Your Lying Eyes
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Don't believe your lying eyes.
That pretty much sums up the progressive approach to reality when someone points out an inconvenient truth.
One of the most glaring examples came, you'll recall, courtesy of CNN — the infamous video of a correspondent standing in front of an arson fire reporting on "fiery but mostly peaceful protests" during the 2020 George Floyd riots.
This phrase, "mostly peaceful protests," would be repeated time and again during the wave of murder, arson, assaults on police and destruction of private and government property during the chaos of lawbreaking in those sorry days. Protests are peaceful, or they're not, our lying eyes tell us.
Equally jaw-dropping were the insults to truth by Biden administration officials responding to images of thousands of illegal aliens pouring across our southern border on a daily basis. Then Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declared, "The border is closed, the border is secure."
Believe him, and border czar Vice President Kamala Harris, who said similar things, and not your lying eyes — that was the White House line.
And let's not forget the instructions of our betters to ignore Biden's descending into dementia. Videos of him, stumbling, falling, wandering aimlessly, and uttering incomprehensible word salads were damned by his White House and the subservient media as "cheap fakes." What we really had was a sharp, on-the-ball president — "the best Biden ever," as one of his media lackeys put it.
Yet Biden's reelection hopes would soon implode in a jumble of incoherence during a presidential debate. At one point, then candidate Donald Trump spoke for millions of people watching this debate when he declared that he didn't know what Biden had just said, and he didn't think Biden knew either.
Still, right after that pathetic display, First Lady Jill Biden was boasting that Biden had answered every question.
But for once, even the Democrats' obliging media elite had to admit that, well, you're lying eyes got it right.
It was this kind of gaslighting and other denials of reality — like inflation was under control thanks to the wildly inflationary "Inflation Reduction Act" — that cost the Democrats the 2024 election and returned Trump to the White House with Republican majorities in Congress.
The notion of your eyes fooling you was popularized in the great 1933 Marx Brothers comedy movie "Duck Soup." In it, Chico Marx is trying to pass himself off as another character and, when exposed, replies, "Well, who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes." Somewhere over the years "lying" got added.
That was comedy. Now a century later, humorless Democrats, socialists and progressives show their contempt for the rest of us by transforming a joke into a political propaganda ploy to turn reality on its head, to portray fantasy as fact and fact as fantasy.
The latest manifestation of that is the sudden Democrat clamoring for the Jeffrey Epstein files to be released to the public. We're supposed to erase from our memories that the Biden administration had control of the files for the past four years and we never saw Democrats in Congress showing the slightest interest in getting them out.
Then there's the Russian collusion hoax, a conspiracy of the Obama White House and Hillary Clinton presidential campaign to kneecap Trump's first term. New documents about this plot emerged recently, but our betters keep telling us there's nothing to see.
No one can forget the lies, the censorship, the heavy hand of government and the dictates of bureaucrats with medical decrees during the Covid outbreak. They shut down the economy, closed schools damaging a generation of children and issued arbitrary vaccine mandates. Doctors and scientists who saw more reasonable responses to this pandemic were damned by these bureaucrats as enemies of science.
And let's not forget the elite universities practicing raw racial discrimination in admissions and hiring. No, our eyes were wrong, they said, they were only trying to bring diversity to their campuses. But we saw that they pursued diversity of skin color while enforcing uniformity in thought from professors and in the classroom.
Likewise, we're supposed to avert our eyes as the teachers-union cartel abuses and exploits children in public schools. Teacher salaries, benefits and pensions climb while reading and math scores stagnate and even fall. The ones hurt most — minority kids.
European elites, with American progressives nodding in agreement, attack Trump for allegedly not being committed to NATO. We're supposed to close our eyes to Western European nations falling short of their NATO commitments while building generous welfare states and relying on generous U.S. taxpayers to fund their defense.
Baseless charges of genocide are flung at Israel in its just, ethically conducted war against Hamas, terrorists who use their own people as human shields. As editor Abe Greenwald of Commentary magazine put it so well: "Hamas is the only government in history to say: We're going to make our own people suffer until everyone watching can't take it." Progressives say don't believe your lying eyes, condemn Israel.
