Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

He said Biden policies are destroying the country— so true— he said I do not understand what he said — I do not believe he does either— so true

You sound as incoherent as Trump at a rally. Or at the debate. The simple fact is that Trump lies nearly every time he opens his mouth. For example, one of his current favorites is:

“They will take the life of a child in the eighth month, the ninth month and even after birth.”

He's said that a million times. It's both a lie and incredibly stupid. So you're okay with it? He also claimed that on January 6, he offered then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “10,000 soldiers or National Guard, and she turned them down…and now she admits that she turned them down.”

Obviously that is a lie. You're okay with that, too?

Anyone can make a mistake, misremember a fact, get something wrong, But Trump lies deliberately. He's made both of the above idiotic claims a million times, and he isn't going to stop. He just says what he wants to say. In my view, he doesn't think it's important to know the difference between lies and true, and he certainly doesn't care about it.

That reminds me of something. Back in the '90s, I read Elena Bonner's memoir of growing up in Moscow among the Soviet elite. She later married Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, as I assume you know. In the biography, she said he was the first completely honest person she knew. Until then, she'd imagined everyone lied about everything, largely because that's what she did.

I think she was right. I've known a couple of pathological liars in my life, and they DO lie about everything. It just comes naturally. I don't know what makes them that way. But Trump is one of them.