1. Las Vegas

2. FOX News

3. MAGA

It’s not that Vegas isn’t real. It is. It’s what people think it is or could be that defies reality. And by the way, that’s exactly what we’re selling here. We may or may not be hosting the Super Bowl. Stay tuned.

FOX News is unabashedly not a news network. It’s a propaganda tool mostly beholden to the Republican extreme right. This of course is the purview of Trump who the network has proven to be their ratings leader. There is no devotion to or belief in anything Trump is selling. It is all about the money which after all fits well with the Trump worldview.

Which brings us back to MAGA. There is no place on the planet more removed from reality than space occupied by MAGA acolytes. This is a choice, not an affliction. There is no fact, no poll, no time, no legal issue or court case immune from the Trump Twist. And they lap it up like a kitty at the milk bowl.

We might add the judicial system to our list of reality averse things. The reality is that Trump is manipulating the system to buy time, so much time that he is figuring to be President before he gets sent to prison. And the courts seem oblivious to the pressure to make timely decisions. And then of course there remains the possibility that the courts will ignore the realities of legal precedent or constitutional law and lose their way.

In any case the odds are in the hands of the bookies and here’s some stark reality… the house always wins.