Trumpers, Still Disinforming

 MY FRIEND, the Trump lover, said to me, thinking he had thus won the argument "What about all the ANTIFA riots last summer"? He war referring to those instances in which people at Black Lives matter protests were confronted by right wing white supremacists, and took them on. Naturally he left out the white supremacist part. As if those incidents were in any way comparable to Trump's insurrection at the Capitol. As if bad behavior can ever be justified by merely pointing to someone else's bad behavior. The tactic is, evidently, to change the subject or transfer responsibility for the insurrection, as Trump tried to do while it was ongoing. The people who attacked the Capitol acted on their won,, or they were leftists, or they were expressing free speech, or some such idiocy. Like Mitch McConnell said, Trump has not gotten away with anything, yet, and, if justice is served, will be convicted in federal court for treason, lined up, and shot. Or at least sent away for the remainder of his natural life. My friend wen ton that Trump was the greatest president in American history, and that the American people know it. that his approval rating had sunk to less than thirty percent by January 7 I chose not to mention. Why bother? My friend went on that he believes in climate change, that he believes the climate changes all the time. In fact it does not; it remains relatively unchanged for long periods of time, then suddenly lurches into a new phase, as it did around the year thirteen hundred, and again around 1850, when it emerged from the "little ice age". My frid of course thought himself quite clever, i could tell, by mentioning natural climate change and dismissing, again, the real thing, the human made variety, but as usual I was not impressed by his conservative nit witticisms. People like that always tell me how smart they think I am, then proceed to talk to me as if they think I'm stupid. The best tactic might be to present them with specific questions, such as: what do you think should be done about atmospheric warming, which is happening at an alarming rate? Just assume they know the science, and force them to act as if they do. Or, do you agree with Trump that windmills cause cancer? Who exactly do you believe was/is involved in the vast left wing conspiracy to steal the election from Trump, seeing as how the plan worked so very well? Or, if Obama had behaved exactly as Trump did after the election, of if Hillary had, what would your reaction have been? I want to h ear one of them explain in detail exactly how the election was stolen, and to explicitly express their approval of Trump's behavior. That will make their own character permanently engraved in the record.