TexasScientist said:

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TexasScientist said:

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The OP continues to prove the malice and delusion of the Left, nothing more.

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How do you defend the President's lies?

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The same as you do, actually.


I am honest enough to admit the President's flaws, but you are not honest enough to credit the President's good works.

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A flaw is "The President calls people names."
A lie is a moral issue -- "Anybody can get a test if they want a test." That lie is destructive. That lie raises false hope.

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Your malice blinds you, Waco.


It's all you can see. All you love is hate.

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The President lied. You have no defense except to attack me.

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Well, if the President lied then so did Dr. Fauci and others when they said, at the beginning, that it was no big deal, including those on the democrat side like pelosi, biden, schumer, etc.... Don't forget the newspapers too...

wac47, you have a problem with only seeing what you believe.

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I'm not sure about Fouci. I don't recall him being caught in a lie. Trump lies about something just about every time he steps up to a podeum - and that is more than well documented.

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So when the President quotes Dr. Fauci ... ?

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You give him too much credit. I don't believe Trump has the mental faculty to quote someone, much less Fouci.

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Biden doesn't have the mental acuity to even quote what's written down on paper for him

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Maybe. But have you watched Trump struggle to read and deliver every scripted speach he is given?

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"Maybe"? only just a "maybe"? Have you watched Biden at all? It's an open secret that Biden's mental faculties are seriously in question. This will be the first presidential election in my lifetime where the voters will be voting more for their VP candidate than their nominee for president - that's rich.

I know you hate Trump and for the last 3.5 years, you've had a chronic case of the TDSies, but let's be honest here.... compared to Biden, Trump is a genius, a damn genius.

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TexasScientist said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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TexasScientist said:

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HashTag said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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The OP continues to prove the malice and delusion of the Left, nothing more.

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How do you defend the President's lies?

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The same as you do, actually.


I am honest enough to admit the President's flaws, but you are not honest enough to credit the President's good works.

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A flaw is "The President calls people names."
A lie is a moral issue -- "Anybody can get a test if they want a test." That lie is destructive. That lie raises false hope.

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Your malice blinds you, Waco.


It's all you can see. All you love is hate.

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The President lied. You have no defense except to attack me.

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Well, if the President lied then so did Dr. Fauci and others when they said, at the beginning, that it was no big deal, including those on the democrat side like pelosi, biden, schumer, etc.... Don't forget the newspapers too...

wac47, you have a problem with only seeing what you believe.

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I'm not sure about Fouci. I don't recall him being caught in a lie. Trump lies about something just about every time he steps up to a podeum - and that is more than well documented.

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So when the President quotes Dr. Fauci ... ?

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You give him too much credit. I don't believe Trump has the mental faculty to quote someone, much less Fouci.

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Biden doesn't have the mental acuity to even quote what's written down on paper for him

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Maybe. But have you watched Trump struggle to read and deliver every scripted speach he is given?

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Actually, Trump usually does well when reading a script. He tends to fumble when speaking off the cuff, which is not uncommon for many leaders.

https://www.liveabout.com/barack-obama-quotes-and-gaffes-2733986

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TexasScientist said:

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TexasScientist said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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TexasScientist said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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The OP continues to prove the malice and delusion of the Left, nothing more.

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How do you defend the President's lies?

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The same as you do, actually.


I am honest enough to admit the President's flaws, but you are not honest enough to credit the President's good works.

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A flaw is "The President calls people names."
A lie is a moral issue -- "Anybody can get a test if they want a test." That lie is destructive. That lie raises false hope.

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Your malice blinds you, Waco.


It's all you can see. All you love is hate.

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The President lied. You have no defense except to attack me.

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Well, if the President lied then so did Dr. Fauci and others when they said, at the beginning, that it was no big deal, including those on the democrat side like pelosi, biden, schumer, etc.... Don't forget the newspapers too...

wac47, you have a problem with only seeing what you believe.

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I'm not sure about Fouci. I don't recall him being caught in a lie. Trump lies about something just about every time he steps up to a podeum - and that is more than well documented.

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So when the President quotes Dr. Fauci ... ?

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You give him too much credit. I don't believe Trump has the mental faculty to quote someone, much less Fouci.

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Biden doesn't have the mental acuity to even quote what's written down on paper for him

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Maybe. But have you watched Trump struggle to read and deliver every scripted speach he is given?

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Actually, Trump usually does well when reading a script. He tends to fumble when speaking off the cuff, which is not uncommon for many leaders.

https://www.liveabout.com/barack-obama-quotes-and-gaffes-2733986

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You need to watch him painfully try to read the script, and pronounce the words. He reads on a very low level. That's probably why he never reads his daily briefing papers, which is one reason he does not have a good grasp on issues.

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TexasScientist said:

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TexasScientist said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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TexasScientist said:

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HashTag said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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The OP continues to prove the malice and delusion of the Left, nothing more.

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How do you defend the President's lies?

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The same as you do, actually.


I am honest enough to admit the President's flaws, but you are not honest enough to credit the President's good works.

---

A flaw is "The President calls people names."
A lie is a moral issue -- "Anybody can get a test if they want a test." That lie is destructive. That lie raises false hope.

---

Your malice blinds you, Waco.


It's all you can see. All you love is hate.

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The President lied. You have no defense except to attack me.

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Well, if the President lied then so did Dr. Fauci and others when they said, at the beginning, that it was no big deal, including those on the democrat side like pelosi, biden, schumer, etc.... Don't forget the newspapers too...

wac47, you have a problem with only seeing what you believe.

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I'm not sure about Fouci. I don't recall him being caught in a lie. Trump lies about something just about every time he steps up to a podeum - and that is more than well documented.

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So when the President quotes Dr. Fauci ... ?

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You give him too much credit. I don't believe Trump has the mental faculty to quote someone, much less Fouci.

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Biden doesn't have the mental acuity to even quote what's written down on paper for him

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Maybe. But have you watched Trump struggle to read and deliver every scripted speach he is given?

