A trumpian Storm of Sharpies

I didn't even want to write about this, but the story about trump making an incorrect claim about the state of Alabama being threatened by Hurricane Dorian won't go away...

...by dragging in an NOAA hurricane map from the day he made his wrong statement to show how he was correct, except for the fact someone used a black Sharpie ink pen to extend the white projection cone to touch Alabama in what has to be the WORST manufactured piece of evidence in human history...

Zoom in on that map. The White House couldn't even be bothered to hire
someone to Photoshop a faked image to pull this off.

...leading to the formation of the silliest ScandalGate in the history of -Gates with #SharpieGate...

...and then making it worse by getting a Rear Admiral to take the fall...

...Political analysts speculated that Trump was lying about being briefed “every hour,” because if he was hearing the updates, he would have gotten one of the 15 other projections from the National Weather Service that said the hurricane wasn’t heading east.

By Thursday afternoon, Trump found a scapegoat.

“While Dorian batters SC, the White House just released a statement from Rear Admiral Peter Brown defending the president’s comments on Dorian and Alabama. Brown says he briefed the president on Sept. 1 on the ‘possibility of tropical storm force winds in southeastern Alabama,'” tweeted Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey...

...because trump won't make it go away. Tell it, Betty Cracker at Balloon Juice:

Trump can’t let it go because he’s a walking collection of untreated personality disorders who relies on bullying and dominance to bubble-wrap his fragile ego. I think valued commenter Gin & Tonic was onto something yesterday when he noted (paraphrasing) that the media has glommed onto this because it’s both absurd and an easy story to cover.

I’m finding the story hard to let go too because it’s such a perfect example of the how the Trump presidency is ridiculous and frightening at the same time: this demented crybaby is inventing stories that would shame a fourth grader, and government officials are serving as props and defenders, as if this whole episode wasn’t bug-fuck nuts...

We are LITERALLY at the moment in the story where Captain Queeg obsesses over the goddamned strawberries.

trump can never be in the wrong, can never apologize, can never step up and say "You know what, I misspoke, I got it confused with Georgia, I was concerned that the whole southeast U.S. was at risk, let's focus on getting the Atlantic coast states prepped for Dorian and let's move on." trump - and his handlers - will warp all of reality to make our reality fit his falsehoods.

This is all, by the by, overshadowing the reality that the Bahamas were devastated by Dorian hovering over them for a full 40 HOURS of Category 5 destruction and we're likely going to see more deaths and despair reported as the weeks roll in.

This is all avoiding the possibility that Dorian - now a Cat 3 - is a serious threat to North Carolina and maybe the Virginia coastline.

And it doesn't help that trump is trying to pull off more inhumane destruction by gutting the U.S. military budget in order to pay for a border wall to fulfill his ego. Not to mention the damage still being done to families and legal immigrants across the nation.

This is not going to end well, even if we can get trump voted out in 2020.

Gods help us.