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the lies we have lived through

friday, july 12th, 2024

After last Thursday’s debate, Biden himself laid to rest the Democratic lie that he was robust and in control of his faculties. In truth, he demonstrated to the nation that he is a sad, failing octogenarian who could not perform any job in America other than apparently the easy task of President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief in charge of our nuclear codes.

Things were bad, and they knew things were bad, and they knew others must also know things were bad, and yet they would need to pretend, outwardly, that things were fine. The president was fine. The election would be fine.

In 2019, Democratic primary candidates often hit rival Joe Biden for his apparent senior moments and incoherence. During the 2020 campaign, Biden often became in bizarre fashion animated and nasty (“you ain’t black”/“fat”/“lying dog-faced pony soldier”/“junkie”).

His “corn pop” stories were grotesque and had a senile accentuation of his earlier “super-predator” and “clean” black riffs. As president, his mental decline progressed geometrically, in the sense that every three months, Biden became far, far worse than during the prior 90 days. His handlers long ago had determined that masking his feebleness at the expense of the security and safety of the nation was a small price to pay to retain power.

What followed was the most comprehensive deceit in presidential history, analogous to insisting that frail and dying FDR in 1944 was just fine as the November election approached or that Woodrow Wilson was expertly running the country as he lay bedridden and near comatose.

Any who questioned the vigorous Biden narrative was trashed as “ageist.” Special counsel Robert Hur was dubbed a “hack” for accurately describing Biden as so amnesiac he would win nullification acquittal from a sympathetic jury.

An array of court sycophants periodically gave interviews, insisting that the robust Biden was smarter and wiser than ever. His press secretary, Karin Jean-Pierre, helped coin a new slur, “cheap fake,” for any who collated video and audio clips demonstrating that Biden was obviously non compos mentis. Would she say the same today after the about-face CNN panelists reviewed Biden’s serial debate lapses to support their now-opportune advocacy that he not run for reelection? Would she wish to be a passenger in a car driven by Biden?

In sum, the “dynamic Biden” farce was finally laid to rest by a debate, but not before it had served the original leftist Faustian bargain. Under the guise of COVID, an enfeebled and stationary Biden outsourced his entire 2020 campaign to toady journalists and surrogate politicians.

His task was to pose from his basement as the uniter, ‘good ol’ Joe from Scranton,’ serving as the pseudo-moderate veneer for the most far left agenda in recent history. In the bargain, Joe and Jill enjoyed the privileges of power and status, while they farmed out the presidency to an array of former Obama subordinates and the hard left of what is left of the old Democratic Party.

The useful lie continued throughout his presidency, escalating in direct proportion to Joe’s mounting stumbles, brain freezes, rambling, and incomprehensible speech. When our president said something either outrageous or unfathomable, the public was to assume that it was intemperate to attribute his failures to senility.

So, the nation became acculturated to deciphering about 60 percent of what he said and writing off the rest to his never-to-be-spoken-of disability. It was the cognitive bookend to the ruse that FDR was able to stand and walk—although far worse because being wheel-chair bound is not a limitation for a president, whereas cognitive incapacity of Biden’s magnitude most certainly is.

The Biden lie was the crown jewel of a number of other left-wing/media fabrications. The more they spread, the more they seemed absurd, and the more they were refuted—so all the more others took their place and the more their promulgators never apologized but simply moved on to their next one. The common denominator was that all the lies, during their existence, were useful to the progressive project.

The Russian collusion hoax helped lose Trump the 2016 popular vote. Its resumption during his presidency ate up 22 months of his administration during the Special Counsel Robert Mueller farce.

The October surprise laptop disinformation lie may have cost Trump the 2020 election. But it was concocted so that Joe Biden could stare at the debate camera and swear to the American people that Trump was a liar, citing “51 intelligence authorities” who insisted Hunter Biden’s laptop was a likely hallmark of Russian disinformation.

