Verisimilitude

 The takeaway from this year's Vice Presidential debate for me was "Margaret, the rules were that you guys weren't going to fact-check." That was the incoming second-in-commmand speaking in response to having his rant about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio being there illegally and eating neighborhood cats and dogs. 

Julius Domingus Vance was incredulous that adult human beings, "moderators," would question the veracity of something he chose to scoop up from Al Gore's Internet and spread as if it were gospel when he knew that it was not true. Currently there has been no blanket apology sent along to the Haitian community in Springfield who are there legally and without supplementing their diets with pets or geese from local ponds. 

Prepare yourself for four years of shrugging and apparent frustration for having the veracity of claims made by the incoming Trumpreich. The "dictator on day one" gave an interview to Meet The Press where he felt free to spout his usual dose of made up rhetoric for the press he was meeting to pick through. Things like saying that the United States is the only country with birthright citizenship. Canada, Mexico and most of the countries in South America allow someone born in their country to be granted automatic citizenship even if their parents are not citizens. 

That's a fact. 

"Crime is at an all-time high," insisted the convicted felon. Easy mistake for him to make since we have never elected a convicted felon before, but violent and property crimes have fallen steadily since the early 1990s here in the nominally United States. 

That's a fact. 

He also declared that the tariffs he imposed on China "cost Americans nothing" during his first stint in the White House.  A study from the federal government’s bipartisan US International Trade Commission found that Americans bore almost the entire cost of Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products.

That's a fact. 

It's going to be a long four years. 

That's a fact.