Thursday, August 27, 2026

Why does anyone believe anything that Trump says?

 


Trump vs. the truth:






38 comments:

  1. trump: Once a liar, always a liar.

    MAGAs: Once gullible, always gullible.

    America: Screw me once, screw me twice... you and your lying party of sycophants can go to hell.

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  2. I don't think many do believe what he says because his track record is not good. If you consider what his poll numbers are and where they are headed the vast majority of Americans feel the same way.

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  3. Shaw... here's what he said yesterday on the Glenn Beck show, regarding inflation and rising prices in the US...

    "I inherited high prices, and then from the first day they started using the word affordability. ... It was a new word. Nobody ever heard the word. It was a new word that they devised because they're quite good at that."

    Affordability is not a new word. It is not a made up word. No one made it up to make Trump look bad.

    What he said is either wrong, because he believes his statement to be true, or a lie, because he knows better.

    You all can decide.

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  4. What should we make of these statements from Candidate Trump?

    "Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods."

    "When I win, I will immediately bring prices down... a vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper."

    "We are going to drill, baby, drill... And we will get your energy costs down by 50% within your first 12 months."

    "On Day One, I will sign an executive order to blast through every bureaucratic hurdle to approve domestic drilling... We will flood the system with American oil and gas, and prices will tumble almost instantly."

    None of this has happened. None of it.

    Again... wrong or lying?

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  5. We certainly hope so. If you're correct perhaps American voters will give a landslide victory to democrats and progressives.

    If they do the federal deficit might shrink and the American people might get some much needed relief from trump and Project 2025 idiocy.

    And fascism will get deflated some. Hopefully a LOT if democrats and progressives take both houses.

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    1. Les... that federal deficit is going to require a recession [defined as a drop in US economic spending for two or more consecutive quarters] to get started. Simply cutting our spending, to get it under control, will trigger that recession.

      Then I'd assume the market would watch and see if we mean it. If we do, perhaps after 2-3 years we'd start to see economic pick back up. Provided we stick to a plan that one, cuts spending and two, raises new revenue.

      Unless and until that happens, we're in a fix.

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  6. Recently, Dem Iowa gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand sat down for an interview with Johnathan Martin of Politico. Here's a few questions...

    Would you want to have Joe Biden campaign for you? No.

    How about Kamala Harris? No thanks. Let's move on, we need some new leadership.

    You don't think Harris should run in 2028? Nope.

    When asked whether he'd promise to protect abortion rights in Iowa if elected, Sand said "no". Because he said, [and I paraphrase] I'll have a GOP state legislature, so I could never get it done. Why would I lie to people? That's not who I am.

    Tell me again folks about how all politicians are liars.




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    1. Good job Dave, you picked the one politician who says the right things. I guess you consider and auditor a political position.
      I will say his answers are more GOP than DSA. Few support kamala, few thought biden support is a positive thing and most support a new political elite of younger politicians. Maybe he will do as he says but he would be in the minority because I stand by my statement of politicians are crooks.

      As to trumps stance on inflation. Prices went up at a staggering rate during the previous administration due to incompetence and the president not being engaged on what was going on. The current administration had an opportunity to bring down inflation, a little, then he decided he would make his mark in history and started a war, implemented tariffs with no rational and insulted anyone who didn't say he was great.

      We still don't have a good alternative for president but hopefully in the next two years a leader will come forward.

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    2. Skud said... "because I stand by my statement of politicians are crooks."

      Of course you do. Because you don't believe anyone in politics is honest. And that's a pity. Not on them, because the majority of politician's in public service are there to do good for the USA.

      The pity is on you and why you inherently think so badly about your fellow man.

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    3. And no Skud... I didn't pick the one politician who "says" the right things. I picked Sand because he's trying to do the right things. Trying to think about how he can help the people of Iowa. Trying to lean into and live his faith.

      And there are many more just like him, from both political parties. They don't always get it right. But they don't deserve to be called liars by people like you who know nothing about them just because they decided to be public servants and enter politics.