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"Maybe"? only just a "maybe"? Have you watched Biden at all? It's an open secret that Biden's mental faculties are seriously in question. This will be the first presidential election in my lifetime where the voters will be voting more for their VP candidate than their nominee for president - that's rich.

I know you hate Trump and for the last 3.5 years, you've had a chronic case of the TDSies, but let's be honest here.... compared to Biden, Trump is a genius, a damn genius.

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Biden stutters and has some trouble with communication I'll agree. However, he is clearly more coherent. Trump speaks in fragmented sentences, and doesn't completem his thoughts, jumping from one to the next. I'd stand Biden's IQ up against Trump any day, and as I said before, I'm not a Biden person. It just the truth.

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You do realize you just described Biden to a tee, don't ya?

Dude, wow.... you're a special kind of TDS'er

Almost forgot to mention, how's it going today, Waco1947?

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TexasScientist said:

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HashTag said:

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TexasScientist said:

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HashTag said:

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TexasScientist said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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TexasScientist said:

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HashTag said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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The OP continues to prove the malice and delusion of the Left, nothing more.

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How do you defend the President's lies?

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The same as you do, actually.


I am honest enough to admit the President's flaws, but you are not honest enough to credit the President's good works.

---

A flaw is "The President calls people names."
A lie is a moral issue -- "Anybody can get a test if they want a test." That lie is destructive. That lie raises false hope.

---

Your malice blinds you, Waco.


It's all you can see. All you love is hate.

---

The President lied. You have no defense except to attack me.

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Well, if the President lied then so did Dr. Fauci and others when they said, at the beginning, that it was no big deal, including those on the democrat side like pelosi, biden, schumer, etc.... Don't forget the newspapers too...

wac47, you have a problem with only seeing what you believe.

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I'm not sure about Fouci. I don't recall him being caught in a lie. Trump lies about something just about every time he steps up to a podeum - and that is more than well documented.

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So when the President quotes Dr. Fauci ... ?

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You give him too much credit. I don't believe Trump has the mental faculty to quote someone, much less Fouci.

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Biden doesn't have the mental acuity to even quote what's written down on paper for him

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Maybe. But have you watched Trump struggle to read and deliver every scripted speach he is given?

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"Maybe"? only just a "maybe"? Have you watched Biden at all? It's an open secret that Biden's mental faculties are seriously in question. This will be the first presidential election in my lifetime where the voters will be voting more for their VP candidate than their nominee for president - that's rich.

I know you hate Trump and for the last 3.5 years, you've had a chronic case of the TDSies, but let's be honest here.... compared to Biden, Trump is a genius, a damn genius.

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Biden stutters and has some trouble with communication I'll agree. However, he is clearly more coherent. Trump speaks in fragmented sentences, and doesn't completem his thoughts, jumping from one to the next. I'd stand Biden's IQ up against Trump any day, and as I said before, I'm not a Biden person. It just the truth.

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You do realize you just described Biden to a tee, don't ya?

Dude, wow.... you're a special kind of TDS'er

Almost forgot to mention, how's it going today, Waco1947?

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No, I just choose reality over T Delusion S. Some people, for whatever reason, get taken in by con men. Trump is an unethical, immoral, showboat, real estate huckster.

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TexasScientist said:

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TexasScientist said:

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TexasScientist said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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TexasScientist said:

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HashTag said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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The OP continues to prove the malice and delusion of the Left, nothing more.

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How do you defend the President's lies?

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The same as you do, actually.


I am honest enough to admit the President's flaws, but you are not honest enough to credit the President's good works.

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A flaw is "The President calls people names."
A lie is a moral issue -- "Anybody can get a test if they want a test." That lie is destructive. That lie raises false hope.

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Your malice blinds you, Waco.


It's all you can see. All you love is hate.

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The President lied. You have no defense except to attack me.

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Well, if the President lied then so did Dr. Fauci and others when they said, at the beginning, that it was no big deal, including those on the democrat side like pelosi, biden, schumer, etc.... Don't forget the newspapers too...

wac47, you have a problem with only seeing what you believe.

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I'm not sure about Fouci. I don't recall him being caught in a lie. Trump lies about something just about every time he steps up to a podeum - and that is more than well documented.

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So when the President quotes Dr. Fauci ... ?

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You give him too much credit. I don't believe Trump has the mental faculty to quote someone, much less Fouci.

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Biden doesn't have the mental acuity to even quote what's written down on paper for him

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Maybe. But have you watched Trump struggle to read and deliver every scripted speach he is given?

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"Maybe"? only just a "maybe"? Have you watched Biden at all? It's an open secret that Biden's mental faculties are seriously in question. This will be the first presidential election in my lifetime where the voters will be voting more for their VP candidate than their nominee for president - that's rich.

I know you hate Trump and for the last 3.5 years, you've had a chronic case of the TDSies, but let's be honest here.... compared to Biden, Trump is a genius, a damn genius.

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Biden stutters and has some trouble with communication I'll agree. However, he is clearly more coherent. Trump speaks in fragmented sentences, and doesn't completem his thoughts, jumping from one to the next. I'd stand Biden's IQ up against Trump any day, and as I said before, I'm not a Biden person. It just the truth.

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You do realize you just described Biden to a tee, don't ya?

Dude, wow.... you're a special kind of TDS'er

Almost forgot to mention, how's it going today, Waco1947?

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No, I just choose reality over T Delusion S. Some people, for whatever reason, get taken in by con men. Trump is an unethical, immoral, showboat, real estate huckster.

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Gee I always thought liked the guy .

Thanks for this fresh insight .

NM

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TexasScientist said:

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HashTag said:

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TexasScientist said:

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HashTag said:

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TexasScientist said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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TexasScientist said:

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HashTag said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Waco1947 said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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The OP continues to prove the malice and delusion of the Left, nothing more.

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How do you defend the President's lies?

