If you’re of a certain age, you remember how president Gerald Ford became the butt of national jokes for falling on a staircase. During a trip to Austria, Ford got to the bottom of the stairs exiting the airplane and tripped, falling down the last few steps. Everyone from Saturday Night Live on down to local bar comics mocked him for looking like a slapstick character out of a silent picture.
Had that been Joe Biden (and it was, during Biden’s presidency), and had the year been 2020-2024, there would have been no joking in the national press or entertainment outlets. Even noticing that Biden fell by pointing out the images on the videotape would have attracted screaming denunciations. He didn’t fall, they’d claim, he “merely stumbled.” And anyway, you noticing that he fell makes you a Nazi and it probably makes you insane. Have you spoken to your doctor about your mental state?
That’s no exaggeration. We’ve been living in Opposite Land for years in the United States, but most acutely during the Biden presidency from 2020 through 2024. Recently the White House Correspondents’ Association held its annual dinner wherein it celebrated itself, and bestowed an award on an Axios reporter for his allegedly brave coverage (after the fact) of Joe Biden’s obvious senility. The reporter, Alex Thompson, said that he and the press “missed” the big story, and that the press had been misled.
No one “missed” the obvious fact of Joseph R. Biden’s senility. No one. Every single person saw it live on TV, starting before 2020. No, it didn’t “become apparent” in his last year of the presidency. It was obvious before his term began. Biden lost the plot of conversations, stared into the distance, fell asleep during meetings, and forgot who among his staff and colleagues was alive or dead.
But since that is an unflattering fact for the Democrats, they denied it with fury during Biden’s term, and accused people who noticed the problem of themselves being insane or mentally unwell, if not actually evil. It was utterly remarkable to witness.
The reversal of the truth is the most common tactic used by the left today. They either deny reality outright, or they turn around and accuse those who notice reality of being unstable or delusional. Then, they turn around and accuse the other side of doing exactly the thing the Democrat side is actually doing.
Democrat Rep. from New York Hakeem Jeffries is doing it right now. Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, is claiming it is Trump, not former president Biden, who is mentally unfit for office. Folks, you have to see and hear it to believe it. Here’s Booker on the MeidasTouch podcast:
“Donald Trump spent the last year and a half questioning the cognitive ability of President Joe Biden not withstanding many of the legislative accomplishments that Donald Trump can only wish he got over the finish line,” Jeffries said.
He then says many people around him are asking whether President Trump is fit to “carry out the duties” of his office. It’s just a simple reversal.
Naturally, Biden was among those publicly denying Biden’s senility.
Here are some of the responses on X:
It’s not going in Jeffries’ favor.
Ouch. They’re calling him a Dollar General Barack Obama.
