Not this time, Bloatus. Merkel’s staff won this round. You’re a day late and a dollar short. That horse has left the barn. Sad!
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Whether he admits it or not. There’s a yuuuge need for validation here. I’ve worked with folks like this. With one guy, it became very apparent that when he came up to me looking for “my opinion” what he really wanted was my reinforcement of the opinion he’d already reached. Such people are unteachable.
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Welcome to the Mad Hatter’s tea party.
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Who ya gonna trust? Me or your own eyes?
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It’s a good thing that Trump and his administration are so transparent and truthful, so that when they make a statement that’s contrary to received wisdom they can count upon us to trust them.
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Not always.
For example, you may have heard that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet.
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I said “seems.” As you’ve helpfully pointed out to me more than once, words have meanings.
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Sure.
But if you want to get into it: what truth “seems” to be expressed by the Gore/Internet thing?
None that I could see.
Sometimes when things go “viral,” it’s more a matter of laziness (or worse) in the press corps, and only after that does it manufacture what “seems” to be the truth.
Not really. Have a nice day.
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History doesn’t repeat itself but it echos. Sometimes I wonder if modern America isn’t reliving 1789 France and Trump isn’t the modern version of Louis XVI. Just when we need clear eyed leadership there is an absurd disconnect between the White House (and the republican Congress) and reality.
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Shouldn’t this guy be playing golf, or beating off to porn, or something else useful?
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Al Gore was always seen by his detractors as a stuffed shirt, self-important and pushing his own intelligence and importance. (This perception was mostly a resentment of the fact that he genuinely was smarter than they were.) Rather than “seems to be the truth,” I would suggest “fits a pre-established idea” that is already held by a sufficiently large group that embracing the “new” example makes it go viral within that pre-made audience. (Probably not as catchy a phrase.)
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He was furious that he was not treated the way Kim Jong-un is treated in North Korea.
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Fact was the elder Bush had the flu or a food related ailment and proceeded to collapse and then barf into the lap of the Emperor of Japan. It was not a good moment.
Truth is… any news that isn’t fawning and falling over itself to extoll the manly virtues of one donald j trump is fake news to him. Were he in Kim Jong Un’s shoes, with totatitarian control, he’d think he was in paradise. He has implied as much.
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Oh, you!
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Isn’t that the picture Merkel released?
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Merkel has a tremendous bullshit detector. She pretty much had Trump pegged as the high-functioning sociopath he is from their first encounter. She also cuts Putin zero slack.
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Yes, although sometimes (as you point out) the “pre-established idea” is nonsense – or malice.
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Indeed, for things that go viral on the Internet, it is probably mostly nonsense or malice (or utterly trivial, which is still nonsense of a kind). The only real value is in showing the pre-established idea and the audience, not the merits of the idea.
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No, he did not invent the internet per se, but it would have taken years longer without his efforts. No matter how you cut it, he was the driving force at the Congressional level…
Getting Swiftboated didn’t only happen to Kerry…
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