{"id":32524,"date":"2018-03-19T07:05:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32524"},"modified":"2018-03-19T07:07:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:07:02","slug":"things-must-be-serious-everyones-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32524","title":{"rendered":"Things Must Be Serious, Everyone\u2019s Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/03\/18\/things-must-be-serious-everyones-lying\/\">Things Must Be Serious, Everyone\u2019s Lying<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had a moment of clarity once.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/eu\/10874230\/Jean-Claude-Juncker-profile-When-it-becomes-serious-you-have-to-lie.html\">He famously said<\/a>, \u201cWhen things get serious, you have to lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given the state of affairs in his beloved European Union right now Mr. Juncker and company are doing a lot of lying.<\/p>\n<p>It is rare in politics to get that kind of honesty from a politician, especially one currently in office.\u00a0 But, Juncker\u2019s statement shouldn\u2019t be a surprise to anyone who is even a semi-serious political observer.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why I find it funny that the Democrats and Antifa-Left get so bent out of shape when Donald Trump exaggerates or outright lies.\u00a0 To him lying\u2019s a tactic.\u00a0 Catching Donald Trump in a falsehood is like trying to ladle water with a sieve.<\/p>\n<p>So, by the Juncker Maxim, things must be getting very serious because the amount and type of lies being thrown around by people who are supposed to know better have been staggering.<\/p>\n<p>To the point that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, \u201cI simply don\u2019t have any normal terms left to describe all this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov has been the world\u2019s most effective diplomat over the past few years, talking to and cutting deals with people who should hate him and Russia\u2019s policies.\u00a0 What it highlights is that Lavrov and his boss, Vladimir Putin, have been so effective simply because they make a deal and keep to it.<\/p>\n<p>They are the opposite of Mr. Juncker.\u00a0 When things get serious they become honest, speaking with one voice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"author vcard\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things Must Be Serious, Everyone\u2019s Lying European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had a moment of clarity once.\u00a0 He famously said, \u201cWhen things get serious, you have to lie.\u201d Given the state of affairs in his beloved European Union right now Mr. Juncker and company are doing a lot of lying. It is rare in politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[7844,281,284,6601,2864,3977,694,16963,827],"class_list":["post-32524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-jean-claude-juncker","tag-lies","tag-lying","tag-russia","tag-tom-luongo","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32525,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32524\/revisions\/32525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}