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Swede

(37,405 posts) Sat Sep 27, 2025, 09:04 AM Yesterday

Morelle: Here's the problem whenever the president speaks - It's an endless series of baloney.

Morelle: Here’s the problem whenever the president speaks—and I hate to make light of this because he’s the president—but it’s almost always just fantasy.

This week he’s suddenly a scientist, telling us what we should do for a fever if you’re a pregnant woman.

It’s an endless series of baloney.

Morelle: Hereâ€™s the problem whenever the president speaksâ€”and I hate to make light of this because heâ€™s the presidentâ€”but itâ€™s almost always just fantasy.

This week heâ€™s suddenly a scientist, telling us what we should do for a fever if youâ€™re a pregnant woman.

Itâ€™s an endless series of baloney.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-09-27T01:46:37.064Z

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Morelle: Here's the problem whenever the president speaks - It's an endless series of baloney. (Original Post) Swede Yesterday OP

But he's a Democrat dwayneb Yesterday #1

They eat baloney and drink Bud Lite PJMcK Yesterday #2

Baloney is logical fallacies which are mental abuse bucolic_frolic Yesterday #3

The problem is that when he speaks "baloney", an army of followers take him seriously. Midnight Writer 21 hrs ago #4

The old Gish Gallop Tommy Carcetti 21 hrs ago #5

dwayneb

(1,043 posts)

1. But he's a Democrat

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 09:07 AM

Yesterday

Democrats can speak truth all day long and it achieves nothing. Because half of the people in this country love being fed "baloney".

PJMcK

(24,243 posts)

2. They eat baloney and drink Bud Lite

Reply to dwayneb (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 09:15 AM

Yesterday

Yet they believe they're eating filet mignon and drinking Beaujolais.

bucolic_frolic

(52,486 posts)

3. Baloney is logical fallacies which are mental abuse

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 09:17 AM

Yesterday

These are intimately tied up with advertising, power, the maintenance of social control.

If I can make you believe something, even if it's simply impossible, I can spoon feed you all day long. That's the basis for this entire era.

Midnight Writer

(24,771 posts)

4. The problem is that when he speaks "baloney", an army of followers take him seriously.

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:49 PM

21 hrs ago

Trump is not the root of our problem. He is merely a symptom. Get rid of him and the country is still sick.

Tommy Carcetti

(44,234 posts)

5. The old Gish Gallop

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:51 PM

21 hrs ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

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