Sharp and Focused

Do nations get the leaders they deserve?

Sheriff Marge tries to elicit the motivation of a captured murderer, in Fargo

It’s often said nations get the leaders they deserve. Joe Biden’s brain-dead debate performance perfectly illustrates that principle. Befuddled, incoherent, mouthing talking points inserted into his unconsciousness, he mirrored faithfully the state of mind of his donors and sycophants. For they fervently believe what Biden believes of himself, that he is their savior, their only protection from a Russian-controlled tyrant bent on total dictatorship. So thoroughly embedded is this belief that one opinion leader proposed using AI to prop up Biden’s trademark stumblebum gait, to persuade clueless viewers that he is sharp and focused. They are preternaturally blind to their own tyranny, so obviously evident in the prosecution and jailing of political opponents. The self-delusions reinforce one another, as in a hall of mirrors throwing back infinitely receding versions of the same image. Neither Biden nor his entourage can let go of the other, because in truth they are identical.

Joe Biden accurately represents another aspect of that sector of the nation that installed him as well. Despite the incoherence of his thought and speech, in one matter he is unfailingly sharp and focused: the acquisition of money by any means, especially the suborning of Government agencies to his own enrichment. As Vice-President he and his family brought to exquisite perfection a system of extortion raking in billions of dollars from foreign countries seeking influence over the U.S. Government. The Clintons with their crooked Foundation were pikers compared to the Biden Crime Syndicate. Joe’s racket in Ukraine was brilliant. He put his utterly unqualified crackhead son Hunter on the Board of the Ukrainian gas pipeline company Burisma, while bribing the Ukrainian Government with a billion dollars of U.S. tax money to fire the prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, investigating this theft. Biden was so proud of this feat of international larceny that he bragged about in public it to the Council on Foreign Relations. Apparently he did so in order to divert attention from a much larger bribe paid to him by a Ukrainian oligarch. Nor did Biden neglect the Orient. An equal-opportunity solicitor, Biden accepted bribes amounting to billions of dollars from the Communist Party of China, and from Chinese energy and other companies directly tied to the CCP regime. These were no routine campaign contributions, but payoffs to defray prosecution for years or perhaps decades of technology theft. And the payments continued for as long as the threat of prosecution for that or for other crimes such as espionage persisted. For the CCP it was a cost of buying the apparatus of the U.S. Government, made easier by the single-minded focus of the president on his own enrichment.

Bank records assembled by the House Committee on Government Oversight detail Joe Biden’s personal involvement in and receipt of funds from China, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. Joe Biden, regardless of his cognitive deficits, understands very well one thing and one thing only: money. In that one regard he is indeed sharp and focused, to the complete exclusion of other values such as U.S. national interest, world peace, rule of law, public health, and the like. Every Governmental activity that can be turned into a money-making opportunity is exploited. Even the secret Pentagon network of 46 bio-weapons laboratories in Ukraine provided quick returns to a Biden-family firm via U.S. Government ‘research’ contracts, according to emails recovered from Hunter’s computer. While investigation of the covid-vax debacle has hardly begun, it’s unlikely Joe Biden would have missed taking his usual cut of that very lucrative scam as well. Hence his enthusiastic promotion of the covid-vax long after evidence of its deadly effects had become obvious. This single-minded focus on one thing, among the entire panoply of fulfilling pursuits that this life has to offer, amply represents the obsession of his wealthy supporters on financial accumulation for its own sake. In this, Biden effectively represents the vanishingly insignificant role of spiritual, moral, ethical, and aesthetic qualities among those who benefit financially from his regime.

The movie Fargo depicts a kidnapping plot gone wrong after a car salesman recruits a pair of criminals to extort money from his flinty father-in-law. The pair kill a state trooper and others before one of them (above, left) kills the other. Captured by Sheriff Marge (above, right), she reviews his murders. ‘And for what? For a little bit of money. There’s more to life than a little money, you know… And here you are’, [gestures to the bleak windswept plain outside], ‘And it’s a beautiful day…’ The moral vacuum at the heart of single-minded specialties has never been shown more starkly than in Fargo. Yet the real-life drama of Joe Biden’s cognitive impairment shown unscripted to all the world has its own pathos. His self-evident cognitive impairment coexists with a lifelong profound moral impairment subsumed by an overpowering money obsession. This trait too he shares with contractors for lavish drug, finance, tech, and weapons awards, and all who fancy themselves qualified to get in on that grift.

So the wisdom of the old saw that nations get the leaders they deserve inheres in the reflexivity of leaders and led. Their mutually reinforcing bonds tighten as the governing regime grows more tyrannical. The dictator sees himself in the crowd, and the crowd adoring itself sees its own mass personality in him. Neither ideology nor policy nor even the prospekt of nuclear war dent their mutual allegiance in the slightest. How fitting it is that a brain-dead president and a constituency among whom knowledge has been destroyed should fall into each others’ embrace. Iz no accident, comrade — they were made for each other.

A future post will review the destruction of knowledge that set up this dual feedback loop or vicious cycle. The way to break it: common-sense awareness. Search for it here, and wherever you can find it.