Day 971 – Earth 1, 2, & 3

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Frequently, I have heard commentators refer to the real world as Earth 1 and the world of climate, election, and vacine deniers as Earth 2. But I posit that there is another world – Earth 3, and possibly a forth – Hyper Earth.

Let’s deal with Hyper Earth first because it is easier to do. Hyper Earth is when Earth 2 comes into contact with Earth 1. Take for instance Ron DeSantis appointing a witch doctor (what else would you call him – a doctor? Come on.) as head of Florida’s health services. That guy (the head of Florida’s health services) has railed against Covid vaccines and is doing so again with the new version of it. How many people are going to die or get really sick because they listened to him?

Okay, that’s Hyper Earth. And we could argue that when the Jan 6th folks get sentenced to jail time that is Hyper Earth – maybe???

But I suggest there is yet another Earth – Earth 3. It is the strangest world of all.

Sorry, I interupt this screed to bitch about something else. I just read this:

John Hughes is a marketing director at Merck in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is best known for being the husband of Kristen Welker. He reportedly obtained the position in 2015 but had been working for the firm since 2006.

What? Wait? He obtained the position as Kristen Welker’s husband in 2015? Bad relative pronouning…

BTW He’s been Kristen Welker’s husband since 2017.

Where was I? Oh yes. Earth 3. Let’s examine the evidence and related phenomena. I have seen a few clips of Kristen Welker’s interview with Donald Trump. Also, clips from the Megyn Kelly interview with him. You’ll be surprised to hear that I heard somethings come out of is mouth that I found well – worth noting. Let’s put it that way.

Trump said that the charges against him were all fake, and that he had a right to all the documents he took because of The Presidential Records Act. (Is he really unaware that that act was written to prevent, or should I say make clear, that a President on leaving office is not entitled to every paper he held and that some belong to the people (ie the government)?) This is akin to the former governor of Virginia’s wife swiping the silverware from the mansion upon leaving.

Let’s stop right there. It wasn’t only that he said those statements, but the way he said them. It seemed to me that he has said this stuff so many times that he now believes it.

We may have talked about people “living in an echo chamber.” That is saying stuff and listening to others of the same mindset reapeat whatever it is that they all collectively come to believe it. But here I present a new case – seemingly unique, but upon further inspection not. That is the case of Donald Trump talking to himself and convincing himself of his own lies – that is Earth 3.

We’ve seen it before, but never so publicly. I think we will see what happens to this world if and when Donald is sentenced to prison. I remember when the Duke lacrosse rape case DA got sentenced. He stood there listening to the sentence and seemed to not be there; to not understand what was happening to him in that moment. We saw it too when the assistant coach for Penn State got sentenced. He seemed out of it, not understanding. And so I predict it will be with Donald Trump when Earth 1 collides and crashes into his own little earth that he has created for himself – Earth 3. He will stand there unknowingly and oblivious.