Here is Donald Trump in North Carolina yesterday:
Remember when Biden sent Kamala to Europe to stop the war in Ukraine. She met with Putin, and then three days later, he attacked.... She met with Putin to tell him, "Don’t do it." And three days later, he attacked.
Once again, we have a head scratcher. This is not the usual kind of falsehood, which has some small kernel of truth deep down. It's got nothing. Harris didn't meet with Putin and didn't tell him "Don't do it." End of story. It just flat didn't happen, and neither did anything else even remotely close.
So where did Trump get it? I suppose it was the same place where he discovered that Harris only recently started identifying as Black. Or that Harris's huge crowds were an AI invention. Or that a technical and long-planned annual revision of employment figures was really Joe Biden "fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics to hide the true extent of the Economic Ruin they have inflicted upon America."
He's just literally making stuff up these days based (apparently) on the unhinged Twitter posts that he inhales every night. He is really and truly losing it in the face of a campaign he doesn't know how to fight.
This is an astonishing LIE...I know someone that met Ms Harris at the Munich Security Conference...there was not Putin, no meeting...and the press needs to label this as a LIE...they must call Mr Trump possibly insane for saying this...he needs to be put on a hot grill over his....blatant stupidity. Traveller
As I recall he claimed to have told Putin don't do it. As if Putin would have listened to the likes of Trump. To Putin, Trump was a useful idiot. All you need to do is say a few nice things about him the next thing you know he's openly and very publicly disparaging NATO. Putin didn't need to invade Ukrain while Trump was president. He was doing a better job at undermining NATO than Putin was.
as if putin would have listened to likes of trump? as if trump actually would have the moral fortitude to say those words.
I thought it was hilarious that Democrats not only filled the convention center in Chicago, but also the same Milwaukee center where Trump had his convention. Kind of hard to argue that crowd is smaller than his.
But he will anyway.
And the NYT, WaPo and the other usual suspects will drop something like this in the middle of an account of this rally that desperately attempts to clean it all up to sound like he was almost coherent and at least semi-sane: "Trump additionally claimed, without evidence, that Harris met with Putin shortly before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent it. Ms. Harris' campaign states that she has never met Putin and there is no record that that the two have ever met." That's about it. And they'll never really mention it again, even if it is incorporated into his daily airing of grievances. Barely a one day story--like Drumpf's $10 million Egyptian bribe or Lil' Kushie's $2 billion Saudi gratuity. But her emails!
can you tell me who brought trump's $10 million egyptian bribe to the light of day and how they dug it up? was there a press release or was there years of digging? what's the next logical step in the story? prosecution? sorry can't happen. statute of limitations. how about the democrats in congress picking up the pieces?
This?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/
Trump will do anything, say anything, go anywhere, to malign a political opponent. He'll use the most sketchy rumor, sometimes tweak it, and then he and his rampallians will spread the word.
Or make up insane stuff because he has very little and only intermittent contact with actual reality - remember the women tied up in vans he was babbling about a while back - he didn't realize he was watching trailers for one of the "Sicario" fictional crime movies.
Or make up insane stuff because he has very little and only intermittent contact with actual reality - remember the women tied up in vans he was babbling about a while back - he didn't realize he was watching trailers for one of the "Sicario" fictional crime movies.
A lie like this egregious. What I also find egregious is the willingness of mainstream news organizations to let these lies pass without comment. Perhaps I will be wrong, and tomorrow I will read an editorial in the Post saying that this is conduct which, if not disqualifying, is unbecoming of a presidential candidate. But I don't think such an editorial will greet my eyes tomorrow.
Yesterday at a rally, Trump mused that he was supposed to stay on policy topics. But he said that he couldn't resist instead calling Harris names, and giving that precedence. He even asked the audience whether they wanted to hear policy, or names which ridiculed Harris.
Little surprise that the audience favored the latter. But isn't this something that newspaper editorials should condemn as unworthy of a serious candidate for President? What does it mean when they do not?
