Alexandra Petri is a gifted humorist who writes for the Washington Post. She has a talent for seizing the zeitgeist and turning it into belly laughs.
In this post, she explains that the Trump administration is right about everything, in their alternative universe.
It begins like this, but you must read the whole thing. It is pitch perfect.
“We are being too uncharitable to the Trump administration. We have probably made Sean Spicer cry, and that is not what anyone set out to do.
“There is a much simpler explanation for the list of Secret Media Terrorism Coverups and the Bowling Green Massacre and the “alternative facts” than this idea that somehow, the Trump administration is making up facts or misleading the American people. Nonsense. They are doing the best they can with the facts they have. They simply have come here from an alternative universe.
“ It is not their fault that their facts appear to be quite different from what is happening in the universe where most people live. They did not ask to come here. Something went wrong with the timeline, is all. Somebody stepped on a butterfly, and here we are.
“When we look at their recently provided list of times when the media failed to cover Horrible Acts Of Terrorism, what we see is a long series of misspellings in which, often, zero people died. When they look at it, do they see millions of lives cut short, enough to justify a massive travel ban? It is unclear. What is clear is that they exist in a universe where no one reported adequately on the Paris attacks, whereas we live in a universe where all 130 victims were profiled. This discrepancy is nobody’s fault. There, the media really did cover up dozens of very serious attacks in which I, personally, was killed. ”
Please read on, so you can share Alexandra’s deep reasoning.

We need humor to get through this mess.
The following is not an alternative fact. What exactly is the positive spin on this? The Energy Department can now have nuclear workers working in unsafe conditions and nobody will know. Great idea to ‘Make America Great Again”!!
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Trump rule chills Energy Dept. nuclear whistleblowers
By Joe Davidson…Washington Post
Like a stinging winter wind, Trump administration action gives a chill to Energy Department whistleblowers.
The department has temporarily halted an Obama administration regulation permitting civil penalties against federal nuclear contractors that retaliate against whistleblowers who report waste, fraud and dangerous conditions…
Unless the regulation is reinstated, contractors can punish whistleblowers with no fear of civil penalties. Even a temporary halt on penalties against vengeful contractors could discourage whistleblowers….
http://wapo.st/2koHIaJ?tid=ss_mail
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The other day, while the news media was obsessed with Trump’s Daily fake news, Congress revoked regulations to prohibit dumping coal waste into streams
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The White House wanted more coverage of Trump’s other executive orders. Seth Meyers obliged.
By Amy B Wang February 8 at 4:27 PM
Senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway this week complained that the media has been paying too much attention to only one of President Trump’s executive orders — namely, his temporary ban on refugees and travel from seven Muslim-majority countries — and not enough to the many others Trump has signed since taking office.
So Seth Meyers did just that.
On Tuesday’s “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” the comedian used a segment called “The Check In” to delve into a less-discussed executive order, specifically one that instituted an immediate federal hiring freeze, with a few exceptions….
http://wapo.st/2llmnTx?tid=ss_mail
Published on Feb 7, 2017
Seth checks in on the impact of President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing federal hiring on veterans.
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So consistently a drastically wrong and incoherent and inappropriate, in phone calls with world leaders (Mexico, Australia, France, Russia) and speeches.
It’s likely a biological impairment, with potentially grave consequences.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/amp/why-president-trump-s-misleading-image-american-crime-matters-n718546?client=safari
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https://www.google.com/amp/www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/new-questions-surround-trumps-conversation-putin/amp?client=safari
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And he thought oil was tough to clean up!
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/97707118/?client=safari
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Trump doesn’t know the meaning of fake news, fairness, justice, diplomacy. He is beyond what we would usually call unhinged. Sad! Actionable! Removable!
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/318657-trump-blasts-cnn-cuomo-never-asked-blumenthal-about-long-term-lie-of
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Good for CNN and Chris Cuomo!
https://www.google.com/amp/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_589c8740e4b09bd304c050c6/amp?client=safari
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“GRANDSON: Tell me about The Resistance.”
“ME: Our leaders had failed us. Fortunately, we had the Park Service, Nordstrom, and WeRateDogs.”
From Huffington Post: “The Hill” Today, Feb. 9, 2017
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And the Ninth Circuit states!!
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robinskuykendall: YES!!!
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Hundreds of thousands rally in Iran against Trump, chant ‘Death to America’ –
Reuters
by Parisa Hafezi
…On the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, which toppled the U.S.-backed shah, marchers including hundreds of military personnel and policemen headed towards Tehran’s Azadi (Freedom) Square.
They carried “Death to America” banners and effigies of Trump, while a military police band played traditional Iranian revolutionary songs.
State TV showed footage of people stepping on Trump’s picture in a central Tehran street. Marchers carried the Iranian flag and banners saying: “Thanks Mr. Trump for showing the real face of America.”
“America and Trump cannot do a damn thing. We are ready to sacrifice our lives for our leader”, a young Iranian man told state TV in a reference to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…
http://reut.rs/2lv4QEJ
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