Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo used “Bloodbath and Beyond” as the title for this week’s podcast. 
Simpsons already did it.
But why? For the grift, of course. For these people, it’s all about personal profit. Money in the bank!
And she gets to show off her body. Bonus!
Absolutely fair. With so few of them willing to do it, the courage of those who did shines more brightly.
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So, yeah, there are some non-cultists who have voted for Trump and will vote for Trump, based mainly on ‘tax cuts’ (and maybe ‘deregulation’) as has been mentioned.
These people are still capable of being embarrassed by the need to defend the indefensible. It’s just a question of how much more Indefensible Donald will provide between now and November.
That Satan sure is a crafty one, isn’t he?
Are you sure that it wasn’t that God smote your ass with a golf ball, as a symbolic message to keep your trap shut?
God uses thunderbolts. Satan uses golf balls.
Loser Donald’s lawyers have spent this week in court arguing that the fine he’s running out of time to post a bond for is excessive and he can’t possibly pay it.
Which isn’t an easy argument to make when their client is posting about how he has lots of money like a whole lot of money you wouldn’t even believe how much money I have.
So is he lying to his fans or lying to the Court?
Could be both, I guess.
He’s definitely lying about spending $500 million of his own money on his campaign.That’s just fodder for the endlessly clueless rubes.
He certainly didn’t spend his own money
But he’s that perfect combination of no longer mentis compos and inveterate liar that it’s entirely possible - or even highly likely - that he believes his own bullshit and thinks he’s owed that money from somebody.
Of course it’s not at all possible he didn’t spend his own money on something /s
I’ll never believe that when Trump lies, he believes it’s the truth.
Trump is a liar who knows he’s a liar. He lies for specific, self beneficial reasons. When it’s time to pay property tax, lie about the property value one way. When it’s time to apply for a loan, lie about the property value the other way.
He’s just a liar.
I think he’s amazingly proficient at doublethink. I think 90+% of the time, he converts what he wants to be true into reality, but there’s a small, scary part of his brain, a part that he hates, that knows what is true. As a result, in rare moments of clarity, he’s terrified.
This is something I find confounding after so many years - people still think he knows or cares what the truth is. Trump doesn’t care about that at all.
He doesn’t think in ‘lies’ or ‘truth’. He thinks in ‘what is convenient’ and ‘what is not convenient’. When he says something that totally undercuts his own attorneys, the veracity of his own statements don’t matter. What matters is how he thinks people take it.
That little voice in his head isn’t worried about the real truth. That little voice in his head is worried that maybe he overplayed and people won’t buy whatever bullshit comes out of his mouth. That’s why he doesn’t say he’s a trillionaire - not that he doesn’t want people to believe it but that he knows there’s a line past people won’t buy whatever he’s saying
That’s what he really fears - that somebody else has already fed the judges or the crowd some line of bullshit and he hasn’t calibrated his own bullshit to counter it.
I think that this thinking absolves a lying grown man some measure of responsibility, and I disagree with it.
But that’s like, my opinion, man.
Fair point. But I think he always truly knows, but there’s no need to act as if he does. It’s that small, scary part in his noggin. So, yeah, he’s a liar, but a peculiarly repugnant one.
It’s like he’s in an elaborate cosplay where he’s a god, but one of the rules of the cosplay is you can’t acknowledge it or it evaporates. 
This analysis is gold! Somebody write this down.
Why? If you figure he chose to start thinking that way, then isn’t the full measure of responsibility still on the table?