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The same as you do, actually.


I am honest enough to admit the President's flaws, but you are not honest enough to credit the President's good works.

---

A flaw is "The President calls people names."
A lie is a moral issue -- "Anybody can get a test if they want a test." That lie is destructive. That lie raises false hope.

---

Your malice blinds you, Waco.


It's all you can see. All you love is hate.

---

The President lied. You have no defense except to attack me.

---

Well, if the President lied then so did Dr. Fauci and others when they said, at the beginning, that it was no big deal, including those on the democrat side like pelosi, biden, schumer, etc.... Don't forget the newspapers too...

wac47, you have a problem with only seeing what you believe.

---

I'm not sure about Fouci. I don't recall him being caught in a lie. Trump lies about something just about every time he steps up to a podeum - and that is more than well documented.

---

So when the President quotes Dr. Fauci ... ?

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You give him too much credit. I don't believe Trump has the mental faculty to quote someone, much less Fouci.

---

Biden doesn't have the mental acuity to even quote what's written down on paper for him

---

Maybe. But have you watched Trump struggle to read and deliver every scripted speach he is given?

---

"Maybe"? only just a "maybe"? Have you watched Biden at all? It's an open secret that Biden's mental faculties are seriously in question. This will be the first presidential election in my lifetime where the voters will be voting more for their VP candidate than their nominee for president - that's rich.

I know you hate Trump and for the last 3.5 years, you've had a chronic case of the TDSies, but let's be honest here.... compared to Biden, Trump is a genius, a damn genius.

---

Biden stutters and has some trouble with communication I'll agree. However, he is clearly more coherent. Trump speaks in fragmented sentences, and doesn't completem his thoughts, jumping from one to the next. I'd stand Biden's IQ up against Trump any day, and as I said before, I'm not a Biden person. It just the truth.

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You do realize you just described Biden to a tee, don't ya?

Dude, wow.... you're a special kind of TDS'er

Almost forgot to mention, how's it going today, Waco1947?

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No, I just choose reality over T Delusion S. Some people, for whatever reason, get taken in by con men. Trump is an unethical, immoral, showboat, real estate huckster.

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Mmmm, you do know that your reflexive habit of always attacking the President every chance you get pretty much confirms the claims made by Hashtag and others about your political phobia, right?

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Here's a typical exchange between "anyone" and "TS":

Anyone: "Hey, someone said that Coumo's nipples are pierced"
TS: "Trump lies and is immoral. He said this one thing on this date one time, It's documented"
Anyone: "So when Trump quotes Fauci, it's a lie?"
TS: "Trump lies every time he steps to the podium. He's immoral and he lies and it's documented"
Anyone: "Well, here's the statement by Trump on this date and here's what Fauci said on this date. Same thing"
TS: "Quit attacking me and stop deflecting. Trump lies and is immoral. He's been accused of sexual assault because he's immoral and he lies
Anyone:"Well, there's Biden and the Tara Reade issue"
TS: "TDS is a continuum from derangement to delusion, besides, Trumpe lies"

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Never heard Trump quote Fauci, but he should listen to him. You left out Trump is amoral.

TS: "I give Trump credit when it is due."

BB: "There are no American tanks in Baghdad"

Adventures in bad fiction.

This article sums up everything Trump.

The President Is Unraveling

The country is witnessing the steady, uninterrupted intellectual and psychological decomposition of Donald Trump.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/president-unraveling/611146/

In case there was any doubt, the past dozen days have proved we're at the point in his presidency where Donald Trump has become his own caricature, a figure impossible to parody, a man whose words and actions are indistinguishable from an Alec Baldwin skit on Saturday Night Live.

President Trump's pice de rsistance came during a late April coronavirus task-force briefing, when he floated using "just very powerful light" inside the body as a potential treatment for COVID-19 and then, for good measure, contemplated injecting disinfectant as a way to combat the effects of the virus "because you see it gets in the lungs and does a tremendous number on them, so it'd be interesting to check that."

But the burlesque show just keeps rolling on.

Take this past weekend, when former President George W. Bush delivered a three-minute video as part of The Call to Unite, a 24-hour live-stream benefiting COVID-19 relief.
Bush joined other past presidents, spiritual and community leaders, front-line workers, artists, musicians, psychologists, and Academy Award winning actors. They offered advice, stories, and meditations, poetry, prayers, and performances. The purpose of The Call to Unite (which I played a very minor role in helping organize) was to offer practical ways to support others, to provide hope, encouragement, empathy, and unity.

In his video, which went viral, Bushin whose White House I workednever mentioned Trump. Instead, he expressed gratitude to health-care workers, encouraged Americans to abide by social-distancing rules, and reminded his fellow Americans that we have faced trying times before.

"I have no doubt, none at all, that this spirit of service and sacrifice is alive and well in America," Bush said. He emphasized that "empathy and simple kindness are essential, powerful tools of national recovery." And America's 43rd president asked us to "remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat."

"In the final analysis," he said, "we are not partisan combatants; we are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God." Bush concluded, "We rise or fall together, and we are determined to rise."

That was too much for Trump, who attacked his Republican predecessor on (where else?) Twitter: "[Bush] was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest Hoax in American history!"

So think about that for a minute. George W. Bush made a moving, eloquent plea for empathy and national unity, which enraged Donald Trump enough that he felt the need to go on the attack.

But there's more. On the same weekend that he attacked Bush for making an appeal to national unity, Trump said this about Kim Jong Un, one of the most brutal leaders in the world: "I, for one, am glad to see he is back, and well!"

Then, Sunday night, sitting at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial for a town-hall interview with Fox News, Trump complained that he is "treated worse" than President Abraham Lincoln. "I am greeted with a hostile press, the likes of which no president has ever seen," Trump said.

By Monday morning, the president was peddling a cruel and bizarre conspiracy theory aimed at MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, a Trump critic, with Trump suggesting in his tweet that a "cold case" be opened to look into the death of an intern in 2001.

