NBC national affairs analyst John Heilemann on Friday said President Joe Biden’s campaign’s largest concern is that persuading certain voters the president is competent may be a lost cause.

Biden’s cognitive capabilities have repeatedly been raised as a possible problem, with NBC political analyst Elise Jordan earlier on Friday saying voters tell her they will be tuning into the upcoming presidential debate to “make sure that he’s up to the task” of being president. Heilemann on “Morning Joe” said the campaign’s deepest fear is that there may be no solution to persuading voters who have “stubborn concerns about” the president, based in part on an interview he conducted with Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon.

“I think that the thing, Katty, that worries them, is that the information environment is what it is,” Heilemann told MSNBC contributor Katty Kay. “And so I asked [O’Malley Dillon] to kind of try to make the case for, you know we see surrogates all the time go on TV and say, ‘I was in a meeting with Joe Biden recently and he seemed great.’ And I said, ‘Look, most of those people have been at one meeting with Joe Biden or a couple. You spend more time with him or as much time with him as anybody in the White House over the course of the last three years. How do you make the case that Biden is, give me a vivid reason to believe that for those who say Joe Biden is not up to the job?’”

“And she told a great story … emotional, powerful, vivid, but it’s a four or five-minute long story,” he added. “And in this information environment … the voters they have to reach are people who don’t hear the five-minute story. They’re never going to see Joe Biden that way. What they’re going to see is deep fakes, cheap fakes and not fakes, but images, quick images that leave a certain impression. And trying to reach people in this environment is really hard, reach anyone in the environment we live in now in the information ecosystem.”

Former President Barack Obama on Saturday seemed to guide Biden off a stage during a campaign event where he appeared to freeze. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday endeavored to downplay worries about Biden appearing to wander off at the latest G7 Summit, calling it a “cheap fake” orchestrated by Republicans following a video of it circulating recently.

“And I think they are grappling with that, a small set of voters that are very hard to reach with some very significant, stubborn concerns about Biden,” the analyst said. “How do you get through to those people? How do you move the needle with those people? There is no answer. There’s no secret silver bullet answer to that question. And that’s, I think, the thing, Katty, I think they worry about more than anything else.”

Back-to-back listeners on Tuesday called into popular hip-hop radio show, “The Breakfast Club,” to attack the president, as well as Democrats who assert he is fine.

The first caller dubbed Biden “demented Joe,” and the second said “these Democrats keep wanting to tell us not to believe our lying eyes, like everybody can’t see Joe Biden.”

“He is 81. And God bless him, but that don’t mean you capable and you the only person to run this country. We see what’s going on,” the second caller continued. “You can tell us this is not happening … but we see it. We actually out here living it. I’m actually seeing people having to put their groceries back at the cash register. People barely can afford energy bills now.”

Jason Cohen, Liberty Daily

America is an occupied country. Our government is a bunch of unaccountable mobsters. Elections don’t matter to them.

One way or another, they will win. Trump entered the White House in 2017, for 4 years. Still, they won. They undercut him in ways nobody realized at the time, and they managed to get him out — and later prosecute him for fake felonies. The legal system does not matter to them; neither do elections.

This is not negativity. It’s not a “lack of faith.” It’s not a refusal to believe, “This is America, and this cannot happen here.” It IS happening here, because it can happen anywhere.

Dictators, sociopaths, tyrants and (actual) felons do not care about the things that you — as decent, liberty-loving Americans — take for granted that everyone with power cares about. Think of the worst criminal or mobster you ever read about. Then imagine that criminal or mobster with unlimited power, zero accountability and — through it all — getting to call himself an advocate of “democracy” or even freedom.

That’s what it means to say we have an occupied country. The Nazis and the Japanese never got this far, in World War II, not in America. The Soviets never got this far, in the Cold War. But we’re there now. There are Jew-hating Nazis, money-grubbing fascists and ideological, woke Communists in charge of everything. So accept this fact, and realize what we’re up against. Otherwise, no strategy is going to work.

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If Trump wins, it won’t be enough. All hell will break loose. You saw what the tyrants did after Trump’s first election, and throughout 2020. It will be much worse.