We were asked to believe that clever Russian disinformationists fabricated all the sick photos and selfies of poor Hunter, knew the Biden family’s intimate tensions and fault lines as evidenced in the computer’s texts and emails, and were able to package and deposit the computer to either a Russian operative masquerading as a computer repairment or have it delivered to the supposedly useful idiot. The truth was, the FBI had the laptop during the debate and had long verified its authenticity—and thus kept mum as its brethren intelligence apparatchiks lied to the nation.

What the untruth did not fully reveal was that Biden’s campaign foreign policy guru, Antony Blinken (the current Secretary of State), cooked up the entire ruse. He enlisted former CIA grandee Mike Morell, who then rounded up on spec the confessed lying duo of John Brennan and James Clapper, who in turn drafted still more deceivers, among them the once esteemed Leon Panetta.

And the lie worked perfectly as envisioned, far better than even Russian “collusion.” The nation was deceived into believing that the “asset” Trump was reduced once again to colluding with Putin to enlist his former KGB soldiers to smear the upright Biden family and thus warp yet another election.

Note that all these lies were never retracted. No one ever apologizes. No one is ever punished, even when the lie is given under oath. No one ever has any regrets. And no one ever has any hesitation to lie again, given the utility of the prior untruth.

We were told by the deceitful Alejandro Mayorkas that the border was “secure” as he deliberately destroyed it and welcomed in over 10 million illegal aliens. That lie survived even the absurdity of years of nightly news clips (“cheap fakes?”) of thousands swarming an open border. And it died only when the 2024 election approached and the Biden administration read polls showing that a vast majority wanted the border closed and illegal entrants deported. Then suddenly, the lie that the border was secure transmogrified into the back-up lie that “Republicans would not help us close the now-insecure border.” Translated into Orwellian terms, the border that was crossed by 10 million was always secure but could have been made even more secure had Republicans joined Democrats to secure what was already “secure.”

We live in an era of lies. Sometimes they are purely political, like the Charlottesville “both sides” yarn. And sometimes they change history, like the fabrications that bats and pangolins, not the communist Chinese Wuhan virology lab, birthed the COVID-19 virus, or the Anthony Fauci contortion that his offices did not fund and help out, stealthily and in circumvention of U.S. law, deadly gain-of-function virology research in communist China.

Yet another lie was institutionalized: the January 6 riot was a full-fledged, carefully planned armed insurrection to overthrow the government. In contrast, the four months in 2020 of killing, assault, arson, and looting that saw over 35 dead, 1,500 injured law enforcement officers, $2 billion in damage, and a federal courthouse, a police precinct and a historic church torched were “cries of the heart” from the oppressed and victimized.

Those untruths ensured that hundreds of mostly naïve protestors who showed up in the capitol soon became convicted felons serving long sentences, while the 14,000 arrested for the 2020 mayhem were mostly released as overzealous but otherwise sympathetic activists.

These lies changed the course of the nation. They are birthed by the incestuous marriage of a Washington-New York political culture and a corrupt media.

The purveyors are Juvenal’s “who will police the police.” They are the administrative overseers in the FBI, CIA, DOJ, and the various cabinets and agencies. They feel they are exempt from any consequences for the damage they do, given that in their day jobs they operate as judges, jury and executioners.

Finally, while all governments lie, the left is far more adroit at it because, in their any-means-necessary/the-ends-justify-the-means credo, they spread supposedly good “lies” that stop the Hitlerian Trump, neuter the creepy deplorables/irredeemables/chumps/clingers or save the good people from the MAGA anti-vaxers and assorted yahoos.

Will the lies continue?

Indeed, they will thrive until the people slash the administrative state of its unaccountable and unelected “experts”; until they indict those in the future like Andrew McCabe, James Clapper, John Brennan and their brethren who lie under oath or to federal investigators; until they ostracize and utterly discredit those like Mayorkas, Fauci, and the Bidens whose deceptions took hostage an entire nation; and until they tune out a bankrupt media, the power cord of the entire Pravda enterprise.

A Day In The Life.

