Should "extremely strong and powerful" be our legal standard of innocence?
The United States intelligence community concluded unequivocally that Russia sponsored an all-out attempt to tip the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donnie Trump using, among other things, a campaign of cyber attacks and fake news stories planted on social media.
In July of 2018, after a 2-hour CLOSED DOOR meeting with Vladimir Putin, Donnie stood onstage in Helsinki, Finland and told the world that the ex-KBG, murdering dictator's denial had been extremely strong and powerful.
Mr. Putin's words outweighed all of Donnie's own intelligence agencies.
When the crown prince of Saudi Arabia said that he didn't order the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Donnie took him at his word.
A crown prince too, can be very strong and powerful.
Very strong and powerful is a weird and childish way to describe anything that doesn't involve lifting weights.
Donnie wants us to believe that all it takes to refute facts is a good, old-fashioned denial, especially if it's very strong and powerful. Like his constant attacks on our justice system and prosecutors doing their jobs.
He also wants us to believe that he makes perfect phone calls, whatever that means.
Have you ever made a perfect phone call? Me neither. How does one go about grading phone calls?
Donnie said he made a perfect phone call to the president of Ukraine, threatening to hold up congressionally approved military aid if, Volodymyr Zelenskyy didn't pretend to open an inquiry into Hunter Biden.
He made another perfect phone call to Georgia's Secretary of State to demand that Brad Raffensperger find 11,780 votes for Team Donnie.
Ultimately, though, it's not about the denial or the perfection of phone calls. It's about what Kellyanne Conway referred to as alternative facts.
When Donnie was booked at the Fulton County, GA jail, he listed his weight as 215 pounds, 30 pounds lighter than the weight listed on his last official White House physical.
That is an alternative fact, like when I list my weight at 185, but I assure you that's much closer to my actual weight than Donnie's 215 is to his.
Very often, in the midst of his rambling grievances, Donnie launches into seemingly inexplicable and random attacks that make reasonable people scratch their heads and ask, Huh?
Donnie's claim that America's toilets were no good because they require 14 flushes seemed to come out of nowhere. Is that even a thing? Did you ever hear anyone complain about the inefficiency of their toilet?
It wasn't until a year after Donnie left office that we found out that he routinely tried to flush documents down the toilet. Why didn’t he just have them put a shredder in the bathroom?
Donnie has long lambasted windmills for various reasons. They cause cancer, kill birds and leave you without TV if the wind dies down. He may be unaware that wind power is the second largest source of electricity in Texas.
Over the weekend, Don Quixote came up with a new windmill-caused horror, whales washing up on beaches. While there's many man-related causes for dead whales, windmills are the least likely.
A 27% increase in shipping traffic in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey from 2019 to 2021 coincides with an increase in a favorite food fish of whales (menhaden), bringing more whales into areas of heavy ship traffic.
Collisions with ships and fishing gear are the main causes of whale deaths.
All that being said, Don Quixote has a personal reason for his vendetta against windmills and it's related to his golf club in Scotland. Don Quixote sued Scotland to prevent a windfarm from being constructed off the shores of his golf club and not only did he lose that suit, but he also had to pay their legal fees.
Besides the lies, Don Quixote spews a lot of nonsense, but it usually has some underlying meaning. You need to delve into the nonsense if you want to find meaning in his word salads.
But don't be too quick to dismiss the things he says.
Believe him when he says that he wants to terminate the Constitution, execute the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, hang Mike Pence, go after MSBNC for treason and arrest Democrats.