Source: The Dispatch
by Jonah Goldberg
“In his seminal book On Bulls— (the actual title isn’t censored), philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt argues that lying implies a certain respect for, and knowledge of, the truth. ‘It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bulls— requires no such conviction.’ What this administration does is worse than lying because they don’t care whether something is true or false, only whether it will be believed. The Trump White House is a bulls— distribution hub, that connects via tubes, canals, and sluices across the media landscape. Like some vast Rube Goldberg contraption, the guy on the giant hamster wheel powering the whole thing is a president who spent his life saying whatever he needed to say at any given moment to make a deal, get out of trouble, whatever.” (01/28/26)