1. Okay. like a lot of other people, I have a problems with this Matt Yglesias tweet. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/643599688424378369 …
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2. One way to contest
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3. Trump's claim he'll deport 11 million undocumented immigrants in 4 years & end birthright citizenship without amending constitution etc
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4. But the game of fact checking Trump, although necessary, has a limited utility.
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5. With Trump, better to rememberer the distinction between lying and bullshitting. Jeb is a liar, Trump is a bullshitter. Very different.
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6. The liar knows they are lying, knows distinction between truth and lies. The bullshitter works to make those lines murky and unknowable.
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7. When Jeb says something untrue, it's likely he knows it's untrue on some level but does so out of political expediency.
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8. Trump's distortions of the truth are different then lies, they are less amenable to being tested & less moored to reality.
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9. What is Trump's basic platform? It's this: "Trump is great and he'll fix all your problems." That's not so much a lie as bullshit.
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10. To any policy question, Trump's response is "I'm great. I'm a billionaire. I'll know how to fix things. I'll negotiate the best deal."
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11. Healthcare? "I'll rip up Obamacare & give you something great." Iran? "I'll rip up the deal and negotiate something great."
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12. Trump's bullshitting skills are a natural outgrowth of his prior careers in real estate, brand development and reality television.
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