Faced with a souring economy, the president could change course, but he prefers to fire statisticians and to lie brazenly to the public.

Faced with a souring economy, the president could change course, but he prefers to fire statisticians and to lie brazenly to the public.

  • grte@lemmy.ca
    84·
    4 days ago

    This should be expected. It’s his answer to all bad news, just don’t look at it. Don’t test for covid, don’t give weather services access to satellite info, ignore economic indicators and make up your own numbers. The pattern is clear. This asshole has lived such a privileged life that substituting reality with his own vision has worked out for him thus far. Let’s see if it keeps working.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      4 days ago

      I’ll remind you that it’s not just him. This has been a GOP talking point, out loud where everyone can hear, since the GWB administration.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

      The phrase was attributed by journalist Ron Suskind to an unnamed official in the George W. Bush administration who used it to denigrate a critic of the administration’s policies as someone who based their judgments on facts.[1] In a 2004 article appearing in the New York Times Magazine, Suskind wrote:

      The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ […] ‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’.[2]

      And if this unarmed official (widely assumed to be Karl Rove) is saying this out loud to a journalist, you can assume they’ve been saying it privately for decades

      • Devolution@lemmy.world
        19·
        4 days ago

        What the hell is up with these academic terms for “LYING?” The party of Jesus routinely doesn’t follow the commandments.

        • twack@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          4 days ago

          The party of Jesus probably couldn’t even tell you the ten commandments without looking them up. That’s partially because several of them are loosely the same idea, but also most Christians are practicing both religion and politics based on vibes. They aren’t based in facts or books, bible or otherwise.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
        2·
        3 days ago

        Many conservatives only care about in-group and emotions. They don’t all justify it with as many words