The President That Never Was

Dissecting Biden's Speech at Valley Forge

It’s never been as obvious as it is today that our so-called ‘elected officials’ aren’t really as in control of things as they make themselves out to be. In most cases, these individuals serve as little more than figureheads, who aren’t even particularly well-spoken or good at acting.

In some cases you might get a polished gem like Barak Obama, but in most cases you get a lifelong dud like the current White House resident.

In DC, it is widely understood that ones staff (and handlers) will take on a bulk of the work, the powerful, billionaire infested think tanks like the CFR will dictate to them what policies to get pushed through, liaisons between the White House and the media will determine what you should say and how you should react to any given current event, and if you should have any serious anti-establishment competition, the FBI and a corrupt DOJ will take care of that for you.

Today, we have the most overtly vestigial government official that the nation has ever seen…

Joe Biden.

When most people hear the name, I’d wager that the last thing conjured in their minds is the image of a strong leader. Most of us are still just trying to figure out if he’s a body double, a man in a rubber suit, the product of necromancy or some kind of animatronic figure. One thing is for certain—that man isn’t in charge of changing his own underwear, let alone making decisions about this country.

So, who is calling the shots?

Is it a sweatpants-clad Obama operating out of his basement? Is it Susan Rice, as per General Mike Flynn’s suggestion? Is it a cadre of hooded occultists whispering incantations and consorting with lizard people in deep underground tunnels? Or is it simply a self-perpetuating power center with a revolving door of madmen at the wheel?

Does it really even matter at this point?

Now, Americans who’ve been invested in the fight for years can smell the rankness of the deep-state on even the most ancillary of pawns, and that ability alone will prove more useful in the lives of the everyday joe than understanding the deeper, labyrinthine mechanics of the snake pit.

We’ll explore these ideas and more, but first, lets talk about that godawful speech.

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Last week, Joe Biden made an appearance in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where he gave a fiery, impassioned address—not about his plans for the country should he win a second term—but instead about the imminent danger of Donald Trump and the hundreds of millions of people who will likely vote for him.

If you haven’t seen the speech and feel like you can stomach it, you can view it in its entirety below:

Biden portrayed himself and his political party as the exclusive protectors of democracy in the United States; he then, rather unsurprisingly, compared Trump to Adolf Hitler and his followers to the Nazis.

As par-for-the-course as these statements may be, it’s worth thinking critically about them for a moment.

The current president of the United States is desperately trying to convince his followers that their own neighbors and family members are the greatest threat to America, that they are somehow as bad as the Nazis, are worthy of scorn, social ostracization and even dehumanization (quite Naziesque behavior, really), yet we are supposed to believe that Donald Trump is the one radicalizing his base?

The speech evoked a surge of emotion and inspiration among Democratic operatives. An article from The New York Times lauded Biden's impassioned speech and expressed their delight that he had chosen to make it the focal point of his campaign as he entered the year 2024.

In that article, we see the same self-deceptive language about being the sole guardians of American Democracy, despite the fact that we live in a Constitutional Republic.

There’s just one small problem with this idea: Joe Biden, and really the Democratic establishment at large, is currently trying to secure the White House by having their opposition either incarcerated (the same behavior they ascribe to Vladimir Putin) or removed from the ballot.

In short, an unelected and deeply entrenched system of bureaucrats and political operatives have decided who the American people can and cannot vote for.

It’s not as though Trump is some fringe candidate—he is the highest polling candidate in the nation, meaning a significant percentage of the citizens living in the so-called democracy that these liberal ops pretend to defend will be unable to use their right to vote for the candidate they deem most worthy to lead the nation.

What exactly is their definition of ‘Democracy?’

We might need some clarification on that, because I thought free and fair elections were the hallmark of a healthy, functioning democracy.

These political operatives are far from what the media portrays them as. Recall that these are the same people who were found by four separate federal judges, one district court judge and three appellate court judges last year to have committed one of the gravest violations of the First Amendment free speech clause in years by using the CIA, FBI, CDC and other agencies to coerce Big Tech to purge the Internet of dissent from their policies.

