#warontruth

Prayer mats at the border? Women with tape over their faces? Yep, someone’s passing images they recall vividly from Sicario as alternate facts onto those who’ve not seen this film series. Educate yourself, work on building critical thinking skills and call out this projecting bullshitter for what he is. The continuing act of misinformation needs to end!

Day 20.... Thankful & Grateful.... .... To have the opportunity to celebrate amazing people who dedicate (and often sacrifice) their lives talents and souls to standing up for the truth .... #The Guardians—Jamal Khashoggi, the Capital Gazette, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo—are @TIME's Person of the Year 2018 #TIMEPOY .... #WaronTruth .... (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrUOfb3nMkgdB-B9AYQCh8G_Ca0FP6bbJqa5ws0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nlfhkf84v5pr

Denial is the root of the GOP and the president whom the party elected and serves. The horse he rode in on, the grease that makes the whole hideously clanking machine operate. The public desire for health care reform? The success of Obamacare? The role of immigration in our economy? The popularity of sane gun laws? Deny, deny, deny. Any fact they find inconvenient is waved away. The humanity of marginalized groups such as transgender persons? Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeanne Ives denies the offensiveness of her commercial conjuring up a transgender woman as a bathroom-invading bogeyman. Democrats sometimes entertain themselves imagining that glorious day when Trump supporters finally see the light of their folly. Pretty to think so, but it’s never coming. The light will be there. It’s there now. But they won’t see it. Or if they do, they’ll deny seeing it. Not being moved is what denial is all about. It’s the armor you grow against the fruits of your folly. Denial comes naturally to some. Easier for them to conjure up a hundred different preposterous conspiracies rather than face contrary reality. Call the president a liar, because he tells lies all the time —undebatable, clear untruths. His supporters will lecture you on the respect due the president, overlooking that this particular president is Donald Trump, a man in denial about anything that doesn’t flatter his ego, from the vote count that elected him to whatever he’s exaggerating this morning. Global warming? Fraud. The army of scientists documenting its reality and ever-more adverse effects? Charlatans. Treason with Russia? The increasingly clear conspiracy between the president’s staff and family and Russian operatives to get dirt on Hillary Clinton in return for favorable treatment? Easier for him to imagine then angrily denounce a leftist conspiracy at the FBI and the Justice Department, heretofore known as among the most conservative parts of the federal bureaucracy. #savedemocracy #bluewave #DENYDENYDENY @we_ can_ do_this_america @liberal_dad @vote_dems #warontruth #politicalsignproject #politics #politicalsigns #110618 #11618 #vote #enough #roadtochange #nativism #randyburman (at Miami, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpZhV5gn28v/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qizn8se75s6a