Platinum Contributing Member SnowRider Posted January 2, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted January 2, 2018 You stupid fuckers thought lying was an important character flaw........ Let the Clown Posse begin..... The Very Best Liar: Nearly a Year In, Trump Averaging 5.6 Untrue Statements Per Day "It's scary to have a president who lies so brazenly and who seems out-of-touch with fundamental reality." Jake Johnson, staff writer "All governments lie," as the saying goes, but Donald Trump appears to have taken presidential lying to new heights during just his first year in the White House. According to an ongoing analysis by the Washington Post that has tracked Trump's formal speeches, Twitter tirades, and impromptu remarks to the press, the president made 1,950 false or misleading statements during his first 347 days in office. On average, the president says something that is untrue 5.6 times per day. With just over two weeks left before he reaches the one-year mark, Trump is on track to surpass 2,000 lies, misleading the public at a far higher rate than his recent predecessors. As the Post's database demonstrates, Trump's lies come in a variety of forms and pervade nearly every topic he discusses, from jobs and the stock market to immigration and foreign policy. The database also makes clear that the president isn't sufficiently inventive to come up with new lies on a day-to-day basis. Rather, he frequently rehashes old ones—Trump has repeated the claim that Obamacare is "essentially" dead over 50 times, for instance. Trump has also repeatedly insisted—contradicting all available evidence—that the tax bill he signed into law last month will cost him "a fortune." "Trump repeated the falsehood about having the biggest tax cut 53 times, even though Treasury Department data shows it would rank eighth," the Post adds. "And 58 times Trump has claimed that the United States pays the highest corporate taxes (25 times) or that it is one of the highest-taxed nations (33 times). The latter is false; the former is misleading, as the effective U.S. corporate tax rate (what companies end up paying after deductions and benefits) ends up being lower than the statutory tax rate." The lies have come at such a rapid pace, the Post notes, that attempting to track them all has become a significant strain on the paper's resources. "We will soon face a decision about whether to maintain [the database] beyond one year," the analysis concludes. The problem, as many analysts have noted, is that Trump's prodigious lying has had little to no effect on his core base of support. As The Atlantic's David Graham noted last year, hardcore supporters of the president are often unfazed by his false statements. Though Trump backers are frequently willing to admit when the president says something that is untrue, their support for him rarely wavers because of his misleading claims. "They know he's wrong, and they don’t care (that much)," Graham observed. In a column for the Philadelphia Daily News on Monday, Will Bunch warned that Trump's base of support combined with his ability to manipulate the media raises the "scary" possibility—despite polls showing he is the least popular first-year president in American history—that he could still win reelection in 2020. "It's scary to have a president who lies so brazenly and who seems out-of-touch with fundamental reality," Bunch concluded, "but it's even scarier to think he could still be doing this from a presidential perch seven years from now." This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/02/very-best-liar-nearly-year-trump-averaging-56-untrue-statements-day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepr2 Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Remember when liberals didn’t care about lies ? Quote scorecard: Admitted Lies • Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.) • Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.) • She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.) • She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn’t cover the market back then.) Whoppers She Won’t Confess To • She didn’t know about the FALN pardons. • She didn’t know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted. • Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error. • She didn’t know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so. • She didn’t know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had. • She opposed NAFTA at the time. • She was instrumental in the Irish peace process. • She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda. • She played a role in the ’90s economic recovery. • The billing records showed up on their own. • She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke. • She was always a Yankees fan. • She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons). • She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member SnowRider Posted January 2, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted January 2, 2018 (edited) Typical Edited January 2, 2018 by SnowRider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepr2 Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Just now, SnowRider said: Typicsl Cherry picked outrage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SVT MXZ XRS Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Sleepr2 said: Remember when liberals didn’t care about lies ? Washington Post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Platinum Contributing Member SnowRider Posted January 2, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted January 2, 2018 Name your source bitches - he’s a liar and now it’s no big deal The Clown Posse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Anyone that excuses Trump for his lies is a fuckin flying moron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SVT MXZ XRS Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Zambroski said: Edited January 2, 2018 by SVT Renegade XRS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 2 minutes ago, Mainecat said: Anyone that excuses Trump for his lies is a fuckin flying moron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 I see trumps personal ass wiper posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Just now, Mainecat said: I see trumps personal ass wiper posted. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEFF Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 14 minutes ago, Zambroski said: HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washedupmxer Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 19 minutes ago, Mainecat said: Anyone that excuses Trump for his lies is a fuckin flying moron. Only hilliarys lies are ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momorider Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Remember when Taintrider wasn't a ignorant mind numbingly stupid hack FUCK, about, everything me neither 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaturallyAspirated Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 2 hours ago, SnowRider said: Typical That's a ownage dude. Both are compulsory liars. Neal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 44 minutes ago, washedupmxer said: Only hilliarys lies are ok Is Clinton the president? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 1 minute ago, Mainecat said: Is Clinton the president? She's your leader!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Oh a thread ended... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oleroule Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 (edited) Remember When..... snowrider wasn't an adub? neither do i. Edited January 2, 2018 by oleroule 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Danger Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 1 hour ago, washedupmxer said: Only hilliarys lies are ok I miss the good old days when we had a president who ran cover for drug dealing terrorists regimes. Ahhh the joys of open and honest administration's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member Kivalo Posted January 2, 2018 Gold Member Share Posted January 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Mainecat said: Anyone that excuses Trump for his lies is a fuckin flying moron. Damn! This old man is dropping a truth bomb!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 And today he took responsibility for no planes falling from the sky in 2017. idiot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member SnowRider Posted January 3, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted January 3, 2018 3 hours ago, NaturallyAspirated said: That's a ownage dude. Both are compulsory liars. Neal If Lying is the reason to vote against someone but yet one supports someone worse - that’s Besides...Your option really doesn’t matter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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