Oh I hate to admit it when the facts fly in the face of what I believe. So does everyone else. However, the grownups among us are usually able to concede our opinions when we’re confronted with the facts. This is why I have to eat some major crow when it comes to discussions I’ve had with my wife. But let’s not get into that. Let’s just say that I’m really not ready to hear “So I’m what?” for the countless time during our marriage. Anyway, with that said, here we go!Mitt Romney made a speech today about how no one should be backing Donald Trump. I agree with his sentiments. However, he also said that Hillary Clinton was the most dishonest person in politics. I hear that a lot so I decided to go out to Politifact.com and do some checking. I have been a Bernie Sanders fan throughout the election, thinking he was by far the most honest person on the campaign trail. It turns out that I was wrong about that as well. Either way, below is the breakdown:
5. Donald Trump 10% factual. He couldn’t even make a tenth of a percent.
4 Ted Cruz 36% factual
3 Marco Rubio 66% factual
2 Bernie Sanders 76% factual
1 Hilary Clinton 78% factual. That’s right folks! She’s by far the most honest in the campaign!
Politifact lists candidate statements that are True, Mostly True, Half True, Mostly False, False, and Pants on Fire. For these numbers I took out the Half True, and Mostly False stats since many of those statements could go either way. I wanted harder numbers. It also is important to understand that out of all the candidates Bernie had 0 pants on fire and Hillary had only 2. Rubio had 4, Cruz 7 and Donald a WHOPPING 21! For my calculation I took out the statistics for statements that were half true, or mostly false since I wanted pretty clear numbers.
Now, what do these number mean? They actually don’t mean that these people are always just lying or telling the truth. It shows their connection to the facts. They may not be always lying, they just may be ignorant of the facts. There’s a huge difference between lying and just being wrong. Either way, Hillary is more correct than any other politician in the field. Swallow that one! I thought it would be Bernie. I hate it when my wife is right. It should also be noted that Mitt Romney who said that Hillary was the most dishonest politician scored only 55% in the fact category and was almost as bad as Trump in the pants on fire category at 19!
So why do a people think Hillary is the most dishonest politician? Because they’re sheep. They don’t want to check the facts. They want mommy and daddy to tell them what to think. That’s why when they’re told over and over and over again wrong information when they see a fact they think it’s a lie. It’s like when their parents told them for the first 3 years of their lives that Santa was real and then when they’re hit with the truth they get violent. Think I’m kidding? Try telling a 3 year old there’s no Santa and see what happens. And no group is better at this than Republicans. They do better than Joseph Goebbels when it comes to the “big lie” and their minions eat it up!
I don’t just blame the Republicans for Hillary’s honesty problem. I blame her as well. In fact I blame all Democrats. They seem to cower at the thought of pushing back when someone presents them with bullshit. They function under the false assumption that people will take the time to verify the facts. No…they won’t. Most people only have a tenuous grasp of a sixth grade education. How the hell do you expect them to understand critical analysis? The four word soundbite baby! That’s the best they can do. Most people lack the intellectual fortitude to understand anything that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard people without an education call someone with one an “educated idiot.” Really? The guy with the education is the idiot? Right. Sure he is. The problem is more likely that gomer barely possesses the scholastic ability to sign his name on a voter registration card. We require anyone coming into this country to pass a simple civics test to be a citizen. I say we require that across the board and send the failures some desert province where they can do no harm to the existing gene pool.
There are many people are just too lazy to research the facts. You never take a single source for your information. Take the Hillary email scandal. I read today that Hillary was the only Secretary of State to use a private email server. Was she? Nope. Condoleezza Rice and Colon Powell both used their own private servers. I read that Hillary had secret emails doctored to take them off the government server. Nope. She had an assistant remove the secure headers of an email that had her talking points for a speech. The system wasn’t working so it wouldn’t send the damn email. Is this high treason? Nope. Is it getting the job done? Yep!
This is a little inside baseball, but even I have had to use my private computer systems when working projects for government jobs. The reason being that the work systems were so jacked up that it made it difficult if not impossible to do my job. Too often organizations tie up their systems in such a way to make them more secure that they render those systems useless. They’re more secure alright! They’re useless! But when it gets to the media it turns into high treason. If the Clintons were as criminal as the right says they’d have been in prison decades ago. This isn’t about crime, it’s about getting idiots to swallow your bullshit. No…it’s not bullshit. It’s brown cottage cheese. Really! Try some!
When Bush started gearing up to invade Iraq, I was very vocal about the stupidity of that decision. I had someone disagree with me and the only thing she could say was “I support our troops!” Really? How? By getting them killed? How does that support anyone? When you ask people why are you voting for Trump? “I hate Hillary Clinton.” Why do you hate her? “She’s a damn liar.” What specifically was her lie, please provide detailed evidence and factual proof: crickets. If it doesn’t fit onto the bumper sticker they’ve got diddly.
Living for the four word soundbite just makes you a moron. Why the public continues to do this is amazing me. No one seems to take the time to investigate whether what they’re being told is real or bullshit. Politicians know this. They know that the public won’t verify what they’re being told because they’re either too lazy or more likely too stupid to do it. This is why you end up with candidates who make ridiculous claims like they saw Muslims celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11, or that 93 million working age people are out of work, that Mexicans are all murderers and thieves or that over 50 million people are driving Mercedes Benz paid for with their welfare checks.
I’ll make you a deal. If you think all the statements in the previous paragraph are true then send me the data. If you can prove it, I’ll give you 1 million dollars. I’m serious. 1 million dollars. All you have to do is provide to me the government statistics that prove any of those statements are true. All the data around this is available for free. I’ll even give you the website usa.gov. All you have to do is go look it up. If any of those statements are true, I’ll pay it. You know what. I think I’ll get to keep my money. Anyone dumb enough to think any of this is true is likely too stupid to spell USA.
Rex