well while waiting to see what new lies Felonious Trump’s surrogate REMF comes up with as he trails the Harris/Walz campaign vying for the attention they are enjoying we continued to
enjoy the mountain mahoganys’ exuberances until finally one fine morning I even made it
as far as the Libre Library before daily offsite obligations – two mornings’ running – intruded.
The first took us to Gardner for Desireé and the next day, low on provisions, down to ‘burg
where the recently Privatized Dump is definitely more expensive, groceries seem so too and
on Highway 69 the roadwork goes on and on…infrastructure, babe…and weather; yes, rain.
Friday brought some fun news – a delightful duck story from the Guardian, as well as the hilarity of Trump’s “brownout”*, all followed by a pretty effortless filling of the water on an anomalously
cool – this being August, right, with record temps, fires, etc. in every other direction – day
followed by a long-awaited dinner with Bill and Muriel to catch up on near a year away as well
as hear about her recent ecstatic week backpacking above timberline. A fine time was had…
*In all fairness to The Donald, however, he does appear to sincerely believe that everything he says he believes happened and is True. Weirdly enough and despite much evidence to the contrary his astonishing numbers of followers believe every [and any-] thing he says to be true, too.
I had a thought about FW in re. the “helicopter” incident. He’s confabulating. A classic sign of cognitive decline. He’s not exactly lying, which implies premeditation and knowing that the statement is false. He’s saying things he actually believes are true, but they are a frappe’ of actual memories, TV viewing, desire, dreams, reading, things seen by the side of the road, other people’s stories. All of that gets put in a blender, zapped until smooth, and then poured out. There are scraps of verifiable “truth”, various lesser connections to reality, but the whole thing as a whole is false, is a confabulation.
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/what-to-know-about-confabulation
None of this is to say he doesn’t actually lie almost every time he opens his mouth, but something different is also happening ..
I think you’re absolutely right about that, Lee, but I also think it’s been true for him for a very long time. To think he would again have access to the nuclear trigger, the armed forces, the courts…well, he [they] do have the courts already. And that the billionaire bozos behind him think for a minute they have any control over him…
Apparently dRump (aka DonOLD) thinks the crowds of people (in his head) are the biggest.
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/trump-boasts-about-huge-crowd-of?r=9fosd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
He does seem to be losing it.