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the world’s slackening grip on reality

Journal by c0lo

(in the loving memory of Runaway1956, who succumbed after a long battle to gatewaypundits. May his brain rest in peace, squeaky clean and smoothed over)

because "Doing your own research" is far easier nowadays than building the habit of thinking critically.
Add COVID-anxiety, a chaotic narcissistic Orange clown and compound with the lack of survival problems to solve for the everyday life in a westernized society and (where appropriate) a good dose of American exceptionalism.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday November 11 2020, @09:56PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 11 2020, @09:56PM (#1076341) Journal

    Well said!

    Legitimate complaints about Trump and his administration were met with ...

    met with: TDS

    Because you cannot criticize Trump.

    I'm happy to blame the D's when they put ideology ahead of science, facts and reality. I would point out that Joe Biden stated his Covid-19 tragedy strategy would be solidly based on science. If we're all gonna die, it'll be based on science!

    FoxNews does not even make a pretense of trying to be fair. Or balanced. CNN does pretend to be fair. And pretends to be balanced.

    I have not agreed with every policy decision of any president. Like Obama, for example. I don't like every single thing he did. But I liked a lot. With R's and especially Trump, it is a total religious cult mentality. There is nothing Trump can do or ever has done wrong. None. Zip. We're seeing his fascist streak trying to seize power, and his fascist followers are just fine with it.

    I think I speak for most liberals, we are done trying to compromise with bad faith entitled people who hypocritically give crimes and abuses of power a total pass when it is their team.

    Fixing that would go a very long way. But D's need to police their house also.

    But we're wandering away from the problem of R's putting ideology ahead of facts, reality and science in a way and on a scale that the D's do not.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2020, @05:23PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2020, @05:23PM (#1076637)

    I'll list what Trump did wrong:

    1. bump stock ban, without making a good trade for it

    2. appointed Sessions, and Wray

    3. didn't put Epstein in protective custody with the US Marines doing 24x7 watch and feeding sealed randomly-selected MREs

    Now you try. You should be able to come up with a half dozen Biden and Harris scandals that are worse then anything done by Trump, Reagan, or Nixon. You should be able to come up twenty Obama scandals at that level.

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 12 2020, @08:33PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday November 12 2020, @08:33PM (#1076738) Journal

      You just listed what President Trump did wrong.

      It is impossible for President Biden to have done anything wrong yet.