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Old 06-09-2018, 09:23 AM
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Trump just keeps on lying — because it works
Max Boot

It sure works on his idiot sycophants. They’re incredibly willing to believe his lies. WTF is wrong with them?

Gotta love how the real, thinking conservatives are often the best critics of Donny and morons like Whell.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ause-it-works/

President Trump is again confirming H.L. Mencken’s acidulous observation that “No one in this world … has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” Only in Trump’s case he is not insulting the intelligence of all the American people — just his avid followers.

Trump continues telling lies that not even a dimwitted child could possibly believe. There is, for example, his notorious May 31 tweet asserting that “I never fired James Comey because of Russia!” Unless Trump is delusional or an amnesiac, he must have known that every television program and Twitter feed would put this claim side by side with his admission on May 11, 2017, in an NBC News interview, that he fired Comey precisely in order to stop the investigation of the “Russia thing.” But Trump simply did not care that his falsehood could be so easily exposed, because he knew his followers would believe him, not the evidence in front of their own lying eyes.

This is also the explanation for Trump’s nonstop peddling of nonsensical conspiracy theories to convince his acolytes that he is the victim of a Deep State plot. His con job began on March 4, 2017, when he tweeted: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Months later, his own Justice Department admitted this simply was not so — there was no evidence of any wiretap.

But by then, the conspiracy claims had already morphed. Trump’s supporters took to saying that Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, had illegally unmasked the names of Trump aides in surveillance transcripts. This, too, was false — repudiated by Trump’s then-national security adviser, H.R. McMaster.

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But facts and logic are irrelevant to the Republican White Walkers; they will follow their Night King wherever he leads, even if he is leading them to perdition. A recent poll finds that 61 percent of Republicans think the FBI is framing Trump, and only 13 percent believe the special counsel’s investigation is legitimate. There is a reason the president lies so frequently and outrageously: It works! Trump is playing his followers for suckers, and they are merrily colluding in their own deception. Truly you cannot underestimate today’s Republicans.
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Old 06-09-2018, 09:32 AM
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Trump just keeps on lying — because it works
Max Boot

It sure works on his idiot sycophants. They’re incredibly willing to believe his lies. WTF is wrong with them?

Gotta love how the real, thinking conservatives are often the best critics of Donny and morons like Whell.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ause-it-works/

President Trump is again confirming H.L. Mencken’s acidulous observation that “No one in this world … has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” Only in Trump’s case he is not insulting the intelligence of all the American people — just his avid followers.

Trump continues telling lies that not even a dimwitted child could possibly believe. There is, for example, his notorious May 31 tweet asserting that “I never fired James Comey because of Russia!” Unless Trump is delusional or an amnesiac, he must have known that every television program and Twitter feed would put this claim side by side with his admission on May 11, 2017, in an NBC News interview, that he fired Comey precisely in order to stop the investigation of the “Russia thing.” But Trump simply did not care that his falsehood could be so easily exposed, because he knew his followers would believe him, not the evidence in front of their own lying eyes.

This is also the explanation for Trump’s nonstop peddling of nonsensical conspiracy theories to convince his acolytes that he is the victim of a Deep State plot. His con job began on March 4, 2017, when he tweeted: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Months later, his own Justice Department admitted this simply was not so — there was no evidence of any wiretap.

But by then, the conspiracy claims had already morphed. Trump’s supporters took to saying that Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, had illegally unmasked the names of Trump aides in surveillance transcripts. This, too, was false — repudiated by Trump’s then-national security adviser, H.R. McMaster.

...

But facts and logic are irrelevant to the Republican White Walkers; they will follow their Night King wherever he leads, even if he is leading them to perdition. A recent poll finds that 61 percent of Republicans think the FBI is framing Trump, and only 13 percent believe the special counsel’s investigation is legitimate. There is a reason the president lies so frequently and outrageously: It works! Trump is playing his followers for suckers, and they are merrily colluding in their own deception. Truly you cannot underestimate today’s Republicans.
And the IG report did not contribute?
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Old 06-09-2018, 11:27 AM
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And the IG report did not contribute?
I'm not sure what IG report you mean, but let's say it did 'contribute.' What would that mean with reference to Max Boot's column, in your view?
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Old 06-09-2018, 11:52 AM
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I'm not sure what IG report you mean, but let's say it did 'contribute.' What would that mean with reference to Max Boot's column, in your view?
Think he means this.

