Geriatric Ramblings

I’ve commented on it before, lots of times, but one of the things I have difficulty coming to terms with is just how surreal things have gotten over the last decade.

Is this just my own faulty perception and a headlong rush into my own version of geriatric ramblings and senility?

If so, I can date the start of my geriatric journey¹ to around 2016 when I watched videos of a large group of students confronting Professor Nicholas Christakis in a Yale quad.

Seeing a student, a member of one the most privileged and least oppressed groups² in the entire world, declare (rather over emotionally) that she was fighting for her existence was a very definite WTF moment for me.

The recent presidential debate in the US has only amplified this sense of the surreal. Many commentators have suggested that the timing of the debate, coming before any official party endorsements of their presidential candidates, was deliberate. It was set to be earlier than usual (I believe unprecedented is an appropriate word to use here³) so that Biden’s decline could be exposed early enough to give the Democrats a chance to establish a new candidate.

The theory goes that they wanted Biden to do his thousand yard stare and incoherent mumbling so that pressure could be applied in the subsequent media storm to persuade him to step down as candidate.

I suspect there is some truth in this. I think the people actually pulling the strings have finally realised that they’d have to poison the guy with lethal doses of amphetamines to get him to the end of his term, or even the end of a sentence⁴.

Back in 2020 I didn’t have much clue who Biden was.

But here’s the thing. I’m not sure that Biden himself had a firm grasp of who he was, either.

His cognitive decline was as clear as a very clear thing on a clear day, even back then.

If you watch old clips of Biden at the height of his political powers you realise that the Biden of 2020, whilst not quite an empty shell, was a rapidly emptying shell.

Wasn’t that obvious? It seemed obvious to me, at the time.

Yet the media and other commentators began to talk in glowing terms⁵ about Biden’s mental acuity and sharpness.

We know the media have a kind of compulsion to present the world they want you to see rather than the world that actually is, but this disconnect between propaganda and reality has grown beyond any kind of ‘reasonable’ bound.

Perhaps the starkest example of this was in the reporting of covid. Almost all of it was a near-fraudulent exercise in pandemic promotion. They sold us the idea of a deadly pandemic and The Science™. And none of it was true. None of it represented the world as it actually was.

Another example. The “reporting” of Trump from around 2016 onwards reached near psychotic levels of derangement.

I’ll be honest. Back in 2016 I thought Trump was a total ass and couldn’t believe the US people had voted for the clown. Then I began to see the level of utterly deranged and psychotic media reporting. It was so extreme I just couldn’t believe it. Whilst I still don’t much like Trump (except that he’s very witty and funny) the overegging of the Orange Man Bad Pudding turned my view 180° around.

The claim that ‘democracy’ will vanish and be sucked into some sort of Trumpian black orange hole if he’s re-elected is imbecilic.

The erosion of ‘democracy’ and the subversion of ‘democratic institutions’ has been, in truth, far, far worse under Biden’s trembling touch than anything Trump managed to achieve in the 4 preceding years.

Yet, even after what can only be described as perhaps the most disastrous ‘debate’ in history, some people are still trying to pretend that Biden is up to the job. Trump was there; Biden was not.

The acid question that many are asking in the US is “who the hell has been running my country for the last 4 years? It clearly wasn’t this vegetable”

Biden is, so very clearly, not up to the job and hasn’t been for some time. So who was doing his job?

Presumably somebody that wasn’t voted for - but, hey, Trump is a threat to democracy, right?

Is this inability to reject obvious nonsense a consequence of a few decades of what is, essentially, a kind of quasi-Marxist education?

Kids are subjected to a whole bunch of shit like the idiotic and racist CRT bollocks, the demented GenderWoo, the notion that ‘capitalism’ is bad, that things like mathematics are ‘rooted’ in white supremacy, that their mental health is fragile, that we live in a world of invisible intersectional Oppressions™ and so on.

None of it is tethered to reality.

Are we seeing the fruits of that program played out?

1. It’s similar to a gender journey but without the euphoria and with more Preparation H

2. I’m using oppressed in its correct sense and not in the “social justice” sense of being Oppressed™

3. We all remember this word, don’t we? It was used extensively during the covid farce. The virus and associated ‘pandemic’ were not unprecedented, but the lunatic things we did to ‘combat’ this virus certainly were

4. “End of sentence” quip courtesy of the New York Times

5. In the same way that a supernova could be said to ‘glow’