June with it’s self-inflicted eight kilometres a day is over. Over the month, my total on foot (not counting bicycle or kayak) distance was 260 kilometres. Most of that was easy, although there were days when I had to go out late or very early to get the distance done. We finished up June with a couple of days sport climbing at Nowra – yep, short and weak against slimpers and power moves. As a climber who does not hang board, I will have to start training fingers in a more determined fashion. Well, there is always July.
The much anticipated US Presidential debate ran on Friday, and, as we were driving back from Nowra, Doug read me a few tweets from X summing up the debate. In Australia, the usual hysterics were claiming: “Its not just American democracy that is at risk in this presidential election, its life in earth.” [sic] This is, of course, TDS or Trump Derangement Syndrome. You don’t have to be a Trump detractor to realise this is ludicrous. But, when logic fails it is so tempting to turn to hyperbole. The mainstream media, which a few short days previously had claimed that the videos that continuously circulated like water circling a drain which reveal Biden staring open jawed and glassy eyed into the distance or babbling like a baby, were deep fakes, was left pantsless as Biden babbled.
No-one knows where this goes but, as is usual, the real issue is not that the USA has clearly been governed by a dementia patient for the last four years – although that is a profoundly disturbing issue – the really confronting thing is the lengths to which Democrat/Biden supporters will go to keep up the pretence that Biden is anything other than a human husk.1 No sane person should do this, but, the “pandemic” has given an entire cohort of the world’s population great practice at NOT believing the evidence before their own senses. Believing one’s own observations is the basis of empiricism and empiricism is the basis of all science and all of mankind’s (get over it if you object to the use of the masculine pronoun) great advancements. Why for the sake of partisanship – tribalism is probably more appropriate – are we so happy to toss thousands of years of human progress into the dustbin of delusion?
1A quick scan of #debate on X will provide an endless stream of inventive and delusional explanations for Biden’s performance.
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