The Biden Senility Cover-Up: Why Censorship Fails and Other Insights

From the right: The Biden Senility Cover-up Team

“It’s become a widely accepted notion that Biden isn’t truly managing his own administration,” states Jim Geraghty from National Review. He notes that “one could argue effectively” that the attempts to conceal Joe’s cognitive decline “represent the most significant and detrimental presidential scandal in history.” The Wall Street Journal revealed that “Biden has been struggling since the early days of his presidency, at least by spring 2021,” and his aides have been shielding him. However, the responsibility doesn’t lie solely with them: “It’s on the candidate’s family to be honest with him.” “It’s the duty of long-time friends and advisors to speak candidly.” “The media must pose tough questions, and the candidate’s party needs to have realistic expectations.” “Consider how many layers of protections have failed in this situation.”

Speech desk: Why Censors Always Fail

“The U.S. has been experiencing an anti-free-speech movement that began in universities and has now spread to the media, government, and large corporations,” highlights Jonathan Turley at Spiked. Defenders must articulate why free speech “is essential.” Yet, it’s impossible to “identify a single censorship system that has successfully silenced an idea or movement.” This illustrates why one can remain “cautiously optimistic about the future of free speech. The anti-free-speech movement is failing, despite the unprecedented coalition currently opposing free speech.” This is because “freedom of speech is an inherent right. It is ours because we cannot be fully human without it.” “Ultimately, as long as humanity persists, free speech cannot be extinguished.”

Gender wars: Abigail Shrier, Completely Vindicated

“For revealing what historians may come to regard as one of the greatest medical scandals of our era,” asserts The Free Press’ editorial board, Abigail Shrier and her book Irreversible Damage faced “targeting, threats, and vilification.” The book incited boycotts and protests, including actions from “various individuals and institutions” committed to “defending our freedom of expression” (such as the ACLU). However, Shrier’s findings have been validated by new research. The UK health secretary recently declared “an indefinite ban” on puberty blockers. Additionally, “just over half” of U.S. states have enacted restrictions on gender transitions for minors, alongside a growing list of Western nations including the UK, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. “The reality of what [Shrier] uncovered has been thoroughly corroborated.”

NY watch: Public Employee Count Surges

Following the “decline of New York’s state government workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic,” asserts Ken Girardin from the Empire Center, public employee unions have leveraged this decrease “to pressure Governor Hochul and state legislators for increased hiring and costly benefits for their members.” As of October, New York’s workforce stood at 223,760 — a “4 percent rise from 216,174 the previous year.” Nonetheless, unions are pushing to revert to “allowing public employees to retire with full pensions at age 55” and to eliminate pension contributions after 10 years on the job — changes that “could surpass $100 billion.” Lawmakers depend on “support from public employee unions” and “have expressed no opposition as the state workforce has ballooned.” They evidently disregard “the need for New Yorkers to receive better value for their state tax contributions.”

Energy beat: Europe’s ‘Intermittency Conundrum’

Even with Norway’s “ample hydrocarbons and sufficient hydropower to meet 95% of its domestic needs,” reports Pieter Garicano at Silicon Continent, energy prices surged last week. What’s the reason? Increased demand from other European nations and its commitment to share its electricity. The continent faced a “dunkelflaute” (period of low sun or wind), resulting in heightened prices due to reliance on renewable energy sources. Such price spikes and energy rationing will likely become “more pronounced” as “intermittent” wind and solar energies replace “conventional base-load power.” Planned “solutions” like improved transmission, battery storage, nuclear, and hydrogen sources won’t come to fruition any time soon. “Is Europe resigning itself to rationing, shocks, and soaring energy costs? The unexpected aftermath of the dunkelflaute” implies “there may not have been as much consideration” given to circumventing the “intermittency conundrum” as one might wish.

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board