They're also the very same people who are so far successfully banning even members of their own political party, namely Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson from launching a primary challenge to Biden by refusing to permit debate. They're even acting to strike all those primary challengers from the ballot so that Biden is the only Democrat people can vote for. 

But I guess lets just pretend all of that isn’t as dangerous as the perceived threat of what Donald trump might do should he retake the White House. If we are to take the clowns in the mainstream media’s word for it, then we can expect to see Trump threaten to literally execute his political rivals.

Similarly, you have the big-brained folks at CNN assuring us that Donald Trump "poses the greatest threat to democracy that we've ever seen."

All of this fear mongering was on full display during Biden’s Valley Forge speech. There was no mention of the economy or the powder keg that is the Middle East; there were much greater threats to bemoan, namely the American people and their chosen candidate.

This was clearly intended, in part, to be a preview of the theme of Joe Biden's candidacy: you may think his brain is on the fritz, you may think the economy is in tatters, you may even think that he's supporting an atrocity exhibition in Gaza while funding actual Nazi battalions in Ukraine, but as much as you hate Joe Biden, as much as polls show that people don't trust him or have faith in his competence, you must vote for him because he's running against Orange Hitler. 

This is what American politics has been reduced to: deflection, gaslighting and juvenile name-calling, and it’s all pretty much on par with the rest of the degradation we see across our society.

Name calling in particular is a staple of the political establishment and its champions.

In recent years, words like ‘Nazi’ and ‘Hitler’ have begun to lose all meaning. At the beginning of the war in Ukraine, anyone who was opposed to U.S. involvement was accused of being a ‘Putin apologist’ or even an ‘agent of the Kremlin.’ Putin was immediately crowned the new Hitler, and so, anyone who didn’t want to send billions of taxpayer dollars to Ukraine were seen as ‘Nazi sympathizers.’

Now we have a fresh, new war in Gaza, and so these terms get reapplied accordingly; if you do not support sending billions of dollars to Israel, then you must be a Jew-hating Nazi.

This childish yet effective form of dehumanization was the very essence of Biden’s speech. His keepers must have done something to get him fired up, because the hobbling 81-year old was particularly energetic and angry.

At a certain point in the speech, he lauded his Justice departments treatment of the January 6th ‘rioters,’ saying:

[…] more than 1,200 people have been charged with assault in the Capitol. Nearly 900 of them have been convicted or pled guilty. Collectively, to date, they have been sentenced to more than 840 years in prison.

At which the crowd roared in approval.

What has Trump done? Instead of calling them criminals, he’s called these insurrectionists patriots.

It is important to note here that the vast majority of people who have been convicted in connection with January 6 and sent to prison are not even alleged to have engaged in violence. Remember that.

The crowd is quite literally cheering the unjust persecution of their own fellow citizens—that is how radicalized these people have become.

He continued:

[…] They're patriots. And he promised to pardon them if he returns to office. Trump said that there was a lot of love on January the sixth. The rest of the nation, including law enforcement, saw a lot of hate and violence. One Capitol Police officer called it a medieval battle. That same officer was called vile, racist names. He said he was more afraid in the capital of the United States of America, in the chambers, than when he was fighting as a soldier in the war in Iraq. He was more afraid inside the halls of Congress than fighting in the war in Iraq. 

While it might be true that this individual said these things, it doesn’t make it any less reprehensible. Not a single protester on January 6 wielded a weapon inside the Capitol. Not one. The only people who discharged a weapon on that day were the Capitol Hill Police, and they did so on Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, not the other way around.

I’m sure it was unpleasant for them, as the United States Capitol Police (USCP) don't seem to be a very skilled or well-fit fighting force, so I’m sure it wasn’t the easiest day on the job … but worse than Iraq? I would love to hear an Iraqi war veteran’s response to these diminishing claims.

