'ell if I know

We should be able to agree on facts, empirical facts, but if we cannot even agree that there is an elephant in the room, and that the elephant is shitting on the carpet, and eating all the food, and breaking things, and is feeling cramped in my apartment, into which he was not invited, and if the problem here is that YOU are the elephant, we’ll have to sedate you and remove you to some place out doors where you’ll feel comfortable and free-range, free from primate interference.

But when the elephant in the room says, “There is no elephant in the room,” he is speaking correctly, because he is in truth a rhinoceros.