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An image surfaced this week which, better than any other, sums up the zeitgeist of our age.
A few days ago, Joe Biden was filmed receiving his COVID booster shot and the event was heavily promoted by the media. The President is leading by example, you see. When Joe Biden tells you to go get the vaccine, he’s not telling you to do something that he’s not willing to do himself. In fact, he’s going to show you how unafraid of the vaccine he is. You can watch him personally receive it in the Oval Office, and he’s going to have it administered to him by a strong woman of color (who you should also not be afraid of).
Then, shortly afterwards, pictures like this started to emerge:
That is certainly a breathtaking image. It’s one of those pictures that deserves the “If you only knew how bad things really are” label on it.
I had assumed from the outset that his booster shot photo op was staged propaganda, but I didn’t think it was literally taking place on a stage. Several questions immediately come to mind. Why didn’t they just do the photo op in the Oval Office? If the room he was in is a fake, what else is fake? Was he really getting a COVID booster, or was that also fake? Is that masked man really Joe Biden? Is that strong woman of color really a doctor? Is she really a woman? Is she really of color or is the tan sprayed on? It’s completely disorienting to behold.
Suddenly, the idea of the Moon landing being filmed on a sound stage sounds more plausible.
The image is striking, but it shouldn’t be. At this point, everyone knows that politicians are basically actors. They play the part of the patriotic servant of the people, but at heart, they are merely spokesmen for the donor class and the Deep State. They have a script and try to deliver the lines as convincingly as they can. I already knew these guys were puppets, but it is something else to actually see the strings. It’s like when you’re watching an old, low-budget movie and the boom mic comes into view. It breaks your concentration, momentarily snaps you out of the trance, and suddenly you can no longer suspend your disbelief.
These images of Biden have gone viral on social media and have understandably caused him some embarrassment. Never fear: Politifact has come out to debunk the conspiracy theorists. As with Snopes, Politifact likes to “debunk” factual things by addressing a very specific version of a claim that isn’t necessarily the one people are actually making, and which doesn’t really address the thing people are really concerned about.
Here, Politifact is trying to debunk the claim that the White House created a fake set for Biden’s booster shot photo op, and that those who believe they did are by association claiming that the entire Biden presidency is a giant charade. Notice how very specific those claims are.
You can immediately spot two very large strawmen. First, no one but full-blown Qtards is saying that the entire Biden presidency is a giant charade. I am only claiming that this particular propaganda piece was a charade. The rest of his presidency is another matter. It might be one giant charade, or it might be several medium-size charades running concurrently. It makes no difference; the entirety of his presidency is not on trial here.
The second strawman is that most people are not assuming that the set was made specifically for this particular photo op — but this is the angle that Politifact ran with. They responded to this questionable assertion by saying:
Our research uncovered no evidence that the White House intended to mislead anyone by using the windows-and-white-columns background. The backdrop had already been used in one official event five days before Biden received his booster shot.
First, the real point at issue is the fact that there is a set of the Oval Office, and that it was used to make it appear as though Biden was there when he in fact wasn’t. It’s still a set of a fake Oval Office. Why does it exist at all?
Second, there was clearly an intention to mislead people into thinking that it was the Oval Office, or at least some room in the White House that has a picturesque view through its windows. When you think of the President being in a room with windows behind him, you think of the Oval Office. It’s actually the fake windows that are the creepiest part of the picture, because they are quite convincing. There are trees visible, just like the Oval Office has.
Politifact also points out that the room where the photo op took place was the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is technically connected to the White House. They also point out that this location was listed on the official transcript of Biden’s speech on the White House website.
The Oval Office is one of the most iconic rooms in the world, where much history has been made. Seeing Biden take the booster shot in the Oval Office has a lot more gravitas than watching him take it in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Thus, clearly there was some intentional deception going on.
As political lies go, it’s a pretty small one. It’s a lot smaller than claiming that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, or that the Clintons didn’t kill Vince Foster. Nevertheless, it’s a lie that has no clear purpose — which makes it that much weirder.
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The two strongest possibilities is that either Biden has developed a severe mobility problem, or it was to signal to other pseudo elites that it was a fake booster shot and thus they shouldn’t get it either.
All the world is a stage. Nothing can be believed anymore.
The Biden “presidency” is faker than God.
How fitting that it looks like a sitcom stage, one of those “filmed before a live studio audience” Norman Lear shows with lights telling the rubes when to laugh.
Why? Some people are just strangers to the truth. One time when questioned about eating McDonald’s food, Clinton did a lawyerly evasion when it wouldn’t have been the least bit damaging to admit to liking Big Macs. For those who lie about inconsequential things, you can’t expect they’ll tell the truth about things that matter.
