Trump v. Truth
As suggested at left, of all the damage Trump has inflicted on American society, it’s possible that the greatest harm has been his bizarre, inexplicable ability to turn truth on its head.
Here’s an exercise: think back to any close election in the past, say Nixon/Kennedy or Bush/Gore, and imagine what would have happened if the ultimate loser were to have claimed that massive voter fraud was at blame, even though 60+ courts found no evidence to support that assertion.
The loser would have been ridiculed as a crackpot and “cancelled” as a credible figure. At a very minimum, he wouldn’t have a cult following consisting of tens of millions of hateful morons.
As I’ve said elsewhere, this strange phenomenon in the early 21st Century may go away like the witch trials of the later 17th Century, i.e., disappear virtually without a trace. A few months in the horrors of Salem, the entire set of events simply stopped, seemingly without reason or cause, and a year later, many of the town’s people doubted that it even happened.
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As shown at left, there are, and probably will always be, a group of Trump supporters who accept whatever the former president tells them, regardless of how completely baseless his statements may be.
At left we see the thoughtful words of U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ).
Here’s a theory on the meme here: the media profits tremendously from extending the life of the idea that Trump actually could be our 47th president, and it finds that lucre to be irresistible.
I just read that people who live at the beach are happier than the rest of us.
Ten years from now, when all the criminality and stupidity associated with Trump has long since been put to bed, we will remember a few of the kingpins who conspired to help the former president overthrow the U.S. government. We hope that the names Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and Rudy Giuliani are chief among them.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on “Face the Nation,” 1/14/24: “Let me be very clear. I love my country too much to vote for Donald Trump.”
We’re a very long way from any real honestly among GOP leaders in congress. The price of sucking up to Trump has been–and continues to be–public affirmation that the 2020 election was rigged with massive amounts of voter fraud.
The point of the meme here, of course, is that the electrification of transportation (and everything else) is going to run into temporary roadblocks. Will there be enough lithium? Will EV battery recycling become feasible? Will the ubiquity of fast charging stations come to satisfy demand? Will we rid ourselves of hydrocarbons from the grid-mix?
