Special counsel Robert Hur:
“Biden’s age and presentation would make it more difficult to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the now-81-year-old was guilty of willfully committing a crime.”
But his SOTU was a brilliant performance.
From “1984”:
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
You are a slow learner, Winston.” Said O’Brien gently.“How can I help it?” he blubbered. How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.”“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”