A tsunami of lies...

[kentuck]

Our system is not equipped to handle such an onslaught. No system in the world could handle the quantity of lies put out by Donald Trump and his team of sycophants.

Today, the press is pointing out the lies he told yesterday to the troops in Iraq and tomorrow it will be something else. After a while, it all becomes background noise. As normal as street traffic.

Unfortunately, the lies and deceptions are corrosive to our democracy. Also, it is corrosive to our mental state. We cannot continue to survive in such a world.

The lies cannot be tolerated much longer.

They must end.

And soon.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. We can never fully recover and that was the goal of bannon and putin when they worked together

to put this traitor in office.

So much of what was respected is no longer by so many, etc.

We will NEVER fully recover, we may recover to some degree but never fully. Putin wins.

[Cary]

5. We can't look at it this way

We must assert ourselves as best we can and move forward.

[Caliman73]

8. I don't think Putin wins.

Putin does not have the ability to elevate Russia into a super power, which is the supposed reason he is playing the games he is playing. Russia is a relative one trick pony regarding economics. Any move that Russia makes to increase its global power, will be challenged by at minimum, China. Once the US is rid of Trump's influence and perhaps, if we are able to diminish the GOP's power for some time, we can be back at work building coalitions.

Putin cannot realistically win, though he can make life difficult for many around his sphere of influence.

[OMGWTF]

10. Putin is Putting a Military Base in the Caribbean for Nuclear Bombers

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8064941/russia-military-base-caribbean-island-nuclear-bombers/

[pangaia]

14. I guess now we may start to feel the way the Russians feel.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. I'd take anything printed by The Sun with a grain of salt.

The rag has a bad reputation in some parts of the UK, especially Liverpool.

[Tech]

2. Desperate times

[guillaumeb]

3. Reagan also lied constantly.

But he could act the part of the normal person.

Trump cannot.

Trump is Reagan without the veneer of niceness.

[DoctorJoJo]

15. Reagan Was Senile ....

.. he once told a bunch of visiting dignitaries about how he helped free prisoners from Auschwitz. They were enthralled and questioned his aids after. Oh no, they told them--he was never in the War--he just mixes up movies with real life. So, about like Trump in some ways!

[guillaumeb]

20. Good point.

And both were/are racists.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. This is why...

we don't just "give people a chance' to do OJT as the president of the USA. "Give him a chance."=Let him imbed himself like a tick we can never remove. "Just give him a chance."

[underpants]

6. It's all in his mind

[calimary]

19. It's all in his poor-excuse-for-a-mind.

[malaise]

7. Nicely put

He has to be stopped

[maxsolomon]

9. It has always been his MO

It's pathological AND a business strategy. It's worked for him to this point - 72 years - and it won him the nomination and the Presidency. He'll never stop. He can't.

It's already become background noise, and millions are tuning out for their own sanity. As per design.

We're a long way from the end, so the lies WILL be tolerated, for at least another year, maybe 2. maybe 6. We'll see what America's tolerance level for obvious gaslighting is - it's high, regardless, or we wouldn't be here.

[smirkymonkey]

11. This is why they want to destroy higher education in this country.

No well-educated, thinking person could possibly fall for this shit.

[EleanorR]

12. Democrats just picked up 40 seats in the House

People see through the lies and are saying enough.

[Claritie Pixie]

13. I would say it's not the system itself, but human emotions that can't handle it.

As a rwsult, the systwm breaks
down.

The entire country is suffering from emotional manipulation and exhaustion, even those who support Individual-1.

[BlueJac]

17. k&R

Good post Kentuck!

[ffr]

18. I was reminded by a friend that Pence concealed his use of a private email server as IN Gov.

Carrying on with homeland security messages, amongst others, AND was hacked!

Pence used personal email for state business — and was hacked

- Indy Star

Oh yeah, forgot that Pence was a complete hypocrite too.

[spanone]

21. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼

[Demovictory9]

22. and while we focus on trump chaos, his appointees are dismantling the govt