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26 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Still can't believe how cowardly and weak so many Americans (including some friends and family) ended up being. American exceptionalism was a total lie, half this country submitted to a famous grifter and abandoned their fellow man. It's so fucking pathetic. For shame. 

 

Exceptionally stupid.  And bigoted.

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2 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

I posted about this almost 10 years ago. Trump lies constantly. Almost every word out of his mouth is false. Hillary got caught slightly twisting the truth a couple of times and was branded a liar. Meanwhile, the MAGA ding-dongs swallowed a fountain of bullshit directly from Trump’s mouth, nodded along and just said “Aw, that’s just Trump being Trump.”

My theory is it’s about expectations and predictability. If someone always lies, then you can trust what they say to be a lie. Your brain doesn’t have to get off its lazy ass and evaluate the merits of their most recent claim. It’s a lie like everything else this guy says. You mistake consistency for credibility. And if you like the lie, you can decide to believe it. Because your brain is just on autopilot anyway—your critical thinking never had to kick in to evaluate the credibility of this claim (because it knew from past experience that it was almost certainly false), so no need to fire it up at the “Should I agree?” part of the process.

On the other hand, with someone who only lies occasionally and strategically, you’re always guessing. You know that any claim could be true or could be a lie, but there’s not an easy pattern to apply as a mental shortcut. So every time you listen to the occasional liar, your brain is firing on all cylinders in critical thinking mode. It’s exhausting and it leaves you with the feeling that you always have to be skeptical of anything that person says. They can’t be trusted. Not only because they might occasionally lie, but also because they typically tell the truth. And you have to work hard to sort the rare lies from the status quo of truth. 

One lie destroys credibility.  Dozens or hundreds of lies don't.

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Finished up my travel this week with no problems.  SeaTac TSA line on Tuesday was quicker than usual.  I'm guessing they overscheduled staff and didn't have that many cancellations.  Did overhear a couple of them talking and one of them said something like, "I'm just tired. And I'm tired of handing out IOUs." Came back yesterday, just beating out the clusterfuck escalation.  

28 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Still can't believe how cowardly and weak so many Americans (including some friends and family) ended up being. American exceptionalism was a total lie, half this country submitted to a famous grifter and abandoned their fellow man. It's so fucking pathetic. For shame. 

 

I was re-reading Grapes of Wrath on the plane.  I had halfway forgotten how poetic Steinbeck can be.  So much stuff from 84 years ago still hits hard today.  One of the sections talked about how Americans had pushed into Mexican California, and took over because they were hungrier.  But then as generations passed, they got fatter and lazier.  Now they feared and hated the Okies pushing in, because they were hungrier. I'm sure that's an oversimplification of American history.  But, "American" exceptionalism at its best (and worst) was always migrant exceptionalism.  The willingness to risk everything to not stagnate or watch your kids starve. 

 

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2 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:

Are those the XXXXXXXXL Depends?

 

do they  have a presidential changing station for him in the oval office ?

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32 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

I posted about this almost 10 years ago. Trump lies constantly. Almost every word out of his mouth is false. Hillary got caught slightly twisting the truth a couple of times and was branded a liar. Meanwhile, the MAGA ding-dongs swallowed a fountain of bullshit directly from Trump’s mouth, nodded along and just said “Aw, that’s just Trump being Trump.”

My theory is it’s about expectations and predictability. If someone always lies, then you can trust what they say to be a lie. Your brain doesn’t have to get off its lazy ass and evaluate the merits of their most recent claim. It’s a lie like everything else this guy says. You mistake consistency for credibility. And if you like the lie, you can decide to believe it. Because your brain is just on autopilot anyway—your critical thinking never had to kick in to evaluate the credibility of this claim (because it knew from past experience that it was almost certainly false), so no need to fire it up at the “Should I agree?” part of the process.

On the other hand, with someone who only lies occasionally and strategically, you’re always guessing. You know that any claim could be true or could be a lie, but there’s not an easy pattern to apply as a mental shortcut. So every time you listen to the occasional liar, your brain is firing on all cylinders in critical thinking mode. It’s exhausting and it leaves you with the feeling that you always have to be skeptical of anything that person says. They can’t be trusted. Not only because they might occasionally lie, but also because they typically tell the truth. And you have to work hard to sort the rare lies from the status quo of truth. 

