You know, I've noticed that republicans and the general know-nothing crowd have also started to redefine the term "evidence" for some reason. I guess to make themselves feel better? To keep that doubt sowed where the alternative is just more self-hate?
On this topic, as with all of the other snowflake alt-right response to female accusations against powerful men of being sexually harassed, there is the ever-present, predictable first response of "Is there any evidence of this?"
well, look idiots: the testimony of the accusers is evidence. That is what evidence is. What you alt-right fools want is more evidence. I think you kids are mistaking forensic (physical) evidence for the sum-total of all evidence. I believe that testimonials like this are a recognized type of circumstantial evidence which, in itself, is often wrongly assumed to be "garbage evidence." Circumstantial can be used to describe any one independent piece of evidence, physical or spoken, where the sum total of many piles of circumstantial evidence make up the entirety of the case.
Anyway, it's weird that it took me this long to notice, but know-nothing alt-righters have been working to re-define terms and common concepts for some time now, all over the place, so some tend to slip through the cracks.
I've been casually following the changes in people's attitudes ever since Trump won the Repub primary. I recall how the expression "the new normal" was being bounced around when it became quite evident that Trump, despite his notoriety for having this basket full of issues that would have easily defeated most any other candidate in their run for office, literally bullied his way into office with outrageous lies and accusations that if it were not for the intense desperation to get "The Win" by the Repubs, he would have been laughed off the stage of public opinion as an idiot and charlatan that he actually seems to be.
So here we have this Charlatan-in-Chief posing as what he wants us to believe he is yet failing miserably at it, creating this "new normalcy" of the presidency. He is being helped in his efforts to create this "new normalcy" by a base of support that wants to force their extremist views on the nation and a Repub controlled Congress whose view of Trump is merely a means to an end.
Both of these entities could care less if Trump was a brain dead patient on life support. Trump was/is their only hope to see their agendas come to fruition and they will cling to him no matter how destructive he becomes, no matter how disruptive he is.
He is now in the process of forcing the nation to accept the fact that he won his presidency based on a mountain of lies, scurrilous accusations and false hopes and to accept him as its leader without question, without doubt. He wants many of his supporters to forget/ignore the fact that in a critical moment of truth, they were in a state of induced delusion when they strolled up to that voting booth and made their choices count and obviously he's been very successful in this regard. He wants the rest of us to accept him as he is based on the notion that we all knew what we were getting when we sent in our votes while he totally ignores the fact that he lost the popular vote by 3+ millions. They were all illegal aliens anyway, right?
So here we are, being worn down, jaded and numbed into believing that Trump, with all of his deeds and behavior that would have gotten him impeached and thrown in jail if he were a Democrat, is exactly what the nation needs to MAGA.
Well, fvck that shit I say.