You would have made a lot of money as a sophist in Ancient Greece.

I anticipated that response but you missed the distinction I made to preempt it.

Expect more fake news like this in the coming years, as the budding tyranny takes hold and begins imprisoning political opponents for fabricated crimes.

The fact that you said doubtful implies you have at least a modicum of respect for higher institutions of learning, as you suspect I’m lying. I will therefore take that as an inadvertent compliment and wish you a good day.

Exactly. As you know, universities are corrupt Marxist indoctrination factories, which is why my colleagues allowed me to teach fake logic for 5 years after granting me a phony PhD from a top 15 university. The standards are even lower than you think at the highest echelons of academe.

Please reread the comment to which you are replying, as your inference in no way follows from what I put forth. I’m afraid I do not have time to continually explain each distinction, so I hope you will be able to make the proper conclusion yourself. Good luck…

I see your point. In sum, I may be suspicious of DT on future numbers due to past lying, but as said before I do not have proof that the future numbers will be false. With Biden, I may be suspicious of what he says about race due to past racist actions, but that would not be proof of future racism.

That’s a good joke…. :)

Eugenics can definitely be dark. I’m not trying to disagree with you. Maybe this is just a little bit of miscommunication…

I hate DJT, but he has said true things. The character of someone can make you suspicious of someone’s claims—especially if they have often lied—but their character is not proof they are lying. You may have had bad burgers at BK in the past, but it’s not 100% proof the next burger will also be bad.

Did you just argue that data can’t be trusted if someone is a racist? This sounds like classic ad hominem. A racist can in fact say something true about data. A bad person can speak the truth.

Haha! I’m not trying to prove you wrong. You may actually be right!

I didn’t even think of that. Damn that’s dark.

Stunning.

Every time one issue fades, you raise another. It sounds like you now want to debate Biden. I think that’s perhaps what the elites want, namely, for us people to endlessly critique, debate, and attack one another. We’re playing into their playbook…

Agreed. Not yet. But he’s such a compulsive liar and con artist that moving forward it’s only sensible for people to suspect future jobs numbers. Hopefully we don’t go through what Greece and Argentina did…

Thanks for all the witty, truthful and incisive posts, Takei! They’re uplifting in these fascist times!!

In sum, when you bring up what you think is a counterpoint to my opinions, please be precise and say which opinion you’re alluding back to. On issue 1 of the future I did not say I rely on previous numbers. But on issue 2 I did say I have no reason to say she rigged anything, and that’s still true.

Point 2: But on a separate issue of why I thought Trump was lying about why he fired the Commissioner, I did say that I had no reason to think she was rigging the numbers. So if you want to bring this issue up again of DT lying, then yes I still see no evidence that she rigged numbers.

Let’s be precise. In your comment from 5 hours ago, you were responding to my claim that the economy will go sour. In your response you said I was trusting Biden’s numbers from 1-2 years ago. But on this point of the economy going sour, I never said anything about trusting previous job reports.

You’re right: 1984 IS here. I think Orwell created the date as the reverse of ‘48 when he either wrote or published the book.

I sum: 1) my claim was about the future economy; and 2) before we agree with this one economist from the right, we need to wait and see what other economists have to say. If the majority of them agree that we lost more jobs 1-2 years ago, I would have no problem accepting that.

Ok, my first point was that I never made a claim about Biden’s job reports. My second point is that so far this is just one economist from the Heritage Foundation (the right) saying this about Biden’s numbers. We need more confirmation from other experts before jumping to a conclusion.

Ok, I’m getting back to this. First, before even getting to the data, you said I was basing my opinions on Biden cooking the books. But the opinion I stated had nothing to do with him: I said the economy will soon drop badly in the next few months. Do you accept that my claim was not about Biden?

This seems to be a sad truth. If they get away with stealing next year’s election and democracy ends in America, then we’re left with very few options.

This is 100% true…

No, I caught that. I thought you were funny. Okay, I think we’re caught up on clarifying the troll jokes, haha! I’ll look into the data you sent and get back to you later tater…

That’s honestly very kind of you with your in-laws. I truly respect that. No sarcasm. But, back to previous sarcasm: just to be clear, after you trolled me a week ago by saying I was 80, I built on your joke by agreeing I’m an addled 80 year old. If you didn’t catch it, that was also sarcasm.

I appreciate your concern. It’s very thoughtful, kind, and selfless of you. (This is what I call sarcasm, in case you missed it, lol).

Fair enough. That can be true. The point of my joke was that you were upset that I called you MAGA, so then I followed that up with saying you wanted me deported. I’ve been goofy the last day or two so I thought you would catch the sarcasm, but you’re right that it can be hard to catch here.