On The Banks Of Bullshit River: Delusions In Donny-Land

From childhood, where he was the kid who threw birthday cake at his own parties, his river of bullshit has flowed fast and furious.  It shows no signs of letting up.  What a vulgar, rotten, ridiculous life!

"Hey, Mahoning Valley!  How do you like me now?"

They probably don't like him much right now.  Prima Donald campaigned on backward-looking, delusional promises of rejuvenated auto manufacturing, brand-new steel plants, and more "clean, beautiful coal."  Last year at a Trumpanzee rally in Youngstown, his advice to the down-trodden locals was, "Don't move -- all those auto jobs that left Ohio, they're all coming back."

Yesterday, General Motors announced it would be closing five manufacturing facilities and laying off over 14,000 employees.  On the list was GM's huge-but-troubled Lordstown assembly plant.  The Thug-In-Chief went into his familiar attack-and-threaten mode, telling GM's CEO Mary Barra that she'd "damn well better open another plant."  Winning.

I hope the residents of the once-blue, now-red Mahoning Valley come to their senses and realize they've been played for suckers by a carnival barker.

If you liked the Baby Jail policy, you'll love the Lunatic Asylum plan.

For some time time now, Cinnamon Hitler has been waging a delusional, legally dicey war against the American asylum system.  By law, those entering the U.S. without papers may apply for asylum if they can show a credible fear of persecution if they're returned to their native land.  Some applicants are approved, many are not.

Reacting angrily to the caravan "invasion" non-crisis, Trump first tried to flatly ban the possibility of asylum for anyone not crossing the border at an official point of entry.  An immediate restraining order shot down that idea.  For his next trick, he decided that all asylum applicants would have to remain in Mexico while their case was considered, a process which can take many months.  Previously, asylum seekers have been allowed to cross into the U.S. to await the outcome.  Now Trump would like to make it Mexico's problem (and they love him so much in Mexico!).  He says Mexico has agreed to his plan; Mexico says they have not.  Question:  Would asylum seekers arriving at our northern, eastern or western borders also have wait in Mexico?  Just asking.

Trump says if he doesn't get his way, he'll permanently close all points of entry on the southern border.  That would be illegal, so good luck with that bullshit, Spanky.

Frustrated by his inability to run roughshod over immigration law, Trump resorted to Mobster-like intimidation.  He threatened the use of lethal weapons against refugees at the border, and had his ICE goons fire tear gas at some of the asylum seekers, including children.  Trump immediately denied it:  "We didn't.  We don't use it on children."  (Video says otherwise, genius.)  So he pivoted to 100% pure, unadulterated, Grade-A bullshit:  "We had to do it.  They were rushed by some very tough people.  [Border agents] were very badly hurt, getting hit with rocks and stones."  (Customs & Border Patrol chief says it's not true.)  Then the river got really deep.  He claimed the agents had used "a minor form of tear gas -- very safe," and all those shown on videos coughing, choking and screaming were faking it, "putting it out there."  (There is only one form and one strength of tear gas.  And if it's so safe, why don't you suck some for breakfast, asswipe?)  He capped off his delusional spree by claiming that the immigrants with children were "not the parents.  They call them grabbers."  In Trump's twisted QAnon brain, America is being invaded by bad criminal hombres who kidnap poopy-pants toddlers and travel thousands of miles with them in faint hopes of preferential treatment at our border.  Yeah, right.

There are roughly 5000 asylum seekers piled up in Tijuana right now.  Here's an idea:  Let them come across the border as usual, make their applications as usual, then proceed normally from there.

Climate, Shmimate!  

On the day after Thanksgiving, the U.S. government issued its federally required Fourth National Climate Assessment.  The report reiterated that climate change is real, it's caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions, and if we don't start getting serious about it now, we're fucked.  We'll suffer huge economic and health costs, as we try to cope with ever-increasing environmental extremes.  Left unchecked, the report said climate change "will inflict substantial damage on U.S. lives."   Of course, Delusional Don's response was, "I don't believe it."  He showed that he still doesn't understand the difference between climate and weather when he reacted to a couple cold days by tweeting, "Whatever happened to global warming?"  And he petulantly whined about the necessity of making an American effort because, "We're clean, but every other place is dirty."  Just a towering mountain of bullshit.

It's a well-established fact that Trump lies about everything all the time.  The corollary to that which then follows naturally is:  If Trump says he doesn't believe something, believe it!