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      He stole the election from a powerful country that isn’t a democracy.

      This stresses the importance to establish democracies.

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    The third sub-heading is simply “Bullshit”. The fact that they describe how a “Bullshitter” differs from “Liar” is a TIL for me… I never really thought about it before, but the description here is spot on.

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    I like how Wikipedia’s main issue is that this list has grown too long to read comfortably:

    Page issues

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    I hate that there is still this tiny little voice inside me that says I can show this article to a Trump believer and have it make some kind of difference in how they see Trump.

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      Yeah, they will come up with some other bullshit to discredit the source. Likely bullshit espoused by the orange idiot whisperer himself.

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    One of my “favorites” (not mentioned in the Wiki article) is that in the 1980s Trump offered to pay for the funeral of a child killed by a bear … and then of course reneged.

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    What about a database containing the names and faces of all of his supporters alike?

    Because the clown is the clown, but he’d be nothing without the circus.

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    There’s a big problem in our society: when a ruler lies people get along with it but if a peasant does it they give them shit. Have you not noticed this? If a normal person, a friend, the neighbor, a worker get caught lying they get labelled and people hold a grudge against them for years, but if a politician (red, blue or whatever) tells a lie the same process doesn’t apply

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      Most people in the USA:

      • “He’s not lying, he’s as honest as my pastor”
      • “I know he’s lying, but FPTP forces my hand”
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    21 in average per day? You need to be a professional bullshitter for that, I couldn’t do that many

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    Haha it’s so long there’s a suggestion it needs to be broken into multiple pages: Screen shot of notice at top of wikipedia page stating "It has been suggested that this article be split out into articles titled 'False or misleading statements by Donald Trump (first term)', 'False or misleading statements by Donald Trump (between terms)' and 'False or misleading statements by Donald Trump (second term)'. (Discuss) (October 2025)"

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    The amount of times I’ve heard over the years from “common sense” folk that old chestnut that all politicians are liars, just makes my head hurt. No Uncle Dylan, I just don’t think you can tell the difference between a lie and a half-truth, or even a lie and a fact. That “wisdom” is a hundred+ year old cliche and Trump’s popularity proves that those people have never known what a man who is lying if his lips are moving actually looks like.

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      Totally! I really like that the article explains that Trump doesn’t lie, but he bullshits. Apparently the reason is that lying means the liar knows what’s true, while a bullshitter doesn’t care if the bullshit is true or false. This is one of the reasons Trump is unique.

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    Someone like Trump doesn’t surprise me … there are many people in the world that are this dumb and obnoxious. They’re everywhere … he isn’t special.

    What gets me is that America literally paved the way for him to gain the highest office in their country and the population still sits around complaining about it while doing as little or nothing about it all.

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      nothing about it at all

      Third largest set of protests in American history

      🤔

      (Note I said nothing about efficacy, but some people do seem to think it’s effective; I guess we’ll see)

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      The most shocking thing? MAGA still supports him, even in the face of rising prices, losing benefits and constant lies. A true cult that will be studied for decades

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        ok look. am I being fucked up the ass. sure. is it without lubrication. ok yeah. is it repeadately, well yeah. Here is the thing. Alls I have to do is take it until he is all done and then I am told I will get to be one of the ones doing the fucking. So you stupid dummycrats are screwed but one day I will be on top.

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        Surprise surprise.

        Fascists are exactly as dumb as they sound.

        They think once every other race, religion and sexual orientation is gone, they will be in heaven.

        Not realizing they are digging the other way.

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        My MAGA relative shared a meme on FB saying “Border crossings down 93%, gas prices hit a 4 year low, eggs down $1.8 per dozen, inflation down to 1.8%, the Media silent” with absolutely no sources.

        They’re not living on the same plane of reality. They don’t care about the veracity of anything.

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          Right wing memes are true because of the vibes.

          Left wing memes are all lies, especially the ones with sources. Because they’re bad feelings with icky nasty self reflection.

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        Centuries. The ripple effect this administration is causing will be felt through generations, whether or not they get their way in the end. This is scientology but bigger and if they actually succeeded at infiltrating the greatest military power in recorded history. People will be talking about these days long after we are all dead.

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        That’s not sure. What comes after him might be worse. But for the USA, this is like getting that first heart attack. It’s the sign things need to change urgently. Just ignoring it happened and assuming the problem goes away when going back to the old routine is the worst you can do. Without some serious lifetime changes, the next one will be worse.

        Unfortunately Democrats are the party is the status quo and Republicans only like to make things right for a very small part of the population. Nothing much will change for the better.

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          so your telling me we’re going to get an older president barron trump ordering the CIA to throw american critiques out of windows with 5 gunshots to the back of the head as it gets ruled a suicide?

          color me not surprised.