Dear Fred,
Elaine's disclaimer in ALL CAPS is revealing.
She claims she doesn't have time to fact check the quotes she circulates - maybe one quote per week.
She could fact check every quotation she circulates - literally in a minute or two.
But what Elaine does is to supply herself with a rationale for circulating any goddamn thing, knowing that a significant number of things she circulates will work to her political advantage by virtue of ringing mendacious bells and false alarms.
For example, I don't have time to fact check the following quotation by Donald Trump: "Okay, I admit it. I'm a liar. I'm a cheat. I'm a traitor and I'm a thief. And I disdain my Base even more than Howard Stern says I do. But before I step outside to shoot a random pedestrian on 5th Avenue -- without losing any voters -- tell me: "What are you gonna do?" Vote for Biden? Not vote at all so that demented Biden wins, black terrorists take over your suburban neighborhood and MS-15 gang members get YUGE, no-interest loans to move in next door?"
(BTW... If you haven't listened to Howard Stern lambaste his former pal, it's worth a minute: https://www.youtube.
Once you ring a bell, it can't be un-rung.
"American" "conservatives" take FULL advantage of this fact.
It has taken me a long time to accept full realization that these ass-licking sludge-suckers actually believe that "If you're not cheating, you're not trying your hardest to win.
And winning is EVERYTHING.
Republican Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan "Summarizes The Republican Philosophy"
I realize that many of these smiley-faced mini-Satans have been unconsciously conditioned to prize deviousness and mendacity.
Well, okay.
Adios, democracy.
But it is still true that American "conservatives" have become so acclimatized to lying -- and so craven "around" the political advantage of continual mendacious misrepresentation -- that I am confident (not certain, but confident) that Elaine would rationalize prolonging her provably misleading behavior because she can tell herself that "she's offering a disclaimer."
The dumb-fucks don't give a shit about disclaimers.
Dumb-fucks only care about the red-meat in QAnon's latest "drop."
QAnon Thinks Donald Trump Is God And Tom Hanks Is The Devil... And Oprah Is Part Of A Vast Hollywood Conspiracy That Kills - And Eats - Children. (I Am Not Kidding)
So, here I am, working on an emotionally difficult, ever-proliferating essay about American conservatism's deliberately SHITTY epistemology and non-existent intellectual rigor, and, out of the blue, Elaine (for whom I have warm feelings) dumps another turd at my door.
I will send you a link when my work-in-progress is done.
For now, here is some pertinent material.
Republicans Generally - And Trump Specifically - Are EAGER To Lie And Cheat If It Expands Their Power
Pax et amore
Alan
PS I admit to being overly hard on Elaine, but when even one's "friends" yearn for the demolition of democracy, and its replacement by red-neck, racist theocracy, we've got a problem Houston.
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