Day 846 Thursday May 2, 2019
550 Days to the 2020 election and 628 Days to Inauguration Day
I am struck by the weird amount of lying and willful disregard for the truth that is all around me.
It’s hard to know where to begin. R. Kelley a singer who has had many close calls with the law, most of which deal with his relationships with underage girls, claimed he didn’t show up for a court appearance because he “has a learning disability.” The disability? He can’t read.
Then there’s William Barr’s testimony yesterday in front of a Senate committee. The amount of parsing in legalese and the amount of lying, bold faced lying, was incredible. Barr didn’t take this or that for what it was. Didn’t know what Robert Mueller’s thoughts and feelings were about Barr’s actions in regard to Mueller’s report when all along Mueller had talked to Barr, sent him letters and made very clear what his thoughts were. It’s incredible.
Even more incredible was the willingness of the Republican Senators to go along with the sham. Chuck Grassley trying to equate the fact that the Dems paid for oppo research from an American firm that hired a British specialist that talked to Russians is not engaging in communications with Putin’s buddies or the Russian intelligence or their cutouts. Lyndsey Graham (initials L.O.G.) opened up the hearing by wanting to look at Hillary Clinton’s emails and the other Republicans piled on. When Joni Ernst was questioning even the newscasters cut away to talk about something else. Maybe it was because she sounded like a 15 year old mall rat? I don’t know. I finally had to turn it off when Ted Cruz did his usual bit. He thanked Barr for his service to the country, noted his exemplary career before this, and that Barr answered “the call to service” and came back to government. I wanted to puke. Barr’s exemplary career includes being the mastermind behind one of the greatest coverups in U.S. legal history: the pardoning of the criminals involved in Iran-Contra. He also did the same thing before with summarizing a report, even used the same phrases, when he was in the Office of the Inspector General, covering up the stuff that Wu had written excusing the torture the CIA was doing for Cheney as “enhanced interrogation.” This is not some dedicated patriot, doing the will of the people, or for that matter representing them. This is a small minded craven toady, who will sell himself out for god knows what, I can’t figure it out. I guess he missed being in the middle of a shitstorm that he creates.
Then there are the 10,000 lies of Trump.
There’s Jared Kushner repeating Russian propaganda talking points.
And the really big issue to me is that the Russian elected this man as president of our country and no one is talking about that, because it’s so far out of the realm of possibility or proof that those who support Trump or are diehard Republicans are willing to say things like: “Well, we don’t know that,” or “There’s no proof.” etc.
Yeah? We know that the Russians in their social media attack reached 129,000,000 Americans. Do you think that changed 72,000 votes? I do.
There’s the outright gaslighting and the Republican Senators seem to be caught in a Stockholm Effect and desperate to hold on to whatever they can.
It makes we wonder when did the indians who allied themselves with Cortez think that wasn’t such a good idea? Or the Carthaginians who didn’t resupply Hannibal? Ot the Romans who didn’t come to the aid of the general who tried to get them to defend themselves against Attila? Or the Christians in Europe who didn’t come to the aid of Constantinople? The list goes on and on, but the point is the same. You may have differences with people close to you, but ignoring them you do at your peril.
Imagine if FDR hadn’t teamed up with Stalin and Hitler had won WWII?
Yeah, Stalin was a bad dude, but Hitler was worse.
History is littered with people not acting in their own best interest. Our nation is suffering from that right now, and it seems to be getting worse. Ignoring of basic facts. OMG. I got my Mumps vaccine yesterday, and to think that there are people who claim to be educated that think vaccinations are bad. The willingness and gullibleness of people still astounds me. When people do not look at the facts or are willing to believe untruths masquerading as fact I find it disheartening and realize we need to more to educate and inform. We are facing tidal waves of deceit and deception coupled with a willingness to believe that which is false but “feels right (or good or something)”
Neil deGrasse Tyson said about science that it is the search for the truth. I like that.
The search for the truth.
That is what I strive for and I hope others will too.
550 Days to the 2020 election and 628 Days to Inauguration Day
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