Who Won the Debate —The Criminal Mastermind or the Lazy Ignoramus?

Countering a Manufactured Consensus about the alleged Victor

"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets.” —Damon Runyan

On June 27 Joe Biden, the criminal mastermind behind a fratricidal war Ukraine cannot win and an immigration invasion undertaken to generate millions of newly minted Democratic voters, outpointed former President Donald Trump in a debate of more than 90 minutes. As noted by observers pre-debate, the expectations were so low going in that all Joe had to do to prevail was to maintain a mediocre semblance of lucidity, which he did.

I am cognizant of the nearly unanimous verdict put forth by the corporate media Right and Left which maintains that Trump sparkled in the debate and crushed Biden. The facts don’t sustain that analysis however, and I refuse to be herded into submitting to a manufactured consensus.

President Biden: betrayer of our nation

Despite one freeze-up and a couple of garbled paragraphs to nowhere, Biden was far more detailed in his responses than Trump, whose generalizations were embarrassingly short on names, statistics and particular data. When the ex-President took the opportunity to highlight violence in cities in Portland and Seattle he failed to mention who was behind it. He said buildings were burned and mayhem was significant. Mayhem by who? Arson by who? He did not name the perpetrators—the Left and Antifa. His account was incoherent for listeners not familiar with his vague reference.

In one of his strongest moments Trump took Biden to the woodshed for his support for legalized abortion unto the ninth month of pregnancy. Twice he hazily referred to the statement of an unnamed  “Democratic governor” of Virginia who implied that if a nine-month-old baby was born alive after an attempted abortion it could be decided what to do with it. Trump could not name the governor (Ralph Northam), or the year he made his heinous declaration (2019), as follows: “The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”  Trump couldn’t even summon the word “infanticide”  in connection with Northam’a horror show.

This doesn’t indicate dementia. It signals the former president’s abysmal failure to undertake adequate debate preparation, including memorization of key names, dates and facts, which was offered to him by his team and which he largely refused.

Biden, like a doddering schoolmaster, having prepared for the debate, gave a series of talking points as answers to questions. More than once he would number his points. Trump  meanwhile repeatedly fired his shotgun hoping he would hit his target with monotonous repetition of his “great” achievements as president—the “greatest in history,” with which “all agree.”

Trump offered no heartening vision of the future. Doom-and-gloom were his mainstays. Ronald Reagan, a charlatan I did not respect (the first president to initiate the illegal immigration deluge with his disastrous Simpson-Mazzoli mass amnesty), nonetheless contrasted his forecast of an ominous fate for the nation under the Democrats with a sunny “It’s morning in America” vision under Republicans. Trump and many of his followers can barely summon the words, “Make America Great Again.” Little hope or optimism is offered in their Stygian world view.

In his 1978 book Desolation Island, maritime author Patrick O’Brian associated this species of negativity and nay-saying with exhaustion, trepidation and decay:

“He had the impression that…(they) were in a state of powerful fear. There were no evident direct signs of it, but both complained very often: a stream of blame and disapproval…a frequent imputation of motives, always discreditable. They reminded him of his maternal grandmother in her last years, when, from being a strong, sensible, courageous woman, she grew weak and querulous, her expression of general discontent increasing with her vulnerability.”

Along with lowering the tone of our national conversation by introducing and popularizing in presidential discourse potty-mouth expressions like sh-t and the crude word for buttocks, Trump has dragged our collective consciousness deeper into the premature senility of which Biden is accused, marked by fear and resentment with no moderating influence.

Granted, if Mr. Biden had been facing a politician with the powers of recall and polemical skills of Marco Rubio he would have been reduced to a jumbled pile of blubbering protoplasm. Against the bombastic generalizations of Trump however, which the former president parroted tediously, and despite his enfeebled physical state, Biden held his own. Working without notes, the specific facts drummed into his memory during his many days of debate preparation were on display.

Trump has the physical vigor and virility. What he didn’t have were specifics or details; he failed to demonstrate that he was in command of the data. His spotty debate preparation was nothing like Biden’s intensive drilling. Trump won’t sit still for such intensive sessions and is bored by particulars, and it showed.

