Time to face it. We are suffering from a "political exemption"

[ck4829]

Here's a little experiment. Go into work tomorrow, if you have a meeting where everyone gets together and discusses the goals or get assignments or whatever, call it all fake, say the numbers aren't real. Then turn around and call your bosses and co-workers imposters and actors. And then leave but remain at work to look for the secret tunnels that the man on the radio told you totally exist.

Wait a second.

Don't.

You'd get fired or, heck, involuntarily committed.

We wouldn't tolerate it from each other... so why is it OK from our lawmakers and our media?

[marylandblue]

1. Wrong experiment

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Go to a venture capital firm. Sell them the idea that you going to sell 50-pound bags of dog food with free shipping at less than cost for each bag. Tell the investors that people will love to buy dog food this way so much you'll make a fortune. Use the seed money to hire thousands of people who all agree this is a smart thing to do and will work for you.

Sounds far-fetched? It happened around 1999 in the dotcom boom. It's willing suspension of disbelief. If you can get people to believe crazy things , you can have a career as a novelist or a politician. If you can't then you have to take medication for it.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. You can go one even better and more recent

Buy bundles of (sub-prime) mortgages at a cut rate and then repackage them, give them a bullshit AAA+ rating, slice and dice them into little pieces, and sell those pieces to unwitting investors for far more than they are worth... And then take out insurance on those pieces, with the assumption that at some point, they are going to default.

Voila! It happened full scale 2005 - 2007.

[ProudLib72]

3. I have some beachfront property just outside of Denver I want to sell you

What, you can't actually see the ocean? Did I ever mention anything about an ocean? I said "beachfront". Just because it's on the shore of a small reservoir doesn't negate the fact that it is beachfront!

Now, is that a "mistruth", "untruth", or "big fucking lie"? It's time the MSM went with the third option.