For some people, facts are illusive. According to the Audubon Society, this is a robin, but is it?
Pretend in an interview with Time magazine that Trump said, ‘This is a Bluebird.’ Audubon says that this is a robin but Trump says that’s fake news. For some time he says that he has known that the Audubon Society has been connected to the deep state. Most of their information is fake. Bluebirds are dying at an alarming rate. The government doesn’t want the public to know that it has been poisoning them for years. The corrupt government says Bluebirds aren’t disappearing. Look, they are right here. Here is a picture of one. This is a bluebird!
Trump’s followers says, ‘Geez, that looks like a Robin, but I guess I’m wrong’.
Trump shouts, ‘That’s a Bluebird. When they fly through the east coast something in the air changes the red color on their chests to blue. It’s been going on for a long time. It’s a government conspiracy.’
Would you believe him? Do you believe everything he says? If not, why not?
Take crime for instance. Do you think crime has gone up or down in the last year? Republicans have been successfully scaring the bejesus out of everyone into believing that the country is facing a crime spree and it’s all because Biden is not tough on crime. They say it over and over again until it’s accepted as a ‘fact’. It’s very simple to find out what the crime rate was last year. The government makes all figures available to anyone that wants to see them. Just Google US Crime Rates, 2023. It comes right up.
But are people correct or just guessing based on their fears?
This is what Trump said in an interview with Time magazine:
It still surprises me that Trump can repeatedly lie without consequence. His lying is like a contagious disease to the people he holds power over. They all ‘catch’ it and get on board. Many of them believe they have no other choice. I can understand their fear. He has clearly said that if they come after him, he will go after them and currently he has the power to do that. Please know, it’s a power the republicans have given him as the power balance slides in his favor.
It’s so simple to know the difference between a fact and an opinion. Opinions use words like ‘skyrocket’ or expressions like ‘though the roof’.
I don’t understand why intelligent people believe anything Trump says. I am not at a loss as to why he lies. He wants to be president again and he wants to stay out of jail. No brainer there. I am at a loss as to why people believe him. What’s in it for them?
Here is the ongoing comment from people that are over saturated with our political news:
All politicians are corrupt. Really? Is that an opinion or fact? There are some corrupt politicians. There are some corrupt CEO’s. There are some corrupt people in every vocation. That is a fact. But ALL? I’ve heard that response too many times. When people buy that rhetoric what they are actually saying is that what is happening in our political system and government is too frightening to pay attention to and there is nothing I can do about it. So, ‘I think I’ll just close my eyes and bury my head in the sand.’ What they are actually doing is abdicating responsibility for helping their children and grandchildren to grow up in a functioning democracy. Closing their eyes will bring our country to its knees as it did under Hitler and Mussolini during WWII.
But is Biden really corrupt, as corrupt as Trump? Let’s consider for a moment that Ivanka has been convicted of the same crimes as Hunter Biden. We know what Biden’s response has been. He has kept the power of our government away from changing the outcome of the trial. Biden has also publicly stated that he would not pardon Hunter now that he has been found guilty, and that should Hunter go to prison he would not step in the save his son. A lack of action to not protect my children that would almost kill me. It’s killing him too.
But suppose Ivanka was convicted of the same crimes as Hunter Biden and Trump was president. Would he even let her go to trial never mind prison? Just think about it for one minute. Really. That’s all I’m asking is for you to think about what Trump would do if his daughter was going to jail? How did you answer that question?
What has Biden actually done for any of us? Really, what has he been able to accomplish with Trump blocking him every step of the way?
Do Biden and Trump hold the same values? This is what Trump said at his rally to his fans that had been waiting in the blazing Arizona sun for several hours to see him. Try picturing Biden saying this.
He also said during that rally directly to his followers right in front of them:
“We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote. I don’t care’
Trump couldn’t be plainer. That quote wasn’t reported on Fox News or any other conservative news source that his supporters would access. It was quietly reported on every ‘liberal’ outlet but we already know he believes that; ’I don’t care about you.’ How much plainer can he make it?
The biggest mystery to me is Tump’s conversion of the Christian right. The guy doesn’t even pretend to go to church. He can’t be bothered waisting his time. So Why? Why do they believe Trump is their ‘spiritual’ leader? Mike Johnson is the real deal; a by the book conservative Christian Baptist living in the 1800’s, fully knowing that women are subservient followers of righteous male leadership. Trump must look like the devil incarnate to him. Trump has had willing and unwilling sex in wedlock, during wedlock, out of wedlock. He is a convicted felon. He financially cheats on his taxes, depriving all of us the rightful use of those dollars for our schools, our police departments, our roads, our military defense, etc. Instead Johnson bows down to him, takes a knee. Why would Johnson who adheres to the word of the bible do that? Don’t they hear what Trump is telling them, that he doesn’t care about them? Apparently not.
The conclusion I draw from Johnson’s behavior and Trump’s MAGA followers is they live by two sets of conflicting values. Their primary value is to do what Jesus would do. But another value takes precedence, the need to be in power so they can reinsert their religious beliefs onto all of our lives. To get that power, they are willing to give up their stated core values of Jesus’s philosophy of equality to Trump’s philosophy of every man for himself, until they are more equal than the rest of us. Then they can again live by white privilege rules of the 19th century.
‘Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.’ Walter Scott.
Here is the future. Trump comes to power. As in every other autocracy, he holds all the power. Your ‘choice’ is to comply if you want to keep your job, keep your house, to not be watched, to stay out of a future educational camp, to stay alive.
Trump says this is a Bluebird.
Do you agree with Trump that it’s a Bluebird? Do you get out your crayons and color his chest blue? Or do you know it’s still a robin. What are we all going to do about it come November?