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Make believe president and Vino Houseplant Joe Biden has been making some bizarre dishonest

and wildly demagogic statements lately, giving hope to his supporters that he may still

be sentient or at least semi-conscious. For instance, Biden recently spoke of state attempts

to shore up election security by requiring voters to show identification at the polls,

and he said, quote, and this is an actual quote, we're facing the most significant test

of our democracy since the Civil War. That's not hyperbole.

The word hyperbole, of course, is derived from the Greek words hyper, meaning absolutely

idiotic and bully, meaning comparisons to the Civil War. The Civil War, of course, was

a four-year 19th century cataclysm during which hundreds of thousands of Americans died

trying to find their driver's licenses so they could vote. The New York Times, a former

newspaper, says the term, this is not hyperbole, is not bizarre and dishonest demagoguery,

but is rather just one example of what they call bidenisms, a charming new word, meaning

bizarre and dishonest demagoguery made to sound charming by the New York Times. According

to the Times, bidenisms include such phrases as, here's the deal, which means what I'm about

to say to you is a steaming pile of complete horse manure, look folks, which means here's

the deal, I'm serious, which means look folks, not a joke, which means what I just said

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