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Started by jimmy olsen, March 25, 2013, 09:57:54 PM

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garbon

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Quote from: Tamas on June 14, 2018, 11:44:35 AM
Quote from: derspiess on June 14, 2018, 11:26:26 AM
you guys take diplomatic platitudes too seriously when a Republican is in the Oval Office.

Name one comparable episode from Obama's or Clinton's presidency.

Or any 20th century president.
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Valmy

Well also how can we know that those are just platitudes and actually he is doing the country's work behind the scenes? I thought the whole point of Trump is that he did not do 'platitudes' like those other swampy politicians. I need to see some evidence of that before I take it on faith that these are 'platitudes'.
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HisMajestyBOB

Quote from: Valmy on June 14, 2018, 11:34:04 AM
Quote from: derspiess on June 14, 2018, 11:26:26 AM
He's definitely gone too far with them, but you guys take diplomatic platitudes too seriously when a Republican is in the Oval Office.

Donald Trump is not a Republican. I would give anything for an actual Republican to be president right now.

All the actual Republicans are retiring or losing primaries. The the Republican Party is now Donald Trump and people like him: Corey Stewart, Katie Arrington, and so on.
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derspiess

Quote from: Valmy on June 14, 2018, 06:37:15 PM
I thought the whole point of Trump is that he did not do 'platitudes' like those other swampy politicians.

Seriously?  He's all about platitudes.  At least when he's not trashing someone.
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garbon

Quote from: derspiess on June 15, 2018, 07:35:13 AM
Quote from: Valmy on June 14, 2018, 06:37:15 PM
I thought the whole point of Trump is that he did not do 'platitudes' like those other swampy politicians.

Seriously?  He's all about platitudes.  At least when he's not trashing someone.

V is right though that it is rather paradoxical. He's supposed to be the only politician real enough to tell us how it really is, not afraid to be un-PC but then is also just full of platitudes.
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

derspiess

I see that point, but it was never a secret that Trump exaggerates everything he says.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Tamas

Quote from: derspiess on June 15, 2018, 08:15:28 AM
I see that point, but it was never a secret that Trump exaggerates everything he says.

:yes: he is only honest about the things I care about. All the other contradictory shit he also promised and said? Those are platitudes and lies to get the votes of others.

grumbler

Quote from: derspiess on June 15, 2018, 08:15:28 AM
I see that point, but it was never a secret that Trump exaggerates everything he says.

Yep.  The man doesn't have an honest bone in his body. I don't think he is capable of distinguishing between the truth and what he wants to be true.
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Barrister

Quote from: grumbler on June 15, 2018, 09:24:50 AM
Quote from: derspiess on June 15, 2018, 08:15:28 AM
I see that point, but it was never a secret that Trump exaggerates everything he says.

Yep.  The man doesn't have an honest bone in his body. I don't think he is capable of distinguishing between the truth and what he wants to be true.

Don't underestimate him.  He knows exactly when he is lying.

QuoteThe other most notable moment came during the gaggle, when reporters asked Trump about a statement to The New York Times concerning a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and campaign chairman Paul Manafort, along with a Russian lawyer. The president dictated the statement, as his lawyers acknowledged in a letter to special counsel Robert Mueller. That statement was false and quickly debunked.

"That's irrelevant," Trump said Friday. "It's a statement to The New York Times, the phony, failing New York Times. That's not a statement to a high tribunal of judges. That's a statement to the phony New York Times."

In short, the president is saying that it's totally acceptable to lie to the press, and by extension the public, as long as he is not under oath in the justice system. (As I've reported, Trump is far more honest under oath.) As a matter of law, this is true, but as a matter of character and leadership, it is not. The president is freely telling the public that he has no compunctions about lying through his teeth. Why does anyone still debate whether he means it?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/taking-trump-seriously-on-autocracy-and-lies/562940/
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Valmy

Quote from: derspiess on June 15, 2018, 08:15:28 AM
I see that point, but it was never a secret that Trump exaggerates everything he says.

True but that is different from 'platitudes'. I don't understand his philosophy enough to know for sure what is a platitude and what is a statement of what he intends to do.
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grumbler

Quote from: Barrister on June 15, 2018, 02:12:24 PM
Don't underestimate him.  He knows exactly when he is lying.

QuoteThe other most notable moment came during the gaggle, when reporters asked Trump about a statement to The New York Times concerning a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and campaign chairman Paul Manafort, along with a Russian lawyer. The president dictated the statement, as his lawyers acknowledged in a letter to special counsel Robert Mueller. That statement was false and quickly debunked.

"That's irrelevant," Trump said Friday. "It's a statement to The New York Times, the phony, failing New York Times. That's not a statement to a high tribunal of judges. That's a statement to the phony New York Times."

In short, the president is saying that it's totally acceptable to lie to the press, and by extension the public, as long as he is not under oath in the justice system. (As I've reported, Trump is far more honest under oath.) As a matter of law, this is true, but as a matter of character and leadership, it is not. The president is freely telling the public that he has no compunctions about lying through his teeth. Why does anyone still debate whether he means it?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/taking-trump-seriously-on-autocracy-and-lies/562940/

Don't underestimate him.  He doesn't know when he is lying and doesn't care.  As he says here, he doesn't care that he was lying before, because, unless he can be charged with a crime for it, truth is not relevant.  He believes that, by wishing something to be true, it becomes true.  He wishes no one cares if he lies, so he believes that no one cares if he lies.  He lies to himself as much as to anyone else.

And his followers actually don't care, because "he pisses off the liberals" and that is more important than competence or honesty.  His followers don't mind being failures if their betters also get dragged down.
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grumbler

Quote from: Valmy on June 15, 2018, 02:15:29 PM
Quote from: derspiess on June 15, 2018, 08:15:28 AM
I see that point, but it was never a secret that Trump exaggerates everything he says.

True but that is different from 'platitudes'. I don't understand his philosophy enough to know for sure what is a platitude and what is a statement of what he intends to do.

Platitudes are different from exaggerations.  Platitudes are meaningless statements made in the knowledge that they are meaningless because repeated so often that they have lost all power to inform.  For example, "drain the swamp."  "Fascist" is a word in danger of becoming a platitude.
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Zanza

QuoteWASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies believe that North Korea has increased its production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months — and that Kim Jong Un may try to hide those facilities as he seeks more concessions in nuclear talks with the Trump administration, U.S. officials told NBC News.[...]
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/north-korea-has-increased-nuclear-production-secret-sites-say-u-n887926

Trump is a sucker and has been played.

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