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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

21 in average per day? You need to be a professional bullshitter for that, I couldn't do that many

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago
[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 44 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

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)"

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 19 points 3 hours ago

The poor article starts at his first presidency. Fuck heads been lying everyday since he could talk.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 34 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 30 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

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.