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Isn't it a little weird that no one cares when the president lies anymore?
Trump, 12/29/2017: "We have signed more legislation than anybody. We broke the record of Harry Truman."
(Not just false, but embarrassingly false. Or it would be, if Trump were capable of shame)
11 months ago # QUOTE 5 YEA 1 NAY!
Trump, 10/12/2017: "In a sense we're reducing [the national] debt"
(The Trump administration is running the highest peacetime deficits in US history)
Trump, 3/15/2018: In Japan, "they take a bowling ball from 20 feet up in the air and they drop it on the hood of the car. And if the hood dents, then the car doesn't qualify...It's horrible, the way we're treated."
(Was this on Fox & Friends? Where did this dope get this idea?)
From the Japanese National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victim's Aid, which conducts safety performance evaluation tests for vehicle sold in the Japanese market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBBlw3z8hsg&feature=youtu.be
http://www.nasva.go.jp/mamoru/en/assessment_car/head_protection_test.html
Trump, 10/12/2017: "Bob Corker gave us the Iran Deal."
(This one is not only a pathetic lie, it's also a very strange thing to say)
Nixon said he was not a crook.
Reagan lied that the challenger was ready for take off.
Clinton lied about having fun with a loose woman.
Bush the Second lied about Iraq being a national security threat and then said mission accomplished (another lie).
Obama said the Iraq War was over and if you liked your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
With so many decades of lying politicians in the White House, what's the difference?
They're all liars, but Trump has taken presidential lying to a new, psychopathic level.
Trump, 7/20/17: "We've signed more bills -- and I'm talking about through the legislature -- than any president ever."
(An obvious falsehood)
"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." - Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1964 - shortly before ramping up US involvement in Vietnam.
Sorry, boys, but that's the all-time winner right there.
At least there was a real effort to hold LBJ accountable for Vietnam policies and he felt remorse about it. Trump is lying so often about so many things it's hard to keep score much less hold him accountable. He appears to have no remorse about pathological lying either.
If you're on his side maybe you think the ends justify the means but that's a different issue than whether he is a serial liar.
From GAG's second new book, Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism:
At the core of Breaking Bad are two suppositions – the economic, social gap between the have and have-nots is a dominate feature of American society, and the difference between the have and have-nots is that the former have the "Will the Power". What this means in practice is that those that abide by conventional morality and ethics will remain as have-nots, whereas those that don't can be one of the haves. Even more broadly, Breaking Bad indicates that the neoliberalist global system rewards immoral behavior and by implication the wealthy and the corporate elite don't abide by conventional morality.
Also from GAG's second new book, Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism:
The political figure of Trump represents the rejection of this neoliberalist (amoral) milieu, and at the same time replicates its politics by promising to will to power the U.S. state and economy (total global hegemony). Somewhat paradoxically, only the unscrupulous can succeed within a worldwide politics where morality, ethics has no currency. Walter White of Breaking Bad only excels, thrives by embracing this precise reality.
Some people are missing the point. Whether other presidents have ever lied is not the issue. When they did, they overwhelmingly got scrutiny and pushback from the media, the opposition, and sometimes their own partisans. Obama, fairly or not, got hammered for the doctor claim by the media. Same with LBJ, W, Clinton, etc.
With Trump, we've now moved into a phase where it's simply assumed that he's lying, people make a note of it, and move on. This is truly new in the history of American politics. Literally no one expects Trump to back up his claims with facts or to even acknowledge when his statements are unambiguously false.
For instance, he lies about El Paso, there's some newspaper fact-checking noting this, but is there the slightest chance he'll confront this fact? Or that people will find it consequential or surprising that he lied about a major city's crime record as a primary argument for his immigration policy? Not a chance. That's simply incredible.
^ this is one of the most insightful posts I have ever seen on this site. I know that's not much of a compliment, but still this is so accurate.
Trump, 2/8/17: "The murder rate in our country is the highest it's been in 47 years."
(Not even close)
Nov, 2015: ISIS: "I know more about ISIS than the generals do."
Whether other presidents have ever lied is not the issue. When they did, they overwhelmingly got scrutiny and pushback from the media, the opposition, and sometimes their own partisans.
So it's really a commentary on the media. Trump can mock media precisely because he's called it out on the Iraq WMD hoax -- something Obama never did. Also, with the Russia meddling hoax, the media is again discrediting itself.
More from GAG's second new book:
This cynicism informs the series Breaking Bad and arguably the installation of Donald J. Trump as U.S. President (chapter 8). Apart from government, international corporate behemoths act without morals – cold heartedly divesting from communities to devastating effects as a matter of course. The profit motive (greed addiction) of the Billionaire Class creates a global milieu where elites act entirely on the will to power.
Wow, that's some babbling nonsense. But no, it's not specifically about the media. Trump's supporters and political allies also couldn't care less if he says blatant lies, nor do they expect him to confront if what he's saying is true. Same goes for his opponents. They might point out when he lies about El Paso, say, but no one expects Trump himself to care or to face any real repercussions. The president and the truth are now simply unrelated, uninteracting entities.
Trump, yesterday: "I probably work more hours than almost any past President"
(given what we know about his "executive time," this is another pathetic lie)
As to OP's point: see Adam Curtis's Hypernormalisation
Trump, 12/13/18: "MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL!"