01-23-2017, 01:45 AM
(01-22-2017, 05:24 PM)TnT Wrote: Did you catch Kelly Ann's commentary on Sean Spicer's trainwreck?
She called what he said, "Alternate Facts"
We are truly in a world of trouble with this bunch. I'm torn between hoping for two years of disaster followed by voting the whole gang out of office in the House, and hoping that too much damage is not done. The latter could result in having to watch this lunatic and his bootlickers for a whole four years.
It's as if Donald Trump and those around him can make something true if they wish it so. Because climate change is inconvenient as a concept to people who want accelerating growth in fossil-fuel consumption, global warming cannot happen. It's like the idea that if Barack Obama cannot be a good President, he must be ineligible... born in Kenya?
Basic reality cannot be wrong; it cannot change no matter how strongly one wishes. The arrow of time goes one way, and that cannot change biographical reality or historical fact. Logical contradictions are beyond reconciliation.
Fasten your seat belts; we're in for a bumpy ride.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.