Trump Family Coat of
Arms
Trump’s lies
hit new record – historical first – will he brag about that record?
Trump is a
skillful con man serving only his own personal financial interests as president
while spewing BS otherwise that is believable to many, but totally untrue.
Nothing can be taken at face value from his lips except tons and tons of lies
now well over 15,000.
Imagine any
president with this record heading up our country.
Trump has
made more than 15,000 false or misleading claims since becoming president, according
to a fact checking database. The president surpassed that threshold on 10
December, having ramped up his rate throughout the past year, according to
the Washington Post.
All told,
Trump had made 15,413 false or misleading claims as of that date, which
was his 1,055th day in office.
Part of this story is a database
site, created by
graphics reporter Leslie Shapiro worth checking out.
Classic Sample from Trump: “To
Impeach a President who has proven through results, including producing perhaps
the strongest economy in our country’s history, to have one of the most
successful presidencies ever, and most importantly, who has done NOTHING wrong,
is sheer Political Madness!”
FACT CHECK OF THIS ONE:
Yes, he can
brag about the state of the economy, but he runs into trouble when he makes a
play for his spot in the history books. By about any important economic measure,
the economy today is not doing as
well as it did under Eisenhower, LBJ, Clinton, or even U.S. Grant.
TRUMP HAS REPEATED THAT
242 TIMES. So, proof meet pudding as Trump dodges reality.
The so-called and
well-known big lie theory and historical source:
“The great
masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small
one.” — Adolf
Hitler, Mein Kampf,
chapter 10 (c. 1923)
So, where
did Trump pick up his skill at lying so easily? Um …
FYI: The most effective big lies
are outrageous enough to be unbelievable, yet appeal strongly to
the prejudices of the listeners when stated in as bland and
matter-of-fact terms as possible. It is
usually more effective to string
several big lies together in a series of talking points.
Maybe he follows this model?
The Gish Gallop: Should not
be confused with the argumentum ad nauseam, in which the same
point is repeated many times.
In a Gish Gallop, BS points are given all at once in
rapid fire.
The Gish Gallop is the fallacious
debate tactic
of drowning your opponent in a flood of
individually-weak arguments in order to prevent rebuttal of the whole
argument.
The Gish Gallop is a conveyor belt-fed version of the on the spot fallacy, as it's unreasonable
for anyone to have a well-composed answer immediately available to every argument present in the Gallop.
My 2 cents: I’ll
just let this post and references stand alone. To all, have a great and wonder
New Year – or by the Chinese calendar, it’s the Year of the Rat.
Chinese: Zi
Interesting story behind the Rat – the animal which comes around every 12
years in first place out of all 12 Zodiac animals.
According to one myth, the Jade Emperor said the order
would be decided by the order in which the animals arrived to his party.
The Rat ever so clever tricked the Ox into giving him
a ride. Then, just as they arrived at the finish line, the Rat jumped down and
landed ahead of Ox, thus coming into first place.
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