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Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...
Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale
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FineWine: The Washington Post recorded that Trump made 30573 false or misleading claims during his last presidency !!
Wonder what his count will be this presidency ?
As most of us do not have a subscription to the Washington Post, I wonder if there is a way to keep a copy of this running total at the top of this Topic's page? A type of running Sticky you could say.
24 Jan 2021
I don't know if The Post will resume this project - I'll keep an eye open.
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SaltyNZ:
Lovely to see Elon Musk up there throwing seig heil salutes. Seriously - there's video of at least one, and RNZ's front page photo of the inauguration shows him hand raised. It's all right out in the open now.
Exhibit A
Elon Musk gestures at the podium inside the Capital One arena on the inauguration day of Donald Trump's second presidential term, in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2025. REUTERS
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"I was saved by God to make America great again."
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The NY Times - Promising the moon (well, Mars)
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Donald Trump spent much of the last two years promising that catastrophe would befall the nation if he were to lose the presidential election: World War III. An economic “blood bath.” America practically ceasing to exist.
He opened his second term with the inverse promise that a “golden age” - one that only he can deliver - has begun simply by virtue of his return.
In his 29-minute Inaugural Address, Trump promised to defeat inflation and to “end the chronic disease epidemic.” He promised national power so great that it could “stop all wars,” and expand the nation’s territory. He even promised to “restore American promise.”
He did not actually promise the moon. But he did promise to plant an American flag on Mars.
It was a speech by a lifelong marketer who has long seen sweeping promises as his political bread and butter, well aware of their power to fire up his base whether or not he fulfilled them - and well aware that his supporters don’t always expect him to.
His first-term promise to build a wall paid for by Mexico, for example, defined him politically and changed the terms of the nation’s immigration debate, even though it never came to pass. ...
And some of his promises were about things that are so subject to interpretation that he’ll be able to declare them kept whenever he chooses to. He promised to “bring back free speech to America,” and to make the United States “a rich nation again,” even though it already is one.
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