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Having come of political age at the beginning of the Reagan era, quotes from the Great Communicator have been woven into the fabric of my existence as an activist. For most of the last forty years, my favorite has been, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” I’ve been railing against the federal bureaucracy since I was a young man, so that quote has gotten a lot of use. In fact, it’ll be featured in a column I will be writing in the next couple of days.
The Democrats are more untethered from reality now than ever before, which has had me pondering this Ronald Reagan gem a lot: “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
That is definitely one for the “Truer Words Have Never Been Spoken” hall of fame.
My good friend and partner in thought crime Stephen Green wrote yesterday about the latest glaring example of this:
“A new entity joined the crowd of old, smelly hippies to politicize the deaths” of dozens of young girls to those flash floods in Texas, Don Surber wrote today, and it was “Grok, the artificial intelligence service on Elon Musk’s Twitter.”
When lefty Claude Taylor asked Grok, “Did two dozen young girls die in Texas flooding in part because Trump gutted NOAA and the National Weather Service?” the AI lied.
“Yes. Trump’s 2025 cuts slashed NOAA/NWS funding by ~30% and staff by 17%, impairing forecast accuracy. Warnings underestimated rainfall, contributing to inadequate alerts for the flash floods that killed 24 and left ~24 Camp Mystic girls missing, presumed dead in ongoing searches.”
Except, as you’re hopefully well aware by now, the National Weather Service increased its local staff — on a holiday weekend — because they could tell something bad was coming. The floods were predicted. The warnings went out.
Virtually every frothing lefty on social media based their outrage on the lie that the local National Weather Service was understaffed and inadequately prepared. I’ll be dealing with the absurdity that a few extra bureaucrats can mitigate an act of God in the aforementioned upcoming column. For now, we’ll focus on this falsehood.
The social media commie mob ran with the understaffing lie because the Democratic National Committee’s X account spread it. That account was referencing The New York Times as its source. That’s usually how the never ending fake news that fuels the American Left works. One can almost always find that the seed of every false narrative is planted in the Times, usually by the DNC.
A couple of years ago, my conservative mother asked me about some of the things one of my progressive cousins had been railing about to her. I can’t remember what the outrage du jour was then, but I remember that it was based on nonexistent “facts.” I told my mom that most of what our leftist loved ones were caterwauling about wasn’t true.
“…it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Another fairly recent example was the Dems’ election hysteria about Project 2025. It was an absolute nothingburger which Trump repeatedly disavowed, yet the Democrats made it the centerpiece of many of their campaign ads. When I was in Ann Arbor last October, my sister and I went to coffee/wine place and several older proggies were there passing out yard signs that said, “Stop Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda.”
They’re still using the fiction to whip the base into a frenzy. Hakeem Jeffries loves bringing it up whenever he can.
This is one of the many reasons that I don’t engage the Left anymore, whether in person or on social media. I am more than willing to have a lively debate about something real, but I’m not going to waste time debunking the crap that they’ve been fed. They’re just going to go and lap up more of it when I’m done.
There is also the fact that there’s so much of it that I don’t have the interest or the energy to disabuse them of all their incorrect notions.
As I have written many times since the election, the Dems are living in an alt-reality. They’re doing battle with versions of you and me that have never existed. Their enemies are fictionalized characters who the Coastal Media Bubble™ elites have made them believe in. The elites have been so free and easy with the lies here during the Trump years that they may actually believe them too.
“…it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Sadly, I don’t think that their capacity for learning what isn’t so will ever be diminished.
Anyway, here’s the Gipper:
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