To me, its not necessarily the relentless backpedaling of campaign promises. I find it amusing, sure, but wriggling out of campaign pledges, either by backpedaling, token effort that might result in some legislative tweaks but no overall substantial change to an issue, or simply ignoring it, is bread and butter to US politics. At most they'll pour all their effort into one primary issue which drains all their political capital and anything else gets left by the wayside.
To me its more the bizarre need for Trump, and by extension members of his administration, to lie over and over again about trivial bullshit. This is a non-issue that affects nothing, why are you feeding the public an outright lie for no damn reason? This isn't political obfuscation, its a lie for no reason other than to lie, in service of nothing.
I just like to point at Hillary's death defying Parkinson's. I spent so many days on here explaining that they are being fooled by selective clipping and reality was staring at them, even during DNC primaries. To get 'well mah pappy had it'... it's an indirect and broad way of my shoving a dogs face in shit, so he doesn't shit all over the house again.
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That's not bizarre at all, it's the basis of all conditioning psychology. You provide positive reinforcement, so the action is repeated to get the reword again. Every person trying to ignore or deflect from it, is like giving a puppy a treat for shitting all over the house.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/823217610095558656
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/823212055322853382Trump's breach of promise over the release of his tax returns is even more gratuitous than Clinton concealing her Goldman Sachs transcripts.
Trump Counselor Kellyanne Conway stated today that Trump will not release his tax returns. Send them to: https://wikileaks.org/#submit so we can.
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Political left, right similarly motivated to avoid rival views
[...] we have an intolerance for ideas and evidence that don’t fit a certain ideology. I’m also not saying that we should restrict people to certain gender roles; I’m advocating for quite the opposite: treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group (tribalism)..
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Yes, and the free press has been telling you for a god damn year that he had no reason to not show them and that he wouldn't. You waited until after the inauguration? To report the same news reported by the free press? You know, the fake news...
Again, you didn't explain the reason to bring up Wikileaks. Their twitter account has less information than the actual story on every free press publication.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
geez don't be so naive. All politicians lie.
Every single politician does this. Everywhere in the world.
"We're going to close Guantanamo. And we're going to restore habeas corpus," Obama says. "We're going to lead by example—not just by word but by deed. That's our vision for the future." (2007)
The only difference I see is that Trump could have shown that he is no politician by indeed persuing his promises, and in fact draining the political swamp. But it looks like he is just adapted to being politician-
'Art of the Deal' tactics. Make bold, exaggerated claims to get peoples' attention and then negotiate it down to something reasonable.
Um... Wikileaks has been asking for the tax reports well before the election. In fact, back in August, Assange had a video interview, claiming that Wikileaks was hoping a whistleblower would leak the information of Trump's tax returns.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/761937233356128256
For once, people jumping to conclusion is a good thing, because we have a Tweet with a date clarifying what was meant in the video.WikiLeaks isn't 'working on' hacking Trump's tax-returns. Claim is a joke from a comedy show. We are 'working on' encouraging whistleblowers
So no, I didn't wait after the election. In fact it was asked well before and as I've stated time and time again, I am as interested in the GOP/RNC than the DNC/Podesta's.
Google Diversity Memo
Learn to use critical thinking: https://youtu.be/J5A5o9I7rnA
Political left, right similarly motivated to avoid rival views
[...] we have an intolerance for ideas and evidence that don’t fit a certain ideology. I’m also not saying that we should restrict people to certain gender roles; I’m advocating for quite the opposite: treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group (tribalism)..
I prefer to think of this as a Neo-Surrealist rebellion against a world that is evermore well-defined by reason and empirical observation.
People are growing tired of knowing things, and needing to know things - enter Donald Trump from stage left, a cartoon character with cartoon personality - who better to lead the Neo-Surrealists to the promised land but a man who has been there?
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I disagree, I still believe in voters - but I also believe that most didn't vote.
Were I to do full reform, it would go far beyond just direct democracy.
Mandatory voter participation, you can go to the polls and click "Abstain" - but you can't not vote: you get a fine if you don't.
Electronic voting. You can vote from your phone like American Idol: Text, "YES" to 69696 to Invade Iraq again.
Direct Democracy. Elected bureaucrats entrusted to enact the will of the people, but there is no longer any need for politicians - all fired. Because there are no longer districts or etc - it's all popular vote.
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just imagine if you guys had scrutinized obama this hard.......we might have stopped him from wiretapping us all and doubled the national debt