Still cracks me up how all the people who consume news that protected Biden at all costs were so shocked at his debate performance. Post-debate Illiniray gave us some excuses, including his own diagnosis of Biden’s cognitive issues.
I think people, particularly the TDS folks, had their heads so buried in the sand because they were offended by the Sleepy Joe stuff that they couldn’t allow themselves to believe that what everyone outside their echo chamber was saying was actually true.
It isn’t that the right wing or moderates (or anyone paying any attention at all) hated Joe Biden by pointing these things out, it’s that making factual statements about the sitting president’s clear cognitive decline was treated with such derision that it made people wonder what the hell was actually happening.
Now we known that there was a very coordinated campaign in which the media was fed the same “Joe is sharp as a tack” talking points, which they parroted at every turn, right up until they literally turned on him and demanded he step down as the candidate. To protect democracy lol.
Exact same situation as the Wuhan lab thing. When the narrative machine is clearly working overtime, it immediately makes me question the motive and pushes me to believe the opposite of what they’re trying to get me to believe.
When it comes to Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities, shall I trust my own lying eyes, or the propaganda wing of the administration? The same news folks told us it was for sure zoonotic and definitely not a lab leak, then eventually said well we don’t actually know and probably never will because China isn’t cooperating.
I don’t know whether it came from the lab or was zoonotic or from Randy fucking a pangolin in China like in the South Park Pandemic Special. I think it’s important that we find out, because the implications of having an engineered virus (that we funded) escaping from a foreign lab in an antagonistic country are fucking
terrifying. It’s orders of magnitude worse than a zoonotic origin. I’m sure the folks in China obfuscating everything are well aware of that fact, even if some folks want to pretend otherwise.