America's '2+2 equals 5 moment' is a scary lurch toward autocracy

[L. Coyote]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/president-trump-lying-shithole-cotton-perdue-nielsen-authoritarianism-20180118.html
JANUARY 18, 2018 — Will Bunch, STAFF COLUMNIST @will_bunch

The third week of January in 2018 felt like a perfect time to join the “girther” movement. You know, the growing number of Americans who refuse to believe the official report from Washington, by way of enthusiastic and amiable White House physician Ronny Jackson, that President Trump is who he says he is … a man who stands 6-foot-3 and weighs in at 239 pounds.

At first blush, how could anyone doubt this tale of the tape? After all, Jackson — who served in the same role under Barack Obama, with rave reviews from Team Trump’s Democratic predecessors — came into Tuesday’s no-holds-barred press briefing with a stellar reputation. The weird problem is this: No one has ever seen anyone else with Trump’s seemingly expanding, um, girth — fueled by a two-scoops diet of Fillet-O-Fish sandwiches and KFC — who clocks in at that same height and weight. The comparisons quickly ping-ponged across Twitter.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Frankly, I seriously doubt he witnessed the actual "weigh in"...

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The attending physician seldom bothers with mundane shit like that, it's usually done by a nurse or even a nurse's aid. Jackson was probably just reading off the chart, which might have been "adjusted" before he read it.