I think Nemik summed up the approach the best

 

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"I don't want to hear about affordability." -Dotard, 10 months after inauguration, after running on precisely that. Back in the before times, that would have been something that we used to call "An enormous motherfucking gaffe" and a beautiful hand-wrapped gift to democrats.

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2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

"I don't want to hear about affordability." -Dotard, 10 months after inauguration, after running on precisely that. Back in the before times, that would have been something that we used to call "An enormous motherfucking gaffe" and a beautiful hand-wrapped gift to democrats.

I'm as critical of the democrats as anyone, but the problem is us. As others have talked about on this thread, the perpetual lying, the flooding of the zone with terrible news and lies, we can't keep up. Humans can't keep up. So they shut off. They could replay those clips 24/7 on CNN, MSNBC, post FB ads, whatever. The people who need to see it will never see it, thanks to Fox news and the like, and the FB algorithms and Twitter algorithms. 

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On 11/5/2025 at 8:19 PM, Chuckie Finster said:

I mean, that's clearly just three pieces of 8.5x11 printer paper taped on the wall, right?

 

dumb ass has no clue where he's at, needs signs on all doors 

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24 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:

Are those the XXXXXXXXL Depends?

 

21 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

do they  have a presidential changing station for him in the oval office ?

 

Something tells me that the recent remodel of the Lincoln bathroom wasn't by choice.  

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21 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

One surprise recently is that Trump has chosen the straight up denial of reality over the more seemingly reliable blaming Biden.  Interesting move.

 

18 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Energy costs are way down? LOL?

Maybe he means oil prices. Of course low oil prices is bad news for the Permian Basin.

he's surrounded by morons and grifters and we know he doesn't read so i assume he's being lied to and may actually believe this bullshit.

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2 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Incredible. The guy that passed out in Oval Office yesterday was not Gordon Findlay, a pharma exec, that was trending all day yesterday on X. Just blatantly wrong info that spread like wildfire. 

Turns out he was Eli Lilly patient that has been taking a GLP-1. 

 

Plot twist.  Maybe Dan Diamond is lying.

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5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

"we better wake up and smell the roses"??

it's coffee you racist double digit iq moron, you wake up and smell the coffee. gawd!

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Once we start making things affordable and trying to solve pressing social problems instead of just hoping rich people will magically solve them, everybody will be muslim!

Seems a pretty damning indictment of Christianity.

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1 hour ago, Tuco said:

But, "American" exceptionalism at its best (and worst) was always migrant exceptionalism.  The willingness to risk everything to not stagnate or watch your kids starve. 

So, so, SO much this.  And it sure as shit is complicated.  As in, European migrants didn't exactly arrive on empty, unoccupied land.  But arrive they did.

And I think of the courage, the passion, all the things that were kicking around as they did so.  I've linked to this song before, because it fucking WRECKS me:

Leaving behind all you ever knew, all you ever were, crossing an ocean to make a new life and a better future.  Knowing that you might never return to the land of your birth.  Fucking hell.

And yeah, that mobility has been a key to American success.  African American migration from the south to the cities of the north.  The Dust Bowl migrations.  The people fleeing the rust belt as it collapsed in the 70s-80s (Houston was full of 'em).  Our AMERICAN story is written by people who bravely moved forward, to new places, and made them their own.  And in the process, enriching them.  The trade that is human migration is ultimately a mutually beneficial one.

1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

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And fucking this.  Seriously.

20 years ago, the Economist was basic kitchen-table stuff for most Republican voters.  They'd read positions in there like "tariffs are generally a shitty thing," and "racism and anti-semitism are poison," and genuinely nod along.  Today?  They LITERALLY call the Economist a "liberal rag," as it says.....exactly the same things it said 20 years ago.

They are in the thrall of a cult, and I hate every last one of them.

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17 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

he's surrounded by morons and grifters and we know he doesn't read so i assume he's being lied to and may actually believe this bullshit.

Correct, he just regurgitates what he sees on his favorite new station and what his sycophants spoon feed him on videos.



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