How will the White House spin Donald Trump’s assertion that he’s building a wall in Colorado?
Easy: “In building a wall in New Mexico, President Trump is also protecting Coloradans from,” &c., &c.
It’s frightening to me that this sort of after-the-fact pseudo-logic is so easy to dream up.
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October 24: Here’s what Trump tweeted later last night:
(Kiddingly) We’re building a Wall in Colorado”(then stated, “we’re not building a Wall in Kansas but they get the benefit of the Wall we’re building on the Border”) refered to people in the very packed auditorium, from Colorado & Kansas, getting the benefit of the Border Wall!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2019
[He was speaking in Pittsburgh.]
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You may appreciate this: https://twitter.com/SenatorLeahy/status/1187117375008755712
Yes, I saw that last night. It’s great.
...nomadic Mormons returning to Nauvoo.
Maybe he can build a wall on our (Illinois’s) southern border and make the LDS Church pay for it.
Not long ago I came across the wonderful word retcon - retroactive, or retrospective continuity - which first emerged in the comic book world and is now in fairly common amongst authors and TV series writers. The Wiki definition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity) starts
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Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short is a literary device in which established facts in a fictional work are adjusted, ignored, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which breaks continuity with the former.
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Of course there are all kinds of uses in the political world as well...
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