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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHe is bonkers: Now joking about the stock market fall today--blames it on Seth Moulton
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Donald J. Trump
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The Dow is down 573 points perhaps on the news that Representative Seth Moulton, whoever that may be, has dropped out of the 2020 Presidential Race!
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He is bonkers: Now joking about the stock market fall today--blames it on Seth Moulton (Original Post)
Mrs. Overall
Aug 2019
OP
Trump will burn down the planet if he has to to protect himself - He is the Mad King.
NoMoreRepugs
Aug 2019
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)1. Oh yes, I'm sure that's it.
Because Seth Moulton has that kind of power over the stock market.
He is so fucking insane!
LuckyCharms
(17,441 posts)2. You know, he's right.
I glanced at my TV screen, saw that the market was down big, and said to myself...
Ah...The Seth Moulton downturn...
lame54
(35,292 posts)6. While he was being interviewed on MSNBC...
The bottom right corner of the screen showed the market dropping
That is probably what Trump saw
NoMoreRepugs
(9,431 posts)3. Trump will burn down the planet if he has to to protect himself - He is the Mad King.
Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)4. I am willing to believe it. I can believe anything.
greyl
(22,990 posts)7. Speaking of which :)
A lack of source information for this particular quote is especially noteworthy, because Mark Twains writing was very well-documented. Several volumes of quotes from the author of Huckleberry Finn have been compiled, yet we were unable to find this quote in any of them.
Barbara Schmidt, who operates TwainQuotes.com, told us that she also had no evidence that Twain wrote or uttered this phrase. However, Schmidt directed us to a passage from the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2, in which he expressed a similar opinion about the power of a lie:
Barbara Schmidt, who operates TwainQuotes.com, told us that she also had no evidence that Twain wrote or uttered this phrase. However, Schmidt directed us to a passage from the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2, in which he expressed a similar opinion about the power of a lie:
The general idea of that quote (although not that wording) is one Mark Twain expressed in regard to lying in that is it hard to convince people they have been a victim of a lie.
He did state:
The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-mark-twain-say-its-easier-to-fool-people-than-to-convince-them-that-they-have-been-fooled/
Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)9. A lot of quotes were erroneously attributed to Twain
Perhaps the most famous one was, "The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco."
hannah
(141 posts)5. Markets
I just wish the pundits and newscasters would stop chuckling. This shit isnt funny anymore.
Takket
(21,573 posts)8. Would honestly have made more sense
If he just said the market dropped because Jupiter was in the fifth house and Mercury was in retrograde