I could have picked a dozen other examples over the past 10 days, but these five will suffice. They illustrate some of the essential traits of Donald Trump: the shocking ignorance, ineptitude, and misinformation; his constant need to divide Americans and attack those who are trying to promote social solidarity; his narcissism, deep insecurity, utter lack of empathy, and desperate need to be loved; his feelings of victimization and grievance; his affinity for ruthless leaders; and his fondness for conspiracy theories.

None of these traits are new in Trump; they are part of the reason why some of us were warning about him long before he won the presidency, even going back to 2011. But, more and more, those traits are defining his presidency, producing a kind of creeping paralysis.
We are witnessing the steady, uninterrupted intellectual and psychological decomposition of an American president. It's something the Trump White House cannot hideindeed, it doesn't even try to hide it anymore. There is not even the slightest hint of normalcy.

This will have ongoing ramifications for the remainder of Trump's first term and for his reelection strategy. More than ever, Trump will try to convince Americans that "what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening," to quote his own words in 2018.

That won't be easy in a pandemic, as the death toll mounts and the economy collapses and the failures of the president multiply. But that doesn't mean Trump won't try. It's all he has left, so Americans have to prepare for it.

Trump and his apparatchiks will not only step up their propaganda; they will increase their efforts to exhaust our critical thinking and to annihilate truth, in the words of the Russian dissident Garry Kasparov. We will see even more "alternative facts." We will see even more brazen attempts to rewrite history. We will hear even more crazy conspiracy theories. We will witness even more lashing out at reporters, more rage, and more lies.

"The real opposition is the media," Steve Bannon, the president's former chief strategist, once told the journalist Michael Lewis. "And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with *****"

We will see more extreme appeals to the fringe base of Trump's party, including right-wing militias. For example, after hundreds of protesters, many of them carrying guns, descended on the capitol in Lansing, Michigan, to protest Governor Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order, Trump, summoning the ghosts of Charlottesville, described the protesters as "very good people." Some of these "very good people" carried signs saying tyrants get the rope and tyrant ***** and comparing the governor to Hitler.

We will see a more prominent role played by One America News (OAN), a pro-Trump network that the president has praised dozens of times. And we will see the right-wing media complex go to even more bizarre placesnot just people such as InfoWar's Alex Jones, who literally threatened to eat his own neighbors if the lockdown continued, but more mainstream figures such as Salem Radio Network's Dennis Prager, who declared the other day that the lockdown was "the greatest mistake in the history of humanity."

Watching formerly serious individuals on the right, including the Christian right, become Trump courtiers has been a painful and dispiriting thing for many of us to witness. In the process, they have reconfigured their own character, intellect, and moral sensibilities to align with the disordered mind and deformed ethical world of Donald Trump.

And we will see, as we have for the entire Trump presidency, the national Republican Party fall in line. Many are speaking out in defense of Trump while other timid souls who know better have gone sotto voce out of fear and cowardice that they have justified to themselves, and tried less successfully to justify to others.

What this means is that Americans are facing not just a conventional presidential election in 2020 but also, and most important, a referendum on reality and epistemology. Donald Trump is asking us to enter even further into his house of mirrors. He is asking us to live within a lie, to live within his lie, for four more years. The duty of citizenship in America today is to refuse to live within that lie.

"The simple step of a simple courageous man is not to partake in falsehood, not to support false actions," Alexandr Solzhenitsyn said in his mesmerizing 1970 Nobel lecture. "Let that enter the world, let it even reign in the worldbut not with my help."

Solzhenitsyn went on to say that writers and artists can achieve more; they can conquer falsehoods. "Falsehood can hold out against much in this world, but not against art," he said.

But art, as powerful as it is, is not the only instrument with which to fight falsehoods. There are also the daily acts of integrity of common men and women who will not believe the lies or spread the lies, who will not allow the foundation of truthfactual truth, moral truthto be destroyed, and who, in standing for truth, will help heal this broken land.


PETER WEHNER is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and Egan visiting professor at Duke University. He writes widely on political, cultural, religious, and national-security issues, and he is the author of The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump.

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This article sums up everything Trump.

The President Is Unraveling

The country is witnessing the steady, uninterrupted intellectual and psychological decomposition of Donald Trump.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/president-unraveling/611146/

In case there was any doubt, the past dozen days have proved we're at the point in his presidency where Donald Trump has become his own caricature, a figure impossible to parody, a man whose words and actions are indistinguishable from an Alec Baldwin skit on Saturday Night Live.

President Trump's pice de rsistance came during a late April coronavirus task-force briefing, when he floated using "just very powerful light" inside the body as a potential treatment for COVID-19 and then, for good measure, contemplated injecting disinfectant as a way to combat the effects of the virus "because you see it gets in the lungs and does a tremendous number on them, so it'd be interesting to check that."

But the burlesque show just keeps rolling on.

Take this past weekend, when former President George W. Bush delivered a three-minute video as part of The Call to Unite, a 24-hour live-stream benefiting COVID-19 relief.
Bush joined other past presidents, spiritual and community leaders, front-line workers, artists, musicians, psychologists, and Academy Award winning actors. They offered advice, stories, and meditations, poetry, prayers, and performances. The purpose of The Call to Unite (which I played a very minor role in helping organize) was to offer practical ways to support others, to provide hope, encouragement, empathy, and unity.

In his video, which went viral, Bushin whose White House I workednever mentioned Trump. Instead, he expressed gratitude to health-care workers, encouraged Americans to abide by social-distancing rules, and reminded his fellow Americans that we have faced trying times before.

"I have no doubt, none at all, that this spirit of service and sacrifice is alive and well in America," Bush said. He emphasized that "empathy and simple kindness are essential, powerful tools of national recovery." And America's 43rd president asked us to "remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat."

"In the final analysis," he said, "we are not partisan combatants; we are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God." Bush concluded, "We rise or fall together, and we are determined to rise."

