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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Fri Jul 5, 2019, 07:46 PM Jul 2019

It is just this simple: believe your "lyin' eyes".

It's an old joke. A businessman is confronted by his irate wife as soon as he arrives home: "You cheating SOB! I was driving by the No Tell Motel this afternoon and I SAW YOU walk out arm in arm with your new secretary and you kissed her before you left in separate cars! How COULD you?"

Momentarily taken aback, the man quickly regained his composure and vehemently denied being at the motel with anyone and insisted that he'd been hard at work in his office all day. "I have no idea who you might have seen, but surely you can't really believe I would do such a thing" he insisted.

Tearfully and through clenched teeth, the wife spat : "But, I SAW you!"

Hardly missing a beat, the philanderer asked: "Who you gonna believe: me or your lyin' eyes?"

This contrived morally bankrupt ultimatum encapsulates Trump's "philosophy": anyone or anything that contradicts what he announces as true is lying; is "fake news"; is treasonous.

Mexico will pay for the wall.

A border wall will stop "illegal immigration".

Windmills cause cancer.

The GOP tax cut helped everyone equally.

There were "fine people" on both sides of the violence at Charlottesville.

Global climate change is a hoax.

On these and countless other trumped-up "debates", folks, please---believe your "lyin' eyes".

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It is just this simple: believe your "lyin' eyes". (Original Post) Atticus Jul 2019 OP
Good rant. You are right on. Caliman73 Jul 2019 #1

Caliman73

(11,726 posts)
1. Good rant. You are right on.
Fri Jul 5, 2019, 07:52 PM
Jul 2019

I would post it on Facebook or other social media though. You are kind of preaching to the choir here. I don't think there is anyone on DU who thinks, "Well let me give Trump the benefit of the doubt." There are those who urge a bit of caution with regards to jumping on absolutely every little detail that Trump spews or someone says Trump spewed. I am sometimes on that side, just because we do not want to dissemble like Trump does. However, as I said, I doubt there is anyone on this forum who is taken in by Trumps lies.

He takes the old addage, "How can you tell if a politician is lying? Their lips are moving" and turns it to, "How can you tell Trump is lying? He's breathing."

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