❝ President Trump is running out of things to lie about, so now he’s getting around to lying about the lies he lied about before.
This was the inevitable result of his ever-increasing rate of lying. When you have blanketed the earth with an unbroken surface of lies, covering every subject, you have no choice but to start a second layer contradicting the first. This, of course, makes the proof of lying rather simple. All you need to do is place two contradictory Trump statements side by side, and one of them has to be a lie. Alas, it does not make the job of fact-checking any easier, as the accumulating sticky goo of lies atop lies makes penetration with a shovel problematic at best.
The Republican Party has surpassed any previous lead the Democrats had in opportunism. From gerrymandered electoral districts to bald-faced lies [from their own spokespeople] defending the White House flavor of lies, they are committed to the Fake President as their last best chance to maintain control of our government. Sharing their allegiance between corporate greed and the bigotry and racism of “the base”.
We ‘ve become zombies, and there’s nothing we can do about it at the moment. We all need to vote… that’s all we can do.
“It’s easy to fact check Trump’s lies. He tells the same ones all the time. Listen to him long enough and you can almost sense when they’re coming.” Daniel Dale, Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/its-easy-to-fact-check-trumps-lies-he-tells-the-same-ones-all-the-time/2018/11/15/5effb25c-e874-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?utm_term=.b78342be31b7
See also “Definition of Lying and Deception” (Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy) https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lying-definition/