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  7. Hard to argue with skid about that!

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  8. No one, I mean NO ONE believes anything the slug says.
    The only reason the lying sleazy loser remains on the public stage is his position.
    ....

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    1. True. But I think the problem of "the slug" lies in the fact the republican party representatives and senators holding office are spineless power hungry "slugs" themselves.

      In a saner the tithe slug" would have been impeached by the house, tried and convicted by the senate, and removed from office.

      The ONLY hope now is for a massive defeat of republicans in the house and senate. Then we'd see if democrats have "balls of steel or melons".

      Given that our national debt now exceeds our GDP it may not matter because we may now be so far gone economic collapse and dissolution of the empire may be imminent. Regardless what we do.

      Kicking the can down the road while constantly reducing taxes us finally coming home to roost. And I for one am sick and tired of the capitalist status quo the oligarchs manipulate to serve the capitalist class at the expense of the ohet 97%.

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  9. We note that Trump has renamed Lake Ontario Lake America.
    Can we change Niagara Falls to Trump Falls? puleeez?

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    1. BB - there are meme's circulating naming Lake Michigan to Lake Epstein. Based on the shape of Lake Michigan I say it tracks. LOL

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  10. As I understand the negotiations between the US and Canada everything was fairly fine until Friday when Trump added the poison pill which threatened Canada's sovereignty. French is very important to Canadians and Trump did what he does to all things - pooped on it.

    Even if he did sign an agreement past performance states he will ignore the terms when they get in his way. Whatever doom is headed our way MAGA asked for it, demanded it even, and while this isn't our lesson we still are in the wagon with MAGA as they get to go through it.

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    1. Canada has no "sovereignty". Protego ergo Obligo. Who protects who?

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    2. Not sure what you mean Joe Conservative as per Merriam Webster:

      Sovereignty:
      a : supreme power especially over a body politic
      b : freedom from external control
      c : controlling influence

      Sure, Canada is tied at the hip to the English Monarchy but they have internal sovereignty to guide their own provinces as Canadians see fit.

      Your phase "Protego ergo Obligo" translates to "I protect, therefore I obligate" making your follow up question ridiculous.

      Try again.

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    3. Canada is a NATO member. The USA, not the UK is the dominant Protego. The CIA will soon change their government to something more trade-compliant, so fret not...

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  11. It's not so much about them believing what Trump says, although they are exactly like a cult. It's really about wanting to punish people they all hate.
    If lies get non-violent people shot in the streets and locked up in concentration camps or incite a coup, so be it.

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  12. And now Grey... to show those Canadians just how tough and GREAT! We, the US OF A, are, we're renaming the former Lake with a name we shall not speak again, GREAT LAKE AMERICA!

    You can't afford the gas to drive your car to get the groceries you also can't afford these days? So what.

    People are trying to kill themselves on our GREAT WAR SHIPS, just because we can't resupply them and those GREAT ships are breaking down bad? That's FAKE NEWS. Besides, we're now charging those GOLDBRICKERS for jumping instead of being WAR FIGHTERS. Get over it!

    ICE is finally getting arresting THOUSANDS, that's LOTS of illegals everyday. MAGA!!! And white too! Besides, now we've stopped VISA appointments worldwide to stop even more immigrants from arriving. Except those South African white folks who we are also PAYING to come here. God bless them.

    And Iran? We're wrapping it up in a couple of days, maybe weeks, right after our health plan is announced.

    Our president has important things to deal with besides all this. He's got buildings to rename, arches to build, a White House to renovate, helipads to pour,, monuments to build, all for the general welfare of the GREAT American people.

    And lakes to rename.

    Does anyone remember when even terrible presidents tried to respect the office of the presidency? Does everyone realize even the captain of the HMS Mothership is disgusted by our president?

    Please President Trump... keep it up. All the way to November. Please.

