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  Loving the *new republican party!
context: Trump has some serious competition... >
  
  Truly one of the weirdest season 2023 characters the republicans chose >
  
  Not really when you consider that we are in the post truth era of the Republican Party. He’s perfect >
  
  That is why he had so much support from Elise Stefanik, whom WaPo and NYT said knew at least some of the deceit but campaigned for him anyway.  At least with Hershel Walker and Donald Trump, voters knew the two were pathological liars.  Most politicians embellish, like saying they speak Spanish fluently, but had one year in high school, but the new crop of Republicans no longer stretch the truth, they just make things up whole cloth.  Facts just don't matter any more and that is the point.  If you can not win in this reality, you gaslight and create a new one. >
  
  I don’t know if Herschel Walker was a pathological liar…I think he was just so stupid he would attempt to parrot back whatever script he was given that day and still mess it up. It was obvious the guy knew nothing about what he was talking about most of the time. Honestly if the views he was espousing weren’t so disgusting I would almost feel bad for the dude. Limited education and blows to head have definitely taken their toll. >
  
  I was talking about his lies about his personal life.  I am not a clinician, so I am using pathological liar in the broad not the technocal sense.  I also agree he may have suffered because of being hit in the head so many times. >
  
  No, he is absolutely a pathological liar. 
  People lie for reasons all the time. The pathological part is when you lie about nonsense for no reason.
  Trump, Walker, Santos all lie about some really bizarre shit that has no obvious benefit, along with everything else.