Cross-Posted from DaleGlading.com
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I was born in the waning days of the second Eisenhower administration, so please forgive me if my political recollections are a little vague until the late 1960s. However, I distinctly remember sitting in front of a black and white TV when I was four and watching the somber procession as the caisson carrying John F. Kennedy’s body made its way through the streets of Washington D.C.
Sad, but much simpler times. And perhaps – despite the duplicity of the Francis Gary Powers incident in 1960 – it was also the last time we really trusted our federal government. I can only speak for myself, but after the Kennedy assassination (and the somewhat suspicious Warren Report)… the debacle in Vietnam… and the Watergate scandal, I stopped taking everything the government told me at face value.
In a very short span of time, I went from wearing a “Nixon, Now More Than Ever” campaign button to school in 1972 to voting for John Anderson, a third-party candidate for president in 1980. Ronald Reagan briefly restored my faith in government – or at least the presidency – for the rest of that decade, but Bill Clinton’s sexual shenanigans made me suspicious and skeptical of virtually every Chief Executive since.
And so, without further ado, here is a non-exhaustive list of lies that Uncle Sam and his minions has told me over the past 30 years or so…
1. “I never had sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” This coming from the same serial rapist who told a grand jury in his sworn testimony that “it depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is.” You talk about parsing your words (a phrase, by the way, that I had never heard until Slick Willie turned it into a dubious art form).
2. “You can keep your doctor.” President Obama was so fixated on getting his landmark healthcare bill through Congress that he flat-out lied about many of its provisions.
3. Take your pick between Adam Schiff claiming that, as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, he had proof positive of Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election… and Hillary Clinton pleading innocence over the destruction of 33,000 subpoenaed emails (and getting away with it).
4. Speaking of Hillary Clinton, her refusal to act in a timely manner to prevent the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Benghazi or to rescue American soldiers trapped on a rooftop during the attack, telling Congress at a special hearing, “What difference – at this point, what difference does it make?” For the record, Madam Secretary, it mattered A LOT to the four dead Americans and their families.
5. Basically, anything that came out of the mouth of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the biggest phony this side of George Santos. First, he told us that Covid would never reach America and if it did, it was nothing to worry about. Then he said that facemasks were useless in preventing the spread of the virus. Next, he told us that we needed to wear at least one, if not two, masks to stop the germs from infecting us… and to stand a magical six feet away from everyone else… and to shelter in place. But perhaps his biggest whopper was insisting that the Covid virus did not originate from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the not-so-good doctor was using U.S. tax dollars to fund gain-of-function research of coronaviruses. Move on, there’s nothing to see here. Just blame it on the bats, Dr. Fauci.
6. Not to be outdone, President Biden assured Americans at a CNN Town Hall on July 21, 2021, that “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” Ironically, our clueless (and highly vaccinated) Commander-in-Chief contracted Covid one year later to the exact day… and a second time that same month. Obviously, Dr. Jill Biden felt left out because she contracted the disease herself in September 2023. Oops… so much for turning yourself into a human pincushion with multiple boosters!
7. Geritol Joe also had the audacity to declare his cowardly and ill-advised withdrawal from Afghanistan “a wise decision” and a “success.” He also promised that not a single American would be left behind. Try telling that to the hundreds of U.S. citizens – and the thousands of Afghan allies – still trapped behind enemy lines today.
8. Sleepy Joe, if he is to be believed (and he’s not), has also told the American people on numerous occasions that he never met with Hunter and Jim Biden’s business associates or benefitted from their foreign business dealings. Yeah right… and I have a bridge in Brooklyn and some swampland in Florida to sell you.
9. That eggs are good for you, then bad for you, then good for you again. The same with coffee… and chocolate… and any other food or drink that tastes good and gives us pleasure. In other words, the federal government has too much time – and too much of our money – on its hands.
10. That there are more than two genders, and that transgenderism is normal.
But first, let me leave you with this “mother of all lies” told by members of both political parties: the money you have paid into Social Security is safe and secure in a “lockbox” somewhere.
