An ex-GOP lawmaker has heard enough about phantom left-wing saboteurs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and he is pointing at the only suspects who fit the evidence: the people Trump hired to clean it.
In a series of posts and a new video, former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger dismantled the administration’s vandalism narrative by accepting one piece of it. Yes, he conceded, chemicals were used on the pool. The catch is who used them and why. “Just for those who are saying there was chemical sabotage to peel the paint in the reflective pool, you’re right,” Kinzinger wrote. “It’s just, you guys did it to kill the algae.”
Is it even “lying” any more if that’s literally all they’re capable of?
It is a delusional narcissist’s false projected reality that can only be immediately dismissed, because if you take time to even consider it the intended effect of injecting doubt has been accomplished. It’s just noise; a memetic hazard fishing for a weak impressionable mind to inhabit. At this level of broad transmissibility and influence, I can only manage to describe it in the terms of a dangerous psychological phenomenon.
In the end, the reflecting pool is a symptom and not a cause. It accurately reflects the state of our country right now. If a dirty pool meant we spent the money and effort on food, housing, and schools, I’d be happy to see it. Instead, we have a fitting monument symbolic of America’s corruption, inept leadership, and Trump’s sad obsession with gaudy real estate projects built in his image by the lowest bidder most capable of fellating his ego.
It is a tidy distraction from the cold-blooded murder abroad and at home, and from bargaining away the country to America’s enemies for the low price of funneling money and power to Trump’s interests.
It defies description.
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Thank you. The attempts to normalize unacceptable behavior have been a big part of the problem.
Lying has not stopped being lying. Lying has not stopped being wrong.
Just to be clear, normalizing it is not my intent here. It’s to emphasize that it goes so, so far beyond simple lies - so far that I think it’s deep into pathological disorder, on a national scale. These people are literally incapable of saying anything approaching the truth. They are projecting an alternate reality that I’m not completely sure they can see outside of, to varying personal degrees.
This does not excuse their criminal behavior, it indicates that they are criminally insane. Politicians lie. Police officers lie. Pundits lie. But they at least seem to be aware of it. The stuff coming out of the Trump administration is full on delusional.
There’s lying, and then there’s remorselessly wielding presidential power to manipulate the stock market with an illegal war. The latter is a crime against humanity.
I appreciate your explanation. I had misunderstood. And I do agree with your point.