as if it were some wicked and nefarious Nazi-inspired activity. 

We’re talking about illegal aliens who broke U.S. law and entered the country without permission. Bash seems, on some (emotional?) level, not to be able to accept that this is actually a crime. She seems unable to accept that, well, yes, physically rounding them up and getting them out of the country is the normal thing countries do with illegal border jumpers. You can imagine her saying to a cop, “Are you really saying that you’re going to HANDCUFF men who break into people’s living rooms?”

Border Czar Tom Homan is having none of it. He reminds Bash that this is a law enforcement action, and that, yes, “sanctuary cities” who try to obstruct the carrying out of the law are not going get away with it. 

Let’s see what X/Twitter users had to say:

This guy’s bafflement speaks for lots of people:

Woke Harridan Preacher Tries to Humiliate Trump in National Cathedral
National Affairs

Woke Harridan Preacher Tries to Humiliate Trump in National Cathedral

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The election of Donald Trump was only the beginning of a chance that the U.S. now has to tack back toward a normal and sane kind of politics. The country lurched so hard to the left over the past 15 years–and beyond into actual clinical insanity–that one election is not going to reset the board overnight. It will be years, perhaps a generation or longer, before “woke” is really rooted out of nearly every business, civic, and cultural institution. 

The hardest left voters and agitators truly believe they are “on the right side of history.” They truly believe that only they are moral, and that everyone to the right of them is fully and incurably immoral. Their minds work in black and white, all-good and all-bad. In psychiatric literature, this kind of thinking is called “splitting.” One “splits” another person into an all-wonderful or all-evil caricature of a whole human person. Splitting is a prominent feature of conditions like borderline personality disorder, a character disorder that includes emotional instability, histrionic emotions and accusations, and the false idea that one is a perpetual victim of others. 

To a close approximation, we can diagnose the U.S. as having a longstanding case of borderline personality disorder, at least the left half of the country. 

So it should be no surprise that on his second day in office, President Donald Trump and his wife Melania were the subject of an attempted humiliation from the pulpit. Preacher Mariann Budde stood at the lectern of the National Cathedral and excoriated Trump as he sat there, accusing him of frightening “trans kids” and illegal aliens. Naturally, Budde features what you might call the “modern mental illness presentation” affected by leftist women. Short, angry gray hair, deliberately awkward glasses, and the put-on “gentle mouse” voice used to cover over a vicious and hysterical rhetorical attack. 

Check it out: 

Budde claims there are “gay lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families. . .some who fear for their lives.”

“And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation,” she added.

This type of rhetoric is just insane. It’s not a difference of opinion. It’s insanity, if we define insanity as a complete disconnection from the objective real world. The hack even even went on CNN after to defend her comments.

Frankly, it is impossible to believe that Mariann Budde genuinely believes that Donald Trump is a threat to the lives and continued state of being alive to “LGBTQ” people. But she is willing to claim that she believes this, which is at least as disturbing as the possibility that she takes her own hysteria seriously. 

One thing’s certain; Twitter/X users don’t: 

Buckle up, friends. There’s going to be more of this before there’s less.

Lib Dem Fundraiser Says She was “Fully Indoctrinated” in Leftist Cult
Democrats

Lib Dem Fundraiser Says She was “Fully Indoctrinated” in Leftist Cult

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If you haven’t already, you’re going to hear from many more former leftists who have gone to the right. Since Donald Trump first took office in the White House in 2016, the Democrat party has gone insane. The constant drumbeat of “Russia-gate” and the “very fine people” lie were bad enough during Trump’s first term. 

But the Biden presidency, and its signature issue, the “pandemic,” showed a party completely unmoored from all reality. Not partial; complete. Not only did the federal government shut down the economy over an illness that didn’t do more than a bad flu usually does, but it forced thousands of small businesses to close forever. The government interfered with the rental housing market and forced landlords to give apartments to people for free. 

Meanwhile, the Democrats and the left have tried to compel Americans to believe there’s no such thing as biological sex, all while cheering for gruesome chemical and surgical child abuse that it calls “gender-affirming care.”

And now, after Los Angeles is burning in the worst wildfire in the nation’s history, even more Democrats have said “enough.”

It’s happening in the upper echelons of politics, too. Lindy Li is a former fundraiser for the Democrat party. Until very recently, she was drumming up support for Joe Biden, then for Kamala Harris. Now, she tells the Daily Mail that she was “fully indoctrinated in the Democratic cult.”

