Since I keep going on about how “Objective Truth trumps Personal Faith” my gal pointed me to Trevor Noah’s recent commentary on Trump’s disregard for the truth. “Adapting to Donald Trump's Lies” does a nice job of considering our Truth-Challenged president-elect.
It’s worth listening to, much sharper than the ‘white bread news’ that seems to be doing their best to lull Democrats back into their usual complacency, “give him a chance,” “lets wait to see what he actually does.” Yeah right! While the Alt-Right and Tea-partiers are busy lining up their targets and sharpening their knifes. Since when should one willingly idle about waiting to get mauled? Every day matters. Yes, it is that serious. Wake up.
Trump has been very clear about what he and the people around him want to do to USA’s government and the protections we’ve fought long and hard to achieve. Trust Trump's promises, fear for the worst because without massive and effective opposition, you can be certain that the worst will happen! This isn’t an idle game for them. There are all too many good reasons to be scared right now.
Actually, much better than just scared is to be scared into action and involvement and learning how to communicate the rationalist's perspective in millions of discussions and communications with each other and our representatives and leaders across the country. Time to get engaged in the government operations that dictate how we shall live.
You know, here is where we must reaffirm the need for honesty and the need for observational fact-based decision making rather that self-certain Personal Faith turning the political landscape into a country of enemies, rather then members of the same team USA.
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Trevor Noah - Adapting to Donald Trump's Lies
Published on Nov 30, 2016 - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Even after Donald Trump's mendacious 2016 presidential campaign,
the media is still grappling with how to report on the now-president-elect's blatant falsehoods.
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Then after my introduction there’s an 18 minute talk by James Hoggan, founder of the information blog DeSmogBlog.com who offers reflections on what he’s learned from studying the right-wing PR machine driven Climate Science Contrarian movement. Which is followed by Richard Milne PhD, college level one hour twenty minute lecture for those who want to get into more depth: "Critical Thinking on Climate Change: Separating Skepticism from Denial." It's sad that it has taken Hoggan's YouTube nearly four years to break 500 views.
Four years of general apathy while the Alt-Right was diligently generating and broadcasting the most outlandish slander and fabricating stories meant to shamelessly and maliciously sow fear and hatred in gullible, scared people’s hearts.
Four years of general apathy while the Alt-Right was diligently generating and broadcasting the most outlandish slander and fabricating stories meant to shamelessly and maliciously sow fear and hatred in gullible, scared people’s hearts.