The speech then progressed to the main event: making allusions to Nazi Germany.

[…] Echoing the same exact language used in Nazi Germany, he proudly posts on social media the words that best describe his 2024 campaign. “Revenge,” “power” and “dictatorship.” There's no confusion about who Trump is, what he intends to do. 

Again, this is coming from the guy trying to imprison his political opponent while providing unconditional aid to Nazis in eastern Europe and aiding and abetting what’s now being called a genocide in the Middle East.

But he did touch on something that I think is worth exploring further when he said, “There's no confusion about who Trump is.”

I would actually agree with that statement. DJT isn’t the same wildcard that they billed him as in the beginning, as he has since served as President for four years. All of the horror stories about what would happen should he get elected in 2016 never came true, and now, 8 years later, people have an even more solidified view of Trump’s political stylings.

And I’m sorry, Joe Scarborough, but there isn’t a single Trump supporter alive who believes he is going to have his rivals executed upon winning the White House. That lunacy is on par with comparisons between J6 and Pearl Harbor or 9-11

Trump did not build minority death camps, he didn’t order the military to round up all of the democrats, and he didn’t get us into World War III despite all of the constant assurance from the mainstream in 2017 that he would do so. Needless to say, this time around, Biden is really going to have to sell the fantasy that he is better than Donald Trump.

Lastly, we have the media’s reaction to the Biden Campaign kick-off speech.

First, we see Pod Save America host and former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau gushing over Biden’s performance.

Ok Favreau.

It couldn’t possibly be that a lifelong politician like Joe Biden is running out of his own self interest; it must be that he’s running to save democracy on our behalf, because he’s always been such a heroic and altruistic figure.

Remarkably, the media is somehow still able to maintain this illusion with the dwindling audiences that they manage to reach—the same media that shamelessly covered for Biden when it was found that his administration engaged in what they called one of the gravest assaults on the First Amendment's free speech guarantee in years, if not in the history of the judiciary, by systematically weaponizing the CIA, the FBI, the CDC and other federal agencies to coerce and threaten Big Tech to censor dissent from the internet.

That was the story that Matt Taibbi and other journalists broke. And you probably remember that most members of the corporate media, upon seeing that story that they didn't break and couldn't break, turned around and said, ‘oh, this story is nothing, it's a nothing burger, you should ignore it.’

I'm sure you don't recall that because it received so little media attention and is now hardly discussed; it was a ruling against Joe Biden, and the media therefore wishes to bury it. But for that same administration who received that ruling to turn around and depict themselves as the savior of American democracy is truly illustrative of how deluded the political discourse in this country has become.

CNN has also become abundantly explicit regarding Biden's strategy, and once more, this is their only option:

The 2024 campaign year for President Joe Biden’s inner circle will largely be about carefully ratcheting up the intensity against Donald Trump, wary of voters becoming dulled to what they expect to be the former president’s ever-wilder rhetoric and promises about what he would do if back in power.

Or, as some of the younger aides on Biden’s reelection campaign have been grimly joking, it’s about when to go “full Hitler.”

When the leading Republican candidate’s speeches and actions go so far that the Biden team goes all the way to a direct comparison to the Nazi leader rather than couching their attacks by saying Trump “parroted” him. (CNN, January 2, 2024)

I perceive this as an attempt motivated by desperation.

Undoubtedly, the American media will continue to applaud anything Biden does, since no one else will. It is noteworthy that the Democrats, in addition to acknowledging they cannot run with anyone thinking about Joe Biden, are attempting to divert attention to Trump. This creates an even greater challenge for them, as they attempt to deconstruct democracy out of fear of defeat while posing as its saviors.

The democrat establishment and their cohorts in the legacy media have nothing to offer the American people; the only way they can even maintain a shred of relevance and keep the most hypnotically deranged of supporters voting for them is by highlighting the fact that their puppet isn’t Donald Trump.

But how much longer will that strategy hold up? Can it win them an election?

Panic is back on the menu, boys and girls.

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