TRUMP - Just because.....................Naw, I just can't say it!
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A Week of Whoppers From Donald Trump
The New York Times has compiled a list of 31 of Donald Trump's "falsehoods, exaggerations and outright lies" today. "A closer examination," they say, "revealed an unmistakable pattern: Virtually all of Mr. Trump’s falsehoods directly bolstered a powerful and self-aggrandizing narrative depicting him as a heroic savior for a nation menaced from every direction."
This would seem unremarkable except for one thing: this list covers only the past week. And it doesn't include "untruths that appeared to be mere hyperbole or humor, or delivered purely for effect, or what could generously be called rounding errors."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/24/us/elections/donald-trump-state
ments.html
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Here’s what we can be fairly sure will happen in Monday’s presidential debate: Donald Trump will lie repeatedly and grotesquely, on a variety of subjects. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton might say a couple of untrue things. Or she might not.
Here’s what we don’t know: Will the moderators step in when Mr. Trump delivers one of his well-known, often reiterated falsehoods? If he claims, yet again, to have opposed the Iraq war from the beginning ... will he be called on it?
www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/09/10/us/politics/ap-us-campaign-2016-fa
ct-check.html
If he claims to have renounced birtherism years ago, will the moderators note that he was still at it just a few months ago?
www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/09/donald_trump
_is_still_a_birther.html
In fact, Trump already seems to be walking back his admission last week that President Obama was indeed born in America.
www.yahoo.com/news/latest-trump-pence-continue-outreach-black-voters-1
12703737--election.html
If Trump says one more time that America is the world’s most highly taxed country — which it isn’t — will anyone other than Mrs. Clinton say that it isn’t? And will media coverage after the debate convey the asymmetry of what went down?
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Great reporting SECOND. Love checking in and seeing what else you uncover.
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SCOTT ADAMS SWITCHES TO TRUMP
As most of you know, I had been endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, for my personal safety, because I live in California. It isn’t safe to be a Trump supporter where I live. And it’s bad for business too. But recently I switched my endorsement to Trump, and I owe you an explanation. So here it goes...
1. Things I Don’t Know: There are many things I don’t know. For example, I don’t know the best way to defeat ISIS. Neither do you. I don’t know the best way to negotiate trade policies. Neither do you. I don’t know the best tax policy to lift all boats. Neither do you. My opinion on abortion is that men should follow the lead of women on that topic because doing so produces the most credible laws. So on most political topics, I don’t know enough to make a decision. Neither do you, but you probably think you do.
Given the uncertainty about each candidate – at least in my own mind – I have been saying I am not smart enough to know who would be the best president. That neutrality changed when Clinton proposed raising estate taxes. I understand that issue and I view it as robbery by government.
Read more here...
2. Confiscation of Property: Clinton proposed a new top Estate Tax of 65% on people with net worth over $500 million. Her website goes to great length to obscure the actual policy details, including the fact that taxes would increase on lower value estates as well. See the total lack of transparency here, where the text simply refers to going back to 2009 rates. It is clear that the intent of the page is to mislead, not inform.
So don’t fall for the claim that Clinton has plenty of policy details on her website. She does, but it is organized to mislead, not to inform. That’s far worse than having no details.
The bottom line is that under Clinton’s plan, estate taxes would be higher for anyone with estates over $5 million(ish). I call this a confiscation tax because income taxes have already been paid on this money. In my case, a dollar I earn today will be taxed at about 50% by various government entities, collectively. With Clinton’s plan, my remaining 50 cents will be taxed again at 50% when I die. So the government would take 75% of my earnings from now on.
Yes, I can do clever things with trusts to avoid estate taxes. But that is just welfare for lawyers. If the impact of the estate tax is nothing but higher fees for my attorney, and hassle for me, that isn’t good news either.
You can argue whether an estate tax is fair or unfair, but fairness is an argument for idiots and children. Fairness isn’t an objective quality of the universe. I oppose the estate tax because I was born to modest means and worked 7-days a week for most of my life to be in my current position. (I’m working today, Sunday, as per usual.) And I don’t want to give 75% of my earnings to the government. (Would you?)
3. Party or Wake: It seems to me that Trump supporters are planning for the world’s biggest party on election night whereas Clinton supporters seem to be preparing for a funeral. I want to be invited to the event that doesn’t involve crying and moving to Canada. (This issue isn’t my biggest reason.)
4. Clinton’s Health: To my untrained eyes and ears, Hillary Clinton doesn’t look sufficiently healthy – mentally or otherwise – to be leading the country. If you disagree, take a look at the now-famous “Why aren’t I 50 points ahead” video clip. Likewise, Bill Clinton seems to be in bad shape too, and Hillary wouldn’t be much use to the country if she is taking care of a dying husband on the side.
