If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister and personal pal of Herr Adolf Hitler
For those wondering what the 2024 Presidential campaign is going to look at, this past week was a prime, grade A, preview. A movie trailer of sorts allowing us a glimpse of just some of the rock 'em sock 'em action we can expect.
Last Thursday, Alabama's junior Senator, Katie Britt gave the GOP response to Joe Biden's rousing state of the union address. Britt spoke from her sparsely appointed kitchen in Montgomery. During her little stove front chat, delivered with all the emotional impact of a 17 year old performing in a high school production of, "Our Town." she related the story of child sex trafficking occurring because of Joe Biden's policies.
According to Britt she had personally traveled to the, "Del Rio sector of Texas." where she met with a victim of the foul practice. "She told me she had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12," Britt said. "She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped. We wouldn't be okay with that in a third world country. This is the United States of America and it's past time we start acting like it. President Biden's border is a disgrace. It's despicable. And it's almost entirely preventable."
Cue the outrage. It's all Joe Biden's fault this 12 year old had to live through an unimaginable horror story.
The woman Britt, "talked to," is named Karla Jacinto. These days she is a crusader for the victims of child trafficking. Her nightmare was real, but it happened between the years 2004 and 2008. For those who are historically challenged, during that time frame George W. Bush was President and Joe Biden was a Senator--just like Katie Britt. In addition Ms. Jacinto was trafficked, not by a cartel, but rather a pimp who took in at risk young girls. And, of course, none of the crimes perpetrated against the then 12 year old happened near the border, or the, "Del Rio sector of Texas." It all happened deep in Mexico.
afew days after Britt spoke to the nation Karla Jacinto told the media, yes she had met the Alabama Senator, but no, not one on one, she had spoke to a group of politicians about the plight of sexually abused and missing children, using her own experiences as an example of a crisis which is largely ignored by politicians and the media world wide.
Ms. Jacintoo reportedly told CNN, "I hardly ever cooperate with politicians because it seems to me that they only want an image. They only want a photo--and that to me is unfair."
Yeah, there is a lot of that going around these days. Now we know why Senator Britt is considered a rising star in the republican party. She might be only 40 years old, but she has their act down cold.
Then there was Fox News personality and noted jug wine aficionado, Jeanine Piro told her audience, "The democrats spent the whole day saying Donald Trump obstructed. Well news flash, Donald Trump was not charged with obstructing."
Really? It is a matter of public record that Donald Trump is charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Mar a Lago documents case. In a separate indictment he is charged with obstruction in regard to that whole, attempting to overthrow the results of the 2020 Presidential election thing.
It is unclear at this time if Ms. Piro is simply lying out her ass or is suffering from the onset of Delirium Tremens. I prefer to think it is the latter. It's the romantic in me.
Finally we get to the big man himself. On Tuesday the House Judiciary Committee got together so republicans could grill, former Special Counsel Rober Hur on his report about Biden and some classified documents he left with after the second Obama term had ended. Most of the republicans on the committee didn't really care about why Hur had decided not to prosecute Joe Biden, they just wanted him to tell them and the nation the President is a feeble old man, so incapacitated mentally he can't even remember the year his son died.
The democrats, namely Jerry Nadler of New York decided to turn the tables on them, so to speak. Nadler played a montage of Trump's gaffes, abject cruelty, and incoherent ramblings. There was nothing new on the video clip. In fact some of it dated back to the 2016 campaign. In other words everything Trump said, or let's say, garbled beyond all recognition, was witnessed the days he said them and have been replayed for years, months, and days.
Not according to Don Trump though. After seeing the hearing and montage he posted on social media, "The Hur Report was revealed today. A disaster for Biden, a two tiered standard of justice. Artificial Intelligence was used by them against me in their videos of me. Can't do that Joe."
That's right. Donald J. Trump just claimed Jerry Nadler and those devious democratic operatives faked all that insane shit every American who watches TV saw him say--in many cases, live. In short Donald Trump isn't the one with the delusions, everyone else is.
Doctor John Gartner is right, but that doesn't mean plenty of people won't believe the crazy fuck. They'll read his post, they will listen to Piro's dipsomanic ravings, and Britt's intentional twisting of reality and never doubt any of it. What's worse is they won't even see anyone contesting these lies, because none of them watch anything on the air, or the internet which challenges their faith in Orange Jesus.
Welcome to the 2024 Presidential campaign. Only eight more months to go.
sic vita est
3-14-24
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