Every Trumpeting gloater loves fake news a lot, but this Grinch reading fake facts in Denver DOES NOT!
It抖阴ap not just the lies. It抖阴ap not the distortions. It抖阴ap not just mad raving beyond all proportions.
Name-calling is petty but hardly a crime. To is an applause line. Who cares if the are real. Almost in 鈥淭he Art of the Deal.鈥�
The true evil-doing is way beyond fluff. Fake news makes us think twice about the real stuff. When leaders convince us all news is a lie, it抖阴ap easy to trick us and even defy the rules and traditions on which we depend to make sure no one brings our laws to an end.
And if we lay waste to the old First Amendment, democracy鈥檚 done, never mind your resentment. We all can find fault with the news here sometimes, but without it the leaders won鈥檛 get caught for high crimes.
But fake news is just the beginning this year. are rampant and fake things to fear.
Fake Christians who say they believe more in greed than giving real health care to all those in need.
Fake friends of the people who need some good jobs, they promise the moon and then pick out some slob to honcho at Labor. It抖阴ap , good grief. His record for workers? We say, 鈥淲here鈥檚 the beef?鈥�
He leads a big business that sells us fake foods with . He scoffs at employees who work night and day, and all they are asking is for decent pay.
The leader, who ran on a message that said his opponent had let Wall Street get in her head, has grinned as he made us all suckers and hacks, assembling a team straight from .
He looks at the jobless, the poor and the sick, and says what we need is .
And just when you think he can鈥檛 possibly do it, he hands off the planet to . A climate denier, he comes from a . For drillers and spillers, he鈥檚 sort of a hero, while scientists say his home state is ground zero.
For those who are worried about terror threats, a leader suggests the world could get crazy and no one would sense what might happen until it抖阴ap too late to prevent. It抖阴ap fine if the POTUS must be reinvented, but dissing the intel is .
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Since most of us think that the season of light, the solstice or Christmas or Festivus night should bring us together and make us feel warm, let抖阴ap launch a big protest against hate and scorn.
Let抖阴ap take to the streets bearing candles and beer. Let抖阴ap bring , rainbow scarves, and聽good cheer. Let抖阴ap turn off the Twitter, send Facebook a note that until it stops fake facts it won鈥檛 get our vote.
Let抖阴ap break out the cookies and warm up the brisket, find friends we can count on, not those narcissistic.
We鈥檒l tell the whole world that we all aren鈥檛 rude Trumpsters. This bad, awful year, we鈥檒l throw right in the Dumpster. Remember, just sayin鈥�, it抖阴ap all public knowledge, the problem was in the Electoral College.
Don鈥檛 blame Coloradans for how things went south. We Fingers Short and Big Mouth.
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With love in our hearts, we鈥檒l remind folks that you and most of us here still believe in what抖阴ap true. We鈥檒l care for the planet for once and for all.
We鈥檒l help one another and try to recall that once every year business stops for one day to celebrate light and remind us to say:
鈥淗ere鈥檚 to joy, here鈥檚 to friendship,
鈥淗ere鈥檚 to spuds fried in grease.
鈥淗ere鈥檚 to Grandma鈥檚 tamales. And, yes,
鈥淗ere鈥檚 to peace.鈥�
Diane Carman is a communications consultant and a monthly columnist for The Denver Post.
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