The Lying Liar-In-Chief
Our Dick Tater Needs A Dictionary
I try not to pay too much attention to the news. I also try not to pay too much attention to the chaos agents who’ve taken over our government—like the domestic terrorists I think they are—and continue turning back the clocks on decades of progress.
And yet, despite my best efforts to ignore Orange Dingus’ latest “news event” filled with charts, policies, and words he doesn’t understand, “Liberation Day” pisses me off to the highest of pisstivity.
Whose “liberation” are we supposedly celebrating exactly?
Definitely not mine. Likely not yours either.
The faux fascist currently occupying the White House keeps trying to redefine words and rewrite history. And not just because one of his professors at Wharton confirmed what most of us already knew about the future felon-in-chief: "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had."
When reality doesn't suit him, he simply changes definitions—gaslighting an entire nation, trying to make us believe his latest version of "truth." It’s among his and his administration’s many offensive acts of histrionic hubris and saber-rattling silliness.
Most words—if they’ve been around for more than a minute—mean something:
tar·iff = /ˈterəf/ = noun
a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports
Paid by who? Me and you, boo.
Fuck the oligarchs and rich bitches.
That’s exactly why these lying liars are so hellbent on dismantling the Department of Education. An educated populace can recognize bullshit when they hear it.
We need more people with critical thinking skills, not less. We need more people willing to call out the dinosaur dung being flung in DC’s swamp, not less.
This self-appointed “genius” thinks groceries is an “old-fashioned term.”
You can’t make this shit up. Reality used to be a friend of mine.
But if the administration succeeds in gutting our already deficient education system, in making facts a matter of "opinion," then who will be left to call out the falsity of their asshat assertions and dangerous delusions?
The goal isn’t to suppress dissent—it’s to render people incapable of forming it.
I refuse to write his name or show his face anymore. Except in direct quotes. I also refuse to show him the loyalty or respect he so desperately craves and demands.
But I will reflect his hate right back at him and his minions.
While some may play along, out of cowardice or convenience, with his reign of fear, ignorance, misogyny, propaganda, racism, sycophancy, and xenophobia, the rest of us must call a con man a con man, a dick tater a dick tater, and a liar a liar. And resist his powerplays at every turn. And Elon’s too.
Because history remembers. Even when it’s rewritten, even when it’s censored, even when it’s twisted to fit a reality tv tyrant’s narrative—the truth always finds a way.
And no amount of Orwellian wordplay can erase it.
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Inasmuch as the meanings of words are central to today's remarks, and since you've mentioned "gaslighting," I'm going to jump onto a hobby horse that I know full well is going nowhere.
Since 1938, when the play by Patrick Hamilton was first performed, the term "gaslight" as a verb has had a specific meaning: psychological manipulation intended to make its victim doubt their own sanity. Colorful, useful word.
Putin's puppy, the Stalin wannabe, has never gaslit anyone. We who've seen right through him since day one are perfectly sure of our sanity. And while we may doubt that of his MAGAt minions, they're completely unaware they've gone 'round the bend.
But in years since the advent of this century, this poor, once-great word has, like so many things in the era of the mango menace, been cheapened and stripped of its meaning. It's become reduced to nothing more than a synonym for something for which there were already perfectly good words: lying and bullshitting of the most unremarkable garden variety.
Yeah, I know I'm pissing in the wind, and the 21st-century definition has all but supplanted the original one. And that's a tragic representation of the degradation of both the beautiful language we speak and communication in general.
OMG I h8 that no wut I mean?
I absolutely love what you have said about 'the orange thing'.....
God help us......he truly needs to gooooooooooo