Up at 6:15a on Friday, I went thru my finger stick to check my BSL (Blood Sugar Level) and recorded it on my Diabetes 2 chart, made coffee and held-off on breakfast, took two 50mg Tramadol and a 300mg Gabapentin for various pains, fired-up the Win-7 Pro x64 Pentium HP desktop to let 32 million lines of code load, had a couple smokes in the sauna-like garage and checked the leftover errands list. Just a stop at Rite Aid to p/u several waiting Rxs, and maybe to Weis Market for a couple things until next week's food shopping trip.

It was already a VERY humid, much too warm 78° (for me) and my lungs were complaining about 65% humidity. It's now forecast to hit 99° and a Heat Index of 110°+. Showers and t-storms were forecast for later today. I scanned the news and more weather sites, and the morning's first mug of Hawaiian Kona Coffee was great. Uh-oh, I know it's going to be an ugly day (for me), when I see this kind of warning posted in the early morning:

★★★ HEAT ADVISORY! ★★★

• WHAT: Hot and humid conditions with heat index values up to 110° expected.
• WHEN: From noon today to 8 PM EDT this evening.
• WHERE: A portion of south central Pennsylvania including the Lower Susquehanna Valley.
• IMPACTS: Hot and humid conditions may cause heat-related illnesses.
• ADDITIONAL DETAILS: Drink plenty of water and use air conditioning or go to air conditioned spaces..

I tuned into the "Chris Stigall Show LIVE" (CS Show) from 6-9a, then the "Chris Plante Show LIVE" (CP Show) 9-12noon, and after opening Thunderbird Email, began to sift thru the Biden Re-Election Shit I'm being deluged with. Someone signed me up for their mailings. Once I tag each one as "Junk", they go to Trash and are flushed. I had some Bacon, Egg & Cheese Toast for breakfast, made a second carafe of Kona Coffee, and stayed inside until 11:30, then left for two errands.

Ironic that "they're" still trying to put Trump into prison, but "they're" now trying to put Biden into Autumn House. We KNOW who "they" are. -- JS

Traffic was surprisingly light, as all road construction was absent for the July 4th Holiday, so I got thru all that and back home by 1:15p. It was 90° and climbing, so except for the occasional smoke, I stayed inside all afternoon, grabbed a 2½hr snooze on the LR couch, had dinner, and watched Discovery's "Gold Rush" until 11. As predicted, the news was all about the mentally defective, senile, shit-for-brains Bidet&Co, so I bagged it early.

Sleeping-in until 8:30a on Saturday, it was already 84° and another, even worse ***HEAT ADVISORY!*** forecast to hit 99°, breaking records for the date. (((SIGH))) Sucks to be me, as I have to get watering done on the back patio. Heh. I had terrible Sciatica R/S back/hip/buttock/leg severe pain as soon as my feet hit the floor, upon getting out of bed. OUCH. After trying to walk it off, I took two 50mg Tramadol -- just got it refilled yesterday at Rite Aid -- and that helped a little. I have some 250mg Bayer Aspirin ready-to go, if it doesn't ameliorate it. I made coffee, opened the garage door to get some fresh air, had a couple smokes, fed the squirrels/birds, and will keep the condo closed-up today, and maintain it at a dry, cool 72°. No rain in sight until sometime late next week, on the 'third day of never'.

Here's the Holiday Violence Death Toll, so far. Sad.

Ever wonder where some of US Taxpayers' hard-earned monies, stolen by our own US Govt, and given to the corrupt criminal Ukraine (Zelensky) Govt, are actually going? Listen to this 6min video, by a Ukrainian News Reporter. My BP boils over when I listen to where the so far, $230 BILLION!) -- $230,000,000,000+ -- has gone.

