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Trump ‘livid’ over crowd sizes at State Fair on National Mall report says
(www.independent.co.uk)
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The fact that anyone believes such an obvious pathological liar continues to shock me to my core.
I used to think Orwell was being a bit hyperbolic about the party holding up 4 fingers and demanding people seeing 5.
But Republicans and conservatives do this without even being tortured.
It’s a purity test, you either parrot the party line or you’re not part of the party.
Hitler called it “the Big Lie”, with the idea being that you tell a lie that’s so outrageous that people will find it easier to believe the lie than that you’d have the audacity to tell a lie that outrageous
Yeah. I hadn't read the book since my early twenties and decided now (at 50) I wanted to take another read through because of all the crap going on, and it's honestly terrifying how press releases and especially Karoline Leavitt sounds straight up newspeak and rewriting the narrative whenever possible.
It's only a matter of time before they get a department going whose sole job is to go back into historical documents to re-write old news articles to show that they've always been right.
They are effectively already doing that by tearing down installations at parks that are insufficiently grateful for slavery.
It makes me nauseaus to read about all of it, and I'm not even American.
The trick is not having a spine.
It's not that they believe him, it's that they've decided to abandon reality just like him. They believe whatever makes them feel better in that way.
I avoided a really cool pubic concert on the National mall because there were 750k people. Even at 45k, that is not by any means packed.