Can Trump utter any statement that is not a blatant, easily debunked lie?
In addition to Trump's repeated lie that "I did the insulin" that Biden-Harris passed into law, he apparently can not pass a Factcheck on a single assertion.
Check out this astonishing (brief and incomplete) list of total lies Trump told at his most recent public lie fest. As always, these Factcheck corrections are filled with hyper-links to the facts and substantiation that debunk Trump's constant lies about everything all the time:
[B]Fact check: Trump falsely accuses Harris and Biden of lying about $35 insulin.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/14/politics/fact-check-insulin-trump-biden-harris/index.html[/URL]
[QUOTE][b]Other false claims[/b]
Trump made a variety of other false claims in the Wednesday speech. Here is a brief fact check of 13 of those claims, many of which have been previously debunked. (This is not a complete list.)
- He claimed that the price of bacon went up by four or five times under Biden and Harris. Its actually up 18%, nowhere near the 300% or 400% spike Trump is claiming.
- He claimed that Harris policy proposals will result in peoples taxes quadrupling. Experts say there is no basis for this claim.
- Speaking of Russias invasion of Ukraine, he claimed Biden is letting him have the whole thing. In fact, Biden has led an international effort to help Ukraine fight Russia; Russia has to date been able to seize about 18% of Ukraines territory, nowhere near the entire country.
- He said Covid-19 was ending all over the world, it was pretty much ending when Biden and Harris took office in January 2021. It was not.
- He said his tax cuts were the largest ever. They were not.
- He said he took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China through his tariffs on Chinese products, and that no previous president had taken in 10 cents from tariffs on China. Both claims are wrong. Study after study has found that Americans paid the overwhelming majority of the cost of Trumps tariffs, and the US was generating billions per year in revenue from tariffs on China before Trump took office.
- He said Biden appointed Harris as border czar and put her in charge of the border. In reality, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been in charge of border security under Biden; Biden gave Harris a more limited immigration-related assignment, asking her to lead diplomacy with Central American countries in an attempt to address the root causes of their citizens migration.
- He said he built 571 miles of border wall. Official government statistics show it was 458 miles, most of it replacement barrier.
- He said he built more border wall than I said I was going to build. In fact, he repeatedly said during his 2016 campaign that we need 1,000 miles of wall, far more than he ended up building.
- He said he forced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, to deploy the National Guard during civil unrest in Minneapolis in 2020. In fact, Walz deployed the National Guard before Trump pressured him to do so.
- He said Venezuela is taking all of their criminals and people from mental institutions and bringing them to the US. Experts say there is no evidence for this claim.
- He said Houston has the only refinery in the world that can handle Venezuelan oil. Venezuelan oil.[/QUOTE]Seriously. How much hatred does someone need to harbor for America to vote (or not vote) in any way that might, however remote the risk, result in a Trump election victory or the election victory of anyone else in his Loony, America-hating Repub MAGA Party?
Does MAGA's own tweedledum and tweedledee have solutions to high prices?
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2937603]As a pro Repub, pro Trump, pretend "bothsider / neithersider", [/QUOTE]
Is that a fancy way of saying, "Republican Libertarian"?
Wait for it...I'm pretty sure the dreaded, [i][b]"You're a partisan Democrat"[/b][/i] is coming! (...kkkk!)
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2937603] ... what has your preferred 2025 potus, Donald Trump, proposed as his plan for what his MAGAs are screaming for; lower costs for rent, food and gas?
We know the usual Repub plan to accomplish those results; drive the USA Economy into a Great Depression / Great Recession and Wipe Out a few million jobs. Same solution for Trump this time? [/QUOTE]
I am also pretty sure, judging from the "negative" MAGA campaign being ran by tweedledum and tweedledee, they are simply wanting until the Dems announce what issues and policies they'll be supporting, soon to follow with the "no nothing" MAGA campaign, suddenly having "policies/issues", which of course, mirrors everything "against" what the Dems stand for or support.
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2937603]And I have heard him say "drill baby drill" will drive down the cost of rent, etc. How so? And how much more drilling and oil production should Biden have done beyond the record high amounts, achieving true oil-related energy independence for the first time during his presidency, to lower somebody's rent?