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    1. I know Dave Miller, right? LOL I'm guessing the geniuses at the Heritage Foundation missed the point of Sun Tzu's Art of War by skipping all the philosophy stuff and focusing on the How To Fight stuff.

      Did not know even the Captain of the Mothership is souring on the president. Nice and very good to know. Means our enemy is taking themselves and their followers out. LOL Couldn't happen to a better group of humans in my opinion.

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    2. Sadly Grey... the sailors maybe souring on Trump but they will still "fight like hell, peacefully" of course [like what i did there?], for his acolytes. ¡Hasta la capitána!

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  13. I don't have to believe ANYTHING he says. <a href='https://farmersletters.blogspot.com/2026/08/protego-ergo-obligo-welcome-to-feudal.html">Acta non Verba</a>!

    "<i>Alexander never did what he said. Caesar never said what he did.</i>" - Italian Proverb

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    1. -FJ,
      Who won the 2020 election?
      Are the still eating the dogs in Springfield?
      Is Trump being treated worse than Lincoln?
      What Lake is Toronto on?
      Are gas and food prices higher or lower since Trump took office?
      What president is responsible for the largest share of the national debt?
      How many times did Trump win his war?

      Who PRAISED, PARDONED, and wants to PAY his THUGS for terrorizing Congress and beating cops bloody to overturn the 2020 election that he LOST?

      This is NAZI level crap. Both Germans and Americans share the dishonor for voting for someone who staged a violent Putsch, scapegoated minorities, called opponents "vermin", and sent secret police to kill protesters and send non-violent children to concentration camps?

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    2. W - Who pardoned a psycho gain-of function researcher who created a virus that killed millions of people around the world? Who started a war in Ukraine and then prevented the Ukrainians from signing a peace deal resulting in hundreds of thousands of even more deaths? Who weaponized the DoJ and tried to frame a US president for a non-existant election collusion operation in 2016 and then failed 2x to impeach him?

      Are Immigrants still defrauding $$$Billions from Medicaid and welfare programs and VOTING in US elections? Who added over 12 million of them to US safetynet programs? Were the residents of Springfield OH who were granted asylum after a American led Presidential assassination and coup in Haiti 2021eating cats before they got to the US?

      And the lake on the US border is called whatever the US President says its' called. Did the Fauci virus increase the National debt under Trump? What about the legal AND illegal immigrant explosion?

      Go cry to someone who cares. I have no sympathy for self-righteous hypocrites.

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    3. The Fedsurrection on J6 informed the world exactly who actually won the election in 2020. Pelosi's parliamentary coup sealed the deal on contested electors, followed up with their fake Congressional investigation that rejected any and all impartial Republican members and then politically imprisoned thousands of innocent citizens in the DC gulag.

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    4. Ah, there's the deep throated swallowing of Trump's lies we expect from -FJ.
      Hateful bullshit seethes from his goose-stepping loyalty to his Felonious Fuhrer.
      -FJ, are they still eating the dogs in Springfield?
      Bark once for yes, twice for no. Or stay silent like the racist you truly are.

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    5. Good golly, FJ. You left out, Who murdered Vince Foster, Seth Rich and Antonin Scalia? Who set up a pedo ring in the basement of a pizzaria? Who elected a secret Muslim Kenyan to install Sharia law? Who deleted and destroyed all the evidence from J6 investigation. Who's paying Antifa and BLM to attack God fearing patriots? All that and so much more.

      Say Hi to Q for me, will ya.

      I know you love to drop some Latin to look edjeekated. For you, Tu stultus es

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    6. Enjoy the new Reich-wing fellas. You commies have earned it. :)

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    7. Hat tip to Craig... especially the Vince Foster reference. But you forgot about Ron Brown and Webb Hubbell...

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  14. Ayup, I agree Dave. I'm fine if he keeps being his malignant narcissist self now. The more people he turns off by his idiotic and mammoth ego the better.

    The seeds of trump's own massive failure were always present in him. And he certainly hasn't disappointed his seeds of total failure.

