One can only get so far on bullshit...Sooner or later, one has to face reality.

[kentuck]

This is the box that Donald Trump finds himself in.

For his entire life, he has thrived on bullshit. In a way, he created his own reality, his own world.

But that was in NYC real estate, with shady dealings with shady characters, and a reality show that he brought with him to the White House.

The bullshit has no currency when one is dealing with 20% unemployment, a pandemic, and press that does not lavish praise.

It's time to face the real world.

[Cary]

1. We have to turn out.

If we turn out, we win. At this time. of this place, nothing else matters. We must focus on that.

VOTE DEMOCRATIC!

[hatrack]

2. And in the end, reality always wins . . . .

The only variables:

A. How long you ignore it

B. How high the price will be when you finally turn and face it (which follows directly from A).

[tanyev]

3. I doubt that Trump will ever face it.

The Republican party might finally face the disaster that Trump has created for them. Maybe.

[sop]

4. What was it P. T. Barnum always used to say?

“You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.”

[Wounded Bear]

8. Usually attibuted to Lincoln, actually...nt

[sop]

10. Historians have attributed this quote to both Lincoln and Barnum over the years.

Lincoln supposedly said it during a speech in 1858, but there's no historical record to support that. It's believed neither man wrote it, rather some newspaperman of the day. At any rate, Trump has much more in common with P.T. Barnum than Lincoln, so the aphorism rings truer attributed to another con man.

https://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question58275.html

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

[Wounded Bear]

12. Good point...

wasn't Barnum the "sucker born every minute" guy, too?



BTW, that's why I said "attributed" as in "some people think" he said it. He usually gets the meme.

[Newest Reality]

5. We also...

We also seem to have what looks like a Republican backup plan...

Trumps little AstroTurf armies rallying for a boogaloo, that is, traitors betraying us by taking advantage of a national crisis.

[wiggs]

6. Maybe. GOP is great at creating their own reality, dems get to fix what they break. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. From the Chernobyl miniseries:

"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, the debt is paid."

[lame54]

9. With Trump it's always much much later...

In fact we are still waiting

[malaise]

11. and even know he does not get it

He's about to learn the very hard way