Every little clique of society ends the year with some kind of a list. The movie critics award the best movies of the year. The sporting press awards the best athletes of the year. The automobile industry awards the best car of the year. Although I have never seen it, I would bet that somewhere on the internet the English Grammatical Society (if there is such a group) identifies the best use of the semi-colon for 2025.
Let me enter the fray. My offering is my nomination for the most illustrative lie told by our dear leader, Orange Julius (“O.J.”) during the course of the year.
Now, O.J. lies a lot. We know that. So, it’s hard to pick one out. But there are different kinds of lies. There are his lies that claim things that we can never be able to really verify. By these I mean when he asserts how rich he is. How can we know? I’m sure he’s made a bundle and that bundle keeps growing larger than his own incalculable ego. But we can’t audit him. He can say whatever he wants.
Then there is the second level lie. This is the intentionally ambiguous one. This is like when witnesses are asked to tell “the whole truth.” What the hell is that? I couldn’t tell you the “whole truth” about anything that happened to me fifteen minutes ago. So, when O.J. says that he’s ended eight or whatever wars, what does he mean by “war”? From what he’s told us, his standard is awfully thin. But this category of O.J. lie, because of its ambiguity, is arguable.
But now comes the third category – not the ones that are unverifiable or unarguable – this third category consists of the lies that are mathematically untrue. This is two plus two equals four stuff. And there is only one of those lies that fits this category. It is his claim that he has lowered prescription drug prices by 300, 400, and sometimes 800 percent. If that were true, then O.J. will make it so that whenever you go to the drug store, they will pay you eight times more than the list price.
Of course they will.
I choose this lie because there is nothing more illustrative of the danger we are facing while we continue to have this blob of protoplasm as our Commander-In-Chief, than that he continues to cling to this fifth-grade level arithmetic mistake.
Let’s examine it. Either he keeps making this inane claim as part of a prepared speech or each time he says it, it’s an ad-lib. In either case, we’re in big trouble.
If it is a prepared speech, then this moron is willing to assert this statistical impossibility as true. Maybe that’s because his limited mental skills allow him to believe it. That’s bad enough. Or maybe it’s because he thinks so little of us that he is confident that we will not see through his transparent lie. That’s even worse.
And also if his ludicrous calculation is part of his prepared remarks, then the man with his finger on the button is being advised by people who are carrying around just as vacant cerebellums as he is. That’s really scary.
Finally, if it’s an ad-lib, then it only further substantiates O.J.’s imbecility while also raising the question of why his “brain trust” hasn’t stopped him. I’m starting to call for my mother.
That’s why of all the bewildering, incomprehensible, gob smacking, ignorant sounds that have emerged from that orange mouth this year, none have so revealed the depth of the obliviousness of this Administration than its claim about drug price reduction.
I am 800% sure that that I am right.
We were right 