5. Pacing and Leading: Trump always takes the extreme position on matters of safety and security for the country, even if those positions are unconstitutional, impractical, evil, or something that the military would refuse to do. Normal people see this as a dangerous situation. Trained persuaders like me see this as something called pacing and leadi
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Funny.........basically this guy is saying "you don't know shit, but I do. you're idiots to vote for Hillary and Trump is a great salesman, he says so
himself. That's who I want for president."
Persuasive.........I'll be the judge of that, thank you very much.
SGG
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Quote:Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Mitt Romney For the Stupidest Possible Reason
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SCOTT ADAMS SWITCHES TO TRUMP
The bottom line is . . .
http://gawker.com/5953065/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-endorses-mitt-ro
mney-for-the-stupidest-possible-reason
Dilbert's creator did the exact same thing in the last election as he is doing in this election. He supported the Democrat until he flipped to the Republican. Adam's grudging support for Obama then and Hillary now was always a fake out so you'd be "surprised" when this so-called "Independent" once again endorsed the Republican.
And Scott Adams predicted John McCain would be President in 2008. "That's just a prediction, not a preference," he wrote. I'd say he preferred Republicans, but is always too coy to admit it. If the McCain vs Obama election had been closer, Adams would have outright endorsed McCain. Adams is that sneaky.
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2008/04/president-mcca
i.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Not much of a record, and he doesn't seem particularly bright.
Hillary will easily "win" the debate. That is, if you're looking for someone who's informed and uses lots of facts.
However, the modern presidential debate format rewards bluster and doesn't penalize lying.
Hillary will be "right," but that won't faze the deplorables. They're voting with their emotions, facts be damned.
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Quote:If you're talking about Scott Adams or Trump, I strongly disagree. Both are smart, but I've seen many people in Texas who are precisely like Adams and Trump. They don't want to appear too bright and too smooth talking or else the people they are persuading (or outright cheating as in the case of Enron) might realized they are being tricked.
Originally posted by reaverfan:
Not much of a record, and he doesn't seem particularly bright.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron:_The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room
With Trump and Adams, we're not dealing with Scientists, Professors, and Nobel Prize Winners. These guys are hucksters selling buildings or books and they need to close the deal.
What did Adams recommend in 2000? Bush. There is a story about how Adams thinks:
Quote:Trump also gets respect for "trying". http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/young_evil_me.
We went outside for most of the photos, to “take advantage of the light,” Young Me explained. He made me pose in various positions that all had the same finish: “Now turn slightly, and look toward the sun.”
Seriously. He told me to look directly at the sun. And he did it with a straight face. That is when I became convinced that this alleged other person was indeed me. If I were a photographer, I’d be having people stare at the sun until they were blind too. I’d also have them disrobe outdoors on cold days and sit on frozen park benches. That’s the fun of being a photographer. Otherwise, all you’re doing is looking through a hole and pushing a button. What kind of job is that?
Luckily, I know all of my own tricks. So I declined my doppelganger’s offer to blind myself for his entertainment. But I respected him for trying.
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Some global politics.
With political pressure mounting on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ahead of elections next year, Tehran has been abuzz with rumors that combative former leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was considering a comeback.
Not so fast, Iran’s supreme leader said Monday.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the most powerful figure in Iran, told an audience that Ahmadinejad had asked his advice on whether to run for president next May, and that he had responded that it was “not in the best interests of the country.”
“Society is divided,” said Khamenei, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. “Unity among officials and people should prevail.”
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-iran-ahmadinejad-20160926-snap-stor
y.html
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They're voting with their emotions, facts be damned.
That implies that people's emotions aren't legitimate.
I have posted over ... and over ... and over ... and over ... that Hillary needs to address the real suffering of people in the US. It's that suffering that fuels a lot of Donald's supporters.
Now, I have to add the caveats. First of all, much ado has been made about the decreased lifespan among white, poor people - a statistic specifically being driven by women. Second, much ado has been made about the angry white undereducated male. Along with that, occasionally there's been some rare, mild bemusement about why the same circumstances that drive whites to early death and political revolt don't have that same effect on blacks and latinos. So let me chime in (again) that I think it's because the undereducated white was the last bastion of white privilege. Blacks and latinos have always known themselves to be less that second class citizens. They already know what they can and can't expect. But this time, the downturn played no favorites. And whites were hit along with everyone else. And that was, for them, a very rude shock.
That doesn't make their suffering any less real. And it doesn't make the suffering across the entire society any less unfair. Nobody should be suffering so that international corporations benefit.
Hillary could, and should, have taken a lot of the wind out of Donald's sails by getting out ahead on that issue.
Let me just point out that the author left out vital relevant facts in the opinion piece. Doing that is known as cherry-picking. And whether you do that in the news, in discussion, in debate or in opinion, when you distort the facts, you've changed the nature of your communication into propaganda. But WE don't have any of THAT in the US, do we?!
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