In a recent interview, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that data centers don’t use water. He said the narrative about their overuse of water was propaganda being disseminated by our AI adversaries, apparently implying that China was behind it.
Of course, everything that Lutnick says is asinine and preposterous. He’s America’s wealthiest and most corrupt used-car salesman. (No offense to used-car salesmen.)
Of course data centers use enormous amounts of water. Lutnick’s stupid comment is easily fact-checked.
But the reason I’m bringing Lutnick’s comment to your attention isn’t really the comment itself. It’s because it’s suggestive of something that has recently changed in Trump’s Cabinet.
His confederacy of ass kissers all seem to be increasingly telling us that what we see and hear isn’t really what we saw and heard—and that we should believe them instead.
It used to be that just Donald—and maybe Pete Hegseth—would tell us, over and over again, that the things we see with our eyes and hear with our ears are not true. That we are too stupid, too delusional and too poor to accurately interpret sensory input.
Instead, we should place our trust in them. in their farcical retellings of all the things we once believed we knew.
I’m not suggesting that Trump’s minions have only recently started lying. I’m saying that the laughably absurd lying seems to have increased in frequency and that they are mimicking their boss’s most absurd behaviors.
Take Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent telling us that the economy is booming while also announcing his “economic D-Day” strategy for Iran.
Or Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who has been explaining the administration’s decision to allow more foreign beef imports while insisting that the policy is somehow in the best interests of American cattle ranchers.
Or Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, telling us that America has been waiting 127 years to finally build Donald Trump’s triumphant arch or that there’s video evidence of ANTIFA vandals slashing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
One after another, each Cabinet member has found—or is finding—a way to tickle their orange master’s nutsack by mimicking his most transparent lies, or making up new lies that only Donald himself could have once concocted.
So, what’s my point?
What’s my deep analysis on this?
I really don’t have one.
This is just something I’ve noticed recently.
I expect that it will only get worse as time goes on.
The idiot in the White House and the dunces who work for him will become more and more isolated after Republicans lose the midterm elections and Democrats begin to apply pressure.
We still have two more years of this idiot as president.
I imagine that he will eventually become indistinguishable from his Cabinet members as they devolve further into madness—and as they start competing with one another to determine who can out-crazy the other in order to truly win the affections of America’s first mad king.
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