I made scratch Hollandaise Sauce and steamed 2lbs of fresh Steamed Asparagus w/ Hollandaise, and had some for lunch. By 2:30p, temps had hit 97° and it was a sweltering 62% humidity, making a 106° Heat Index feel. I cut smoking breaks back to 1 per hour, and even then, it was almost too hot. By 6p, temps had dropped to 93°, but humidity was still high, and I resumed smoking breaks in the garage, after watering the back patio plants for 20-25mins. I watched the weekend news -- more BS about Lunch Bucket Joe vacating the WH -- and very little about US and world news. FNC is disappointing. I switched to Discovery's "Expedition Unknown" and History's "The unXplained" thru the evening. Lights out at 12 midnight.

Up at 7:30a on Sunday, a partly sunny, bright and humid, 78° morning, forecast to again hit a sweltering 93°. I'll be staying inside, once again. And the week ahead is going to be ugly, too. I made coffee, had a smoke in the very warm garage, fired-up the HP desktop, scanned the weather and news sites. No *HEAT ADVISORY* posted, yet. The West & Southwest have it a lot worse than we do. The F1 British Grand Prix, at the legendary Silverstone racetrack, came on at 10a, and finished at 11:30. I headed upstairs for a shave and shower, as usual.

This site keeps track of the shootings/murders/rapes, robberies etc done by feral, ghetto rat, demonKKKrats, so we don't have to. Nice.

Well, ChiCongo's had a wonderful July 4th Holiday weekend: at least 105 shot, 19 fatally citywide. Natch.

Ironic that "they're" still trying to put Trump into prison, but "they're" now trying to put Biden into Autumn House. We now KNOW who "they" are. -- JS

After lunch, I worked on condo chores, and moved the recycle bin to the curb, Sherry stopped by for 3hrs, and we had a wonderful time, as usual. After she left at 7:30p, I had some dinner, a rerun of the F1 British GP, Discovery's "Ancient Aliens" episodes of the past few week that I'd missed, and bagged it at 11:30. Busy day tomorrow.

Up at 7:30a on Monday, another very warm and humid 78°, sunny morning, with ***HEAT ADVISORY*** for 98°, with Heat Index of 104°+. Hey, it's Summer in the Mid-Atlantic area; get used to it! I made coffee, tuned into the "CS Show LIVE" for a short while, and moved on to the "CP Show LIVE", until 12noon. I left for Red Lion, Dallastown and points south of East York, to get 3 errands done, as is my usual schedule. 954° and traffic was light, so I made the round trip in good time. Anyone with a functioning brain is staying out of the deadly heat.

★★★ AIR QUALITY ALERT! ★★★

• WHAT: The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has issued a Code ORANGE Air Quality Alert on Tuesday for the Susquehanna Valley.
• WHen: IS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY -- TUESDAY JULY 9.
• WARNING: A Code ORANGE Air Quality Alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region may become unhealthy for sensitive groups. Sensitive groups include children, people suffering from asthma, heart disease or other lung diseases, and the elderly. The effects of air pollution can be minimized by avoiding strenuous activity or exercise outdoors. .
• WHERE: A portion of south central Pennsylvania including the Lower Susquehanna Valley.
• IMPACTS: Hot and humid conditions may cause heat-related illnesses.
• ADDITIONAL DETAILS: For more information on ground-level ozone and fine particles, visit Local Air Quality Info and Pennsylvania Air Quality Partnership.

112° on the back patio -- not going out there until later -- 96° elsewhere thru the afternoon, so I closed down the condo and grabbed some couch nap time for a few hours. Back up around 7:30p, I had some dinner, watched the news and "History's Greatest Mysteries" until 12 midnight. Lights out.

Up at 5:45a on Tuesday, I made coffee, fired-up the HP desktop, had some smokes in the garage and fed the squirrels (and Bluejays), 75° and still very humid, forecast to hit 98°, a Heat Index value of 106°, with a ***HEAT ADVISORY*** posted on the many weather sites. Shit. JoAnne, my cleaning lady, was due to arrive at 8:30, so I got ready for the day, kept fasting since my BSL was over 200, and continued listening to the "CS Show LIVE" until 9. She arrived early and got to work. I had the "CP Show LIVE" on by 9a, and took less frequent smoking breaks, due to the oppressive heat/humidity. Just awful out there.

