{"id":34667,"date":"2024-02-01T16:54:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T21:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34667"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T22:51:27","slug":"the-genius-of-the-mentally-incomplete-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34667","title":{"rendered":"The Genius of the mentally incomplete Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Or how I take notes for future reference.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a top hat like Abe Lincoln to stick notes in but I have lots of post-it-note pads.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53503445199_e4f987e7a5_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I got home from a chat with a printer about some books I want to print this series of thoughts popped into my head that I jotted down on pink note pads. I&#8217;ve just lined them up next to my keyboard to share with my blog audience. It seems to be growing since I started posting regularly again. Its almost double what it was at the beginning of January. I hope the Stauber people are reading it. I want to keep Congressman Pocket lint busy peeing in his pants.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ll type them up <em>almost<\/em> verbatim. If I were to flesh them out for a Reader Column or a regular blog post I&#8217;d do some serious editing but I think I&#8217;ve described how sociopaths operate. If you turn a lie into the truth in your own head you can fool polygraphs and Trump supporters.<\/p>\n<p>1. The genius of Donald Trump is his discovery that if he invents a lie but trains himself to believe it HE IS NOT LYING. He trained himself<\/p>\n<p>2. for at least half a year before he lost the 2020 presidential election when the polls showed<\/p>\n<p>3. him losing that he could only lose if the election was stolen from him. He is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>4. He is very lucky that 1 in 4 Americans are so paranoid or schizophrenic about politics after a lifetime of<\/p>\n<p>5. Watching Fox News (or listening) to Rush Limbaugh that seeing Trump&#8217;s confident lie makes them believers.<\/p>\n<p>6. He&#8217;s not lying. He really turned his lie into a conviction. Its how he has ripped so many <\/p>\n<p>7. people off during his entire thieving career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or how I take notes for future reference. I don&#8217;t have a top hat like Abe Lincoln to stick notes in but I have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,133,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34671,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34667\/revisions\/34671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}