To be fair, we’ve all known this for decades. This shitbag has been in the public eye forever, showing himself to be a colossally narcissistic nitwit, leaving a trail of whatthefuckery wherever he goes.
Also? His vaunted Twitter fan base? Half might be bots. Half of President Trump’s Twitter followers are bots – New York Daily News
It’s by no means a “dead letter”. They have both houses of Congress and a President. They have 3 and 1/2 years to do it (or 1-1/2, if you’re optimistic). And when passing budgets they only need a simple majority (ie, it cannot be filibustered).
It’s going to happen. There will be (yet more) tax cuts for the wealthy.
It won’t crash the government. It will just make governing slightly that much more difficult, since there will be “only” several trillion more added to the national debt. Only one more straw.
Good point if the person is being deliberately ignorant of the truth. It just moves the deception upstream from lying to others to lying to oneself.
But I’m afraid Trump honestly believes what he says and might not be a bullshitter under the your definition. He’s creating facts in his head he believes as opposed to saying stuff that may or may not be true but that he’s not interested in finding out.
I’ll grant, it’s a distinction that has little practical value. He’s a bullshitter or/and batshit crazy. Unless we are debating what kind of institution he belongs in: Stripes or Bathrobe.
At least that, if not much more; because these days, a good portion of Twitter itself is made up of bots/trolley accounts.
Hopefully they won’t have both houses in one and a half years.
Surely inspiration for a Dylan ballad.
Dylan published that ballad in 1970:
Well, I fin’ly started thinkin’ straight
When I run outa things to investigate
Couldn’t imagine doin’ anything else
So now I’m sittin’ home investigatin’ myself!
Hope I don’t find out anything . . . hmm, great God!
Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues
https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/talkin-john-birch-paranoid-blues/
The term you are looking for is confabulator. It fits him rather well, especially as of late.
Wild guess is that Trump wanted Rosenstein to kill the investigation, and he said no, so now Rosenstein is the enemy. Things just don’t make sense when you live in Trump World.
And most of the rest only follow him simply to be entertained by the absurdity of what he says. There is such irony in the way he directly and regularly gives the media everything the media uses to challenge, criticize and mock him, and then complains when they do.
That is insane. No wonder Dylan received a Nobel prize. He is a time traveler. No other explanation.
Cool! Thanks for a new word. Now to use it in a sentence.
“He is a real estate confabulator.”
I’ve been thinking about that too. At what point will the typical Trumpkin say “Hey. . . wait a minute. . . he keeps changing his story?”
Maybe they won’t reach that point.
Or maybe they will reach some kind of fatigue from defending him all the time. Fox News will probably try to avoid covering Trump instead of defending every obvious falsehood-- if he can’t keep his story straight how can they? “Up next: we have the story of an adorable kitten trapped in a well. Stay tuned.”
All I’m saying is that in the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four the Party is able to feed the populace any story they want, no matter how ridiculous or contradictory to earlier proclamations, largely because the Ministry of Truth tightly regulates all information and constantly destroys any written evidence that might contradict the current party line.
So I find it ironic that in real-life 2017 the ruling party doesn’t even make a token effort to redact past statements that are still out there for all to see; Trump’s followers will still reverse their beliefs without missing a beat with every new proclamation from their leader. Even Orwell didn’t foresee this brand of mental gymnastics.
…aaaaand in other news… CUBA!
Television existed in the '40s but it was not a mass medium.
Orwell couldn’t imagine a world where everybody carries a screen around and nobody reads newspapers any more.
I thought he said something about people being glued to their personal screens or something like that. Not just the fixed screens in every room. I’ll go look… could be wrong about it…
No, I am reading too much into it. He didn’t specify what kind of screens, or their portability.
“The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what’s happening.”
Or a world where virtually all information was freely and instantly available to the public and people still chose to believe easily refuted propaganda.
I often wonder what Orwell would think of current society;
How amazed he would be at his own prescience?
How aghast would he be that in many ways, it’s so much worse than he ever imagined?
Oh, I wasn’t taking issue with anything you said, I was just admitting my own ignorance and looking for clarification. Sorry I wasn’t clear!
