Trump Lies
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Two lies per minute on average …
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference
A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of [Trump’s] news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes. That’s more than two a minute.
Anyone surprised?
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Two lies per minute on average …
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference
A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of [Trump’s] news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes. That’s more than two a minute.
Anyone surprised?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-unhinged-press-conference
Partial list produced by Vanity Fair (from one press conference):
- That the “majority” of the country supports him (in fact, he lost the popular vote in both 2016 and 2020)
- That Democrats “are allowed to do abortion on the eighth and ninth month, and even after birth” (Democrats neither allow nor support abortion “even after birth,“ which is murder)
- That “nobody was killed on January 6” (seven people died in connection to the attack, including Trump supporter Ashli Babbit)
- That there was a “peaceful transfer” of power after the last election (See: January 6)
- That Harris is “going to destroy Social Security” (she and Biden have said they will not make any cuts to the program, whereas Trump has talked about “cutting” entitlements, before walking back his comments)
- That his Manhattan criminal trial was run by the Justice Department (it was the Manhattan district attorney’s office)
- That he disapproved of the “lock her up“ chants about Hillary Clinton (in fact, he personally called for her imprisonment on at least seven occasions, including during the 2020 election when he wasn’t even running against her)
- That Harris “couldn’t pass her bar exam” (she did, on the second try, and was admitted to the California bar the year after she graduated law school)
- That “everybody’s going to be forced to buy an electric car” if Democrats win in 2024 (Just…no)
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@George-K said in Trump Lies:
@Axtremus said in Trump Lies:
A team of NPR reporters...
Anyone surprised?
Nope. Not at all.
Now now, don't shoot the messenger. Jolly really hates it when people do that.
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Here’s the thing about Trump. People know who he is. That 48% of the electorate won’t be moved.
With Kamala, she is kinda unknown (which is bizarre, for a VP. The media and supporters (but I repeat myself) are so happy to have someone else, that there is a euphoric reaction (not for Kamala, but Joe being gone), but 3 months is a long time, and her support has a much better chance of dropping with time than Trump’s.
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Yeah, good analysis LD.
Trump's lying (substantially more than usual compared to his fellow swamp politicians) is one reason I have been unable to vote for him since 2016, among other things (adultery, making fun of disabled folks, but mostly the lying). To each their own but I don't want to tell my kids I ever supported a person like him. That being said... I'm not an idiot, if it was Trump vs a threat to America (like Sanders on steroids), I'd vote for Trump, but to me it doesn't make much of a difference who is in office between Harris, Trump, et al.
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Yeah, good analysis LD.
Trump's lying (substantially more than usual compared to his fellow swamp politicians) is one reason I have been unable to vote for him since 2016, among other things (adultery, making fun of disabled folks, but mostly the lying). To each their own but I don't want to tell my kids I ever supported a person like him. That being said... I'm not an idiot, if it was Trump vs a threat to America (like Sanders on steroids), I'd vote for Trump, but to me it doesn't make much of a difference who is in office between Harris, Trump, et al.
@89th said in Trump Lies:
Trump's lying (substantially more than usual compared to his fellow swamp politicians) is one reason I have been unable to vote for him since 2016
So, in terms of lying, we're arguing about price, amirite? I find Walz's lying about something much more substantial disqualifying.
adultery
Harris.
if it was Trump vs a threat to America (like Sanders on steroids), I'd vote for Trump,
Remember, Harris was found, as a senator, to be to the left of Bernie.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Her signature legislation (not passed) was to give every single person $2,000 per month during COVID. You saw what the $600 per person on 3 payments did to inflation, imagine $2,000 per month…
The Brad
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Also, what constitutes a real lie vs an exaggeration? There's a host of them in the "Biden lies" thread. What's important?
Trump said that Harris failed the bar twice. She didn't.
She failed it on her first attempt (when 83% of applicants pass).
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Also, what constitutes a real lie vs an exaggeration? There's a host of them in the "Biden lies" thread. What's important?
Trump said that Harris failed the bar twice. She didn't.
She failed it on her first attempt (when 83% of applicants pass).
@George-K said in Trump Lies:
Also, what constitutes a real lie vs an exaggeration?
Describing what Trump says on a regular basis as 'exaggeration' stretches the meaning of that word to limits likely to create an irreversible breakdown in the space-time continuum, and quite possibly an end to the universe as we know it.
See - that's an exaggeration. What Trump does is just make shit up out of his head. He says things he wants to be true as though they are true, and a surprisingly large number of his flock appear to go along with him. Well, maybe not 'surprisingly'.
