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kpete

(71,962 posts)
Mon Jul 25, 2016, 05:19 PM Jul 2016

Hey, it worked for Bush

Make Your Own Reality!
By: Tristero

Oh, yes. And those of us who remember Bush Jr., can't help thinking of this while watching John Oliver's brilliant, caustic comments:


The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-and-the-presidency-of-george-w-bush.html?referer=
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/07/make-your-own-reality-by-tristero.html?m=1



One more demonstration that Trump is not, as many in the media will have you believe, an anomaly in an otherwise reasonable and serious national party, a party with decent-thinking national figures that was hijacked by some orange-furred infestation .

No. Trump is Republican values incarnate. And the attitude that Trump has towards reality is the same as Gingrich and as Ryan. If I feel it, it's a fact.

Hey, it worked for Bush.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/07/make-your-own-reality-by-tristero.html?m=1

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