Related: Mao swam the Yangtze faster than modern day Olympians medium.com/china-media-... In authoritarian regimes, saying and making people pretend to believe obviously false things is a costly signal of loyalty and therefore informative

No wonder all those young Chinese women were so taken with Him.

What Voltaire said about "those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".

Several years back there was a news story on surgeons who travelled to North Korea to perform operations on patients with a curable blindness. After the surgery the patients, who are sighted for the first time in decades, spend several minutes apiece lavishing praise and thanks upon Kim Jong Un.

He basically does this every year.

President Trump won a 2018 club championship — without actually playing in it!

President Trump won the 2018 men's club championship at Trump International in West Palm Beach, Fla. But there's a catch: He didn't enter it.

Re: the elections in Russia the other day.

My favorite one is Kim il sung golfing a 39 on an 18 hole course

When you're allowed to cheat, it's not that hard. Trump's next goal: beating Kim Jong-Il's 38 under par, including 11 holes-in-one, reported in N Korean news in 1994. And it was the first round of golf he'd ever played. You need to up your lying game, Donnie!

There’s even a pithy and germane Voltaire quote.

Yep, just like the emperor’s clothes

I'm surprised he beat Putin in Match play!