In what Li calls the most “painful but rewarding” periods of her life, Li has jumped ship as is looking forward to attending the inauguration of Donald Trump on Jan. 20. Originally born in China but living in the U.S. since she was four years old, Li said she woke up when she saw the gulf between the party’s claims and reality. Harris, she was told, was a shoo-in for the presidency, but in fact, the public hated her. Not only that, but the party wasted billions of dollars, some that Li raised, on a worthless campaign full of lies and empty promises. 

She tells her story in an exclusive interview with the Mail.  In recent media appearances, Li puts her finger on how the Democrat party does it: “They pretend to be so loving and caring.”

Here’s a sampling of what X/Twitter users had to say in response. 

Poor Anne doesn’t seem to understand what she’s seeing. 

Naturally, not everyone is willing to trust a defector right away. 

Some are unsurprised and pleased to see a leftist party operative see the light. 

John Fetterman Stuns Democrats by Speaking and Acting Like an Adult
Democrats

John Fetterman Stuns Democrats by Speaking and Acting Like an Adult

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Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman has surprised people on both sides of the aisle for the past few years. The former mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, took up public office in the rust belt town on a mission to revitalize the failing rural economy. He didn’t come from a small town, or from a poor family. Instead, he grew up in York County in a comfortable middle class home. Not only that, he earned a Master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. 

In other words, Fetterman had cemented his progressive bona fides. Then in 2022, he suffered a severe stroke that left him with obvious difficulty reading and speaking. Not without cause, Republican critics questioned whether he was fit for office as it was often impossible to understand his speech or to have confidence that he was able to understand information he was taking in. But Fetterman steadily improved, though his progress was slowed by a severe bout of depression that had him hospitalized in 2023. 

By the end of 2023, he drew a line in the sand with his party, which had tilted so far to the extreme left that even lifelong Democrats were getting alarmed at what the party was doing. Fetterman declared “I’m not a progressive” as he took the Democrats to task for their anti-Israel lurch and their unwillingness to admit that unchecked immigration was out of control. 

Now he’s shocking the establishment again. They’re easy to shock, of course. Just try saying something like, “Men cannot change sex and become women” and the cackling hens on cable news will start squawk-screeching about a holocaust-against-trans-people. On January 7 Fetterman sat down with Fox News’ (bad! bad!) Brett Baier and told him he would be voting in for many of incoming President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, including Marco Rubio, Elise Stefanik, Sean Duffy, and more. He also confirmed he was open to considering a yes vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. 

During his Fox appearance, Fetterman said out loud something that adult politicians would have been able to say without provoking consternation until the past several years of teenage-girl-hysteria that overtook the Democratic Party. The blue team acts–quite literally–as if agreeing with any conservative on any issue is religious heresy. 

“I’m open to hear from everyone, and I don’t know why that’s controversial,” Fetterman said.  “And I also would like to remind everyone on the Democratic side—that’s the way democracy works. Trump won, and now they’re going to run the table. You don’t have to agree with all of it, but I want to find a way to work together on a bunch of them.”

Let’s see what the reaction on X/Twitter looked like. 

Trump Says Her Name: Ashli Babbitt Was the One Who Died on Jan. 6
Media

Trump Says Her Name: Ashli Babbitt Was the One Who Died on Jan. 6

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The disconnect between real world events and the beliefs and statements of “respectable” mainstream media is wider than at any time in living memory. Our grandparents who grew up on the “big three” channels-ABC, CBS, NBC-would not recognize what passes for news reporting today. There was never a golden era when everything the newspapers and TV anchors said was the whole truth, but there was a stronger anchor to reality reflected in the news coverage that began in the mid-20th century and continued through at least the year 2000. 

Not anymore. All the broadcast stations (with the partial exception of Fox News), and all the cable news networks appear to have no actual understanding of the real world. It’s impossible to say whether the beat reporters, correspondents, and anchors actually believe what they say, or whether they are consciously lying. But what they appear to believe, and what they’re trying to get you to believe, bears no relationship to observable events in the real world. 

This is most apparent in coverage of the so-called riots that took place at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. What nearly every news source has called a “violent insurrection” for years was not an insurrection at all. It’s certainly not the case that a total of 1,538 people committed acts of violence or threatened police – yet that is how many protestors have been put through the court system or sent to jail. 

All along, the media, the White House, and Democratic politicians have lied to make the event seem darker and more sinister than it really was. They lied and said Donald Trump encouraged a “violent insurrection,” when in fact he addressed the public and told them to protest “peacefully and patriotically.” Even the compromised Associated Press had to admit it. 

