C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
âDonald Trump is surely the most prolific and brazen liar ever to occupy the White House. From day one of his first term, when he confabulated wildly about the crowd size at his inauguration, he has fabricated nonsense so promiscuously that peopleâsupporters and antagonistsâhave just come to assume you canât trust what he says.
But in the last few weeks, Trump and his Administration seem to have broken through the lying speed of light, emerging into a whole new universe of bullshit. From the daily diet of blatant lies, fibs, and fabrications, theyâve taken up occupancy in a stratosphere of crazy, as if arriving through a wormhole from the other side of the universe. Theyâre now regularly peddling assertions that boggle the mind and leave commentators speechlessâprovoking a âwhat planet are you from?â kind of response.
What these claims provoke is less indignation than bewildermentâa sense of âI donât even know where to begin.â In the last few days, two of the countryâs most sure-footed cable hosts basically threw up their hands confronting Administration statements that vaulted over false or even ridiculous to the utterly bizarre.
On CNN, Kaitlan Collinsâtrying to make sense of yet another sweeping claim about what the Justice Department had or had not âauthorizedââresponded with exasperation: âNone of what theyâre saying lines up with the actual record, and I donât know how else to say it.â (Over the weekend, Collins responded to Trumpâs asinine tirade calling her âstupid and nastyâ with grace and good humor.)â
harrylitman.substack.com
The problem is that the country has long become numb to Trumpâs endless lies.
Trumpâs endless lies flow into the vast ocean of political apathy and disengagement â indeed, itâs become pointless to confront Trumpâs firehose of lies.
Republicans defend and spread the same lies; Trump Cult members attack anyone who dares to expose Trumpâs dishonesty and lies.
But in the last few weeks, Trump and his Administration seem to have broken through the lying speed of light, emerging into a whole new universe of bullshit. From the daily diet of blatant lies, fibs, and fabrications, theyâve taken up occupancy in a stratosphere of crazy, as if arriving through a wormhole from the other side of the universe. Theyâre now regularly peddling assertions that boggle the mind and leave commentators speechlessâprovoking a âwhat planet are you from?â kind of response.
What these claims provoke is less indignation than bewildermentâa sense of âI donât even know where to begin.â In the last few days, two of the countryâs most sure-footed cable hosts basically threw up their hands confronting Administration statements that vaulted over false or even ridiculous to the utterly bizarre.
On CNN, Kaitlan Collinsâtrying to make sense of yet another sweeping claim about what the Justice Department had or had not âauthorizedââresponded with exasperation: âNone of what theyâre saying lines up with the actual record, and I donât know how else to say it.â (Over the weekend, Collins responded to Trumpâs asinine tirade calling her âstupid and nastyâ with grace and good humor.)â
Trumpâs Alternate-Reality Government
âTheyâre describing events from a universe where facts operate under different rules.â
harrylitman.substack.com
The problem is that the country has long become numb to Trumpâs endless lies.
Trumpâs endless lies flow into the vast ocean of political apathy and disengagement â indeed, itâs become pointless to confront Trumpâs firehose of lies.
Republicans defend and spread the same lies; Trump Cult members attack anyone who dares to expose Trumpâs dishonesty and lies.
