Rudy shouldnāt be going through this, Rudy didnāt do anythingā¦but I look at some of the other people, now, I didnāt know a lot of those people. I donāt know that I even met a lot of those people, but some I do. And their lives are destroyed by these maniacs. These are animals, these are vicious animals that have destroyed the lives of these peopleā¦.and they donāt have a lot of money. And some of them did almost nothing; they donāt even know what theyāre being charged for.
Every time. Every single time.
Not a liar, a bullshitter.
Lying requires some respect for the truth. It implies you are trying to deceive by denying or obscuring the actual facts of the matter, but lying still involves trying to convince someone that your alternative story is true.
Trump and Co. are just straight up bullshitters. Reality is completely irrelevant, and they just make up whatever sounds good on the fly with zero regard for whether itās even consistent with what they said 10 minutes ago.
The maddening part with bullshitters is you canāt even debate or reason with them because the truth literally doesnāt matter to them or their audience.
remember Dick Cheney sneering at the āreality-based communityā as the lies he used to justify the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan started coming to light? This contempt for whatās real is embedded in Republican DNA.