Enumerating lies

ON FACEBOOK somebody posted: "Name a Trump lie". Whether this was intended to be an extremely easy test, like "name an english word which begins with the letter 'B'", or an opportunity for Trump supporters to confromt reality, was uncertain. I found the offer irrrestible. Trump lie wise, we all have our favorites. Here's my personal favorite: "During the Revolutionary War Geogre Washington's army captured every airport in the colonies." Yes, he actually said that. As Casey Stengal used to say: "you could look it up". Then there's the one he uttered, in front of camera, God, and world, while standing next to the president of Italy in the oval office: "Friendship between the United States and Italy goes all the way back to the reign of Julius caesar". Sometimes, often, you have to wonder. The best theory is that people like Trump don't bother to think before they speak, because, afflicted with extreme narcissiam, they assume a priori that no matter what they say, it must be true, because they are the one saying it. That might explain the one in which Trump notified the nation and the world that windmills cause cancer, or that "they say they do". In fact, nobody ever said anything that stupid, other than Trump. Nobody ever even broached the possibility, until Trump. By talking to, "picking the brain" of a friend of mine who supports Trump, I am begining, maybe, to understand a little how they think. My friend told me in no uncertain terms that Trump supporters simply do not care anything about what Trump says, about his lies, insults, vicious slanders, and so forth. They overlook all that, because they like the direction in which he takes the country, or rather, was taking it, until his alleged landslide election victory was stolen from him by, according to my friend, the Democratic party. My friend at least identified the guilty party, no pun intended. All the other election fraud frauds are much more vague about such vital questions, including the method used for the alledged steal. My friend was equally vague about methodology, but he mumbled something about tampered voting machines from the Dominion company. Dominion has now sued enything that moves over this slanderous atttack upon its integrity; if justice prevails, they will win every case. Trump supporters find it easy to overlook Trump's constant, pathological lying, because they like the direction in which he was taking the country, and will doutless take it again, if he is restored to the presidency upon proving that he actually won reelection. They dismiss his lies as "stretching a truth a bit". We'll be back to ingesting hydroxychloroquine and dismissing all scientific expertise as "fraudulent", if by some twisted miracle of devilish divine intervention Trump is restored to the presidency and Biden removed from it. Last July 29 my friend bet me a case of imported beer that before year's end, Donald Trump would be back in power. Just the other day, he admitted that he made what he called "an emotional wager", and offered to pay up. I declined the offer, having gotten far more than I expected. If only he were fully aware of the extraordinary number of "emotional eagers" he makes daily, and has been making for years. My newest strategy is telling Trump supporters that they personally are far too good as human beings to support such an obvious reprobate, no matter how closely the reprobate's policies conform to expectations. Its a strategy doomed to failure, like most strategies to get people to conquer drug addiction, but its a noble one, because, in every case, no matter the extent of a Trump supporter's dereliction, which is often great, the person is, demonstrably, good enough to deserve a decent person to support poitically, even if that isn't saying much.