Politicians and the media accused rioters of killing police officers, yet no police officers were killed. They claimed that rioters had bashed capitol police officer Brian Sicknick over the head with a fire extinguisher, killing him. That never happened. Sicknick died of a stroke the day after the non-riot.  

It’s been four years, and the media is still either lying, or is somehow so disconnected from the real world that an impartial observer would legitimately question if there’s a form of mental illness at play among the media elite. While it does appear that some rioters did physically assault Capitol officers, none of them were killed. The media does not seem to care at all about the person who was killed: veteran Ashli Babbitt. She doesn’t rate, you see, because she was MAGA, which for leftists is code for “disposable subhuman scum.” 

Ashli Babbitt’s death didn’t even rate a mention from this pool of reporters asking questions of incoming President Donald Trump when he was asked about Jan 6 pardons Watch this exchange below – the reporter asked Donald Trump if he planned to pardon any of the rioters who attacked police officers. Trump turned it around and replied, “The only one that  was killed was a beautiful young lady named Ashli Babbitt.” He went on to remind the press pool that there were never any charges of “insurrection” against anyone, because no insurrection occurred. 

Response from X/Twitter users was mixed, but most appeared to side with Trump’s approach: 

Utah College Girl Confronted With Male “Dorm Mom,” And SHE Has to Move
News

Utah College Girl Confronted With Male “Dorm Mom,” And SHE Has to Move

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When parents think of sending a daughter off to college, they usually have some concerns for her safety. University years are often filled with drink, drugs, and partying, and even “good girls” can find themselves caught up in a youth lifestyle that can lead to bad outcomes. 

One of the ways young women and their parents have traditionally tried to increase safety in college is by choosing female-only dormitories. These have been widely available at U.S. colleges for decades. But in the age of “trans” where everyone gets to simply assert what sex they are and be treated as if the statement were true, there’s nowhere for young women to get away from men in their living spaces. It’s impossible to find out how many schools actually respect single-sex living quarters, but this “queer” organization, Campus Pride, gleefully reports that 470 U.S. colleges offer “gender-inclusive housing.”

That’s what one mom just found out when she sent her daughter to Utah State University to stay in the Merrill Hall dormitory. Though it is not clear from the University’s website whether Merrill Hall is officially “co-ed,” mother Cheryl Saltzman believed it was a women’s-only living space. If you try to search for this information, all you get from the University’s website is a proud declaration that “gender-inclusive housing is available in Wasatch Hall.”

The whole statement is nauseating enough to reprint here in the original Wokeish: “Utah State University is committed to making each resident feel welcomed and included in our campus communities, particularly through room options welcoming to all gender identities, expressions and preferences.”

Here’s what welcomed Saltzman’s daughter when she moved into what she thought was a girls-only dorm:

That’s “Marcie.” Brace for it: “Marcie” is the “Dorm Mom.”

X commentator Eric Moutsous has more details. You won’t be surprised to learn that “Marcie’s” mother thinks it’s just fine and dandy, saying only that she wanted other students and parents to be “comfortable” with her son living among the girls. Young men from stable families rarely put on what looks like a teddy and label themselves a “girl.”

Mother Cheryl Saltzman’s posted her account of the situation in a Facebook post, reading:

A biological male (trans with she/her pronouns) just moved into my daughter’s dorm (Merrill hall) on Utah State university’s campus… it is a girls only dorm

The woman I called was impatient with me…

You can move into the dorm with the gender that you identify, I did read that last night in the contract. However the contempt toward anyone uncomfortable with it, is genuinely and deeply enraging

UPDATE: they immediately gave her two apartment options and she chose one. She will move tomorrow… Anyway told the girl that was going to be her roommate and move in tomorrow about the situation so she wasn’t blindsided… So 😔 … and I’m still ticked that she has to move because of this

Naturally, Saltzman’s daughter has to move. But the young man claiming to be a girl—you can take one look at him and see he’s a creep—gets to stay. Trans gets what trans wants no matter what.

Here’s what X/Twitter users had to say. 

OH NO! Quad-Demic Is Going to Kill Your Grandma Again!
COVID

OH NO! Quad-Demic Is Going to Kill Your Grandma Again!

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Are you ready for a return to medical dictatorship and social hysteria over covering your face? Well, your “betters” in state government and public health institutions are ready to start bossing you around again. Drunk with the unprecedented control they developed over Americans during the Covid years, public health mouthpieces and state politicians want to scare the bejesus out of you all over again. 

