Title adulterated slightly to placate over-sensitive AI
Before the next election every voter owes it to him or herself to wrestle with the following question: Does Donald Trump know he’s lying? It’s an important question because if he does not, he has somehow managed to delude himself.
Allow me to weigh in! He knows he’s lying, and he just doesn’t care.
I call bullshit! It’s an ancient and time-honored form of lying. And it seems to be working fairly well. It may be a successful strategy.
The best theory of the origin of the word dates to a British periodical or tabloid from 1740 during the court of Louis Vll. An euphemistic Irish lawyer named Obadiah Bull was portrayed as bumbling, illogical, and contradictory. I suspect a jingoistic attempt to portray learned Irishmen as incompetent and untrustworthy.
Okay! Lying can be fun, but not, of course, to the Irish in England in 1740. The trouble with this kind of lying is that it undermines confidence in the truth. Furthermore, some knuckleheads don’t realize he’s lying.
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