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Until the hoax went down in flames Thursday night, legacy media had promulgated The Big Lie about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline for years.

To what lengths were they prepared to go?

In the run-up to the 2020 election, PBS produced an entire propaganda film guised as a 'documentary’ to convince you that Biden had a “stutter,” and that he was engaged in a heroic journey to prove his doubters wrong, titled:

"Biden’s Stutter: How a Childhood Battle Shaped Him"

Amazingly, the film did not feature a single video clip of Biden’s lifelong "speech impediment,” and any cursory search of archival Biden clips reveals that no stutter actually exists.

The quick clips they used to demonstrate this 'stutter' were recent gaffes, deceptively edited using photographs instead of featuring the actual video.

Also note the emotional manipulation and narrative sleight-of-hand employed by featuring an interview with a writer from The Atlantic, who actually has a speech impediment.

Below is a short excerpt — which casts Joe’s struggles with cognitive decline and mounting gaffes in the 2020 campaign as the heroic fight of a bullied underdog, “hellbent” on proving his critics wrong and overcoming a lifelong disability.

North Korean state-media propagandists must blush at this level of sycophantic media manipulation.
This angle was resurrected in WAPO as recently as March of this year.

“Biden’s stutter surges into the presidential campaign."

Framed as “Trump mocking an old man with a speech impediment."

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The full documentary (6 minutes), if you are, like me, interested in a study in state-media lies and propaganda.
For contrast: Here is an excerpt from the same PBS series in the run-up the 2020 election on Trump. You might notice a slight difference in framing. This film is titled:

"Trump the 'Bully': How Childhood & Military School Shaped Him"

The narrative:

Trump’s ascent to achievement and power was from learning the ways of a trained “killer” — who “learned the power of bullying to get ahead."

Subtle, PBS. Very subtle.
The stutter narrative has made a comeback. Absolutely incredible.

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Apr 30
🚨NEW: Victor Davis Hanson presents a powerful breakdown of the Civil War raging in the Democrat Party.

As the Old Guard continues to endure withering pressure from the New Radicals, and a stream of incumbents bow out —

Where does it go from here?

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1⃣ THE OLD GUARD: ON ITS LAST LEGS

Hanson begins by drawing a sharp picture of the decrepit Old Guard — The “Biden generation” — falling apart before our eyes:

“There was some news lately that Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois, he was the author, remember, of the Dream act. He was a hardcore liberal. You could even say he was left of center. He's stepping down. He's in the 70s and there's a changing of the guard.”

“Chuck Schumer in some polls is running, I cannot believe it, behind AOC for his upcoming senatorial bid by 20 points and more in a primary. And then as sort of a force multiplier of this, I just saw Nancy Pelosi. She was at a public event. I think she's 85, turning 86. She was as incoherent as Joe Biden.”

So what's Victor trying to say? He lays it out: The Old Guard is TERRIFIED:

“We're watching a changing of the guard, both due to aging. And we see that with Joe Biden and the Biden generation is over with and Nancy Pelosi and then the next cohort in their 70s, the Septa generations, they're terrified. Dick Durbin is terrified of being primaried. And so is Chuck Schumer. He took the dignified way out.”

“Chuck Schumer will probably fight to the very end and be humiliated by AOC.”
2⃣ THE NEW RADICALS RISE

Next up, Hanson starts to dig into the radical faction that is mounting hostile takeover of the party power structure:

“Who are these people? Well, the squad remember traditionally was Ilhan Omar, the Somalian who allegedly had married her brother to gain citizenship, access to the United States. There was Ayanna Pressley. She was the radical African American congresswoman. We had, of course, AOC was a prominent member.”

“And, we have also, in addition to Rashid Talib, she was a member of the squad. She was the Michigan kind of pro Hamas congresswoman. Then we had the DNC and we had Ken Martin won the DNC chairmanship. He's very much to the left and really to the left is his subordinate, David Hogg, the vice chairman.”

“He was a survivor of the parkland shooting, remember, in 2018. And he transmogrified into a gun anti second amendment. But then he got even more and more and more radical. I don't think he's ever really done anything except raise money. But here's my point…”

Here, Hanson nails the bottom line. We are watching a real time transformation of the party:

“We're watching a metamorphosis of the Democratic Party that is out of power.”
Read 7 tweets
Apr 28
🔥Stephen Miller put on a blistering performance outside the White House today —

— blasting Sanctuary State Governors, the Biden administration and of course, a very hostile media.

Miller showed why he’s Trump’s most savvy communicator — AGAIN.

