by EagleHasLanded
When you are unable to agree on basic facts, on the rules, on what the foundation is, on the starting point, you can’t agree on anything because you’re starting at different places. If you say the sky is green and I say it is blue, one of us is just wrong. If you say a touchdown in football is worth 9 points and I say it is worth 6 points, we can’t be playing the same game. The rules can be adjusted as in MLB between the National and American leagues. But when the games are different, there can be no compromise. You can’t play chess using a basketball.
You cannot reason with the unreasonable. As Thomas Payne once said,
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead…”
We are now in the season when reasoning with Amtrak Joe supporters is like trying to administer reason and logic to the brain dead. It’s a waste of time and effort. His supporters, however few there are left, are having none of it.
Case in point, inflation. Even The Resident’s Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Jared Bernstein, supposedly an intelligent man, refuses to tell the truth on what the national annual inflation rate was when The Resident took office in January 2021. Watch and listen to him squirm and weasel his way around not answering Neil Cavuto’s question regarding The Resident’s repeated lies about the actual inflation rate when he first took office.
The verified, confirmed, historical and official national inflation rate when Donald J. Trump left office was 1.4%! That is a “sky is blue” fact. The Brandon Regime’s spokesliars insist, along with Lunchbucket Joe himself, that the inflation rate inherited, by said kook, was a “sky is green” fantasy 9% figure. They are living in a different inflation world that is 9 times greater than the real world the rest of us inhabited in January 2021. Nine times different! That is not a surmountable or understandable mere difference of opinion. Instead, they are two different realities, one being imaginary.
They really think we are all fools and that we will continue to play along with their foolishness. How do you deal with liars that are so blatant in their mendacity? Scoff at them. Laugh at them to their face. Ridicule them. Point at them like the circus freaks they are. They deserve nothing but our derision and scorn. Their determination to ride rough shod over us and common sense cannot be taken lightly, but their ideas must be stomped out and dismissed with laughter. Take their tactics seriously, but not their arguments. Their ideas are silly, but their actions are deadly. Their actions, in pursuit of their silly ideas, bring destruction.
While we try to change their minds, however worthy yet fruitless those attempts may be, we must counter the consequences of those stupid ideas. In order to do that, we must first recognize their lies and call them out loudly every time. Hitler and Goebbels, Stalin and Mao knew the power of lies.
If they will lie about easily provable facts like the official level of inflation, what else will they lie about? Everything, and they are.
They are lying about COVID, it’s origin, the vaccine and the numerous boosters.
They are lying about the COVID lockdowns.
They are lying about the climate as if we can control it.
They are lying about the very obvious decline in Joseph Robinette’s health and mental decline.
They are lying about the number of jobs “created” since the Dempanic Plandemic lockdowns ended. Hint: most are just returning jobs eliminated by Dem governors.