Trump has the appearance of a robust man but his mind is immersed in the superficial. In his potentially devastating charge that Biden’s open border policies were leading to the future ruin of Medicare and Social Security he failed to offer any numbers, statistics or hard evidence to back up his charge. He may have been physically on the debate stage, but mentally he was standing in front of a red state Republican rally, preaching to the choir.

He did well in maintaining a cool demeanor while Biden early in the debate exploded in anger, pouring vitriolic hate in Trump’s direction. The Donald opined that Biden belonged in jail but his inventory of criminal offenses included not a single mention of Joe accepting payoffs from Ukraine when he was vice-president.

Trump performed like a man who had not studied to any degree whatsoever. He wandered onto the debate stage with the air of a heavyweight boxer about to confront a welterweight. One is reminded of Max Baer in his world championship title fight with Jim Braddock, which Braddock won against all expectations, and for which Damon Runyan dubbed Braddock the “Cinderella Man.” Baer had a right that could stop a train, but Braddock outboxed him, given that Baer had been partying while Braddock had been training.

Biden’s frailty and low energy level is obviously age-related. The more vigorous Trump however, has no excuse. He substituted slogans and sound bites for arguments. He came off as a hollow narcissist while Biden had the edge just by lasting “fifteen rounds” without being knocked out.

Let’s also consider that it’s not Trump the system hates and fears so much as his followers. As we move deeper into the Revelation of the Method stage of the alchemical process, the Cryptocracy is now fearful of the least opposition.

The Cryptocracy also has a vested interest in inflating Trump into a massive bogeyman who is the antithesis of everything they represent. Let’s peek behind the hype.

Betrayals by Donald “Israel First” Trump

Donald “Israel First” Trump, the alleged America First statesman, staged numerous patriotic events for America’s veterans while in the White House. Virtually the only ones he overlooked, neglected and symbolically spit upon were the aged sailors who survived the intentional June 8, 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty which killed or wounded 208 American sailors. Trump betrayed those men.

Furthermore, according to statements by Tucker Carlson in his news conference this month in Australia, Trump’s CIA Director Mike Pompeo, a Zionist fanatic, attempted to have Julian Assange murdered while he was imprisoned.

One of Trump’s campaign promises was that he would order all CIA documents released which in any way concerned the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Pompeo obstructed the complete release and Trump cooperated with the obstruction, betraying his promise to the American people. Thousands of those documents remain classified.

The murder of Jeffrey Epstein in a Federal prison in New York while surveillance cameras “malfunctioned,” occurred on the watch of Trump’s Attorney General William Barr, who got away with characterizing the assassination as a suicide. There has never been an authentic investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's death. Barr did everything possible to obstruct an investigation and Trump permitted him to do so without objections. This was a shocking betrayal. Carlson summarizes the revisionist facts.

James “Whitey” Bulger was also murdered while Barr was Trump’s Attorney General. The 89-year-old gangster was in a prison hospital for a life-threatening cardiac condition. Under Trump and Barr, officials at the Federal Bureau of Prisons altered Bulger’s medical status for the sole purpose of transferring him to a West Virginia prison where convicted Mafia hitmen were awaiting his arrival. Prison officials took no extra security precautions even though Bulger, an Irish-American mobster, was widely known to have been an enemy of the Italian mob, which put him at high risk of injury or death.

The prison bureau’s executives subsequently allowed word of Bulger’s arrival to spread to more than 100 prison employees, and to a couple of Mafia inmates who, less than a day after his arrival, tortured and beat him to death in a cell—the door of which had been left conveniently open. Bulger was unattended in a wheelchair at the time of the attack. His eyes were gouged out and his tongue almost entirely cut off. Barr stonewalled investigations and Trump dutifully played along.

On orders from the Cryptocracy, Epstein and Bulger were whacked while under Federal protection. Trump and Barr made certain there would be no repercussions for those who ordered the assassinations.

