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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
Lots of his rhetoric is full of shit. That's most of what people eat regarding rhetoric. Shit. Nobody wants the truth. You have to stuff them full of shit if you want them to accidentally swallow the truth.
Not saying that's what Trump is doing here, but it IS what he has tried to do in the past.
But you can't have it both ways. Or at least I'd argue that Trump trying to have it both ways is detrimental to our society.
What I mean is Trump likes to appeal to the cynic when he bullshits-- "it's how politics is played, I'm just better at it!" -- but the game is not played that way, the stability of the game relies on the bullshitters making their bullshit believable enough that they have plausible deniability. Citing made up shit in a discussion with a foreign head of state, ok, sure... but then openly bragging about it... That's ruinous to the game.
I don't deny that Trump personally can gain from this, but it's at all of our expense.
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