Ny times editorial about trump's latest storm of lies

[Demovictory9]

There he goes again.

With Republicans struggling to keep their grip on Congress, President Trump is dialing up the demagogy. At campaign rallies and on social media, he’s spewing dark warnings about a Democratic mob clamoring to usher in an era of open borders, rampant crime, social chaos and economic radicalism.

As is so often the case, Mr. Trump is not letting reality interfere with his performance. At a rally in Nevada this weekend, the president told the crowd that Californians were rioting to “get out of their sanctuary cities.” (They aren’t.) He also suggested that Democrats will soon be looking to hand out free luxury cars to illegal immigrants. (They won’t.) “Give ’em a driver’s license. Next thing you know, they’ll want to buy ’em a car,” he riffed. “Then they’ll say the car’s not good enough, we want — how about a Rolls-Royce?”


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/opinion/editorials/transgender-trump-lies-midterm-election.html#click=https://t.co/Qo5wTZW3NN

It is notable if not surprising that two of the widely popular policy issues Mr. Trump has been talking up — his commitment to protecting health care coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and his promise to put forward “a very major tax cut” for middle-income people in the next few weeks — have no basis in reality. This administration has specifically declined to defend pre-existing conditions against pending legal challenges. And with Congress out of session until after the elections, there can be no serious movement on tax policy until the lame-duck session.

Thus, as Mr. Trump moves to make the case for Republicans in the midterms, he has few options beyond revving up his base. Which might be motivating — possibly even energizing — for some die-hard partisans on both sides of the battle. But it is more than a little dispiriting for the millions of Americans already exhausted by seemingly endless outrage. And it is really bad for the country.

[dem in texas]

1. I think Trump has Dementia

Yes, he lies, but watch him closely. His habit of saying the same thing over and over. Some of his lies are mental lapses because he can't remember. He is slurring words and saying words that don't make any sense. Has anyone else noticed this?

[Grasswire2]

2. yes, of course nt

[Scurrilous]

3. From the tabloid DailyMail:

Saudi arms deal will bring a MILLION jobs to the U.S. says Trump as he inflates benefits of sales in the teeth of mounting calls from his own senators to call it off

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"On March 20, when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was visiting the White House, Trump touted an arms deal that would generate 'over 40,000 jobs in the United States,' Axios noted."

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"Last Saturday - before Saudi Arabia announced Khashoggi was dead and was still claiming he left the consulate alive - Trump told reporters he does not want to jeopardize jobs and business for Americans by punishing Saudi Arabia, if it was responsible, with sanctions that affect the purchase of weapons.

And he increased his jobs number by thousands to 450,000 jobs."

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"On Wednesday, Trump upped the number again, telling Fox Business's Stuart Varney it was half a million jobs. "

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"On Friday, the number was up again - this time to 600,000."

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"Later Friday, after the Saudi Arabian government admitted Khashoggi was dead, the number was upped to 'over a million' total.

'I guess, if you add the whole thing up, because just for the military was 600,000 jobs. So now if you're talking about - that was $110 billion - you know, you're talking about over a million jobs. You know, I'd rather keep the million jobs, and I'd rather find another solution,' Trump said at an event at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6304181/Saudi-arms-deal-bring-MILLION-jobs-U-S-says-Trump-inflates-benefits-sales.html




Trump says selling weapons to Saudi Arabia will create a lot of jobs. That’s not true.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/17/17967510/trump-saudi-arabia-arms-sales-khashoggi

[Cha]

4. Yes, We're Down The Freaking Rabbit HOLE and

the US M$M owns a big chunk o trump.

Yeah, some are finally calling him on his continuous stream of LIES but they need to do MOAR!

[SeattleVet]

5. Won't make a bit of difference to his supporters.

We must remember, the NY Times and all other fact-based publications are 'fake news' and never to be believed. Only the Orange Horror and his state-run Faux are to be trusted. All others are suspect.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[anarch]

7. that's ridiculous...we don't want to give the illegal immigrants new cars

that's absurd. No, instead we'll just take cars/houses/money/daughters-of-child-bearing-age from white people and give it all to the millions of new brown Democratic voters (because of course that's our goal, right? to pad our voting population with loads of non-English-speaking brown people, who of course would be immediately registered to vote three or four times each, as soon as they set foot in the country, just like we do now in California) that we'll bring in through our completely open borders.