The McCain Incident

White House staff was so worried about giving 45* something to bitch at them about, they decided it would be a good idea to hide the USS John S McCain from his sight while visiting Japan.

Here's the eMail from those staffers to the advance team:

Of course 45* says he knew nothing of this, and even though our base assumption has to be that he's lying - since he lies pretty much all the time - it might be OK to take his word for it because we know that his default position is to know practically nothing about practically everything.

But it all fits. It doesn't matter to 45* what's true or not true. He's constantly working to undermine our ability to figure it out for ourselves, with the intent of putting himself in the position of being the final arbiter on all things.

"I'm the most powerful man on the planet, and I can make your life a lot worse than it already is - so you can either believe what I say, or what you see with your own lyin' eyes."

The war on reality is a thing. The Daddy State doesn't want you to know how to think. It insists on telling you what to think.