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Bev54

(12,573 posts)
3. When you have done something you continue to accuse others of the same
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:30 AM
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It also makes the other side hesitant to accuse him, for fear of sounding just like him and thus nobody taking you seriously. It is happening right now.

Solomon

(12,552 posts)
4. Yep. That's what I've been saying ever since he started with the stole the election business. He fixed it so democrats
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:36 AM
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can't complain when HE steals an election.

SocialDemocrat61

(4,939 posts)
5. That whole scene reminds me of
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:39 AM
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a suburban dad who goes out to watch over the contractors to make sure they do things the right way.

Aristus

(70,244 posts)
12. My father-in-law is a retired contractor.
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 11:30 AM
Thursday

He micro-manages every single contractor he hires to do work for him. For my f-i-l, the "right" way is the cheap way. He doesn't want them "overcharging" him. The result: shoddy work, and projects that don't work the way they're supposed to. Because you get what you pay for. How he got wealthy in the first place puzzles me no end.

travelingthrulife

(2,754 posts)
6. I think it is because some evidence is arising about peculiarities in the 2024
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:42 AM
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election. They are trying to keep the lies going so no one reports on it.

Mr.Bee

(867 posts)
8. If I Don't Win it's RIGGED!
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:59 AM
Thursday
2012
Trump also previously called for the American people, presumably those who didn't vote for Obama, to "fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice," because "the world is laughing at us."
2016
Trump said he did not lose the Iowa caucuses in 2016 to then candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, because he "stole it."
"Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa, he stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. Bad!"
In October 2016, just weeks before the general election, Trump wanted to cast doubt on the results by tweeting, "The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary - but also at many polling places - SAD," without providing any evidence for the claim.
2020
2020 general election

Fast forward to today, Trump took to his favorite platform, just moments before major media outlets had projected Biden the winner in this year's election, and falsely tweeted, "I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!"

no you didn't... no mandate... no doughnut...
Just a Super Dunce

Jit423

(1,495 posts)
9. Which one? The one actually stolen from Harris, or the one he imagined was stolen by Biden? nt
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 11:05 AM
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usonian

(18,583 posts)
11. He is ALL PROJECTION.
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 11:29 AM
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Every Accusation is a Confession.

Whatever he complains about is something he's done and seeks to shed the blame on others.

It's so predictable that every day, there's more evidence that he's a chatbot.

The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/

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.

This pattern becomes impossible to unsee once you start looking for it. In his recent Time Magazine interview, Trump demonstrates exactly how this works. The process is remarkably consistent:

• A journalist asks a specific question about policy or events
• Trump, clearly unfamiliar with the actual details, activates his response generator
• Out comes a stream of confident-sounding words that maintain just enough semantic connection to the question to seem like an answer
• The response optimizes for what Trump thinks his audience wants to hear, rather than for accuracy or truth

You can pick almost any exchange from the interview to see this in action. He hits his talking points, but when pushed on things, he just starts making random wild claims with no basis in reality.


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