Objective Truth: The Trump Truth

  

Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as "Science." There is only "German Science," "Jewish Science," etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. 

If the Leader says of such and such an event, "It never happened"--well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five--well, two and two are five.

--George Orwell

So now we learn that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine by invading Ukraine on 2/24/22, but somehow, Ukraine started the war, by getting invaded, or by goading Russia into invading, or by recklessly attacking Russia's nuclear power plants, or by getting Congress to impeach Trump for attempting to extort the President of Ukraine, or something. 

President Trump says Ukraine started the war. The US government objected to the G-7 statement that Russia was the aggressor. 

President Trump calls President Zelensky a "dictator" and calls for elections while the bombs are falling. (That would make for interesting polling places.) 

President Trump says the war in Ukraine would never have happened had he been President. Says that Hamas would never have attacked on October 7, had he been President. 

Washington attacks Pearl Harbor!

In other words, we have now gone full blown Orwell.

Of course, Donald Trump says so many things, and in the past we have written off half of what he says as just the babblings of an infant--oh, he didn't really mean that, take him seriously, not literally--so you could kind of pick and choose which of his blitherings you wanted to accept. 

But now when he says President Zelensky started the war in Ukraine and is a dictator, it's hard to keep smiling past that.

Is there something we can agree is objective truth?

Alex Jones claimed there was no massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, Newtown, Connecticut, that no children were actually murdered by gunfire. And his lawyer, when confronted with that, answered, "Well, were you at the morgue when they brought those bodies in?"

Sandy Hook Students or actors?

So much of what we accept as truth is not something we actually witnessed: We can believe the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor when we see the photos, but, hey--those could have been staged, right?

Astronauts on the moon? Hollywood studio right?

Oh, just so staged!

When you accept the Alex Jones criteria--you can only know what you have actually witnessed, you become a sort of free floating agnostic.

And eye witness testimony is so unreliable. As so many studies have shown: eye witness memory is maeleable, untrustworthy, often wrong. 

Was there really a disease called polio? Is there such a thing as AIDS?

Fake Iron Lung Ward

Did COVID kill millions? Did you see those bodies in those trucks outside the hospital yourself? Or was it just all fake news?

Did Jesus walk the earth and perform miracles?

Did Bobby Thomson really hit a home run to win the pennant for the Dodgers?

Did the Hindenburg really explode? Were you there it see it?

Artist's Rendition?

Did Lincoln ever really live and walk the earth or did we just make up this fallen hero? 

Does Volodymyr Zelensky really exist? Did he actually say, when offered an escape from Ukraine as the Russian tanks rolled toward Kyiv, "I don't need a ride; I need ammunition."?

Dictator, Invader?

Really, when you think about it, until Donald Trump says so, nothing is real.

Just Ask Donald