DOJ Report — Expected To Be Stinkbomb For Comey And Lynch — Now Set For Release

This will have a shelf life of say a month or so and then we will be back to Trump/Russia and Mueller. This will actually help Mueller since the focus of Faux & Frauds will shift back to Hillary and her emails. If she had actually committed a crime, she would have long been toast. More red meat to the deplorables.

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/61805...et-for-release
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Old 06-09-2018, 04:00 PM
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I'm not sure what IG report you mean, but let's say it did 'contribute.' What would that mean with reference to Max Boot's column, in your view?
That Trump is not operating in a vacuum. Comey does not inspire confidence and McCabe, a deputy, is handed his walking papers.
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Old 06-10-2018, 10:18 AM
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Wierd? Mebbe not.
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/06/m...ps-upset-about
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Old 06-10-2018, 11:50 AM
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Now the whole world knows why the Dotard is rotten mood every morning and takes it out on others with his vile tweets. He does not get to watch porn at night in the White House and that is a bummer. This could also explain why he want to fly off to Mar-a-Lago at every opportunity. The source is Mika, once Trump's best friend and now his sworn enemy, so this could be fake news. OTOH, Trump has not denied nor attacked Mika so this could indeed be true. No confirmation from the WH on this yet.

Why Can't the President Watch Porn in the White House?

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After the clip made the rounds, Rolling Stone reached out to White House Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters seeking official comment from the West Wing asking if the claim is true. RS also asked Walters if it is official government policy that porn is not allowed in the White House, and, if so, for clarification on who put that policy in place and why it exists in the first place. As of this writing, Walters has yet to respond.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...-house-w521215
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Old 06-10-2018, 04:17 PM
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Trump just keeps on lying — because it works
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DUH! Its being working all his adult life and probably most his childhood.
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Old 06-10-2018, 08:58 PM
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DUH! Its being working all his adult life and probably most his childhood.
Some people tend to give the wealthy a pass on all sorts of horrendous crap, even if they stand nothing to gain from it personally. Is it fear or some sort of twisted reverence, maybe a remnant from the days the nobles? I don't know.


Tonight, I saw a man I had an unfortunate encounter with ~30 years ago. He stared at me for a few seconds but, I don't think he could quite place me. I remembered him though...…..
I was leaving a bar he owned when I noticed he had parked behind me, blocking me in. I remember it had something to do with his car blocking mine in and a bouncer who said he was "busy" didn't want to bother him. Somehow my brother and I managed to escape before the cops arrived. Not sure how that happened because we were high as a kite on purple micro dot. He did move his car though. I've never cared about the arrogant rich mans feelings.
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Old 06-12-2018, 08:44 AM
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How Trump lost the summit before the photographers even left the room
By Jennifer Rubin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...left-the-room/

The spectacle of the murderous dictator Kim Jong Un on equal footing with the president of the United States — each country’s flag represented, a supposedly “normal” diplomatic exchange between two nuclear powers — was enough to turn democracy lovers’ stomachs. President Trump naturally made things worse. He gushed: “It’s my honor, and we will have a terrific relationship, I have no doubt.”

An honor to meet the man who maintains slave labor camps, who periodically attacks the ships of our ally South Korea and whose regime is responsible for the death of Otto Warmbier? That should stun Warmbier’s parents — and every decent human being. Trump envisions a “terrific” relationship with a country that conducts mass hacking, is arguably the worst human rights violator, threatens us with nuclear weapons, detains our people and seeks the reunification of the Korean peninsula under its rule of terror. Imagine if President Barack Obama traveled to Iran, shook Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s hand, proclaimed it was a great honor and spoke about his conviction that Iran and the United States would have a terrific relationship. John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, among others, would have had a conniption.

Trump’s impulsive decision to have a summit and his insatiable need for attention provided Kim with a historic victory that no other U.S. president has handed to a North Korean leader. With not a single bomb dismantled or a single gram of fissile material shipped out of the country, Kim got more than he could have dreamed of — and all before the photographers departed.

It went downhill from there.
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