Biden could sure use a laugh track.
Those fries at McDs were never the same after they stopped frying them in beef tallow.
I’m not sure why they changed the formula, but I heard that they got sued by a Hindu after he discovered about the ingredient in the fries he’d been eating. Of course, what kind of Hindu eats there anyway?
A short defense of Trump:
Without question, we all know and have rightfully concluded that Donald Trump sold out to the donor class of the GOP. That said…Many of us still believe that he came in as a proverbial bull in a China shop, but also recognize that he was quickly rendered neutered and put on a short leash.
One thing that I don’t believe can be argued, Donald Trump is and always was a man who thrives on his interactions with real people. He is no stranger to staged performances and play-acting, like his WWE appearances and The Apprentice, but the fakeness of those performances was never lacquered over or hidden. Trump is a showman but not an “actor”.
This thing right here has all the vibes of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It’s downright eerie. I suspect that The Donald would have asked the same question we are asking. “Why not just do it in the real Oval Office?”
And that is precisely why the ruling class had to rid themselves of him. Biden will obediently and unquestioningly do just as his handlers instruct him to do. Donald Trump was simply too quick to go off-script.
Trump did nothing for us politically other than throw open the curtains, but even for that, I owe him my utmost thanks.
Amen. We owe Trump a debt, but my faith in him ended on the 6th of January. I really hope he doesn’t try to gin up any misguided support for a 2024 run. Giving people hope that the voting system is anything less than totally corrupt is just cruel.
My guess is that the set has been used before, and it was convenient to re-use it. You would have a hard job trying to explain to the producers that they were doing anything deceptive.
I’d guess it’s because the set looks on ‘right’ on television or on camera, whereas the real Oval Office doesn’t quite fulfill all the demands of the media and allows for more flexibility in media presentations.
By ‘right’, I mean on camera it appears clear, cleanly lit, pristine, they can control all the shadows in the scene, they are not beholden to what would be the natural light behind Biden from the windows and they can omit the reflections from the windows with their fake panels.
But I agree it’s creepy, and emblematic of the utter rotting carcass of the Biden regime that has to be given the illusion of life and fake plastic America in general.
It’s also a sort of portable Oval Office. So he doesn’t have to actually be there. It may be because Biden is too ill and compromised to get to there in person for some reason. And the office has to come to him. I would expect to see more of this sort of thing.
You can also mention logistic difficulties. The White House is a busy place, and I imagine they would like to avoid the added hassle and bustle of a photo op if they can. There might also be legal issues with staging photo-ops in the oval office. I’m willing to bet this set is far older than the Biden presidency, and is used quite regularly. Just seems like a practical thing to do…
I think that photo should be up there with raising the flag on Iwo Jima…a perfect “before” and “after.” James Kunstler’s podcast has an excellent essay on this subject.
As for the complete phoniness and political theater of our system, I urge all of you to watch the TV series “Veep” where VP and then president Selena Meyers goofs up everything she touches, as does her staff and their opposition, usually because they have to look good onscreen and are terrified of offending some special interest group. It is much more realistic than the hokum like West Wing. Pretty damned funny, too.
Come to think of it, I’m guessing this wasn’t actually meant to be deceptive. They simply do not allow him to go into the “actual” Oval Office because his “accidents” have gotten too expensive with all the carpet cleaning and stain removals.
2020: “Hahah, anyone who thinks they are staging videos of Biden is a crazy conspiracy theorist!”
2021: “This is fine. This is normal.”
Fake president of a now-fake country, shown recieving a fake, dangerous and leaky vaccine for immunization in an almost-entirely fake pandemic, for purposes of being a judas goat in a vile and treacherous public disinformation campaign; but no worries it’s almost certainly a fake shot given by fake doctor/nurse (she doesn’t even aspirate the needle– they’re mostly technicians dispensing the jabs anyway)… somehow the set is the thing that bothers me the least.
Stages are used for the simple reason that they are controllable, especially for lighting. That’s why a stage was used in this case. When light is needed to come from a background – in this case the windows – it’s best if that lighting can be controlled. It keeps production on schedule and in-budget (not that the latter matters to Uncle Sugar).
You used the key word. “Production”.
There is no rationalizing this. He was getting a shot. This could have just as easily been filmed with a camera phone at the local VA hospital. People upload thousands upon thousands of candid videos to YouTube every day, and many of them go viral and viewed by millions of people. There is no need for a video of Biden getting a booster shot to have any sort of “production quality” at all. None whatsoever. In fact, an impromptu video of him getting a jab at the local VA would go a lot further in conveying credibility with a human touch to it than this staged “production”.
There simply is no excusing this in any way that doesn’t ultimately expose the fake and gay country that America is and has been for decades.
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