The America that progressives have given us is stranger than fiction
By: Bernard Goldberg, Opinion Contributor (The Hill via MSN)
We can't even tell if this movie is a comedy, tragedy, parody, or horror. The star player can't deliver his lines. No one is wearing a hat so the players can be heroes and villains at the same time. And the script is being rewritten in the middle of a scene.
We're in a war that we aren't fighting. The threat of nuclear Armageddon has never been higher but no one is planning to use nukes. The economy is going gangbusters but we have to air freight baby formula from Europe. We're spending enormous amounts of public money to end oil while threatening Saudi Arabia for cutting oil production. The southern border is secure but thousands of miles away from that border New York has an immigration crisis. The previous President is Hitler reincarnated but we can't throw his ass in prison. There's a scapegoat for every occasion but nobody can actually do anything. And one of our greatest accomplishments is that NASA crashed a spacecraft into a rock.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Sometimes I think I'm watching a Fellini movie, one of those really strange ones where I witness something so bizarre that I think I'm hallucinating — except it turns out to be real.
So, was I hallucinating when I heard there were more than two genders, more than boys and girls, men and women, male and female — and that men could get pregnant?
You tell me. At a congressional hearing, when asked, "Can biological men become pregnant and give birth?" a doctor from Planned Parenthood said, "Men can have pregnancies. … Somebody with a uterus may have the capability of becoming pregnant, whether they're a woman or a man."
While you're scratching your head over that, let's move down to our southern border, the one Vice President Kamala Harris assures us is "secure." But on television I see thousands of illegal immigrants walking into the United States every day — more than 2 million a year, according to official records.
Maybe Harris is right and my eyes are wrong. Maybe I'm hallucinating and not really seeing what I think I'm seeing.
What about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — you know, the chaotic mess that President Biden called a "success"?
Wasn't that the withdrawal that was marred by a terrorist attack that killed more than 180 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members? And didn't we leave behind tens of billions of dollars in military equipment that fell into the hands of the Taliban?
Good thing it was a "success," right? Or maybe I'm just imagining all the bad stuff. Hallucinations will do that.
Here's more good news: "The pandemic is over." I know that because President Biden — the same president who said the withdrawal from Afghanistan was a success — has told us it's over.
But if it's really "over" why are between 400 and 500 Americans still dying every day of COVID-19? Somebody must be hallucinating because the president of the United States says "the pandemic is over."
But wait. If it's really over, why is the Biden administration "forgiving" up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt for certain borrowers to make sure they are "not placed in a worse position financially because of the pandemic" — you know, the one that's "over"?
I'm not sure if I'm simply confused or if I'm still hallucinating — because I thought crime in our big cities was a real problem. But you'd be hard-pressed to find a progressive district attorney anywhere in the United States who thinks crime is a big deal, or at least will say so publicly. Or, as The Atlantic magazine put it, "Refusing to admit the gravity of the [crime] problem won't make it go away."
Even Federico Fellini might think he was watching one of his own strange movies if he were alive and witnessing what passes for reality in the United States, circa 2022. And why wouldn't he? After all, we're told that the bloody U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is a "success." We're assured that even though the coronavirus is killing hundreds of Americans every day, "the pandemic is over." We know that millions of illegal immigrants enter the United States in a single year but we're supposed to believe that the border is "secure." Statistics tell us crime is on the rise but progressives believe it isn't. And, of course, men can get pregnant.
Yes, up is down, east is west, day is night, and mostly, lies are truth. Fellini may have been a master at mixing fantasy with reality, but what's going on today in the United States, I suspect, would be too bizarre, even for him.
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The President makes a big announcement that flops. Then anonymous sources try to flip the flop. The President flips the flip and that flops. And the press tells us everything is fine.
Ah yes, the beginning of Bacons law.
At this point, all progressives can do is try to gaslight their way through the mess they’ve created. Problem is people are starting to wake up to that gambit.
Biden gaslights himself.
There has to be a functioning brain for that to happen. But there are the Bidenites that will continue to polish the turd and claim it's a diamond.
Biden is the model of empowerment. Liberals empower people by inclusively accepting self-identity. According to liberals, anyone can be whatever they want to be. Biden can be white, black, Jew, Puerto Rican, Polish, Irish, or Martian if they wishes. Biden can be the first woman President if they wants and liberals will celebrate that self-identity.
Non-liberals tend to view that sort of empowerment as being reality-impaired.
That explains why the left is freaking out over Hirshcel Walker's claim to be Native American while silent when Elizabeth Warren did it.
The left is freaking out because both candidates are Black. Kinda hard to claim Herschel Walker is a white supremacist. So, it's necessary to portray Walker as some other type of racist.
Didn't think about it that way. Hypocrisy at it's finest.
The right if freaking out because most of their candidates are idiots.
Kinda hard not to claim Walker isn't an idiot when he says idiot things.
That's what the left lives by. That's also why Biden is the model of empowerment. Few on the left are more adept at hypocrisy than Biden.
This is new? According to the biased unbiased press, Republicans have been idiots since Nixon.
The power of selective editing. Of course that power depends heavily upon hypocrisy.
Is it a coincidence that things started to get really strange beginning in June 2015?
I think not.
Not really.
That was the beginning of TDS. It didn’t really kick off in earnest until he beat the chosen one. Which most of the afflicted never gave him a chance to do. Then it popped off full tilt boogie with the resist movement spearheaded by a very angry and beaten chosen one.
Nothing to glean here really if one is a thinking person and was paying attention. It was obvious. Still is ......
You've missed the point that's being floated. Trump still has more influence over the country than does Biden.
Trump is still the President, after all. Biden is just an empty suit in the White House. That's why everything is Trump's fault.
“Trump is still the President, after all.”
Delusional…and actually dangerous to think that as it flies in the face of all established and certified safeguards and does nothing but further foment ignorance and discontent.
Is that the aim? And to what end?
If Trump is no longer President then why is political Washington and the political press still focusing so much attention on Trump? According to the political narrative, Trump still has more influence over the country than does Biden. The political claim is that Trump can sway elections while Biden cannot. The political claim is that Trump controls the Republican Party while Biden cannot control the Democratic Party.
Even the New York Times tells the country that Trump has far, far more political influence and power than does Biden.
According to all the political discussion, opinionating, and storytelling, Biden only occupies the White House but Trump is really still the President. Political Washington is attuned to what Trump does or doesn't do. Biden occupying the White House only serves as an expedient means to a political end. No one seems to be following Biden; everyone is still following Trump. The press corps doesn't even bother to fact check, question, or challenge Biden; Biden is that unimportant.
Lol