The Truth About Truth

 

Here are some things which are True:

1/ Alex Pretti is still dead.

2/ Renee Good is still dead.

3/ Neither one of them should be dead, and neither was either a terrorist or dangerous.

These things are pretty clearly, "self evident," truths.

Another truth:

4/ Jeffrey Epstein is still dead.

And here's something which is neither true nor false: Does anyone really believe Jeffrey Epstein was not murdered?

We have been lied to about his "suicide." And we all know it, but we move on. 

Government lies. 

What else is new?

If Kristi Noem had said Epstein was a terrorist, who was a danger to American citizens, then we could be sure Epstein was murdered, but she never has said that. Neither has Pam Bondi, and Bondi might even know.

Without going into the weeds: What's with all that missing video monitoring of Epstein's cell?  Every time you see that on a Netflix police procedural, you know something's not right. Does life not imitate art?

                            He's lying about being a tough guy. 

And here is a litmus test for whether you are about to be lied to:

1/ Ask your guest who won the 2020 Presidential election. 

If you get a dance--"Well, Joseph Biden was declared the winner," or "Joseph Biden was sworn in as President," then you are dealing with a liar. It would be generous to say you are dealing with a person who is so much a member of the cult, like a member of that Jim Jones cult who drank poison KoolAid they were so under the spell of Jones, or, in this case MAGA, that when they deny Biden won, they are not lying, but simply under a spell. 

Drinking the Kool Aid: Google Jonestown

But the dance is a lie. If they say, "I believe Donald Trump won, and the election was stolen," then they are not lying, but people like Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem and John Wayne Mullin all did the evasion dance, "Well, Joe Biden was proclaimed the winner," wink, wink. They are trying to evade the question which is, "Are you a cult, true believer or not?"

Cult Members in Jonestown who drank the Kool Aid

2/ Ask, "How do you know Iran is building a nuclear weapon?"  Anything other than, "We cannot know for sure, but if there's any chance, then  I'd bomb them back to the Stone Age," then you are being lied to.

He lied about being the Second Coming

3/ Do you believe Donald Trump was lying when he said he was not picturing himself as the Second Coming of Christ with his Truth Social posting or do you think he was simply showing himself as a physician, which is what he says he meant?  If you see the dance, they are lying either to you and/or to themselves, but either way they are lying.

He lied about being disabled for the draft

Lying in politics is as endemic as lying about sex.

When Bill Clinton was caught in a lie about having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, the reaction, especially among Black Americans was, "Everyone lies about sex."

As Chris Rock has noted so eloquently, we don't even expect people to tell the truth about sex. We expect them to lie.

Somehow this expectation is likely what dogs Trump about Jeffrey Epstein. You know he's lying, but his MAGA mob forgives lies about sex. We are all sinners.

But, the Epstein thing, under-aged girls, private islands, somehow has a life outside normal manners.

The other thing about Epstein, of all the million words now public, the one thing which sticks in Mad Dog's craw is that note from Trump to Epstein, "And may every day be another wonderful secret." Mad Dog is sorry, but that sounds like a lover's refrain. Nobody Mad Dog has ever mentioned this to has agreed, but Mad Dog thinks if Jeffry Epstein and Trump were gay lovers, then a lot of other things would make sense.

Just saying, as we say in New Hampshire.

Here are a few things we've been lied to about:

1/ The American government lied about overthrowing the Panamanian narco President, Noriega. He was on the payroll of the US government until he became inconvenient. The government lied about him.

2/ Ditto for the Contras, who were on the US payroll and who the US government lied about, with respect to Nicaragua. 

In fact, the U.S. government's only interest in the Caribbean has been the United Fruit company, not any of the island people who grow their products.

3/ The U.S. government arranged for the overthrow of a democratically elected President in Chile, Allende, and funded his execution, as it did with the U.S. puppet in Vietnam, Dieu, and the US government lied about that.

So lying about our nefarious, deadly and undemocratic deeds overseas is like lying about sex: It's expected. Nobody believes or expects to believe our government about stuff that happens outside our borders, like say, in Guantanamo. 

And now the US government lies about what happens inside our borders.

The government lied about the murder of Renee Good, who was not trying to run over a DEA agent with her car.

The government lied about who would benefit from any of Trump's beautiful bills to give away trillions to billionaires.

Trump lied about having a plan, or more precisely the concept of a plan, for healthcare and replacing Obamacare, which Trump lied about saying Obamacare was a disaster, when in fact it was a good thing.

Trump lies about windmills, which are no threat to global bird life or whales. Why he lies about this is unclear. Some people lie about things they don't have to lie about. Some people think he's lying to please the Koch brothers who want oil to be the only option for energy in the US. 

Trump lies about solar power being a bad thing. Even if he believes what he says about solar power, saying it raises energy costs or it is unreliable, he is being willfully wrong, which is the same as lying when it comes right down to it. If you know you are wrong and you simply do not want to hear the truth, then you are lying when you persist in being wrong.

The thing about lying is it is a cousin to fantasy. 

They are not actually fighting. They are acting.

Take professional wrestling: It's clearly not meant to be believed--the stories of the various figures in the ring, the "fights" themselves. Its just a sort of boys' fantasy camp, but the arenas are filled with people delighted, screaming and enjoying the show. Trump spent years promoting professional wrestling, living in that fantasyland.

Fake wresting

Real Wrestling, Not faked

That's where we are now with Trump and Hegseth and Miller and that smarmy Scott Bessent. They are all stomping around the ring, play acting, roaring like Hulk Hogan, having a good time, and the 40% are out there in the cheap seats roaring with delight.

They love the lie.

That's Not Really Him. He doesn't look like this.

It's fun.

It's just not true.