Once again, truth as is conventionally understood has no meaning for Donald Trump. There is only one truth: Donald Trump is the smartest, and bestest at everything. Everything else, including reality, is subservient to that. It's not a lie in the conventional sense. He's just completely unmoored from reality as it is normally understood. He lives in his own reality which is whatever needs to be true to serve the one overarching truth. Trying to understand this through the lens of a normal sane human being is impossible.
He always lies (except when faced with legal -- re imprisonment -- peril). Sometimes he's lying to himself, other times he's lying to everyone else, and frequently he's lying to himself and to everyone. Sometimes it's just an exaggeration, while other times he makes shit up out of whole cloth.
Why is he a serial liar? I think it's because Trump doesn't understand what Truth actually is; his conceptualization of Truth is about what is legal and illegal, having nothing to do with morality or responsibility.
"Trump doesn't understand what Truth actually is"
So how does he avoid lying when faced with legal peril?
He does understand, and actually care a little about, but in a reversed way: he prefer lies to truth where possible.
What is Truth -- wasn't it originally a framework of morality, which laid the basis for a legal framework?
If we assume Trump has APD, then he does not comprehend that moral framework of Truth; all he knows is its legal derivative.
If you define "Truth" to be a moral term, than (obviously) Trump doesn't know about it. I was thinking of "truth" as in "the quality or state of being true."
He’s in total meltdown now, ~50 posts in the last hour, each more unhinged than the last, he called into Fox and was ranting so incoherently they cut him off so he called into NewsMax
She met with Zelensky to tell him that Russia was going to invade.
It's a good lie. his people will believe it. That's all.
Exactly. "Take him seriously not literally," meaning that he expresses basic "truths" that are independent of actual fact but conform to his followers' beliefs. Harris IS weak because she's a woman. Inflation IS raging because Democrats destroy the economy. Immigrants ARE flooding the country because Democrats hate White people. Etc.
This btw is why it's useless to argue facts with those people (which is not to say the media shouldn't point out lies that are lies). Mere facts are to be interpreted or ignored as convenient. What's important to them are their beliefs and that they believe what others of their tribe believe.
Had a discussion with a Trump lover the other day. He wouldn't listen to anything I said which is fine with me, you don't have to listen
But he said if Trump gets re-elected I'd have to leave the country., and if Kamala wins he'd think about leaving
I told him the story about seeing bumper stickers during Vietnam, where I was serving, that said America, love it or leave it. We stayed because we love our country and we will stay even it Trump gets re-elected because to leave, just because you don't like the duly elected president is UN-patriotic and borders on traitorous.
He just threw up his hands and walked away. The Dems have wrestled the patriotism schtick from the republicans hands........
Harris said last night that she went to see Zelensky (and others) just before the invasion. You would think that Il Duce should remember the people he tried to extort.
Anyone else feel better today?
Because I feel fantastic!
Great! But to riff off what Harris and Michelle Obama said, DO something with it. Do some local volunteering. Write postcards. This election is gonna be CLOSE, and the Republicans are gonna do everything they can to sabotage it from the precinct level all the way up to Congress. We need to SWAMP them, and the way to do that is GOTV.
Last night, during Harris' speech, Trump posted, "IS SHE TALKING ABOUT ME?"
Also, "WHERE'S HUNTER?"
Absolutely delicious.
I've read a number of stories leaked out from the TFG administration that he coud not get through even a short briefing document unless it had his name sprinkled through it. This sounds like him...
Michael Cohen says,
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-illegal-stealing-tower-atrium-campaign-cohen/
Is this correct? Is this a standard arrangement with large buildings, or is it idiosyncratic to Trump Tower?
Meooooow. The convicted sex felon does not know what to do with a Woman that is smarter than he is !! Kitties know.
My guess is that he is mixing this up with the ambassador who went to talk with Saddam. With Trump it's always hard to tell if he is lying or just doesnt know what he is talking about.
Steve