And, please, only cite Trump's perfectly sane solutions for lowering the cost of somebody's rent, food and gas.[/QUOTE] Yeah, good luck with a credible answer from, tweedledum and tweedledee, other than "drill baby drill".
I'll take Harris/Walz over tweedledum and tweedledee anyday of the week...
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2937820] And stop calling us Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb or I'm going to call you and Tooms Beavis and Butthead. And as you apparently have decided to get into the same corner with Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, Cristina Kirchner, Kamala Harris, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Stalin on price controls, you're going to be Butthead. Too bad some people (e.g. Kamala Harris) don't learn from history. [/QUOTE]
What on earth are you taking about? Are you suffering from an identity complex or something?
Why are you assuming [b][i]tweedledum and tweedledee[/i][/b] is you and whoever else you've assumed it to be, [i][b]since I clearly state[/b][/i] that tweedledum and tweedledee are the Repubs at the head of the MAGA "no nothing" campaign running for office.
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2937820]It should be clear from the context above, but "Dumb Ass Democrats" refers to politicians. I don't believe you, EhiTooms, Xpartan et al are dumb asses. You are sadly misguided.[/QUOTE] (...kkkk!) Perhaps you should read your own advice!
[b]Here let me remind you, of what I wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE=Spidy;2937680]I am also pretty sure, judging from [b]the "negative" MAGA campaign being ran by tweedledum and tweedledee,[/b] they are simply wanting until the Dems announce what issues and policies they'll be supporting, soon to follow with the "no nothing" MAGA campaign, suddenly having "policies/issues", which of course, mirrors everything "against" what the Dems stand for or support. [/QUOTE]
So when did [b][u]you[/u][/b] (and whoever else your delusion extends to) become the candidate(s) running the Repub/MAGA "no nothing" campaign for the 2024 Presidential Election???
I know you think very highly of yourself (as should we all), but c'mon dude!
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2937820]Why yes we do. Cut out the excessive fiscal stimulus when the economy is doing well. Keep interest rates high. Shrink the Fed's balance sheet.
The best way of course is not to create conditions that lead to inflation. As the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board writes today,
"The economy in January 2021 was fast recovering from the pandemic as vaccines rolled out and state lockdowns eased. GDP grew 34.8% in the third quarter of 2020 ,4.2% in the fourth, and 5.2% in the first quarter of 2021. By the end of that first quarter, real GDP had returned to its pre-pandemic high. All Mr. Biden had to do was let the recovery unfold."
So what do the Dumb Ass Democrats do? Pass out $1.9 trillion in handouts, fiscal stimulus that kicked off inflation. And then they followed it up with other legislation that increased the debt and added to the stimulus. The government spent a lot of money that provided less benefit to Americans than if it were spent and saved by the private sector. [/QUOTE]
Not so "dumb" after all, since the Biden/Harris stellar stewardship and great governing, has inflation at an all time low, since Biden signed the $1.9 Tillion IRA, producing the best economy in the G7 and industrial countries since the pandemic.
[LIST][i]"Folks, inflation has fallen below 3%, its lowest level since March 2021. Prices are still too high, and we have more work to do to lower costs for hardworking Americans -- but were making real progress, [b]with wages rising faster than prices for 17 months in a row,[/b]" Biden posted on X.[/i] {....One day ago Aug 15th, 2024}[/LIST]So check your math, but America has one of the best, if not the best economy in the world. So thanks much, for the [i]"Monday morning quarterbacking"[/i], but I think Biden and Harris, has for the most part, got this one in the bag.
Thanks President Biden, Thanks Veep Harris!
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2937820]Other points:
Don't overregulate, like Biden did. A Mercatus study estimates a 10% increase in total regulations led to a 0. 687 percent increase in consumer prices.
Don't lockdown economies for long stretches. If you do, you'll create shortages and logistical nightmares that contribute to inflation.
If Dumb Ass Democrats are going to overdo the stimulus, the Fed should step in with more restrictive monetary policy instead of sitting on its ass and twiddling its thumbs.
