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Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. Hey, try being in business with one for many years.
Wed May 3, 2017, 02:37 PM
May 2017

It takes a while but you learn that everything they say is either a lie or an exaggeration and the hypocrisy is OFF the charts ALWAYS

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
4. In my situation you would not BELEIVE
Wed May 3, 2017, 02:46 PM
May 2017

the stories, mostly about hypocrisy.

This is the rule while YOU are the subject at issue, but over here THIS is the rule when it is me, the hypocrite.

Remarkable how sick they are.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
8. I draw the line at doing anything to harm people I deem vulnerable.
Wed May 3, 2017, 03:04 PM
May 2017

I would have rather made a living cleaning restrooms.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
10. If only I had known WAY back when, trust me, I do not live this life.
Wed May 3, 2017, 04:36 PM
May 2017

Back then politics wasn't clear or a big part of it, and we are family.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
5. You read my mind; was just about to post this. I'd ask him: "How can you stand there and lie to the
Wed May 3, 2017, 02:49 PM
May 2017

American people?"

bellmartin

(218 posts)
11. Yes, he doesn't do it nearly as casually as Trump. I think it's because...
Wed May 3, 2017, 04:56 PM
May 2017

...Spicer, while being a POS himself, knows they're obvious lies and is often embarrassed to be saying them.

Trump, on the other hand, while he often knows he's lying, is a much, much worse human being. He's lied so continuously about every issue in his life that I really don't think he can sort out the small ones from the big ones, or how very obvious so very many of them are to any thinking person. He's able to tell himself, I fear, that it's all truthy enough, so he has no shame about any of them.

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
7. Wish someone would ask him
Wed May 3, 2017, 02:56 PM
May 2017

what Trump has sold us for to forge these new friendships with strongmen. The peace dividend he implies may be costly.

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