If a society is unable to discern fact from fiction, it will continue failing to make rational decisions for its future.

I don't like how climate change is becoming a religious belief. Because none of the high priests have viable solutions. Paris was a joke. A centralisation/globalisation of power-grab, disguised as climate change policy.

"It is notorious, universally so, that the blackest falsehoods are ever decked out in the most brilliant and gorgeous regalia. Clearly, therefore it is the brave man's duty to regard all sacred things, all legal things, all constitutional things, all holy things, with more than usual suspicion.

"I deny and I affirm," is the countersign of material freedom. "I believe, and I obey" is the shibboleth of serfage.

Belief is a flunkey, a feminine- Doubt is a creator, a master."

"The most dangerous of all enthroned lies is the holy, the sanctified, the privileged lie- the lie that "everybody" believes to be model truth. It is the fruitful mother of all other popular errors and delusions.

He who saith unto himself, "I must believe, I must not question" is not a man but a mere pusilanimous mental gelding. He who believes "because it has been handed down" is a menial in his heart; and he who believes "because it has been written" is a fool in his folly. Sagacious spirits doubt all things and hold fast only to that which is demonstrably true."

Fake news didn't originate with Trump. He just threw it back at them.

Continue blaming Trump. He is obviously responsible for all the ills in the world. If you bothered to listen to Trump you'd realise he is fine with solar and wind. He mentioned it multiple times in the campaign. More than he mentioned the china hoax tweet. He just thinks the free market can do a better job than government. Whose to say he isn't right?

What did Obama achieve on this front other than the creation of many many regulations that in fact hinder innovation? I thought what Rex Tillerson said about 'adaptation' was the most practical approach we've heard.

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