Don't increase tariffs, which increase prices. Instead lower them, which Biden didn't do.
Don't impose sanctions on large oil exporters, especially when oil prices are high. Too bad our politicians didn't push peace in Ukraine instead of throwing gasoline on the fire. If the war could have been nipped in the bud, oil, coal, LNG and grain prices wouldn't have shot skywards. [/QUOTE] Hey, as you've proclaimed and said, [b]"...the world is not going to come to an end, if Harris is in office".[/b] She and Walz, my even surprise you and extend the exceptionally Biden/Harris growing economy, labor, business and stock market wins.
It surely can't be any worse than Tweedledums' four years in office, since she'll be inheriting another great Dem economy and having been familiar with Biden's great economic team, again stewarding America going forward, is just icing on the cake.
Sorry, but this is an emergency! Your boy says so every day.
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2937820]Why yes we do. Cut out the excessive fiscal stimulus when the economy is doing well. Keep interest rates high. Shrink the Fed's balance sheet.
The best way of course is not to create conditions that lead to inflation. As the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board writes today,
"The economy in January 2021 was fast recovering from the pandemic as vaccines rolled out and state lockdowns eased. GDP grew 34.8% in the third quarter of 2020 ,4.2% in the fourth, and 5.2% in the first quarter of 2021. By the end of that first quarter, real GDP had returned to its pre-pandemic high. All Mr. Biden had to do was let the recovery unfold."
So what do the Dumb Ass Democrats do? Pass out $1.9 trillion in handouts, fiscal stimulus that kicked off inflation. And then they followed it up with other legislation that increased the debt and added to the stimulus. The government spent a lot of money that provided less benefit to Americans than if it were spent and saved by the private sector.
Other points:
Don't overregulate, like Biden did. A Mercatus study estimates a 10% increase in total regulations led to a 0. 687 percent increase in consumer prices.
Don't lockdown economies for long stretches. If you do, you'll create shortages and logistical nightmares that contribute to inflation.
If Dumb Ass Democrats are going to overdo the stimulus, the Fed should step in with more restrictive monetary policy instead of sitting on its ass and twiddling its thumbs.
Don't increase tariffs, which increase prices. Instead lower them, which Biden didn't do.
Don't impose sanctions on large oil exporters, especially when oil prices are high. Too bad our politicians didn't push peace in Ukraine instead of throwing gasoline on the fire. If the war could have been nipped in the bud, oil, coal, LNG and grain prices wouldn't have shot skywards.
Put Libertarian Republicans, like Rand Paul, Jeff Flake and Justin Amash in positions of power, instead of Dumb Ass Spendthrifts like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
It should be clear from the context above, but "Dumb Ass Democrats" refers to politicians. I don't believe you, EhiTooms, Xpartan et al are dumb asses. You are sadly misguided.
And stop calling us Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb or I'm going to call you and Tooms Beavis and Butthead. And as you apparently have decided to get into the same corner with Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, Cristina Kirchner, Kamala Harris, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Stalin on price controls, you're going to be Butthead. Too bad some people (e.g. Kamala Harris) don't learn from history.[/QUOTE]Haven't you heard? Extreme emergency measures RIGHT NOW AND TODAY are necessary and there is really no other way to fix this GROWING PROBLEM.
And this comes directly from the presidential candidate you are hell bent to put back in the White House ASAP. After all, as you and the Murdoch WSJ Editorial Board will testify, Trump never demands unnecessary, extreme measures be taken about anything like keeping those Early Warning / Pandemic Prevention teams in those Chinese labs after September 2019.
No extreme measures, until now, that is. And that is why he promises to become a Dictator on day one and call all the shots on everything. No nutty extremist he. Much more sane and reasonable than Harris.
But Harris' solutions are really unavoidable. It would be irresponsible for Trump not to be behind her plan beyond 100% like the percentage of jobs his stable genius brain told him and then us illegal immigrants took of the jobs Biden-Harris created this year.
It would be irresponsible for Trump not to back Harris' plan beyond 100% TODAY because, as everybody at the WSJ and everywhere else knows, [B]"Bacon has gone up 300%! Nobody can buy bacon anymore! Nobody can buy Cheerios anymore! Nobody can buy groceries! Nobody can buy anything or do anything"![/B].