Democratic governors of failing states like Illinois and California tell us to turn our eyes away from their residents fleeing high costs, high taxes and high crime for Florida, Texas, the Carolinas and other Red states. Governors JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom, in their lust for the White House, will try to pull the wool over our eyes to deny the failure and dysfunction of their states and assert they have the formula for a better tomorrow for America.
It's our lying eyes when we see the failure of communism in any country it's been tried in. But, no, the radical left wing tells us, socialist Zohran Mamdani, as mayor, would resurrect New York City with government-owned grocery stores, rent control and ever-rising taxes, all leavened with ugly antisemitism.
No doubt readers can add other examples to the ones cited here. That's how pervasive progressive gaslighting is, it's hard to keep up with the flood of deception.
Sometimes progressives get fooled by their own lying eyes — or to describe it in another way, we see the blind leading the blind.
Recently the Democrats cheerfully posted on the Internet a chart showing grocery prices hitting record highs this year.
The only problem was that anyone with clear eyes would see that this chart demonstrated that the surge in prices occurred during the Biden presidency years. Too much ridicule, the Democrats took down the graphic. Republicans immediately and joyously resurrected it.
But nothing, not even an embarrassing screwup like that, will stop the far left from working to warp reality and gaslight the rest of us.
And when called out on this deception, the radicals often resort with low blows like vile accusations of racism.
Just to take note of the chaos of unrestrained Muslim immigration into Western Europe will be met with the smear of Islamophobia. Yes, most Muslims are fine people, but there is a significant radical Islamist and jihadist core within that religion that can't be denied. Nor should we avert eyes from the crime, rape, grooming of young girls for sexual abuse and the tide of antisemitism that flow in the wake of this mass immigration.
Virtually any conservative critique of the far-left agenda faces the prospect of a racism accusation.
Another way of gaslighting us is to find new "rights" to try to blindfold our eyes.
Biological men rob girl and women athletes of trophies and gold medals, and we're told to shut up in the name of trans rights.
It's our lying eyes that see "gender affirming care" of children as mutilation and child abuse. It's our lying eyes that see a teacher hiding a kid's gender confusion from parents as a despicable attack on the nuclear family, a fundamental foundation of civilized society.
Such are the perverse unrealities of the left's obsession with race and gender.
Scientific reality and the complexities of biology — chromosomes, reproductive organs, hormones — don't matter.
What does matter to the high priests of identity politics is a far more simpler attribute like skin color. Anyone not black claiming to identify as African American would be met with ridicule and abuse.
In identity politics, skin color matters, X and Y chromosomes don't.
That's the product of the surreal imagination of progressives.
Well, if the far left ever get its wish for slavery reparations and the government starts writing big checks, maybe I'll transition to black and do it faster than you can say Al "Show Me the Money" Sharpton.
And to anyone who would point to my lily-white skin, I'd have one thing to say:
Don't believe your lying eyes!
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I only wish I had saved all the defenses of Biden's gaffs and cognitive struggles put forward by some of our members.
One of my favorites was Pushing a video of a biden meltdown that had like 10 cuts in a minute as proof he was fine and calling the unedited video as a “cheap fake”
The Covington kids video demonstrated to me that a percentage of progressives will disbelieve their own eyes if it contradicts their political desires and the point has been repeatedly proven.
Why does Trump want to live in an alternate reality? And why is he trying to force the rest of us to join him?
Utterly unable to defend the insanity of Trump, your side is reduced to endlessly whining about Biden, Obama, Hillary, Kamala Harris, and George Floyd.
That's fkng hilarious coming from the person who, almost daily, puts up articles and comments crying about Trump.
They do wish everybody would forget about what they supported.
This is a map of "George Floyd" protests in 2020 that had 100 or more participants. I would invite anyone to show photos of arson and rioting at even a tenth of them.
List of George Floyd protests in the United States - Wikipedia
It is indisputable that the vast majority of the 2020 protests of the death of George Floyd were peaceful. The right just likes to gaslight and lie because for now it is working for them due to the timidity of our national media.
It is indisputable that the vast majority of the 2020 protests of the death of George Floyd were peaceful
perfect.
In Minneapolis, destruction of property began on May 26, 2020, with the protests involving vandalism and arson. Demonstrations in many other cities also descended into riots and widespread looting.There was police brutality against protesters and journalists. Property damage estimates resulting from arson, vandalism and looting ranged from $1 to $2 billion, eclipsing the highest inflation adjusted totals for the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Don't believe your lying eyes.