Here's why I like and drink so much Coffee as I do.

For years, I've occasionally said that "Michelle" Obummer is really Big Mike Obummer; watch this video. Our next "president" to replace confused, senile, Ol' Lunch Bucket Joe? God help us all!

While JoAnne cleaned, I scanned the news and weather headlines. Wow, TS Beryl is causing serious havoc and damage to Texas. And lots of tornadoes coming along with the TS. TS Beryl, which could offer some relief and rain, moved north, but took a right turn at Lake Michigan, scooted over Lake Erie and headed to New England. Damn. Goodbye, John Deere; sad to see you leave America.

The air temp hit 97°, with 106° on my back patio. The humidity was beyond mere 'weltering'. The garage was almost as hot, but I kept the door open, used the oscillating tower fan to move some air. I've tried to repair 3 chew-holes in my front garden's above ground 25ft/oscillating sprinkler's water hose, but it's so hot, the adhesive won't set-up. The squirrels/field mice or whatever critter is doing the damage, smell the water in the hose, and chew thru to get it, in this drought and heat. No use in getting another hose, just now. I have a great under-the-mulch drip irrigation system that runs every morning from 1-2a, and I'll have to continue to let that operate on its timer, and forgo any more hose, since the critters will just chew it up again.

After dinner, I watched the news, and History's "Secret of Skinwalker Ranch" until 11:30, and bagged it for the night.

Awake and up at 6a on Wednesday -- WTH didn't I go back to sleep? -- I made coffee, had a couple smokes in the very warm/humid garage, already 81° and forecast to hit 96°, with a (BS) Heat Index of 110°, I fired-up the HP desktop and tuned into the "CS Show LIVE" until 9. Not much headline news, and some possible t-storms or this afternoon, which we desperately need. Here's a good laugh, for the hour/day/week/month! I never tire of watching it.

After breakfast, I listened to Talk Radio until Sherry arrived around 1p, we drove to Flinchbaugh's Orchard & Farm Market, got boxes and bags full of goodies, and cam back to my place to talk for a while. After some wonderful hugs and kisses, she left around 5, and I had computer work and paperwork to do until the news at 6. A ***SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING*** was posted, but we only got a 15min downpour and nice gentle shower. I had dinner, watched the evening news, and switched to Discovery's "Full Custom Garage" until 12:30a, and quit for the night.

Up at 8:30a on Thursday, a cloudy, 76°, not-as-humid morning, forecast to only get to 89°, with showers. Tomorrow, thru the weekend and all next week, we're back into the humid, mid-90s, so today's brief respite is to enjoy. I made coffee, had a smoke in the garage, fed the squirrels, and tuned into the "CP Show LIVE". The whole "Heat Index" thing is crap, so I won't be using that anymore, despite all of the weather operations' websites displaying it. I scanned some news headlines and weather sites, had a 2nd carafe of coffee, and held-off on breakfast until later.

Never underestimate the destructive power of a stubborn old narcissist with something to prove.

$5 says Lunch Bucket, Shit-For-Brains Joey Bidet& Co won't get thru this news conference, tonite at (now rescheduled) 6:30p, without major FUs. I might watch... or I might not. Meh. I left at 12:15p to get some waiting Rxs at Rite Aid, and a quick stop by Weis Market, to get some Gold Peak Tea in 6-paks. It looked like rain, all day, and the 92° temp didn't materialize, so it was a semi-decent day.

Back at 2p, I unloaded, had some lunch, did some condo chores and hit the LR couch for a short snooze. I woke-up 5 hours later, at 9p! Holy crap! Missing Bidet's "Big Boy" news conference, I read about the disaster. Not unsurprising, but sad that this is happening to America. Bidet would be the easiest for Trump to beat on Nov 5th, but it's cruel to both America and him to let this go on any further. It's "elder abuse", plain and simple. After watching NEWSMAX, FNC and CNN recaps of the Biudet Disaster for several hours, I quit for the night at 11:30p.

