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.........this is amazing. I mean, this is literally not how linear time works.
If the time span kept increasing, it could be because the current year is getting worse so it's now exceeded that year 27 years ago and you have to go back 57 years to find one worse. Fine.
But he's chronicling a span that goes up and down, based as Daniel points out on nothing. Feelings. "Facts don't care about your feelings" but Donald said under oath that he considers his net worth to be however he feels that day. In his mind, feelings are facts.
Going to repeat that: to Hair Furor, his feelings are facts.
Iran can keep to an agreement "on paper" but if his gut tells him they're getting away with something, the paper is worthless.
Iran can keep to an agreement "on paper" but if his gut tells him they're getting away with something, the paper is worthless.
He might have a few hundred million dollars, or close to a billion dollars in assets and even more in liabilities, but if he feels like a billionaire he's going to say he's a billionaire and anyone who contradicts him is lying.
And he'll say whatever number he feels like for how badly he feels he's beating China in this easy trade war he feels like you're winning, and he'll change it as he sees fit -- usually, but not always, making it bigger.
I feel like his coaches have mostly broken him of the habit I often remarked on of adding "And the actual number, probably, is much higher" after a number he himself gave and represented as the real number.
But the habit behind it, the emotional instinct is still there. He still makes the numbers trend upwards.
He keeps tweeting his approval rating among Republicans in a way that makes me suspect that by next November it will be 127%, for instance.
He keeps tweeting his approval rating among Republicans in a way that makes me suspect that by next November it will be 127%, for instance.