That was too much for Trump, who attacked his Republican predecessor on (where else?) Twitter: "[Bush] was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest Hoax in American history!"

So think about that for a minute. George W. Bush made a moving, eloquent plea for empathy and national unity, which enraged Donald Trump enough that he felt the need to go on the attack.

But there's more. On the same weekend that he attacked Bush for making an appeal to national unity, Trump said this about Kim Jong Un, one of the most brutal leaders in the world: "I, for one, am glad to see he is back, and well!"

Then, Sunday night, sitting at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial for a town-hall interview with Fox News, Trump complained that he is "treated worse" than President Abraham Lincoln. "I am greeted with a hostile press, the likes of which no president has ever seen," Trump said.

By Monday morning, the president was peddling a cruel and bizarre conspiracy theory aimed at MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, a Trump critic, with Trump suggesting in his tweet that a "cold case" be opened to look into the death of an intern in 2001.

I could have picked a dozen other examples over the past 10 days, but these five will suffice. They illustrate some of the essential traits of Donald Trump: the shocking ignorance, ineptitude, and misinformation; his constant need to divide Americans and attack those who are trying to promote social solidarity; his narcissism, deep insecurity, utter lack of empathy, and desperate need to be loved; his feelings of victimization and grievance; his affinity for ruthless leaders; and his fondness for conspiracy theories.

None of these traits are new in Trump; they are part of the reason why some of us were warning about him long before he won the presidency, even going back to 2011. But, more and more, those traits are defining his presidency, producing a kind of creeping paralysis.
We are witnessing the steady, uninterrupted intellectual and psychological decomposition of an American president. It's something the Trump White House cannot hideindeed, it doesn't even try to hide it anymore. There is not even the slightest hint of normalcy.

This will have ongoing ramifications for the remainder of Trump's first term and for his reelection strategy. More than ever, Trump will try to convince Americans that "what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening," to quote his own words in 2018.

That won't be easy in a pandemic, as the death toll mounts and the economy collapses and the failures of the president multiply. But that doesn't mean Trump won't try. It's all he has left, so Americans have to prepare for it.

Trump and his apparatchiks will not only step up their propaganda; they will increase their efforts to exhaust our critical thinking and to annihilate truth, in the words of the Russian dissident Garry Kasparov. We will see even more "alternative facts." We will see even more brazen attempts to rewrite history. We will hear even more crazy conspiracy theories. We will witness even more lashing out at reporters, more rage, and more lies.

"The real opposition is the media," Steve Bannon, the president's former chief strategist, once told the journalist Michael Lewis. "And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with *****"

We will see more extreme appeals to the fringe base of Trump's party, including right-wing militias. For example, after hundreds of protesters, many of them carrying guns, descended on the capitol in Lansing, Michigan, to protest Governor Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order, Trump, summoning the ghosts of Charlottesville, described the protesters as "very good people." Some of these "very good people" carried signs saying tyrants get the rope and tyrant ***** and comparing the governor to Hitler.

We will see a more prominent role played by One America News (OAN), a pro-Trump network that the president has praised dozens of times. And we will see the right-wing media complex go to even more bizarre placesnot just people such as InfoWar's Alex Jones, who literally threatened to eat his own neighbors if the lockdown continued, but more mainstream figures such as Salem Radio Network's Dennis Prager, who declared the other day that the lockdown was "the greatest mistake in the history of humanity."

Watching formerly serious individuals on the right, including the Christian right, become Trump courtiers has been a painful and dispiriting thing for many of us to witness. In the process, they have reconfigured their own character, intellect, and moral sensibilities to align with the disordered mind and deformed ethical world of Donald Trump.

And we will see, as we have for the entire Trump presidency, the national Republican Party fall in line. Many are speaking out in defense of Trump while other timid souls who know better have gone sotto voce out of fear and cowardice that they have justified to themselves, and tried less successfully to justify to others.

What this means is that Americans are facing not just a conventional presidential election in 2020 but also, and most important, a referendum on reality and epistemology. Donald Trump is asking us to enter even further into his house of mirrors. He is asking us to live within a lie, to live within his lie, for four more years. The duty of citizenship in America today is to refuse to live within that lie.

"The simple step of a simple courageous man is not to partake in falsehood, not to support false actions," Alexandr Solzhenitsyn said in his mesmerizing 1970 Nobel lecture. "Let that enter the world, let it even reign in the worldbut not with my help."

Solzhenitsyn went on to say that writers and artists can achieve more; they can conquer falsehoods. "Falsehood can hold out against much in this world, but not against art," he said.

But art, as powerful as it is, is not the only instrument with which to fight falsehoods. There are also the daily acts of integrity of common men and women who will not believe the lies or spread the lies, who will not allow the foundation of truthfactual truth, moral truthto be destroyed, and who, in standing for truth, will help heal this broken land.


PETER WEHNER is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and Egan visiting professor at Duke University. He writes widely on political, cultural, religious, and national-security issues, and he is the author of The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump.

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There is no alternative from the left that isn't worse. Sad state of affairs.

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This article sums up everything Trump.

The President Is Unraveling

The country is witnessing the steady, uninterrupted intellectual and psychological decomposition of Donald Trump.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/president-unraveling/611146/

In case there was any doubt, the past dozen days have proved we're at the point in his presidency where Donald Trump has become his own caricature, a figure impossible to parody, a man whose words and actions are indistinguishable from an Alec Baldwin skit on Saturday Night Live.

President Trump's pice de rsistance came during a late April coronavirus task-force briefing, when he floated using "just very powerful light" inside the body as a potential treatment for COVID-19 and then, for good measure, contemplated injecting disinfectant as a way to combat the effects of the virus "because you see it gets in the lungs and does a tremendous number on them, so it'd be interesting to check that."

But the burlesque show just keeps rolling on.