Tomorrow starts another week here in the "Journal", and aside from the usual things, it's a clear one again for me, so far. Goody.

Woke Churches Continue To Spread Their Poison And Infect The Next Generation.

In the book of Jeremiah, we are reminded of the dangers of people pretending to speak for God when, in fact, they are spreading lies.

Jeremiah 14:14: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries, and the delusions of their own minds.”

One such recent example is Presbyterian Pastor Rebecca Todd Peters, who preached that if Jesus were giving his Sermon on the Mount today, he might add, “Blessed are those who end pregnancies, for they will be known for their loving kindness.”

Peters is on a mission to shift the Christian paradigm that abortion is not only not sinful but a good and moral thing to do. She of course serves on the Clergy Advocacy Board of Planned Parenthood and often wears her Planned Parenthood stole when giving sermons. Peters ironically serves as co-moderator of the Faith and Order study for the World Council of Churches on Moral Discernment in the Churches.

She will often begin her messages by detailing her own reproductive history, readily volunteering that at 55, she is married, has two children, and has undergone two abortions.

“I felt God’s presence with me as I made the decision to end two pregnancies, and I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin,” she told the congregation in Chapel Hill. “A forced pregnancy or birth is not holy.”

She went on to tell the Community Church of Chapel Hill: “Abortion is a moral good. Abortion is an act of love. Abortion is an act of grace,” and finally: “Abortion is a blessing.”

One wonders if church discipline still exists where rogue preachers can be reeled in by those higher up in the church body. However, this is the same denomination that just warned about the dangers of Christian support for Israel at its annual convention last month, suggesting such support was heretical. Heretical for believing God’s promises to restore the nation of Israel and defend itself against Islamist murderers?

This denomination decided long ago that they would switch out the Word of God for progressive causes such as reproductive justice, same sex marriage, drag queen storytime in the church and anti-Israel teachings. They are the perfect example of a woke church and thankfully as a result of it’s teaching this denomination is dying fast.

In fact so many Presbyterians have left the church that it is estimated the church could die out in two more generations. In the meantime however, they are causing terrible damage to the body of Christ.

Not to be outdone, the Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines of University Christian Church in San Diego recently dressed up in Star Wars attire and declared to his congregation (with pride rainbow colors placed all over the pulpit) that Star Wars is compatible with the theology of Jesus. “God is that which is within us and all around us … The Spirit of God … is within you and around you, just like The Force, you see?

… I’ve learned to see God less as a divine being and more as a source of connection.”

This theology of God simply being a force should not be too surprising after also declaring during church announcements that “We have actual Holy Week, we have the Theology of Broadway, and we have PRIDE, and those are big seasons here.”

Equating Pride celebrations with Holy Week and the theology of Broadway? He didn’t elaborate on the theology of Broadway, but it would be a stretch to suggest it aligned with scripture in any form.

Finally, we have the United Church of Canada, which last month dedicated a worship service to exegeting the “Progress Pride” flag for Pride Month and got some of the children in the “church” to participate in the recitation.

You will probably experience both anger and sadness as you watch the clip below and witness this “Christian Churche” brainwashing the next generation into LGBT indoctrination. 2nd Peter Chapter 3 warns us that in the last days there will be those who have the appearance of godliness but lack the power of the Holy Spirit. From such places, we are to turn away.

Watch the service below:

Apologist Ken Ham, in response to the rise of wokeness in the church, recently said this:

“What a state the ‘woke church’ is in! Well, the ‘woke church’ is not the true church. Compromise with the world and the thinking of today abounds.

Now, these compromises are very obvious—the lies are right out in the open, and the majority of Christians can see them for what they are: deceptions from the enemy. But most compromise is much more subtle (and the ‘in-your-face’ compromise usually starts out with subtlety). Christians need to be equipped to recognize and answer this subtle compromise, keeping their thinking aligned with God and His Word.”

Terrified Dems have dystopian theory about real reason for keeping ailing Biden, 81, in power -- as shocking new claims about his decline emerge.

