Fun Fact For The Day – Reality ≠ Reality

An Ounce Of Reality Is Worth A Pound Of Manure

September 28, 2024

Here they go again.

Remember when in January 2017 virgin White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer (later of Dancing With the Stars infamy) used his very first appearance in front of the world, wearing someone else’s clothes and flat-out lying to the American public about the crowd size at Donald Jizzum Trump’s inauguration? As an aside, who would have guessed that crowd size would quickly become one of the most all-consuming themes defining Trump for the rest of his unnatural life? Because it surely fucking did.

“I want to explain something. The people you see leaving, because no one ever leaves. And when they do, I finish up quick, believe me.”
               DarnOld Trump, Walker, MI, September 27, 2024

After Spicer was humiliated in the press – after all, there was something the kids call photographic evidence – out slithered Kellyanne Conway to explain the Spicer was providing what Conway called “alternative facts.” Who would have guessed that ‘alternative facts’ would quickly become one of the most all-consuming themes defining Trump for the rest of his unnatural life? Because it surely fucking did.

Skip ahead seven years to September 2024 (if only it could have been that easy) to the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Trump. Probably the most enduring moment of that night was when Trump, who was clearly losing what remained of his mind and that debate, screamed, “They’re eating the dogs! They’re eating the cats! They’re eating the pets of the people who live there!” All Harris could do in that moment was laugh her fucking ass off, which she did.

As the Trump campaign continues to desperately try to spin his massive drubbing, they have tried everything to avoid DarnOld having to do a full Biden and take himself out of the running.

Enter JD Vantz. Fresh off his ill-fated attempt to purchase donuts in Georgia, where Trump’s ruining mate alienated everyone in the shop, including the donuts, the least interesting man in the world told CNN’s Dana Bash (who herself had been humiliated during the Trump/Biden debate) that the whole Haitians-eating-dogs-and-cats bullshit was in fact bullshit. Vantz added that if he needed to make shit up to make people pay attention to stuff, then dammit, that’s what he was going to do. Who cares if it puts innocent people’s lives in danger? It is entirely possible that Vantz was unaware of the outright pathology he was espousing since it appears that his utter lack of self-awareness rivals that of Trump.

Bonus Historic Fun Fact: reality-fucking is nothing new to these scum. Take a little trip down the memory hole for this tasty tidbit from the George WTF Bush years:

The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

So it goes.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Fun Fact For The Day.