Take this past weekend, when former President George W. Bush delivered a three-minute video as part of The Call to Unite, a 24-hour live-stream benefiting COVID-19 relief.
Bush joined other past presidents, spiritual and community leaders, front-line workers, artists, musicians, psychologists, and Academy Award winning actors. They offered advice, stories, and meditations, poetry, prayers, and performances. The purpose of The Call to Unite (which I played a very minor role in helping organize) was to offer practical ways to support others, to provide hope, encouragement, empathy, and unity.

In his video, which went viral, Bushin whose White House I workednever mentioned Trump. Instead, he expressed gratitude to health-care workers, encouraged Americans to abide by social-distancing rules, and reminded his fellow Americans that we have faced trying times before.

"I have no doubt, none at all, that this spirit of service and sacrifice is alive and well in America," Bush said. He emphasized that "empathy and simple kindness are essential, powerful tools of national recovery." And America's 43rd president asked us to "remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat."

"In the final analysis," he said, "we are not partisan combatants; we are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God." Bush concluded, "We rise or fall together, and we are determined to rise."

That was too much for Trump, who attacked his Republican predecessor on (where else?) Twitter: "[Bush] was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest Hoax in American history!"

So think about that for a minute. George W. Bush made a moving, eloquent plea for empathy and national unity, which enraged Donald Trump enough that he felt the need to go on the attack.

But there's more. On the same weekend that he attacked Bush for making an appeal to national unity, Trump said this about Kim Jong Un, one of the most brutal leaders in the world: "I, for one, am glad to see he is back, and well!"

Then, Sunday night, sitting at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial for a town-hall interview with Fox News, Trump complained that he is "treated worse" than President Abraham Lincoln. "I am greeted with a hostile press, the likes of which no president has ever seen," Trump said.

By Monday morning, the president was peddling a cruel and bizarre conspiracy theory aimed at MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, a Trump critic, with Trump suggesting in his tweet that a "cold case" be opened to look into the death of an intern in 2001.

I could have picked a dozen other examples over the past 10 days, but these five will suffice. They illustrate some of the essential traits of Donald Trump: the shocking ignorance, ineptitude, and misinformation; his constant need to divide Americans and attack those who are trying to promote social solidarity; his narcissism, deep insecurity, utter lack of empathy, and desperate need to be loved; his feelings of victimization and grievance; his affinity for ruthless leaders; and his fondness for conspiracy theories.

None of these traits are new in Trump; they are part of the reason why some of us were warning about him long before he won the presidency, even going back to 2011. But, more and more, those traits are defining his presidency, producing a kind of creeping paralysis.
We are witnessing the steady, uninterrupted intellectual and psychological decomposition of an American president. It's something the Trump White House cannot hideindeed, it doesn't even try to hide it anymore. There is not even the slightest hint of normalcy.

This will have ongoing ramifications for the remainder of Trump's first term and for his reelection strategy. More than ever, Trump will try to convince Americans that "what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening," to quote his own words in 2018.

That won't be easy in a pandemic, as the death toll mounts and the economy collapses and the failures of the president multiply. But that doesn't mean Trump won't try. It's all he has left, so Americans have to prepare for it.

Trump and his apparatchiks will not only step up their propaganda; they will increase their efforts to exhaust our critical thinking and to annihilate truth, in the words of the Russian dissident Garry Kasparov. We will see even more "alternative facts." We will see even more brazen attempts to rewrite history. We will hear even more crazy conspiracy theories. We will witness even more lashing out at reporters, more rage, and more lies.

"The real opposition is the media," Steve Bannon, the president's former chief strategist, once told the journalist Michael Lewis. "And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with *****"

We will see more extreme appeals to the fringe base of Trump's party, including right-wing militias. For example, after hundreds of protesters, many of them carrying guns, descended on the capitol in Lansing, Michigan, to protest Governor Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order, Trump, summoning the ghosts of Charlottesville, described the protesters as "very good people." Some of these "very good people" carried signs saying tyrants get the rope and tyrant ***** and comparing the governor to Hitler.

We will see a more prominent role played by One America News (OAN), a pro-Trump network that the president has praised dozens of times. And we will see the right-wing media complex go to even more bizarre placesnot just people such as InfoWar's Alex Jones, who literally threatened to eat his own neighbors if the lockdown continued, but more mainstream figures such as Salem Radio Network's Dennis Prager, who declared the other day that the lockdown was "the greatest mistake in the history of humanity."

Watching formerly serious individuals on the right, including the Christian right, become Trump courtiers has been a painful and dispiriting thing for many of us to witness. In the process, they have reconfigured their own character, intellect, and moral sensibilities to align with the disordered mind and deformed ethical world of Donald Trump.

And we will see, as we have for the entire Trump presidency, the national Republican Party fall in line. Many are speaking out in defense of Trump while other timid souls who know better have gone sotto voce out of fear and cowardice that they have justified to themselves, and tried less successfully to justify to others.

What this means is that Americans are facing not just a conventional presidential election in 2020 but also, and most important, a referendum on reality and epistemology. Donald Trump is asking us to enter even further into his house of mirrors. He is asking us to live within a lie, to live within his lie, for four more years. The duty of citizenship in America today is to refuse to live within that lie.

"The simple step of a simple courageous man is not to partake in falsehood, not to support false actions," Alexandr Solzhenitsyn said in his mesmerizing 1970 Nobel lecture. "Let that enter the world, let it even reign in the worldbut not with my help."

Solzhenitsyn went on to say that writers and artists can achieve more; they can conquer falsehoods. "Falsehood can hold out against much in this world, but not against art," he said.

But art, as powerful as it is, is not the only instrument with which to fight falsehoods. There are also the daily acts of integrity of common men and women who will not believe the lies or spread the lies, who will not allow the foundation of truthfactual truth, moral truthto be destroyed, and who, in standing for truth, will help heal this broken land.


PETER WEHNER is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and Egan visiting professor at Duke University. He writes widely on political, cultural, religious, and national-security issues, and he is the author of The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump.

