Lying About Lying
The NYT excuses Biden's constant lies as "spinning folklore" but the majority of Democrats have lied for so long, they no longer know or care that they are serial prevaricators.
It is going to be an interesting day. I'm teaching a couple of LEAN/Six Sigma classes today - which takes more than a little focus - but I'm still masticating thoughts from last night when I was frustrated with pretty much everything in our public discourse.
I am just so damned tired of being lied to.
And not just lied to, the lies are so obvious that they aren't meant as lies, they are meant as taunts and insults.
Tired of it.
What set me off was a clip of Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner claiming his program of putting criminals back on the street was working and that 8 out of the 10 highest crime states were, in his words "MAGA states". He also said that "MAGA state" crime rates were 40% higher than "Biden states" and followed that up by saying Republicans were lying when they said this wasn't true.
Beyond the fact that these are simple partisan pronouncements, they are just lies. This comes from a "study" from a leftist outfit called the Third Way.
As reported by the Federalist, the #1 state on the list was my home state of Mississippi. Eddy Scary at the Federalist shoots a big hole in Krasner's statement, writing:
"The No. 1 state on Third Way’s list is Mississippi. Sure enough, the statewide vote in the 2020 election was for Trump. But within the state, Hinds County residents voted for Joe Biden, 3 to 1. Mississippi’s biggest city, Jackson, is in Hinds County. Reporting on Jackson last year, CNN declared it “one of the deadliest U.S. cities.”
The mayor of Jackson is Chokwe Antar Lumumba, a Democrat. The district attorney is Jody Owens, a Democrat."
And so on and so on.
What is true for Mississippi is true for almost every single MAGA state - it is blue cities run by Democrat mayors and DA's that are responsible for the rise in crime.
So, Krasner was lying - and there is no way he didn't know he was when he did it (just like we now know Mayorkas knew he was lying when he lied about "whipping" illegals).
Lying. Again. Actually, more than again, they lie constantly and consistently.
And it isn't just politics, its a social contagion.
Without revealing any specifics, my business partner and I just went through a legal battle with some former associates who owed us a significant sum. They knew what the written contract said, they admitted to owing the money but they lied and tried to say we orally changed the contract even though the contract specifically said it could not be altered orally - it may surprise you to know that under certain circumstances, a written contract CAN be orally altered even if it is specifically prohibited by the contract - if the actions of the parties make it appear as if there was a change.
Ours actions weren't.
It took two years, an untold number of personal hours, a number of depositions and hearings - and almost a million dollars in legal fees just to legally prove we were telling the truth.
This is something that just frustrates me to no end...and it is also all too common in politics.
The operative theory is that if someone can keep someone going on long enough their opponents will run out of time or money (or both) and give up. Or they won't pursue it in the first place because it is too expensive. In our case, after the legal fees, we will receive a fraction of what we were owed, but we decided to stay in for the principle - we were right, they were wrong and we needed that to be understood.
Sometimes that is the decision that must be made. Do we think it too costly to take a stand or are we willing to pay the price to do the right thing?
It is now common for the executive branch to enact some executive or administrative order they know they don't have the authority or power to do in the hopes that it will take so long to get through the courts that before it gets rescinded, it will be too late and the action will have the desired effect.
It is a way to procedurally use a lie to get what you want.
But if you let it go, they will continue to do it to other people - because it works. Sooner or later, you come to a place where the primary effort is to get around the governing policies rather than to comply with them - when know you are legally and morally bound to follow them.
There's actually a word for that: criminal.
Regardless of your political views or ideological bent, you must realize there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. Just because you can does not mean you should. It is simply not possible to know the things we know about the way politics are functioning in Washington and believe what we have seen for the past two years is the way it should work. The end does not justify the means when the means degrade or destroy the very system designed to protect us all.
Until more people see that, we will continue down the road to destruction.
I want to believe that people are waking up to this fact.
Krasner accused Republicans of lying while lying through his teeth. My only wish is he gets his comeuppance, good and hard.