Manufacturing Reality: Truth Enrages The Tyrant

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For anyone capable of real thought, it should be very clear that the increasingly unhinged Don Trump is using his presidency to manufacture his own reality. And anything or anyone that challenges that reality faces severe consequences.

Take, for example, the matter of statistics. Having previously extolled the numbers produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, he is now firing its head, Erika McEntarfer, because he doesn't like her most recent statistical facts. The termination came

• hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt.
• “We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Her crime, for want of a better word, was reporting the creation of  a mere 73,000 jobs in July, far below what the market had anticipated. There is likely a strong correlation between those numbers and the impact of Trump's insane and illegal tariffs working their way through the American economy.

Prior to Friday’s report, Trump repeatedly has championed the strength of the labor market. After the June numbers had been released initially, the White House put out a statement calling it a “June Boom.”

The weak jobs report Friday preceded a sharp drop in markets, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average off more than 500 points and the tech-focused Nasdaq off more than 2%. Treasury yields also slumped.

And speaking of manufacturing his own reality, in a transparent ply to gain the 'cooperation' of convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, the Bureau of Prisons has moved her to a minimum security camp  in Texas, a dormitory-style incarceration usually reserved for white collar criminals. One can assume this is in preparation for an appearance before Congress and an eventual Trump pardon, since federal rules expressly forbid sexual predators from such a cosy, cosseted environment.

Take a look at the first story on NBC Nightly News.

Don Trump's almost daily assaults on truth and morality surely offend all who have a moral compass or, in the case of MAGATS, an addiction to conspiracy theories.

Will any of this be enough to break the back of his presidency? One lives in hope.

Theatre Of The Absurd

Any facile defence of Roy Moore's creepy predilections has to be regarded thus. His attorney, Trenton Garmon, even tried to draw Canadian Ali Velshi into the fray.

Richard Dawkins Says "Mild Pedophilia" Does No Harm

Scientist and atheist campaigner, Richard Dawkins, says it was “no harm, no foul” when a school master pulled young Dawkins onto his lap, shoved his hands down the boy’s pants and fondled him.

“Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called ‘mild pedophilia,’ which, he says, he personally experienced as a young child and does not believe causes ‘lasting harm.’

“Dawkins went on to say that one of his former school masters ‘pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts,’ and that to condemn this ‘mild touching up’ as sexual abuse today would somehow be unfair.

“’I am very conscious that you can’t condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we don’t look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism. I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can’t find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today,’ he said.

“Plus, he added, though his other classmates also experienced abuse at the hands of this teacher, ‘I don’t think he did any of us lasting harm.’”


MoS, the Disaffected Lib