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October 20, 2025

Truth Has No Defense

Mark Twain once wrote, “Truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.” I interpret this to mean we have no escape from the untruthful beliefs of Donald Trump – that he is the best, the smartest, the most popular president the U.S. has ever seen; that his ideas are the ones Continue reading

politics, Social Media

beliefs, castles, cult, debate, democracy, democratic socialist, discussion, flexibility, Kool-Aid, lies, Mark Twain, Miller, polarization, politics, psychotics, Trump, truth, Vance, Vought
May 1, 2025

The Emperor’s New Clothes, Part II

The gist of Hans Christian Andersen’s folktale is that a vain emperor is conned by a couple of weavers who claim that only an incompetent or stupid person could fail to see the magnificent clothes they had made for him. The emperor, who cannot perceive of himself as anything but competent and infallible, proceeds to Continue reading

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authority, delusions of grandeur, emperor, greed, incompetence, legend, lies, naked, puppets, revolution, speak truth to power, stupidity, the emperor’s new clothes, truth