I'm considering trying to force myself to try and watch, just to see the shitshow first-hand.

Trump wants the networks to carry his speech live. They should look at these charts of his lies.

Flip and flop...
Contradicting Trump, Bolton says no withdrawal from Syria until ISIS destroyed, Kurds’ safety guaranteed

 R_P wrote:
 
Well, maybe he did say to give them a 10% raise and just doesn't realize that means SFA

Trump Brags To Troops About A Fictional Giant Pay Raise He Got Them

Donald Trump’s Survival Strategy: Chaos, Diversions, and Lily-Livered Republicans | The New Yorker

 Prodigal_SOB wrote:
 
Oh noes! Fake News!

 R_P wrote: 
Snopes says nope  

 R_P wrote: 
You know lawyers can and should be disbarred for lying for a client.

Trump signed off on Moscow project during campaign, Giuliani now says
President's lawyer said Sunday no one had signed letter — then CNN found a copy

First-ever Fact Checker poll: Few Americans believe Trump’s false statements

(...) Fewer than 3 in 10 Americans — including fewer than 4 in 10 Republicans — believe these or several other prominent claims by the president, according to the poll. Only among a pool of strong Trump approvers — about 1 in 6 adults in the survey — did large majorities accept several, though not all, of his falsehoods as true. Among the falsehoods tested were four that are listed on the Fact Checker’s list of Bottomless Pinocchios — claims that president has repeated more than 20 times. 

Read the full story — and take the poll yourself — by following this link.

 R_P wrote: 
Best line from the piece: 


"(Nancy Pelosi), the likely future speaker added: 'It goes to show you: you get into a tickle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you.' "


Trump should have been placed in an assisted-living facility a long time ago. Bob Mueller's trying to line something up for Donald as we speak...

Pinocchio and the two Democrats: how that Trump meeting descended into farce

 Proclivities wrote:
 
Is Bill Maher not an ethnic cleanser like so many secular liberals in the USA?  

 kurtster wrote:
 

Diddums, it really is way past  time to stop dragging that security blanket around. You cannot blame Obama for the narrowness of the insurance providers' networks.

It's not as if the ACA forces all people to abandon their doctors. And if you had a PCP prior to the ACA, there's a good chance you already had insurance so in most cases the ACA's enactment didn't affect you.

The ACA is not a thing of beauty. It needs fixes and changes. But presidents as far back as TR had been trying to do what Obama did.

But hey, don't worry: Trump will look great in an orange jumpsuit!

 kurtster wrote: 
Just to clarify: you can keep your doctor but your doctor doesn't have to keep you.

 kcar wrote: 
Obama was cheated ! 

He should have been the first with you can keep your doctor ...

WashPo has recognized Trump's main claim to fame: his incessant and repeated lying. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the world of The Bottomless Pinocchio. 


 
Meet the Bottomless Pinocchio, a new rating for a false claim repeated over and over again 

Trump’s willingness to constantly repeat false claims has posed a unique challenge to fact-checkers. Most politicians quickly drop a Four-Pinocchio claim, either out of a duty to be accurate or concern that spreading false information could be politically damaging.
 

Not Trump. The president keeps going long after the facts are clear, in what appears to be a deliberate effort to replace the truth with his own, far more favorable, version of it. He is not merely making gaffes or misstating things, he is purposely injecting false information into the national conversation.
 

To accurately reflect this phenomenon, The Washington Post Fact Checker is introducing a new category — the Bottomless Pinocchio. That dubious distinction will be awarded to politicians who repeat a false claim so many times that they are, in effect, engaging in campaigns of disinformation.

The bar for the Bottomless Pinocchio is high: The claims must have received three or four Pinocchios from The Fact Checker, and they must have been repeated at least 20 times. Twenty is a sufficiently robust number that there can be no question the politician is aware that his or her facts are wrong. The list of Bottomless Pinocchios will be maintained on its own landing page.

The Fact Checker has not identified statements from any other current elected official who meets the standard other than Trump. In fact, 14 statements made by the president immediately qualify for the list.
 

The president’s most-repeated falsehoods fall into a handful of broad categories — claiming credit for promises he has not fulfilled; false assertions that provide a rationale for his agenda; and political weaponry against perceived enemies such as Democrats or special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.