In 1950, Albert Tucker, a mathematician at Princeton, gave a talk to a group of Stanford psychologists about the rapidly developing science known as game theory. To illustrate one of his arguments, he invented a story about two criminals who had been arrested for a crime they had committed jointly. (...)
For the past several days, Trump and other senior officials have reportedly been consumed with discovering who leaked the fact that a member of the White House communications team had dismissed some remarks that the ailing senator John McCain made, saying they didn’t matter, because “he’s dying, anyway.” On Monday, Trump took to Twitter. After he first suggested that the entire leaking phenomenon was an invention of the “Fake News Media,” he went on, “With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!”
If the White House investigation to find the source of the McCain leak advances, it will probably find guilty parties everywhere. Ever since Trump became President, the White House has leaked like a sieve. “The leaks come in all shapes and sizes: small leaks, real-time leaks, weaponized leaks, historical leaks,” Jonathan Swan, Axios’s White House correspondent, wrote this week. “Sensitive Oval Office conversations have leaked, and so have talks in cabinet meetings and the Situation Room. You name it, they leak it.” Mike Allen, Swan’s colleague at Axios, says, “we learn more about what’s going on inside the Trump White House in a week than we did in a year of the George W. Bush presidency.”
That may well be true, and game theory provides one explanation. By deliberately creating a factionalized, dog-eat-dog culture inside the White House, one that mimics how he ran his business and the premise of his reality-television show, Trump has turned the people who work for him into White House versions of the prisoners in Tucker’s story. With this in mind, it is to be expected that so many White House staffers would take actions that are damaging to the Administration, such as leaking explosive information. (...)
I honestly think Donnie Johnnie himself is the leak.
In 1950, Albert Tucker, a mathematician at Princeton, gave a talk to a group of Stanford psychologists about the rapidly developing science known as game theory. To illustrate one of his arguments, he invented a story about two criminals who had been arrested for a crime they had committed jointly. (...)
For the past several days, Trump and other senior officials have reportedly been consumed with discovering who leaked the fact that a member of the White House communications team had dismissed some remarks that the ailing senator John McCain made, saying they didn’t matter, because “he’s dying, anyway.” On Monday, Trump took to Twitter. After he first suggested that the entire leaking phenomenon was an invention of the “Fake News Media,” he went on, “With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!”
If the White House investigation to find the source of the McCain leak advances, it will probably find guilty parties everywhere. Ever since Trump became President, the White House has leaked like a sieve. “The leaks come in all shapes and sizes: small leaks, real-time leaks, weaponized leaks, historical leaks,” Jonathan Swan, Axios’s White House correspondent, wrote this week. “Sensitive Oval Office conversations have leaked, and so have talks in cabinet meetings and the Situation Room. You name it, they leak it.” Mike Allen, Swan’s colleague at Axios, says, “we learn more about what’s going on inside the Trump White House in a week than we did in a year of the George W. Bush presidency.”
That may well be true, and game theory provides one explanation. By deliberately creating a factionalized, dog-eat-dog culture inside the White House, one that mimics how he ran his business and the premise of his reality-television show, Trump has turned the people who work for him into White House versions of the prisoners in Tucker’s story. With this in mind, it is to be expected that so many White House staffers would take actions that are damaging to the Administration, such as leaking explosive information. (...)
Oh knowing the benevolent and classy Ms. Coulter I am sure the question was rhetorical wondering whether Israel had the authority to carry out this atrocity. She is just concerned for the Palestinians well being. ;-)
Actually I think I do agree with you... perhaps I was trying to be more charitable than usual. The overall point is that when it comes to untruths between Trump and Obama... Trump is the undisputed king.
Not sure who said it but something like "If you ask Trump what time it is, he'll lie just to keep in practice." Paraphrasing Mark Twain, I think, "Never tell a lie, except to stay in practice."
Actually I think I do agree with you... perhaps I was trying to be more charitable than usual. The overall point is that when it comes to untruths between Trump and Obama... Trump is the undisputed king.
That's kind of you to be so charitable to man who simply doesn't deserve it. Trump is a cartoon caricature of a blowhard. If the younger Trump could see the reduced state of the older Trump, he'd wince in shame.
I have to disagree with you when it comes to the issue of whether Trump is being malicious or not. After he told this whopper, he admitted that he made up the Canada-related number. IIRC he also told PM Trudeau that falsehood to Trudeau's face, knowing that it was a lie:
Trump will say any old shit to make his point or win people over. From what I can tell, he sees no advantage or point in telling the truth. His relationships are transactional zero-sum interactions. If he wins, he'll brag endlessly about it. If he loses, he will bitch and moan about the system being rigged against him or some such crap.
Trump is a kleptocrat. He's as close as we'll get (hopefully) to having someone like Ferdinand Marcos or Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko as our country's leader.
I do agree with you, VV, about Trump not grasping facts or putting in the time to learn. It's just that he's a congenital liar and conman before anything else.
Actually I think I do agree with you... perhaps I was trying to be more charitable than usual. The overall point is that when it comes to untruths between Trump and Obama... Trump is the undisputed king.
I think that if you look at the reason many of Trump's statements are false are not necessarily malicious... it's just that he doesn't have a grasp/understanding of the facts or take the time to learn them. He also constantly struggles to properly articulate ideas.
Our prez.
I have to disagree with you when it comes to the issue of whether Trump is being malicious or not. After he told this whopper, he admitted that he made up the Canada-related number. IIRC he also told PM Trudeau that falsehood to Trudeau's face, knowing that it was a lie:
Trump will say any old shit to make his point or win people over. From what I can tell, he sees no advantage or point in telling the truth. His relationships are transactional zero-sum interactions. If he wins, he'll brag endlessly about it. If he loses, he will bitch and moan about the system being rigged against him or some such crap.
Trump is a kleptocrat. He's as close as we'll get (hopefully) to having someone like Ferdinand Marcos or Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko as our country's leader.
I do agree with you, VV, about Trump not grasping facts or putting in the time to learn. It's just that he's a congenital liar and conman before anything else.
I think that if you look at the reason many of Trump's statements are false are not necessarily malicious... it's just that he doesn't have a grasp/understanding of the facts or take the time to learn them. He also constantly struggles to properly articulate ideas.
Our prez.
I think you're being charitable in (sort of) painting him as bumbling Dubya, but Trump being a Cohn acolyte means malice is just another tool for 'winning'. And plenty of it has been on display.
Both the difference in quality and quantity should be obvious to a 5-year old.
I think that if you look at the reason many of Trump's statements are false are not necessarily malicious... it's just that he doesn't have a grasp/understanding of the facts or take the time to learn them. He also constantly struggles to properly articulate ideas.
We should. I don't have a problem being critical, regardless of party. To be fair, I think of lying as malice and deception. Something like "keep your doctor" is different from "did not have sex with that woman."
And then, finding a single instance doesn't convince me that someone is as bad as the poster suggests.
Is breaking a campaign promise the same as lying? Because then we're also going down a road...
Works for me. Lead on McDuff !
Keep your doctor affected the entire country. Did not have sex with that woman only affected a very small circle of friends ...
Well there's always you can keep your doctor if you want to go down that road ...
We should. I don't have a problem being critical, regardless of party. To be fair, I think of lying as malice and deception. Something like "keep your doctor" is different from "did not have sex with that woman."
And then, finding a single instance doesn't convince me that someone is as bad as the poster suggests.
Is breaking a campaign promise the same as lying? Because then we're also going down a road...
