“The Party [media] told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —  George Orwell, “1984“

By now, you must know a book is coming out written by one of the components of the media hivemind revealing a “secret” that was no secret to anyone who was not a liberal, to wit, that Joe Biden did not have his wits about him. Essentially, he was witless.

The CNN “journalist” who wrote the book states that the White House kept this “secret” from everyone, including the media hivemind, and he is shocked that it occurred. Shocked!

Except that even before Biden became president, it was evident to anyone who was not a true believer that the man had dementia. He was just a sock puppet for the secret Politburo that was running the country. Each instance was suppressed (i.e., censored) by the media hivemind, a routine tactic.

His numerous public lies during the presidency apparently were not lies, but rather things he thought in his dementia were true, like claims that he went to Israel during the Six Day War, that his grandfather was an All-American football player, the Mexican president was calling the shots in Gaza, that he was raised in a synagogue or a Puerto Rican community, that America has 54 states, etc. Equally ignored by the media — which now pretends to be indignant at being kept in the dark — were his frequent mumbling words in mid-sentence, his shaking hands with air.

Then there was the time he walked off into the jungle after a speech.

And even though they were from the hivemind, the White House staff was terrified to present him to reporters should one of them decide to become a real journalist (no worries there). Even though some of these disasters occurred in public, during ceremonies, the hivemind knew better than to report news.

No wonder Biden spent 40% of his presidency on vacation.

Nevertheless, well-deserved ridicule has been a result, both here and abroad. TikTok has been burning up with compilations of journalists and Democrats enthusiastically proclaiming the walking cadaver to be mentally sharp and involved in national and international matters.

If there was something as disgraceful as to what the media hivemind did, it must be pointed out that Republican politicians said nothing. They all did what was easy instead of what was right.

As M.L. King once said, “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

The fact that a component of the media hivemind wrote the book seems surprising and out of character (if a conservative had written it, it would be ignored or condemned). However, this fits an ongoing pattern that is very evident.

Part of a Pattern

Back in the ’80s and ever since, I witnessed something disgusting in the Cuban-American communities. Cubans who had for two decades cheered on the Communists as they committed one crime after another and had probably participated in them, whether it was chanting anti-American slogans, taking part in marches, or insulting and hurlingrocks at dissenters, who took part in indoctrinating children, and who had allowed the disintegration of the country, now came over to America saying that their eyes had finally been opened and had realized Communism was crap. They expected to be welcomed with open arms. And the disgusting part was … they were, indeed, welcomed with open arms.

One of them was even a male nurse who delivered electric shocks to dissidents who had been put in mental hospital, a leftist tactic. He was living, unmolested, in Florida (needless to say, the media ignored this; it would have made liberals’ hero — Castro — look bad). One of his victims living in Florida retaliated with … a lawsuit, instead of visiting him with a gun.

We have seen the same thing happening here recently. First and foremost, it has been with the COVID fiasco. Those liberals who demonized the dissidents for not masking and for not submitting to take the toxic injections (mislabeled as “vaccines”), for not submitting to house arrest “(lockdowns”), for ridiculing ivermectin as a “horse dewormer,” and who called us Nazis and Fascists for not obeying, nor conforming, well, they are now denouncing the “vaccines,” the face masks, the lockdowns and the anti-ivermectin propaganda. Now that it’s safe for them to do so. And they do it while striking a pose of courage and (safe) defiance. And also pretending that they knew it was a farce all along.

And this goes as well for those cowards who knew better but did not have the cojones to resist the oppression.

While the rest of us who actually had the intelligence and the courage to revolt and suffered the slings and arrows of insults, threats, physical attacks, demonizing, and losing employment are being shunted off to the side (and this is also true for other leftist causes such as opposition to sexually mutilating children). This persecution even targeted doctors and nurses who had different opinions and integrity and objected to the fiasco’s development — including sending them to a mental hospital.

Very recently, J. K. Rowling made the same observation:

“Now the political landscape has shifted, and some who’ve been riding high on their own supply are waking up with a hell of a hangover. They’ve started wondering whether calling left-wing feminists who wanted all-female rape centres ‘Nazis’ was such a smart strategy. Maybe parents arguing that boys ought not to be robbing their daughters of sporting opportunities might, sort of, have a point? Possibly letting any man who says ‘I’m a woman’ into the locker room with twelve-year-old girls could have a downside, after all?   

Presently, we see a similar situation in other areas. We are now seeing liberals who called the rest of us Nazis and Fascists, and showered us with the vilest insults, who censored us at every chance, who organized mobs against us, who canceled speakers and comedians, who applauded drag queens in schools, who insisted that we had to publicly acknowledge that mentally ill individuals who changed genders were real women and real men, who encouraged the toppling of statues of famous people from Jefferson to Columbus, who defunded the police, who supported anti-Semitism in college, who encouraged and applauded millions of illegal immigrants entering the country, who took part in ideological indoctrination in schools and businesses, who mutilated science with their ideology, who called Trump Hitler, who encouraged and subsidized the vilest anti-white racism, and encouraged white genocide, well now, now they are saying that they are no longer that way. They show no remorse, offer no apology. They just … changed their minds.

Even the elite scumbags from the tech companies who censored Trump and attacked him to the very end have made a sharp U-turn.

They did not abandon the Democratic Party, they say. Oh, no. They say the Party abandoned them. They even “bravely” say the same things that we got persecuted and insulted for — by them. Some intellectuals offer convoluted reasoning as to how they came to this conclusion.

Some politicians and Democrats working for those politicians are even quickly making a U-turn on policies and loyalties. In California, they are even making a U-turn on the “reparations” BS.

Even Jill Biden’s press secretary is turning against the Bidens in indignation — now that it is safe and even fashionable.

They say, “I’m shocked! Shocked, I say!”

I know many conservatives are saying, “Well, that’s good. They’re coming over to our side.”

Well, personally I say, “To hell with you all!”

And that goes double for Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who for years vomited hatred at Donald Trump, and now they (and other perpetrators) are pretending that they had nothing to do with it. And John Kerry, who recently advocated censorship. In America.

Decades ago, supposedly Marxist countries in Africa quietly stopped being Communist once the Soviet Union disappeared. Around the same time, I corresponded with a Slovakian girl a year after the Iron Curtain fell. She was disgusted at seeing former Communist Party members beginning to wear crosses around their necks, still warm from their victims, with a conspiratorial grin on their faces.

It’s the same thing we see now.

And in months to come, if we survive this push towards totalitarianism by Democrats, I suspect that many more people who were part of the media hivemind, or in colleges, or politicians, will emerge and puff their sunken chests out in fake courage or disbelief at what took place in the past five years as they adopt a look of indignation on their faces. They, who were either part of it, or they hid under their desks sucking their thumbs.

Armando Simón is a retired psychologist and historian and the author of “When Evolution Stops” and “Very Peculiar Stories.”

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