If you wanted absolute proof of the evil wrought by the Democrat Party, look no further than the first night of the Democratic National Convention.

Not only are President Joe Biden's wife and others guilty of elder abuse for exploiting an enfeebled, mentally compromised 81-year-old to grasp the last moments of political power, but they also turned what was thought to be Joe Biden's last moments, billed as a farewell to America, into an insult on the world stage.

A one-finger salute delivered outside prime time when few would see Joe Biden at his artificially amped-up worst. Clearly, beyond his customary bedtime, Biden's speech was a disaster. From halting, stumbling speech to the blank, lost affect, it was a continuous parade of outright lies. 

Yes, they knew what they were doing—from his handlers to the teleprompter operator. It was a staged shitshow. 

The biggest and most dangerous lie.

"Folks, let me ask you: Are you ready to vote for freedom? Are you ready to vote for democracy and for America? Are you ready to elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, President and Vice President of the United States?"

It was repeating one of the most debunked lies that took President Trump's words out of context and twisted them beyond their original meaning.

I" ran for President in 2020 because of what I saw in Charlottesville in August of 2017. Extremists coming out of the woods, carrying torches, their veins bulging from their necks, carrying Nazi swastikas and chanting the same exact antisemitic bile that was heard in Germany in the early ’30s. Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the Ku Klux Klan, so emboldened by a President then in the White House that they saw as an ally. They didn’t even bother to wear their hoods."

Hate was on the march in America. Old ghosts in new garments, stirring up the oldest divisions, stoking the oldest fears, giving oxygen to the oldest forces that they long sought to tear apart America. In the process, a young woman was killed. When I contacted her mother, I asked about what happened. She told me. When the President was asked what he thought had happened, Donald Trump said, and I quote, “There are very fine people on both sides.” My God, that’s what he said. That is what he said and what he meant.

[OCS: Truth be told, it is the Democrat Party who gave you slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and the KKK. I was Joe Biden who stood with his racist friends like the Grand Kleagle of the KKK to thwart civil rights legislation.]

And the "yada, yada, yada" lies.

"And because of you—and I’m not exaggerating, because of you—we’ve had one of the most extraordinary four years of progress ever. Period. When I say we, I mean Kamala and me."

"It’s hard. I never thought I’d stand before a crowd of Democrats and refer to a President as a liar so many times. No, I’m not trying to be funny. It’s sad."

Trump continues to lie about the border. Then I had to take executive action. The result of the executive action I took: border encounters have dropped over 50%. In fact, there are fewer border crossings today than when Donald Trump left office. 

The ancient Greeks taught us that character is destiny. Character is destiny. For me and Jill, we know Kamala and Doug are people of character. It’s been our honor to serve alongside them. And we know that Tim and Gwen Walz are also people of great character.

Read the transcript for yourself (Caveat: The White House version may differ from what is shown on the video.)

The one thing the speechwriters got right.

"You’ve heard me say it before: We’re facing an inflection point, one of those rare moments in history when the decisions we make now will determine the fate of our nation and the world for decades to come. That’s not hyperbole; I mean it literally. We’re in a battle for the very soul of America."

Bottom line...

The punch line of the evening was, I am the President of the United States, and nobody's home. 

This is a clear and present danger as the country is rudderless in a time of war, and our Commander-in-Chief is a raging lunatic when he is not asleep on the beach. 

In the words of President Abraham Lincoln, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

We are so screwed.

-- Steve