{"id":2328989,"date":"2024-08-22T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-dnc-has-just-been-one-long-litany-of-stupid-obvious-lies\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T07:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T11:03:29","slug":"the-dnc-has-just-been-one-long-litany-of-stupid-obvious-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-dnc-has-just-been-one-long-litany-of-stupid-obvious-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"The DNC Has Just Been One Long Litany Of Stupid, Obvious Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-dnc-has-just-been-one-long-litany-of-stupid-obvious-lies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2328989&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article critiques the Democratic National Convention (DNC) held in Chicago, suggesting that it presents a fa\u00e7ade of democracy rather than an authentic representation of the party&#8217;s will. It highlights\u200b that Vice President Kamala Harris was not chosen by voters for the presidential candidacy, yet the DNC is treating her candidacy as legitimate. The piece describes President Biden&#8217;s participation as a mere formality, characterized by a disjointed speech, and notes his\u200d absence from significant events during the convention. <\/p>\n<p>The author contends that the convention is lacking in substantive policies and instead relies on staged\u2064 visuals and a\u200b coordinated messaging strategy centered around the theme of &#8220;joy.&#8221; They accuse the Democratic leaders\u2062 of manipulating the electorate through misleading narratives\u2063 and blatant\u200c falsehoods presented by various speakers at the convention, including Biden and\u200c former President Obama. The article argues that the biggest deception is the portrayal of Kamala Harris as a fresh\u2064 candidate, masking her four-year tenure as Vice President and her complicity in Biden&#8217;s unpopular policies. \u200bThe overall tone suggests a\u2063 strong disapproval of the Democrats&#8217; approach at the convention, framing it as a \u200cdisconnected performance with little connection\u200d to genuine democratic processes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It almost goes without saying that what Democrats are putting on at the DNC this week in Chicago is a simulacrum of democracy, a mimicry of the excitement and drama that might have come from a deliberative process of Democrat Party voters choosing their presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>None of it is real. The DNC has all the trappings of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-memorable-moments-from-past-republican-national-conventions-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Four memorable moments from past Republican National Conventions - Washington Examiner\">major political party convention<\/a> but without any of the substance. Not a single Democrat voter cast a primary ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris, yet Democrats are going through the motions as if that&rsquo;s exactly what happened.<\/p>\n<p>They even trotted out President Joe Biden&mdash;the putative head of the Democrat Party, whose reelection campaign was abruptly ended by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-says-im-not-going-anywhere-after-kentucky-legislature-passes-vacancy-bill\/\" title=\"McConnell Says \u2018I\u2019m Not Going Anywhere\u2019 After Kentucky Legislature Passes Vacancy Bill\">party bosses<\/a> against his will&mdash;late on the first night of the convention. It was a mere formality. Biden delivered a slurred, angry speech, full of lies and distortions, and then they shuffled him off to Santa Barbara for the rest of the week, rendering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-kelly-same-people-criticizing-trump-peddled-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" title=\"Mike Kelly: Same People Criticizing Trump Peddled Russia Collusion Hoax\">sitting president<\/a> a nonparticipant in his own party&rsquo;s convention.<\/p>\n<p>But Democrats&rsquo; fakery goes deeper than just pantomiming a democratic process after executing a coup against the sitting president. The Harris-Walz campaign branding of &ldquo;joy&rdquo;&mdash;repeated this week&nbsp;<em>ad nauseum<\/em>&nbsp;by the propaganda press&mdash;is obviously fake and forced. By running a campaign almost completely devoid of policy substance or any real interaction with the news media, consisting mostly of staged videos of Harris and Walz yukking it up on the campaign trail or delivering speeches via teleprompter at highly controlled rallies, Democrat Party leaders are essentially running a psy-op on the American electorate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A big part of that psy-op is to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/19\/tracking-the-lies-of-the-left-at-the-dnc\/\">lie and mislead brazenly about everything<\/a>. On the opening night of the convention, Biden repeated the infamous &ldquo;very fine people on both sides&rdquo; hoax and the &ldquo;suckers and losers&rdquo; hoax, both of which anyone can easily look up in 30 seconds. He also claimed that 500,000 new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-pressures-gop-on-infrastructure\/\" title=\"White House Pressures GOP on Infrastructure\">electric vehicle charging stations<\/a> have been created under his administration (the actual number is seven), among many other blatant falsehoods. <\/p>\n<p>Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker repeated the &ldquo;injecting bleach&rdquo; line about Donald Trump and Covid. Former President Barack Obama lied about Trump&rsquo;s tax cuts, claiming they only benefited the wealthy, and about how many jobs have been created under the Biden-Harris administration. <\/p>\n<p>Michelle Obama falsely claimed Trump wants to outlaw IVF. Tim Walz was introduced as a &ldquo;Command Sergeant Major,&rdquo; a rank he never achieved. Capitol Police Officer Aquilino Gonell claimed he &ldquo;almost died&rdquo; on January 6, when in fact he suffered no injuries. On and on, lie after lie&mdash;and of the most lazy and obvious kind.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest lie of all, though, is that President Biden wasn&rsquo;t forced out of his reelection campaign in what amounted to a coup last month. A key part of that lie is to downplay the fact that Harris is currently the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a> and present her instead as a new entrant to the race who brings new ideas and energy. But she&rsquo;s been in office for nearly four years now. Biden&rsquo;s failed policies are her failed policies.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are caught in a bind here. If they tout Harris as an integral part of the Biden administration, a trusted advisor and partner to the president, who as VP was given real responsibilities, how can they claim she doesn&rsquo;t then bear responsibility for what&rsquo;s happened while she&rsquo;s been in office? <\/p>\n<p>Harris taking the stage and proclaiming, &ldquo;When I am president, I will bring down the cost of groceries,&rdquo; elides the reality that she&rsquo;s been in office since 2021. If she&rsquo;s so committed to bringing down the cost of groceries, why hasn&rsquo;t she done something about it? Why is everything so much more expensive than it was before Biden-Harris were in charge?