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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member


     
  2. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    The conservative version is to wrap up in the flag and religion, then claim the moral high ground as "patriotic Americans."
     
  3. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Six pages later, I'm still picturing Moore calling up Saban and asking him where he finds his Little Debbies.
     
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  4. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

  5. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

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    My daughter left this invitation to “cum hav a meel wif us” and it made me think of the brief but pleasant turn the politics thread took for a bit.
     
  6. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Yes, it is.
     
  7. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

  8. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

  9. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Trump told 6.6 times as many self-serving lies as kind ones. That's a much higher ratio than we found for our study participants, who told about double the number of self-centered lies compared with kind ones.

    The most stunning way Trump's lies differed from our participants', though, was in their cruelty. An astonishing 50 percent of Trump's lies were hurtful or disparaging. For example, he proclaimed that John Brennan, James Clapper and James Comey, all career intelligence or law enforcement officials, were "political hacks." He said that "the Sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close." He insisted that other "countries, they don't put their finest in the lottery system. They put people probably in many cases that they don't want." And he claimed that "Ralph Northam, who is running for Governor of Virginia, is fighting for the violent MS-13 killer gangs & sanctuary cities."

    The Trump lies that could not be coded into just one category were typically told both to belittle others and enhance himself. For example: "Senator Bob Corker 'begged' me to endorse him for reelection in Tennessee. I said 'NO' and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement)."

    I study liars. I've never seen one like Donald Trump.
     
  10. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

  11. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Another newser like that and we may have to enforce Marquess de Queensbury rules in the press room.
     
  12. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

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