Top Democrats are so alarmed about Joe Biden's ailing health some fear a shadowy cabal is keeping him in power so they can pull levers behind the scenes, it is claimed.

The astonishing theory was detailed in the liberal New York magazine. Its reporter Olivia Nuzzi revealed that even Democrat elites are stumped as to how and why the fast-declining 81 year-old is being allowed to continue his re-election bid.

Nuzzi said she had heard questions being posed by high-ranking Democrats on the east and west coasts about whether Biden is a puppet whose strings are being pulled by another group of secretive Democrats.

She highlighted the irony that this is the same theory espoused by many on the MAGA right, with Donald Trump himself previously alleging that former President Barack Obama is the real power behind the Biden White House.

Explaining the strange convergence in beliefs between Biden and Trump supporters, Nuzzi said: 'Nothing else made sense. They were in full agreement.'

This theory that a cabal was controlling Biden parallels a similar idea pushed by Trump that Barack Obama is actually calling the shots

At a New Hampshire event earlier this week, the former president said: 'It’s never been worse than it is now under crooked Joe Biden, and frankly, his boss, Barack Hussein Obama. I think it’s his boss.'

There's no evidence to suggest Obama is effectively serving a secret third term as president.

But the fact that such theories are now being openly-discussed in liberal circles and amplified by a left-leaning magazine highlights just how much panic has erupted over Biden's fitness to govern.

And with Nuzzi revealing that top-flight Democrats are among those concerned, Biden is only likely to face more pressure to quit.

The left-wing conspiracy of silence was effectively ended by last week's disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, where Biden repeatedly floundered. Nuzzi went on to highlight Biden's constant reliance on teleprompters to tell him what to say. He even needs one at small, intimate gatherings like a fundraiser for 50 rich donors held at New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy's home last Saturday, she revealed.

Devastatingly, Nuzzi said the president's voice and sentences often 'dissolve' into an 'incoherent gurgle.'

Nuzzi added that Biden approached the lectern with a 'stiff gait' and despite large speakers surrounding the place, the president was still difficult to hear.

The press scrum that had formed to cover the event were left to exchange their own notes in an attempt to decipher just exactly he had said.

Concerns had reportedly started swirling around Biden's fitness to continue in office as early as January of this year.

Nuzzi reported that Democratic officials, activists and donors made their concerns clear with each other, but only in whispers.

She said they did so amid fears that admitting everything was not fine would jeopardize the future of the country. That is because nobody wanted to be responsible for helping get a resurgent Trump re-elected for a second term.

One die-hard Democrat was stunned to realize Biden was too frail to make it through an entire White House reception, Nuzzi said. The unnamed bigwig is then said to have realized that it may have been premature to dismiss theories about Biden's fitness for office as right-wing propaganda.

Some of Joe Biden's friends and top supporters are also shocked at his behavior and controlling inner circle.

According to anonymous sources close to the president who spoke to the Intelligencer, the president is forgetting the names of old friends and is easily manipulated by close confidants like his wife and top aides.

At a recent event, the president was pulled in to say hello to a Democratic mega-donor and long-time friend.

He is said to have forgotten that person's name, with First Lady Jill Biden forced to whisper a greeting into the president's ear, which he then dutifully repeated.

Nuzzi was told that Biden is being shielded by ever-growing layers of bureaucracy that have made it harder and harder for people to reach him - often on important official matters.

Many are speculating the red tape is being used as a means to try and prevent people from learning the truth about Biden's health and wellbeing.

After getting an up-close audience with the president, Nuzzi found Biden having unnaturally dilated pupils and an awkward stare after having not seen him in months.

'Under artificial light and in the sunshine, he took on an unnatural gleam,' she wrote.

'He looked, well, inflated. His eyes were half-shut or open very wide. They appeared darker than they once had, his pupils dilated. He did not blink at regular intervals.'

The writer said that while Biden was looking at her, his eyes did not appear to be 'on.'

