Don's Tuesday Column

      THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   2/09/2021

Biden’s big, unprecedented lies

Let the same standards that were used, however disingenuously, to proclaim practically every utterance of Donald J. Trump—both before and during his presidency—as fabrications, misstatements, exaggerations and lies now apply to Joe Biden. You can’t get bigger than the lies spouted, regurgitated and formalized into articles of impeachment: that Trump inspired and directed seditious attacks—"Insurrection!”—on the Capitol.

By Biden’s own words, he is arguably a dictator for his Executive Orders. In October of 2019, Biden told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News that he “had the strange notion we are a democracy” and that Republican and even his Democratic friends say “if you can’t get the votes, by executive order you’re going to do something, things you can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy, we need consensus.”

I listened a dozen times to Biden’s explication, a word salad of hanging, confusing terms jumbled together, but it plainly means that if a president can’t get “consensus” and just issues Executive Orders, he’s a dictator. Like Barack Obama saying only a “king” or “emperor” could unilaterally change immigration law; he then went ahead and changed the laws applying to illegal alien children.

Disagree? First, acknowledge that with Biden heading towards 50 E.O.s, he exceeds all of those issued by recent presidents combined for their first weeks in office. Then kindly explain how you are not basically wishing for Biden to be the dictator that you said Trump was, when Trump never defied a judge, overthrew established laws or deprived any one, or any business, of property or rights without due process. In Biden’s E.O.s, he is arguably doing all three.

On Biden’s dissembling and prevarication, look up “The ‘Big Lie’ And Big Liars,” by Derek Hunter (Townhall.com, Feb. 2) and “Our Biggest Liar? Joe Biden” by J. Hinderaker and David Horowitz (Powerlineblog.com, Feb. 3). Exaggeration and hyperbole practically define the field of politics, to the extent that mere accuracy and modest recitation of accomplishments makes you an “also ran.” To stand out, you need either 1) the talent to obfuscate without accountability or admission or 2) a news media/spin machine that never objects to being lied to, and turns those lies into news.

Biden and his mouthpieces used both, particularly regarding Covid-19—or Wu-flu for its origin in Wuhan, China—in their shameless, dishonest attacks on President Trump during the campaign. Biden’s opening salvo in the third debate basically accused Trump of being a mass murderer, killing hundreds of thousands of coronavirus patients because he “did nothing” to fight the virus.

Biden appealed to viewers as if he would deliver them from the clutches of a villain who doesn’t have a “plan” and doesn’t care how many innocent people die. Biden’s message: I have a plan. In fact, Trump did everything his experts advised, declaring COVID a public health emergency, massively expanding testing to nearly 100 million by late September, instituting the largest and most expensive national mobilization since World War II, delivering Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring that no American needing a ventilator would go without one. Trump inspired and led Operation Warp Speed to bring vaccinations to 33 million (by 1/31). Biden now admits he has no tools beyond what Trump has already implemented: “There is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.”

Biden and his toadies repeat the abominable lie that they “started from scratch” to distribute vaccines—a lie even Dr. Fauci refuted. Other lies: that Biden called for U.S. experts to go to China in January and that Trump made “no effort” to get medical experts into China; that Trump refused the WHO testing kits (they never offered them); that Trump eliminated the White House Pandemic Response Office;

Biden lied when he accused President Trump of cutting funding for the CDC and NIH; that he (Biden) was the first to call for the use of the Defense Production Act, on March 18, while Trump had already signed an order to that effect. Trump’s policies forced no state governor to do anything, nor were they denied anything they needed. Governors’ (often unconstitutional) policies—not Trump’s—shuttered businesses, schools and churches.

“Democrats have reached the point where they’re now so routinely using Nazi analogies that they’re likely unaware that they’re doing it, the way people swear more when they’re drunk. In this case, Democrats are drunk with power and not only can they not control themselves, thanks to the media going along with them for the ride, they have no reason to control themselves. And it’s going to get much worse before it gets any better, if it ever gets better at all.” (Derek Hunter, Feb. 2)

Democrats, from Biden down to party mouthpieces in counties across the land, despicably and knowingly put the motives and actions of Trump and his supporters, on a par with the Nazis. It is not a similarly low blow to point out the lies, big and small, ushering from the progressive leftists among Democrats. Nothing written here is propagandistic or hyperbole—just the truth, which may feel, as Harry Truman once said, “like hell.”

Biden et al are lying to heap calumny on U.S. Senators like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz for exercising their constitutional authority to object to state certification of election results that the state’s own Republican legislatures have refuted.

“All this comes from the White House itself. The mouth of the President is the heavily fertilized soil from which all this grows. There’s a media-perpetrated myth that Joe Biden is a moderate; that he’s an honest man. He is not, and never has been.” (D. Hunter)