Consequently, this really is the only thing a responsible potus can do:
[B]Harris outlines 'opportunity economy' centered on cutting housing, family costs..[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/16/kamala-harris-economic-policy.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]Vice President Kamala Harris outlined her plan to create an opportunity economy by focusing on lowering the costs of food, housing, health care and childcare.
Her plan includes a federal ban on price gouging on groceries, a new $6,000 child tax credit for families with newborns and a $25,000 boost for first-time home buyers.
Harris framed her plan in stark contrast to the proposals put forward by her Republican rival, former President Donald Trump.[/QUOTE]
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On Gov Spending, blame Trump for 2021-2023 Inflation
To whatever extent Government Spending contributed to Trump's Pandemic Inflation (turns out in this case not all that much), Trump's government spending in 2020, well before Biden passed his American Rescue Plan Act, dwarfs that of 2021 and ever since.
Biden's legislation would only account for a fraction of a fraction of the Inflation Trump's Pandemic, his tarrifs on imported goods and his pre 2021 government spending caused.
And if that smidgen more inflation contributed to by Biden's brilliant recovery policies and stewardship prevented us and the rest of the world from another Great Repub Depression and a very hard Repub Crash Landing post-Trump's Pandemic, I can only add, "Thanks again, Joe and Kamsla. ":
[B]"Thanks to the insane tax-and-spending spree of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Washington, we are seeing six straight months of raging inflation."
MOSTLY FALSE.[/B]
[URL]https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/29/rick-scott/blame-joe-biden-inflation-most-government-spending/[/URL]
[QUOTE]Theres no question that high levels of government spending can fuel inflation. But the spending that has occurred since Biden took office, primarily through the American Rescue Plan, accounts for just a part of new government spending over the past 18 months.
Other potential factors are also at play in raising prices: short-term supply interruptions, labor shortages, tariffs on imported goods, or simply the cyclical growth in consumer demand when the economy is recovering from a downturn. [/QUOTE]
Speaking of Allan Lichtman
Allan Lichtman is the man referenced here whose 13 Keys to the White House system has accurately predicted 10 out of 10 presidential election winners since 1984, with that same 13 Keys system proving accurate if applied to elections going back to 1860.
Yes, those 10 out of 10 that he accurately predicted since 1984 includes his prediction that Al Gore would win in 2000. He proved in 2001 that the 2000 election was a stolen election here:
[B]U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election.[/B]
[URL]https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/vote2000/report/exesum.htm[/URL]
And just today he posted this 10 minute video recapping the egregious violations of tens of thousands of Florida's Gore voters' Rights by rejecting their clear and unambiguous intention to cast a vote for Al Gore:
[URL]https://youtu.be/D57mZejswkI?si=CmcFXcyTrX2NAnC9[/URL]
My god. Thousands of African American voters' ballots were rejected in Jeb Bush's Florida for a punched ballot next to Al Gore's name and writing in his name, probably just to make sure their vote for Gore was counted despite a potential "hanging Chad" or incomplete punch-through.
Thanks again, Joe and Kamala
Shh. Don't tell Larry Summers, the WSJ or any MAGA about this.
If they had gotten their way, we would still be suffering in the midst of another Global Repub Great Depression with everyone without a job and no money in their pockets thanks to Trump's Pandemic waiting patiently for global and domestic manufacturers and shippers to fire up their factories, trucks and ships to make and ship stuff for "customers" without a job and no money in their pockets while manufacturers and shippers are waiting patiently for money to somehow miraculously appear in non existent "customers" pockets miraculously generating demand for the yet to be manufactured and shipped products.
Othwise known as "Repub Economic Policy that has produced every major economic downturn of the past 100 years".
[B]A U.S. construction boom is sending rents lower and creating perks for renters.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/14/heres-where-rent-concessions-are-happening-the-most-in-the-us-.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]Rents are still high because of how much prices climbed [b]during the pandemic[/b], said Chen Zhao, who leads the economics team at Redfin. But now, rent growth has flattened, which can be seen as good news for renters, she said.
