In a related note, the 31st anniversary of the film Brazil is in a few days. Orwell is not absurd enough to make sense of these Trumpkins, so go straight to Gilliam.
Welcome to the first days of the last days of the Republic, everybody.
Exactly Snottie [1], which is why Iâve decided that your material existence is merely a tentative working hypothesis.
[1] âSnottie beamed me twice last night; and it was wonderfulâ (h/t to Mel Brooks")
âWeâll hear from both sides after we return from this break.â
Seems she could have also said we create our own reality. And where have we heard that before?
And we all better believe that this is indeed going to be their playbook for the entirety of his time in the White House.
Just look at the Carrier deal. 1300 jobs are going to Mexico, and Indiana paid $7 million to keep 700 (on the high end) jobs here for 2 years. (after which, all guarantees are off, of course). And this is being paraded around like a WIN!
By any empirical measure, this should be a political loss, something they should be busy sweeping under the rug. But nopeâŚin Trumpworld, it is what they call it. They donât even bother with that whole tiresome Orwellian double speakâŚthey just keep it simple and call losses wins and roll with that. And the MSM eagerly laps it up.
They are not even in office yet, (the MSM is COMPLETELY ignoring Obama who, is STILL PRESIDENT) and now they are echoing the Bushie-era âWe make our own realityâ bullshit?!?! and the MSM is just rolling over and presenting their asses to the Trumpers in total subservience.
Goebbels must be so proud down there in hell.
On the plus side, wingnuts canât respond to every argument about preserving democratic norms and institutions like the right of everyone to vote with âAmerica is a republic, not a democracy!!1!â. On the negative side, wingnuts will be able to respond to all of our arguments by informing the secret police on us.
Trump: As my landslide victory proves, Facts are overrated and are way too liberal.
Well then, Iâll make up my own facts. Trump didnât win this election. There.
Problem solved.
No, they are going far beyond that. Because everything Bushie is way too low energy for them. In Trumpworld, Napoleonâs mistake at Waterloo was not declaring it was a rousing victory the likes the world has never seen before. If they had just gone with that, everything would have been great again.
This is a prefect example of a Trump supporter trying to be âintellectualâ. My 6 year old grandson thinks he can fly too if you wrap a towel around his neck.
The scariest thing about this - she is right. Half of America have discarded facts as a means for making decisions.
Trump has his new âSecretary of the Department of Truthâ in Nellie.
When Trump eliminates the Dept. of Education and the EPA, he will propose a new âDepartment of Truthâ because of course he says the âLeugenpresseâ does not sufficiently support his genius.
Expect wild support for this new department among the Trump supporters.
actually it wouldnât be surprising if they did both.
And this is new, how?
Have people forgotten Reaganâs cabinet?
One person thought there was no need to take care of the earth because Jesus was coming soon. Another argued seriously that the earth has literally infinite resources.
The Republican party has been a con game since Reagan.
I just looked it up, and sheâs right:
fact [fakt] NOUN 1.A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on knowledge.
âAnd so Mr. Trumpâs tweets, amongst a certain crowd, a large part of the population, are truth," Hughes said. "When he says that millions of people illegally voted, he has some factsâamongst him and his supporters, and people believe they have facts to back that up. Those that do not like Mr. Trump, theyâll say that those are lies, and there are no facts to back it up.â
voting matters
Remember the Bush administration?
"The aide said that guys like me were âin what we call the
reality-based community,â which he defined as people who âbelieve that
solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.â "
The aide told Mr. Suskind, âThatâs not the way the world really works anymore. Weâre an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality.â
Uh oh. Heâs already got us confusing real facts with made up âfacts.â