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But if you read the actual tweet he simply says debt when down in his first month vs. up in Obama's. Which is true. He doesn't say it was because of his policie

But if you read the actual tweet he simply says debt when down in his first month vs. up in Obama's. Which is true. He doesn't say it was because of his policies. Politifact just found a way to try to spin it (which is what it is) as "false" so they could add it to the "Trump's a compulsive liar" column. To paraphrase someone else: I didn't leave the liberals, the liberals left me.

pimlottc 10y ago
It's true that Trump didn't claim it was a result of his actions or policies (enacted or planned), but that is clearly the intended unstated message. Otherwise, why did he tweet it?
- coldtea 10y ago
  For the reasons stated IN the tweet? To show how the media didn't report it because it could be conceived as something good that happened under his first month?
intended 10y ago
I would say that you will return to the fold soon enough. Firstly, no political speech is made for its truth value. Let us disabuse everyone of this notion. 1) all human beings have a very limited attention short term span which has to be managed and husbanded. 2) full technically and practically faithful statements of a problem easily crush those human neural limits. 3) emotional messaging subverts all rational checks and balances, and has a disproportion impact on the brain, and such messaging can be made to scale. Given the 3 points above, without a constant third party or legal intervention to prevent abuse, political messaging will always devolve into emotional button pushing. The people who deal in politics will be so far removed in skill and native talent in this field, that it would be like comparing a newbie high school graduate vs someone who writes and optimizes game engine code. Simply put, most communication by politicians will be designed to take these considerations,at the minimum, into mind. these are the functional limits of the world we live in.

pimlottc 10y ago

It's true that Trump didn't claim it was a result of his actions or policies (enacted or planned), but that is clearly the intended unstated message. Otherwise, why did he tweet it?

coldtea 10y ago
For the reasons stated IN the tweet? To show how the media didn't report it because it could be conceived as something good that happened under his first month?

intended 10y ago

I would say that you will return to the fold soon enough. Firstly, no political speech is made for its truth value. Let us disabuse everyone of this notion. 1) all human beings have a very limited attention short term span which has to be managed and husbanded. 2) full technically and practically faithful statements of a problem easily crush those human neural limits. 3) emotional messaging subverts all rational checks and balances, and has a disproportion impact on the brain, and such messaging can be made to scale. Given the 3 points above, without a constant third party or legal intervention to prevent abuse, political messaging will always devolve into emotional button pushing. The people who deal in politics will be so far removed in skill and native talent in this field, that it would be like comparing a newbie high school graduate vs someone who writes and optimizes game engine code. Simply put, most communication by politicians will be designed to take these considerations,at the minimum, into mind. these are the functional limits of the world we live in.