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Baitball Blogger

(51,446 posts)
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 08:20 AM Nov 3

The one topic that should be harped on the most

From the Trump CBS interview.

No, it wasn’t nuclear testing, No it wasn’t that he wanted his ICE goons to do more harm.

It was grocery prices. He said that grocery prices have come down. We all know that isn’t true. This is a kitchen table subject that everyone can understand. The fact that Trump’s opinion doesn’t line up with the truth says, clearly, he is either demented or intentionally lying. Either way, Americans will be harmed.

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rzemanfl

(31,032 posts)
1. This not either/or.
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 09:15 AM
Nov 3

He has always lied, now he is demented. At some point he will become too demented to stick to the lies. At that point the 25th Amendment will be invoked to change stooges.

Baitball Blogger

(51,446 posts)
2. Well, he did say he pardoned that crypto guy without knowing who he was.
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 09:36 AM
Nov 3

The evidence keeps stacking up.

littlemissmartypants

(30,882 posts)
10. That is probably a lie.
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 11:22 AM
Nov 3

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

popsdenver

(980 posts)
6. They need to impeach him
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 10:40 AM
Nov 3

not go the 25th route......it takes to long, it is a long drawn out process, and gives him time to rally his 70 million Trumphumpers.

The House could impeach him in the morning, and the Senate vote on it in the same afternoon?

Then, they put JDVance in as president, install Stephen Miller as VP. A few days later, they impeach JDVance for any number of things, and then install Russell Voght as VP.......

Then next, they tell their Republican Voters that TRUMP got way out of hand, they saw the problem, they took care of it, and now everything is good again...........that way they don't loose all the Trumphumper Voters they have been worried about, and that has been what has been holding them back.

THEN, it will be full steam ahead with the 2025 Agenda, Christian Nationalists, and Federalist creeps.........Same agenda, but intensified, and no more loose canyon Orange Lard Ass.......

Who ever is in office still has to be a "cuck" to Putin, as you can be sure Putin hasTONS of Kompromat on TONS of Republican Politicians and Uber Wealthy Oligarch perverts, and Corporate CEO's........

And of course, they will have to get all the Corporations who put them in office, to settle down their Record Grifting of Excessive Corporate profits that they have been doing for the past two years.........Cutting the Corporate Tax rate down to 2% will do the job..........Maybe even declaring that instead of United States of America, this country will NOW be known as: United Corporations of America, or Corporate Tyranny of America....

popsdenver

(980 posts)
13. It's not news
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 12:54 PM
Nov 3

it's me fantacizing, and/or speculating, with all I know about the Republican Crowd from past behaviors......

usonian

(22,371 posts)
4. If he's breathing, he's lying. You know, even if he isn't breathing, he's lying. He's a chatbot.
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 09:41 AM
Nov 3
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/

Judge for yourself.

Tue, Apr 29th 2025 09:34am - Mike Masnick

We generally understand how LLM hallucinations work. An AI model tries to generate what seems like a plausible response to whatever you ask it, drawing on its training data to construct something that sounds right. The actual truth of the response is, at best, a secondary consideration.

snip

But over the last few months, it has occurred to me that, for all the hype about generative AI systems “hallucinating,” we pay much less attention to the fact that the current President does the same thing, nearly every day. The more you look at the way Donald Trump spews utter nonsense answers to questions, the more you begin to recognize a clear pattern — he answers questions in a manner quite similar to early versions of ChatGPT. The facts don’t matter, the language choices are a mess, but they are all designed to present a plausible-sounding answer to the question, based on no actual knowledge, nor any concern for whether or not the underlying facts are accurate.

snip

This is not the response of someone working from actual knowledge or policy understanding. Instead, it’s precisely how an LLM operates: taking a prompt (the question about job losses) and generating text based on some core parameters (the “system prompt” that requires deflecting blame and asserting greatness).

The hallmarks of AI generation are all here:
• Confident assertions without factual backing
• Meandering diversions that maintain loose semantic connection to the topic
• Pattern-matching to previous responses (“ripped off,” “billions of dollars”)
• Optimization for what sounds good rather than what’s true




eppur_se_muova

(40,530 posts)
16. Trump appears to be a naturally evolved chatbot -- just like there were once naturally occuring nuclear reactors!
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:36 PM
Monday

He seems to be not an idiot-savant, but more of a savant-idiot -- a just-marginally-high-enough-functioning wit to take control of the easily brainwashed bottom-dwellers, and superbly optimized for that niche -- but completely unable to participate in any more evidence- or reason-based intellectual activity.

Exp

(681 posts)
8. SNAP benefits go mostly to RED counties! Poor, stupid Magats keep voting against their own best interests! nt
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 11:17 AM
Nov 3

Wednesdays

(21,300 posts)
9. At a MINIMUM, he's living in a bubble and is totally out of touch.
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 11:22 AM
Nov 3

Bet you he hasn't seen the inside of a grocery store (even for a photo op) in a decade.

And as for him actually shopping in one: probably never.

slightlv

(7,029 posts)
11. I agree that what you say should be spoken clearly and often...
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 11:23 AM
Nov 3

but more than that, IMO, is the visceral juxtaposition of throwing a "Great Gatsby" gala while also throwing 42 million families off food support via SNAP. Man, there are some excellent image shots and even video that would do justice to that situation. And people, being who they are, tend to gloss over the written word. Not so much what their eyes see. And what you suggest could well be incorporated into that, as well. Pictures of the prices of different cuts of meat, of milk, of bread, etc....

People feel what they're hit with viscerally. That's why there was such a backlash at the destruction of the East Wing. It hit people in the gut. If we were able to continually see the destruction wrought on the WH, there would be constant backlash... but trump has forbidden that anymore pictures be taken.

But what I'm talking about doesn't take MSM to accomplish. Today, citizen journalists can do it with Social Media, if the MSM won't support us any longer. And add them INTO the mix with their chyrons, etc. YMMV, of course!

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