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reggieandlee

(775 posts)
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 08:53 AM Aug 2018

BTRTN: The New Polarization: Trump v. Trump

Born To Run The Numbers on the polarization within the Trump administration, Trump family, and Trump's own brain:

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/08/btrtn-new-polarizationtrump-vstrump.html
Excerpts:
"It’s real. It’s a hoax. It’s happening now. It’s fake news. It’s a threat to our democracy. It’s a witch hunt. It’s a bad thing! It’s a good thing! Two extreme positions on the same issue, embraced and ardently advanced on the exact same day by the Trump administration...
"Finally, with Trump’s August 5 tweet de grace, we see in full the no-holds-barred confrontation between Donald Trump and himself. The pretzel of logic from a year of spinning, changing, and getting caught in lies goes something like this: I actually did dictate the press release that I did not dictate, the June 9 meeting was not about the adoption issue that I said was the only purpose of the meeting, Donald Junior did meet with Russians about securing the dirt on Hillary that I have said there has never been any collusion about, and, I, Donald Trump, did, or did not, know anything about this meeting...
"The king of the Space Force is tethered to the mother ship by a copper wire internet connection that can only upload 288 characters at a time but cannot download factual information. It is not simply that he is governing in a land of his own imagining, where walls of mirrors allow contradiction, inconsistency, and outright falsehood to not simply co-exist but to thrive. Nor is it that he is merely making up everything as he goes along. It is that he is doing both very badly."


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