By Thomas Buckley
The Point
December 20, 2024
It has become a reflex reaction.
Tap the Biden administration on the knee with a rubber hammer and it kicks out a lie.
And it has never mattered to the likes of Alejandro Mayorkas and John Kirby and Karen Jean-Pierre that their lies are clearly and obviously are lies.
The border is secure. Hunter will never be pardoned. Joe is mentally fit. Dumping trillions of made-up dollars into the economy did not cause inflation. The "vaccines" were completely "safe and effective." There was no government censorship program.
Over the past years, they perfected the public injection of ignorance, responding - if questioned - with even more lies or, better yet, even more words and words and words, sound and fury, signifying nothing.
And they have gotten away with it, in part because the media has helped them and in part because the public was beaten into submission during the pandemic response and in part because lies can be comforting, if you already agree with them.
And because deciding to stand up and having the nerve to say "well, that's wrong, I can see it with my own eyes" invariably led to pariahood.
But that changed November 5 - people can now actually say what they think publicly.
The Biden team - and, specifically, the deep state puppet masters who control it - does not seem to have gotten that message and are getting very frustrated that people are not automatically believing them anymore.
Leading to the very simple question - are the insultingly absurd public pronouncements on the New Jersey drone mess their last lie?
The officials have reacted in a way that is somewhat akin to going to a doctor to ask about a new mole you found on your thigh and the doctor saying 'I have no idea what that is, but it's perfectly safe."
Exactly how would you react to that? Exactly how the people in New Jersey are reacting.
And the public is not having it and trying and loudly to call their bluff:
And, yes, we can call you stupid...and worse.
But the administration, understandably, is still playing from what has been a distressingly successful playbook for the past four year, and for the deep state, no matter the president, decades and decades prior.
From they might be planes and saying there are lots of drones all across the country to saying we are investigating the situation - the logical equivalent of someone saying they will have to investigate to determine if they are wearing underwear at that moment - the lies have been painfully and aggressively pathetic.
Again, it seems this lie is not going down well with the public.
Actually, the public's involvement has gone something like this:
"So what are those clearly mechanical brightly lit things wandering about the sky above us?"
"Tro, ba snamzle for bothanuaght ga snuh."
When the public asked again and this time for a more definitive answer, the reply has been:
"Look, we already told you - why do you keep asking?!? And we're investigating anyway and don't worry, because even though we publicly claim we have no idea what is happening, we are absolutely sure there is no risk."
All administrations flail desperately towards their end, particularly when they have been pushed out of office - tracks must be covered, diversions created, to say the least.
And it's all utterly unnecessary - a simple statement along the lines of "we know what is going on, we're sorry it has irked people, we are involved, but we can't get into the details, but everything is safe and fine and if you have pics or vids send them along - it will help us figure out if the concept works!" would have been at least kinda true and enough.
Just something kinda true would have worked, but they couldn't bring themselves to do it.
But no - "don't look up, they might be planes, lots of people have drones, they are not a danger but we will not tell you why, confidential intelligence briefings on the matter aren't really that big a deal, and, no, your own officials do not need to know anything about it" has been the official line.
It is so brazen and so pointless, it is as if the drones are not the test but seeing how the public reacts to them is and to test how far the lies can go because, come January, this is the last chance they will get.
At least, let's hope so.
This originally appeared on The Point.