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By Victor Kaisar

One Man's Opinion

COLLINS: Truth Social – an oxymoron to last for centuries.

Jun 29, 2025 | 6:00 AM

EVERYTHING THAT DONALD TRUMP says seems like a lie because even as he speaks he has to find ways to shift blame to someone else, to lie about the “truth”, or just ignore the lie and put it out of our mind by unleashing an even bigger lie and we just keep believing the stories as they unfurl.

“Iran’s nuclear ‘ capability has been obliterated- totally wiped out.”

But a couple of days later, we’re told that the bombs did very little damage other than to shake up the ground a bit. Twelve so-called “bunker busters” each costing $500-million couldn’t get the job done.

So we spent SIX BILLION DOLLARS and accomplished nothing. What would happen if that money had been put toward health care or toward humanitarian aid somewhere?

Military experts say the only real way to solve the problem in Iran is to physically invade, and physically enter the facility and destroy structures one by one. Last week, fact-checkers went over Trump’s remarks to the G7 Summit and during some casual conversations, and found that almost everything he said was either an outright lie, or at the very least, contained almost all misinformation.

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I’ve often thought about those two words – truth social – and watched how social media has allowed such hatred, conspiracy and subterfuge to be fostered. In more recent times, I’ve wondered if it’s possible to shut down social media and limit some of the rabid comments that are creating an atmosphere of violence instead of peace.

I can’t see how it’s possible, but I firmly believe that if we reduced the strength of the word “social”, it would allow much more power in the word “truth” to be displayed. Sadly, we don’t believe in Pollyanna, the Grinch, or the lessons of Dr. Seuss or Mr. Rogers anymore.

We’ve lost our beliefs and our innocence, and most of all, our hope. But when we start to lose hope, we need to realize hope is never totally erased. Martin Luther King, who held up the banner of hope till his death, gave us these words to think about: “we must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

A tough challenge, to be sure, but if we believe that hope springs eternal, or as King says “accept infinite hope,’ maybe we CAN change that flicker into a flame. As Patrick Stewart would say, “make it so.”

I’m Doug Collins and that’s One Man’s Opinion.

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