Thanks for CNN's Biden fact-check.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-checking-biden-s-claims-on-the-trade-deficit-auto-bailout-and-his-yearly-income/ar-BB18XVro?ocid=msedgdhp
I have no disagreement with any of this fact-checking as presented.
However, the
most important truths only emerge in rich context.
Unless Truth Is Richly
Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who
Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To
Tell Colossal Lies
How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell BIG Lies
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/how-conservatives-use-decontextualized.html
"Trump Is A Traitor By Virtue Of
Normalizing Falsehood And Teaching Americans To Do The Same"
There are critical thresholds in life, the crossing of which bodes
irreversibility.
If Trump crosses the same electoral threshold in 2020 that he
crossed in 2016, it will become very difficult to ever go back across that same
threshold into "normal parameters."
Consider.
H2O is one thing.
But when
thresholds are crossed, water becomes (according to quantitative changes in
ambient temperature) liquid, solid or gas; and with each of these qualitative
changes, "it's a whole new ballgame."
Given the GOP's ongoing "normalization of
falsehood as truth," it will be difficult to even locate the threshold that once
separated "normal parameters" from "Trumpism."
Down "The Memory Hole."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole
There are two ways of lying, as there
are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can
say: "It's a pound." Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of
the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and
you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between
you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the
criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible
control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating.
Denis de
Rougemont
For what it's worth, contemporary America cannot be understood without
a clear sense of QAnon's aspirations.
Functionally, QAnon has become the
mouthpiece and "information" repository for Trump Cult. Its so-called "drops"
(i.e., "information" releases) comprise a new "sacred scripture."
In these
"United" States, QAnon has taken root with the same speed and wildfire intensity
as first century Christianity took root in Rome when Peter and Paul re-directed
their attention from Jerusalem to the imperial capital around 50 A.D.
QAnon Is A
Right-Wing Device To "Re-Brand" Insanity As Sanity So That Trump's Relentless
March Toward Fascism Is Not Just Considered Normal, But Godly --- Messianic
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/qanon-is-right-wing-device-to-re-brand.html
Billy Graham's Flagship Publication, "Christianity Today," Decries QAnon As
"Demonic" And "A Great Threat To The American Church" Preaching "Predatory
Drivel" - "A Wolf In Wolf's Clothing"
When you contemplate the essence of Trump and Biden, to whom do you
assign the words "mean," "peaceful," "generous" and "just?" ... not using
criteria based on the "letter of the law," but on "the spirit." What is at stake
- right now - is "losing the last, best hope of earth."
I would argue that Biden
was substantively more accurate in his talk with auto workers by excluding
"services" from his assertion that the trade deficit has never been worse.
The
lives and livelihoods of auto workers revolve entirely around "goods," not
"services."
Do you want the inordinate wealth recently sequestered by America's
1% factored into any calculation of what your own "slice of the pie" is worth?
I
sure as hell don't.
To do so is to invoke a "small truth" that tells "a much
larger lie."
The Rich Aren't Just Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Income Pie.
They're Taking All Of It
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-rich-arent-just-grabbing-bigger.html
Concerning Joe's false statements about son Beau's "dedicated statue" in Kosovo,
his paycheck assertion, and his description of the auto industry bailout are
clearly "sins."
However they are venial sins, not mortal.
And this theological
distinction, while often belittled, remains crucial to the nation's quandary.
Biden's wrongdoing remains within normal limits.
Trump, on the other hand, is a
traitor.
Joe is within the "pale."
Trump is beyond the "pale."
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/beyond-the-pale.html
Traitor Trump: Read The
Word-For-Word Legal Definition Of Treason
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/06/traitor-trump-read-word-for-word-legal.html
"Trump Is A Traitor By Virtue Of Normalizing Falsehood And Teaching Americans To
Do The Same"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/trump-is-traitor-by-virtue-of.html
Finally, I have long considered NPR's "On The Media" the best, most meaningful
"current events" program on radio.
This weekend's edition of "On The Media"
contains several riveting segments.
The one about the presidential election
pitting Republican Rutherford B. Hayes against Democrat Samuel J. Tilden ---
"Lessons From The Contentious Election Of 1876" --- will, I believe, transfix
you.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-what-to-expect-electing
("The Contentious Election Of 1876" begins at the 24:10 mark.)
Que disfrutes
este dia tan glorioso.
Hasta pronto
Alan
Follow-up /// Seguimiento
Amigo Willard,
Archibaldear es una manera fidedigna de llegar a la verdad contextualizada.
Y la contextualizacion es el unico lugar donde radica la plena verdad.
Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies
https://newsfrombarbaria.
How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell BIG Lies
El Cantinfleo
Mayormente, las maneras tipicas de revelar la verdad no logran nada mas que los sound bites y los bumper stickers.
Hemos vivido tanto tiempo en este nivel bajito de discusion que ya nosostros los estadounidenses nos encontramos en apuros potencialmente fatales.
Y es por eso que estamos a punto de reemplazar la Republica con un estado fascista.
En realidad, la cita arriba no es de Huxley.
Sin embargo, es excelente la perspicacia que expresa la neta esencia de la estupefacción nacional.
"You Have NO Choice," A New Frame For George Carlin's Classic Shtick "The American Dream"
A proposito, estoy preparandome a mudar a otro pais por si acaso el hijueputa gane en noviembre.
Hasta pronto
Tu amigo,
Alan
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