The headline is a Mark Twain quote. And it precisely describes the predicament the good people of this country find themselves in the fight against Donald Trump's lies and the supporting morons that believe him. Think about it...these lost souls are probably in double-digit territory in connection with their mental status and follow the Oval Office lunatic without the slightest hesitation nor evidence of reality. Donald Trump is a habitual liar. Some of his nominated administration misfits are liars. And there you have the blueprint for Trump 2.0.
"There were a bunch, Jake."
There's more...
Dale noted that while there was only a "smattering of falsehoods" in Trump's "scripted" inaugural speech, he "returned to his familiar lie-a-minute style" during the "unscripted" Emancipation Hall speech.
Here we go...
"He [Trump] said the 2020 election was totally rigged," Dale told Tapper. "We know that's a lie. He said his opponents tried to rig it this time; that is more nonsense. He said California Democrats tried to cheat, and that he thinks he would have won the state this time if it were not rigged. Well, it was a free and fair election in that state as well; he lost by more than three million votes."
For the seven-hundredth time, we are hearing the same 2020 steal story, one that has been disproven over seven-hundred times, which must indicate some level of dementia, or just that Donald Trump is stupid. Remember Kari Lake? She was a loyal Trump fan who used the same strategy but in respect to her loss of the Arizona governor's election. Arizonans, of which I am one, grew tired of Lake's whining and decided to give her another defeat when Ruben Gallego beat her in the Senate race.
"The CNN fact-checker also debunked Trump's false claims about the January 6,
2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building."Sarah K. Burris in AlterNet calls Trump 'One million percent total insane' for his claim that California's wildfires were being allowed to spread “without even a token of defense.” Here's the scenario...
"What an insult to all the amazing firefighters who put their lives on the line to bring the LA fires under control! Trump starts out with a speech filled with massive lies, deceit, insults as he trashes the country to uplift his own deviance," she said on X.
Another writer in this article spoke about Donald Trump' ignorance about what "asylum" means. It seems that Trump believes that the immigrants seeking asylum are also those who come from insane asylums and are being sent to the U.S. MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, thinks Stephen Miller may have written Trump's speech and could be behind the inane idea that asylum-seekers are coming from mental asylums. And, of course, the White House maniac couldn't speak too long without taking a shot at Joe Biden...
New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush noted Trump is already preparing to take credit for former President Joe Biden's work, "Many of the crises Trump has vowed to address (taming inflation, ridding cities of violent crime, building the world's most formidable military...) are already well on the way to be solved..."More from CNN's Daniel Dale and Trump's Emancipation Hall speech...
"He [Trump] claimed he won Alabama this time by 48 points — more like 30, 31. And then, on immigration, he spoke of the jails of every country in the world being emptied into this country. He has never provided any evidence for his familiar claim that foreign countries are deliberating emptying prisons to send people here as migrants."
There are several more instances of Donald Trump's misinformation fantasies in the above AlterNet piece, well worth reading. It almost seems that Mark Twain had Donald Trump and his minions in mind when he concocted the above [headline] statement. Dorothy Parker said...
"I require only three things of a man: He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid."
Naw, she would shoot Trump down in flames and write something like this...
'Only a grifter like Donald Trump could get away with murder and have the person murdered thank him.'
Folks, we must press on for four years.
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