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Get the net by @BloggersRUs

Published by Tom Sullivan on September 5, 2019

Get the net
by Tom Sullivan

“We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them,” President Andrew Shepherd told a press conference in The American President (1995). Michael Douglas was acting. The actual U.S. president is faking (2019).

There are serious problems that need attention this morning — hurricane relief and climate change are just two — but it is hard to avoid mentioning Donald Trump’s juvenile and utterly insane “war on reality.”

While ten Democratic candidates for president answered climate change questions in a rolling CNN town hall Wednesday night, the hashtags #SharpieTrump and #SharpieGate blew up the Internet.

Digby provided the short version yesterday:

In case you don’t know what this is all about, this spells the whole stupid thing out. Long story short: Trump tweeted out that Alabama was in Hurricane Dorian’s path over the weekend and he was wrong. Instead of admitting it he has doubled down and offered this ridiculous “proof” with a crude sharpie pen line extending the hurricane path.

The map Trump used to prove he was right all along was a week old. But wait. There’s more.

He denied knowing how the image was altered and insisted Alabama was in the original forecast track. It wasn’t. But Trump provided visual proof he was right about that too.

Really? Really?

Naturally, the Internet had a field day:

#SharpieGate is still going strong this morning. Donald J. Trump is still running the Executive Branch. His aides still allow him to handle scissors.

The acting chief of state got into the presidentin’ business claiming he would stop the world from laughing at us (him).

And now? They’re still laughing. We are teaching a new generation to duck and cover. The House impeachment inquiry has a one way ticket to Palookaville. The Trump Cabinet hasn’t the integrity of the supermarket tabloid that covered up for him. Americans across the country are nursing gunshot wounds. The dead don’t need to.

Meanwhile, Trump makes a mockery of the U.S. Constitution, lines his pockets with taxpayers’ and foreigners’ dough, and spends his days hurling insults and pulling stunts unworthy of Bart Simpson. Will the men in white coats, please, throw a net over this guy?

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