Trump has to win. It’s a bare minimum. But we will have to reclaim our republic. This will mean investigating, arresting and prosecuting Biden, his attorney general, and others in his regime for treason. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s offenses should be brought to justice, too. Don’t call this revenge. It’s an absolute necessity. Otherwise: they will come back. They’ll destroy Trump’s second term like his first, and they will come for us all. Punishment for treason is the only way to reverse course, and ensure we become a republic again. A convention of states will also be required, not to rewrite our Constitution, but to reestablish it by massive (I mean MASSIVE) reductions in federal spending and power. The FBI, the EPA, the Department of Education–these and much, much more must GO.

I remain doubtful Trump will win. The magnitude of the fraud and manipulation is too great, and ALL of it from 2020 remains unpunished. Millions of Americans are, quite frankly, ignorant and stupid. Somebody has to say it, because it’s true. But maybe Trump will still somehow win. If he does, it won’t be enough.

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“Better to fight for something than to live for nothing.”

— George S. Patton

 I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.”

— Courtesy of Moses Popescu, Patriots Last Stand

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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

— Nietzsche

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“When the debate is lost, insults become the loser’s too.”

— Socrates

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“I grew up here. I’m a woman. I’m a gay woman. My mom’s a Jew. My dad’s an Arab. I have a black kid. And believe it or not, my son is half Latin, even though he doesn’t look like it,” she said. “I hold a million cards in your game of woke victimology poker. And when I leave California, maybe you’ve lost your f***ing mind. Just maybe! When you have me running from home, maybe it’s gone way too far.”

She said the laws that are being passed in the legislature and signed into law by far-Left Governor Gavin Newsom are “absolutely f***ing mind boggling.”

“In relation to crime, protecting our kids, like, we’re decriminalizing everything, which arguably I would probably be okay with, but we’re not regulating any of it,” she said. “So it’s like, okay, you’re gonna decriminalize sex work, but only so women can loiter on the streets, not to keep them safe, not to have them pay taxes, not to make them, you know, regularly check for STDs, not to take away the pimps out of the equation.”

“The fact that a 12-year-old child can be put on off-label cancer drugs to irreparably change their body,” she said. “If my son came to me and said, ‘Mom’ — or my daughter — ‘I think I’m trans,’ I’d say, okay, you know, like, you want to dress this way, you want me to call you whatever the heck you want, dress, fine. Explore it. I love you. I’m cool, do you as long as we’re safe, but we’re not changing your body until it’s fully developed. I’m sorry. Conversation’s over. Can’t get a f***ing tattoo!”

— Fitness Influencer Jillian Michaels On Leaving ‘Woke’ California

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“For the greater good” almost always means “this will be bad for you.”

And it’s almost always said by someone it will be good for.

“Great” just means them.

[from @RealSpikeCohen, on Twitter/X]

Once enough people understand this post, socialism (and all its toxic variants, including green fascism) are DONE.

Every destructive movement of human history, from the murder, censorship and brutality of the Middle Ages to the nihilistic destruction of Nazism and Communism — and their stepchild, today’s “woke” psychotic totalitarianism — are based on the idea, “This is good for you … because I say so.”

If something is really and truly good, it doesn’t have to be forced. And if it has to be forced — well then, something is wrong with the ideology right there.

Even if you can find a situation where the thing being forced is good for ALL involved — including the person being forced — it still would have no meaning. If a person is not convinced that the virtuous thing he’s doing is right, then there is no virtue in his coerced action. There’s only resentment, subtle hostility and a breeding ground for rebellion.

I find it darkly comical that today’s Woke Establishment — the modern day apostles of coercion and guilt-infused lecturing, moralizing we see everywhere we turn today — think they’re “progressive,” sophisticated or somehow new.

They’re as old as the Stone Age. They’re as sophisticated as savages. It all has been tried before, as recently as the Nazis, who took their coercion and moralizing all the way.

Today’s totalitarians reply, “I’m no Nazi. I’m virtuous.” If you’re so virtuous, then why must you imprison your political opponents — in America, of all places — and force, intimidate, defund, “cancel” and intellectually neuter anyone who sees fit to disagree with you, people as diverse as Bill Maher, Jerry Seinfeld, Elon Musk or Donald Trump?

The need to “guilt” and coerce people into believing what you believe — that’s the ultimate red flag.

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Dysfunctional – not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning. having a malfunctioning part or element: behaving or acting outside social norms  

Grifter – a person who operates a side show at a circus, fair, etc., especially a gambling attraction;  a swindler, dishonest gambler, or the like.

