Why is it okay for the President of the United States to use obscene language to address those of us he works for?

The media are the liars.   What did the media lie about? 

Did they lie about all the people who have ran out of Trump's cabinet like scalded cats?  I cannot believe you can even present this insanity as something to consider.

Read this.  Read EVERY word. 



By Bella DePaulo December 8, 2017
Bella DePaulo, a social scientist, is the author of "Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized and Ignored" and "How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century."

I spent the first two decades of my career as a social scientist studying liars and their lies. I thought I had developed a sense of what to expect from them. Then along came President Trump. His lies are both more frequent and more malicious than ordinary people’s.

In research beginning in the mid-1990s, when I was a professor at the University of Virginia, my colleagues and I asked 77 college students and 70 people from the nearby community to keep diaries of all the lies they told every day for a week. They handed them in to us with no names attached. We calculated participants’ rates of lying and categorized each lie as either self-serving (told to advantage the liar or protect the liar from embarrassment, blame or other undesired outcomes) or kind (told to advantage, flatter or protect someone else).

At The Washington Post, the Fact Checker feature has been tracking every false and misleading claim and flip-flop made by President Trump this year. The inclusion of misleading statements and flip-flops is consistent with the definition of lying my colleagues and I gave to our participants: “A lie occurs any time you intentionally try to mislead someone.” In the case of Trump’s claims, though, it is possible to ascertain only whether they were false or misleading, and not what the president’s intentions were. (And while the subjects of my research self-reported how often they lied, Trump’s falsehoods were tallied by The Post.)

I categorized the most recent 400 lies that The Post had documented through mid-November in the same way my colleagues and I had categorized the lies of the participants in our study.

The college students in our research told an average of two lies a day, and the community members told one. A more recent study of the lies 1,000 U. S. adults told in the previous 24 hours found that people told an average of 1.65 lies per day; the authors noted that 60 percent of the participants said they told no lies at all, while the top 5 percent of liars told nearly half of all the falsehoods in the study.

In Trump’s first 298 days in office, however, he made 1,628 false or misleading claims or flip-flops, by The Post’s tally. That’s about six per day, far higher than the average rate in our studies. And of course, reporters have access to only a subset of Trump’s false statements — the ones he makes publicly — so unless he never stretches the truth in private, his actual rate of lying is almost certainly higher.

This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at March 14, 2018 9:12 PM MDT

I don't have time for this.  You really think this is a good thing to present to ME?

You have plenty of time for this and more. My replies are not a search for approval.

No.  Your replies are beyond anything I can approve or disprove because this makes no sense. 

Again.  I sound like I am this big Hillary fan, but I am not.  I would have voted for Bernie had he had a chance in hell. But to compare anyone to TRUMP just blows me away.   You may not like Hillary but to even consider that she would turn this country into what Trump has done?

I'm sorry, but I don't have time for this.

Wow.  This is really interesting.  You are just about the most brilliant political mind I have had the pleasure to encounter.   Socialism is not the answer.  Did you go to the grocery store lately?  That is participating in socialism.  Hello.  Did you drive a car to get to that store?  That also is socialism.  You don't get anywhere without your brothers and sisters. That is socialism.  If you want to go live on a desert island if you can find one that is uninhabited, then maybe you can exist without socialism. 


My favorite thing is how you not only bash everyone you feel like, but you support this so brilliantly with all that proof.

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This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at March 14, 2018 9:41 PM MDT

Sweden is in far better economic shape than most, certainly its debt as a percentage of GDP is MUCH lower than the US. Democratic Socialism works. Jesus was a social democrat, his cousin John the Baptist was almost a Marxist. Both preached a fair distribution of wealth.

No, Jesus said work. The preacher is worth his pay. 
Jesus said "Render unto Caesar what it Caesars" (pay your taxes) "and unto God what is God's" (take care of church and people)

No where did Jesus say 'Render unto Caesar so Caesar may render unto the poor"
Bible says no work, no eat. 

"If you have two coats, give one to your brother who has none." (Lk 3:11)
"Do not neglect to do good and share what you have" (Heb 13:16)
"Lend, hope for nothing again" (Lk 6:35)
"If you would be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor" (Matt 19:21)

That's what it says.

Yes, the people and the Church are supposed to help the poor...widows and children. Not the government. Big difference...in fact the difference between socialism and charity. 

When the rich WON'T give, somebody has to MAKE them. By taxation. Trump didn't come by his riches by hard work, he inherited it.
Occasionally someone gets in on the ground floor, and by a combination of ingenuity and a few lucky breaks, makes it big, a Bill Gates or Dick Smith. Those kind tend to be renowned for their charitable works, because they remember their roots. Nobody EVER got rich by the labour of their hands and the sweat of their brow, the best you can manage that way is to go broke slowly. Exploited by the Trumps, Murdochs and Rockefellers.

BS. The rich give...and it is not the governments job to see that the rich give. 
No one ever got rich by hard work....I feel sorry for whatever sad world you live in. 

Then what's the incentive to work if the government's going to steal it all?  Ever hear of opportunity costs?

Those are some of the passages I remember learning.  I am certain Jesus would be appalled at the actions of so many that claim to know him.  I am certain he didn't hang out with the broken people of society to be a braggart.  I don't recall Jesus even putting money before the needs of others.

Yet you defend his referring to the Third World as "sh**hole countries" ...

It was not an appropriate term either....but none the less truth just not the polite way to say it.