Don's Tuesday Column

                THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   6/22/2021

On choosing, believing delusions, lies

The progressive left—or “American Marxism” as Mark Levin’s upcoming book title aptly labels it—has nudged, pushed and bullied its way into a position of leadership and control. While there remain many Democrats-in-name-only—legacy voters following their forebears who believed with a near-religious faith in the superiority of Democrat programs and policies—the shades are falling from the tunnel-visioned, cult-like allegiance to the delusions and lies that drive the leftist narratives.

Please continue reading; try to allow the rational side of your brain to process the facts that now present themselves, beyond dispute. America now has an executive leader, Joe Biden, who cannot express a rational thought that isn’t scrolled on his teleprompter or printed in “bullet points” (too firearms-related?) on a card titled “The President.” His “press conferences” are staged-for-media events with a preference for pre-selected reporters giving Biden staged questions for which said bullet points contain answers for him.

Biden’s off-the-cuff cracks induced a question first ignored, and then obfuscated and subjected to disjointed rhetoric: “In a weekend interview, Vladimir Putin laughed at the suggestion that you had called him a ‘killer.’ Is that still your belief, sir, that he is a killer?” CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny asked.

Here is Biden’s answer verbatim from the official White House transcript: THE PRESIDENT: (Laughs.) “To answer the first question — (laughs) — I’m laughing too. They actually — I —"

Q : “So he is a killer?”

THE PRESIDENT: “Well, look, I mean, he has made clear that — the answer is: I believe he has, in the past, essentially acknowledged that he was — there were certain things that he would do or did do. But look, when I was asked that question on air, I answered it honestly. But it’s not much of a — I don’t think it matters a whole lot, in terms of this next meeting we’re about to have.”

Huh? By the end of that meandering non-answer, Biden had forgotten the second question.

Try to follow additional lies and delusions—for which, if your response is disbelief, you need deprogramming from the nonstop bilge of falsehoods from CNN, MSNBC, the networks, progressive propaganda outlets, Twitter and Facebook.

Fallaciousness is blithely peddled to discredit and demonize opponents—without once addressing the merits of their arguments—and to provide the faithful with fiery, hateful rhetoric in that cause. Read slowly: It is neither hateful or inflammatory to point out factual refutations.

On the G7 (or 9) world stage, Biden lied about the overwhelmingly peaceful Jan. 6 rally in support of President Trump, claiming that the rioters all broke through cordons (some did not, based on recordings) and killed officer Brian Sicknick (died of natural causes): “for literally criminals to break through a cordon…kill a police officer, and be held unaccountable…”

Federal charges have been mostly dropped against the “antifa-blm-ers” that attacked, injured and killed hundreds of police and civilians, and burned many hundreds of businesses in Minneapolis alone. If it’s not “insurrection” to burn and destroy precinct stations with police inside, I don’t know what it is.

Yet, the only firearms-related charge against a 1/06 protester (until proven otherwise, right?) is for having brought into D.C. a legally disassembled handgun, left in car. All are held, in solitary confinement, without bail and under gag orders, for hundreds of days for no logical reason beyond providing a strawman falsehood about the supposed threat to our Republic by (provably not) white supremacists.

Unsurprisingly, polling by Rasmussen Reports found majorities of voters that had two choices, rated Biden’s G7 performance “unsuccessful,” “fair to poor” but better than Trump by 44 to 43 percent, “Three years ago, 47% of voters rated (Trump’s) handling of foreign policy “excellent or good” while only 42% so rate Biden now.

“Juneteenth” should be celebrated by acknowledging that a Republican President Lincoln, with an army serving Lincoln’s Republican crusade to free all slaves, extended the Republican mandate via martial order to the last slave-owning holdouts in Texas, many of whose slaves were moved from Democrat slave states upon Union conquest.

Over 10,000 slaveholders in the South were Black; the Reconstruction era was hindered by slavery-sympathizing President Johnson (incumbent upon Lincoln’s assassination by Democrat terrorist John Wilkes Booth). Democrat strongholds formed the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize Republican-voting African-Americans, obstruct said voting, firearm possession and other rights by Blacks up until Republican support forced the end of Democrat filibusters against Civil Rights laws in the 1960s.

It’s a lie that Republican efforts to eliminate fraud, dead, moved and multiple-voting Democrats from rolls, “Voter Integrity,” is voter suppression. Biden promoted that lie in service to giving vote fraud legality.

Doubters of my factual assertions should simply consider that if your “news” and opinion sources have been consistently and repeatedly wrong—while never admitting error—about Trump for over 5 years, their credibility is shot. Accept your delusions for what they’ve been and deny them their undeserved belief.

Trump never ordered “peaceful” (they were violent and injured many Park Police and Secret Service) “protesters” evicted from Lafayette Park for a “photo op” (Interior Dept. Inspector General). Look up “Punctured tale of Trump’s photo op may live on as media myth,” 6/15.

See also: “Ten Media Lies Trump Has Been Proven Right About Since the Election,” by Matt Margolis, 6/12: “Hydroxychloroquine works”; “The Virus came from a Chinese lab”; “Hunter Biden’s laptop was real”; “The ‘Russian bounties’ story was fake”; “We did produce vaccines before the end of 2020, in record time”; “Blue state lockdowns didn’t work”; “Schools should be reopened”; “Critical Race Theory is failed”; and “Trump’s southern border security program was an unprecedented success.”

Derek Hunter’s title pithily sums it up: “Will Any Anti-Trump Story Hold Up?”