To paraphrase ‘The Man who Shot Liberty Valance?‘ “when the lie becomes more attractive than fact, vote Trump.” As with almost everything from computers to right wing lunacy, we can proudly claim that Brits chose lies first with our Brexit vote, but, again as with almost everything, Americans did it bigger.
So we will have a new, red-blooded (and very possibly unhinged) man in the White House. Trump, his supporters apparently believe, has what it takes to tackle U.S. and world (now to be known as ‘Trumpworld inc.’) problems fearlessly and really ‘tell it like it is’. They think he’s going to make things better. Everyone else, i.e. the majority of American voters and everyone else in Trumpworld, except Putin and Farage, is plain old frit.
Here are some examples which give an indication of the new Pres’s Trumpworld view: we should all get the hang of this stuff because he’s a tad scary when he thinks we don’t agree with him and doesn’t understand why the US would have nuclear weapons and not use them. So fix these pithy ideas (is that the right word for Trump’s thoughts?) in your mind.
He’s got a big willy. We know because he told us:
“Look at those hands, are they small hands?” Trump said, raising them for viewers to see. “And, he referred to my hands — ‘if they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.”
Global warming is a scam.
Global warming, AKA climate change, (renamed, he says, because it wasn’t getting warmer so ‘they’ had to call it something else), is a lie invented to benefit Chinese Industry. He tweeted in 2012 that
“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.”
Here’s more of his tweeting:
“It’s late in July and it is really cold outside in New York. Where the hell is GLOBAL WARMING??? We need some fast! It’s now CLIMATE CHANGE.”
“Record setting cold and snow, ice caps massive! The only global warming we should fear is that caused by nuclear weapons – incompetent pols.”
“Windmills are the greatest threat in the US to both bald and golden eagles. Media claims fictional ‘global warming’ is worse.”
“NBC News just called it the great freeze – coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX?”
And here’s one great response:
“When it comes to global warming, I’ll trust the world’s scientists. If I need help filing bankruptcy I’ll listen to you.”
This could be a very long list of Trump’s beliefs but I’ll stop here. Should we be bovvered? Was he just kidding? Well, he’s appointing his family, friends and other scary people to key roles. Steve Bannon as Chief Strategist for example, will help him run Trumpworld. According to S.E. Cupp (author of “Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media’s Attack on Christianity,” co-author of “Why You’re Wrong About the Right” and a columnist at the New York Daily News) Bannon’s website is rife with bigoted, anti-Semitic, homophobic, misogynist content. No wonder the Pres. likes him.
Not to worry, maybe the Vice-President will be a restraining influence. That would be Mike Pence, who believes smoking doesn’t kill. Pence is pro-tobacco. I love the ‘reality check’ bit below:
“Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill……..Two out of every three smokers does not die from a smoking related illness and nine out of 10 smokers do not contract lung cancer.”
The Huffington Post’s feeble rebuttal of Pence’s refreshing debunking of smoking myths resorted to science and data of all things:
“according to the American Cancer Society, cigarettes account for 30 percent of all cancer deaths and kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, HIV, guns and illegal drugs combined. Beyond cancer, smoking damages almost every organ in the body, including the lungs, heart, blood vessels, reproductive organs, mouth, skin, eyes and bones.”
Typical of the liberal elite to quote facts. But really, what have facts got to do with it?
