I write fantasy novels. Everything that’s in them, I made up.
Then there are the fantasies that our politicians make up.
Yes, their little minds are always cooking up more devilment. I guess the latest one is SloJo’s claim that everybody in America except the jidrools who follow him is a semifascist hater white supremacist threat to democracy.
What are your favorite fantasies disguised as rational discourse about government?
I just can’t understand why highly-credentialed, supposedly expert, highly-paid big shots keep saying things they know perfectly well aren’t true. Not only untrue, not only lies–but also gross violations of decency. And even basic sanity.
I’m thinking, of course, of political leaders, news pundits, alleged scientists, college professors, public school teachers, sports officials–you name it–who insist that men can become women, women can become men, America is the most evil racist country in the world, Climbit Chainge is gonna kill us all unless we give absolute power to the government… and on and on and on, not a word of it true.
And they know that none of it is true. At least I hope they do; because if they didn’t, they would be not only evil, but terrifyingly stupid. And it’s dangerous to let power rest in the hands of stupid people.
So Fox Nooze, formerly (and supposedly!) a conservative news network, quick as boiled asparagus, does a full 180 and hires Bruce Jenner as a commentator–falling all over themselves to hail and praise this addled, troubled man as some kind of civil rights pioneer for saying he’s a woman. The insincerity is breathtaking. You could fill the Grand Canyon with it. Nor can one help asking, “Well, what else have they been telling lies about?”
Trying to understand it wears me out. We encounter it every single day. Is it for more money? More power? More fame? Or have they just gone barking mad? (“Hunter Biden has done nothing wrong!”)
Pray for deliverance. We need it.
“So do I get my 10 percent or not?”
I don’t like to write war nooze, because I have very little confidence in the information we receive from the media.
Nevertheless, here are what will surely be the top three lies told about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. If you haven’t heard any of them yet, be patient. You will.
*It’s Donald Trump’s fault. Hillary Clinton says so. It is rumored that she once said something, back in 2009, that was not a lie. She denies it.
*Ukraine’s borders are much more important than our own! Six out of ten Democrats think so.
*The real fight is Climate Change! John Kerry said it first, but look for lots and lots of libs to echo him.
There is an outside chance that they will blame the war in Ukraine on white privilege. They haven’t done it yet, but don’t be too surprised if they do.
God help us.