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#1511796 --- 01/02/18 04:07 PM
Re: The Trump effect continues! MORE WINNING!
[Re: ThomasDecker]
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Donald Trump is going to say 2,000 things that aren't true in his 1st year in office Chris Cillizza
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 10:42 AM ET, Tue January 2, 2018
President Donald Trump has broken lots and lots of norms during his first 347 days as President. But none are as flagrant or as important as his casual relationship with the truth and utter lack of regard for being factual. According to the amazing Fact Checker blog at The Washington Post, Trump has made 1,950 misleading or simply false claims since being sworn in as President on January 20, 2017. That's an average -- average -- of 5.6 a day. Every day he has been President. A quick bit of math suggests that Trump will go over 2,000 false claims for his first year in office sometime in the next week. It could happen even sooner than that if Trump decides to give another impromptu media interview; the Post counted 24 falsehoods in Trump's 30-minute interview with New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt over the holidays. Trump's total lack of commitment to facts as President is a continuation of the trend from the 2016 presidential race. In that contest, 59 of the 92 Trump statements that the Post fact-checked were found to be totally and completely false. That's roughly two thirds (64%). By comparison, seven of the 49 fact-checked statements by Hillary Clinton were found by the Post to be totally and completely false. That's just more than one in 10 (14%).
The conclusion here is a simple one: Trump lies with zero sense of shame, guilt or remorse. Unlike most politicians who, when caught in a falsehood or a lie, won't repeat it again for fear of the blowback, Trump seems to revel in saying things that have been proven not to be true. According to the Post's Fact Checker, there are more than 60 falsehoods that Trump has repeated at least three times during his first year as president. Sixty! Trump has normalized lots and lots of behavior that would have been unheard of from any past President. (The New York Times' Peter Baker wrote brilliantly about Trump's total disregard for being "presidential" here.) But nothing is more important -- and more damaging to the long-term fabric of society -- than Trump's willingness to just say (and say and say and say and say) things that aren't true. And that he knows aren't true. Trump's entire life is a story he tells himself. That narrative sometimes comports with established facts. Often it doesn't. Whether it did or not wasn't a concern for Trump. The important thing is that in the story of his life, Trump was always winning, always the coolest.
And, until he entered politics, that was OK. After all: Trump was hardly the only fabulist at work in the culture.
When he was elected President, however, Trump's willingness to say things he knows aren't true became far more corrosive. His persistent lies coupled with an active effort to undermine the very idea that facts actually exist -- and are not just one's opinion -- are tremendously deleterious to having a society in which we all agree on a handful of accepted norms no matter where we land on the political or socioeconomic spectrum. Whatever else Trump does in the next three (or seven) years, that disregard for facts will be his most lasting legacy.
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#1511797 --- 01/02/18 04:12 PM
Re: The Trump effect continues! MORE WINNING!
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Cutting a bloated government is a win for President Trump, master Timbo! http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives...defense-budget/There is Nothing Patriotic or Conservative About Our Bloated Defense BudgetWritten by John J. Duncan, Jr. Thursday November 16, 2017 The book also quotes Eisenhower as saying “Heaven help us if we ever have a President who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do.” Therein lies an explanation for a big part of what has caused much excessive and/or wasteful defense spending and, the willingness, even at times eagerness, to go to war and support permanent, never-ending wars. Only 18% of the current Congress has ever served in any branch of our military. Members are afraid if they do not vote for an increase in defense spending, or if they question waste by the military, some demagogue will accuse them of “not supporting the troops.” One last point: We have far too many officers. In Scott Berg’s biography on Woodrow Wilson, it says during World War I, we had one officer for every 30 enlisted men. Eisenhower once said we had too many officers when there were nine enlisted for every officer. Now we have one officer for only four and a half to five and a half enlisted (varies by branch). This is very expensive, both for active duty and retirement, but it also makes it much more likely that we will get involved in every little conflict around the world and/or continue basing troops in almost every country. We simply do not have enough money to pay for defense of so many countries other than our own nor the authority under our Constitution to try to run the whole world. Congressman Duncan served honorably in both the U.S. Army Reserve and the Army National Guard, starting as an enlisted man and rising to the rank of captain.
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#1511840 --- 01/03/18 09:08 AM
Re: The Trump effect continues! MORE WINNING!
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You forgot the part about Hitler being the biggest mass murder in history Wrong Kyle! Your Hammer an Sickle friends buried just as many! To call any of these my friends shows just how disgusting you are. Trump may top them all if he starts WWIII. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/...imes-world.htmlThe 20th century witnessed death and slaughter on an unprecedented scale. It was the century of the Holocaust and two World Wars; of communist, Nazi, fascist and military dictators who between them killed more than 100 million people. Scroll down for the leaders themselves, listed in order of the numbers who died as a result of their rule. 1 MAO ZEDONG China (1949-76) Regime Communist Victims 60 million 2 JOSEPH STALIN Soviet Union (1929-53) Regime Communist Victims 40 million 3 ADOLF HITLER Germany (1933-45) Regime Nazi dictatorship Victims 30 million
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#1511848 --- 01/03/18 03:09 PM
Re: The Trump effect continues! MORE WINNING!
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You forgot the part about Hitler being the biggest mass murder in history Wrong Kyle!
Your Hammer an Sickle friends buried just as many! To call any of these my friends shows just how disgusting you are. Trump may top them all if he starts WWIII. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/...imes-world.htmlThe 20th century witnessed death and slaughter on an unprecedented scale. It was the century of the Holocaust and two World Wars; of communist, Nazi, fascist and military dictators who between them killed more than 100 million people. Scroll down for the leaders themselves, listed in order of the numbers who died as a result of their rule. 1 MAO ZEDONG China (1949-76) Regime Communist Victims 60 million 2 JOSEPH STALIN Soviet Union (1929-53) Regime Communist Victims 40 million 3 ADOLF HITLER Germany (1933-45) Regime Nazi dictatorship Victims 30 million So now communist are in the lead for mass murders, and you Socialist aren't far from Stalin or Mao.
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