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Democrats’ new way forward, one lie at a time
Who cares about truth when you're spreading so much joy?

Democrats' joy and lies illustration by Greg Groesch / The
Washington Times

By Robert Knight - Friday, August 23, 2024
OPINION:

The lies were thick and fast all week at the Democratic National
Convention, but never so blatantly as they were in Vice President Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech.

The Democratic presidential nominee accused her opponent, former
President Donald Trump, of wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare
(he has not); being weak on border enforcement (he had it under control
before President Biden and Ms. Harris took office) and sending an “armed mob” to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (they weren’t armed).

She also promised in true Marxist fashion a “new way forward,” as if she were not part of the current regime, which has pushed collectivism,
caused economic misery, stoked racial animus and signaled weakness to
our enemies.

She apparently thought it was cute to cite her mother’s admonition not
to go about things “half-assed.”

How about full-bore, scorched-earth Marxism? This includes blowing pixie
dust at “the middle class,” the hapless taxpayers that Democrats profess
to love while looting them.

Speaking of Marxists, former first lady Michelle Obama, whose net worth
is somewhere north of $70 million, employed class envy and other
divisive memes. She accused Mr. Trump of pushing “ugly, misogynistic,
racist lies” and of “demonizing” children. She was talking about the sexually confused minors that progressive Democrats are drugging and sterilizing. Mr. Trump has said he will put an end to this evil quackery.

The biggest lie we’ve been told for the past 3½ years was that Mr. Biden
was sharp as a tack, that his age was irrelevant.

Before the coup toppled him as the presumed nominee, Democratic elites
and their media were all in.

In February, the cat was out of the bag. Special counsel Robert Hur said
Mr. Biden misappropriated classified documents, but that he would not
prosecute him because a jury would see him as “a sympathetic,
well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”

Ouch. So the Democrats sprang into action, swearing to Mr. Biden’s
sharpness. This one is my favorite:

Mitch Landrieu, a former senior adviser to Mr. Biden who co-chaired his reelection campaign, said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that “this kind of sense that he’s not ready for this job is just a bucket of BS. It’s
so deep [that] your boots will get stuck under.”

With what we know now, Mr. Landrieu must be walking around barefoot, his
boots still under that bucket. He and everybody around Mr. Biden had
covered up his condition for years, including Ms. Harris.

So it was rich to see Democrats at the convention ridicule Mr. Trump for
his age, as if he were as frail and mentally compromised as Mr. Biden.

Former President Bill Clinton, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and TV magnate Oprah Winfrey all mocked
Mr. Trump’s age.

They did so while insisting that “their ticket is the one focusing on
joy and uplifting the nation,” The Washington Post wrote in a
surprisingly candid front-page story last Thursday.

Part of that uplift was a Planned Parenthood truck outside the event
providing free abortion pills and vasectomies. Democrats know joy when
they see it — killing babies and sterilizing men to save the planet.

The Post piece included this about Hillary Clinton: “‘Let’s cut to the chase. I am too old to gild the lily,’ Ms. Clinton said in a thin and
raspy voice. ‘Two days ago I turned 78. … And the only personal vanity I want to assert is I’m still younger than Donald Trump.”

Yes. He was born on June 14, 1946, and she was born on Oct. 26, 1947. Score!

Wild cheers naturally ensued from the crowd on the convention floor.

What else have they got? Under Biden-Harris, the United States has been overwhelmed by 10 million illegal aliens, seen more than 300,000 opiate overdose deaths and watched police officers being defunded and
demoralized as urban crime exploded.

The Biden-Harris team also engineered a massive attack on domestic
energy production. Combined with trillions in spending, it has produced
ruinous inflation and high mortgage rates. Schoolchildren are being indoctrinated in critical race theory and anti-American history.
Meanwhile, the Democrats’ LGBTQ legal juggernaut is criminalizing Christianity and common sense.

They’re pretty proud of all this when they aren’t pretending to be
harmless as church mice and “everyday Americans,” as Hillary Clinton
would say.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, who spoke on Wednesday,
was cast right out of Mayberry. That is, if Barney Fife had served as
faculty adviser to a gay-straight alliance school club and introduced
students to the joys of Chinese communism.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has a male spouse, railed
against Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance for his defense
of the traditional mother-father married family, accusing him of
promoting “darkness.”

Remember, telling the documented truth about the merits of God’s natural foundation for civilization is a form of “hate.”

Ms. Winfrey also took shots at Mr. Vance, pouncing on his “childless cat ladies” remark. She also spoke out strongly for abortion. It fits when
you think about it.

The lies recited at the Democratic convention were too many to recount,
but the nastiest ones were told by President Biden himself (yes, he is
still the president). He repeated his slanders yet again that Mr. Trump
praised neo-Nazis and called American war dead at Normandy “losers.”

Who cares about truth when you’re spreading so much joy?



• Robert Knight is a columnist for The Washington Times. His website is roberthknight.com.

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