Reality is catching up with Trump everywhere: WAPO: By Dana Milbank Feb 5th

[lindysalsagal]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/reality-is-catching-up-with-trump--everywhere/2018/02/05/83644532-0ac0-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.33a5c9ddb512

In ways large and small, reality is catching up with Trump.

In the same State of the Union address, Trump boasted that “African American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded.” (Never mind that this continued an eight-year trend.) Barely 60 hours later, Trump’s Labor Department reported that this boast was no longer true: Black unemployment swelled to 7.7 percent in January from 6.8 percent in December.

Reality also threatens to upend Trump’s claim that the infamous Devin Nunes memo vindicated him in the Russia probe. Now Trump faces an unpalatable choice — declassify a Democratic rebuttal showing the memo was out of context or refuse to release it and appear to be concealing something.

But perhaps nowhere does reality threaten such a rude intrusion into Trump’s world as it does on Wall Street. Trump claimed credit for the rising stock market, even though it has been setting records for about six years. But what goes up inevitably must come down.

Great article: The walls are closing in.

[sheshe2]

1. Tick Tock

[gordianot]

2. I cannot conceive of anyone who deserves more devastation than Donald Trump.

Same goes for his enablers.

[cilla4progress]

3. Do you feel it?

I do...

Maybe I'll finally be able to really cry. Have been blocked since November 2016.

Feels shitty.

[lindysalsagal]

5. I know. When his pathetic ass finally leaves the white house, I think I'll drink half a bottle

of wine and cry all night. Tears of relief and the end of worrying.

[Greywing]

7. I'll be doing the same thing too ...

and then I'll be calling into work and taking the day off to catch up on all the sleep I've missed from the stress.

[James48]

10. Wine?

Hell no!

I’m going straight for a fifth of whiskey to get the taste of that idiot out if my mouth.

I can’t wait

[FailureToCommunicate]

14. It would take Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters to rid me of the taste of this foul Administration...

[HopeAgain]

4. Magas don't need no stinkin reality...

Don't try confusing them with facts,

[BigmanPigman]

8. The facts are always called conveniently called "fake news".

They couldn't discern fact from fiction if their lives depended on it at this point. The Fucking Moron and Fux Ruse has conditioned them for two years and counting.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. I remember when the Dow broke 10K and we all thought

it would never get to 12K.
Boy, were we wrong.

[Skittles]

13. I don't remember ever thinking that

just sayin'

[japple]

9. Maybe I can toss the BP meds that I had to start taking in January

of last year. That would be great!

[Grammy23]

11. Once he gets tossed out on his ear, he might not want to watch TV.

There will be dancing in the streets. Coast to coast, around the world. Oh, yeah, baby! We’ve been through hell and back, peered into the abyss with this moron at the helm, so we deserve a day or two of rejoicing. You can bet your sweet bippy (Wow, a throw back to Laugh In!) we will be dancing, singing, drinking strong drink and shouting for sheer joy. The aftermath of this debacle will have to be dealt with, obviously, but for a little while let us have our celebration.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. My worry is that this idiot is going to start lashing out...

I fervently hope Congress lives up to its promise of protecting Mueller and all of his investigations, as well as other innocents...