93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful, New Report Finds
93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful: Report | TIME
When you have Fox and Fux showing repeatedly from different angles the same violence, and there definitely was SOME violence, but the far right and Fox made it seem it was occurring everywhere in our country.
I'll state up front, I thought it was bullshit letting stuff get so out of hand in that small percentage where it did occur, but WTF people, how many of you have ever ventured into economically depressed areas where Police had for years, had no accountability. Body Cams have changed this dramatically.
Both sides have used don't believe you lying eyes shennanigans, but Trump and his now encouraged supporters, have brought it to levels I wouldn't have considered possible before Trump. Alternate facts, pseudo reality, blinded and deaf echo chambers, have all changed this country, a lot.
When not mentioned is say the reality of this current Epstein mess, that Trump still hides and refuses to fully address, or say when maga are told they are not allowed to view the January 6th hearings, and they obviously oblige, it is not difficult to see how they need not believe what actually occured, for what they have heard, cause it's all a tad too absurd.
For Trump to still claim he won in 2020, says his and so many others, vision ain't so good and a plenty. Fox "news" had to pay $787,000,000.00 MILLION DOLARS for that little white power LIE, WHile so many Lawyers around Trump did get disbarred all as Barr even lowered himself above the fray, to state Trump was full of shit, Be leave he did say.
To fire those doing their jobs to investigate 45, to free those who would not have left many of our government alive (if events had been slightly different, I believe there would have been politicians murdered), to ban Law Firms from entering courts due to Trumps' wrong doings is at sorts, to investigate Smith all while Trumps former DEFENSE Attorney sits with Maxine, is fckn A obscene, so don't believe your own eyes, believe what the dictator in chief said about day won, cause we've All Lost !
In my opinion this country is so fucked up today because of conspiracy theories and massive disinformation from the right. This is a humongous issue that no one is addressing.
Don't believe your lying eyes.
Twenty cities in one night isn't an isolated incident. But don't believe your lying eyes.
Did you READ my comment? I acknowlege there was Violence, but considering the Number of protests, it was a small percentage and I did not agree with it, or with not doing more to avert it.
Compare that to January 6th and Trumps to this day LIE about the 2020 election results !!
WTF, Trump fires Inspector Generals overseeing everything while firing everyone that ever had a negative word to say about him. He is fckd up in the head , PERIOD
This is just not the flex you think it is. There could be ten thousand people marching peacefully, but if one asshole lights a car on fire, three blocks away, the cameras will be pointed at the car fire. That's common sense if you understand that sensational images create ratings, and ratings drive the news business.
Two things can be true at the same time. The protests can be mostly peaceful, but there can also be several instances of violence. Here is a huge, entirely peaceful, protest from 2020 in LA:
OK...Let's assume that is true.
The fact remains that the "seven" percent that was violent caused billions in dollars in private and public property damage, millions in stolen goods through rioting and dozens killed.
Does that make you feel better?
Read it, understood it, ignored it.
January 6th was a race riot?
So Trump should follow the Clinton's lead and permanently eliminate outspoken naysayers? Those accidental suicides are useful political tools, ain't they?
Out of the 80000 people ahead of the protest on jan 6th less than 2000 took place in illegal acts. That is 2.5% or in the words of people saying 2020 was no big deal (forgetting the billions in damage) Jan 6th was a mostly peaceful protest.
There was a peaceful protest on Jan. 6th, too. Remember Trump's "Save America" rally at the White House?
An estimated 53,000 people attended Trump's "Save America" rally at the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. Only 2,500 (or less) stormed the Capitol building later that day. 95% of the protesters on Jan. 6th were peaceful. But that's not what we hear about, is it?
Because none of these other protests - peaceful or otherwise - constituted an assault on our nation’s capital, with the purpose of halting the orderly, constitutional transfer of power through violence and intimidation. That particular riot deserves all the attention we can give it. It was unlike every other gathering of people.
LOL Mmmkay...
But see, just gathering like this and the words they use is automatically labeled by many on the the left as "violence".
Dissenting views is considered "violence" and "racist" to many also.
An assault on the nation's capital? Nice rhetoric but not quite the reality you may think it is. All those not-so-peaceful protests across the nation were intended to intimidate and coerce the government into providing undemocratic preferential treatment along racial lines. The benefit for the few required sacrifices by all.
