We’re learning something valuable. Censorship works better than gaslighting, but even that fails. Joe Biden’s “cognitive decline” has been ongoing since at least 2019. If you didn’t understand why Biden ran his 2020 campaign from his Wilmington rec room, now you know. COVID precaution was a convenient excuse. Biden wasn’t ever going to draw a crowd like Trump, so masking up and hanging out in front of his big screen was an easy dodge. But it was his deteriorating brain that kept him off the campaign trail.

Dementia sufferers are easily confused and frustrated. They don’t handle crowds and noise well. Biden’s handlers -- during the 2020 campaign and throughout his presidency -- have been tasked with keeping venues small or ensuring that Biden is enough removed that he won’t become agitated. When he behaves bizarrely -- babbling at podiums, turning to shake invisible hands, wandering off after his remarks -- corporate media steps in to censor the fluffs.

Conservative news and social media reveal the true Biden. CNN and MSNBC audiences rarely see the real Joe, though. When Biden is seen tripping upstairs or falling off a bike, it’s shrugged off as old guy imbalance. Otherwise, corporate media audiences have had a steady diet of false narrative -- falser than the whitewash of FDR’s paralysis.

But the debate shattered the narrative. As Michael Shellenberger pointed out at X, the video clips of a feeble Joe Biden that Karine Jean-Pierre trash talks as “cheap fakes” have blown up in their faces. Some reports suggest that Biden’s fundraising is tanking. The debate was a game-changing miscalculation.

Conservatives guessed that the D.C. establishment was setting up Biden to take a fall. If so, it’s been a ham-handed bust. In all likelihood, elite conceit misled. On friendly turf -- CNN’s Atlanta studio -- along with favorable rules and a week’s worth of rest and prepping -- and Lord knows what sort of high-octane mix of meds -- the gamble was that Biden would acquit........

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