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  15. His approval ratings may dip to the 20's. But of course in his mind of delusions and massive ego it will be fake news and the "truth" will be he's the most beloved president in America history.

    LMAO.

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  16. “David Hedley, 64, is the fourth-generation owner of Hedley Boatyard in Olcott on the shores of the Great Lake. He lamented that the president was distracting from what he saw as the real issues facing the country, such as affordability, by renaming the lake. His great-grandfather started the family business in 1900 — and Mr. Hedley said he would not be incorporating the lake’s new name into any business dealings.

    “Next they’ll be calling Canada geese ‘Donald ducks,’” he said.“ —NYTimes

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  17. -Let's look at -FJ's questions...

    1. Who pardoned a psycho gain-of function researcher who created a virus that killed millions of people around the world? There is no proof or existence of a "gain-of-function" researcher who "created" a virus. Even the politicians, like Paul, and intelligence agencies investigating a potential lab leak agree that Fauci didn't create the virus.

    2. Who started a war in Ukraine and then prevented the Ukrainians from signing a peace deal resulting in hundreds of thousands of even more deaths? Putin started the war in Ukraine when Russia attacked. Zelensky and Ukrainian leaders have stated have repeatedly stated that they made their own sovereign decisions not to sign deals that required surrendering vast amounts of Ukrainian territory.

    3. Who weaponized the DoJ and tried to frame a US president for a non-existant [sic] election collusion operation in 2016 and then failed 2x to impeach him? Short Answer? No one. Longer answer? Mueller Report documented extensive Russian interference and numerous contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, though it did not find a criminal conspiracy to collude.

    As to the impeachments... The Democrats in the House impeached Trump. And there were members of his own party who voted for conviction in the Senate both times. There were others who said Trump clearly did what the Dems charged, but that removal from office was a bridge too far for them.

    Additionally, many House and Senate members took to the floor in their chambers and pronounced the POTUS guilty, responsible and morally culpable for the insurrection of Jan 6.

    I know I'm not W, hut I hope this helps.

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  18. More from -FJ...

    1. Are Immigrants still defrauding $$$Billions from Medicaid and welfare programs and VOTING in US elections? Well -FJ, non-citizens are legally barred from federal welfare and cannot legally vote in federal elections. If you mean the major fraud case in the Midwest, that was a pandemic food program, not Medicaid, and it was for $300 million, not billions. The mastermind was a native-born American, and the others involved were naturalized U.S. citizens—meaning they are legal Americans with the constitutional right to vote. As for non-citizens voting, actual state reviews, audits and even research from the Heritage Foundation show it is incredibly rare, and the few people who try it are caught and prosecuted.

    2. Were the residents of Springfield OH who were granted asylum after a American led Presidential assassination and coup in Haiti 2021eating cats before they got to the US? Well -FJ, maybe some were. Just like in the states, some people in highly rural areas eat/ate muskrat or opossums to survive. But as it relates to the US, VP Vance has admitted he made the story up about Haitians eating cats in Springfield so as to promote a specific narrative. BTW... the local Republican mayor and governor checked all this out fully and found zero truth to it.

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  19. Finally... -FJ added this to his screed of BS...

    And the lake on the US border is called whatever the US President says its' called. Go cry to someone who cares. I have no sympathy for self-righteous hypocrites. Nice of you to capitulate and raise the white flag. You know a US President has no authority to rename international bodies of water. And you, like your friend Geeez at her site, know his doing so is ridiculous.

    No one is asking for your sympathy, because we don't care. But if you want to come here and lie, you might get some facts you don't like, or more likely, you refuse to acknowledge.

    Cults are like that.

    Enjoy your weekend -FJ. You're a smart guy, one who typically is open to learning new stuff, like from Zizek or even Schmitt. But today you got triggered and became unhinged.

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  20. The triggered and unhinged are aspects of ego.

    The mind's attempt to protect beliefs and conditioning, whether or not they are true.

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