I wouldn’t call it an axiom so much as a rule of thumb, but it’s a very solid rule of thumb and it goes like this: If Trump says a thing, the opposite is true. It’s not always correct. All of those times he said he wanted to sleep with Ivanka? Those were true. I mean, obviously. But Washington, DC is a crime-riddled hellhole? No, the opposite is true. The crime rate in Washington, DC has been down steadily for two years. And, no, the numbers that support that statement aren’t wrong just because he had a gut feeling.

When he told Billy Bush he likes to just grope women without asking? Yeah, that one was true. But is the US “hot again?” No, the opposite is true. The entire world is readjusting it’s trade around the US, not through it. We’ll be cut out completely, here, in a year or two. The sudden instability of the US is just freaking everybody else out.

He was pretty honest when he was describing his scheme to see teen women undressed at his beauty pageants by “inspecting” the facilities while the girls were changing clothes. But Mexico never paid one dime for that wall and his better health care plan is still – perpetually – two weeks away.

When he called Jeffrey Epstein “a great guy” and “a lot of fun to be with?” He meant those. Those were true. But has he ended ten wars? He hasn’t even ended one. Some conflicts and potential conflicts have ended while he infests the White House but that doesn’t mean HE ended them, and, so far, the principals of those events have claimed he had nothing to do with it.

Hey, there’s a pattern, there, isn’t there? He tells the truth about his sex crimes. He effing lies about pretty much everything thing else. Is he deporting murderers and rapers? Not for the most part. They’re mostly hard-working, contributing members of society, if not citizens. Did he cut drug prices by 1,500%? Don’t be ridiculous.

The list is almost inexhaustible. The point is, if Donny says something NOT related to his sex crimes, he’s almost certainly speaking the exact opposite of the facts at hand…

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Have you noticed how the Republicans keep trying to come up with cutsie little nicknames for their concentration camps? “Alligator Alcatraz?” Meet “Cornhusker Clink,” in Nebraska. How about the “Speedway Slammer” in Floriduh? I suppose the cutsie nicknames are intended to gloss over the nightmares those people are living inside of them. Hey, if you’re going to be incomprehensibly cruel, you might as well have fun with it…

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I hear MAGA is calming down now that Ghislaine has said that she never saw the Groping Grifter in “any inappropriate setting.” Ghislaine seduced, trained, and turned out children in a sex-trafficking ring. I’ll need FAR more details about what she considers “inappropriate.”

I suppose MAGA will be satisfied. Of course, they WANT to be satisfied. Those of us interested in facts are NOT satisfied. Todd Blanche asking leading questions she gave the correct answer to is not the most convincing “interview” to the rational mind. Hell, we all watched the “quid” part – her lovely new living situation – paid for her “pro quo” of saying anything that would help out her old friend. Well, the first part of he “quid” anyway. Once this blows over, thanks, in part, to her helpful but dishonest “testimony,” she’ll get her pardon, or at the very least, a commutation.

I still need to see the files. No, sending them to James Comer isn’t going to prove anything either. Comer is a known commodity and he’s not known for quality. I’m pretty sure the term “brown nose” was created specially for him, years before he was even born, in anticipation that such a vile person would soon infest the planet. He’s certainly the living embodiment of it…

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Let the race to the bottom, well not “begin,” exactly. How about “get worse even faster?” Texas passed their new redistricting map. I believe it was the very next day that I received a flyer in the mail urging me to vote against Newsom’s plan to fight back. In California, Republicans seem to think it would be best just to live with the status quo. Mid-term redistricting, it seems, is only “fair” when Republicans are doing it? Uh-huh.

But California will pass theirs, too. Other states may well follow. I don’t know because I don’t sit around calculating these things, but I hear the Dems can’t keep up if it turns into a full-on, every state redistricting war. I don’t LIKE this plan. I just don’t see any other good option.

Congressional districts should be mandated in the Constitution to be as close to square-shaped as possible. No, of course, they won’t all be perfect squares. But it’s hard to pretend a salamander looks like a square, right? “As close as possible” is the key phrase. Let’s remember that when we’re putting together the next Constitution. You know, after the revolution…

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I’m telling you right now, our Fearful Misleader has so destabilized the US economy, people are already fleeing. When he succeeds at manipulating the Fed – and he WILL succeed, eventually – the dollar will crash and become useless. Nobody on the planet will trust the US dollar and they’ll be right not to. Wheelbarrows full of money to buy a loaf of bread anybody?

I know that MAGA owns everything that happens these days, whether they acknowledge that or not. I know I can blame MAGA for all of it. But that’s proving to be small comfort as our fate plays out at the hands of the world’s tiniest man…

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47, apparently, wants to paint 1,300 miles of his stupid border wall black. Hey, it’ll only cost $2.7 billion dollars, so why not? Oh, you want to know why? Yeah, to make it hot. See, if it’s hot, people can’t climb it, right? Well, unless they have gloves. Or a ladder. Or, unless it’s… what’s that called? It’s rare, apparently. Apparently, some people have never even heard of it. Oh, yeah, night time! It could be night time and the sun won’t be shining on the wall at all…

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Remember that time Putin made Donny look like a total and complete blithering idiot fool? No, not that one. No, not then, either. I mean the last one, in Alaska, where Donny thought he was making progress with Putin about Putin’s war in Ukraine? Donny was left with egg on his face and could only issue his usual and useless “two week” time frame.

Putin, on the other hand, got a whole reel of propaganda footage of him leading around the President of the United States on a dog-leash while his dog performed tricks at his command. THEN, just to make sure Donny understood that Vlad is in charge, Putin ordered the bombing of an AMERICAN owned business in Ukraine.

Donny’s response? I mean, his ONLY response? “I told [Putin] ‘I’m not happy about it.'” That’s some pretty tough talk, right there. Next, I expect him to take a page out of the Democrat’s playbook and send a strongly worded letter. I’ll tell you this: it’s just embarrassing to be an American, these days…