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There is no alternative from the left that isn't worse. Sad state of affairs.

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Yes indeed.

The Atlantic is no more trustworthy to speak regarding President Trump, than was Breitbart to speak regarding President Obama.

If this is what you are using for your information, small wonder you cannot reach sound conclusions, TS.

Oldbear83 said:

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The Atlantic is no more trustworthy to speak regarding President Trump, than was Breitbart to speak regarding President Obama.

If this is what you are using for your information, small wonder you cannot reach sound conclusions, TS.

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Its not information, its an opinion.

The information is provided by POTUS and is plain to see. The idea that he has to attack President Bush for saying lets be united is pretty damn telling in my book. I don't need the Atlantic to tell me that is dbaggery of the worst kind. We elected an a-hole President and 25% of the country wants to celebrate that fact. Its sick.

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The Atlantic is no more trustworthy to speak regarding President Trump, than was Breitbart to speak regarding President Obama.

If this is what you are using for your information, small wonder you cannot reach sound conclusions, TS.

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Its not information, its an opinion.

The information is provided by POTUS and is plain to see. The idea that he has to attack President Bush for saying lets be united is pretty damn telling in my book. I don't need the Atlantic to tell me that is dbaggery of the worst kind. We elected an a-hole President and 25% of the country wants to celebrate that fact. Its sick.

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You speak only from bias and dislike.

Sure, you have a right to your opinion, and I have the right to tell you your opinion is bilge.

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The Atlantic is no more trustworthy to speak regarding President Trump, than was Breitbart to speak regarding President Obama.

If this is what you are using for your information, small wonder you cannot reach sound conclusions, TS.

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Its not information, its an opinion.

The information is provided by POTUS and is plain to see. The idea that he has to attack President Bush for saying lets be united is pretty damn telling in my book. I don't need the Atlantic to tell me that is dbaggery of the worst kind. We elected an a-hole President and 25% of the country wants to celebrate that fact. Its sick.

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You speak only from bias and dislike.

Sure, you have a right to your opinion, and I have the right to tell you your opinion is bilge.

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So you think it was a good idea to attack President Bush after he asked us to unite as a country and rise together? If that is bias and dislike, it is well-earned.

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The Atlantic is no more trustworthy to speak regarding President Trump, than was Breitbart to speak regarding President Obama.

If this is what you are using for your information, small wonder you cannot reach sound conclusions, TS.

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Its not information, its an opinion.

The information is provided by POTUS and is plain to see. The idea that he has to attack President Bush for saying lets be united is pretty damn telling in my book. I don't need the Atlantic to tell me that is dbaggery of the worst kind. We elected an a-hole President and 25% of the country wants to celebrate that fact. Its sick.

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You speak only from bias and dislike.

Sure, you have a right to your opinion, and I have the right to tell you your opinion is bilge.

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Sp you think it was a good idea to attack President Bush after he asked us to unite as a country and rise together? If that is bias and dislike, it is well-earned.

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"Attack" is a perjorative word.

Like most on the Left, you use words as weapons, not to discuss topics.

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The Atlantic is no more trustworthy to speak regarding President Trump, than was Breitbart to speak regarding President Obama.

If this is what you are using for your information, small wonder you cannot reach sound conclusions, TS.

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Its not information, its an opinion.

The information is provided by POTUS and is plain to see. The idea that he has to attack President Bush for saying lets be united is pretty damn telling in my book. I don't need the Atlantic to tell me that is dbaggery of the worst kind. We elected an a-hole President and 25% of the country wants to celebrate that fact. Its sick.

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You speak only from bias and dislike.

Sure, you have a right to your opinion, and I have the right to tell you your opinion is bilge.

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Sp you think it was a good idea to attack President Bush after he asked us to unite as a country and rise together? If that is bias and dislike, it is well-earned.

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"Attack" is a perjorative word.

Like most on the Left, you use words as weapons, not to discuss topics.

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Right, POTUS never uses words as weapons. Good grief.

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Oldbear83 said:

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The Atlantic is no more trustworthy to speak regarding President Trump, than was Breitbart to speak regarding President Obama.

If this is what you are using for your information, small wonder you cannot reach sound conclusions, TS.

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Its not information, its an opinion.

The information is provided by POTUS and is plain to see. The idea that he has to attack President Bush for saying lets be united is pretty damn telling in my book. I don't need the Atlantic to tell me that is dbaggery of the worst kind. We elected an a-hole President and 25% of the country wants to celebrate that fact. Its sick.

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You speak only from bias and dislike.

Sure, you have a right to your opinion, and I have the right to tell you your opinion is bilge.

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Sp you think it was a good idea to attack President Bush after he asked us to unite as a country and rise together? If that is bias and dislike, it is well-earned.

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"Attack" is a perjorative word.

Like most on the Left, you use words as weapons, not to discuss topics.

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Right, POTUS never uses words as weapons. Good grief.

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He lives in your head, you know ...

George W. Bush

- Lives in a fortress on a gigantic private ranch paid for by taxpayers, donors, and other crony connections he made through his daddy. He's not worrying how to pay the mortgage

- 24/7 armed protection provided for by the taxpayers

- I'm sure as soon as NY became a hot spot his daughter and her family were flown via private jet and escorted to the Crawford ranch

- has his own private mountain bike trail - I'm sure he has other high end fitness facilities

- I'm sure he has private chefs

- He doesn't have to worry about wearing masks and gloves and social distancing because he has people to do things like get and cook food for him

- If he or someone in his family gets sick the taxpayers will pay to have a world class medical team choppered to his ranch

- I'm sure Laura is not showing gray roots as she probably has access to personal stylists at her location

So yeah, he's all gung ho about the lockdown and unity and whatever because this isn't effecting his life in the least bit

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The Atlantic is no more trustworthy to speak regarding President Trump, than was Breitbart to speak regarding President Obama.

If this is what you are using for your information, small wonder you cannot reach sound conclusions, TS.

