I know what you're thinking about, but it isn't so, nohow. Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic courtesy of Lewis Carroll.
However, the current state of American politics might as well be something of a bad dream that Alice saw on her way through Wonderland and beyond the looking-glass.
- For roughly 40 percent of the country, if the president, any member of the administration, someone with an “R” next to their name, or just a garden variety kook/right-wing blowhard announces an accusation without any evidence (e.g., wiretapping, Pizzagate, voter fraud, etc.), it becomes true gospel even if it was a late-night dumbass tweet liked by fellow dumbasses.
- For roughly 40 percent of the country, if the news media cites multiple sources and prior statements —some of it on video with the actual participants lying through their own teeth— which conflict with the administration’s “alternative facts,” any and all of that information is “fake” because the idiot-in-chief said so.
- For the other half of America, we keep holding out hope people aren’t stupid enough to hand power over to obvious lunatics, even though that’s already been proved dramatically wrong.
- Photographic evidence of Trump lies? FAKE!
- Believing the trans-Atlantic slave trade was an immigration program, and segregated higher education was “school choice” is a mainstream conservative position, which is held by cabinet officers of the United States government in the 21st century.
- Some of the highest-ranking members of the executive branch either have connections to or sympathize with actual fucking Nazis.
- Also according to the dumb fucking 40 percent, members of the United States government lying about meeting with Russian officials is no big deal.
- However, leaks of possible wrongdoing are wrong, wrong, wrong … if they embarrass Republicans, even though these are the same people who loved Wikileaks during the 2016 campaign … BECAUSE HER EMAILS!!!
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The president of the United States lied 132 times during the first 33 days of holding office, and yet somehow some people still take what he says seriously and repeats it verbatim in headlines with no analysis of whether it might be the same bullshit as usual.
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Furthermore, a person who lies almost every day about what he believes, what he will do, or what he has done in the past will continually be given the benefit of the doubt by the press and his major speeches will be judged on a curve, with moronic punditry lauding a presentation built on bullshit as the height of sophistry.
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After said presentation of bullshit, some pundits are stupid enough to call it “the moment he became president,” even though that disastrously started back in January.
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According to the president Breitbart, Infowars, consumate idiot Mark Levin, and other “alternative agencies” know as much as the CIA and FBI.
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It’s an outrage for the Justice Department to investigate a presidential candidate … except if her name is Hillary Clinton. BECAUSE HER EMAILS!!!
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The guy who calls groups “enemies of the people” and used to hang out with Roy Cohn is the one screaming about being a victim of McCarthyism.