through the looking glass

When I worked for the state I had two different bosses who were different kinds of liars.  Dennis was the first one.  Everything he said was aimed towards advancing his cause.  If you asked him what the weather was he would do an instant calculation and would give you the answer that would best serve his interests.  He had this thin affable veneer, like he was this casual regular guy, like that plastic foam they put over the metal skeletons of robots to look like skin, so it took awhile to figure out what he was all about.

Polly on the other hand was not calculating, she believed whatever she said.  She was a natural born liar like Bill Clinton.  Her lies mostly served her interest, but sometimes she would go on with it just for the hell of it, just to see what would come out of her mouth.  She was a fast talker and when you first met her you thought she was some smart cookie.  She would juggle around facts and figures so fast you would think she was on top of things and knew more than you did.  You would think she was so smart that you couldn't keep up with her, but after awhile you realized that what she said didn't really make sense, and then you wouldn't believe anything she said.

Dennis was aware of Objective Reality and he would talk his way around it, but Polly had no concept of OR or maybe she just didn't believe in it because she was so good at it she thought she could bullshit her way through anything.

Trump, of course is a Polly type.  Most likely he was a spoiled brat and a bully growing up and once he got into his business he surrounded himself with yes men of absolute loyalty, so as far as he knows he has always been right so anybody who said otherwise must be a liar, must be fake news.

Dennis was the typical politician who we all kind of hate and Polly was a person, who if you hadn't yet figured out was a lying sack of shit, you thought she was really sharp.


The regular Republicans didn't like Trump, but they thought that he would be a useful tool.  They witnessed his rabid crowd and thought that they could use this energy to push through their agenda.  If they could harness him to their wagon, they could ride like the wind.  But Trump cannot be harnessed and his rabid crowd doesn't care a fig for the regular republicans and are loyal only to him.

Now it seems like they are thinking they can work around him, let him rant and rave in the white house while they go about go about their legislative business, but they are traveling down a mountain pass and Trump is the big boulder by the side of the road that you never know when it is going to come crashing down on you.

I don't know about that pee thing.  It just doesn't seem likely to me, but this is a crazy world now and anything could be true in this mad new looking glass world.  And I wonder even if the tape exists and could be shown would it make any difference to his followers.