Trump's Lies explained

It’s now a common fact that Trump and his underlings tell whoppers. Fact-checkers have never had it so good. But all politicians lie. Richard Nixon was famously tricky. But other traditional political fibbers nonetheless paid some deference to the truth — even as they were dodging it. They acknowledged a shared reality and bowed to it.  Trump’s lies are different. They are direct refutations of reality — and their propagation and repetition is about enforcing his power rather than wriggling out of a political conundrum. They are attacks on the very possibility of a reasoned discourse, the kind of bald-faced lies that authoritarians issue as a way to test loyalty and force their subjects into submission. That first press conference when Sean Spicer was sent out to lie and fulminate to the press about the inauguration crowd reminded me of some Soviet apparatchik having his loyalty tested to see if he could repeat in public what he knew to be false. It was comical, but also faintly chilling.
Then there is the obvious question of the president’s mental and psychological health. I know we’re not supposed to bring this up — but it is staring us brutally in the face.
 If you came across someone in your everyday life who repeatedly said fantastically and demonstrably untrue things, what would you think of him? 

You’d warn your other neighbors. You’d keep your distance. If you saw him, you’d be polite but keep your distance.

I think this is a fundamental reason why so many of us (sane ones) have been so unsettled, anxious, and near panic these past few months. BUT NOT THE SHEEP.

As he wrecks our country,  they don't care, cuz he has an (R) after his name. Same old shit. Remember GW and The Dick?

There is no anchor any more. At the core of the administration of the most powerful country on earth, there is, instead, madness, supported by FOX and the sheep.....