🧵5 KEY MOMENTS: THREAD 🧵Image
1 🔥“We are not going to ask taxpayers to subsidize the presence of a single illegal alien in this country.”

A “reporter” parroted a leftwing talking point about why the admin should “deport mother with young kids.”

He regretted it.

This exchange shows why legacy media NPC’s are no match for Miller. Ever.

Miller: Do you yourself have an opinion on the subject?

Miller: Let's say he released 10 million aliens into the country over the last four years. What percentage do you think we should let stay here of those 10 million?

Reporter: “I'm not trying to do a game show, but I'm saying if you think that's the best use of the dollars.”

Miller: Is it your view that if a Democrat president releases 10, 15, 20 million into the country, they all then should get to stay forever and for all of life?

Reporter: Stephen, I don't have a view about what Democratic presidents do. I'm asking what the Republican president.

Miller: So how come you don't want to answer the question? Because you know the answer is obvious. Everyone that Biden live in has to go home. Of course, it's a crazy thing to even ask.

ICE is going to continue to focus on raids against high threat criminal aliens.

We're going to use the entire force and power of the federal government to get them all. How many will choose also to leave voluntarily and take advantage of the CBP? Homan. But we are not going to ask taxpayers to subsidize the presence of a single illegal alien in this country.
2🔥"They all have blood on their hands.”

Miller did NOT hold back on the Biden administration and its congressional enablers like Hakeem Jeffries and Chris Murphy for the havoc and destruction unleashed on America by open borders:

“Of course, the Biden administration does, but also all of their enablers do. Right? All of the radical left immigration groups and attorneys and NGOs who aided and abetted and supported the invasion.”

“All the Democrat politicians in Congress, like Hakeem Jeffries, who better than supported the invasion, and Chris Murphy and everyone in the media who knowingly lied and covered up about that invasion for four years.”

“They all share in the atrocity, in the calamity. They all have blood on their hands.”

“They won’t be getting forgiveness from me, I can promise you.”
Read 7 tweets
Apr 12
The word has gone out: "CHAOS!"
They do this over and over again, and somehow expect people not to notice.

"Joy!"
“In this moment.”
Read 5 tweets
Mar 11
Gavin Newsom's new podcast is a shiny propaganda project designed to rebrand him as a "Common Sense Democrat” for 2028 — but there’s one small problem:

His own radical record.

Dismantling Newsom’s “Moderate” Rebrand:

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2⃣REBRAND LAUNCH

The propaganda project designed to position Newsom for a presidential run in 2028 kicked off with him dipping his toe in the water of common sense — by attempting to get on the 80 side of an 80/20 issue: Men playing in women’s sports.

Legacy media predictably heralded this move as a “Remarkable Shift” — not an opportunistic flip-flop, which is exactly what it is.

A 2014 tweet from Newsom celebrated a law that required schools to allow boys to compete in girls’ sports in California.

Newsom hasn’t suddenly seen the light — he’s simply seen the polling.
3⃣NEWSOM’S CORE BELIEFS: ENTIRELY FLEXIBLE

Newsom’s far-left roots don’t stop him from bending to any political stance or ideological twist needed to grab—and hold—power. As he puts it:

There’s “this mask you live in that you become.”
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Feb 10
LEFT, OCT 2024: As the election neared, KJP assured Americans that no FEMA funds were being diverted to Illegals.

RIGHT, TODAY: Elon exposes that FEMA still sending taxpayer dollars to illegals — just LAST WEEK having sent $59M to illegals for luxury hotels.

More lies.
.@elonmusk: “She was lying.”
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Feb 1
🧵Observing the Trump 47 media strategy: Transforming communication with the American people.

It’s a different ballgame this time around.

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1⃣ THE WH BRIEFING ROOM: Press Sec Karoline Leavitt announces that Americans’ trust in legacy media is at an all time low, welcomes new media access into the WH briefing room, promises to address questions from outlets across the ideological spectrum.

Massive shakeup that signals to Americans from the press room podium how legacy media has been thoroughly discredited — while simultaneously promising balanced coverage and maximum transparency.
2⃣ DoD PRESS ACCESS: SecDef Pete Hegseth oversees long overdue changes to press access at the Pentagon:

NBC, NYT, NPR, and Politico will “rotate out of the building” to give space to New York Post, Breitbart, OAN, and HuffPost.

The move is intended to “broaden access” — a diplomatic way of saying that legacy media propaganda is being demoted to the minor leagues, while providing a broader range of reporting perspectives. HUGE shift.Image
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