Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Mayan Elephant:
Not only have I denounced the Big Lie, I have denounced the Big lie big lie.
It is now a practically unequivocal fact that the surest way to know that something is true is Trump insistently claiming it to be a hoax. Is there really anyone here who has not yet figured out that practically incontrovertible fact?
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
It is now a practically unequivocal fact that the surest way to know that something is true is Trump insistently claiming it to be a hoax. Is there really anyone here who has not yet figured out that practically incontrovertible fact?
I like it. It’s a new maxim. “When Trump speaks, the exact opposite is true.”
I like it. It’s a new maxim. “When Trump speaks, the exact opposite is true.”
Yes! I have long ago lost count of how many times that has proven to be true.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
It is now a practically unequivocal fact that the surest way to know that something is true is Trump insistently claiming it to be a hoax. Is there really anyone here who has not yet figured out that practically incontrovertible fact?
I like it. It’s a new maxim. “When Trump speaks, the exact opposite is true.”
I think it is true to say that Trump does not principally see publicly spoken words as a way of informing other people about what is the case. Rather, words are a kind of magic spell that can be used to change the nature of reality. As the Bellman says in the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, "What I tell you three times is true".
And so far as his base is concerned, it is.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Mayan Elephant:
Not only have I denounced the Big Lie, I have denounced the Big lie big lie.