"... Mr. Trump’s family and supporters like to say “We are so back!” and they are, without doubt. Yet as the man who will be president again spun out threats and angry denouncements of the Biden administration and personal grievances for more than an hour on Tuesday in the living room of his Mar-a-Lago club, something else was back: the chaotic stream-of-consciousness presidency.
"Mr.
Trump has returned to our daily national cognizance, even though one
could argue he never really left. Tuesday’s news conference was a
reminder of what that was like, and what the next four years may have in
store. [snip]
"With the departing incumbent fading from view, Mr. Trump seems to sense that if he takes the stage, there will be no one to push back on his interpretation of recent history. He is rewriting that history quickly, just as he recast the events of Jan. 6, in hopes that his election was evidence that Americans believe he was pursued by prosecutors out of vengeance, not the application of justice.
“'That’s a sick group of people, and it was all to influence the election,” Mr. Trump said of the investigations led by Jack Smith, the special counsel. “It was all a fight against their political opponent. We’ve never had that in this country. We have had that in certain countries. We’ve had that in third-tier countries.” Inevitably, he started talking about “banana republics,” a familiar line from the first term. Some things don’t change." -- David Sanger, New York Times, on the insanity and chaos that the Malignant Fascist (MF) is bringing back, most recently displayed yesterday at a press conference at Mar-a-Lardo (an abbreviated review here). To all those 77 million Americans who voted to let this incompetent simpleton back into power, well done!
Back in the long ago times, as I went through grades K-12, we had "Crirical Thinking" classes alongside history and civics. I assume this is not taught anymore because people are clearly relying on "trusted news sources" that are personality-based, not thinking-based. Lies, bullshit, and disinformation can be avoided if you think just a bit. During Trump's "news" conference yesterday, he was complaing about the vile people who valued his Mar-a-Lago bedbug factory at no more than $18M. He pointed up to the ceiling and said "that one chandelier is worth more than $18M!" 🤣 It should not be difficult to figure that is unlikely to be true. So, thinking critically, you would start to wonder what other exaggerating might Trump engage in and how important each truth-stretch might be to my personal well-being. See how easy that is? Just start doing it, people...Please!! 🙏
ReplyDelete🤔 Just for reference: the most expensive Tiffany crystal chandelier I found is $300K. The most expensive chandelier made of Tiffany glass is about $1M. The most expensive chandelier in the world right now comes in at about $3.5M, but that one is a Ferrari F40 hanging from the ceiling! 😲
DeleteCleora -- thinking, much less critical thinking, seems in short supply, particularly on one side of the political spectrum. It's going to be a looonng 4 years!
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