After Biden's terrible debate that showed us the Wizard behind the curtain in plain view, my immediate reaction was to re-evaluate the media and establishment Democrat's response to the Robert Hur investigation. The investigation declined prosecution, noting they were convinced Biden was an "elderly man with poor memory." Little did we know, this meant Biden couldn't even recall what year Trump was elected.
The Democratic apparatus went into overdrive to defend Biden, claiming he was young and dynamic behind the scenes. Biden's press secretary stated many times that he was more energized than ever, and no one in his administration ever doubted his mental capacity. In fact they argued it was so strong, that it was offensive to question it. Afterall, did Biden even need to campaign and talk to the press when everyone "knew" just how vigorous he was.
Biden asserted executive privilege over the tapes with Republicans eventually voting to hold Merrick Garland in contempt for failing to provide them. If they had released the tapes after the investigation, they could have left it to the people to judge at the beginning of February, 2024. Instead, we were forced to wait until Biden's shocking June debate performance, where we all saw the emperor had no clothes and that we had been gaslit and lied to by the same people that we felt obliged to trust. Afterall, they kept telling us democracy depended on it.
In this moment, had Democrats not insisted there was nothing to hide and do-nothing Merrick Garland actually provided the tapes publicly, it could have presented a new candidate sooner.
First, you can listen to the audio yourself. You're right about one thing, I don't know you more than our short conversation here and you don't know me. We shouldn't be quick to make judgements about each other. Hopefully on this, we can both agree.
But my living experience is not what you're claiming. It was that anytime real facts were presented, they claimed they too were right wing talking points. They said instead said facts were Russian bots and secret Trump supporters spreading misinformation. It is hard to believe that all of them knew all along that the facts were legitimate while calling them lies.
Anyone can use a search engine on Lemmy and other social media to see you're wrong and either lying intentionally or because you're being ignorant.
You can see for yourself