Truthiness

 Ahhh, good old Stephen Colbert. Truthiness, his concept, is now the Order of the Day in Trumpland America. Truthiness is said to be, “the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.”

We used to say, in the good old days of the 20^th century (remember then??), that Reagan made it ok again to be a racist.  Remember Ronald Reagan or St. Ronald of Reagan as we called him?  All his talk about welfare queens—Black women driving in their Cadillacs to go shopping with their food stamps—was intended to outrage white people about people of color.  Reagan was many things, but subtle wasn’t one of them.

And just when we thought we had finally escaped Reagan’s racist views, we brought in Donald Trump, and Truthiness has a new lease on life.  Trump has made it ok again to be a:

• ·         Liar
• ·         Racist
• ·         Nazi
• ·         Misogynist
• ·         ConMan
• ·         Conspiracist

In fact that list seems to describe his entire roster of supporters.  And, in part, it begins to describe his style of campaigning.  We know that he surpassed 20,000 lies sometime during his third year in office.  He has converted Twitter into a great LIE machine. Apparently, instead of sleeping, he watches Fox News and then begins tweeting lies he learned sometime in the middle of the night.  But as to campaigning style, we now have come to understand that Trump lies partly to disguise his own campaign strategy.

For example, when he was working so hard to tell the world about Hunter and Joe Biden’s crooked/colluding ways in the Ukraine, we now know that he was pressuring the head of Ukraine to launch a public investigation in exchange for some gifts from the US. And we know that he actively colluded with the Russians to ascend to his high position.

So, now we understand that whenever Trump launches a (patently untrue) conspiracy offensive against someone—Biden for example—it represents something Trump is already doing. His lies are intended to cover his own tracks. This is a consistent strategy, designed likely by someone like Rudy Giuliani, since Trump isn’t clever enough.

So, if Truthiness is now the new standard for conversational English in America, we should begin engaging.

For example, did you know that Vlad the Impaler Putin is actually related to Adolph Hitler??? Yeah, see Hitler didn’t actually die in that bunker in 1945. They faked it and Adolph actually escaped with his girl friend to Russia! Yeah, turns out, he cut a deal with Stalin to retire to a seaside resort on the Baltic Sea, St. Petersburg, in exchange for a very large cash donation.  And finally Adolph and his girlfriend produced a kid in 1952, Vlad was his name.

And then it also turns out that Trump’s daddy wasn’t really German. He was of German descent, but he actually was Italian, and related to Benito Mussolini, although it is unclear what the exact relationship is.

So, these newly acquired facts, help to explain Trump’s relationship with Vlad the Impaler.  Think Hitler and his relationship to Mussolini. Benito wasn’t exactly employed by Adolph, but it was the nearest equivalent. Sort of like an organized crime gang led by Hitler with Mussolini heading up the Sicilian chapter of the Italian Mafia. So, Trump has now fallen into daddy’s footsteps, and is acting as the American Mafia head to Vlad’s Global Organized Crime ring.

See, seems obvious doesn’t it, now that you know the facts.

So, there, that’s my contribution to Sunday’s Exercise in Truthiness.

TaTa!