Racial violence beget more violence. Imagine that.
Are you for real, right now? Tell me you don’t need to be shown pictures and videos of that day.
And is that picture you posted supposed to be a picture of violence?
Are you denying that the Jan. 6th violence was just as limited (if not more limited) as during the multiple BLM race riots that happened for months across the country?
Congressmen kneeled in the rotunda of the Capitol to not just condone but to champion BLM violence. Rioters on Jan. 6th weren't the first to bring violence to the Capitol. Are you denying that BLM violence across the country was rewarded?
I don’t understand that. Please rephrase. As of yet, I haven’t denied anything, so…yeah.
Silly gesture, but so what? It wasn’t violent.
What I said was….
an assault on our nation’s capital, with the purpose of halting the orderly, constitutional transfer of power through violence and intimidation
How they attempt to ration the lies while rationalising is scary, cause attempting to compare Jan 6th to any other protest besides the civil war is beyond a thinking individuals comprehension, well, at least mine.
To have Trump LIE about the election results, without one I ota of evidence, and then to have so many Believe the Deceive is just mind boggling.
This country has slid so far down since Trump and the pussies he grabbed i the GOP, it is astounding. Ignorance rules was a joke moniker way back from newsvine, never thought it could ever ring so true, till now, cause now I do.
You misspelled riots.
You did that yourself. Those same locations had arson and rioting.
THere's nothing more pathetically desperate than implying that because some peaceful protests that took place , it was okay for a CNN reporter to call a riot mostly peacful as fires raged behind him. Who cares if some people, elsewhere, managed to protest without hurting people?
There were dozens upon dozens of protests over the 2020 election. Only one turned violent. When J6 is discussed I've yet to see a progressive cite all the peaceful rallies to say the 2020 election protests can be called mostly peaceful in front of a picture of Capitol police battling rioters.
do you comprehend the difference between burning business's that is mainly an insurance burden issue, compared with burning our Constitution and wiping out the peaceful transfer of power our country was built upon, cause i'd say not.
Good thing that didn't actually happen, however this did...
Do you think that "insurance burden issue" had any effect on those communities?
Good lord. Were the dead bodies just a mortician burden issue?
Which dead bodies, Floyds and so many others before body cameras, the Capital police officer who passed on the 7th, the three more some ofwhom took their own lives, the veteran lady attempting to climb through a smashed window, the persons shot by the 17 year old dropped off by his mom ...? Do tell
Right, because insurance companies would never raise rates on everybody when insurance claims increase.
The peaceful protests were not a problem. The problem, Sean, was the breaking & entering of the Capitol to disrupt Congress in its certification of the election.
You could not miss the point by more.
Do you think the problem with the riots was the arson, looting and violence? And maybe, just maybe, can you see why it's absurd for a reporter to stand in front of a riot with buildings burning behind him and call it mostly peaceful?
Wait a minute. The "peaceful protests" occurred way before the Washington crap - caused more damage - burned more PUBLIC buildings - sent people to the hospital - and sent city/state governments home to cower.
And the friggin' Dems/Libs/Others ENCOURAGED the disruptions.
Not a problem???
And morgue
"And the friggin' Dems/Libs/Others ENCOURAGED the disruptions."
Not only encourage, but back funds to bail criminals out of jail so they could go out and commit more crimes, all in the name of the druggie criminal Floyd.
I think the 2020 breaking & entering of the Capitol to disrupt the election was (and remains) a fundamental problem. The main problem was that a sitting PotUS sat back doing nothing to stop his supporters from disrupting the certification of the election that he lost after repeatedly lying to them that they were disenfranchised and that he really won the election.
You brought up the 2020 election as an example. The peaceful protests by Trump supporters was not a problem, the problem was those who engaged in violence and lawlessness.
Same applies everywhere else. If violence breaks out in an otherwise peaceful protest, those who engage in the violence (or motivate same) are the problem, not those who remained peaceful and law-abiding.
If violence breaks out in an otherwise peaceful protest, those who engage in the violence (or motivate same) are the problem, not those who remained peaceful and law-abiding.
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Even the Democrat appointee for POTUS called for people to donate bail money for the rioters.
While the Democrat appointee for VPOTUS didn't go a damn thing.