re: #14 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Knows/doesn’t know isn’t really black and white in this case, because we’re not dealing with people that think in ways that fit with the general understanding of “belief” as something solid. Trump is saying contradictory things and untrue things and believing them, because ultimately he has no interest in describing what is real, only how to avoid negative consequences and appropriate good results. His people are echoing it because ultimately they hold the same standard of veracity, that there is no truth except what they can make true.

Which is scarier than just being liars, because they’re going to expect to be taken seriously and their prescriptions obeyed, not questioned, but are also going to be enraged when their untruths do not produce results that were never capable of producing.

It’s like a gambler who believes their system is always responsible for their wins, but claim their losses are not just because of the house cheating, but because someone else forced them to make a bet.