It is Populism that Threatens the Cryptocracy

The Cryptocracy does not fear Israeli zealot Trump so much as they fear a revival by his enthusiasts of a campaign that will outlive him, populism—the 20th century American movement that united Leftists, Conservatives and independents in a valiant struggle contra the Money Power. Illustrious populist fighters for the truth and the American people included Oklahoma Gov. William“Alfalfa Bill” Murray, U.S. Sen. Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin, Montana’s Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Minnesota Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., Sen. William Borah of Idaho, California Gov. Hiram Johnson, North Dakota Sen. Gerald Nye and publisher Robert R. McCormack. (Cf. Profiles in Populism)

Donald Trump: Zionism’s 100 Million Dollar man

November 2018: Trump bestows the Medal of Freedom on Miriam Adelson

In terms of Middle East foreign policy Trump’s betrayal is even more extreme. Miriam Adelson, a Right-wing mega-donor who is “fiercely hawkish on Israel,” has given Mr. Trump a “renewed assurance that the famous Adelson geyser of cash would erupt again on his behalf. Adelson is now fulfilling her promise, making moves to spend $100 million to help Mr. Trump’s third White House bid.”

She is the widow of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, also a fanatic on the subject of Zionism and a mega-donor to Trump’s campaign. He and Trump’s son-on-law Jared Kushner, shaped Trump’s Middle East policy, titling far to the Right in favor of the bandit state. “The Adelsons’ bond with Trump was etched in stone when his administration moved the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv: The Adelsons sat in the front row at the opening ceremony.”

According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz of June 3, “Trump is desperate for Miriam Adelson’s cash. She wants to be his biggest donor.” In return she wants Israeli sovereignty over the Palestinian lands of the West Bank.

She is poised to become one of the largest donors in the presidential election — and, if Mr. Trump wins, one of the most powerful private citizens with a say in American foreign policy. Mrs. Adelson is “one of the wealthiest women in the world. She is, in some ways, a political carbon copy of her husband: intensely pro-Israel, rabidly partisan, and a believer in…using her money, north of $30 billion, and her media empire, to buy influence and shape the world.”

Miriam Farbstein was born in Palestine in 1945 “and speaks fluent Israeli Hebrew, her English marked by a heavy Israeli accent. A former officer in the Israeli army, she spends most of her time these days not in her longtime home in Las Vegas, but in Israel, where she holds dual citizenship.”

She has the same rabbinic counselor— Shmuley Boteach (pronounced “Bo-tee-ah”)— as the late Michael Jackson, and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It was Rabbi “Boteach (who) introduced the Adelsons to Jared Kushner. Eventually the couple sat down with Mr. Trump himself in late 2015. Mr. Adelson found him ‘very charming,’ and over the next year, the couple would press him and Mr. Kushner about relocating the embassy.”

In 2020 the Adelsons put $90 million into a pro-Trump super PAC. Ike Perlmutter, a billionaire former chief executive of Marvel Entertainment, has himself started a pro-Trump super PAC.

Sources: “The Pro-Israel Donor With a $100 Million Plan to Elect Trump,” (New York Times, June 25); and “Trump is Desperate for Miriam Adelson’s Cash,” (Haaretz, June 3).

One doesn’t make America great again by supporting and bankrolling with our tax dollars the mass murder of women and children—whether it be aborted American babies, or bombed and shot Palestinian mothers and their kids in Gaza.

On election day in November I will be writing in the name of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a statesman and patriot who is everything Mr. Trump is not. With the utmost treachery, Trump has belittled Massie as “a third rate grandstander” who should be “thrown out of the Republican Party.”

Though much diminished, Biden remains a criminal mastermind, a terrible president and a worse human being. Yet I am loathe to trade one devil for a lesser one. We can’t cheat God. Every compromise with darkness leads our nation further into “the gall of bitterness of the bond of iniquity.” (Acts 8:23). Our Christian destiny is freedom, not bondage, and it can be accessed only through the “straight and narrow gate” (Matthew 7:13).     

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