Liar Liar Pants on Fire
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said Thursday that cutting funding to several anti-poverty programs is “one of the most compassionate things we can do.”
These are the days where definitions get re-evaluated, where meaning is relative, where up is sometimes down. Wiretap is not the same as ‘wiretap’, enclosed quotes. One means wiretap, the other means, well, not wiretap. It all depends on what your definition of IS is. Compassionate, adjective: feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others.
Synonyms: sympathetic, empathetic, understanding, caring, solicitous, sensitive, warm, loving
Let’s use it in a sentence, Class: Compassionate conservatives care about the poor and the unemployed. Or another: Republicans are compassionate conservatives because they want to ensure a working mother in Detroit with three kids won’t see her hard earned dollars being spent on Meals on Wheels or Headstart. As Mr. Mulvaney stated in justification for cutting funds to low income programs, the poor would rather see their hard earned money going to beef up the national defense.
I mean, who wouldn’t!?? It boggles the senses to think conservatives even try to sell this logic. Cutting taxes for the poor or giving tax breaks to the wealthy? Which do I think their priority might be? Cutting Medicaid programs so we can upgrade nuclear stockpiles that I thought we were hoping to downsize? In my Alice in Wonderland Universe ‘compassionate conservative’ is an oxymoron. Quotes or no quotes. A person who tells falsehoods, what I call lies, is a liar. If he claims, when confronted with the lie, that he read it in an article that was in, say, Brietbart news which is mostly nothing but unsubstantiated fake news stories, it’s STILL A LIE! Oh, my buddy the liar told me that so it may very well be true. Seriously? Are we in first grade???
Day after goofy day our Comic-in-Chief tweets out a new sketch for Saturday Night Live. OBAMA ASKS BRITAIN INTELLIGENCE TO WIRETAP TRUMP TOWER! CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE CAN’T BE BELIEVED! VOTER FRAUD IN MILLIONS, COST ME GREATEST POPULAR VOTE IN HISTORY! INAUGURATION TURNOUT BEYOND BELIEF, BIGGER THAN BARACK OBAMA’S!! WILL RELEASE TAXES WHEN IRS AUDIT IS COMPLETED!!! I GAVE MILLIONS TO CHARITY!!! NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST HOSTING WORLD LEADERS AT MY HOTELS!! I NEVER MET VLADIMIR PUTIN, DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE RUSSIA IS ON A MAP!!!!!!!
Someone, maybe even the Republicans in Congress, needs to yank this boy out of class, walk him to the prinicipal’s office and reprimand him for constant lying. I know we can’t rap a ruler on his knuckles anymore and we can’t turn his fat little backside over a knee and give him an old fashioned spanking, but how much of this are we going to endure before some adults have had enough? Mr. Ryan, Mr. McConnell, when are you going to be sufficiently embarrassed?
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Speaker Ryan will not be the one. He is another one of those compassionate religious types who thinks Jesus’s idea of helping the poor was means testing them so that loafers and takers won’t be rewarded. You know, helping them only makes them dependent. The guy has a boner over taking money away from grannies and children of color. I don’t know how these people live with themselves.
Trump has in his first weeks in office assembled a team that’s created our first foray into the realm of perpetual motion. It’s almost a miracle.
The administration generates a simple lie capable of multiplying seamlessly, like an amoeba, into a never ending exponential division of additional lies which may even replicate indefinitely. Only time will tell.
Will we harness this power in the near future, perhaps use it to generate electricity for our homes? Run our televisions, lights, and microwaves? Power too cheap to meter so we can offer it at no cost to people without Medicaid or health care?
Not so fast bleeding heart liberals. Republicans will certainly want to take a wider view, look at the big picture, and do what’s best for everyone. Even if we as a nation could offer free electricity, a compassionate politician understands the poor should pay something so they don’t lose their sense of self worth. You can’t put a price on dignity. Well, not until the power goes out when a bill for $78.42 isn’t paid.
No wonder the White House disdains alternative energy — they got a Bigger Picture. And of course you’re right, No Free Rides for the poor, they’d only lose their self-worth, miniscule as it might be in the eyes of the Lords of Wall Street. The real point isn’t that power is cheap, it’s that they have Greater Access. If they can’t afford the going rate, well, no one promised them a rose garden, they just promised the possibility …