The meaninglessness of endless hyperbole.

Promises to be a busy week here at CC HQ, but here's a piece I've wanted to dash off for a while. Against my better judgment, I watched Premier Drug Fraud's COVID-19 presser yesterday and, in the midst of all that utter non-content, I once again noticed Premier Muskoka's penchant for unlimited, unqualified, shrieking hyberbole. You know what I mean.

It goes back to the late and wholly unlamented Rob Ford, who had the same verbal tic -- nothing was every qualified, or had any grey areas or nuance; no, it was all "the best" or "the greatest" and so on. Dougie was like that yesterday -- he would spare no expense, he would spend every penny necessary, he would turn over every stone, Stephen Lecce was the greatest human being in the history of the universe, etc, etc, etc. And you know there's a reason for that, right? Here's how it works.

If anyone has the temerity to question whether you even remotely know what the fuck you're doing and ask you if there is anything you can do better, if you admit there is, then you're on the hook for actually explaining yourself. If you descend into nuance or any sort of middle ground, you've effectively opened the door to people asking you for details.

On the other hand, if you stick to your guns and everything is "we're turning over every stone and we're sparing no expense and we're working 25 hours a day on this," well, what that means is that you've pretty much closed to the door on any further discussion; if what you're doing is already the definition of perfection, why would you allow anyone to keep asking questions?

The same holds if you want to demean and denigrate something -- you can't just dismiss something as problematic or having some weaknesses or shortcomings (which would allow questioners to ask you to elaborate and how you would improve it); no, everything you dislike must be (and you've seen this with gaseous blowhard Donald J. Trump) "a disaster" or "a total disaster" or "the worst in history," again effectively cutting off any further conversation.

A final variant on this (and I've mentioned it before) is over at Rebel News, where absolutely everything is "shocking", "appalling", "disgusting", "unbelievable" and on and on and tediously on.

So feel free to watch for this sort of rheorical sleaziness in the future, and tell me I'm wrong. I dare you.