.........
"When wages are rising rapidly, that helps to support housing demand, said Divounguy. As the labor market loosens, we expect the rental market to continue to loosen.
Wages are growing 4% to 5% year over year, said Zhao: Thats good. That means that rents are actually falling relative to wages. Your wages are increasing more than rents are. [/QUOTE]
Ministry of Truth -- How Trump's "Jedi mind trick", took over the GOP/Repubs...
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2937398]The world's non Repub MAGAs already know all about this and don't really need to read or listen to this book to know everything in it.
But it would no doubt come as a total shock for low information suc, er I mean, emotion-driven cult-followers, er I mean "conservatives" to realize what was done to them:
[B]Ministry of Truth.
Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past.[/B]
[URL]https://www.msnbc.com/ministryoftruth[/URL]
[B]Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans War on the Recent Past.[/B]
[URL]http://www.publishersweekly.com/9780063393677[/URL][/QUOTE]Great find, BTW!
What struck me the most, was the revelation about the lying, [U]why he's a serial habitual liar[/U] and how it all ties back to the [I][b]Access Hollywood Tape scandal[/b][/I]. Considering that his 34 felony convictions also centered around the events of the AH tape scandal, it's not hard to fathom, why so much of the understanding about who Trump is, can be garnered from this single event.
[U]His Lying and Why He Lies Revealed:[/U]
In the infamous Access Hollywood interview with Billy Bush, where Trump later said, when the cameras were off:[LIST]Newsweek version: [I][b]"Billy, look...you just tell them and they believe it. That's it! You just tell them and they believe. They just do!" [/b][/I][/LIST][LIST]Or TRMS version: [I][b]"People will just believe you. You just tell them, and they believe you."[/b][/I][/LIST]In other words, he sees most of people that he flogs his lies to, as idiots. Full well knowing, that what he's says is mostly lies. But because he has no respect for other people and believes most people are just idiots, and since most idiots don't think for themselves, is ample reason why he thinks that they're going to believe him.
So weather by hook or by crook, or by [I][b]"Jedi mind trick"[/b][/I], Trumps delusional and wrapped universal belief is, that when he tell people something, they just believe, just because he's saying it. Needless to say the gullible GOP/Repubs, bought into the "Jedi mind trick", hook, line and sinker, with them being associated a leader known as a serial lair and them, branded and labeled as a party of liars!
The latest of course, is the drama queen's fixation on [B]"crowd size"[/B] and his reactionary lies, "TELLING" the public (he believes to be idiots), that his rallies were bigger, when the entire country knows he lying, save of course the Repubs/QAnon/MAGA brainwashed cult.
There is of course, a method to his madness of lies, but that's another story, for another post, I'll have to circle-back to.
But this tired old schtick, he thinks he has going on, and the "Jedi Mind Trick" not what it used to be, since Americans have had 8-years (4-in & 4 out of office) to suss him out, it has become plainly transparent to see, that his time is coming to a close and Americans are ready to move on, to four (4) more years of joy and growth with Harris/Walz in White House.
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Oh-oh. There goes Arizona
The demonstrably Winger-leaning polling site, RealClearPolitics, has now shifted the Battleground State of Arizona from the Trump side of their No Toss-Up States Electoral College Map to the Harris side.
They have not quite yet shifted the other important Battleground State of Pennsylvania from Trump to Harris. But that might happen in a matter of days or hours because they do show it to be tied between Trump and Harris as of this writing. See screenshots below:
[URL]https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states/2024/battleground-states[/URL]
Harris now leads Trump in the Consensus of both the Head-to-Head and 5-Way races on RCP while Trump is still hanging onto about as nominal a lead as you can have in the overall Battleground States, at +0. 1 point. At this writing, that nominal lead is due to him only hanging onto leads in Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia by 1 to 1. 3 percentage point.
Oh, and the 538 Site already has Harris ahead of Trump Nationally and in the important Battleground States of WI, MI and PA.
[URL]https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/[/URL]
Of course, I only mention these interesting details in passing for those who are interested in polls.
Or used to be.
