09-06-2020, 06:29 AM
(09-05-2020, 09:57 PM)Antisthenes Wrote:Quote: Everyone who was actually there, including some of Trump's enemies like Neocon John Bolton, have flatly stated that he said no such thing, despite the reports from "anonymous sources". I never trust anonymous sources for anything...
And so it goes with this stuff. Facts DO matter....
I didn't hear that," Bolton told The New York Times. "I'm not saying he didn't say them later in the day or another time, but I was there for that discussion."
He did not say that Trump NEVER said it. He just didn't hear it.
Touche. True enough, that is the facts. It is also the facts that the ONLY reports come from "anonymous sources", and you probably know as well as I do how easily those can be manufactured out of thin air, which is why I don't trust them. If no one had the testicular fortitude to come out and say who they are, that they heard this, and how they heard this, I can give no credence to the report whatsoever. It is fairly clear that your mileage may vary, and I'm ok with that. I'm not here to tell you how to think, or what to believe. I can only make those decisions for myself.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’