It is time, alas, to realize that the many delusional members of the ideological left ever can be rehabilitated and reacquainted with reality, no matter how many facts are presented to them.
They have been sucked into a metaphorical black hole of talking points, outright propaganda, trumped up crusades and general incoherence that possesses such gravitational pull, not even light can escape.
The evidence of the left-wing delusion, and its negative effect on truth telling, mounts daily.
Clueless Joe Biden was on the airwaves bright and early – for him apparently – Monday to address the nation’s banking crisis.
Former White House press mouthpiece DisinJENuous Psaki, who now fittingly collects a paycheck from left-wing cable news outlet MSNBC, was spreading the progressive gospel in the wake of Biden’s appearance, but with a curious angle.
This showed Biden is serious about the banking crisis, Psaki noted, because he “does nothing at 9 a.m.”
Psaki’s indication that Biden prefers to stay up late and sleep in contrasts directly with early narratives from other left-wing propaganda machines that Biden as president was an early-to-bed type.
But why bother with the truth when you’re trying to put some emphasis on Joe losing sleep to appear concerned and assure the nation? After his five minutes of work, which included the obligatory blaming of Donald Trump for the problem, Joe was off on a West Coast swing. Hope the time zone change doesn’t mess with his late-night lifestyle.
Barney Frank, a Democratic blast from the past, has showed up in the news again as a board member of Signature Bank, which was shut down Sunday by regulators due to solvency issues.
Frank was shocked by the closure, according to the New York Times.
Frank is the very same person given title co-credit in the Dodd-Frank Act that rewrote banking regulation and was passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. A former regulator going to work for the formerly regulated. Hmmmmm.
The last time Frank was this shocked was in the mid-1980s, when a male lover went public with sordid details of their relationship. Frank since has come out of the closet as gay. The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to censure Frank back then, but only for using his office to fix 33 parking tickets for his lover, and providing false information about the guy’s criminal probation record.
Frank was cleared of knowing the man was operating a male escort service out of an apartment Frank rented.
If you want to join Frank in the shocked tank, check out the Twitter exchange between owner Elon Musk and fringe celebrity Keith Olbermann, best known for back in the day doing his utmost to turn sports into a political diatribe nightly on ESPN.
Musk tweeted that it’s absurd, in light of videos released from the Jan. 6 Capitol protest, to paint the so-called “QAnon Shaman” as a violent criminal and insurrectionist.
Olbermann tweeted in response requesting Musk be punished for posting a tweet denying a violent event.
Musk, as is his wont, couldn’t let it pass, replying, “Have you ever considered a career in comedy?”
Olbermann’s retort was weak, a touch below “your mom” as one conversationalist observed. Said Olbermann to Musk: “Have you considered a career in business?”
This, to the richest man in the world, indeed is 98-pound weakling stuff. Or maybe Olbermann is further around the bend than we had realized.
There is an overabundance of this sort of nonsensical stuff from the left, but time and space are limited, so we conclude with a note on Climate Queen Greta Thunberg.
Because of the left’s mutual infatuation with and influence upon Hollywood, Thunberg made the perfect mouthpiece for climate hysteria, a cinematic crossover. Owing to the reality that Thunberg suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome, is obsessive-compulsive and once went three years without speaking to anyone outside her family, she could be a real-life counterpart to the title character in the 1988 movie “Rain Man.”
Rain Woman? It is about climate, after all.
In the movie, Dustin Hoffman plays the autistic savant older brother of Tom Cruise. Cruise’s character is in money trouble and discovers after his father’s death that the bulk of the estate was left to an institutionalized brother he never knew.
The Cruise character tries to gain custody of Hoffman, and the estate. As time passes, Cruise becomes aware of Hoffman’s special talents when a waitress spills toothpicks and older brother Raymond instantly calculates the number as 246.
The pair end up in Las Vegas with Hoffman counting cards at the blackjack table for the duo’s benefit. They win money, get found out, but depart with some cash.
In the heartwarming finale, Cruise’s character turns down a monetary offer from a doctor at the institution just to walk away from Raymond.
Hoffman’s Raymond was an engaging innocent. Thunberg? Not so much.
Being a climate warrior means never having to say you were wrong, or are sorry.
Along that line, a Thunberg tweet from 2018, replete with an image of barren, cracked earth, quoted a “scientist” that climate change would “wipe out all of humanity” unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.
Here we sit in 2023, admittedly early in the year, but it is the fifth year. Fossil fuels continue to be used widely and humanity has not disappeared. What has disappeared is the Thunberg tweet, at least that’s likely what was hoped would be the case as it has been deleted. But some prescient folks thought to preserve it, just for the record.
Damn, another inconvenient truth for climate alarmists.
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