Al Franken definitely needs to run for president, since Trump is stealing his Stuart Smalley bit.

[kpete]

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/27/president-trump-says-of-obama-whose-legitimacy-he-questioned-for-years-i-think-he-likes-me/?postshare=2831486431780869&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.39ffdc99d1fe

[dubyadiprecession]

1. Now that Trump's become president, I can't think of a reason why Al shouldn't run in 2020.

[nkpolitics1212]

2. Al Franken(MN)/Russ Feingold (WI) ticket could be an excellent ticket in 2020.

A double Midwestern progressive ticket would be interesting.

[Equinox Moon]

3. We need a woman on that ticket, sorry to bust up your dreaming.

[nkpolitics1212]

5. The women that we need on that ticket is Baldwin-WI but first we need a Democratic Governor of WI in

2018
How about Russ Feingold for WI Governor in 2018.

[Equinox Moon]

7. There you go!

And WOW does WI ever NEED a new governor in 2018. Yes, a Dem!

Wisc. has been messed up by Scott Walker, he needs to go.

[Cha]

4. omg.. President Obama has nothing but for contempt for a pathological

Liar posing as a president

Ask me how I know.. I just do.

[pat_k]

6. Overlap between DT world and Real World: Fast approaching ZERO.

DT lives in a world of his own creation.

It seems to me that the overlap between DT world and the Real World is getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller....

In DT world, any press report that differs from DT "reality" is a lie.

In DT world, any historical event that runs counter to DT "reality" never happened.

In DT world, many Americans died in terrorist attacks carried out by people from the seven countries in his ban. Can't find reports of it? DT accuses press of covering up attacks by people from the seven countries.

People (including "friends&quot denigrate DT for parroting Alex Jones? DT never accused press of covering up. Didn't happen.

In DT world, DT wins lawsuits against him (regardless of verdict).

PBS: The Choice: 2016

This is a classic example of where Trump begins to demonstrate something he talks about all the time today, which is he’s a counterpuncher. So somebody comes after him and says that he’s done something nefarious and horrible, and he just goes back at them with all guns blazing — you know, Boom, boom, boom! — and admits nothing. Never admit anything. Never say you made a mistake. Just keep coming. And if you lose, declare victory.

And that’s exactly what happened there. He lost as clearly as you can lose {discrimination case}, but he loudly proclaimed his victory.

In DT world, DT buildings are taller than anything else around (regardless of actual relative height).

NYTimes: Donald Trump’s Math Takes His Towers to Greater Heights

Claimed floors/Actual Floors
240 Riverside Blvd 41/31
Trump Tower 68/58
Trump World Towers 90/70

DT even "made" TT "the tallest in the niegborhood" by chopping off part of another building in a small scale model).

In 1979, as Mr. Trump inspected a model of the black-and-gold Fifth Avenue high-rise that would come to serve as his home, office, fortress and personal monument, he could find only one flaw to spoil the moment: the General Motors building, which, in real life, was 41 feet higher and a few blocks away from the future Trump Tower.

Mr. Trump marked the G.M. building at his preferred height with a pencil. Mr. Brosterman sawed off the top third, leaving Trump Tower — in the one-thirty-second-scale model, at least — the tallest in the neighborhood.

Though the tower was built with 58 floors, Mr. Trump later explained to The New York Times that because there was a soaring pink marble atrium and 19 commercial floors at the bottom, he could see no good reason not to list the first residential floor as the 30th floor. The pinnacle became the 68th — the height that appears in marketing materials, online search results and news articles to this day.

The examples are endless.

I challenge anyone to find a SINGLE instance that DT admitted defeat, admitted error, admitted facts that ran counter to his declarations of reality. The closest things i can find are instances in which he reversed himself and then denied that he ever claimed otherwise.

If his ability to push reality out of his consciousness needs constant reinforcement from sycophants and supporters who share his delusions, he may be in trouble. He may not have enough sycophants around to fend off the growing onslaught of reality. DT world could implode.

I have a feeling it won't. DT is just too good at fending off reality. I expect DT world to remain real to DT, and expect his inflated ego to remain as puffed up as ever over the coming years.

If his presidency is brought down by the onslaught? Never mind, in DT world, defeat is victory. Or if he admits defeat, he was only defeated because everyone else is too deluded to see "the real DT.".