Truth vs. Lies

One of the most annoying things to here is that the GOP and the Democrats are exactly the same. No they aren't. I adhere to the definitions of lying vs. bullshitting. Democrats do lie. But as a famous author pointed out, liars share an important charactaristic with truth tellers: their lies are grounded in reality. When someone lies or tells the truth, we take for granted the underlying facts of the statement. "Bob stole the cookie" revolves around the truth that a cookie is gone. So regardless of whether the statement is true or false we intuitively accept the premise that a cookie is gone as true.

The GOP bullshits. And bullshit is fundamentally more dangerous because it is not grounded in reality. When the bullshitter says "Bob stole the cookie", he is misleading us in 2 ways. 1st, by accusing Bob of taking the cookie. And 2nd by implying that the cookie is even gone. And that's important to understand. Because the real dishonestly is the implied suggestion that the cookie is gone, which is then accepted. And also keep in mind that because the underlying foundation is not true, the 1st mislead is also never true.

Keep that in mind when the GOP claims anything in the election dispute. They are throughing out accusations they know are not true, because they also know that even if the statements are disproven, people will natural assume that the implied underlying statement is also true. And that is their real goal.

So far, *none* of the GOP's claims have been substantiated. But their true goal is not to prove that Gregoire "stole" the election, it is to leave the impression that the election process is unfair.

That is not true. The reality is the election system is not f*ed up. The election was simply close enough that the GOP had an opening to suggest that normal gliches were somehow larger than they were.

In contrast to Ohio, were there was a clear pattern of legal if unethical election manipulation it shows the GOP to be the trully cynical of the 2 parties.