Last week, with a straight face he told the nation, “Raising the debt limit will not add one dime to the national debt.”
Of course it won’t. It’s the spending that’ll do the damage. He didn’t lie – he’s not stupid – he just diverted our attention from the distinction.
He does that a lot.
In his world, truth is a convenience, used when it serves an agenda, discarded when it does not. Truth has the same utility as misleading statements or bald-faced lies. All are mixed, shuffled and stretched, whipped, deformed and stirred. Identities are modified and intentions blurred. His goal is to distract and bamboozle, setting up unsuspecting marks to the menacing talons of chicanery.
Con artists, card sharks and street hustlers do that, too.
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Less than zero by Jim Walter
Last week, with a straight face he told the nation, “Raising the debt limit will not add one dime to the national debt.”
Of course it won’t. It’s the spending that’ll do the damage. He didn’t lie – he’s not stupid – he just diverted our attention from the distinction.
He does that a lot.
In his world, truth is a convenience, used when it serves an agenda, discarded when it does not. Truth has the same utility as misleading statements or bald-faced lies. All are mixed, shuffled and stretched, whipped, deformed and stirred. Identities are modified and intentions blurred. His goal is to distract and bamboozle, setting up unsuspecting marks to the menacing talons of chicanery.
Con artists, card sharks and street hustlers do that, too.
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