This time they’re calling it a “Quad-Demic.” That’s the spiffy brand-name health wonks have given to a very ordinary thing that has happened all throughout human history: the presence of multiple diseases in the population at the same time. The “Quad-Demic” includes Covid, influenza, Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and Norovirus. The latter is one of the most common food-borne illnesses, sadly well-known to those who take cruises on ships. 

Doctors seem to alarmed (and they’d like you to be alarmed) that cases of norovirus are “at their highest level for this time of year since 2012.” But. . .so what? News readers will see that exact phrase in almost all mainstream media coverage, but is it actually significant, or is it just phrased to sound dire? Disease incidence goes up and down all the time in the natural world. Just what, exactly, is noteworthy about the fact that the numbers in 2024 are as high as they were 12 years ago? 

Some hospitals and states are putting their mask mandates back in place (many, such as those in Southern California, never ended them-who wants to give up that kind of power?). It almost feels pointless to ask why, but we must ask why. Despite the claims of everyone from Anthony Fauci to  your local general practitioner, masks simply do not stop the spread of respiratory viruses. This isn’t an opinion, it’s not  “in controversy.” Stating that masks stop disease spread is factually untrue. For goodness’ sake, the National Institutes of Health itself acknowledges this reality in published papers. 

It should be clear to any intelligent adult by now that these bizarrely dire claims of disease and pandemic–we never acted this way in history before 2020–are simply a way for governments and dictatorial public health types to exercise power over citizens for “our own good.”

Prolific X commentator Benny Johnson found this map, which seems almost designed to put fear in the viewer with its blazing red “danger” coloring over states where people are getting colds, flu, and the same old respiratory ailments we’ve always had. 

Let’s take the public’s temperature on that one:

New York Post Takes Journos to the Woodshed Over Lying About Biden Senility
Media

New York Post Takes Journos to the Woodshed Over Lying About Biden Senility

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It’s rare today to see a major media outlet have anything critical to say of anything, anyone, or any practice in the media itself. While the news business has always been clubby, it did not used to march in absolute political lockstep. But it has done so most obviously since at least 2016 with the first election of Donald Trump to the presidency. 

The New York Post has started off the year with a bang in a long overdue excoriation of the craven lying of basically all of the press regarding President Joe Biden’s obvious senility. It’s not surprising that it’s the Post taking the issue on, as that paper has every reason to be critical of its colleagues and competitors. The New York Post is America’s oldest newspaper, and it was the paper that broke the Hunter Biden laptop story. 

Hunter, the president’s son, abandoned a laptop at a computer repair shop in Maryland. Predictably, the contents leaked, and what contents they were. There was evidence that Hunter and his father Joe were engaged in unsavory, unethical, and possibly illegal dealings with Ukrainian businesses like the energy company Burisma. Not only that, but the computer was full of prurient photos depicting Hunter Biden smoking hard drugs and consorting with what appeared to be prostitutes. 

The All-Democrat-All-The-Time mainstream media either ignored the story, or accused the Post of making the whole thing up. Under its pre-Elon-Musk ownership, Twitter banned the New York Post’s account entirely, preventing it from posting anything on the platform. All this was a far cry from the heroic narrative about the hard-hitting independent press that has lingered on since the days of the Watergate scandal depicted in All the President’s Men. 

Now the Post strikes back. In a blistering editorial, the editorial board accuses its media colleagues of exactly what they did: “President-elect Donald Trump is forcing the Democratic politicians who spent years lying about President Biden’s senility to take their bitter medicine, but we’re more concerned about the toady media who played along . . . Every last [Democrat who covered it up] deserves scorn, but so do the journalists who not only let these fantastical fibs go unchallenged, but even parroted the lies: Biden was showing no signs of mental decline, they insisted — and it was offensive, ignorant and borderline bigoted to even suggest otherwise.”

What’s so infuriating about the press trying to hide Biden’s senility was that everyone could see it. Despite what your Democrat aunt might claim, and despite what talking heads on television claimed, no adult American of ordinary intelligence could not see that Joe Biden has been in dementia for years. 

The New York Post points out, “The entire idea that Biden was anything but healthy — virile, even — was treated as a right-wing, tin-foil-hat talking point.The public wasn’t buying it: Back in February, 86% of Americans thought Biden was too old to serve a second term because they had watched his decline happen in real time, and over the course of several years.”

It’s hard to recollect a time in living memory when the entire press apparatus lied about the most obvious deficiencies in the leader of the free world, and tried to tell sane Americans that it was they who were losing their minds for noticing the truth. 

The public is beyond fed up. Here’s a sampling from X/Twitter under a Fox News post about the topic. Fox framed it as the media “being in denial,” and the public isn’t letting them get away with it. 


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