Since when does conversation have to be about making a difference or changing one's mind? Can't it be to try to find understanding and clarity? To try and understand where the other person is coming from?
Your replay here says to me that you know what I'm thinking. That you somehow know my motivation in what I'm saying. Are you God? Do you know the inner workings & motivations of my heart? What I was saying in my replay that what one person sees as a "lie" from Trump another can very reasonably see as hyperbole and showmanship. And then to add to that, it is the person who is calling it a lie who is actuality projecting their own bias onto the situation (this would be why I wouldn't go to that website).
~Jeordam
Exactly what understanding and clarity is to be had, if any statement can be defended as hyperbole or exaggeration?
It's kind of hard to have any serious conversation with someone who says that a President can, in public statements in his official capacity, "hyperbolize" and "exaggerate" to the extent that there is no way to tell those statements apart from seriously statements that he knows to be true.
When a lawyer for the president has to, in court, request that he not be accused of misleading the Court because till the President tweeted, he had understood his position to be the opposite of what was tweeted, only for the President to reverse course again the next week... If it was all meaningless blather, how is anyone to know?
Is there a secret code the rest of us should know of that will inform us when Trump is serious vs when he's exaggerating or boasting? Put it this way... Go find a statement of Trump's that you know is a lie. Copy and paste it. Then go to one you think is exaggeration. Copy and paste it. Then tell me how you know which is which.
- 10/07/2019 11:15:29 PM
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