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Her signature legislation (not passed) was to give every single person $2,000 per month during COVID. You saw what the $600 per person on 3 payments did to inflation, imagine $2,000 per month…
@LuFins-Dad said in Trump Lies:
Her signature legislation (not passed) was to give every single person $2,000 per month during COVID. You saw what the $600 per person on 3 payments did to inflation, imagine $2,000 per month…
Meh. Quadrupling the money supply was the major driver. Only a small portion of that was paid out as covid stimulus. The vast majority was injected into the banking system, where it reared its head as inflation exactly 18 months later, just as the good professor Friedman told us it would some 70 years ago.
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
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@LuFins-Dad said in Trump Lies:
Her signature legislation (not passed) was to give every single person $2,000 per month during COVID. You saw what the $600 per person on 3 payments did to inflation, imagine $2,000 per month…
Meh. Quadrupling the money supply was the major driver. Only a small portion of that was paid out as covid stimulus. The vast majority was injected into the banking system, where it reared its head as inflation exactly 18 months later, just as the good professor Friedman told us it would some 70 years ago.
@jon-nyc said in Trump Lies:
Quadrupling the money supply was the major driver.
Am I missing something? M2 is the money supply, right?
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@jon-nyc said in Trump Lies:
Quadrupling the money supply was the major driver.
Am I missing something? M2 is the money supply, right?
@George-K said in Trump Lies:
@jon-nyc said in Trump Lies:
Quadrupling the money supply was the major driver.
Am I missing something? M2 is the money supply, right?
M1 is the actual amount of money in circulation. Cash/Coins/Checking Accounts/Actual spendable money.
M2 is M1 Plus timed deposits. Money Market Accounts, CD, etc...
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@LuFins-Dad said in Trump Lies:
Her signature legislation (not passed) was to give every single person $2,000 per month during COVID. You saw what the $600 per person on 3 payments did to inflation, imagine $2,000 per month…
Meh. Quadrupling the money supply was the major driver. Only a small portion of that was paid out as covid stimulus. The vast majority was injected into the banking system, where it reared its head as inflation exactly 18 months later, just as the good professor Friedman told us it would some 70 years ago.
@jon-nyc said in Trump Lies:
@LuFins-Dad said in Trump Lies:
Her signature legislation (not passed) was to give every single person $2,000 per month during COVID. You saw what the $600 per person on 3 payments did to inflation, imagine $2,000 per month…
Meh. Quadrupling the money supply was the major driver. Only a small portion of that was paid out as covid stimulus. The vast majority was injected into the banking system, where it reared its head as inflation exactly 18 months later, just as the good professor Friedman told us it would some 70 years ago.
And why was it injected into the M1?
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@89th said in Trump Lies:
Trump's lying (substantially more than usual compared to his fellow swamp politicians) is one reason I have been unable to vote for him since 2016
So, in terms of lying, we're arguing about price, amirite? I find Walz's lying about something much more substantial disqualifying.
adultery
Harris.
if it was Trump vs a threat to America (like Sanders on steroids), I'd vote for Trump,
Remember, Harris was found, as a senator, to be to the left of Bernie.
@George-K said in Trump Lies:
So, in terms of lying, we're arguing about price, amirite? I find Walz's lying about something much more substantial disqualifying.
Trump lied about his former support for the Iraq war. Seems pretty substantial to me.
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@89th said in Trump Lies:
Trump's lying (substantially more than usual compared to his fellow swamp politicians) is one reason I have been unable to vote for him since 2016
So, in terms of lying, we're arguing about price, amirite? I find Walz's lying about something much more substantial disqualifying.
adultery
Harris.
if it was Trump vs a threat to America (like Sanders on steroids), I'd vote for Trump,
Remember, Harris was found, as a senator, to be to the left of Bernie.
@George-K said in Trump Lies:
@89th said in Trump Lies:
Trump's lying (substantially more than usual compared to his fellow swamp politicians) is one reason I have been unable to vote for him since 2016
So, in terms of lying, we're arguing about price, amirite? I find Walz's lying about something much more substantial disqualifying.
With all due respect, I think you've just become used to how Trump speaks over the last 8 years... the number of falsehoods, made-up facts, "many people have told me" excuses, and exaggerations is almost impossible to keep track of.
Actually someone did keep track.
30,573 false or misleading claims between 2017 and 2021.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?itid=lk_inline_manual_11
I know.. WaPo, but the full database is open, you can download the CSV file, it's about as auditable as you can get. Heck, let's start at the very beginning about his inauguration crowd size being bigger than Obama's.