So, Hunter Biden was found guilty of a serious crime, the least serious crime he has committed in his life of depravity and debauchery. 

He was his father’s bagman, sent around the world to sell American influence in Joe’s name for large amounts of money. 

The Bidens are a family of grifters. They thought they were so clever.  They went to great lengths to cover their illegal tracks by setting up countless LLCs and assorted bank accounts.  The family has lived far beyond the means of a senatorial or vice-presidential salary for decades. 

For fifty years, Joe Biden has been a thug, a plagiarist, a criminal.  He is a pathological liar, as even the New York Times has noted. 

He was a known racist for years, too; Robert Byrd of KKK infamy was his mentor. 

Like most criminals, Joe is not very bright.  Now, as the world watches him descend into the well-known signs of dementia, the left continues to pretend he is qualified to run for a second term when he is clearly not.  Joe is over, done.  He belongs in a care home.

The Biden family is obviously profoundly dysfunctional, rife with adultery, drug addiction, promiscuity, alcoholism, and criminality.  Joe’s affair with Jill broke up her first marriage.  Their daughter Ashley’s diary revealed the fact that her childhood very possibly included inappropriate behavior by her father that led to her promiscuity and drug use.  Hunter was expelled from the Navy for cocaine use.  

As his laptop showed, he is a thoroughly degenerate man who was a drug addict who used prostitutes, some of them very young.  After his divorce from his first wife, he had an affair with his sister-in-law, the widow of his deceased brother.  He introduced her to cocaine.  Both his wife and sister-in-law are mothers, of his own three daughters and his niece and nephew.  How sick is that?  Dysfunctional hardly describes how unstable the Biden family is. 

Being the snobs they are, they continue to ignore the child Hunter fathered with Lunden Roberts but embrace the son by the newest wife.  In a semi-normal family, wouldn’t some of those adult children want to know their half-sister in Arkansas?  Guess not.  They are all without a shred of class or grace.  They are all grifters.

Now convicted of the crime of lying on a gun-purchase form, will he be actually held accountable?  Not likely.  He has never been held accountable for his bad behavior in his life.  Joe Biden says he will not pardon him, but he can and will commute his sentence with the stroke of that pen he uses so irresponsibly.  It is safe to say he will certainly do exactly that if his son is sentenced to prison.  Joe’s party is all about using lawfare to jam up his political opponents for fabricated crimes but they will not hesitate to protect all manner of lawbreakers in their own family and party. 

Biden, or whoever is actually operating as president, is most likely doing Obama’s bidding, fulfilling his “transformation of America” Marxist/communist agenda.  The party that is so terrified of a second Trump presidency is terrified because they are guilty of so many crimes against the American people and the Constitution. 

They assumed they would get away with their oh-so-clever crimes to take down the man who threatens their authoritarian hold on power over the American people.  Now they are scared, for good reason.  If Trump is elected and justice is to be done, those mobsters of the deep state, which is exactly what they are, will be indicted, brought to trial and sentenced for their crimes. 

They know who they are:  Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe, Andrew Weismann, Judges Merchan, Kaplan and Chutkin, prosecutors Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, and a host of others. 

As for trivial people like AOC, Joe Scarborough, Dan Goldman and their ilk, they wish they were important enough to be worried.  They’re not on Trump’s radar; they are insignificant.

To say the country is at a crossroads is a gross understatement; we are at the edge of a Marxist abyss. 

Joe Biden is an illegitimate president, and he has been a disaster for the nation from day one.  There are no words to describe the damage done by this illicit administration; ten to fifteen million migrants have entered the country, unvetted, given a free pass, sheltered and fed on the taxpayer dime, any terrorist tendencies ignored.  There are terrorists among them who have attempted to  breach numerous military sites. 

Surprised? Of course not. It is what the left wants. When and if there is a major terrorist attack, they will be prepared to absurdly blame it on Trump and his supporters while it will be the open borders left that is entirely responsible. They want chaos, tragedy, pandemics and escalating crime; anything to make people fearful and reduce the population by a variety of means. 

If the Biden presidency has taught us anything, it is that we can never, never again install a man so corrupt, so incompetent, so anti-American as Joe Biden.  He is the most destructive president in American history and if we prevail as a republic, he will be forever more known as exactly what he was and is, a man with a greedy, dysfunctional family of grifters.

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