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In what has become a signature move, Donald Trump arrived at an eating establishment in Iowa and loudly proclaimed for the cameras that he is “buying food for everyone!”

He then walked away with nobody appearing to get any food.
Pretty much like his previous presidency?
 

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Remember: It's never the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.
‘I’m not going to ride on a magic carpet!’ [Rincewind] hissed. ‘I’m afraid of grounds!’
‘You mean heights,’ said Conina. ‘And stop being silly.’
‘I know what I mean! It’s the grounds that kill you.’

-- Terry Pratchett, "Sourcery"
 

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Trump Lies Again About His Crowd Size at Iowa Fair
Donald Trump continues to lie about his crowd sizes, but this one was especially egregious. The Iowa State Fair runs 11 days total, and typically averages about 110,000 people per day, with slightly more on weekends.

When Trump rolled into the fair yesterday at 1:00, he immediately proclaimed that it was a "record crowd" despite the fact that the fair still had many hours to go and attendance figures aren't released until the following afternoon. He only stayed 45 minutes.

He flew in and hung around the fair for 45 minutes. Maybe he could have gone looking for a golf course or something. Anyhow, the numbers:

When attendance figures were released for the day, the total attendance was 118,286, which is pretty much average for a Saturday. The record attendance for a Saturday is 127,277 in 1991. Last year on the same day they had 113,000 without any presidential candidates in attendance.

In addition to lying about the attendance at the fair when he only spent 45 minutes there, he also used his Secret Service detail to manipulate the photos and videos. They blocked the entrance to the fair for 30 minutes, which forced a huge bottleneck of people trying to get in. Trump then jumped out of his car and his campaign said that all of the people were waiting there just for Trump. In fact, they were stuck outside by his motorcade and couldn't get in.

I just realized that ""Trump Lies Again" could be prefixed to almost any article about him and be correct.
 

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He’s a salesman first, before anything else. I would add that Musk is, too.

The dark side of the sales industry: It’s filled with Machiavellians, narcissists, and psychopaths

Together, these personality traits are known as the “dark triad,” a sinister set of behavioral leanings often observed in people characterized as “callous,” “manipulative,” “malevolent,” or otherwise “notably offensive.”

And according to a new study from a quartet of U.S. universities, published in the Journal of Marketing, the dark triad makes for a darn good salesperson—or “conniving snake,” in the American vernacular.
“Salespeople score higher on these dark traits than all other professions,” the study notes, “except for CEOs, lawyers, and celebrities.”
 

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Sales people are nuts, and I have only ever dealt with small times sales people.

At the TV station I used to work at, we went through sooooo many sales people. Almost every other department had basically zero employee turn over. It felt like we had a new sales person come in after someone left once a month.
 

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RICO, election interference, breeching election systems, and forgery for the false electors scheme. Sydney Powell, Ghouliani, and a couple more lawyers will join Trump, a few county election officials, and the "alternate electors" in the dock.