• @[email protected]
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    2629 days ago

    I don’t think trump understands truth and untruth as concepts. He just says whatever he thinks will get him closer to whatever short-term goal currently manifested in his reptile-brain.

    • HubertManne
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      1229 days ago

      I find it a fair question. Even before trump so often the great question is stupidity or lying. Its been the great question of the republican party for decades now and its hard because its clearly both. but probably more lying but not 100%, some is stupidity.

  • @[email protected]
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    1929 days ago

    I recently celebrated my 70th birthday with my family on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. If in this column, I declared that tens of thousands of people were at my birthday party and that rainbow-colored dolphins joined the festivities, my editor would no longer let me write this column.

    Why is a 78-year-old presidential candidate held to a different and lower standard than a 70-year-old ink-stained newspaperman?

    Juan Williams is an author and a political analyst for Fox News Channel.

    Fox News author. Oh how the tables have turned :D

  • @Zombiepirate
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    929 days ago

    That’s like asking of a person who repeatedly punches you in the face “are they doing this out of hatred?”

    In other words, it’s really focusing on the wrong aspect; his motive is immaterial since he will never even consider stopping until he finally croaks.

  • @[email protected]
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    929 days ago

    That orange shitstain is the epitome of “bought his own hype”

    Deluded doesn’t even come close.

  • @pubquiz
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    929 days ago

    What does it matter? Either way he is UNFIT to have access to launch codes.

  • Diplomjodler
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    529 days ago

    His ability to believe his own lies is what makes him appear “authentic” to the morons.

  • @samus12345
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    29 days ago

    Sometimes one, sometimes the other, oftentimes both. He’s fully capable of inventing a reality in his head on the spot and believing whatever he’s spewing to be true.

  • @Geek_King
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    If sounds are coming out of his talk hole, he’s lying. On top of that, he is also deluded, he actively lies, but I think he also believes a lot of his lies because its comforting.