Sentient Americans might not get this, but give it a shot:
In Trump America facts are lies. Hard to fathom? Sure it is. But if you’re struggling with our nation’s new normal this might help.
Here’s the construct:
Facts are liberal bias.
Lying about those facts is calling out the truth.
Thus, denying truth is being honest.
Get it? Me neither. But that’s what we’re dealing with.
[Cross-posted via HuffPost]
There is a certain ‘truthiness’ to what you are saying, Craig.
truth·i·ness
ˈtro͞oTHēnis
the quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true.
BTW, a beautiful morning glory to the trail!
The altar is on fire today —
greasy skull face gowdy is up to his usual ghoulish October investigation of clinton and rheinhold as the repugs counter back against the Mueller investigation for boss trump. The state of New York must be ready to indict manafort in the near future. AND trump knows the repug who paid for the wee-wee dossier as pompeo is in the oval office everyday whispering intelligence and flattery into his ear. When surrounded by applause, trump feels invincible. So, trump strikes back with weinstein, hiney patter, HW Bush and dnc/obama/russia/ukraine interactions. Complicit house repugs are helping the sfbpging potus. As for trump’s great memory? We will see when mueller interviews him…just like his numerous video depositions.
how is a fact fact-checked and evaluated? let us count the twit ways. if the “fact”
(1) is proffered by a scientist, value is determined by which scientist said it, is it in the bible and did the scientist support the campaign.
(2) is cited by media person, value is determined whether it’s via fox/ rt/ breitbart/assange, is approved by bannon and was person sufficiently obsequious.
(3) is stated by a senator or representative, value is determined according to party, past pro-twit comments and from a pro or anti twit state.
(4) comes from twit himself or family, value is determined by passage of time and latest version.
twit grading system for facts: A = alternative fact and A-okay, B = bullsh*t but worth repeating , C = conspiracy, collusion, crooked Hillaryism, D= must be discredited, F = real f**king fact, who leaked it and will I be impeached?
Marco Rubio is at it again this morning
speaking of facts, truthiness and avoidance of same…. denial and fear of the known
Oh and Damn – Tied Series. Great game but the $%^^&*()(*& Astros won
There are lies and there are damned lies. In the world of Trump they both equal facts. No fact checking is possible because they come too fast and too often.
What is especially dishaearting, is that Flake called him out in a big way and the story didn’t last beyond a single news cycle. The new normal is to lie your ass off because there is no downside to doing so.
The credibility gap has become the credibility chasm.
counterpunch and obstruction of investigations by trump and colluding congressmen —
The partisan brinkmanship that has all but derailed the Russia investigations launched by the Senate Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence Committee leaves the Senate Intelligence Committee panel the lone panel where both parties appear committed to carrying out a bipartisan inquiry. But even that committee’s chairman, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), has hesitated to defy Trump. At a news conference this month, he refused to endorse the conclusion by US intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win election.
From Mother Jones.
The Trump WH Press Secretary is strikingly beautiful.
Is Mueller getting closer to junior? Can putie hold the wee-wee tapes much longer? The trumpian style pushback and complicity by repugs may signal trouble ahead for the commander-in-thief and his party, but they will fight back. The alacrity of policy change in our institutions may also be a signal things are about to happen with more pardon-proof indictments. Repugs helped steal the election, too.
funny, Mr. D. Like your system Pat.
hmmm…Is that saying Trump’s voters have personality disorder?
bw, and will mar a lago sink in to the sea? stay tuned…
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Mother Nature blows away trump. faux news headline — Storms erode trump’s ratings. trump at 38%.
Regarding today’s topic — from the poll.
Thirty-three percent think Trump is honest and trustworthy, though that’s hardly changed from just before the election when 35 percent felt that way (November 2016).
Speaking of honesty, this scorching resignation letter from a 25 year Civil Servant to EPA secretary. Long but worth the read to see how bad it is getting.
Dear Administer Pruitt
Jamie, Cox had to write a letter because pruitt stays in his maxwell smart $25K privacy booth. He is deaf to criticism and surrounded by expensive security to prevent any complaint or violence against his regressive and trump endorsed policies.
tom friedman on morning joe this morning repeated his harsh review of dishonest (or dishonorable) folks in the white house which he first wrote about in ny times Tuesday.
in his column “General Mattis, Stand Up to Trump or He’ll Drag You Down,” after castigating the others, he implored:
That leaves Mattis as the last man standing — the only one who has not been infected by Trump’s metastasizing ethical cancer, the only one who has not visibly lied on Trump’s behalf, and who can still put some fear into Trump.
Well, Secretary Mattis, here’s some free advice to the last man standing: Don’t just stand there. If you just stand there, you’ll be next. Because Trump and Sanders will be looking to enlist your old uniform next in their defense — that is, if Trump doesn’t throw you under the bus first to escape responsibility for the bungled operation in Niger.
Secretary Mattis, we don’t need any more diagnosis of the problem. We need action. And I am not talking about a coup. I mean you need to lead McMaster, Tillerson and Kelly (Pompeo is a lost cause) in telling Trump that if he does not change his ways you will all quit, en masse.
