преЦАРдент Trump = No Volume

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I realise lying is nothing new for politicians - an expedient way to work a policy or issue to their best interest - however I’m sure we can all agree that President Empty-Headed-Animal-Food-Trough-Wiper has taken lying to a whole new exosphere of shitgibbonry.

I still actually listen to most politicians - even ones who I consider more disingenuous than others - simply because they’re not freaking constant* inveterate liars, which President Golf Cart most unquestionably is.

It’s an assault on my senses, the very fibre of my being, not only just seeing the Putrid Orangeness suddenly on my screen, but also the second he opens that fucking pie-hole, and clownish gestures…it’s now like this instant Pavlovian reaction to reach for the remote to kill the volume - right the fuck away.

And DUH you know it’s gonna be a lie.

Correct? Thought so.

And why put up with that shit? How can people stomach this fucking huckster seemingly trolling his way along, like this? Last week with the gun control flip-flop, and claiming to take on buddy unarmed - how does that not convince all of you that there’s no fucking use, whatsofuckingever, of listening to what one poster had referred to another poster, here, as being a mound of shit sculpted into human form?

Cool if someone can explain to me what the difficulty or inconvenience might be in simply getting a neat, tidy, summation of what Mugs said from the newscaster, instead of having to deal with a double-dose by actually listening to what That Guy said, to begin with. The only inconvenience for me so far is stopping the fast-forwarding in time, and having to rewind Judy a bit.

Really though, it’s not just that asshole. I also kill the volume on Pruitt, Ryan, McConnell, Cruz, Page, Gorka (wherever the fuck that spermbird is now) Miller, Perry, Huckabee. (Actually - I challenge anyone here to provide me even ONE sensible, fair-minded, honest quote from ANY ONE of those wretched, useless, devoid-of-a-soul fucksticks.) (and if so - hopefully won’t end up straying too far from the OP thesis, being: Really? No way am I the only one here who kills the volume on Trump. Seriously? Am I, then?)

If I was on Facebook, I would’ve started a one-man “Trump = No Volume” campaign, which probably would’ve gotten me nowhere, but the idea sure sounds ok, especially considering that we all know that Trump craves attention more than anything else, and a nationwide (worldwide!) movement to stop listening to him would’ve brought him crying to his knees, almost as much (but not quite?) as the prospect of divulging his really-not-so-impressive-actual-wealth.

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Mine goes to MUTE.

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The problem is that a neat, clean summary of what he has said would take away all the horror. It might leave us slightly bemused, but that’s it.

We need to hear the words come out of his mouth to fully understand the terror of the situation.

The American electorate is like a naughty puppy that has done his business on the living room carpet. We NEED to have our noses rubbed in it to understand what we’ve done and why it’s a bad thing.

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Excellent rant. I fully agree.

The other day I was facebooking and a friend asked what I was looking at. Told him I was making myself mad by seeing shitgibbon’s stupid face saying words.

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Agree 100%. Sure, all politicians lie, that’s part of the job. But to have a politician, President no less, who can’t open his mouth without lying, even about insignificant things, that’s a whole new low, and something I’m still not used to a year into this clusterfuck. I often turn the TV or radio off, or change the channel, every time I see his orange face or hear his stupid voice. And as soon as I do, I can feel my blood pressure drop by about 20 points.

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I’ve raised this point before, but what Trump does isn’t lying, as such. A lie carries some relation to the truth, even if it’s a negative one; by lying to you, the liar wants to convince you of a certain untruth. However, doing so still implies an adherence to the basic framework of true and false, fact and fabrication.

Trump simply denies this framework. His untruths are not attempts at convincing people, or at hiding the truth; they are simply a means to an end, to advance a momentary agenda. He’s what the philosopher Harry Frankfurt called (warning, technical term) a bullshitter. He’ll say something, anything, just to have said something, without any regard for content. Indeed, nothing would be lost in considering his utterances to be entirely without content, mere vibrations of air, shaped such as to cause whatever reaction seems favorable.

Consequently, nothing can be gained in argument, in pointing out falsity: whether a claim is true or false simply doesn’t matter. There’s just nothing there for reason to act on.

So I think stopping these empty waves of air from reaching one’s ear is a perfectly reasonable response.

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I never used to yell at my TV, but between Sanders and the Cheeto, I say lots of bad words while watching. I keep hoping he’ll be abducted by aliens and returned to his home planet. Surely Pence couldn’t be any worse…

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Pence would be worse in that he’s also crazy, but he’s a more effective kind of crazy, the kind of crazy that gets things done.

And he wants some horrible, horrible things to be done.

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I either fast forward through or mute anytime the Howling Yam opens his permapuckered yap. The same for Sarah Sanders. Sometimes I wonder if there enough people like me who would buy a punching bag in the image of Sanders- could be my retirement income.