Who is the easiest person to fool?

Here’s a riddle for you. I’ll give answer on my next post.

Every time I see a Republican on the news, I think of H. When Double Downer (Trump) first got elected, I was so shocked by the lies put out by Republicans. Of course, like many people H.’s standard response was, “Everybody lies.” I’m not sure this is true. There are many types of lies, of course. There are lies of omission. There are lies that look as if they are true, until you investigate further. And intention also has a lot to do with it. There are people who just repeat stuff whether they know it’s true or not.

But D.D. seemed to be a pathological liar. Then you would turn to FOX where people who should have known better back up his lies. I challenged H. to come up with a lie from the Democrat side. I’ll never forget his answer; the next time we met, H. said, “Nancy Pelosi said she plans to/wants to…” I cut him off. I said, That’s not a fact. That’s an opinion.” H. said, “What’s a fact?” By answering that question, I lost H.’s attention. We let the subject drop. A couple of weeks later H. came up with a similar example, something about someone being a communist. Again there was no evidence of a statement of fact.

After about a year, H. came up with Obama’s claim that you could keep your doctor under Obamacare. My answer was the same as the one I used three or four years before: you could probably keep your doctor if you were willing to pay him. There was no law against that.

I briefly heard the governor of Texas quote some statistics about how there were more shootings in Illinois, California, and New York? than compared to the school shooting recently. Comparing apples and oranges is a good way to confuse people. Was he talking about shootings per 100,000, school shootings, or what?

I’m pretty good at spotting the right-wing’s phony stats because in graduate school I took two semesters of statistics. Most college graduates only take one semester.

O.K. kids, see you next time…