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Its not information, its an opinion.

The information is provided by POTUS and is plain to see. The idea that he has to attack President Bush for saying lets be united is pretty damn telling in my book. I don't need the Atlantic to tell me that is dbaggery of the worst kind. We elected an a-hole President and 25% of the country wants to celebrate that fact. Its sick.

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You speak only from bias and dislike.

Sure, you have a right to your opinion, and I have the right to tell you your opinion is bilge.

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Sp you think it was a good idea to attack President Bush after he asked us to unite as a country and rise together? If that is bias and dislike, it is well-earned.

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"Attack" is a perjorative word.

Like most on the Left, you use words as weapons, not to discuss topics.

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Right, POTUS never uses words as weapons. Good grief.

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He lives in your head, you know ...

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He probably needs to go scream at the sky to make himself feel better.. I would offer, but I'm fresh out of coloring books.

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The Atlantic is no more trustworthy to speak regarding President Trump, than was Breitbart to speak regarding President Obama.

If this is what you are using for your information, small wonder you cannot reach sound conclusions, TS.

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Its not information, its an opinion.

The information is provided by POTUS and is plain to see. The idea that he has to attack President Bush for saying lets be united is pretty damn telling in my book. I don't need the Atlantic to tell me that is dbaggery of the worst kind. We elected an a-hole President and 25% of the country wants to celebrate that fact. Its sick.

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You speak only from bias and dislike.

Sure, you have a right to your opinion, and I have the right to tell you your opinion is bilge.

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Sp you think it was a good idea to attack President Bush after he asked us to unite as a country and rise together? If that is bias and dislike, it is well-earned.

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"Attack" is a perjorative word.

Like most on the Left, you use words as weapons, not to discuss topics.

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Right, POTUS never uses words as weapons. Good grief.

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He lives in your head, you know ...

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He probably needs to go scream at the sky to make himself feel better.. I would offer, but I'm fresh out of coloring books.

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Old Bear just told me that liberals use words to attack and conservatives to reason. Irony escapes both of you.

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Booray said:

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Booray said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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The Atlantic is no more trustworthy to speak regarding President Trump, than was Breitbart to speak regarding President Obama.

If this is what you are using for your information, small wonder you cannot reach sound conclusions, TS.

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Its not information, its an opinion.

The information is provided by POTUS and is plain to see. The idea that he has to attack President Bush for saying lets be united is pretty damn telling in my book. I don't need the Atlantic to tell me that is dbaggery of the worst kind. We elected an a-hole President and 25% of the country wants to celebrate that fact. Its sick.

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You speak only from bias and dislike.

Sure, you have a right to your opinion, and I have the right to tell you your opinion is bilge.

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Sp you think it was a good idea to attack President Bush after he asked us to unite as a country and rise together? If that is bias and dislike, it is well-earned.

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"Attack" is a perjorative word.

Like most on the Left, you use words as weapons, not to discuss topics.

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Right, POTUS never uses words as weapons. Good grief.

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He lives in your head, you know ...

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He probably needs to go scream at the sky to make himself feel better.. I would offer, but I'm fresh out of coloring books.

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Old Bear just told me that liberals use words to attack and conservatives to reason. Irony escapes both of you.

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No, I understand Irony well. Like how ironic that you ignore History, even as recent as 2016 ...

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The Atlantic is no more trustworthy to speak regarding President Trump, than was Breitbart to speak regarding President Obama.

If this is what you are using for your information, small wonder you cannot reach sound conclusions, TS.

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Its not information, its an opinion.

The information is provided by POTUS and is plain to see. The idea that he has to attack President Bush for saying lets be united is pretty damn telling in my book. I don't need the Atlantic to tell me that is dbaggery of the worst kind. We elected an a-hole President and 25% of the country wants to celebrate that fact. Its sick.

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You speak only from bias and dislike.

Sure, you have a right to your opinion, and I have the right to tell you your opinion is bilge.

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Sp you think it was a good idea to attack President Bush after he asked us to unite as a country and rise together? If that is bias and dislike, it is well-earned.

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"Attack" is a perjorative word.

Like most on the Left, you use words as weapons, not to discuss topics.

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Right, POTUS never uses words as weapons. Good grief.

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He lives in your head, you know ...

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He probably needs to go scream at the sky to make himself feel better.. I would offer, but I'm fresh out of coloring books.

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Old Bear just told me that liberals use words to attack and conservatives to reason. Irony escapes both of you.

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No, I understand Irony well. Like how ironic that you ignore History, even as recent as 2016 ...

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How so?

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Booray said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Booray said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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Booray said:

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Booray said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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The Atlantic is no more trustworthy to speak regarding President Trump, than was Breitbart to speak regarding President Obama.

If this is what you are using for your information, small wonder you cannot reach sound conclusions, TS.

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Its not information, its an opinion.

The information is provided by POTUS and is plain to see. The idea that he has to attack President Bush for saying lets be united is pretty damn telling in my book. I don't need the Atlantic to tell me that is dbaggery of the worst kind. We elected an a-hole President and 25% of the country wants to celebrate that fact. Its sick.

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You speak only from bias and dislike.

Sure, you have a right to your opinion, and I have the right to tell you your opinion is bilge.

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Sp you think it was a good idea to attack President Bush after he asked us to unite as a country and rise together? If that is bias and dislike, it is well-earned.

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"Attack" is a perjorative word.

Like most on the Left, you use words as weapons, not to discuss topics.

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Right, POTUS never uses words as weapons. Good grief.

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He lives in your head, you know ...

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He probably needs to go scream at the sky to make himself feel better.. I would offer, but I'm fresh out of coloring books.

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Old Bear just told me that liberals use words to attack and conservatives to reason. Irony escapes both of you.

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No, I understand Irony well. Like how ironic that you ignore History, even as recent as 2016 ...

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How so?

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Surely you know how the Democrats responded to their election loss in 2016?