It is one thing for someone to lie and another to develop a pathological condition that produces perpetual fabrications, distortions, and misrepresentations.  It is one thing for an individual who has no political clout or authority to do so, but it is dangerous for those in positions of power.

I sometimes wonder if only pathological liars run for political office.  Yes, that is using a broad brush and painting everyone with the same stereotypical stripe.  No, I do not believe every politician is a pathological liar, but far too many are in this age we live.

I have reached the place where nothing that comes out of Joe Biden’s mouth surprises me.  I do not know if it is simply being a pathological liar or diminished brain function that causes him to tell his whoppers.  I tend to think it is the former since he has always done this for his five decades in politics.  Therefore, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it just might be a duck, applies to Joe Biden.

He made a speech some time back addressing mental health.  That is almost ironic, but I don’t want to go there.  He said something everyone should have challenged, but the media let it slide.   He said: “One of the things I’m always asked is why Americans have sort of lost faith for a while in being able to do big things. If you could do anything at all, Joe, what would you do? I said I’d cure cancer. They looked at me like why cancer? Because no one thinks we can. That’s why, and we can. We ended cancer as we know it,” the president declared.”

He was perplexed that a broken arm and a mental breakdown were treated differently and said, “There is no distinction” between the two in his mind.  That screams of a loss of contact with reality and reason—no distinction between a broken arm and a mental breakdown.  Anyone who has experienced or been near those knows that there is a dramatic difference.  But Old Joe, who ended cancer as we know it, is unable to make that distinction.  I have to wonder if his claim of ending cancer as we know it has some hidden meaning.

Focusing solely on Joe Biden is not my intent, but his cognitive decline and propensity to abuse the truth are key elements in our political environment.  It would take more space than we have available to walk through several blunders that individually might not suggest a diminished mental state but collectively do.  His mental lapses are so frequent that they appear non-stop.

 It is part of the political animal to accuse the other side of what you are doing, and Biden did just that with regard to Social Security and Medicare.  He claimed that Republicans were gutting the programs when the truth is that his actions are hurting millions by targeting Medicare Advantage. 

Through Biden, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that they were going to claw back $4.7 billion from 2023 through 2032 in overpayments.  I am not opposed to that idea.  The problem is that it will escalate the cost for people who are already in a financially strapped condition.  It will reduce benefits and increase costs.  It is not the Republicans but Biden who initiated that.  Under this move, Medicare Advantage insurers will face an average of 2.3% cut to baseline payments in 2024.  I am not necessarily arguing that the action is not needed but that he continues to lie about who is doing what.

Biden and the Democrats insist that spending at the insane rate is necessary and that the economy is doing splendidly.  I cannot fathom that even a first-year economics major would not realize that no nation can sustain spending $1.7 trillion more than the annual revenue and survive.  

The national federal debt is around $34 trillion, 1.2 times the GDP.  Biden is calling for $17 trillion in additional debt over the next decade.  That means our national debt will climb about 4.2% per annum, and the national debt will soar to $50 trillion or more in ten years!  That is disastrous, but who do they blame? The GOP, of course?  There is only so much other people’s money that can be confiscated to continue the insane spending. 

Tim Kane, the former Vice-Presidential candidate on the Hillary Clinton ticket, advanced the idea that it was OK for the FBI to place informants in churches.  Informants?  He was in favor of the FBI planting people in churches to identify extremism.  Of course, extremism is anything that disagrees with the WOKE, Politically Correct, Leftist agenda.  The claim was that this would protect Americans from ‘white supremacy.’   The basis of that claim was that Catholics who preferred the Latin Mass were advancing ‘white supremacy.’ 

The outright lies by the Director of the FBI and other high-level agents reveal that the agency has become a Super Pac for the Democrats and is a weaponized arm of propaganda targeting political opponents.  They celebrated Pride Month while targeting Catholics as domestic terrorists.  What many feared would transpire under J. Edgar Hoover has become a reality under Biden.  The FBI has become weaponized and the strong arm of those seeking to impose a tyrannical government on us. 

Let me insert something that may sound like an aside but is germane.  The increase in Artificial Intelligence (AI) usage is producing some disturbing realities and admissions.   The algorithms used enable the prediction of a person’s political ideology by analyzing their facial characteristics.  That is a short step from predicting a crime they might commit in the future and preemptively arresting them for the crime.

With the push for globalism and control, the United Nations has introduced an ‘automated fact-checking tool’ to combat what they deem misinformation.  What is misinformation?  It is anything that is out of step with the approved rhetoric of globalism.  Their desire is to have a global government system where the laws and constitutions of sovereign nations would be subservient to the edicts of that global governing body.   The Bible has something to say about that, which is not a good result.

The Declaration of Independence declares our recognition that “all men are created equal.”  That statement flows from the belief that people are free to do whatever they want so long as it does not infringe upon the inalienable rights of others.  Even without a law forbidding murder, one cannot arbitrarily kill another because that would deny their right to life.  Since people have difficulty controlling their passions, governments were formed to cull those passions and provide an avenue for people to live together in peace.

We live in a world where our government has morphed into an activist’s haven for the agenda of toxic liberalism.  The glaring disparity between the prosecutions of those rioting and looting and the January 6 participants’ screams of a judiciary and government that has ceased functioning Constitutionally.  The targeting of Trump while ignoring Hillary and Joe Biden is a glaring example of the hypocrisy and weaponization of the courts.

We live in a period where lies are more prevalent than truth and honesty.  Politicians have realized they can lie with impunity and use projectionism to achieve their goals and win elections.  Once in office, they either go full bore in advancing the toxic agenda or seek to line their personal coffers with financial gain.  America is no longer the focus of politicians.  The Constitution is meaningless to them.  Lies are the norm, and the truth is scarcer than a hen’s teeth.  God help us!

I pray for America and all its citizens that we will return to God and moral sanity, creating a condition that God can bless us again!