Politics Washington Post says Trump has topped 10,000 false or misleading statements

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  1. Lanny

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    Is Russian Collusion one of them?
     
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    Yes.

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    Which type of Trump cultist is scarier? The ones who blindly believe his lies, or the ones who know he is a pathological liar and love him for it?
     
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    How many misleading statements has the Washington Post topped? 20k? 50? 100? They helped push the Iraq WMD narrative and get us into a war, bless their hearts. Let’s listen what the richest man in the world who refuses to pay his employees a living wage has to say.
     
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    Certainly an interesting question. Also, which type is more numerous? On this forum, I think we have more of the latter, but I'm not sure if that's the case in the population generally.

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    Generally, I think his supporters fall into the first camp. Many of them don't have the time and interest to follow all the developments closely or research. They've chosen Trump as not just their representative but their eyes to the world. If he says a thing, they believe it. Right and wrong for them is defined by what Trump says--so, by definition, he can't lose these followers. Nothing he does would constitute a betrayal to them if what he does is definitionally correct.

    His "supporters" in DC, however, almost entirely fall in the second camp (minus the "love"). Republican politicians are entirely cynical about him and have judged that their greater risk comes from opposing Trump and either getting primaried by a very pro-Trump Republican base or failing to garner their votes in a general election and thus losing. They're willing to discard independents who find Trump repulsive, in their political calculus. It mostly didn't work out for them in 2018, at least in the House. It did in the Senate because the vast majority of the Republicans defending Senate seats were in very safe red states and therefore only had to worry about primaries.
     
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    Lanny, Lanny, Lanny...:beatinto:

    The Washington Compost, as Real Journalists refer to it since megalomaniac anti-Trumper Jeff Bezos bought it to misinform Americans to distract from his numerous tax dodges and business violations while he plows non-stop toward his sociopathic goal of self-appointed President of The World, does not print truth of any sort, at any time.

    Learn at least a smidge about the world you live in and who runs it.

    Then post. :cheers:
     
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    It's actually quite funny watching the Trumpies tie themselves in knots explaining how they really don't mind his pathological lies.

    Don't envy their task.
     
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    It's not a task, it's a passion. Like wanting to have sex with a badger. They know it's going to end badly, but they still just gotta try one more time.

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    What kind of fool blindly follows and believes everything faux news reports? Their hypocrisy is hilarious but also very sad. My god I would hate to pay the make up bill for their hosts.
     
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    Probably.
     
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    Hey , the Washington Post has over 50 Pulitzer prizes while Fox News has zero, but has been scolded many times for falsehoods.
    If you want to learn about the world and what's going on, I suggest you try a credible source for once. Good luck.
     
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    The real @Lanny has been coming out lately. The "I got more schoolin' than you so I'm better" version.

    What's really HILARIOUS is reading comments by "liberals" making fun of "Trumpies" for defending Trump's pathological lies.

    Why is that hilarious? Because those same posters swallow their idol's well planned and media complicit lies for decades and ask for MORE.

    It is like a Hannity devotee making fun of Maddow viewers.
     
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    There’s like 4 or 5 people here total who speak out against the media. Only 1 of them is a self-proclaimed Trump supporter from what I’ve seen. Yet, the liberal-leaning people here are constantly calling out “all you trumpies” when they need to vent about something Trump did. They aren’t talking to anyone, they are delusional. Simply not buying into their crazy Russia conspiracies is enough to be labeled a “Trumpet” who sits around on their thumb watching Fox News all day. But hey, gotta give the media credit, they’ve succeeded in a pretty extensive brainwashing campaign. You’ve got millions of “Liberals” all over the country calling for whistleblowers to be jailed and bombs to be dropped. Strange times.
     
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    People are desperately seeking change. 8 million people possibly voted for Trump after voting for Obama? What the hell does that tell you?

    http://www.centerforpolitics.org/cr...many-obama-2012-trump-2016-voters-were-there/
     
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    Hey, don’t be knockin’ badger sex until you’ve given it a try. Just sayin’....,..
     
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    The latter
     
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