An Unflattering Imitation
I challenge anyone to articulate, explain, and justify a meaningful distinction between the recently discovered “pretender,” Rep. George Santos (R-NY), and the more practiced and arguably more successful (if not convincing) career politician, Sen./VP/President Joe Biden (D-DE).
Santos fabricated a resume’ and personal history in order to get himself elected to the U.S. House. Biden has had uncomfortable relationships with veracity and truth throughout his half-century of “public service.” In fact, Biden was unceremoniously dismissed from his first presidential campaign after disclosure of a padded resume’. Biden’s fabricated personal history was punctuated with lies, embellishments, and plagiarism. Perhaps, Biden should take Santos’ recent actions as a high compliment. After all, it has been said, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
While Biden’s lies have become more practiced, his relationship with truth continues to be strained. What is different … now … or between the two men? Biden’s support among a self-serving constituency has improved and grown. That constituency is willing to overlook his conspicuous shortcomings and many faults, so long as he commits to benefitting them through coercive government action directed at classes of disfavored “others” and by payments from government coffers. Of course, government’s largess is sourced through institutional theft, which is targeted at a limited and shrinking producer class and at generations of Americans, who are yet unborn.
Santos too is among political minions and government technocrats, who crave vicarious power and who covet the position, prestige, and profit to be derived therefrom. He courts and panders to a different constituency, given the difficulty of separating increasingly dependent and decreasingly capable voting blocs from Biden and those of his ilk.
Biden and Santos are undoubtedly more alike than different. The legacy parties, Democrat and Republican, are not so much opposing forces — one being inherently good and the other fundamentally evil — that fight each other in a search for truth, justice, and the “American Way.” Instead, the parties are more like opposite sides of the same coin. They are as symbiotic as they are parasitic, and no matter which side comes out on “top” in a given election, it is America and her people that are the certain losers.
Complicit mainstream media outlets are eager to make the administration’s arguments for them almost as if having been handed a script. Rather than divining truth, they play more the role of propagandists as opposed to objective, impartial, and unbiased “journalists.” They do so with regard to Santos and also in relation to the debacle over classified documents in the possession of Biden following a “damning” revelation about Trump’s hoard.
Concerning the latter, the talking heads argue that the search of Biden’s residence, which uncovered ADDITIONAL classified material, was “voluntary,” as if there were any other option — for either Biden or the DOJ — after “classified” documents were found in Biden’s home … his garage (beside his corvette) … and in his office.
Propagandists argue that there is a distinction between Biden and Santos … and Trump, but it is a supposed distinction without any meaningful difference:
MY lying, morally fluid, and narcissistic egomaniac is better than YOUR lying, morally fluid, and narcissistic egomaniac, because mine does for ME and MINE, as opposed to YOU and YOURS.
Their well practiced arguments come across as insincere, disingenuous, and unconvincing. The blatant hypocrisies are deafening to all within earshot.
