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Bernardo de La Paz

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78. The lies are getting bigger & possibly more numerous. It works until it doesn't. At tipping point will be rush for exits

Reply to PatSeg (Reply #73)

Thu Jul 31, 2025, 11:11 AM

Jul 31

It seems to me that he is using lies more and more. It seems as if his creeping dementia reverts him back to the one thing he knows best: lying. Hence claims of 1600% price reductions.

It works until it doesn't. Whenever something is built out of fantasies and wishful thinking on the part of the believers, and it is continually added to, there comes a tipping point (think grains of sand added to a sand pile). With such a monstrous pile of crap that he has built, the coming avalanche will be eye-popping, I think.

maga won't transit from rabid tRump cult-member to "meh, he's good but not that good." It will, in a rush, go to "He lied to us and is a worthless piece of shit."

His broken Epstein promise has peeled away a few and has shaken the core of maga even as they still support him. But economics will be his downfall.

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Stark raving mad malaise Jul 31 #2

I can't tell anymore PatSeg Jul 31 #35

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Yes, he's become too comfortable PatSeg Jul 31 #73

The lies are getting bigger & possibly more numerous. It works until it doesn't. At tipping point will be rush for exits Bernardo de La Paz Jul 31 #78

"It works until it doesn't." PatSeg Jul 31 #84

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"if he believes what he is saying or if he is just knowingly lying" speak easy Jul 31 #47

Yes, I think that's right PatSeg Jul 31 #76

He believes it because his yes men continue to tavernier Jul 31 #92

True PatSeg Jul 31 #94

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we use the 7 oz rampartd Jul 31 #49

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Washington state Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 31 #89

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