The Art of the Possible

                                  The Art of the Possible

Joe Lockhart, a former White House press secretary under President Bill Clinton, tweeted Wednesday during the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump: “Overheard convo between two Republican Senators who only watch Fox News. ‘is this stuff real? I haven’t heard any of this before. I thought it was all about a server. If half the stuff Schiff is saying is true, we’re up [expletive] creek. Hope the White House has exculpatory evidence.’”

The tweet remained active on Mr. Lockhart’s account and had been shared nearly 10,000 times and favorited nearly 40,000 times and counting.

About 10 minutes and a couple of tweets after making the claim, Mr. Lockhart admitted to making up the story.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., kicked off Democrats’ historically momentous impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump by opening with an abject lie, which he later claimed was a “parody.”

Schiff later said he had evidence of Trump colluding with Russia. The findings of the Mueller report did not proved him wrong; when you have a fantasy, you cannot be proven wrong.  He simply had no evidence for anything.

We have come to a new time in the world. These people do not see themselves as liars, they see themselves as artists. And, indeed, art is the creation of an extra-reality that bears witness to reality. Which apparently allows anyone to mimic his own view of reality. And arrogantly try to deceive everyone with it.

The difference is, of course, how it is presented. Reality and unreality are two separate realms. One does not get to lie and then claim when the lie is discovered that, indeed, your information was misplaced; it should actually have been placed on the fiction shelf. 

Nor can one hold up a bank and, when caught, claim you were rehearsing.