Trump needs to know that it is now your way or the highway — not his. That is how you talk to a bully. It’s the only language he understands.
Tell him: No more ridiculous tweeting attacks on people every morning; no more telling senators who forge bipartisan compromises on immigration or health care that he’s with them one day and against them the next; no more casual lying; no more feeding the base white supremacist “red meat” — no more distracting us from the real work of forging compromises for the American people and no more eroding the American creed.
Led by you and you alone, Secretary Mattis, your little squadron with Tillerson, Kelly and McMaster still has power. And if you can’t together force Trump onto an agenda of national healing and progress, then you should together tell him that he can govern with his kids and Sanders — because you took an oath to defend the Constitution, not to wipe up Trump’s daily filth with the uniform three of you wore so honorably.
Blonde Wino, maybe Smokey the Bear will torch Pruitt, or a tree will fall on him. Mother Nature always has the last word.
This vintage New Yorker cover was circulated during last year’s election. Seems just as relevant this Halloween week as it did in 2016, or 1942. Trick or be the treat.
this is curious. am having problems commenting on an old article from the guardian called “Welcome to dystopia – George Orwell experts on Donald Trump”
especially section written by tim crook
hope this time it gets posted
mr doodlesdog, here’s the new time cover
Wonder how many Trump voters are addicted to opioids? Might explain a lot.
Patd
That article is even more terrifying now than when it was written.
pence pushing mispoken truth, honestly, during the Defense of Christians annual Solidarity Dinner for Christians in the Middle East.
Pence excoriated the U.N., saying the international body has “often failed to help the most vulnerable communities especially religious minorities.”
“We will no longer rely on the United Nations alone to assist persecuted Christians and minorities in the wake of genocide and the atrocities of terrorist groups,” Pence said to applause.
In his address, Pence painted a dire picture of Christianity in the Middle East, arguing that groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have singled them out for particularly brutal persecution. The religion, he said, is on the verge of extinction in some areas of the region.
“The United States will work hand in hand from this day forward with faith-based groups and private orgs to help those who are persecuted for their faith. This is the moment, now is the time, and America will support these people in their hour of need.
“Let me assure you tonight, President Trump and I see these crimes for what they are: vile acts of persecution animated by hatred for Christians in the gospel of Christ,” he said. “And so too does this president know who and what has perpetrated these crimes and he calls them by name: radical Islamic terrorists.”
From the Hill
Mr. DS – brilliant example.
Poobah, APTA (Amer. Phys. Theray Ass’n) says that Alabama had the highest opioid prescription rate in the country and WV has the highest OD rate. Of the 17 states with the highest opioid OD mortality in the 2015 CDC survey 12 voted for trump (126 electoral votes), 5 voted for Clinton (36 electoral votes) and one split. There’s the math.
pogo, too bad we can’t apply dui laws to voting under the influence.
patd…. or VWS…. voting while stupid.
I refuse to be alarmed by the opioid epidemic. We’ve treated Blacks harshly for possession of relatively benign drugs for 80 years, we can treat these opioid-addicted Whites just as harshly.
Impeach sessions. Lock him up
XR, I am alarmed by the opioid epidemic – her ein WV it cuts across racial lines. And I do agree with your take on the disparate treatment of black Americans when it comes to drug offenses. And, yes, impeach Sessions… and the guy who nominated him. Lock ’em up.
Patd, voting under the influence of stupidity would be difficult to apply.
Certainly explains a lot
Re Halperin – one never knows does one?
Guess we’ll stay tuned to see what becomes of it. I never really took much to him – something about his attitude puts me off. Heilemann I like just fine.
I don’t wonder about the peccadilla of those males in entertainment–that is until, on MJ, the names of the Army colonel whom I much admire, or the general who speaks much common sense, should have their names invoked. They are cast from a different mold.
I saw rascals in the Air Force. I did my best to destroy their careers; I grieve that sometimes I failed.
Trump not releasing JFK files as promised, turns out they include his tax returns.
Happy Birthday to Hillary. Just to mark the day Congress is gifting you with another Congressional conspiracy commission.
Now, back to today’s theme.
This sentence is a lie.
I s’pose with much of their b.s. they case hide behind abstruse Platonic or Plotinian ideas of the ‘real’. When dealing with the world of material, cash & credit, humans, and biospheres, most of us automatically think in Aristotelian actualities.
I sure wish Mr Champ or Mr Bink were here to help make the picture clearer.
What’s the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story ?
A fairy tale begins, Once upon a time….
A sea story begins, This ain’t no shit….
Anyways, it’s true if I sez it’s true. That’s how yez knows whenever it’s true. Jus’ don’ believe yer dam’ lyin’ eyes.
Syoo, the Mate : But Cap’n, how will I know it’s true ?
Captain Hooker : It’s true if I sez it’s true, Syoo. That’s how yez knows whenever it’s true. Jus’ don’ believe yer dam’ lyin’ eyes.
The next statement is true.
The previous statement is false.
Or something like that.