<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Same goes for immigration and the border, the economy, foreign policy, and everything else. At some point, Harris will have to explain why she shouldn&rsquo;t be associated with Biden&rsquo;s failed presidency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or she won&rsquo;t. She&rsquo;ll just keep lying about Trump and deflecting tough questions about her role as Biden&rsquo;s vice president. And the media will let her get away with it. In that case, her candidacy will be plagued by an air of unreality, which is why Democrats are relying on the psy-op. <\/p>\n<p>If Harris continues with her current strategy, we should expect the psy-op to get more intense. We should expect ever more shrill insistence that Harris and Walz are &ldquo;normal&rdquo; but Trump and running mate J.D. Vance are &ldquo;weird&rdquo;&mdash;despite all evidence to the contrary. We should expect more frequent and heavy-handed claims about what a regular guy Walz is (Obama went out of his way to tell us Walz&rsquo;s flannel shirts are real) and gosh darnit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1826060686234992796\">look how joyful and relatable he is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And of course we should expect a flood of lies, too many to correct, week over week, until the bitter end.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pagan-America-Decline-Christianity-Dark\/dp\/1684514444\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pagan+America&amp;qid=1695306441&amp;sr=8-1\"><i>Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come<\/i><\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost unnecessary to state that the event Democrats are hosting at the DNC in Chicago this week is merely a fa\u00e7ade of democracy, imitating the genuine excitement and drama that could arise from a thoughtful selection process among Democratic voters for their presidential candidate. The entire situation lacks authenticity. While the DNC resembles a significant political party convention, it is devoid of any real substance. Not one Democratic voter cast a primary ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris, yet the party is acting as if that were not the case. They even showcased President Joe Biden\u2014who was effectively sidelined from his reelection campaign by party leaders against his wishes\u2014on the first night of the convention as just a formality. Biden delivered an incoherent and agitated speech filled with inaccuracies before being whisked away to Santa Barbara for the remainder of the week, making him an absent figure at his own party&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p>However, Democrats&#8217; deception runs deeper than simply pretending to engage in democratic processes after ousting their sitting president. The campaign branding of &#8220;joy&#8221; by Harris and Walz\u2014repeated ad nauseam by sympathetic media\u2014is clearly contrived and forced. Their campaign lacks substantive policy discussions or genuine engagement with journalists; instead, it consists mainly of staged videos showcasing Harris and Walz enjoying themselves on the campaign trail or delivering scripted speeches at tightly controlled rallies. Essentially, Democratic leaders are conducting a psychological operation on American voters.<\/p>\n<p>A significant aspect of this operation involves blatant dishonesty about various issues. On opening night at the convention, Biden reiterated discredited claims such as &#8220;very fine people on both sides&#8221; and &#8220;suckers and losers,&#8221; both easily debunked with minimal effort online. He also falsely asserted that 500,000 new electric vehicle charging stations had been established under his administration (the actual number is seven), among numerous other blatant falsehoods.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker echoed misleading statements about Donald Trump regarding Covid-19 treatments while former President Barack Obama inaccurately claimed Trump&#8217;s tax cuts only benefited wealthy individuals and misrepresented job creation statistics under Biden-Harris leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Obama incorrectly stated that Trump aims to ban IVF (in vitro fertilization). Tim Walz was introduced inaccurately as having held a rank he never achieved: Command Sergeant Major. Capitol Police Officer Aquilino Gonell claimed he &#8220;almost died&#8221; during January 6 events when he actually sustained no injuries whatsoever\u2014all examples of lazy lies piled upon each other.<\/p>\n<p>The most significant falsehood remains that President Biden was not effectively pushed out of his reelection bid through what amounted to an internal coup last month\u2014a narrative downplaying Harris&#8217;s current role as vice president while presenting her instead as a fresh candidate bringing new ideas despite her nearly four years in office alongside Biden\u2019s failed policies.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats find themselves in a difficult position: If they promote Harris as an essential part of Biden&#8217;s administration\u2014a trusted advisor who has held real responsibilities\u2014how can they absolve her from accountability for what has transpired during her tenure? <\/p>\n<p>When she asserts on stage, \u201cWhen I am president, I will bring down grocery costs,\u201d it ignores her time in office since 2021; if she truly intends to lower these costs now, why hasn\u2019t she acted sooner? Why have prices surged since she took office alongside Biden?<\/p>\n<p>This applies equally across immigration policy, economic issues, foreign relations\u2014the list goes on\u2014and eventually Harris will need to justify why she shouldn&#8217;t be linked with Biden\u2019s unsuccessful presidency\u2014or perhaps she&#8217;ll evade responsibility altogether by continuing to deflect criticism towards Trump while avoiding tough questions about her role as vice president; likely without challenge from media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>If this pattern continues unchecked within her candidacy framework marked by unreality due to reliance on psychological manipulation tactics rather than substantive discourse or accountability for past actions\u2014it seems we should anticipate escalating intensity in these deceptive strategies moving forward: more insistence portraying Harris and Walz as \u201cnormal\u201d compared to \u201cweird\u201d figures like Trump or running mate J.D Vance despite contrary evidence; frequent assertions emphasizing how relatable Walz supposedly is (with Obama highlighting his flannel shirts) along with relentless streams filled with untruths too numerous for correction until election day arrives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2328990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DNC.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7380,27281,7705,5117,5894],"class_list":["post-2328989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-misinformation","tag-critique","tag-dnc","tag-lies","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/DNC.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}