Media Fact Checkers - Although the sky appears blue to the human eye, he fails to mention that's only on the visbile spectrum. His refusal to include other parts of the Electromagnetic Wave Spectrum is not only intellectually dishonest, but symbolic of Trump's unwillingness to acknowledge diversity and encouragement of his brand of grudge politics
"Ackshually the clouds overhead mean everything is grey, just like Trump's hair and skin would be if he didn't dye and spray it! Checkmate drumptards!" - Social media, probably.
I have seen liberals respond to a hypothetical like this, with a completely straight face, that if some 'expert' said the sky was not blue - perhaps some sky expert or a colour expert, whatever those are - then they would accept that it is not blue.
This broken epistemology is at the root of almost all the problems in the world. A sentient person knows that humans have a shared concept of 'blue' which the sky fits easily into, and so any other definition for the colour of the sky, or of colour itself, is not meaningful. But there is a massive cohort of people who are so unthinking, insecure and deferential to authority, that their definition of the most basic things can be changed because 'labcoat shaman said AKSHULLY, so I say akshully too now'.
Practically all 'science'-based policy is worthless because schemers recognised the potential for manipulation. When science is appealed to in politics or the media, it is nothing more than a truth-laundering mechanism any more.
Also Media Fact Checkers - We have been completely unable to source Trump's assertion, without evidence, that the """sky is blue""". There is tons of photographic evidence of the sky being pink, gold, and red at dawn and dusk, sometimes gray during rain storms, brown during sandstorms, and even black at night. Experts at the Progressive Institute of Sky Coloration and Aerogender Research told us that Trump's "Hitlerian Hate Speech" was a "discredited, but long-standing racial psuedo-science of white supremacy within meteorology", but that there were "breakthrough cases" of skies that appear blue to populations and cultures that have developed a concept of such a color.
Trump claims the sky is blue
Media Fact Checkers - Although the sky appears blue to the human eye, he fails to mention that's only on the visbile spectrum. His refusal to include other parts of the Electromagnetic Wave Spectrum is not only intellectually dishonest, but symbolic of Trump's unwillingness to acknowledge diversity and encouragement of his brand of grudge politics
"Ackshually the clouds overhead mean everything is grey, just like Trump's hair and skin would be if he didn't dye and spray it! Checkmate drumptards!" - Social media, probably.
I have seen liberals respond to a hypothetical like this, with a completely straight face, that if some 'expert' said the sky was not blue - perhaps some sky expert or a colour expert, whatever those are - then they would accept that it is not blue.
This broken epistemology is at the root of almost all the problems in the world. A sentient person knows that humans have a shared concept of 'blue' which the sky fits easily into, and so any other definition for the colour of the sky, or of colour itself, is not meaningful. But there is a massive cohort of people who are so unthinking, insecure and deferential to authority, that their definition of the most basic things can be changed because 'labcoat shaman said AKSHULLY, so I say akshully too now'.
Practically all 'science'-based policy is worthless because schemers recognised the potential for manipulation. When science is appealed to in politics or the media, it is nothing more than a truth-laundering mechanism any more.
Also Media Fact Checkers - We have been completely unable to source Trump's assertion, without evidence, that the """sky is blue""". There is tons of photographic evidence of the sky being pink, gold, and red at dawn and dusk, sometimes gray during rain storms, brown during sandstorms, and even black at night. Experts at the Progressive Institute of Sky Coloration and Aerogender Research told us that Trump's "Hitlerian Hate Speech" was a "discredited, but long-standing racial psuedo-science of white supremacy within meteorology", but that there were "breakthrough cases" of skies that appear blue to populations and cultures that have developed a concept of such a color.
Sydney Sweeney, for a travel agency advertisement :
Progressives :
Hitler liked blue eyes, Trump likes blue sky! Checkmate!
...and don't get me started on northern lights! 😄
We also need Trump to claim the earth isn't flat and that otherkin aren't real. It would be hilarious to watch.
Trump has never publicly disavowed the Flat Earth theory.