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wnylib
(25,259 posts)could be a problem sometimes.
Example: In 2020 his BS was that he won the election. Michael Cohen warned that he would not leave office peacefully. The Atlantic published an article about how Trump could try to overthrow the election after the courts ruled against him
GD posts were split between whether Trump was just blowing hot air or if he would or could really try to overturn the election.
Turned out to be not just BS.
Sometimes what sounds like BS from him is real -- or will be real after he floats it around for a while in BS statements.
That said, yes, it's a good idea to move Trump BS statements out of GD to their own forum so that GD posts can cover other issues besides Trump's latest attention getting trolling behavior.
It might turn out to be an interesting social-political experiment in psychological profiling of an authoritarian politician. How many of his BS statements, if any, will turn into real news?
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