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divedivedive, meet Joe Walsh.

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My news feed right now has separate stories about how he lied about conversations with both the head of the Boy Scouts and the President of Mexico. Can’t link the Boy Scout story, but it’s on WaPo.

He doesn’t give a shit about truth. He routinely lies about things that are easily verifiable as wrong.

4786

It’s tough to handle this fortune and fame
Everybody’s so different; I haven’t changed.

4787

I’m not convinced Trump has uttered a truthful statement since he was inaugurated. One simple, truthful, statement.

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Prime Minister of Russia:

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Dissolve the Duma!!!

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“Why did the president say that he received a phone call from the leader of the Boy Scouts and the president of Mexico when he did not?” a reporter asked press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “Did he lie?”

Sanders said that Trump misspoke on both counts — that he did not receive phone calls but rather had personal conversations with the leaders.

In regards to Mexico, Sanders said Trump was referring to a personal conversation from last month’s Group of 20 summit.

On the Boy Scouts, Sanders said Trump did not hear from the president directly, but rather that he had heard from “multiple members of Boy Scout leadership” who offered him “quite powerful compliments.”

“So he lied,” the reporter shot back.

“It wasn’t a lie. That’s a pretty bold accusation,” Sanders responded. “The conversations took place. They just simply didn’t take place over a phone call. He had them in person.”

4791

Done. I’m done.

4792

Next up, it was neither phone calls or conversations in person, but telepathy. Trump is the best mind-reader ever. Really, he’s the best. And he gets the best mind-reads. They are spectacular. So great.

4793

To be fair, people saying things that aren’t true are not lying by default. Rather, that’s saved for people who KNOWINGLY say things that aren’t true. Like Trump talking about taking calls from the president of Mexico and the leader of the Boy Scouts.

4794

In his head, he might really think he did those things. I fully believe his ego and need for praise actually alters his memories. Also, the dementia.

4795

I’ve wondered about that. It’s easy to say “Boy Scout officials told me after the speech it was the best ever, etc.” So why say, “I got a call from them saying…blah blah”? It’s like he makes it harder on himself with his obvious lies. It’s like they aren’t lies so much as delusions.

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Because if the lies are obvious to all, then he is lying openly. And if he is being open, then clearly this is an act of honesty. And if he is being honest, then obviously he isn’t lying at all!

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As long as it can be handwaved away as bullshitting or colorful embellishment it will never bother his base. They will get angry with the press’s insistence on hammering irrelevant details, while remembering Hillary’s cagey precision-parsing re her emails. Its very carelessness becomes a point in Trump’s favor.

4799

So that Afghanistan girls robotics team that was denied visas and then made it into the US. The team captain’s father (she’s 14) was killed Tuesday in a presumed ISIL mosque attack.

4800

What the hell? I would have never believed to see people like this in a position of importance in the land of the free. I am becoming a father soon and I am afraid for the future when I see shit like this. American Trump Voters, you ruined everything.

Sam Clovis: Trump’s pick for top science job called progressives ‘race traitors’

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Sam Clovis, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Department of Agriculture’s chief scientist, maintained a now-defunct blog for years in which he accused progressives of “enslaving” minorities, called black leaders “race traders,” and labeled former President Barack Obama a “Maoist” with “communist” roots.
[…]
Clovis did not respond to an email from CNN’s KFile requesting comment. A spokesperson for the USDA said, “Dr. Clovis is a proud conservative and a proud American. All of his reporting either on the air or in writing over the course of his career has been based on solid research and data. He is after all an academic.”
[…]
At times, Clovis adopted a conspiratorial tone in his blog postings, openly pondering whether the Obama Administration would place conservative activists on a kill list that included terrorists like Anwar al-Awlaki and accusing Obama-era czars of using taxpayer money to buy the support of academics who would claim science was settled.

In one blog post in April 2011, Clovis contrasted the successful recovery efforts following the 2008 floods in Iowa with the chaos in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, attributing the difference to Iowa’s culture “focused on family, community and the primacy of faith in life.”

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News at eleven: Conservative believes, says, terrible things, earns adoration of Republicans.

4803

Probably just locker room conversations.

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“Race traders”? WTF.