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“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” ― Joseph Goebbels
Oh hey, I was interacting with Lewis Sessions around that time. Pleasant guy, perfectly capable of handling himself in day-to-day life. But it seems like the propaganda machine has melted his political brain. Sad.
Oh, hey, ProPublica – that was quite a dissertation on all things Kraken…
In the movie, Kraken was a “good” sea monster. That’s what Powell said she was doing – getting all the “evidence” out to validate the “Stop the Steal” movement.
For further fun info:
Kraken, to me, is also a whole Pacific NorthWest thing:
It’s actually “Let loose the Kraken” and you’d think people would get that detail right.
Again I ask, can we please clone ProPublica and distribute the clones widely?
It’s actually both:
Interesting factual story—which goes the long way around the barn to tell us what we’ve known for years—Republicans lie with the ease of long practice to get what they want, regardless of what’s legal.
I was talking about the original movie and didn’t even know it was remade. Why anyone would remake that flop is beyond me.
Kitsch was big back then…
This! They did not really need provable evidence of election fraud.
As with Ukraine and Trump, at a minimum simply the existence of allegations was going to be quite sufficient.
Then, turning the OTHER wheels could be justified: fake slates of electors, halting the January 6th process–by Pence (who wouldn’t go along), by traitorous malefactors such as Hawley and Cruz, etc. (who couldn’t get enough others to go along), “fighting like hell” at the Capitol–as Trump commanded (and which he delighted in on TV, hoping for maximum effect and all that that implies), and even martial law. Every avenue was being pursued. (And I’ll bet Meadows was at the fulcrum of it all.)
The problem, of course, is that people still believe this crap. AND there have been no House hearings yet to put these clowns under the lights and ask them WTF.
Why doesn’t Trump just use Discord to disseminate his “truth” and facilitate discussions among his minions?
It’s mainly used by gamers, from what I understand, but isn’t that what they’re doing, playing a real-life game?
One is a cowardly lion (aka Bert Lahr) and the other is a cowardly liar (aka Burnt Liar). Can you see the difference?
Am I reading this correctly? The gops wish we were Venezuela?
Dr. Oz, is that you?
And then make it seem more to be worth one’s while to read their materials. The GOP lives on the impatience of the young.
We are a country which now possesses all the tools we need to stop the Right
Sidney Powell makes Lionel Hutz look like Clarence Darrow.
The “Big Lie” came from one place; the diseased mind of our Former President. He is so warped that it is impossible for him to believe that he could lose anything! See, e.g., cheating at golf. Ergo, it must have been voter fraud. He has now found a cabal of similar “minds” to propagate this fabrication. Here is an artist’s conception of the moment:
Yep, except a stunning percentage of the US population considers the Facebook panel of experts on everything as their sole source of news.
“The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.”
— Goebbels
[I]n the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
