solarbird | (Reply)

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It's the same as looking at photos devoid of people and declaring that huge crowds turned out for him.

This, +1000

He's putting his ego first, specifically, and he's so accustomed to and thinks he's so good at lying that he just doesn't care if anyone can or will fact-check him (on this or anything) or not.

After all, on any given day for most of the last 9 years he's had between 30%-45% of the electorate who he could sell a bridge to, and he's way beyond even blinking over the idea of alienating them or anyone else (thinks he can't or won't, no matter what he says or does).

I've thought he was unwell since he abandoned his 2012 campaign as looking back on what he said then, in retrospect it was exactly the same things he says now - along the lines of our country's a disgrace, an embarrassment, other countries laugh at us, etc.

That was unhinged then and it's unhinged now (like it was/is literally not based in reality). I have a theory that guys like him, though, became unhinged when Obama won office and the damage - their internal trauma over a Black person somehow ascending to that height - is something they can't and won't recover from, ever.

While we wait for them to grow old and die, anything can be used in service to recovering their proper place in the God-given pecking order - in their minds, justifiably - be it racism, hatred, lies pouring out of them like water, etc.