“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Then there are the lies that must be believed in order to progress and if the lie is unbelievable, it is repeated with enough frequency and conviction until the majority of people do believe. Then it becomes truth and so we live with truths that are really contrivances to make the science “settled” and the medicine taste good.
“We choose truth over facts," says Joe Biden. A flub, perhaps, but a Freudian flub, nonetheless.
Do you know how to determine truth from fiction nowadays? If the search engines and social media outlets shut down debate on an issue, that’s a pretty good indication that the science is settled. Anything threatening their orthodoxy is misinformation or disinformation. The Ministry of Truth has thus proclaimed truth and the Town Criers, at the Crown’s bequest, ring their bells in the public square and pronounce the proclamations far and wide. Then fact checkers dismiss the facts and start telling you the “truth”.
The vaccine is safe and 95% effective against the dreaded Black Plague.
Masking, social distancing, and hand washing prevents the spread.
Speaking of the spread: two weeks to stop it!
“We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated—for themselves, their families and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm,” another Biden utterance.
If vaccinated, you will not contract the dreaded plague nor transmit it to grandma.
And what about the sizable increase of heart attacks and sudden death among males age 25-44 after receiving the vaccination? It’s their own fault: They aren’t up-to-date on their covid vaccinations and they don’t mask up. Rinse and repeat a thousand times and people will believe the truth, just not the facts.
Lola
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, so we’re told.
We’re to believe that there has been a parental suppression of children’s true sexual nature and somehow, medical “experts” have come along just in the nick of time and saved these poor children from living a lie. It saved us because here we’ve been fumbling along thinking there are only two sexes when there are so many more to explore. Maybe we’ve been duped by the fluoride we’ve been drinking—a heavy note of watery conspiracy.
When a man wins the women’s NCAA swimming title we say, Finally! Someone is acknowledging that if a man can’t win as a man, better to choose womanhood any day of the week. And of course, if you’re going to get locked up, the women’s prison unit is a bit easier, or so I’ve been told.
It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world.
Except, somehow, Lola figured it out.
Simon Says: Existential
“Today, no nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate crisis. We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but few of them truly deserve to be called existential. The climate crisis does,” said Darth Vader, aka Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
“Climate change is the existential threat to humanity,” [Joe Biden said]. “Unchecked, it is going to actually bake this planet. This is not hyperbole. It’s real.”
“We must ... face the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis,” said Nancy Pelosi.
“Climate change is an existential threat,” wrote Mark Carney, the UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance.
“Let me put it to you this way. How many politicians, how many scientists, how many people have stood up and said, ‘This is existential for us on this planet’? Existential. That means life and death. And the question is, are we behaving as if it is? And the answer is no,” said John Kerry, special envoy for climate.
CIA Director William Burns said climate change was "the biggest existential threat that any of us face in human society."
Etcetera.
The problem is, no one has proven that there is an existential threat concerning earth’s climate. No one has proven that mankind’s activities have risen the temperature by one smidgen of a degree. However, the science is settled. No more debate.
White Rage!
You used to be able to tell white lies but now, I’m afraid, white lies are code for white supremacy.
“…I want to understand white rage and I’m white, and I want to understand it.
So, what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building [U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021] and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out,” testified Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley.
So white rage caused the “mostly violent” protest on January 6, 2021.
What about the mostly peaceful protests outside the White House on May 29, 2020? White rage?
That rage caused injuries to over 60 Secret Service members guarding the White House. I guess a mob storming the White House isn’t as dangerous to the Republic as storming the Capitol; the house is white, after all.
And of course, all mass killing episodes are linked to white rage and subsequent supremacy (forget the fact that most were perpetrated by non-whites).
Just remember, fellow citizen, anything declaring racist Republicans as a threat to democracy is truth.
A Return to Normalcy
The country was told by the echo chamber media that a vote for Biden was a vote to return to normalcy. People were so enamored with returning to normalcy and voted for the normal Joe Biden.
In 2008, Barack Obama received 62 million votes and won the presidency. In 2012, Obama won with 62 million votes again. In 2016, Hillary Clinton collected 66 million votes to Donald Trump’s 63 million (both totals rounded up). In 2020, Donald Trump received 74 million votes. You’d thought he would have won based upon former presidential vote totals. Biden received 81 million votes, outpacing Obama and Clinton. Normalcy has returned.
It is obvious that Biden is the man of the people and after Biden’s first 100 days in office, The Washington Post also declared Biden the winner of the “Least Lies” award.
In the wake of a presidency in which lie-telling was a key feature, preliminary results on dishonesty are in for President Joe Biden.
Biden made 67 false and misleading statements in his first 100 days in office, according to a report… from The Washington Post’s fact checker. That compares to 511 such comments from his predecessor Donald Trump in his first 100 days.
It is, after all, the fact checkers who deliver the truth and the science is settled once the “truth” is told.
I unintentionally left out the biggest lie of them all:
“Our border is secure and our border is not open,” claims Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.