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I'm reading about Iran and I come across this ancient rock relief inscription that Darius (522 BCE – 486 BCE) wrote supposedly that says, "I am not friends with a man who is a lie-follower," and guess who I thought of? All my friend who I lost who voted for the rapist pedophile felon, because I can't be friends with a lie-follower. That's many years ago.  Thinking about George Harrison's Beware of Darkness. "Soft shoe shufflers." "Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for" I love the video of a comedian laughing and laughing when Trump said he was truthful .  Obama has outrage when he thinks about politicizing relief aid. "Why would we go along with that?"

Lying isn't OK, even as a political tactic.

I'd say the consequences of the lie about immigrants eating cats and dogs, it dramatizes a point about hatred and anxiety about immigrants, but "I saw it on TV," isn't sourced enough. You need to be more than a salesman to be a president. The harm to people in Springfield isn't worth trying to weasel his way into the presidency by manipulating hatred and anxiety.  The Guardian as usual has the best article.  Sinister hue HCR : On August 10, about a dozen neo-Nazis of the “Blood Tribe” organization showed up in Springfield, where one of their leaders said the city had been taken over by “degenerate third worlders” and blamed the Jews for the influx of migrants. The neo-Nazis stayed and, on August 27, showed up at a meeting of the city council, where their leader threatened council members. On September 1, another white supremacist group, Patriot Front, held its own “protest to the mass influx of unassimilable Haitian migrants” in the city. Right-wing social media ...