American Election.

Since Trump appeared the USA has lost any worldwide respect it had and has now got Banana State politics...............but I'm pretty sure that is what Trump intended.

 

I haven't ruled out standing for President either, but then it doesn't mean it's true, (you read the Mail????)

 

Willie has always disliked Trump since he wanted to bring in the new immigration policy (separating parents from children) so wrote the song a couple of years ago.

I was going to stand for president but am working on my future campaign for being King.

 

I'm hoping that Trump loses to Biden and that once Brexit is complete Boris perhaps goes and the adults can be back in charge. I'm also ready for disappointment!

 

We have Adults in the Politicians???? The last Adult Parliament reduced itself to a complete mental and political log jam that was not even interested in the result of the Referendum, or the people it represented, but it's own ideological and financial interests if my memory serves me right.

So will you be disappointed if you're not disappointed?

I always, somehow, connect Trump to a quote, I think, in an Asimov novel where a character says "I always tell the truth, and I am lying now."

 

I thought it was Al Pacino in "Scarface" that said it - but it doesn't alter the truth of it

But Nietzsche put it well when he said - "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now I can't believe you".

And Roosevelt said - "Repetition doesn't transform a lie into the truth."

 

Now, I knew someone would quote that "Scarface" line,

"I always tell the truth, even when I lie." This quote, by Al Pacino in the movie Scarface

but no, I either read it in a Asimov novel or in a magazine of Sci-Fi stories. A Brother-in-Law of mine had a collection of 1950's
Sci Fi magazines/books such as......

Sci-Fi Adventures
Super Sci-Fi Science
Galaxy
Quarterly Science Fiction

which all had Sci-Fi stories in them.


which he loaned me a few copies in the mid 60's. But that was the first time I read the original line, while the Scarface line is just a modification..........and that's not (Sci-Fi) fiction

 

Well I didn't think you wanted me to quote Epimenides "Liar's Paradox" but it was also used in Hitchhikers Guide, the original Star Trek and and the early Doctor Who.

I really can't remember Isaac having used it but he probably did as most science fiction used it against robots.

I've still got lots of his books.