Alternative Facts

How fast does language change?  On Friday last week I did not watch the Inauguration of President Trump.  I did not watch Obama's either.  I heard that the crowds were not the biggest and that they were the biggest.  I heard that people who said it was not the biggest crowds were lying and that people who defended the people who said the crowds were that largest were using Alternate Facts.

Then I heard an interview on Thursday where a Politician was speaking about what they were doing in the job.  Then there was an interview the next day and the rival politician said that the first politician was using Alternative Facts.

That was Six days.  Six days.  I do not pay attention to a lot of news.  I don't listen to a lot of new media, I don't have a TV.  I don't even have a radio.  Six Days.  I can see the benefit of the phrase right away.  Next time a co worker tells the boss something that is not true, instead of telling my boss that they are lying, which sounds so childish, I can say that they are using Alternate Facts.  

Donald Trump uses Alternative Facts.  Facts are solid binary things, they are true or they are not facts.  Alternative Facts are not facts.  When we read the dystopia in the book 1984, the people there used Double Speak.  Solid proof that Trump and the Right Wing are bad news.  They don't use facts, they use Alternative Facts which are more powerful than simple facts.  I think I am going to use this phrase a lot.