Interesting email from my brother-in-law (and Trump fan) on the subject of "lying"
I'm not going to post the email, but he laid out an interesting dynamic.
I don't "lie or fib." It's true. It's not because I'm a saint, I just somehow ended up allergic to both. Can't do it, so I don't.
My sister (the one married to him) "fibs on occasion."
HE lies all the time, more often than he tells the truth.
They are both on the Trump Train. She's on it 100%. He sees a lot of the lies but doesn't care.
My other sister lies her ass off. She's like Burger King, "home of the Whopper." But she also loathes Trump. She also has forged her own alternate reality. She lives on a planet not populated by people like you or I, so the equation of "lies are OK in my life, so why judge Trump for lying" just doesn't fit in her case.
I was always "aware" of Trump before he ran for president. I was never a fan. I thought he was an oaf, a loudmouth, a pig, a cartoon of a human being. I never watched an episode of "The Apprentice." The whole "You're FIRED" thing, while it may make the nether regions of his supporters get all tingly, made me throw up. He was always a Brett Michaels to me, swaying on whatever stage would have him to his shitty music and leering into the camera.
I am not turned off by Trump because he lies. I'm turned off by Trump because he's Trump. It's a package deal. Lying is a part of it. If he told the truth 100% of the time and still possessed all of his other qualities, I'd still feel the same way. But it answers the question of "How can he lie non-stop and still have supporters?" One answer to that, among many, is that they lie too and it's no big deal. They normalize it, they convince themselves that it just shows him to be a "real" human being. That's insanity to me.
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The Guardian UK news site cataloged his lies during the election and it was unbelievable. Our media treated it like entertainment. Now, we're paying the price.
I do agree with you about him being repulsive even without the lies. For me, his arrogance, narcissism, elitism, ignorance and mental afflictions are enough to have him put away somewhere for life, and those characteristics totally go against my grain. His type is dangerous to human existence.
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Perhaps I should have? 
Why should anyone want to watch some rich asshole tell someone,"You're fired!", when they could go to work that very day and hear those same very words from their boss? 
What kind of sick fuck would want to watch a shit show like that??
Buddy Guy had a line in one of his songs ( "When I Left Home" ) that had the same kind of impact on me that Emerson did in my college years:
"You may not be the best in town...Just be the best, baby, until the best comes around..."
Regardless of my "status" in life, regardless of what positions I've held, regardless of my wealth (or lack of it), I have consistently lacked the ability to subjugate myself to any man or woman "above" me, to submit myself to their control or random acts of mental cruelty. That resulted in my getting squeezed out of a number of jobs, which brings into play the old axiom "If I had it all to do over again, I would."
Washed-up "celebrities" groveling at the feet of Trump, seeking his favor and approval. Sort of sounds like his administration...don't it?