Nuzzi said Biden's widely-rumored cosmetic surgery - said to include facelifts and eyelifts - are part of the reason for his distorted appearance. But she believes that his disturbing demeanor were the result of covered-up health issues and not distortions caused by a surgeon's scalpel.

She wrote how Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky - both 82 - are old.

Still, she concedes that Biden is 'something not of this earth.'

Similarly, in April of this year Nuzzi joined a queue of people to get a photo with Biden and the First Lady.

Nuzzi revealed that her and Dr. Biden had maintained a somewhat close relationship over the years.

But she said that on seeing her and realizing who she was, Jill gave a 'panicked' expression.

The implication appears to be that Jill knew how badly her husband had declined dramatically since she'd last seen Nuzzi - and that she was worried the journalist would see it too.

And while concerns started to be raised on social media after official videos shows the president staring into space without blinking, the White House refused to engage when questioned by it.

The press office blamed it on his political enemies on the right pushing what they described as 'cheap fakes'

Following that event in April, Nuzzi said some reporters had indulged in a bad taste joke about 'how dead' the president appeared to be, with one unnamed journalist guessing '40 percent.' It's unclear if any of the participants were writers for liberal outlets since accused of helping shield the truth about Biden's health.

Biden is said to privately concede that he may well have to bow out in favor of a younger Democrat candidate to take on a surging Trump as a make-or-break weekend approaches.

He is giving an interview to ABC News on Friday night and has two campaign stops this weekend. If those fail to impress, Biden could decide to throw in the towel as early as next week, it is claimed.

On Wednesday, Biden assured campaign staff on a call that despite mounting calls for him to stand down he remains in the 2024 race for the presidency.

He said: 'Let me say this as clearly as I possibly can as simply and straightforward as I can: I am running - no one's pushing me out. I'm not leaving. I'm in this race to the end and we're going to win.'

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also told reporters during her briefing on Wednesday that Biden is not preparing to exit the race.

Jean-Pierre, spent the best part of an hour being grilled on the President's health and confirmed that while he still has a cold, he hasn't seen a doctor.

Jean-Pierre claimed 'jet lag' from his two back-to-back international trips 12 days before the debate contributed to the president's poor showing.

Despite the fighting talk however, Biden on Thursday described himself as being a black woman during a radio interview.

He stumbled over his words during Thursday's interview with Philadelphia's WURD, seemingly mixing himself up with his Vice President Kamala Harris.

'By the way, I'm proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman... to serve with a black president. Proud to be involved of the first black woman on the Supreme Court. There's so much that we can do because, look... we're the United States of America.'

Biden appears to have been referring to Vice President Kamala Harris, but the flub could not have happened at a worse time. He also referred to Trump as being a 'former colleague' when going off-script Thursday as he tried to insert a jab at the former President

'By the way, you know I was at that World War I cemetery in France and a - the one that one of our colleagues, a former president, didn't want to go and be up there,' Biden said. 'I probably shouldn't even say that. Anyway,' he continued, his voice going low.

At another point in the speech he again said, 'by the way.'

'I've been all over the world,' he said, his voice dropping to a mumble. 'I've been in and out of battles, anyway. You're incredible,' he told the military members and their families gathered on the South Lawn.

It has also since emerged that Biden acknowledged that he needs to get more sleep and wants to limit evening events so he can turn in earlier to be rested for the job,.

One person said the president joked that his health was fine, it was his brain that had challenges.

Biden will be traveling to Madison, Wisconsin on Friday where he will sit down with ABC News for his first post-debate interview.

The President will then head to a campaign stop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sunday.

Both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are key swing states that will help determine the outcome of the 2024 race.

In those states and the five other battlegrounds, Trump has pulled ahead in polling following their debate in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, June 27.

Since the debate, Biden and his team have conducted widespread damage control and reached out to reassure party members, staff, lawmakers, donors, allies and voters that Biden is still a viable candidate that can beat Trump again.

But many within the party are looking for other options and are floating those like Vice President Kamala Harris, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

None are able to beat Trump in nationwide and battleground state polling and all fall behind Biden in his chances of winning against the former president.