I keep thinking of something Rove supposedly said...

[MotorCityMan]

"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.' [...] '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'.[3]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

This was back in 2004 and I remember reading that chilled me to the bone. What the fuck do you mean? How can you argue against facts?

Seems pretty prophetic now.

[elleng]

1. Not 'prophetic' but true; they've BEEN doing it, for years,

and 'we've' not addressed it.

[Glamrock]

2. Aaaaaaaand I won't be sleeping tonite now!

Thanks!

[sandensea]

3. "Post-truth" as they call it.

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I wonder how dishes were broken when Dubya tried that while explaining his affair with Condi.

[brush]

5. It think there was something to that, although they managed to keep it under wraps for...

the most part, except when she slipped that time and called him her husband.

Must've meant her road husband.

[sandensea]

7. And then of course there was the much-rumored affair with Knoxville Mayor Victor "Victoria" Ashe

Don't get me wrong, it ain't nobody's business - it's just funny coming from a man who practically built his political career on gay bashing and race baiting.

[Awsi Dooger]

4. I have to laugh every time someone posts a historical reference

One poster in particular. It may sound cute, and always receives plenty of applause, but the relevance is long gone.

[EarnestPutz]

6. I remember the quote, didn't know it was Rove.

At the time it was a "high White House Official" and
it was during the whole business about Scooter Libby.
It was, and still is, chilling in it's arrogance.