The biggest ever...according to President Trump.
I've watched and listened to politicians all my life. I've known for years that politicians are not particularly trustworthy. They often fudge the truth, or they talk around the truth, or they avoid giving a direct answer to a simple question. Sometimes they can be 100% for (or against) some issue unless (or until) it becomes politically unpopular to do so, at which point they'll make a 180 degree change of opinion and claim that it's a change of heart and not an expedient decision. It's difficult to maintain any real respect for men and women who have no real values and core beliefs, especially when they tend to preach about values to the rest of us.
There's actually one person and event that stands out in my mind in this regard. It's Newt Gingrich. It happened a few years when he was already out of office and didn't have to concern himself with any more elections or public opinion polls regarding his leadership. I mean, he already had a pretty darn sleazy reputation when it came to his personal life and his time in office, but he was now a private citizen, and one could argue that he could now give his honest opinion on a wide variety of topics. That is, if he chose to do so. I guess it was simply too much to expect from a man who spent his life paving the road to hell with bad intentions.
At any rate, the event happened a few years ago as Libya was in a meltdown, and Muammar Gaddafi was threatening to lay waste to one of his own cities (Benghazi, as it turns out) because of protests related to the Arab Spring movement. Well, Gingrich goes on TV and criticizes Obama for not taking military action. Then, days later when Obama DID take military action (without involving U.S. ground troops, by the way), Gingrich went on TV and criticized Obama for putting Americans in harm,s way. What? Six years later, he still hasn't changed his stripes considering that months ago he praised Robert Mueller and his unimpeachable credentials, and he now calls him corrupt.
You get the picture, I'm sure. But, as the title of this thread suggests, this thread isn't about Gingrich; it's about the big giant tax cut.
I went to a website that allowed me to calculate my big giant tax cut savings. It's a whopping one half of one percent. That's .005! That means that for every $100.00 in taxes I currently pay, I'll get 50 cents back. When I can't even measure the savings in paper currency, I don't think "big" is an accurate operative word to describe the tax cut.
But this thread isn't just about the so-called tax cut. It's about President Trump. I have never heard a politician lie as much, or as often, or as BIG as Trump does. And it's so blatant, so obvious, and so mind-numbingly transparent, that I'm befuddled as to why otherwise reasonable and usually rational people are taken in by all these glaring falsehoods.
The only solace I feel at this point is that I know that eventually the vast majority of liars and flimflam men are discovered for what they truly are. Additionally, the more public they are in their lying, the sooner it usually happens. I just can't figure out why more people haven't caught on about Trump by now. But with Trump's approval rating currently hovering around 32% at the end of his first year in office, I expect the fatigue and disillusionment factor to start gaining more traction in the months to come. Perhaps that will start to pick up more steam when the working class people who helped put him in office see their big giant tax cut next year. If that doesn't do it, perhaps it will happen when estimates are put forward about how much money the entire Trump family will save in taxes yearly. Keep in mind that Trump said he would not benefit from the big middle class tax cut. See what I mean about the lying?
I've watched and listened to politicians all my life. I've known for years that politicians are not particularly trustworthy. They often fudge the truth, or they talk around the truth, or they avoid giving a direct answer to a simple question. Sometimes they can be 100% for (or against) some issue unless (or until) it becomes politically unpopular to do so, at which point they'll make a 180 degree change of opinion and claim that it's a change of heart and not an expedient decision. It's difficult to maintain any real respect for men and women who have no real values and core beliefs, especially when they tend to preach about values to the rest of us.
There's actually one person and event that stands out in my mind in this regard. It's Newt Gingrich. It happened a few years when he was already out of office and didn't have to concern himself with any more elections or public opinion polls regarding his leadership. I mean, he already had a pretty darn sleazy reputation when it came to his personal life and his time in office, but he was now a private citizen, and one could argue that he could now give his honest opinion on a wide variety of topics. That is, if he chose to do so. I guess it was simply too much to expect from a man who spent his life paving the road to hell with bad intentions.
At any rate, the event happened a few years ago as Libya was in a meltdown, and Muammar Gaddafi was threatening to lay waste to one of his own cities (Benghazi, as it turns out) because of protests related to the Arab Spring movement. Well, Gingrich goes on TV and criticizes Obama for not taking military action. Then, days later when Obama DID take military action (without involving U.S. ground troops, by the way), Gingrich went on TV and criticized Obama for putting Americans in harm,s way. What? Six years later, he still hasn't changed his stripes considering that months ago he praised Robert Mueller and his unimpeachable credentials, and he now calls him corrupt.
You get the picture, I'm sure. But, as the title of this thread suggests, this thread isn't about Gingrich; it's about the big giant tax cut.
I went to a website that allowed me to calculate my big giant tax cut savings. It's a whopping one half of one percent. That's .005! That means that for every $100.00 in taxes I currently pay, I'll get 50 cents back. When I can't even measure the savings in paper currency, I don't think "big" is an accurate operative word to describe the tax cut.
But this thread isn't just about the so-called tax cut. It's about President Trump. I have never heard a politician lie as much, or as often, or as BIG as Trump does. And it's so blatant, so obvious, and so mind-numbingly transparent, that I'm befuddled as to why otherwise reasonable and usually rational people are taken in by all these glaring falsehoods.
The only solace I feel at this point is that I know that eventually the vast majority of liars and flimflam men are discovered for what they truly are. Additionally, the more public they are in their lying, the sooner it usually happens. I just can't figure out why more people haven't caught on about Trump by now. But with Trump's approval rating currently hovering around 32% at the end of his first year in office, I expect the fatigue and disillusionment factor to start gaining more traction in the months to come. Perhaps that will start to pick up more steam when the working class people who helped put him in office see their big giant tax cut next year. If that doesn't do it, perhaps it will happen when estimates are put forward about how much money the entire Trump family will save in taxes yearly. Keep in mind that Trump said he would not benefit from the big middle class tax cut. See what I mean about the lying?
Last edited:
