Black Moclips wrote:See Moclips? Do you disagree with this assessment?
For the most part. There is a lot wrong with Trump, I'm not saying there isn't. But since he upsets the establishment (which I think is a big part of the problem) I like it when he blunders and drives the media and other political scumbags crazy.
But to say he has done the most of this or that or told the most lies blah blah blah, that's just useless analysis. All presidents and politicians flat out lie and deceive. By singling out and complaining about Trump as "the most" of this or that, just says how messed up we really are - because apparently, we are all okay with some level of lying and deception. But when it gets to some arbitrary amount or topic, panties start bunching. That's screwed up.
We are either okay with lies and deceptions, or we aren't. To argue some middle ground because the lies are only about war, or spousal infidelity, or Obamacare, or what happened on the tarmac, holds no credibility and doesn't allow you to take the moral high ground (I'm better than you because I only accept a half bucket of crap, whereas you accept a full bucket!) Trump has told lies, Obama told lies, Bush told lies, Clinton told lies, etc etc etc. You can justify the topic or the subject or minimize the impact of it. Whatever. It just proves that our politicians only care about money, power, and themselves. We should hate and oppose all liars and all deceivers.
We’re right back to that same point you were painting earlier, that no-one has a right to take action
now if they didn’t take action in every possible situation earlier.
And it’s convenient for you to pretend to assign the same level of moral outrage to
anything that could be branded
a lie, but it is far from realistic. Trump serving up fast food to a national championship team on the claim that they like fast food (as opposed to it merely being convenient and cheap for the White House) doesn’t quite carry the same weight as, say, Trump telling us that Iranians were slapping limpet mines on and sinking oil tankers in the Gulf as a pretense to launch a strike against Tehran, if the Iranians were actually doing no such thing. I really don’t think that you’d take the exact same amount of issue with both of those; neither would the same level of outrage be realistic or morally responsible - and
you know that, too.